So far as I'm aware, Auri El is merely an aspect of the Time God, as is Alduin. Being that Auri El is the beginning of time, Akatosh is the body of time, and Alduin is the end of time.
That's one way to interpret it. Its not wrong, so much as due to how TES cosmology works there's like twenty other mutually exclusive answers which are also right. Saying that they are all aspects of the oversoul time god is just as right as saying they're all the same god given different names. Or even arguably the Trinity proposed by Seraph, though probably more like a Triple God rather than specifically the Trinity.
Auri'el and akatosh are the same deity viewed through different cultural lenses. Akatosh is not an aspect but the first creation of the time god. The whole aspect thing is a fanfic.
yeah I always forget so usually I don't remember until the screen flashes red and see a message saying "You feel weakened by the sunlight." so I quickly rush to whatever the nearest shrine happens to be.
I know you mean you go and get the blessing, but I'm just picturing you running past Heimskir and knocking over the shrine as you head on up to the Cloud District.
You know, it'd be pretty nice if the blessings were more or less permanent, kind of like the Standing Stones. I mean, it's not like having one blessing from a shrine would make us any more OP than the game already lets us; and coming from a guy who has spent the better part of the past 10 years playing Skyrim, I can tell you right here and now that I've achieved godly levels of OP-ness, even without mods. Any who, I'd say my favorite blessing depends on the build I play at the time. *Edit:* My current character-build is a two-handed, heavy armor-wearing paladin... so if I had to answer WW's question, the Blessing of Stendarr would by my #1 favorite, and the Blessing of Arkay my #2.
Blessing with duration would require you to visit the shrine frequently. Deities wouldn't want their worshippers to pray to them once and never bother to return, would they?
@@TheStarsOfTheLion True - but for the sake of convenience, only having to pray once to get a constant (and let's be honest - small / insignificant) blessing would be nice.
@@TheRealW.S.Foster That is honestly a very good point. Personally I think the shouts make you OP enough considering if you're like me and play Mage you can slow time and wipe out whole groups of enemies with a fireball spell or the ice storm spell. Become ethereal and any of the elemental AOE spells is devastating as well.
If you bought the Anniversary DLC, you can get the blessing of Vaermina, which gives a 10% reduction cost for Illusion spells. It is found in Gallow's Hall at the Eye of Mara pond. While Illusion is not the most useful school of magic, it's still good to have that reduction if you plan on using illusion spells.
@@theWelshWizardI'm aware, it's weirdly absent from UESP and the wiki but it is part of the Gallow's Hall quest to obtain the house so if you look up a video, it will be shown, i believe.
The best place to find a Shrine of Zenithar is outside Riften. Follow the road north past the guard towers and there is a small shrine off to the east. It's guarded by a leveled animal (usually a spider or a bear), and you will find an Amulet of Zenithar there too for another 10% buff to barter.
Another real good place, the western Whiterun tundra...there's a "couple" of Shrines, just west of Swindler's Den and north-northeast of Broken Fang Cave 😉😉
@@theWelshWizard The editing and such was excellent, but it does make the audio stand out a bit. You might want to try the trick of recording your audio under a thick blanket. I've heard several youtubers talk about that as being an extremely easy way to deal with echo/room audio problems.
Don't forget that you can get multiple amulet of Talos, and equip them whenever you acquire werewolf form or vampire lord form and have a follower. Infinite shouts galore
I know right? Or take it one step further, Use said soul gem and enchant it with the soul gem and name the item from the soul trapped victim. Sorry. I'm evil. Lol
Dibella's blessing is a godsend early game. You miss a ton of persuasion checks when you're starting out, and many of the less violent quests are locked behind it to a degree.
Because it wasn't Akatosh who gave the ability to shout to mortals; if anything, other than Talos, Kynareth should be the one who gives you a shout bonus.
@collectorofmyst2107 Nobody "gave" anyone the ability to Shout. Shouts disturb the Godhead's dream and directly alter reality, but they must be done perfectly. Beings with dragon souls (such as the Dragonborn, who are aspects of... Akatosh!) master Shouts far more easily, but anyone can DO them. All Paarthurnax taught was knowledge: he was like Prometheus.
The Shout builds are some of my favorite and I try to grab the shrine whenever I see one. Even though I do tend to wear a string of talos amulets the imperials don’t seem to notice 😂
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Oh wow, that’s awesome! Thanks for pointing that out 😯 It’s great to have support from a well respected Skyrim channel like hers 😊 I really appreciate the kind words as well mate, thank you!
Hey! Great video man. The editing was on another level! I think my favorite is probably the blessing of Talos for the shout time reduction. Although despite that I always support the Empire! Keep up the fantastic work
when I first played the game, I sided with the nords. And then I began to learn that the empire was basically enforcing their laws at gunpoint, and THEN I learned that ulfric was originally a thalmor pawn who was used to basically artificially create the war. The aldmeri dominion are easily the biggest threat. Not that it makes the imperial bootlicking any easier to swallow. Though I seem to remember the digital card game implies that the aldmeri dominion wind up taking all of tamriel by force in the end so it's all kind of a moot effort lol
@@MormonDudetbf, hammerfell did win against the thalmor and the reason they attack the nord is because they are holding the empire up, tho that could be your point on joining the empire.
I like to imagine the reason that talos's blessing lists 0% is so that even you as the player are tempted to question his legitimacy. I mean its probably not, but I like to imagine it is.
Akatosh has been purified from its former Elven blemishes. You will see that he is depicted as a dragon-man. And the blessing of Auriel is completely different from that of Akatosh.
I just watched a video of yours from 6 years ago on a duper glitch and the unfiltered unedited you is just as good as how you act in these newer videos
I hope they decide to really develope on the Blessings Feature within TES 6. Something like making the Blessings permanent and really good but RIGHT as you do something that goes against the diety who gave you the Blessing, you gain a temporary debuff and a new side-quest to redeem yourself in the eyes of said diety. Since TES 6 is theorized to take place in Highrock and/or Hammerfell, maybe instead of the Imperial Pantheon, we can gain the blessings of the Yokudan Pantheon?
Great ideas! Permanent buffs, or even just a 7 in-game days buff would be much better - like going to church on Sundays I guess lol rather than praying every single day. I like the debuff idea also 👌 you have to live by the deities rules, or suffer the consequences! And how about if it worked the other way too - so if you were good and performed a side-quest for the deity every 1-7 in-game days following the blessing, (like rid these undead from this tomb - Meridia), the deity would reward you with a boost to the original blessing and continued loyalty would further see you buff the blessing up its cap!
The video was excellent.... except for the audio. You might want to try the trick that I've heard some youtubers use: record your audio under a thick blanket, so you don't get so much echo.
Notably, one can make shouts like elemental fury, and slow time last longer than their cooldown through the use of fortify alteration potions on the off chance you don't desire to be a necromage vampire or you simply don't wish to wear the amulet of talos.
Solitude is great for trading because of the shrine of Dibela and easy access to gift of charity, granting an easy 25 bonus to speech. The radiant rainment on top has a good chance to sell amulets of Dibella for a cheap +10 or some other bartering boosting jewelry. In general its the best palce to start earning big bucks, if you are not planning to steal everything thats not bolted down.
I can't say I find the shout reducing effects all that important as most of the time shouts can be easily outclassed by other abilities since shouts not scale with your character. as a result i usually just stick with a blessing that directly leverages my characters best ability to get the most out of it. and the amulet of talos again wastes that valuable amulet which when enchanting is maxed can have two enchantments with one enhancing your primary skill with the secondary effect being of coarse resist magic. Maybe its just my playstyle but no matter what type of character I make (OP archer, warrior, stealth, illusion, OP mage, etc...) i always find the shouts to play second fiddle and I am generally unimpressed with them aside from of coarse fus roh dah which is never old. so for me the number one realy depends on my build as i put the build specific blessing as number one. for
Reduced cooldowns on them allow for some crazy things. The breath shouts, for example, have much higher damage than the good Magika efficient damage spells. Especially if you get them buffed. Stacking time slow, elemental fury, and marked for death let's you more or less pop open ZA WARUDO on anything and butcher it real quick. Whirlwind sprint turns from a funny gimmick into tons of damage mitigation and focused damage on more dangerous targets, Ice Form just straight up turns combats into a series of executions, and being able to just spam Storm Call is often clearing multiple overworld areas at once. Before you spam it. Their main weakness is how weak most of the effects are COMBINED with how absurdly long most of the cooldowns are. Remove the cooldowns and the shouts being weak doesn't matter, because you can machinegun them. Clear Weather is a decent combat shout ENTIRELY because it's level 1 Unrelenting Force on a really low cooldown. Now you get actual Unrelenting Force on that same very low cooldown and can win basically any 1v1 for free.
Oh thank goodness that that 0% is just a description bug! I have an ancient walkthrough that claims the blessing SHOULD be 20%, so one could imagine my confusion.
I know the video is a bit older, I just figured I'd throw this out there. Nocturnal's blessing would be substantially better if you had access to it BEFORE the questline that expects you to use the most stealth in the game. Giving it to us after we have completed the thieves guild questline in it's entirety is kinda a moot point. It would have made more sense to make her blessing something that would be more tangible and fit better as a reward for the player completing the questline, like sneak attack damage. That would give her a completely unique and useful blessing.
Yeah, that would have made sense tbf, allowing us to activate the shrine earlier, and yeah, +10 Sneak is a pretty average reward for going through all those quests. I agree, a sneak attack bonus would have been better. I also think having the ability to perform a stealth takedown when close to the target would’ve been awesome! 🥷
If it's only the blessings and not the devotee stuff, Tall Papa is just plain broken. 10% bonus to enchanting is essentially a permanent 10% bonus to whatever you want forever and that doesn't stop you from worshiping anyone else for their bonuses.
Sparkette you're wrong It remains, as well as the Riften Graveyard one (where Nura SnowShod doesn't pray anymore, that's it)...plus the unmarked scattered throughout eastern wilderness (3 Winterhold - around Ysgramor Tomb and Tower Stone - , 2 Eastmarch - in front of Windhelm and nearby Cradlecrush Rock - 1 Rift not far from Froki's Shack) and the one at Weynon Stones, Pale
Edited: Forget the crappy Vaermina Blessing, the Ghosts of the Tribunal Creation offers 3 new blessings that are actually really good. Blessing of Vivec: Prices are 5% better and you are 5% harder to detect for 8 hours (Meh) Blessing of Sotha Sil: +10 Magicka and 5% Faster Magicka Regen for 8 Hours Blessing of Almalexia: Increases Heavy Armor Skill by 10 points, and one handed weapons do 10% more damage for 8 hours (best one in terms of strength)
plus none of them may become a follower, neither such a key character like Karliah ...while among the Companions SEVEN, three strong and four 'weaker' And three others at Winterhold College..
I like to think that's the one which you come across along Pilgrim's Path, reappeared into the Ragged Flagon Cistern as soon as the Twilight Sepulcher mission ends and the Path 'vanishes' 😎😏
@@davidnoel9355 and by the way, looking around, I think I've read about a portal that connects Sepulcher to Nightingale Hall and I can't find it...but is it there?
@@fabriziodefrancesco7083 I've read that too and never found one. I can't remember where I saw it (maybe a bit of Kahlia's dialogue?) where the Oath Room in Nightingale Hall is referred to as "The Sanctum" and perhaps that got confused with the Inner Sanctum of the Twilight Sepulchre (which becomes accessible by a portal from the first room of the Sepulchre after you have completed the Darkness Returns quest). Just a guess.
wait the blessing of talos actually does something? i just assumed it was a cheeky way for bethesda to make it so it isnt super obvious if talos became a divine since that is a main part of the conflict against the thalmor
I thought that, but there’s been no mention of it being intended… from what I could find. I went with the Wiki’s description: This is due to the game using the decimal form of 20%, which is 0.2. That 0.2 rounds down in the description to 0, making it appear as if the blessing has no effect, even though it does properly assign the bonus.
For some reason, I can’t get the talks blessing to work correctly. It doesn’t decrease shout cooldown by 20 percent. It decreases shout cooldown by 0 percent.
...perhaps without first leaving out the dozens of Bandits, hostile Mages, Forsworn, Vampires hideouts/dens - plus thieves, illegal vendors, "arrogant" mercenaries around the wilderness - ...dotting Skyrim, far more haunting and harmful than any Thalmor or Imperial ⚠️😈😜
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7:00 "specially when there are no health potions(...)" hahahahahahhHAHAHAHHAHAHA a little bit of alchemy and I have almost 100 weight in health potions that heal 100+ HP, besides the ones stored at home because I was going overweight from potions and ingridients alone. It is also much better to get some extra gold by making and selling potions than with a 10% bonus to speech or prices... heck, you get some of the rare ingridients from the Kajith caravan of Riften and Whiterun mixed and you can make potions worth 9k gold out of 300 gold worth of ingridients that will heal, fortify health and fortify health regeneration. heck, Alchemy is probably the best auxiliary skill to develop for a build, save perhaps for Enchantment
Wait... the Talos Shrine actually DOES SOMETHING?! I thought it was actually useless! I thought the uselessness of it was the game's way of hinting that Septim didn't really become Talos - the shrine can't work if he doesn't exist
I thought that, but there’s been no mention of it being intended… from what I could find. I went with the Wiki’s description: This is due to the game using the decimal form of 20%, which is 0.2. That 0.2 rounds down in the description to 0, making it appear as if the blessing has no effect, even though it does properly assign the bonus.
Kynareth: God which granted the thu'um to mankind... blessing doesn't effect shouts in any way... Stendarr: God which gave mankind magic... blessing doesn't effect magic at all... I'm just saying, it's a bit weird.
