Skyrim: 5 Things You Probably Didn't Know You Could Do - The Elder Scrolls 5: Secrets (Part 21) 

"Hey, you. You're finally awake. The dragonborn hit you with a fork 5 years ago and you've been paralyzed ever since."

I put at least 400hours into this game Might have crafted like 5 potions that whole time

Imagine being a bandit playing dead after he watched you kill all his friends, and then you feel yourself being put down on some logs at a lumber mill, all of a sudden you’re able to see all of the provinces of Tamriel

As a game designer I can assume, that those logs do not disapear, but rather move to their initial location so the player can cut them again. The "move" word is quite important. Logs do not teleport there, they move with very, very high speed, and that's why they can push objects with that much of a force. I may be wrong, but I think that it would be the easiest to do it this way.

“Convince the dovakiin to eat a little bit healthier” *my dovakiin who hasn’t eaten a single thing since release day: T.T

Orthorn: "You could, you know, let me out of this cage now." Dovahkiin: *leaves* Orthorn: "All right, then."

Listen , I’ve played hundreds of hours in Skyrim across 3 different platforms and I’m still finding unique places or unmarked locations I’ve never been too. It brings me back to the first time playing and spending months of my time exploring. It’s a testament to how large and how fun Skyrim can be outside of the main quest.

The reason vegetable soup let’s you infinitely power attack is because you can power attack as long as your stamina isn’t at exactly 0. Even if you have the tiniest sliver of stamina left you can still power attack. Since vegetable soup is constantly giving you stamina, you always have that tiny sliver.

Delphine: Kill Paarthunax Dragonborn with paralysis poisoned sword: You are no longer ‘essential’

Funny thing with J'zargo is he isn't lying. As it stand's, he's the highest level vanilla follower that you can recruit, health stands at 717 (Highest of all followers), maxed out Destruction, Restoration and Illusion skills, and oddly enough; maxed out Heavy Armor and One-Handed skills.

Btw the vegetable soup stacks. If you eat a lot of them, the stamina regenerates faster than you can lose it.

I've found that giving a character a personality when you make them and role-playing to that is pretty fun even fighting styles and choices you might normally pick

Hey, I discovered something that I don’t think you have covered yet. When the graybeards teach you whirlwind sprint just after you learn the first word (or second word depending) if you have a dragon soul available you can quickly go into the magic menu and use the soul to unlock it. This will make it it so that when Borri gives you his knowledge of the shout he will actually teach and unlock the next word in the shout. This can also be done when Partysnacks teaches you fire breath.

Person: (Feels like they have done everything possible in the Elder scrolls 5 skyrim) Nate: Hold my Cyrodilic Brandy

Correction: To put Jzargo in his place you only need the Expert Destruction Perk, not Master.

There was another way to get rid of NPCs that even worked on Essentials. It was a particular Raise Dead spell (I forget which). Equip it to both hands, charge both individually, then release them at an NPC, one immediately following the other. Do it right, and it will turn the NPC into ash, though the game still registers them as being alive. Having gotten back into Skyrim after a few years, I have no idea if this was ever discovered and patched or not.

*"Psst. Hey, I know who you are. Hail Sithis."*

"It's the MOST fun to do with CORPSES!" -TheEpicNate, 2020

Something sick I found out, if you are a high elf and have thalmore wizard clothing, you can walk past most of the guards in the Diplomatic immunity quest, you can even talk to the guards. Once you get into the second building however, the one you’re not supposed to be in, they will Agro so start sneaking from there.

Ever since the perma-paralyze loop was discovered, Nazeem became just a little more worried in every single players’ playthrough

Can I just say, the guy who voiced Orthorn did a great job conveying the feeling of going from, "I'm saved!" to "Did I just get sold to someone as a test subject in exchange for some books?"

J'zargo has his right to be so self-confident. I mean, he is literally the best mage in the Skyrim stat-wise.

I love the Fortify Alchemy Enchant loop. I use it in tandem with the mod that lets you grow any plant in your hearthfire garden, get a bunch of Jarrin root, and make the deadliest poison known to Tamriel - enough to kill any enemy in the game with one hit.

The vegetable soup thing sounds like it could definitely come in handy for people who go with Warrior based builds, so it's a very useful tip.

When it comes to essential npcs, I always loved how they handled it back in Morrowind. "Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created." Such a great line.

"Lydia wait on those logs over there"

just a small correction to something Nate said: the perk for Master level destruction spells isn't required for J'zargo's unique dialogue option. you need the Master *or* Expert perk

Ahem, and I quote "MY CABBAGES!!!!!!!!"end quote.

3:02 This would be a good way to get back at a giant and make them a part of their own space program.

You tell me, that I can paralyze someone for years and eventually catapult them in the heavens?! I guess Nazeem would see the *real* Cloud District on my next playthrough . Edit: This is ALOTTA LIKES! More than my stock of Sweetrolls

I just realized that during the golden glow job you can stand next to a beehive with a flame spell equipped and it will burn it with you needing to actually use it

You can absolutely kill the field commanders. After the war is done and you talk to your faction leader they tell you that you are needed elsewhere but if you see any enemy camps to wipe it out and that unflags them as essential

New build: the sadist. Combat style: paralyzes everyone in Skyrim

Just put one person in each town asleep forever and you'll have a consistent supply of blood to drink

Veg Soup is also epic for Vampires who don't regen health in the sun. Not for combat, but for recovery afterwards if you're not doing heal spells.

Always played this game story wise. Straight forward. Never knew there’s so many features I missed in Skyrim. Kinda cool to follow random people and just see there usual life. Makes the game way more immersive than I originally thought

BRO! I HAD MY SKYRIM LOADING SCREEN UP WHILE I WATCHED THIS, AND IT TOOK ME A SECOND TO REALIZE THAT MY MUSIC, AND THE BACKGROUND MUSIC OF THE VIDEO WAS IN SYNC!

“Do you get to the cloud...” *super powerful paralysis potion* See you in 3 years, Nazeem.

With the alchemy enchantment you are usually restricted to wearing either a crown or a helmet as headgear. However you CAN wear a crown AND either a Falmer or Penitus Oculatis helmet 'at the same time' giving you 2 enchantments slots of headgear. Works of course with other enchantments that you can combine on these items.

The thing about sawmills that always got me was watching a single person pick up one of these huge logs and set it on the cutting boards with no effort whatsoever. For me it's one of the biggest 'suspension of disbelief' breakers in the game.

Just recently, I had one of the people I paralyzed, “wake up” after 3 years of playing that character 😂

Nate: Resulting in this hilarious scene. RU-vid: Plays ad.

you perfectly recreate the skyrim vibe man, watching your videos just makes me want to load up a new game 2 years since ive played😂

For the lumber mill thing, it’s called Part Caching. The basic principle is instead of creating & destroying objects, you simply send it off into the distant realm to be recycled later. Bullet hell games do this & a lot of open world games too. It’s more performance friendly to move the object away and Re use it than to create and destroy instances. It’s pretty cool to see it in action via dead bodies

Nazeem: “Do you visit the Cloud District very often” 1 Hour Later* Me: Pulling Nazeems body onto logpile

I was just playing Skyrim yesterday, and I had my new favorite random encounter story. I was approached by a student, who wanted help practicing to enter the college of Winterhold. I agreed to help, and he asked me to cast ward so he could practice casting. Sure, why not? I cast ward, and he started casting. He was doing fine, and then Serana shivs him. He died instantly.

Did you know the Shout Elemental Fury if you combine that with a dagger and Sprint attacking you can go super fast across the map

J'zargo asked me If I was new to the college when I was already the Arch-Mage. What a fool.

"This probably won't change the way you play Skyrim." - Nate talking about infinite power attacks for 12 minutes by eating a soup.

everyone who plays stealth archers: "What's a 'stamina'?"

About corpses and lumbermill : If you put a corpse perpendicular to a wood log and activate the lumbermill, you can actually impale the corpse on the lumbermill

If you leave orthorn entirely and finish the rest of the college quests, he just randomly shows back up at the college sometime in between. I just noticed that and don’t know why. Maybe it’s a glitch, or you’re really “supposed” to free him even though it says optional.

“Without it you can’t sprint,” Laughs in jumping and sprinting while in the air.

There’s a spell in the apocalypse mod called entomb which lets you “capture” a single npc. Essentially it stores that npc underground. Next time you cast it, they’re released where you are. I entombed Maven, went as far out to sea as possible, released her then hit her with the super paralysis potion. To this day she’s still a frozen statue somewhere out in the ocean.

Thank you Nate. You are unapologetically and, most importantly, most epically yourself. Appreciate you.

What's really fun is when you start and they want you to go talk to the Jarl, don't. Wander off. Go do something else. Zero dragons entire game. Get to super high level then go do it and get swarmed with dragons. It's fun lol

5:14 “Resulting in this hilarious scene.... RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS!!!”

Nate: uploads this video Literally Everyone: runs to paralize Delphine for the next million years.

Clearing out War Camps was always a good way to level up your Werewolf and Vampire Lord perk trees. But the constant self reviving Captain was always an annoyance

Just started a play though again! Game is like over 10 years old ! Truly the best game ever made

Nate, if you own Breezehome (Through a mod or console) before telling balgruuf about helgen, you get extra dialogue with the gate guard at the entrance to whiterun, Maybe you could use it in a cut content video or something.

I like how these evolve from “here’s a fun way to one up this cat” to “would you like to play god?” In like 3 minutes

Nobody: Random sword flying through the sky at amazing speeds Skyrim: Damn dragons

9 months later, still find it hilarious to see Nate working on his space program in Skyrim...

“People usually join the college of Winterhold very early in the game.” Me, a two handed heavy warrior who didn’t join until level 52: well yes, but actually no

“You can offer to give the woman Orthorn in exchange for the books, resulting in this hilarious scene:” Ad for Mike Bloomberg.

I love how he explained the fortify restoration glitch, with a more simple method

Nate, I'm not sure if you still do these, but I just found some tiny details that might be interesting. After Stormcloaks win the civil war, killing Penitus Occulotus isn't illegal, and if you lure Commander Marro out of the P.O. outpost, Stormcloak guards at Dragons Bridge will come to your rescue. Next, if you go to the Thalmor Embassy in a Penitus Occulotus uniform after completing the main quest, Thalmor do not attack you. They may make snide remarks, but they will not attack you unless you attack them. However, even if you change back to any other clothes/armor before going anywhere, any location with Stormcloak troops will attack you, as if word traveled that you're a traitor. These details suggest the writers intended the Empire really was powerlessly subservient to the Dominion, and these happen even if you complete the alternative quest "Destroy the Dark Brotherhood" instead of joining them.

As a result of the first one, I can just imagine corpses falling from the sky at completely random locations all over Skyrim!

I’m a simple man. I see Khajiit with wares, I suddenly has coin.

I wanna use the log catapult as a weapon against an enemy now... Hopefully.

The paralysis poision+Maven Blackbrirer= no theives guild quest.Yes! Finally!

Civil War Commanders: Go into a paralyzing coma for years *wakes up “How long was I- Wait why is everyone a rotting corpse?”

Nate : there’s something else you can do at the wood mill. Me : please say “run on the water wheel like a hamster!!! Nate : when the wood is cut.... Me : *disapointment

There are several items with the vegetable soup effect, for example Crab Bisque. There is also a MUCH quicker and better fortify enchanting loop in the game. Create a potion of fortify restoration (while you have some items equipped to improve alchemy). Drink the potion, unequip and re-equip the items and repeat. This will strengthen the items alchemy improvement. each time you do it, they get stronger. After only a handful of repeats of this process you will be able to create IMMENSELY powerful potions for anything. A few days ago I created some Fortify Alchemy potions so powerful that drinking just one took me from level 16 to level 100 alchemy (after I'd made it legendary to take it back down to 16), earning several perk points in the process! Be careful though, this will spoil your game by making everything far too easy. Nice to play with though and you can always simply stop using the super potions and items you create this way and simply return to your normal game.

Being 100% paralyzed for my whole life sounds worse than death

It’s been nearly a decade since Skyrim was released... and I’m only just now starting to play it

you can increase alteration very easily by standing waist-deep in water and constantly casting "waterbreathing" just have a lot of ultimate magicka potions handy.

On the Xbox 360 if you hold a torch and CLICK the sprint button you can keep running even when you’re you’re out of stamina. But it can get a little glitchy like not letting you turn a certain way while you’re running or keeping you locked in sprint until you jump (theirs more to get out but jumping is the easiest) and if you don’t have a Xbox 360 still give it a try and see if it works unless you play on an Xbox one or higher that doesn’t work

The lumberjack at the wood-mills: AYOOOO

I’ve been looking for you. I have a letter, your hands only. What’s this? Oh some more Skyrim content, and a bit of gold.

"but if you put something on the pile" and I was thinking oh maybe a cabbage or a potatoes or something. Nate: put a corpse on top.

Had to chuckle at the fortify enchanting loop section cus i jus imagine Spiffingbrit watching from the background and being like 'yes yes perfectly balanced just as todd intended' while sipping his yorkshire gold.

8:50 , is that a bloody motorcycle? 😂😂 love it

I discovered something I didn’t know I could do until just a few days ago. During the quest: The Path of Knowledge, you can keep the control cubes used to activate the boilers. They aren’t marked as quest items after the black book is obtained. Pretty nice souvenir

5:16 "... Resulting in this hilarious scene" **Cuts to Sprint Ad**

I binge watch these all the time. Awesome work man

Please look into the Saadia's mission whereby you can rat out Saadia to have the leader of the Alik'ir grou, Kemetu, meet you at the stables in Whiterun. From there you can betray Kemetu before Saadia shows up and get two scimitars early on depending on when you do this quest. Just interesting to know you can still save her and draw out their leader by betraying him in time.

I recall one time I was in Sovengard, just before the fight with Alduin, I managed to fling the three Nordic heroes off into the sea. About ten seconds later, the three of them reemerged from the mead hall, but they were frozen in a T-pose, and face down on the ground. It was quite odd, seeing them glide along the ground to their positions, turn their bodies around to each other for their speaking parts, and then shout into the floor for the remainder of the actual fight. Sadly, I couldn't get Tsun to join them on the ground. Oh well.

My favorite detail is how when the greybears except for arngeir speaks, the entire building of high hrothgar shakes

The second you said "This Halarious Scene" a add for albion online popped up. Hahahahahahaha

That last one you said, my brain definitely shot straight to Braith. She and Nazeem can head to the cloud district for life

"It can also be done with any other object really. Cabbages, kettles, swords, karts. You name it, it can fly." Car go space? Car do that. Car fly.

"you name it, it will fly" *Spends the next half hour trying to fly*

The year is 2020 and we're still watching skyrim did you knows lol, thats how big it is

With the lumber mills part it looks like some new fun with nazeems body as he deserves it

Hey! Skyrim, Nate here. It's never easy to run out of things to do in Skyrim. Or is it? *vsauce soundbite*

Correction about J'Zargo's thing, you only need to have the Expert Destruction perk to get J'Zargo's extra line of dialogue, not the Master perk, I've done it before

I’m know I’m late but I have a GOOD question. So as you know when you first enter solitude, roggvir is being executed. What if you never go to solitude, and join the Stormcloaks side. Will roggvir be alive? If you liberate solitude, when roggvir is executed you hear a stormcloak say “Wish we would’ve gotten here before they executed roggvir”

If you want to see the paralysis potions in use, check out the Spiffing Brit.