Fact #6: The White-Gold Tower created by the Ayleids is not the original tower of its kind. It is actually a replica of the Adamantine Tower, also known as Direnni Tower, located in High Rock. This was the very same tower where the gods themselves convened to punish Lorkhan for his trickery, but it is now controlled by the Bretons. Because of the Convention, you could argue that High Rock is the origin of Nirn's history.
Ayleid King Let me quote from Aurbic enigma: "But of all the Prismatic Mer, none were more presumptuous than the Ayleids of the Heartland. They built their tower in open emulation of Ada-Mantia".
The one correction i would make is that the admantine tower is controlled by the Direnni clan, a clan of very powerful altmer mages who have made their home on the isle of Balfiera ever since their departure from the summerset isles.
Colin Laidlaw Great Power comes Great Responsibility. most abused there power while others misused it (except the snow elves. They got fucked over bad)
Every time a Cyrodiilic Empire is mentioned I start to wonder how old is Serana from Dawnguard? Since she seems surprised that there is an Empire at the moment of her release.
Yamil Diaz Her family basically took that castle from falmer as the first humans moved into Skyrim. This was actually even before the elves enslaved men.
Scott Glennon I knew that her and her family were old, but I wasn't expecting them to be that old. When she mentions that she's from a time before a Cyrodiilic Empire I never really knew of which she meant since between the Ayleids and the Medes there's been a few of them.
These lore videos are so addicting. This one in particular brought back many memories of going through Ayleids ruins in Oblivion. I remember the shock I had when I accidentally stumbled upon Umbra. (Didn't know it was linked to a quest at that moment.) Love how you use only Oblivion footage. Still my favorite TES to this day.
I thought it was the Altmer, being the closest descendeds of the "Aldmer", a mythical proto-elf that doesn't exist anymore (kinda like the Atmorans for the Humans)
I think it would be exceptionally interesting to see an isolated but surviving ayleid city within either valenwood or black marsh seeing as how both have had ayleid occupiers in the past and are dense and mysterious enough for stragglers to survive
A few mistakes through out. First off the White Gold tower was not built by the Ayleids it was in fact the Aldmer ancestors of the Ayleids who built the tower. Umaril the unfeathered was not able to come back to life in the 3rd era because he was half Auroran. He was able to come back because he had struck a bargain with Meridia his patron goddess. Umarils Daedra servants did not kill Pelinal Whitestrake it was some Elf kings who where insulted at the disrespect Pelinal showed for his fallen foe Umaril.
I wonder if the Snow Elves asked the Aylieds for help before the Dwemer. Afterall the Aylieds at that time knew how to keep man in check. I guess even the Aylieds gave a big fuck you to them too. The Aylied civil war hadn't started yet. It seems none of the Elven races wanted to help their Falmer cousins.
Of course not. The elven races aren't necessarily all friends. The Dunmer even gave Talos the Numidium so that he can use that in his fight against the Second Aldmeri Dominion.
@@HolyknightVader999 Yeah but the Tribunal was likely doing that just to appease Talos and allow for better relations since it was part of there treaty. I don't see why the Elven races wouldn't get along at that period of time, since... well, the Altmer may not have, but they're staunch Supremacists, not like the other Mer that left to maintain Tamriel. May not be friends but I don't see why they wouldn't help them against the barbaric Human Atmorans.
True, although we'll never know, maybe the Aylieds knew they couldn't face an enemy in a cold Region they wouldn't be the best fighters in. Granted, any Falmer in Cyrodiil once the Rebellion started would've been killed anyways, unfortunately
Idrah I have a feeling the dwarves worshiped jygallag because jygallag looks basically the same as the armour dwarves wore. they were the most advanced on any race I believe because jygallag assisted them because they worshipped him
TheOblivionisdoom well no although they may have had similar goals the dwemer despiced all kinds of worshipping and praying to deities like the aedra and daedra. they would definetly not have worshipped a daedric prince at all like that.
Phone Guy Yeah but they're even worse because they used more magic and they worshipped daedra and enslaved Colovians and probably had really douchey British accents.
i mean, the dwemer blinded every snow elf in exchange for 'safety' and then enslaved them after a while, whilst also using the heard of a god to create their own
Ironically no one focuses on the depth of ayleids they mostly just veer off to surface level content these guys basically read the wiki and summarised it incredibly into a 5 minute or so video
@@nexonuturious6954 Very true, they don't dig deep into the Lore and grab everything about them, even in the Podcasts. They know a shit ton, yes, but leave quite a bit out. You'd think between the 3 of them, they'd have all the info they could find...
Anyone looking for something to do with ayleids and Cyrod should 100% play Knights of the Nine Revelations mod for Oblivion, by far my most rated adventure/quest mod of all time, the lore is all correct(obviously not the story,, but references, character backgrounds, cyrod, ayleids etc. are all correct) Great immersive story, NO BUGS I mean come on what more could you ask for?
Lifeless body I agree but he does it anyways, I like his videos I mostly just listen to them because he always uses skyrim as his visuals for everything. He uses a modded skyrim to visualize and showcase everything even if the things he's showing isn't in skyrim. I'm not trying to hate on him he makes good lore videos and he sounds good. it's just kinda flat when he shows skyrim footage for things that don't even take place there
If we do end up in highrock for part of elder scrolls 6 I would love to see a hidden ayleid city in the mountains. Have it hidden under ground with holes letting in lights and they still sacrifice humans and have slaves.
en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Ayleid The Ayleids, also known as the Heartland High Elves or Wild Elves, elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Ayleid The Ayleids, also known as the Wild Elves, Heartland High Elves(or simply Heartland Elves),and Saliache, were a race of Mer who ruled over Cyrodiil during the First Era.
Ah, that's by FAR my favorite five facts yet from you fine gentlemen. Wonderful job. Whoever did the writing for the narrative of this video did a lovely job; the flow is fluid and graceful and the images really support the dreamy feel of this step back in time. Many thanks, and hats off to you for a very professional video. 💕
The Alyids settled everywhere accept marrowind and skyrim because the Falmer or snow elves had kingdoms and strongholds in skyrim, the Dwemer or deep elves however had kingdoms in both marrowind and skyrim, they even had a few strongholds in highrock and hammerfell and there is proof of this. During Molag Bals campaign to take and dominate over nirn he pulled a few ruins and other structures that man and mer had built on tamriel these included some Alyid and Dwemer ruins and can most likely be found in Coldharbour the realm of Molag bal to this day.
Ayleids enslavement of Nedes and Nords eventually led to the birth of Imperials of whom were the offspring of both these human races, this is why the Imperials dominate the country of Cyrodill. This should have been a fact too you mentioned little bits about it about St Alessia but not extensive information.
As would i, the fact being half of their population squared off during the Dispora and since they look like only darker altmer its likely many ayleids are still living because of population dynamic's.
Ok I understand why no one has reverse engineered Dwemer technology (too much of it uses Tonal Architecture) but why has no one reverse engineered Ayleid technology? Having what is essentially Fantasy Solar Panels would be very useful for the people of Tamriel.
Actually I'm pretty sure in TES lore, the Bosmer/Wood Elves are the Wild Elves.. because the Ayleids were more or less known as the Heartland High Elves :)
***** yeah but skyblivion is only a mod and the reason tes6 isn't being made was not having the right technology so that would give then the technology to make tes6 a better game
so i once read that they pit unarmed human slaves against feral lions and beasts in an arena like game does that mean that the imperial's repurposed that arena into the arena we see in cyrodill today?
It makes sense that the dwemer made underground cities, but it always bothered me that the Ayleids and other races have their respective ruins underground as well I think it would be awesome if Bethesda made ruined cities that both lay above and below ground. I think it was more out of a kind of laziness that Bethesda did this.
Snow Wolf646 actually, many ayleid cities lay both above and below ground, but time ravages the existing above ground structures far faster than those below. They are just mostly little more than traces now, above.
Yeah I noticed that but all that remains of their above ground structures are usually like one main entrance and a few pillars, if you look at ancient cities in real life many parts still stand and if the Ayleids had magically enhanced construction then their structures should be at least a little more preserved then they are in Oblivion. I agree with your comment but the extent to which the ruins simply disappear is annoying, and if they did fall apart you would still see the foundations of buildings, roads, etc but instead it seemed all the stone simply disappeared. The only plausible explanation would be the Imperials took the stones from ruins to build other buildings or make repairs as was common practice in real life. Byzantine cisterns under Constantinople were largely made with stones taken from older ruins etc, but the main structures that are to strong to be scavenged would remain or at least their foundations. I dont mean to start a debate I agree with your logic but I feel the extent to which things disappeared was exaggerated by bethesda to fill in holes in the game like rendering and needing more loading screens etc.
Usually they were above ground however bear in mind those have stood for thausonds of years errosion mudslides, and earthquakes over time would've adjusted the landscape burying some and exposing outhers most of the ayleid ruins in oblivion arround the niben would've been more then visiable but are now only identifable by a statue and a tower or two out of the water
Frank Duffy Since he seems to only consider in game sources there isn't much to say. Even if one spends enough time to decipher vivecs and Mankars ramblings the information on the subject is quite spare.
Frank Duffy, All we really know is that it does NOT work by using traditional magic (or perhaps not even magic at all.....) and that Vivec and Talos both achieved this either near the end of or very late during their lives. Of course, there IS more information about the subject, but I'm no loremaster.
This was so cool and when you said they use star light I thought of the dwemer but they use it in different ways then the dwemer and also have a different point of view on it,
So let me get this straight... After alyssia started the Civil War and man beat back the elves the remaining elves fled into every region and over time became what they are now? Dunmer, bosmer, orks, dwemer, falmer then the high elves or aldmer or altmer and stuff on summerset aisles? They were all ayleid at one point?
Pelinal Whitestrake was such a beast. He was basically a rabid angry midget hopped up on a bunch of cocaine just running across Cyrodiil slaughtering everyone.
Cr1mson 1 sorry to be a year late to the party but I’ve just found one of those in Skyrim but can’t find anything on it as to anyone else finding one in Skyrim.... anyone help?
Correct in a way, Welkend stones are a corporeal vessel used by the ayleids to hold magicka which were often made of meteorite glass, that had been crafted with a unique school of magic now lost known as light magic.
The white gold tower is also a thing of great power itself. or it was anyway its been left without a stone to power it ever since Martin Septim broke the amulet of kings. Supposedly the towers have the power to control reality or some aspects of reality within their vicinity. They are said to be able to create their own "narrative" around them, that's how Akatosh, Lorkhan, and Magnus created Mundus with the tower Ada-Mantia also where they decreed lorkhans punishment. Supposedly this power comes from the fact that the Tower is a representation of the universe as seen by someone who Achieves CHIM, since its said that to look at The Wheel sideways it appears as a "I" or a tower, the white gold tower was so much more powerful than the others because not only was it a representation of "I" but it also had a replica of the other towers and The Wheel connecting them all representing all of Mundus. its likely why the Ayleids held such power for so long but then the new owners rapidly grew in power as well and that dominance lasted ages until Martin broke the stone leaving the tower powerless and now the Aldmeri dominion is able to walk all over the empire in the years since. Also the Dwemer Numidium is a tower as well known as the Walking-Brass, once Tiber Septim had control of the walking- brass and the white gold tower he quickly achieved CHIM likely with the help of some old Dwemer knowledge much like how Vivec and the tribunal achieved CHIM as well but it seems it wasn't as complete as Tiber Septims was
EDIT: oops I thought you guys were asking for build suggestions, oh well I'll leave this here in case anyone wants to try it. An altmer Mage using the monarch perk from ordinator (it drains magicka from all other npcs there's another perk for enemy stamina) and imperious races (altmer have weaker weapons but stronger enchantments) called the kinlord, the character is a perfectionist even by altmer standards s/he is a devout worshipper of their divine ancestors yet feel that the thalmor are blasphemously lazy in their endeavor to unmake the world to regain their lost godhood. The kinlord has studied the ascent of past mortal born gods and realizes that not everyone has the potential to ascend only those chosen long ago by the gods. The kinlord believes themselves to be such a person and Thus they put the work into proving that they alone are superior to every other Mage to exist, and through their esoteric research develop magical theories to keep them ahead of all opposition (hence they drain magic and stamina from all others) If you guys consider the build I'll leave most of the backstory to you guys I have one in mind but most of the fun with your builds are the great storytelling portions from the backstory. Combat skills should be destruction (the shock tree line ) alteration, (monarch, intuitive magic and nullifier) if you decide to make it a battle Mage route enchanting's cosmic fire, might and magic and battlemage all boost an imperious altmers already high enchantment strength with melee weapons and bows as well as secretkeeper doing the same for staves, to potentially do a staff Mage build. Miracle and arcane thesis should also be taken as they fit the whole perfectionist theme, one spell to be the kinlords magnum opus, and one legendary weapon with 3 enchantments.
Just realized that the humans were responsible for the extinction of 3 races. The ayleids, snow elves (devolved into the falmer) and the left handed elves.
Human slaves were not an issue for the Ayleids until their civilisation tore itself apart through Civil War (much of the 'human' armies were in fact Ayleids).
Damn shame the Ayleids are gone now. Such an interesting and superior culture. Lets hope the Thalmor can do the Ayleid justice and punish the humans of Cyrodill severely. One Great War is not enough.
No this is a good point, theirs no exact lore reason but i believe it has something to do with the Ayleid Language system which basically means instead of being the High Elves, Altmer, they have usually got a describing word, which is Heartland High elves which could explain the differnce however the Ayleids did speak outside of ayleidoon they likly called them selves the Ayleidic People, or the Ayleidoon, as opposed to the Ayleids
What ever happened to all the falmer ruins around skyrim? I mean somehow I doubt that a bunch of nords would be bothered to destroy them. Especially seeing as stone walls with dragon writing can survive, you would expect that ruins outside of the forgotten vale. Like come on Bethesda I wanted to see anci2nt falmer dungeons not a load of uggo's with fish for weapons
Ayleids are Mer but unlike the other mer they don't have the word "mer" in their official name? Anyone know why? (I'm not very good in the Ayleid history)
Crytica There was a thread on the TESLore sub-reddit about this, I recall. Some chap thought it was the name of the clan to which this group of Aldmer (that was also part of his argument) belonged. Some other chap argued that "Ayleid" is simply the Ayleidoon word for this specific group of mer that inhabited the Cyrodiil region (the Ayleids spoke Ayleidoon, as opposed to the Aldmeri language, which I am tempted to call Aldmeris). I suspect it to be a case of the latter, though it is pure speculation. "TLDR": Something, Something, not explained in the lore.
Finally something not with Skyrim. And its a coincidence because I was playing Oblivion last night. Aylied Ruins are pretty darn cool. And in *some* cases, better than Nordic ruins
So, when you og through the Ratway for te first time, you come at some point to an battle ax, if you have a blood mod on you will see that there is blood on and around it and also on the thing it is on(forgot what it is called) and there is also a basket, what's up with that?? Does it mean something or is it an easter egg or just there??
so who do you think would win in a war the ayleids or the dwemer. i personally think the dwemer would win easily but i dont know much about the ayelids capability's.
The ayleids would annilate the dwemer, we saw what the early age tribal chimer did to them without a trace of magic, the ayleids would litrally wipe the floor with them however its confirmed the ayleids and dwemer were on very good terms enough to have translated each outhers written languages
