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Can't say how many times once rewatched your videos over the years. It's so nice to have a channel that answers every question I've basically had over a game I've sunken 3k+ hours into. My 4 year old son even sits and watches with me, and for the first time today, asked to play a little! I fired up the computer and created a great memory. Without your channel but I don't think he ever would've asked. I know you may not be making content as much as you used to, but I wanted to come by and say thank you, for all the effort over the years and for the pure bit of joy I got to have today. Much love.
I always used the become ethereal shout to negate fall damage. Another tiny detail/ fun fact is when you go to the tomb of Jurgen windcaller and find the Become Ethereal shout. Next to the word wall will be a waterfall, if you go through the waterfall you will find a chest next to a draugr grave. (:
Harkon: "So, you've returned. Is your... pet keeping you entertained?" Serana: "You know why we're here." Harkon: "Of course I do. You disappoint me, Serana. You've taken everything I provided for you and thrown it all away for this... pathetic being (Or "half-breed vampire" if a vampire)." Serana: "Provided for me? Are you insane? You've destroyed our family. You've killed other vampires. All over some prophecy that we barely understand. No more. I'm done with you. You will not touch him." Harkon: "So, I see this dragon has fangs. Your voice drips with the venom of your mother's influence. How alike you've become." Serana: "No... Because unlike her, I'm not afraid of you. Not anymore." Harkon: "And you..." [During the fight] Serana: "Tough day for you!" Serana: "Sorry it had to be this way!" Serana: "This won't end well for you!" Serana: "I won't fall for your tricks!" Serana: "It's time for you to suffer!" Harkon: "No... Serana... your own father..."
On Ulfric, if you pick up the Thalmor Dossier on Ulfric, it reveals that Ulfric is a Veteran of the Legion. And his age. Apparently, Ulfric is 51 years old.
Wait, where does it say that? I couldn't find it in the Dossier. It would make sense, but according to my calculations, he could be as young as 43. He studied under the Greybeards for ten years (according to his dialogue), then joined the legion to fight in the Great War in probably 173 when reinforcements from Skyrim bolstered the Imperial City. That's 38 years. If he was called by the Greybeards between the ages of 5 and 13, that gives his current age as anywhere from 43-51.
I noticed something that you already found but if you go to the face changer in the ragged flaggon as a vampire she has a unique line of dialogue telling you to fix your vampiric problem
If you use the spell “Undead Thrall” on Cisero he has a couple of unique pieces of dialogue. Funniest is when most reanimated followers die with this spell they just groan, Cisero says, “Coming mother”
About the sovngard's "last battle" : when you talk to Kodlac's ghost (companions boss), he says something about "invading Hircine's realm". So maybe the last battle is kinda of a gods VS deadra war
He is talking about that because when you free his spirit he says one day he wants to go free all of the other companions who didn't get to cure themselves of lycanthropy before dying from Hircine, nothing intimately related to the actual lore
Aren't nords based on Viking or the nords of our world If so then isn't sovengard just like valhala where the slain warriors await the final war (ragnarok) which resets the world
@@suryanshsoni8809 Yes. In Oblivion, many Nords reference wanting to go to Sovngarde, but not being able to because they're just a steward or another profession that wouldn't normally allow them to die valiantly in combat. Only Nords who are felled in combat go to Sovngarde; it's why even High King Torygg was sent to Sovngarde as he died in mutual combat despite not being a particularly skilled fighter. I don't think it's ever really explicitly stated as to where their souls go to if not to Sovngarde or what would happen if a Nord who was a valiant warrior were assassinated instead of being defeated in direct combat. Surely they know about the kalpas in the afterlife so that's probably what he was referencing.
If you’re running out of stuff for content, i for one would like to see videos where you simply flesh out the lore of quests and dungeons. You got a solid video style that would lend itself well to more than just top 10’s. That, and your theory videos are always fun to watch, I don’t think anyone here would mind more of those to watch or listen to. So dont be afraid to branch out a little, we’ll all watch it no matter what it is. Can’t wait for the next vid
It's nice seeing bethesda focused creators acknowledging each other the way you just did with mitten squad. I appreciate thr amount of time you put into your videos and hope we see (or i guess hear) you more often.
I’m not sure if this has already been covered (or if you’ll ever do another installment of this massive series😂), but I found something in the Dragonborn DLC. I was going through Miraak’s temple with Frea, but I also had Lydia with me. After killing a section of Draugr, I passed by Lydia and she goes “She fights well, for a Skaal.” (Referring to Frea.) I don’t know if any other followers do that, but nice tiny detail!
Had quite an electrifying surprise playing Skyrim this past weekend. While doing the dawngaurd quest to find Serena. I got into a scuffle with some draugr and in the bottom of one's sarcophagus was a Dwarven Sword of Thunderbolts! Nearly missed it! I had never seen anything in these sarcophagi before.
@@Landon-vo3vd Yes, who is it by, if you didn't like the way I asked. There's half a dozen songs with that title and it doesn't sound like any of them that I've heard. Or was it just a bad joke?
Hey Nate, here's three tiny details I learned very recently. First off, if you progress far enough through the civil war questline on the Imperial side, if you heal Ulfric when you're supposed to kill him, he'll die anyway. This could be a bug, or just a failsafe, either way it's pretty funny to watch happen. Second up, also to do with healing, when you first enter Jorrvaskr, you'll always see the fight between Nada and Athir. Well if you heal on of them during the fight, they'll turn hostile, but none of the other companions do either. And, you don't get a bounty for it either. Finally, if you're unlucky when Vilkas tests you when you join the Companions and Farkas is there, the moment Vilkas turns hostile, Farkas will too. When this happened, I had Teldryn Sero with me, who repeatedly attacked Vilkas by Dragonsreach while I was talking to Armen about his sword. That's all I've got. If you ever decide to do another 10 tiny details for Skyrim, I hope you use these.
The final battle is like ragnarok in Norse mythology in which all worthy warriors face the end of the world. I thought that this would be common knowledge.
Fun fact: In the Thieves Guild quest 'Scoundrel's Folly', if you sneak past all the bandits in Brinewater Grotto, speak with Gulum-Ei and use a pacification spell such as Harmony to pacify the bandits without killing them, they will completely stop being hostile to you. You can even exit and re-enter the cave and they still won't attack you.
@@pullt Yes... really 2002, wasn't it? I didn't discover the Elder Scrolls series until the next year, when I spent a refund price at a game store, so I'm not completely certain about the timing of early entries in the series...
a little "tiny" detail i haven't yet seen (unless i somehow skipped it) is the following: - at the beginning, when you're asked to go to Bleak Falls Barrow, if instead one goes to Whiterun (we know that Farengar gives us the quest to retrieve the dragon stone later used by Delphine to check out the dragon burials and somehow always ended up with the "oh, this stone?" response 'cos we already had it) but, if you go to Whiterun in order to, say, pick up a couple useful spells before entering the dungeon, Delphine can be seen there, talking to Farengar who refers to her as his "associate". Delphine is using her leather gear and (unlike when going with the Dragonborn to check out the tombs) she's even using a hood and participates in the dialogue. If you ask in the Sleeping Giant Inn for her (I stopped there omw to BFB to sell a few things), the innkeeper will respond with something along the lines of "she's out, she's the owner, she doesn't need to explain herself" or something like that. It was quite surprising for me, I guess because it was my 1st time on legendary difficulty and thus I wanted to be better prepared for the bandits and draugr, to find her there and even more so, to see she actually interacts with you, Farengar and of course, tying up the pieces (she later tells you that she got the locations from the tablet, but I had never before seen the two characters and the dragonborn interact like that). So, despite the thousands of hours put into it, I had never seen that! This game is so old by now and like any good Beatles album, it still finds way to surprise you. Thought I'd share it in case I (or you, or anyone) had missed it. Thanks =)
The Svangarde thing is definitely based on Valhalla. Valhalla is an endless feast and training, until Ragnarok when the warriors follow Odin to fight Fenrir the Wolf and get eaten.
The dragons Voslaarum and Naaslaarum could be a reference to Geoffrey of Monmouth's first story about Merlin. In that story, there are two hidden dragons under a giant underground lake. Not only that, but the two dragons were a white one and a red one, a coloration that those two dragons share.
Having just looked the subject up, I have to agree. There's a toppled wall, and the dragons themselves were (as far as I understand) the Britons and the Saxons, in which one army nearly wiped out the other but was eventually driven back and out, much as both the Nords and the Falmer were probably hoping of each other and fits nicely with the theme of the valley itself being a refuge.
@@ClamantesDaemonium It also follows with the myth as there is a ruined tower in the middle of the lake. The king was trying to build a tower, which kept collapsing. The reason that Merlin was brought to the king in the first place was because the king was told that the tower would continue to collapse until the mortar was mixed with the blood from a child whose parent was a demon. Merlin was supposedly the child of a demon who seduced a human woman. So, all of that to say that I believe that the tower in the middle of the lake represents the tower that the king was building that kept collapsing.
bro thank you so much for your hard work. idk if people say it often enough. these videos are so much fun to binge and so full of things, its very clear how much effort and passion you put into them. keep up the amazing work
I always assumed that there was going to be some kind of Ragnarok type event in the world of Elder Scrolls and that Sovengarde was supposed to be their version of Valhalla. It makes sense to me considering how much of Skyrim is based off of Norse mythology and Scandinavia in general. And this "Final battle" bit of removed dialogue kind of reinforces my theory.
As a matter of fact, Khajit lore states that there IS in fact a Ragnarok type event coming on and where the cat equivalent of Kyne gathers all of the souls of the dead at the end of times for some sort of cat-based ragnarok "Khenarthi carries the souls of dead Khajiit to Azurah for judgment, and is also her messenger. At the end of time, it is her clarion call that will summon the eternal united spirit of all Khajiit to defend creation." It's chronologically the first religion, so its the most accurate- if cat based Whats more likely that is that shes doing that not just for the nords, but for the khajit as well. And the Shor/Lorkhan is the guy housing/chilling with the nord souls in the meanwhile
I'd say it's more than "bases off" of Norse mythology. It's just copy pasted with some detailed switched up and some letters rearranged. Like those recolour OC's on deviantart. "No guys it's not Thor, it's my very own original character called Shor. Something else entirely, really."
@@RedmarKerkhof Nah, Shor would be Odin in this case. Kyne would be the closest one to Thor, and even then she'd also have the portfolio of other irl gods. While you're right that the beginning and end of Norse and Nord stuff is pretty much the same, all the stuff in the middle is different- they have different "myths", stories and attitudes
Check out Fudgemuppet's channel for deep dives into all this, a lot of this lore is actually pretty well expanded upon in Skyrim, ESO, and in-game texts going as far back as Morrowind. The end of one Kalpa bleeds into the start of the next, and the final battle between Shor/Lorkhan and Auriel/Akatosh mirrors the battle in the Dawn Era between those two
I feel like the “follow Shor into the final battle” is a Viking reference. Valhalla is where fallen warriors go when they die so they can be Odin’s army at Ragnarok. I don’t know how that fits into Skyrim lore, but it lines up with a lot of the other Viking references you find in Skyrim.
It does line up, at the end of the kelper cycle as the world rests the start of the new begins. They blend together. At the start of every cycle (as far as we know), the elven gods and the old elner fey war with the betrayer and his wandering elner fey. This is Akatosh/Aur-riel versus Shor/Lorkhan. The elves always win and kill Shor. So the Nords of this cycle will likely replace the wandering elner fey at the start of the next cycle and fight the thalmor. Maybe even the aldmeri dominion. There is even evidence Nords came from a previous cycle. We know the Red Guards did. The Nords may have been the creatures that destroyed the dregs with the help of Mehrunes Dagon, which happened in the dawn era. So the end of the last cycle.
Einherjar are what the members of Odin's army are called. I know its not important just thought I'd mention. I was getting the exact same vibes from it, Nords in Sovengard follow Shor into the final battle, Einherjar in Valhalla follow Odin into Ragnorok (obviously there's more to it but the general gist is there)
I don't know why Nate thought this battle was mysterious, plenty of lore sources talk about how Shor is gathering an army of followers to battle with Auriel (Akatosh), Trinimac, and other Elven gods at the end of this kalpa / start of the next one
Nate, maybe you know this, maybe you don't. Serana will actually perform the black sacrament if you take her to the Arentino home in Windhelm. Who is she performing the black sacrament to kill? Harkon? Does she perform the sacrament in Riften too? Also do we know who Maven Black Briar is trying to kill? Sounds like a Skyrim mystery episode to me.
Serana is programmed to trigger all specific animations You can take her to the shrine of Molag Bal in Haunted House in Markarth, where she will act "being imprisoned in the sacrificial cage" I was quite surprised seeing this the first time
I don’t know if I’ve ever heard you cover this tiny detail, but if you go to Meridia’s temple BEFORE you find the beacon (a rare occurrence I know) she’ll give you a unique dialogue guiding you to a random dungeon to get the beacon when you approach her statue.
I think my favorite new feature is the black screen feature. It really expands the amount of variety to the game I can experience like standing still staring at a black screen and just listening to audio. Thanks Tom and the devs.
It has been years since I've watched one your videos, but I recently got a PC for the first time, and of course had to buy Skyrim. Now I'm binging all this content again. Thanks a ton for the immense amount of work you've put into this channel dude!
When it comes to Sovengard and "The Final Battle", The Nord Race is based on Norse mythology. Sovengard is Valhalla and "The Final Battle" is Ragnarok.
My fiancee may have found something interesting. I write this before watching the video. We were trying to put a bucket over Sam's head in the tavern and the game just wasn't having it. It kept bouncing off like something was in the way and then it hit us: Sam is just a disguise. Sanguine has horns. The bucket was probably reacting to the horns on the character model, which were hidden from us. Maybe. Either way, it was a fun little giggle moment for us.
I have watched this whole playlist now, there was a lot of stuff I never knew about. Like, a lot of stuff. Crazy how much Bethesda was able to put in that you could totally miss.
Don't know if it's been covered in the series or not, but in Benkongerike on Solestheim, when you first enter the Great Hall, there is a Riekling hut filled with like 20 copies of The Lusby Argentina Maid. Definitely implying the rieklings were...using the material.
Have you thought of maybe also doing this series in Oblivion? It is also a massive game and every play through I find new small things here and there that I did not notice the first time around.
@@Top_Weeb guess I haven't seen that video or missed it. Still if that's the case then even more so he should give it a go. It is a fantastic game with so much to see and do.
It would take him so long to play through Oblivion to obtain the experience and knowledge needed in order to make the type of content that would do it justice. I think he probably doesnt want to half ass anything. He seems to have alot of knowledge on Skyrim. Im sure much of it is due to him reading the reddit boards and seeing other videos possibly, but we can tell he has put in quite alot of game time into Skyrim over the years and he is passionate about the game and its lore. Its easier to make videos about a subject youre passionate about than it is to make yourself passionate about a video you want to put out. Im assuming he wants top notch content coming from his channel and he may feel that he would not do the game, or his fans, any justice by creating them. But this is just mere speculation.
@@Top_Weeb Seems super weird that someone would put so much time, effort, and even money into Skyrim and not really touch the previous games. No dig at Nate, but just always imagined if people like The Elder Scrolls that much - they would've played at least a lot of Oblivion and Morrowind lol
@TheEpicNate315 I have been watching these 10 tiny details vids for the 3 or 4 time and can't find a part 5. Thanks for the great content and keep up the good work.
I thought this was an old video and wanted to reminisce, felt like Christmas when I saw it had been uploaded an hour ago! Thank you for all of your hard work!!
It's so good to see you are back to making videos. Annoying that RU-vid didn't recommend this to me, I decided to search for your channel on a whim and saw the newer videos. Wonderful narration voice, I bet a lot of your subscribers would watch videos of you just reading Skyrim books and maybe giving a little commentary on them.
I think that the final battle is the series equivalent of Ragnarok. Shor sounds almost like Odin in that he rewards honorable deaths by allowing them into Valhalla. Now replace the word Odin with Shor, and Valhalla with Sovngarde. Makes sense, considering that skyrim and Nords in general are based off of viking stuff.
@@DangeHD yeah you should really hate to be that guy. Even I a pagan still use that kind of language especially when talking to someone who might not know much about the mythology. Which is exactly what he is doing Edit: Valhalla is really only there for warriors not soldiers you standard infantry would not be going to Valhalla If they died in battle. So people like Navy seals would be going there so it's usually Vikings being sent so that language makes sense to use. Edit 2: also forgot to mention not every shock trooper gets sent to Valhalla. I do forget if it's the Valkyries or Odin and Freya who decides who's going to Valhalla but I do know Warriors are split evenly among Valhalla and volkvang. And some will just go to hel.
I discovered that falling sneak-attack bug on accident when spying on a dragon from above while it sat on a dragon shrine. I slipped off the overhanging cliff, then panic-attacked in mid-air at the last second. The kill animation triggered, and the dragon thus broke my fall.
just today, i was playing and i snuck up on a dragon, and it died right in front of me. i absorbed its soul and it became a skeleton, even though it was still perched in wait of me. i think "wow, thats weird" and i get out of sneaking, WHICH THEN TRIGGERS THE DRAGON, CREATING AN UNKILLABLE SKELETAL DRAGON. shouts did nothing to it, it never landed long enough for me to hurt it, and yet it was still capable of hurting me and following a normal loop.
"Where heroes wait to follow Shor to the Final Battle" if Sovngarde's links to Valhalla are anything to go off of, what he's referring to is the end of all things, the Tamrielic equivalent to Ragnarok.
ok, the cut line from sovngarde reminds me of a theory that the last dragonborn is a shezarrine (a mortal incarnation of Lorkhan). And a few of the warriors of sovngarde do follow you into battle against Alduin, and you get the ability to call upon these heroes on Nirn as well afterward.
*"The Aldmeri Dominion congratulates you upon your return, EpicNate. We here in the Thalmor Embassy look forward to all Lore information you may produce in the foreseeable future"* - Thalmor Justiciar
As far as calpas are concerned, I think as the Dragonborn (or “Last” Dragonborn), our battle against Alduin is meant as a staving off the end of the current cycle. Remember, we don’t devour Alduin’s soul after defeating him, and even Argneir speculates that perhaps Alduin will return again to fulfill his purpose as “The World Eater”. Cause he’s meant to devour the world at the end of the cycle to kickstart the next calpa cycle.
Haven't you consumed enough, Alduin? Was it not you that summoned your beast to your demands before you owned him? Go back to your experience. Follow your footsteps to long before you volunteered your head to the block.
That's exactly what happens. Alduin isn't a dragon. He is a sliver of Akatosh, as is the Dragonborn. You don't absorb him because you just destroy the physical form he took on when he decided to pursue Nirnly pursuits rather than his do his job. You are basically Akatosh's belt being taken to his arse, then he's grounded until it's actually time for him to do his job.
I'm like one of the few people who discovered this game 10 yrs later. I bought an xbox 360 for my kids during Covid and for memories sake, and one of the games was skyrim. Was instantly hooked, then bought it in Steam and haven't stopped playing. Feeling like I missed the boat somehow. lol Keep making these videos.
Honestly, this channel has done so much to keep this game even remotely relevant. Bethesda should add something to TES6 to commemorate TheEpicNate’s dedication to this game.
TheEpicNate315 I have one thing I don’t believe you have covered about Skyrim, The Kathwasten Massacre. Now, as far as I know, we don’t know much about it. The only reason I know of it is because of the option in the graybeards council between Ulfric and Tulius. In this your given the option to punish Ulfric and make him pay the empire for his crimes or let him go, Ulfric heavily disputes this though, and denies that it was a massacre. I believe that this is one of the last remaining pieces of lore in Skyrim that hasn’t been explored. Thanks.
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Ulfric is literally Vivec: They both came to power after the previous ruler died. Those that oppose him say that this was murder, while those that support him say that it wasn't. They care deeply for their own race and province, but less so for every other race. They claim to be the ruler of their province while the Empire is actually in charge. The Argonians are treated worst of all. They both rule from a city divided into four quarters, with one quarter specifically for outsiders. They both possess a power derived from tonal architecture.
"I know how it feels" I absolutely believe it considering how much material you've put out, that despite knowing the game very well, I didn't know anything about
I got the switch version for Christmas from my boyfriend and have done nothing but binge watch your videos since. I played it on console for years growing up and your videos always teach me new things no matter how simple or obvious they may have seemed
I always thought that Alduin being the "World Eater" and the "Bringer of the End Times" meant that he was responsible for bringing about the end of the current kalpa. There's also the theory that the Dragonborn is Shor, which is why we can sit on his throne, which lends itself to the whole following Shor to the final battle thing. But I figure the fight would have been *way* bigger if that were the case.
He _was_ supposed to be the harbinger of the end times, but He was also supposed to wait for the end to occur proper. Instead, like many things in and from Skyrim, He didn't like the other races and felt His kind were the only ones deserving of this world. So He kickstarted the apocalypse early. What I'm trying to say is Alduin's a Stormcloak.
The elder scrolls uses a LOT of symbolism and stories from the real world, and many of the most common stories we have come from the Proto-Indo-European line. The idea of a battle at the end AND begining of the world is almost universal in the real world and a big part of that is the idea of a hero beating a serpent/dragon. HOWEVER, the story a hero defeating a serpent/dragon is common as hell and doesn't always mean a "final battle" (Zeus kills a serpent beast at the start of the known world, but Apollo and Hercules also kill dragons/serpents and it's not nearly as big a deal) it makes sense to me that the dragon born beating a dragon boss is kinda smaller than expected because it's not ACTUALLY the big world change, but a kind of reaction story within a larger story
