Skyrim: 5 Unsettling Mysteries You May Have Missed in The Elder Scrolls 5 (Part 16) Skyrim Secrets 

“A certain annoying Thalmor” that really doesn’t narrow it down

I love Tiber Septim lore. He's basically a player character made canon: Shows up out of nowhere, wins every battle, has a random superpower. I think he just went to the emperor to turn in a quest, tried to see if he could kill him, and then realised he hadn't saved in days so had to keep the save going.

"No male hagravens-- save for my father in law" lmao

"You killed someone so I'm going to make you live with killers as punishment" Ok Gallus

“If you’re going to kill people, at least learn how to do it right.” -Gallus, probably

"It seems there are no male hagravens in the world...save for my father in law." Daaaaamn! Better hope he don't watch your videos.

I love that Delvin's reaction to you, if you're Guild Master, if you approach him on Dark Brotherhood business is basically just: "You're making friends all over, huh Boss?"

The fact that Sissel seems to be having 'visions' or 'dreams' about Paarthurnax and Alduin just adds to the intrigue. If you speak to Sissel there is the chance that she'll mention having a dream about two dragons, one, black and evil, one white and friendly. Maybe she has some sort of magical powers already and Jouanne is aware of that and is teaching her to control them.

Yesterday, I found out that those innocent, peaceful REINDEER creatures in skyrim , who run away when you approach, actually attacks you when you put COURAGE spell on them. Oh skyrim, you are amazing.

The true mystery who shot the arrow that ended a certain guards adventuring

Damn it, Delvin! You're not supposed to kill anyone! You're promoted to Dark Brotherhood. Get out of my sight! Congratulations!

1. How Lydia survives being shouted off Throat of the world.

The most unsettling mystery is why I don’t get to the cloud district very often

I always assumed the reason Astrid had connections to the thieves guild was because she was once a member. I mean she doesn’t really seem like brotherhood material she’s too interested in personal gain than serving the night mother.

That conversation in Rorikstead always made me uncomfortable. Really it's wholesome: teaching a child magic safety. But all I hear is "hey kid don't tell your parents what we do when we meet in secret or we'll get in trouble okay?"

I like how you skirted around spoilers as best as you could while talking about the Brotherhood questline, but jumped straight to major spoilers for the Thieves Guild questline. Stay detailed, Nate 🙂

The spookiest clue about Rorikstead is when Jouane and Rorik talk Rorik: "Looks like we're in for quite a harvest. We've had better luck with our planting than any village in the hold." Jouane: "Luck? I think it has more to do with the hard work and good soil." Rorik: "Maybe you're right. Even so, I can't help wondering if some other force is at work here." Hmmm and why is Rorikstead mentioned in 1st and 2nd era books. Well, I'll be leaving now, before the sun goes down and the wickerman comes out.

*Murdered to death*

"The Imperials think us all lawless beasts. I'm proof of their ignorance."

What about the fact that even though Rorik claims to have founded Rorikstead a couple decades ago it's mentioned in tests going back centuries.

My theory of Delvin's relations with the Dark Brotherhood implies that, as he said, he has witnessed a takeover like in the Thieves Guild before, meaning that Astrid may have killed the previous Brotherhood leader to influence the guild in her own way when Delvin was there.

Nate, dont forget though, Sissel is the one that was having dreams about Parthurnaax.

Seriously, how DID they manage to transport the Eye Of Magnus out of Saarthal?

I've noted that vampires and people in close contact with vampires all have copies of the book Immortal Blood. I'm assuming it is set as a foreshadowing to the quests and/or hideouts as I have also noticed that specific books pertaining to quests are also in or near areas needed to go to recieve said quests or complete a section of them.

Nate: "We'll be spending 12-15 minutes" Video: *goes almost 20 minutes*

If you enter the house in late evening, you can also watch Jouane teaching Sissel.

I always thought Delvin sounded kind of like Jason Statham

I love you progressively started stating the fact that you are running out of things to say for the intro

* *Heavy breathing* * Sorry I'm late.

For the Dark Brotherhood/Thieves Guild one, I think that it might be more of the favoured method for assassins of literal backstabbing. Almost a dark humor joke.

"Except my father in law", heh.

Found this channel a month or two ago and have been binge watching every video on the channel and of course every new video added and I got to say this is hands down the most compete and entertaining RU-vid channel I’ve ever seen in my life from production, editing, content and commentary everything is spot on! Every video is interesting and enjoyable and nothing seems overused or out of place. I can’t praise this channel or it’s creator enough absolutely fantastic work Nate!

Strange, that a running theme in Skyrim is one of leaders of factions disrespecting traditions and eventually dragging the -company- I mean, faction into disrepute... (Not as strange as my use of grammar here, though)

the Talos thing seems like a Propaganda a Thalmor would say, Him being a bad guy and Murdering his King and taking the throne.

I am curious about how the process of pregnancy and giving birth goes for female werewolves depending on whether or not they shift.

“There are no hagravens in this world...save for my father in law” First off, how long have you been married for Nate, and secondly, best hope he doesn’t see this video XD

3:57 - I thought it was a nod to Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood quest line.

I saw this temple on top of a small mountain north eastish of markarth. I managed to hop my way all the way up there just to find its surrounded by an invisible wall. I'd call that pretty spooky. It's just across the river from a mine I cant remember the name of. Its overrun by forsworn. Edit: its Kolskeggr Mine and the location I spoke of is on the island just southeast of the mine.

my theory about Delvin is that its possible that maybe Delvin fell in love with Astrid and she wasn't married at the time, its possible the betrayal was Arnbjorn stealing his girl

I just started my Skyrim playthough today. I love this game! Been uploading the past few hours.

Of course there are no male hagravens. They’d be called geezercrows. 😉

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For the Hagravens, i've always supposed that the ones that made a pact with hircine became werewolves if they were male and hagravens if they were females. Maybe that's it ? Weel, there is the case of Aela but we can suppose she just drank the blood of others werewolves, like we do, instead of meeting Hircine in personn.

I guess he didn't want to Delve into details

You need 3 witches to form a convent so they can turn into Hagravens, there are references to that in letters and dialogs. Hagravens also apear to be the ones turning Forsworn warriors into BriarHeart so these are not different energies.

I've always thought of the eye of magnus as a giant battery because the only way to manage the power was to put it through a conduit capable of it like the eye of magnus witch calmed it down but charges up when hit directly

Yo!! I'm doing another play through of Skyrim, so I head to Riften specifically to give Ingun BlackBriar them 60 damn ingredients. So for maybe the first time I paid attention to what she says and it seems this young lady is asspiring to join the Dark Brotherhood. she says something about "wanting to ply her trade in darker circles". I wish I could recruit her. Pretty neat.

For the eye of Magnus, it makes more sense if the Snow Elves built the thing, the Nords stole it and then the Snow Elves attacked the Nords to reclaim their treasure, which caused the Nords to flee and then return to conquer.

“There are no male Hagravens in the world. Except my father in law” *Cuts to an ad*

M'aiq was once sent to a different space, one with many lights, and who did he find there, but the ancient dwemer! Sadly, M'aiq could not understand a word they said.

Isn’t it also possible Delvin meant “it’s the dark brotherhood all over again” in that he wasn’t responsible for accidentally committing murder but was framed for it, sending him to the dark brotherhood as a scapegoat for something he didn’t do? Much like how the current thieves guild leader got himself where he is. Maybe he did this kind of trick before and Delvin was just the fall guy at the time.

Hmmm i always felt he felt bad for sissles situation and he wanted to keep it quiet because nords are a skidish bunch when it comes to magic. But you bring up a very interesting point there nate.

Murdered to death gets me everytime idk why

I have a mystery I've always wondered about. After you find the Eye of Magnus, and later return, it's now at the College of Winterhold. How did they move it from one spot to the other? It doesn't look like it would fit through any door.

Hi Nate, in Solstiem when you complete the chief riekling misson. You find random Riekling warrior join your character in certain quests. It makes a massive advantage in some dungeons.

One of the greatest mysteries to me in Skyrim has always been the mystery of Why Bathesta didn't programme the NPC's of Riverwood Mill to use a vacant wood cutting block instead of the one you're using. So many times has fendral pushed me out of the way when I've been chopping Wood for gold to get training in the early stages that it gets annoying. Especially when there's a second chopping block at the mill. Why they didn't program them to use the one you're not using I guess we'll never know 😂

Maybe the rorikstead mage "teaching" the young girl magic in secret is a way for him to perform a ritual on her (and all young women before child birthing age) to prepare her to be sacrificed without her realizing she is a target of his magic/rituals. It seems like a great way to keep the victims quiet and willing to participate. Pretend that it's their little secret from the village so the girls wont raise any suspicions towards him, AND under the guise of magic lessons theyd willingly walk in and participate in magical rituals the dont understand. My last point is REALLY stretching but teaching her to "put out candles"... how many times have we seen in movies someone sitting in the middle of a ritual surrounded by candles and when some dark evil spirit shows up ominous stuff starts happening including all the candles getting put out. :o

I had my theory that Delvin (like his fixation with Vex) had the same feelings for Astrid and instead of shutting them down leads him on.. but still marries Anbiorn (sorry for the spelling).

Love that these vids are still a thing, keep up the good work dude!

Rorikstead was definitely meant to have more quests behind it. I feel like there's a lot of cut content around it. There's a lot of lines that don't make sense in accordance with others. There was definitely at least meant to be a questline about the soil, and I bet the Daedra worship was supposed to play a big role in it or something to that effect.

I feel like delvin’s reference to the dark brotherhood “stabbed in the back, it’s like the dark brotherhood all over again” is just a reference to sneak and stab attacks that the brotherhood are best known for, and is just a play on words rather than a reference to any deeper meaning. But interesting to think something else might be going on!

Regarding the backstabbing in the Dark Brotherhood, it may simply be that Delvin witnessed a lot of backstabbing while he was in the Dark Brotherhood and didn't fall victim to it himself. It speaks to the current state of the Dark Brotherhood in that they haven't been strictly following the five tenets, emphasizing their more thug-like behavior.

The delvin quote about the brother hood betrayal in the past I'm pretty sure is just a nod to oblivions dark brotherhood questline

When Delvin mentions about backstabbing, couldn’t he just mean it in a literal sense, like, assassins LITERALLY stab people in the back for a living.

Oh Nate, I’ll never cease to love your videos. Your content is phenomenal and your descriptions so entertaining, but pronunciation...?! Nate: “Jo-arn” Npc (2 seconds later) pronouncing the characters name: “Yo-anne”

I always thought the eye of Magnus was something the nords either found or stole and the snow elves were trying to get it away from people who didn't understand it/would misuse it. I also think ysgrmar knew damn well that it existed and that's why the snow elves attacked and that's the real reason he had such a hard on to kill them. He thought they took the eye and was trying to find it again.

Now I gotta know what your father-in-law looks like cause that Hagraven diss was straight savage.

your mods enhanced delvin’s beauty so much that i had to pause the video to appreciate it for a moment

I’m not sure but have you covered the fairy ring, the ring of mushrooms? It’s south of Sungard and east of bilegulch mine

"There are no male Hagravens in the world. Save for my Father-in-law." *ROFLMAO* Nate, I triple-dog dare you to play this portion of your video to your Father-in-law.

If you’re an assassins who’s name/face is known to history, you’re not a particularly good assassin. They wouldn’t be known even if they put Talos on the throne

It seems obvious from the suggestive way they talk about each other that Delvin and Astrid used to be lovers. Also Delvin seems to be quite the "player" (or at least tries to be, as suggested by some letters between him and Vex found in the Ragged Flagon). I suspect that relationship came to an end when Astrid settled down with Arnbjorn. There probably was a betrayer in the Dark Brotherhood during his time there, but I don't think it was Astrid. In fact, I suspect it was whoever the leader was that recruited Astrid. She's still fairly young and says she was recruited by someone else. She leads the chapter when we meet her, but she didn't found it. Delvin's comparison to his time in the Brotherhood seems to me to suggest that, just like the Mercer incident, the betrayal came from the leadership. Ironically, if this is true, Astrid ends up repeating history.

I really would like to see that armour from the Talos statue to be added in the game, even through creation club I don’t care, as long as it’s very cheap.

The only unsettling mystery is why I didn't watch this sooner

Love these mystery videos man, can’t wait for the next one. 👍

I just have to tell you Nate, never stop making these videos. You're amazing buddy. Keep it up!

It's been awhile since I was this early. I still think whether or not Todd Howard is a hero or a villain, is the biggest mystery. On one hand he created arguably one of the greatest games of all time... on the other hand fallout 76...

The glowing orb in the middle of that Dwarven city also looks similar to the eye of magnus

Even after years I’m still finding new stuff. I was wandering Skyrim through yet another play through. If you encounter a Vigilant of Stendarr, they’ll cure your disease for you, at the promise you won’t deal with any daedra.

As always perfect video, and again a real pleasure for Skyrim veterans and everyone else

I just "discovered" something.. The symbols in the pages of the oghma infinium and the eye of magnus have the "same" symbols on it kinda and the oghma infinium Is hermaeus mora's deadric artifact 🤔

Skyrim videos are the best ❤

Love your work, stay fierce Nate!

1 year since I started watching these videos and I still find those I haven't seen yet.

“12 to 15 min” posts 20 min video 😂

I used to be a huge Talos fan. The more I delve into the lore, the less I am a fan.

Delvin uses the same stabbed in the back voiceline when he finds a body which made me think he was just talking about backstabbing as a good way of killing. Now i dont know what to think

I love your stories about stuff about Skyrim i learn so much more after playing for 11 years. I never played the other ones in the past. Elder scrolls 5 is the only game i got into. Keep up your work. :)

I'm pretty early to the video I'm a couple days late usually

"Lives with her sister" are they twins?

I feel like the eye of magnus stores magic in it for later use. Especially since the staff drains magic from enemies. It would make sense you use the staff to steal magic then you store mass amounts inside of it holding more magic than a mortal could possibly hold. Kind of my theory

the thing about the eye though is that when you and tolfdir are examining it he says it matches no known cutlures recorded, he lists off aeyelid, daedric and falmer

"The next 12 to 15 minutes" Proceeds to make a 19 minute video

It's a healthy guess, but I would assume that when Delvin spoke of Mercer's treachery and the Dark brotherhood, he was referencing the events of the Brotherhood questline in Oblivion from 200 years ago, where *spoiler alert* there was a traitor in the black hand pulling strings from behind the curtain, which actually almost lead them to ruin. The Thieves Guild got into a similar enough situation at that moment, so he likely made the natural comparison to an event he'd probably know something about given that he was in the Brotherhood for a time. Buuut depending on when it triggers (after or regardless of completing the Brotherhood Questline), he could be referencing the more recent treachery of Astrid. It'd take some sleuthing to figure out for sure tho :)

Love the videos everytime, Nathaniel. A true Tamrielic Historian.

A very good point to be considered/better explained: The timeline between the Dragon War - and all the Dragon Cult regime that came before - and Ysgramor’s dynasty. It was never quite explained how those two intertwined during the Merethic Era.

Honestly, I always thought hagravens and forsworn briarhearts were essentially gender counterparts. Might have just had a poor impression, but I thought the ritual to make a forsworn into a briarheart had to be overseen by a hagraven. I might need to perform more research on this on my own

The Talos story kind of reminds me of Naruto whenever Orochimaru is fighting the third Hokage, before he died the third Hokage took his arms so he couldn't use his Jutsu so maybe the other guy took talos's voice so he couldn't Shout

That father in law comment killed me 😂😂thanks, Nate

thanks nate for doing what you do. you upload a lot of videos and the production and vocal performance is always good.