NPCpedia: M'aiq the Liar 

Also onto the multiplayer reference, There is actual multiplayer in morrowind now through openmw

Hey Ghostcharm, just found your channel, absolute gem. Might I suggest a video on Champion/Iudex Gundyr from Dark Souls 3? His lore is incredible, some of my favorite from the soulsborne series, he was basically a chosen undead, just like the player, but he was too late to make it to the shrine, so he dedicated himself to challenging all those who came after him, to prove that they were worthy for the path ahead. Though, by the time you, the player, fight him, he's incredibly weakened and corrupted by a Pus of Man. You fight him again later on, as I'm sure you know. You travel back in time to when he was in his prime, and goddamn is he tough. But, the lore implications around this fight seem huge, as it seems to take place in an age of dark, meaning he has (possibly?) survived entire fucking ages. Now consider the fact that he never made it to the bonfire before it went out, and you realize... He canonically did all of this at SL1.

what do you mean no quest markers in oblivion? there are quest markers

im not talking about the ones on the map, theres ones on the compass too

39:45 also they are sent the soul cairn, not the gem

IKR?!

Holy shit, that's a great point lmfao. I've never made that specific connection before 😂

when i first encountered him i heard him say that and was like "oh thank you" and then immediately saw his name and out loud said "HEY SCREW YOU"

@@microwavemicrowave7648 that is freaking _awesome_ lol

to be fair, maiq has never verifiably lied before. he's only said opinions (which could be true to him) or things which are unverified.

Doubtful, M'aiq is a rogue, and Todd Howard is only smart enough to play a barbarian.

The canon rumor from a "trustworthy" source...

Broootal

Thanks, I hate it

Yes ,, M'aiq is the sleeping god

thats amazing haha

PEAK 🥺

M'aiq hongry

@@bigmango202 M'aiq is done talking... but not done eating

Ma'iq has found the owner tired now, so he went and bothered somebody else.

You should've thought of that earlier.

He used an AI.

​@@packlesswolf1Straight up lie. Didn't even watch the video

I mean I thought It was legit I didn't know it was him until I rewound it to see ma'iq in Morrowind form

​@@packlesswolf1Mai'q? Is that you?

“M’aiq once saw a dragon and a bear fight to the death. He did not stick around to see who won.”

@@megakillerx that one is good!

"M'aiq has heard of these things called 'pho-anes' but does not posess one."

Maiq knows that Nords are good with their thumbs.

"M'aiq has been to Vvardenfell. But of that place, he has no words for you."

Dunno about M'aiq, but he's a goddamn dead ringer for Inigo from the skyrim mod.

I just figured thats what the Morrowind M'aiq sounded like, since I never played that one.

yeah i had to do a double take to notice

@@peteycrypto2135 Morrowind isn't voice acted (with a few exceptions, all characters have generic lines and greetings but those are shared across whole races so it's just a handful of lines per voice actor), it has an approximate shit-ton of dialogue and fitting all of that audio file space into that game would've been nuts On top of that, bethesda wasn't doing so well at the time and Morrowind is basically what saved the studio. They wouldn't have the money to pay for voice acting for every line in the game. Personally I like it, because I can read at my own pace. I effectively do that in other elder scrolls games but having to just skip a line halfway through a word and read one line at a time does kind of suck. Plus it makes it more impactful when some characters do have a little more voice acting, Dagoth Ur's lines to the player are absolutely iconic and I think it helps to make them more memorable that he's one of very few characters that have specific voice lines all to themselves.

someone should mod it

Even then there'd be plenty of others born on the same day, unless it was one specific day, being the day he was born, that'll never happen again or some shit.

He was born on leap day

​@@kremiteforg928the fabled 30th of february

⁠@@koolaidman4869 Yes, any khajit can give birth to any other khajit.

Maybe that's why he mentions his birthday in Morrowind

Ohoh someone is becoming lucid in the dream

Maybe it was a coincidence - or maybe it wasn't. Ma'iq knows many things others do not, after all....

Noice.

Your girlfriend should reconsider her life choices then 😌 what could be more important than getting a better understanding of the most precious kitteh in the Elder Scrolls?

@@draco5991rep threw her off a bridge mate. I ain't dealing with no back talk about M'aiq senpai.

3 weeks late but play it at 2x speed as a "compromise" 😉

@@AntonEugeneLanthier 0.75x speed as a punishment for disrespecting M'aiq

@@whatsallthebrouhaha interesting, I've never heard of Jills, though I'm also nowhere near an expert on ES lore. Just more reason to love M'aiq.

That could also be a jab at how they just literally drop on you out of nowhere sometimes, and without warning.

I like to imagine he meant that for the Dragonborn itself, as he is basically a living dragon, in the body of a human. Basically hiding in plain sight

Oh fair, I more so took that line literally. Like everyone in Skyrim say dragons have been dead for hundreds of years but we know that’s not true since Parthunaax has been hidden (invisible) and quiet a top the throat of the world. There also other examples of dragons not being extinct but more so hidden

@@Joe-nv4pn They were also called "invisible" in the Morrowind entry. So further evidence they were hidden for ages. Idk why people only think of Skyrim referencing dragons.

My God, YOU MUST BRING THIS TO THE FUDGEMUPPET CHANNEL MY FRIEND!

that killing the cat to stop the plague kind of logic

@@JacoDeltaco I mean fair enough man 🤷 as I said I just thought it was too coincidental from a world or story perspective.

@@godless_comedian6667 there was a man in japan that survive the two nuclear bomb clearly it not a coincidence the amrican where aiming for him

@@JacoDeltaco That's quite different from someone showing up to a particular area across several centuries. That guy happened to be in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an unfortunate coincidence- Maiq turns up to wherever the apocalypse is coming over the span of hundreds of years, that's stretching the point of a coincidence.

I don't mean to be "That gal" but you have a spelling error in your comment. The city is spelled "Riften". I don't mean to be rude, it's just my favorite location in Skyrim

If I'm remembering right, I believe Sheogorath stole them all. Or some other daedric prince took them. They literally are gone.

​@TheAcidBunny04 it's actually spelled rifton in older lore books

@@Reid52 I didn't know that. Thank you

Bro. Thanks that’s so cool

@@davidec.4021 Don't worry about it

Oh boy I read about that before cuz that book is so secluded in the cave with a contraption so I though there must be something juicy in the book and reading that book was a ride.

@@AndroidNoir-L06k I was so surprised about how interesting that book was, like I've passed by that book for 5 years and the moment I read it I instantly knew I had to start reading some of the in-game books more and I wish I did this before

@@saintjiubtheeradicator I really recommend the audiobooks of Skyrim mod. I really enjoy cave raiding --hunting for more books-- whilst having a book read to me in the background

Maybe in VI?

@@StateTheSmash just gotta wait…..

i want to puke

Maybe in TES6 we can ask him about mountains and get something about "going to any mountain we please and climbing it"

I've just come up with easter egg phrase that can be said by him or about him: "Be the shit daedra afraids" This stroke my mind right on the phrase "Maiq is in essence a representation of Bethesda themselves". With this, I'm leaving to you all figuring out exactly what easter egg is hidden in the phrase I came up with

Play cards or shuffle board and a playable piano

Not sure how useful that would be. The whole point of maintenance downtime is to make sure no one's using the services to give you enough time to deploy the new software. If you have a waiting room server, you'll still need networking, authentication, at least one server machine if not more, enough to hold and run the many instances it would take to keep everyone in the waiting room. On top of that the waiting room might need server code that's being upgraded during maintenance so you'd eventually have to bring the _waiting room_ down too. Kinda defeats the point. I know I'm getting super 🤓um acktchually 🤓 about the whole thing so I'll say that if a game _did_ manage to pull something like this off I'd be very impressed.

​@@ZKtheMAN The waiting room would be a completely separate server available when maintenance for the main server is underway, that means that the waiting room could undergo maintenance at literally any time that the main server is up. This isn't something that's impossible, in fact there is one MMO (which I don't remember the name of) which has two separate servers, the one currently available and the update server, when the current one needs maintenance they just switch the server to the other one which has new bug fixes, content, etc. It's an almost instant change as the player is simply asked to relog and then they're on the new server.

Warframe? @@Otto_Von_Itter9000

"M'aiq knows many things, and many people. Today, M'aiq speaks with a Nord, but tomorrow the same words will be said to a Redguard"

So y'all don't have to click back to where you were in the video the quote this comment references around the timestamp is, "M'aiq speaks with many in his travels. After a time, they seem to repeat themselves. Strange."

@@triplebasic Hammerfell foreshadowing.

I didn't play ESO, so I thought M'aiq had just arrived from a visit to Fallout.

M’aiq is luminescent

Could also be an anecdote from the New Vegas wastes

@@theorangegremlin334 We'll have to run him over

The glowing water is actually a sort of plasma from which the daedra reform once they are sent back to Oblivion after being defeated or destroyed. So drinking it... is a really bad idea.

No way

That's an interesting mod, adds a lot of role-play dialog options. I also counted the steps for that guy haha

That's from Interesting NPCs, right? Love that mod. It adds a tower that I swear to Leki is the only landmark that helps me find a quick way back from Castle Volkihar without walking all the way back to Solitude while trying not to freeze to death

Except, they did? Like you solve the disappearance in a quest in morrowind. The line is more or less a reference to how much of a big mystery it's made up to be in the game despite not really being all that complex.

@@crptpyr so what's the answer then? Where did they go definitively and canonically?

yup, and I don't expect they ever will. it's stuff like this that is better left mysterious. although i think a game about the dwemer mysteriously returning could also be a cool idea.

@@Xvladin if I remember correctly they messed around with the heart of lorkhan and accidentally ported the entire race into another reality or they just all died because of it

Probably rather the second one as we can still find dwemer ghosts in their ruins

Stop lying z

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yeah, stop lying Z

Yeah, that's right, stop lying Z

Yeah, that’s right, lying isn’t good, stop lying z

I'd give it a 6/10

I read this in M'aiq's voice

@@Ghostcharm I give it a 8/10. Great impression man 👍

You should have said purrfect

Hard agree

Maybe that was just shegorath follower.

Nah reference to a quest in the shivering isles where you gather calipers and tongs

But M;'aiq is a liar,not a thief.

@@xScooterAZx he’s a khahjit

@@kingt0295 That's kinda obvious, I didnt say anything about his race. I just said he was a liar.

It Also might be a nod to the shivering isle doc bc in that sheogorath send you to find calipers too!!

Dlc*

I was sure it was a refference to the time they had the item calipers in WOW required to make a bunch of items but you had to HAVE calipers in order to MAKE calipers. Creating a problem. It was quickly fixed but it was a fairly big deal if I remember correctly.

Ikr! I've probably seen him less than 5 times during my time in ESO. I make sure to spam him when I do see him though XD It always feels good running into him no matter the game.

I dunno man, ESO M'iaq is boring as f In the other games he is making fun of the game and the players, in ESO he's just saying things.

What even is ESO? I know its an mmo but is it boring repetitive shit like WOW or is it something else?

@@scrithen2836 I hate MMOs but my friends who play ESO say it is a very good one.

@@Nereosis16 i might try it then, ive tried like 5 mmos but they’re all the same boring repetitive gameplay

Sixteen times the detail.

Bethesda does that a lot in their games, they put quests or references that might seem throwaway but are actually what the next game is about. There's definitely the plot of ES6 hidden somewhere in Skyrim, we just don't know which one, same with Fallout 4.

Those animated executions are so good lmao

There are also theories that he is actually Lorkan or Lorkaj

In skyrim there are very clear burial markings for dragons where they pop out off when you visit them. It's not hard to imagine that someone would've found those burial markings and unearthed a dragon skeleton underneath. And considering how many times to find or trap souls in nirn i wouldn't be surprised if some magician sensed a soul still lingering in the skeletons.

He can’t be Lorkhan because the player is Lorkhans avatar

@@DysmasofTailholt and why can't an all powerful creator God interact with a shard of themself? does a daedra not interact with dremora, that are in essence an aspect of themselves?

M'aiq must be lorkhan, the wondering ahole cursed to wonder forever. The player character is Ariel or Akatosh, but Akatosh is a made up mix of lorkhan and Ariel, so Akatosh can't really exist.

Shame you can't turn his wolf skin into a loin cloth

I love how In-depth he goes, but manages to break any fatigue from long videos with random jokes that hit every time Me: Ah well, this was a pretty long intro Ghostcharm: Morrowind doesnt have full voice acting, so here is my impression of M'aiq And then one minute later there is a Morrowind trap remix playing, its actually brilliant

Well said, I agree and relate to this kewl statement

Exactly this!!!

I felt the same way when I found one of his villainpedias binged his videos that entire weekend his souls videos convinced me to buy elden ring I've never been so happily frustrated with a game

I agree on every point, perfect to listen to while painting ^-^

lmao

I'm glad I wasn't the only one to think this

Would be down to hear M'aiq talk about magic nose goblins. Or even just here him say "jooooy"

You definitely can run up to his speed, but you don't gain much from it

It's in a pocket realm of nocturnal owned by the duke of crows, among the offerings or shiny objects they own was an instrument (I think it's an instrument it's been a while) with the letter saying that. If it's true maybe ma'iq comes from a long line of khajit all called ma'iq.

It doubles up with the burial mounds on the ground and the last living dragon Paathanax on the Throat of the world

It sounds like the Dragon Priests of Skyrim

Hey doll merry doll

Hoid!!

I read you comment just as he got to that, kinda amusing

Thats a neat idea, I think in LOTR the creator is called "the dreamer", as in the one whose mind reality exists inside Also I didnt know people have moments of realizing theyre dreaming, that never happens to me. If I ever realize I'm dreaming it's at the moment I wake up

@@jek__ you zero out

​@@LOLWHATBROYou achieve CHIM. Zero summing is when you immediately use that CHIM to invalidate yourself.

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That's both really cool And really vile Definitely seems like a sheogorath move

I believe that one was bees, not butterflies.

@@Something_Disgusting I belive it was any roaming animal, foxes rabbits I think they all would cause it.

@@fried0nion503 I believe it was M'aiq 😳

That's awesome! What's your favourite quote of his that you wrote?

@@Xaderoth I was lying.

@@aaronyayger ...is that a quote or?

@@Nereosis16 idk at this point

No, the player is the main character 🤦‍♂️

@@henrycrabs3497 We clearly didn't play the same games then. I'm talking about the elder scrolls series where M'aiq is the main character.

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@@henrycrabs3497 What the fuk

@@thesmerelajiah2805 fnaf lore

I think it’s because it’s part of the solstheim dlc

@@gearrode yeah, and if he hasn’t touched “the game’s” (which one?) dlc, has he REALLY played it? No, and definitely not for 9 years.

I uh haven't encountered a werebear either and I have spent a bunch of time in solstheim just not seen any

i have 2k hours and haven’t seen a werebear

To anyone who hasn't seen a Werebear... but has hundreds of hours in a full Skyrim game ... you are fast-travelling too much. They're there.

isn't the sleeping God is you, the player?

@@good__person I don't know honestly 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

@@good__person Doubt

​@@good__personI think it's actually the computer you're playing the game on. In ESO's (and any multiplayer mod's) case, it would be the server.

So, a cat 🤔