Skyrim: 5 Things They Never Told You About The Falmer 

TheEpicNate315 Your videos have been getting way more creative. I think my favorite video by you was the giant one.

You have sealed ya fate!

I don't think the fact that the "Song of the Return" books were ritten just after the Companions win over the Elves make it any worse: as a winner in a war, you want indeed to make you look good, but do you think that peoples in Atmora would be like :"yeah, it's cool that you put a slap on the wrist to thoose who massacred our kind"? No! they would be like :"What, you burnt the men alive and flayed their wives in front of each others? Seriously, that's all you found?!? YOU AT LEAST RAPED THE CHILDRENS, RIGHT?!?" like atmoran would rather ear the snow elves got what they deserve plus a *little* extra piss on the wounds, i think, and the author of the books would have wanted to satisfy his readers. Sorry for the spelling/grammatical mistakes, English isn't my primary language.

TheEpicNate315 Enjoyed your video as always but about the pale lady part I don’t dive into the lore some much but if you travel around in those falmer infested dungeons there’s female falmer mages that never did transcend into the wisp mother. What if those wisp mothers weren’t elves but some guardians that protected the falmer still to this day the elder scrolls and I think the book mentioned that the companions trapped the pale lady instead of slain during her. I don’t know if you want to you could explore it and maybe save it for another video. Anyway keep making those videos later

Your my favorite skyrim RU-vidr 😜❤

This is the 3rd time I've seen you and you lies😑

AK-SICKIE 2112 M’aiq does not lie

Go bother someone else M'aiq is tired

M'aiq The Liar I’m a box, get in.

I have been in multiple places at the same time.

Fun fact, the Plaugeis book is fantastic.

Made my day

Is it possible to learn this Thu"um?

This is all great ☝

I didn’t like it so the likes would stay at 69

Same here, that was really disappointing. Would’ve loved to see some unique leather armor or maybe some nice robes

There's a mod for that

@@couchbear6108 what's it called? Is it on xbox?

bethesda.net/en/mods/skyrim/mod-detail/4152162 PS4 version too, I have no tried this mod

now that you mention it, Im also disappointed.

Yes

Which time?

@@TySama0 he probably meant the time when falmers weren't falmers

@@eminemre2210, that is specified.

Hi Cicero I still can’t get past ur ice troll

Except that the Snow Elves started this all, by attacking Saarthal, the first settlement. They didn't like the idea of having more humans (which they previously kindly greeted in Skyrim) and just killed almost everybody there. Ysgramor avenged his fellow Nords.

Skyro is that so? If that the case I apologize for the mistake. Love only few elder scrolls games (Oblivion and Skyrim) so don’t quite know the lore.

Skyro I thought the Atmorans came in search of conquest and destruction. Doesn’t sound bad to me. I like Nordic history. Sounds fun

@@keltdood They came to settle there. I think their homeland was too cold or something like that. They had a peaceful relationship with the Snow Elves at the start. Until the Nord grew too big and discovered the Eye of Magnus in Saarthal.

@@keltdood I think there is part of the story we don't know and there were more fights as the history books would describe. It's like American history: there were peaceful settlers, trading with the Natives, but just as many if not more violent ones who saw themselves as conquerors. We never get the snow elves' perspective and that is always a bad sign

Alexis Notarianni nothing is scarier than encountering a farmer.

Falmer: *_It's almost harvesting season!_*

@@metetural9140 Good one, that is the funniest thing that I have heard all day!

@@andrewrauch5807 shit I misquoted it

@@metetural9140 That's okay, it's still funny as hell!

nice

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You’ve violated the law of Skyrim and her people, what say you in your defense?

Solitude Guard it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a good fight

Noice

They are already Falmer. The Falmer you speak of are just blind feral versions of the Falmer

@@metetural9140 I am well aware. It was a joke

@@becmoss yes I know, i was just telling you that to see if you knew. Some people respond like that and other people look at me like I just told them Santa isn't real

Wait what you sayin bout Santa? 😂 For simplicity’s sake, the normal Snow Elves are generally called Snow Elves, and the monstrosified version are known as Falmer. The Snow Elves that are left that we see during Dawnguard don’t like to be called Falmer for that reason, as opposed to High Elves, Dark Elves and Wood Elves generally preferring to be called Altmer, Dunmer and Bosmer.

The snow elf preist in dawngaurd agrees

I assumed they were what became of the dwarfs

It’s a similar story lol.

@@smass8586 second thought

Smas S858 my thought when I heard about their story

I was once an all-nighter like you, but then I took a sleep pill to the stomach.

Were you at? its nine pm for me.

@@grayfox6930 Europe. Probably UK or Spain.

Aye

Lmao for me rn its 3 am :p

What?

@@failedabortion8734 My dreams are weird. :P

@@thegreattotemaster all dreams are in a sense

Yeah, that history sounds like total bs. 12 years old girl, that holds sword and THROWS i... And pierce his armor... Yeah... This either be deadra or aedra or its total bs...

@@jkgf4671 maybe she was had magic and when her parent died she blew up and used magic to kill the dude

@@jkgf4671 she was a squire, meaning a trainee. Odds are that she was there to keep handong equipment for her mother and given Atmoran physiology, she may well have had the brute strength to do so

@@mistertaz94 This was their king so he definitely had the best armor they have. So this child throwing some ordinary sword piercing that armor is ridiculous. It would not only require insane amount of strength but also agility. If she would throw dagger - ok, that would work. But a CHILD, THROWING a SWORD that PIERCED HIGH QUILITY armor, that probably was also ENCHANTED since it was armor for their leader that boosted their morale. If that was mere child and not some aedra, deadra i call it bs.

@@jkgf4671 Pfft... no regular 12 year old girl, a Nord and that armor was flimsy elven make.

Nord justice was served. That's all, right?

Most elves are dicks it is justified

We know there was a treaty and at some point tension rose to eventual war. However, we don't know which side violated the treaty. The Night of Tears was the result of the violation of the treaty, but wasn't the violation itself.

Do you not realize what the Eye of Magnus was CAPABLE of. IT COULD HAVE DESTROYED ALL OF CREATION! Look at what it almost did at the College of Winterhold, they even said that if the Eye's power was not contained it could destroy Nirn!

Agreed they attacked the settlers therefore they deserved to a degree ysgramors vengeance

Christopher Rumbold You can never be a good guy if you’re involved with war.

War.... war never changes.

firemonster221 in the minds of the Atmorans, they were the good guys. I don’t remember the name of the diety off the top of my head, but conquest is apart of Atmoran/Nordic way of life. I guess it really depends on whose side your on. From a neutral perspective, both sides had good and faults. I’m siding with Ysgramor, just because I like the idea of bringing down a battleaxe to the gleaming heads of elven kind. #killtheelves

Both sides are bad, warcrimes are a thing

@@EMPERORTUNGSTEN evil wins when the good man does nothing being peaceful is only good to a measure

I really hope this makes top comment

Um... The uh, dwemer went missing long ago...

@@trurookiegaming6998 That's the joke

Nah that's just Yagram... well yeah, yeah it is

@@metetural9140 thanks, I was trying to remember his name earlier!

Last time i was this early Nate did not exist yet

You have violated the laws of Skyrim and her people, what say you in your defense?

@@solitudeguard5318 Wait, I know you.

I don’t like where this is going

I will devour you’re souls

Coldharbour will boil over when that happens

5 things in Soul Cairn you missed.

Es6 will be out by then

Camelworks made a great video on the soul cairn, if you have the time for his videos.

I’ll believe that when whales fly! Oh wait-

the victor dictates history

He wasn't a bad guy. The snow elves sacked an Atmoran settlement, Saarthal, unprovoked. Only three humans made it out alive, them being Ysgramor and his sons. Anyone would want to wipe out the Falmer in his position.

Sion909 he was by no means a villain

@@philburtthecommunistlizard5975 no matter how many times I play this game, it's the amount of effort put into lore that I adore

@@sion9092 Same. All of the elder scrolls games (with the exceptions of arena and the spinoffs) have tremendous amounts of lore put into them. The world feels so realistic too.

Yuagin I think he meant the first still standing city

It is also believed the Snow Elves had planned to exterminate all Nords in Skyrim, but Ysgramor turned that around. Of course, that doesn't mean the Nords were innocent of "War Crimes" - not that such a thing existed at that time.

500 companions my arse. Ysgramor probably brought 10,000 if he wanted, and did, beat the Falmer. And they definitely didn't stay on the same boat

@@metetural9140 I believe the 500 companions is more for Nord boasting. I think it was more likely 500 Ship Captains with a full crew and fighting battalion for each ship.

@@nikik5567 Saarthal is technically still standing.

You wish, Ysgramor could have waved a white flag and promised that the Eye of Magnus would have been buried forever. They would have all lived in peace and probably have become an unstoppable Empire!

Ysgramor literally slaughtered an entire peaceful race that would've been passive if they actually tried to communicate with them

@@Just_in_case_i_die..._ THANK YOU!!!!!!!

@@Just_in_case_i_die..._ They did communicate with them, or did you miss that part?

@@Practitioner_of_Diogenes they might have communicated with them in the beginning, but it s doesn't excuse the fact that an entire peaceful race was SLAUGHTERED and made into SLAVES for utterly no reason. Imagine you were living a peaceful, happy, prosperous life with your wife/husband and your children, and all of a sudden some guy with a big axe rushes into your Homeland with 500 other guys and they kill everyone you know and love- aswell as make your race slaves to build a city THEY wanted on YOUR Homeland. And on top of all of that, your brothers the Dwemmer wouldn't help you unless you ate a strange fungus that made you blind against your will. So, your choices are 1. Get brutally slaughtered by some dudes with beards 2. Turn into a slave for the dudes with beards THEN get brutally slaughtered 3. Eat a mushroom that slowly turns you blind and primal

Ive killed the dragon priest Volsung. At level 5 with a steel battleaxe. That was about 5 years ago when I didnt love dragon priest lore. Same with Krosis... I screamed untill I pushed him of the cliff and watched him die.

@@Whlsperer I remember Krosis. My first one. I wore that mask with pride... Took me forever. Ended up using the giant and mammoth. Poor giant didn't make it.

Agreed but after that he didn't have to be so cruel to the slaves. And yet he was because he felt like he should or something. Makes you think how many times a hero has become the villain irl and we will never find out because he/she writes history.

@@odysseussavvakis5396 A guy comes in and murders your whole family.... How kind are you going to be to him? For a lot of people, if they have the chance, they will inflict as much suffering as they can and consider it justice for the suffering he inflicted.

@@asherandai1000 I'm not justifying this 100% but since when is genocide a reasonable response to something not nearly as detrimental as genocide?

@@sp0chi106 Likewise I'm not justifying it, both sides are at fault here. I am however curious as to what you mean by "something not nearly as detrimental as genocide"? The Snow Elves attempted to wipe out the people who had settled there. In fact, aside from Ysgramor who escaped, isn't that exactly what they did? The story is a little unclear on certain points... as I recall the settlers were fleeing war. For all anyone knew they were the only ones remaining, and the Snow elves wiped them out to a man with literally zero provocation (as far as we know). Granted it turned out the war had ended and there were other survivors. But frankly that's only relevant to the fact Ysgramor was able to come back and do to the Snow Elves what they had done to his people. Furthermore Atmora as far as we know is now an uninhabitable frozen wasteland. Had the Snow Elves won, they very much would have committed Genocide having killed the only people to have escaped. Frankly I think your splitting hairs saying one is worse then the other. I can't see any justification behind your claims personally. One group wiped out another group, and in turn were wiped out themselves. And if you really want to go that deep into splitting hairs, well then Ysgramor and his people didn't commit genocide either. The Snow Elves survived by fleeing to the Dwemer. Based on the available information the Snow Elves were the aggressors, they betrayed their original offer, and they paid the price. An eye for eye.

LMAO I thought it was a child and I felt bad until I remembered Braith, then I was like, "f* this mini mer," and I bashed its head off with a dragon's leg bone. 😂

Riflemutt Prime Pretty creepy looking to be fair!

THE ISOLATION GAMES I still remember running into them for the first time it was actually into Blackreach to get the Elder Scroll, terrible place to first find them. I was terrified and horribly under-leveled. Also there was a Centurion by them at one point, that wasn’t fun.

@@cobaltprime9467 Centurion definitely aren't going to make that encounter any more fun my friend.

Shouldn't you have been inside?

Yeah I can't really feel bad for genocidal elves getting wiped out

Whilst Ysgramor and Tiber Septim aren't heroes, neither are the Falmer and Ayleids. Well now that I think about it, Tiber Septim was a real evil prick. He used a Numidiam to murder a bunch of innocent people

Do you not pay attention to detail. What did the Eye of Magnus almost do to the College of Winterhold, IT ALMOST DESTROYED IT! Would you want an impulsive and not patient race wielding something with that kind of power! Secondly, the Snow Elves enslaved the human race because they knew that they had to keep an eye on them or they'd blow up the world! Third, the Ayleid's did not just enslave humans, THEY USED THEM IN F***ING NECROMANTIC RITUALS WHICH ALL ELVES SEE AS EVIL! Finally, the Thalmor are but a faction of the Altmer race, many of the Altmer are afraid to speak out against the Thalmor because they are afraid that the Thalmor will MURDER them! The Snow Elves were in the right and the Nords were in the wrong and I've got more evidence than that!

@@blevins3053 Sure, like the Nords haven't been at one time or another!

@@metetural9140 Exactly, thank god that somebody else sees that!

My theory is that some Snow Elven sages dug up the fact that the site of Saarthal was where a dangerous magical energy source had been disposed of in earlier times. The Nord settlers, however, were delving deeply into the ground for the building of their burial crypts and were much too close to this artifact; in fact, they must have found it, for in 'our' time, it is contained in the crypt holding one of the Gauldursons. Since this artifact, in the wrong hands, could 'remake' the world (viz Ancano's dialogue), the Snow Elves were determined to keep the Nords from using it, thus the attack and obliteration of Saarthal. That way the artifact was safe and the Nords would have no clue of the power it contained.

is this a WW2 reference?

So Night of Tears is basically Pearl Harbor in The Elder Scrolls?

The Nords were in Snow Elf territory on sufferance. They were foreigners who were not invited; squatters if you will. We do not know what may have sparked the Snow Elf actions because naturally the Nords aren't going to tell us about it if there was one, or more, reasons. All I know is that the Snow Elves could have slaughtered them on the beachheads righteously as defending their land from invaders, but they didn't. Most elves aren't as impulsive as humans; I doubt they would have taken their action at Saarthal without due consideration of consequences and found it important enough to take the risk.

@@pedigreeann I'm sure I heard it was the Nords slaughtered somewhere, I'm not sure tho

@firemonster221 but I thought the eye of magnus that was found in sarthaal led to the elves attacking sarthaal for the power the orb held. though keep in mind that I am more asking than stating rn, as you seem to know the lore waaaay better than I do.

@firemonster221 ty for that helpful info, actually been wondering where yall end up getting so into the lore, Ive known about the imperial library website but can never figure out how to work it, and currently with my shite internet itd take me 10 minutes just to load up the damned page :/ EDIT: also no problem about the reminder lol

@firemonster221 You think the Snow Elves wouldn't have asked them to leave? I mean, that doesn't make sense. A massacre wouldn't have happened without the Snow Elves being angered/provoked.

Natas White stay strong bro

Same! Stay safe!

Unless your balls are bigger than theirs. A.K.A. barely anyone

The most important thing to learn is that human's are impulsive, rude, arrogant, and can't be trusted, and yes I play as Nord!

#ElfSuperiority

@@jacrispy3275 Don't say that, all of the races are equal.

@@andrewrauch5807 - I was just joking, but no, they're not equal. Some are stronger than others, some are hated & prejudiced against, etc. I wouldn't exactly call that equal. This is TES, not real life.

Yeah but this guy is hailed as some "hero" who was just so great and tragic that he's loved by all nord. Not all slaves were treated the same back in the day even in our world, and Windhelm is a big, grand city. The fact the enslaved Snow Elves even had to build such a thing must've even a daunting task, one that they were all slaughtered after making

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Noob. 😀

Did you send him to the cloud district what am I saying of course you did

@@jaqaunjones9746 I sent him to Manslayer😈

The Snow Elves were doomed no matter how you look at it. The Dragons were coming over with the Nords and they would have subjugated the Snow Elves. Also, the Snow Elf's highest religious figure was turned into a vampire (yes hundreds or thousands of years later, but that would have devastated them as well).

Uh yeah, if you knew that a race that is impulsive and doesn't think things through has a weapon that could possibly unmake all of creation, would you want them to have it. The Snow Elves were only trying to prevent the Nords from doing something terrible. Even the Psijic Monk in the College of Winterhold's quest line said that the world was not ready for such a thing. The Snow Elves were only trying to protect the world, so don't go talking bad about them when their intentions were FAR from malevolent and self-centered.

@@andrewrauch5807 No. They lived in peace for years. They traded. Taught each other magic, culture, smithing, and combat techniques. The Falmer betrayed the nords when they found the Eye of Magnus. They slaughtered countless innocent people for an artifact they didn't even understand themselves. The elves are just as if not more impulsive than the nords. The elves literally think themselves gods . No matter how many times the gods curse them for their heresy

@@andrewrauch5807 if that is true they shouldn't have murdered everyone instead should have talked with and convinced them to work with the elves to seal it away

@@DarkSeraph95 The elves knew that the Eye could destroy the world if tampered with. They were attempting to protect all of life. If they did not act, the Nords would have, then all of Nirn would have suffered. You're not looking at the dangerous potential that the Eye has. No good could have come from the Nords having it, and if the Snow Elves knew nothing about it, why then did they leave it. They did know something, they knew that it was dangerous.

No it happened in the late Merithic Era, so probably a little bit before these events.

True, but there aren’t many reasons to slaughter a human settlement other than xenophobia.

@@dylannecros3636 I was saying its more likely the humans made up the story of the settlement to have reason to invade as conquerors are known to do

Well its not exactly uncharacteristic for elves to hate and look down on men as a lesser species. The whole aldmeri dominion is dedicated to the idea that mer(elves) are superior to man.

@@anthonypolonkay2681 I'm just saying it's possible and could even be the starting point for elves hating men and not all elves share the ideas of the aldmeri dominion

@@whyidontwant2723 except, you know, the Ayleids. 🙄

ESO does good walk-through videos.

Stormcloaks, Imperials, Draagons screw the surface dwellers.

Keelah but who asked? Get twitter to share your life

Floyd Lechner u sound real mad over a RU-vid comment my good bitch

Well, it depends on whether or not the Night of Tears was provoked or not. Knowing Atmoran culture and the situation with the Eye of Magnus... well, just saying, he may very well be a bad guy that won. And the victors write the history

Always looked purple to me, sometimes even black.

Always looked purple to me, sometimes even black. Or maybe dark blue?

At least they didn't have shotguns

Dustin Gideon “GET AWAY FROM MY PROPERTY *cocks 12 gauge*

Well extermination of the entire snow elf race is a bit extreme.

Taylor417 I like this because of how true it is!

THANK YOU! I kept thinking the same thing!

Also, come on. If you run away from 500 drunk dudes with clubs because one of them stabbed your commander, you might as well just be driven to extinction by a tribe of angry horkers.

Agree

@@captain_kadaver yes but put into reality that if it was just 500 nords, they would've been crushed in a week. It was probably more 5000, or 10000. And I doubt they stayed on the same boat

Yeah, only after the Atmorans had a weapon that could potentially destroy the world. Look at what the Eye almost did at the College of Winterhold, it killed the Archmage and Mirabelle Ervine. The Snow Elves were right to attack the Atmorans!

Forgotten vale.