Soul Cairn - Skyrim - Curating Curious Curiosities 

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Curating Curious Curiosities for Soul Cairn. 00:00:04 - Introduction 00:00:58 - Ideal Masters 00:03:08 - Geography 00:04:09 - Flora 00:05:57 - Fauna 00:08:30 - Soul Cairn 00:09:21 - Black Bar Repository (Jiub's Opus Page 8) 00:11:55 - Totem Of The Antlered One 00:16:17 - Crumbling Crypt 00:17:51 - The Nord, The Sword & The Dragon's Maw 00:20:17 - Master's Harvest 00:23:10 - A Shocking Discovery (Lightning Attractor Rod) 00:26:13 - Window In The Wall (Jiub's Opus Page 1) 00:28:11 - Hollow Tower (Jiub's Opus Page 6) 00:29:41 - Master's Garden (Jiub's Opus Page 3) 00:31:29 - The Merchant Morven Stroud (Jiub's Opus Page 10) 00:35:20 - Iridescent Vault 00:36:58 - Through The Looking Glass 00:37:22 - Devoid Depository 00:38:45 - The Soul Sweeper 00:39:49 - The Hunter's Haunt 00:40:50 - Master's Acropolis 00:43:15 - Grave Haze Grove (Spell Tome: Conjure Boneman) 00:45:08 - Twisting Spire (1st Keeper) 00:47:23 - Master's Terrace (1st Reaper Fragment) 00:48:36 - Veranda Of Voltage (Lightning Attractor Rod) 00:50:21 - The Dragon Priest's Demise 00:55:00 - Master's Maze (Jiub's Opus Page 9)(Soul Essence Gem) 00:59:14 - Master's Catacomb Gallery 01:01:31 - Dead Dragon Word Wall (Jiub's Opus Page 2) 01:04:58 - Dark Diode Dais (Lightning Attractor Rod) 01:06:05 - Master's Keep (2nd Reaper Fragment) 01:08:33 - Minaret Of Marrow (2nd Keeper) 01:09:51 - Necro Spell Shrine (Spell Tome: Conjure Wrathman) 01:10:56 - The Lost Nord 01:14:02 - Well Of Wealth (Jiub's Opus Page 5) 01:15:48 - The Shattered Steeple & Sword 01:17:06 - Preternatural Plaza (Lightning Attractor Rod) 01:18:35 - Soul Husk Farmer 01:20:23 - Spineless Spire 01:21:57 - An Orcish Onslaught 01:23:45 - Mistman's Tribune (Jiub's Opus Page 7)(Spell Tome: Conjure Mistman) 01:25:31 - Floating Arch-Tower (3rd Keeper) 01:28:51 - Master's Lookout (3rd Reaper Fragment) 01:30:18 - Eastern Watch (Jiub's Opus Page 4) 01:31:54 - Boneyard 01:33:00 - Valerica's Alchemy Laboratory 01:35:11 - Durnehviir Throne 01:35:34 - Inaccessible Chests 01:36:34 - Arvak's Temple (Spell: Summon Arvak) 01:39:37 - The Reaper's Lair 01:44:59 - Saint Jiub The Eradicator (Opus & Locket) 02:02:31 - Outro

Ah yes, Camel, the Daedric Prince of Curiosities and Curating has returned

HUUUUUUGE!!!!

Soul Cairn: The Movie

There's something about the way you articulate your words that gets me hooked every time. You could honestly talk about types of grass in Skyrim and I'd watch the whole thing.

"Make sure you're at least level 18, so the booty is too." That gave me a good chuckle.

"Naturally we are attracted to the pink tunnel" the story of my life

When you said final episode, my soul experienced a worse fate than the soul cairn.

"We are expelled from the fortress just as Malacath was expelled from Boethia" Wowwwwwww

Ah yes, two hours of Calming Camel Noises mixed with mysterious ambience. Just what I needed for studying.

"No sane human being would go through every part of Skyrim enough to make hours of pointing out the smallest things in the game world" Camel: "HOLD MY BEER!"

“Welcome back to Curating Curious Curiosities...” Me: 😃 “For the final episode in Skyrim.” Me: 😨😟😢

HOW DID YOU GET 2 HOURS OUT OF THE SOUL CAIRN

Dunno what's more depressing: The Soul Cairn or the truly awful puns. No, wait, it's trying to find those ten blasted pages! Amazing vid.

THEORY: The dragon bones in the soul carin are Durnehviir's from each time he has died inside the soul carin. He then reconstitutes and continues on forever.

30:09 If I learned anything from the curious curiosities series, its that Skyrim's random leveled loot system is awful.

Ideal Master: sucks my soul Me: well this certainly isn't.... Ideal Master:....... Me: IDEAL Ideal Master: Lmao Me: lol

I feel like the Soul Cairn is so ripe for mod potential. Such a huge area with so little... there. Like you could fit so many quests and areas and NPC's into that bad boy, just literally into the already present worldspace, not even counting adding more cells for dungeons and closed buildings and stuff. You could pack a mini DLC of stuff in there. Wish a few modders would go ham on that place.

If you want to consider ESO as canon, it is entirely possible for physical objects to be transported into Oblivion, as Coldharbor features an entire Argonian settlement, a Nord Village (burnt down) A forest and an ancient Nord Tomb, all allegedly came from Tamriel.

If you're not already a writer you should be, you're very descriptive and that could work very well in writing, especially in a Lovecraftian style horror writing

damn, camel up his poetry skill on this video. beautiful narration.

The color palette of the Soul Cairn is one of my all time favorites. Also, your ability to convert the world of Skyrim into language is unparalleled.

"There are no map markers, there is no map." * laughs in Atlas Map Markers for Skyrim *

The final Skyrim episode?! Say it ain’t so

Sad to see this series is coming to an end, I love your commentary style and I love Skyrim. I have learned so much from this series.

Finnaly, a worthy video! My meal will be legendary!

When I first played Soul Cairn, often wondered where the buildings from then it hit me. Buildings are made of bones as well as the ground are bones.

You are a member of the Bard's College, aren't you? The tour of the Soul Carn, talking about great stories that lay within the very bones that crossed your path and the rhythmic descriptions show a great command of poetry and language. Fabulous video. As for the word wall, I think that was where Durnehviir was perched when he made his bargain with the Ideal Master. They took him and everything around him to the Soul Cairn.

Jiub will always have a special place in my heart. I was so happy when I saw him in Skyrim. He was also the first person I ever met in TES.

Just giving my like and comment before I head to work. Will watch when I get home! Cant wait 😁😁😁

Trying to find YOUR soul essence gem that you have to discard in order to enter the soul cairn in the first place was stressful. This video made me wanna go back and explore it all.

The Divine of Elder Scrolls content blesses us once again.

My theory on how dragon bones got there: Servants of the Ideal Masters physically moved them to the Soul Cairn in order to use their bones for the armour for the Absolute Units. My theory on how the swallowed Nord killed the dragon: As he was swallowed whole, maybe he crawled back up its throat and stabbed it through the roof of the mouth into its brain! My theory on how the summoning tomes got there: The IMs or their servants wrote them to train potential acolytes or would-be IMs themselves.

10 seconds in and I've already got chills down my spine. I can tell this is going to be an AMAZING episode. Thank you for your work Camel, we all really do appreciate it ❤️❤️

I have a character who is a Serial Killer with high Sneak skills that has a "Soul Trap" enchantment. It is like serving the Ideal Masters.

"No normal horse skull, neigh." Time to change the channel to Horseworks.

Idk how you can write more than 2 hours worth of scripting and somehow manage to maintain that bottomless poetry throughout. Awesome vid man, great way to end the Skyrim season of this series. Lookin forward to more :)

I like how the Ideal Masters just let a Dragonborn stroll around the Cairn, ya know, one who can absorb Dragon souls! with literally 30 filled soul gems on him and they're like "aww...just send the skeletons after him"

Curating curious curiosities in the Cairn. I love this series.

Your Curious Curating Curiosities series got me entertained for my whole visit to the hospital while waiting for the surgery, thank you so much ❤️

I always wondered if this was Mannimarco's Daedric Princedom, created when he ascended to godhood during the Warp in the West. However, instead of becoming a traditional Daedric Prince, he became something inherently Aedric, a corruption of what it means to be Divine (quite in-character for him), meaning that the Princedom was left Princeless, letting the Daedra of this realm, the Ideal Masters, to have the run of the place.

The time of the video is probably how long I was actually in there..

30:07 The disdain in your voice made me laugh, we’ve all been there.

Got damn dude, you're spitting pure poetry throughout the whole video... especially at 01:40:18 it's really deep the way you talk & you express yourself very well, as someone who writes dark poetry it is really inspiring!

Pro tip: use the 'clear skies' shout in the soul cairn regularly

"Naturally, we're attracted to the pink tunnel..." 🤭 I'm so mature

You are helping to point out the hard work and endless hours the game developers put into the little details that a lot of gamers tend to run through and ignore. That's important work in my opinion

I've watched all the CCCs several times each. Great for bedtime.

Final episode 😭 Also who the hell disliked??? These videos are always incredible.

Heya Camel, it seems like ages since I've seen a new video from you. Glad you're releasing these again and hope all is well with you. My best

39:45 " Hopefully she can rest soon and get some *sweep* " HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA I LUV U CAMEL

This was by far your greatest video in the series Camel. I’ve been watching you for years! This was perfect way to end your Skyrim Series. I actually learn quite a lot about The Soul Cairn as I had thought I’d fully explored it back in the day. You made me load up an old Skyrim save and go back in there and thanks to your video I was pleasantly surprised. This video definitely helped out in getting the sense of fully 100% The Soul Cairn something I didn’t do in the past. Thank You Camel for everything you do in video gaming

I finally got to the end! I loved every minute of these episodes and I hope you continue with more awesome Skyrim content.

This has easily been my favourite series on RU-vid, kind of sad it’s over tbh

I had no idea that there were so many places and points of interest in the Soul Cairn, but its atmosphere makes it difficult to comprehend just how large it is! Thank you so much for putting all the effort into making a thoroughly detailed video of this somewhat overlooked place. I also always learn several new words and ways to describe things when I listen to your voice 😄 It might be also worth noting that although you say you find "nothing" on the Keepers apart from a black soul gem, if you're a high enough level they actually drop their dragonbone weapons.

Love this content. I really enjoy listening them when I'm driving like an audio book but Better.

Oh exploring fever dream mana hell! I would say I am excited but that would understate my desire for seeing and knowing all things everywhere in TES!

2 hours, but everyone always tells me Skyrim is a """shallow""" experience? What gives? Which one is correct?

Ahhh I got so excited when I saw this was uploaded 4 hours ago- I love listening to you talk about Elder Scroll lore while I work 💕

Yay!

the last time i was this giddy i was fighting a dragon atop the western watchtower

It's been one hell of a journey Camel...wow, the final CCC. You are a master Elder Scrolls Scholar, my hat off to you, sir.

I love it when Camel does these videos. Even when it turns to speculation or fan theories instead of hard facts and data, it's still interesting to listen to and watch and think about. Even if some of his mods are pretty embarrassing...

hell yeah, never enough CCC

Why are there are no Dwemer souls or remains in evidence within the Soul Cairn? Yagrum Bagarn was off Nirn, and thus unaffected, so there should be Dwemer souls.

I love the Soul Cairn. Its my favorite place to just be. So beautiful but also so melancholic. I have some pure nostalgia from this place because I've always loved it so much.

42:24 Have to mention that soul actually disappears when you enter that section after opening it up, suggesting that you arrived just in time to see the last dregs of her soul be siphoned away by the ideal master above. I'm also certain that Word Wall belongs to Durnehviir, and is how he actually travelled to the Soul Cairn. I think he found a way to teleport both himself and the Word Wall he perches on to the Soul Cairn, and obviously he is now since trapped. I think the Soul Cows with the farmer are the only ones you see alive, because of the farmer as well. He clearly has taken it upon himself to keep practising his craft from life, so he's managed to culture soul husks and even keep his livestock "alive". All other souls of animals that end up in the soul cairn likely perished very quickly, but it's only with the still working farmer, those cows remain

woke up like 5 minutes ago. guess my body knew greatness was uploaded.

The man, the myth, the legend, the camel.

A like isn't enough for this masterpiece

Camel: "-Tearing at our Animus" Me: " Sir Camel, how did you know I roleplay a Dremora!?"

This is one of my favorite places in Skyrim... and where you get the mount Arvak (purple flaming skeletal horse), my favorite mount of all single RPG games I played. I really hope the new DLC of "Skyrim Dark Heart" of ESO lets us visit this place again! Great Video, it hits all my nostalgia point of my time in Elder Scroll: Skyrim! =^_^=

AAAAAAAWWWWWWMAAAAAAHGAAAAAWWWWWDDDDD I BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOREVERRRRR THANK YOUUUUU *TALOS GUIDE YOU AND YOURS MY DUDE!!!* Edit: let's pop a couple husks to combat the soul drain and watch this puppyyyyyyy homiiieees

I wonder if st juibs opus is embellished at all, it seems like a truly epic story, i hope it's true

1:44:27 ummmmm okay🤣🤣🤣 spewing his green loads all over the place.

Using the atronach forge leaves thr body of a daedra behind

Absolutely fantastic work, please never stop doing these!

Dang it would've been so cool if you could find souls of named but non-essential characters you've captured in black soulgems/Black Star and used all the way in the Soul Cairn. They could accuse you of sending them to this horrible place and hilariously get captured in a soul gem again if they're foolish enough to attack you.

I love these series Camel. All your videos really! Amazing work man. I appreciate your hard work you put into your videos so thank you, and keep up the great work my friend ✊

Maybe the whole thing about Arvack's skull is a nod to a side quest during the Shivering Isles DLC where if you find certain named skulls found at random throughout and if you give said skull to the correct person on the Hill of Suicides, it frees their soul, disappear, and gives you a powerful timed enhancement.

This man's diction surpasses any acclaimed writer I've ever known. The way he uses similes and metaphors makes the description all the more realistic.

You can actually see that the skull totem with the antlers has a full deer skull clipped inside of the human skull. Those are its top rows of teeth sticking out from the back.

I'm gonna watch this a few times for sure!

What if Durnehviir rode his word wall to the cairn like the tardis. Just imagine that for a moment. lol.

One of the most evil thing that I have done is Soul Trapping Ebony Warrior lol. You're ain't comming to Sovengarde

The dragon with a sword in its mouth was potentially killed by an ancient Nord that made a deal with the Ideal Masters for the power to kill it in exchange for its corpse and potentially his/her soul. The other dragon bones might have come from other dragons that sought the Ideal Masters for power but were killed by Dunhivir in a twisted form of mercy to prevent them from being enslaved like he was. I think Dunhivir was also the one to eat the soul of the dragon killed by the sword to prevent him from rising again.

Finally Directions to the pages

Still waiting for Breezehome, 2 hours of Curating Curious Curiosities.

Finally yay 👏🏻

How Camel writes his scripts Alliteration: check Large vocabulary: check Punny Puns: CHECK ✓ ✔ ✅ ☑

5 seconds of the intro and I was expecting Prison Break to start playing

Hope you see this. At the beginning of the video when you were talking about the skull with antlers, you said that you couldn’t find any evidence of daedra leaving behind physical remains and it went over my head several times, but after you mentioned daedric hearts for the 150th time, I realized that the heart is a physical remnant of a dead daedra. Ps I want to get my hands on an Aedra heart.

Camel please, it’s 2am. Well, guess I’m not getting any sleep tonight.

This video was too long. Halfway through it, I got hungry so I left it playing and went to the kitchen to fix myself a sandwich. But then I found out that I'm out of mayonnaise so I went to a store. There, I saw the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my whole life. But I'm a really shy person so I took up a three-year personality development course so I could introduce myself. She was very friendly and all, but unfortunately, she had a boyfriend. So I said, all good, I'm a mature person. I wanted the best for her and I harbored no illusion that I am the best person for her and she seemed happy with her boyfriend, so I didn't bother her anymore. But we kept in touch and we became friends and I got over my crush on her. Then she broke up with her boyfriend, we drank some alcohol because of it. I told her she'll be fine and I wished her well. I still think she's the most beautiful woman in the world, but like I said, I am over my crush on her. It was like five years already since I first saw her. Besides, I am quite happy with the friendship I developed with her. It was more important than a crush. So we kept hanging out, drinking, having coffee, and all. I had a girlfriend, she started dating other guys. My girlfriend wanted to live some other life without me in it, so I said, "Okay, I want the best for you and I want you to pursue your happiness." My lady friend and I drank alcohol about it, and she gave me the same advice I gave her when she was in that position and I became okay with the breakup immediately. But we were really drunk, so she spent the night in my apartment. I only have one bed, so you know what that means: She took the bed and I slept on the couch. But on the couch, I really can't sleep. Something was bothering me. So I tossed and turned for about three hours, then I finally couldn''t take it anymore, I stood up and went straight to my room where she's sleeping. I approached the bed, gently sat on it and I reached for her shoulder to pull her closer to me. She stirred and woke up. She asked what's up. I told her, "you know, the first time I saw you, I was watching a video and left it playing to get myself a sandwich then went to the store to get some mayo then I got so distracted by life that I forgot to finish the video." She said, "You know what, I've been wondering about a weird noise in your night drawer." So we opened that drawer, and lo and behold, there's my phone and this video still has two minutes of play time on it.

By the Divines, it's finally here!

I never skip a second in your videos like this because of how relaxing your script is.

You have such a way with words! I love how you write your scripts

It's interesting to me that you only get a black soul gem on the Keepers because I'm also able to take their weapon.

2 hours! Hell yes!

Maybe the skeletons are there becuz they might have entered the Soul Cairn via portal.. there is one warrior skeleton with a note stating he entered a portal and.. well, It looks like he died in the Soul Cairn.. maybe It was during the Oblivion crises? Maybe some portals opened to other realms or ir was in another isolated event. The mamoths could of had been brought there maybe, and the dragons might have tried to make deals with the ideal masters and died there.