This is the Chosen One. Sorry. 

I think it'd be really cool if you took a look at "Alan Wake". The first game is my favourite vg story of all time. 💜

Ok

You should do video about the most evil villain.

I do love your videos but .... isn't 5 min of a 18min video being Ads a lot? I was hoping you'd at least talk on the hilarious morrowwind bugs you were showing lol

Lol, pipi!

“Now I know what you’re thinking, ‘he is the least qualified person in the world to lead us’ and you are right”

@@AlmightyTimeGod that sentence has been in my head for a decade.

I was thinking the same thing

commenting to boost this. Amen.

Yes kronk that one

The chosen one. The one who was specifically chosen for greatness. The one of choice

Yes. By Azura. Yes,again.

Yes. The opposite of the one who gets picked last in dodge ball.

Boa tarde, amigo! 🦎🦎🦎

You made it to the rat? I keep getting filtered by the scribs

Same goes with Daggerfall, except you Dont kill a god unfortunately, but I believe they are capable

how can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence!

In my defence, it was two rats in a cellar and I still hadn't reached level 2.

@omarbarakaeden5608 You could _make_ a god (Mannimacro)

me no understand but it is relatable to me

came here to post this. it's such a good game, and a good subversion of the trope

Your are my favorite person for today! Thank you for talking about wandersong! Have a great day!

@@theanonymousunknown1949 thanks but people hate me i only reply becuase it is real to me becuase i tell everyone i will be king soon people say it is impossible

@@freyamehrab I don't think he meant you...

Come Nerevar-come and look upon the heart!-upon the heart~

Dagothwave is the best genre of music

​@@TheAechBombWhat's Dagothwave?

Oh oh ooooooh!

@@hannahmetzger4880 Search about it on youtube? You'll love it

Saame, I have to play with a 6th house mod whenever I replay. Granted they can be janky to get working. I wish they were able to flesh it out originally. All the hints at 6th house culture are super interesting.

that's cause you guys are old chums.

I can't wait to see how Wayward Realms turns out myself it will be interesting with no main questline...

i think that ended up getting scrapped. which is a shame.

unless you play argonian

Caius is the kind of wise and supportive mentor I could have benefited from IRL.

I THOUGHT THE SAME!

Me too!

Will forever be one of my favorite pieces of animated media

PEEPEE!!!! KITTIE PEEPEEII!!!!

heheheehe sooo goooood!!! and glad someone else saw it toooo!

This. More strongly supported by the fact that Almelexia, who was at that point still God-Tier, recognized you as the reincarnation of Nerevar by the end of the Tribunal DLC, at least to the point that she, well, does that one thing that's probably not what the people who haven't played it are assuming without context. I don't necessarily think that just means that this just validates the Prophecy, but that the Quests of the main game and Tribunal are absolutely in line with the acts of Nerevar, to the point one doing them would Mantle him. (And contrast this to the relative irrelevancy of the Bloodmoon DLC- you're a hero of a place, but not THE GUY, with these specific, existing bonds to the Gods. Its definite Mantling) The AlmSiVi Gods were powerful enough to just retcon their own backstory, (Vivec in particular, among their other insane escapades) so its not like Almelexia is just playing around. From a meta perspective, though, the point is still relevant, and I think applies as a storytelling concept to a lot of stuff. But Morrowind has so many great examples, like the failed Nerevarine ghosts, the shitty skooma Yoda, Dagoth Ur's banger lines, and the delightfully derpy Colovian Fur/Kaijit combo, to boot.

​@@Bird-wz7nx does she apologize?

Mantling is different from incarnation though. “Mantling and incarnation are separate roads; do not mistake this. The latter is built from the cobbles of drawn-bone destiny. The former: walk like them until they must walk like you.”

I feel like this cycle always happens with all hero tropes, like cowboys went through the same thing, white hat, to gritty hero, to anti-hero, to ironic anti-trope cowboy. I am sure its happened with many genres.

Not really. It's more like it's getting commented more often that being the chosen one sucks

Lost of DnD campaigns have done something similar with the Chosen One. Everyone makes the players the Chosen Ones and then often realize “these are the idiots destined to save us” I’m doing a campaign right now where in a party do freaks and weirdo’s I’m unironically the most normal man, a very generic looking human being who happened to become a thief and fell backwards into becoming a war hero. Keeping in line with that I joined the party simply for some excitement and in the first real mission I watch in horror as my party charges forward and slaughters a camp of comically inept Bandits. Every time I enter a room it’s nothing but charred meat and gore and my character thinks “what have I gotten myself into?”

​@@Broomer52That sounds Hella fun. 😁. I'm going through my very first DnD campaign right now (I'm a newbie, LOL;I've always wanted to play DnD, as I'd heard _many, MANY GREAT_ things about the game, but I just haven't had the chance to do so until now). 😁. I'm playing as a human Paladin named Lamros. He's cool and funny. :3.

The last time I've seen it played straight, it was also parodied with the main character literally named Chosen One in Kung Pow: Enter The Fist.

Yup. You are just oen of many other vessels, and werent even deemed worthy of the job. You arent the chosen one, you are just maybe the only one left that can do anything. Another exemple of that is Dark Souls 3's Ashen one. Again one of many, and at the start of the game, a hero that reached the first flame but wasnt strong enough to sustain it. You arent the chosen one, you are a failed hero, and the world just has no one better left to save it anymore, as all others great heroes are already long gone, having completed their own journeys (and died for it) before yours begins.

This example fits this topic better than I think most Hollow Knight players will ever realize. Consider the Broken Vessel and, potentially, Nosk's disguise. Any Vessel with the willpower to do so can crawl out of the Abyss and begin its journey, and several have in between the Hollow Knight and the playable Knight. Until the player takes over, they were all miserable failures. What separates the Knight from their predecessors is simple: it caught a glimpse of the Pale King taking the Hollow Knight out of the Abyss, before falling to its temporary death. The implication is that this experience created the exact sort of emotional core that the Pale King was trying to avoid in the "Hollow" Knight (and failed due to his own familial instincts, but I digress), and that core drove the Knight to not only crawl back out of the Abyss years later, but fight its way *out of Hallownest entirely, while dazed and amnesic, and with only a common Nail at its side.* Ultimately, the Knight proves to be everything the King tried to prevent in a Vessel: as much of a person as anyone else, to the point of allying with the Radiance's one conscious follower in a mutually beneficial relationship. It's the Knight's inherent drive and assimilation of a hero's virtues that allow it to not only beat the Hollow Knight, but defeat the Radiance in a way the King could never have planned for. Hollow Knight's Knight overcame everything from circumstances, to history, to nigh invincible opposition to become the chosen one, and it makes their victory all the more satisfying for the player making it happen.

Get the Agent Smiths. Someone has broken their knowledge inhibitors.

WHAT?! When you say "save system, command line access and mods are canon" is that like officially factual or just lore speculation?

@@MrBern-ex3wq Speculation, but it is canon that that is how someone becomes a god, because they're practically in a lucid dream. Dagoth Ur is called the False Dreamer in the game because he learned about the dream, but his mind was so fractured he thought he was the dreamer.

According to ​Michael Kirkbride, a key designer behind Morrowind and author of the 36 Sermons of Vivec (which is likely what we're referring to), "official" and "canon" in Elder Scrolls is meant to be very open to individual interpretation. This is why most of the lore is deliberately provided through in-universe narrators, who can be unreliable or disputed as needed for the game or the fans.

@@Eowar The series will never be the same without that guy

Thanks for all the hard work that went into Pipi! That video is a masterpiece! -Benji, showrunner

scribs are friends not food

When I first played, the shocking twist was finding out that scrib jelly I'd been stealing and eating isn't "jelly made by scribs" (like honey) but "jelly made of scribs." 😨

The most interesting part is that he isn't a chosen hero at all. As the soul of link doesn't exist in the wind waker timeline. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qoo1HSX8qYk.html

He IS a special Link- and anyone who likes Zelda really should look into his lore in particular, especially in relation to the likes of OoT Link and BotW Link. More specifically, which Links are born bearing the Triforce, and if they somehow otherwise have some kind of power. (OoT Link was chosen by the Master Sword and aged up for more strength, BotW Link's Flurry Rush seems diegetic, most 2D Links just have the Triforce on their hand) WW Link seems to have gotten the least Divine Intervention and external support, despite having to straight up fight Ganondorf and do all the main line hero stuff. Oh, and if you ever felt like the start of TotK felt off, that Link never had the Triforce of Courage- so while he had the sword, he ONLY had as much divine power as was in the Master Sword. Most Links have both. Paints him in a different light, doesn't it? He was still chosen in some respects, but no triangle for him.

@@Bird-wz7nx ...huh. that's a good point. maybe the reason the master sword breaks so easily in botw and totk isn't because it's gotten weaker, but because it doesn't have the backing power of the triforce of courage behind it anymore. Now that's a theory.

@@Bird-wz7nx Another note on OoT Link, he's the only one that gets a separate timeline for being a Chosen One that fails. I personally think that most other Zelda games can pretty easily be given a similar treatment of segueing into one of the various civil wars or downfalls in Hyrule's history should you fail, but even so the idea that the Chosen One can either fail or simply not show up at all is pretty cool.

​@@BeaglzRok1I subscribe to the "abandoned timeline" theory. The Fallen Timeline is one where child Link goes through his adventure in Ocarina of Time, but doesn't return from the future to stop Ganondorf because Zelda broke the flow of time.

I know right?! I gasped when I saw the little dude

That’s what I was thinking

I was wondering if anybody said this cause I thought the same thing

Same thought

woo

I mean I would, but wont criticize. Best opinions and looks - mostly looks to subsume

Does it matter? She IS basically aligned with general best interests and the AlmSiVi wind up being more or less your opposition. You don't have to do the opposite of a prophecy to defy it, just take ownership of your Destiny. Like Shoto Todoroki from My Hero Academia- his arc is how he didn't come into his own until he stopped avoiding using half of his super powers. He had a good reason, in that he was the result of eugenics, and he resented it, but he could never fulfill his own personal goals until he used his full power. (Which they illustrate with some nicely animated and extremely Manime sequences) I don't usually watch anime, but I've been watching with a family member and this has been pretty good. Worth at least watching a video essay on.

The whole burning down of morrowind is actually very relevant to them as a culture and is, well according to Azura, boethia and maphala, a good thing. The foundation of dunmer culture is to overcome, to achieve transcendance through hardship, the psijic endeavour, the doom driven path of Lorkhan. That's why they live in well Morrowind. A harsh yet beautiful land, a land where from all corners are surrounded by enemies(nords to the west, lizard and cats south, akaviri east and harsh cold sea to the north). Vivec weakened the dunmer by essentially giving them everything, they no longer seek hardship, Vivec mentions this himself. The return of Azura and co is a return to form, a return to a stronger dunmeri culture. Though they must suffer first, it's in the long run a net positive, in Azuras eyes.

That short was so funny!

lol that’s what I thought

orang pipi :3333

The Google translations for these coments are gold.

And he has a diamond sword like he got it from Minecraft

"Your mission was to pretend to become their messiah figure." "Copy that, became their messiah." "Yeah, no, this is just to sabotage their theocracy." "Sorry, I don't hear as well after surviving an incurable plague, getting every dunmer faction to chant my name and then struck the heart of the world to kill a dream-walking anathema."

Speaking of decoy "chosen ones", check out Jennifer Nielsen's book The False Prince! Our orphan protagonist is plucked from obscurity by a conspiratorial nobleman to act as the dead king and queen's long-lost son, but things get complicated.

yeah ive held that theory for ages, near the end of his involvement he does say something along the lines of "im beginning to think you actually are the nerevarine"

@@awaredeshmukh3202 oh wait i think ive actually read that in school, it was an interesting book

I'm also under the impression Cosades isn't just a druggie, he's probably organizing a substantial smuggling ring to cause an Opium Crisis in Morrowind. Also, there's a substantial benefit for the prophesied hero of Morrowind being in the pocket of Uriel, so he's probably not that worried about you actually enacting the prophecy.

EXACTLY

absolutely this is the kind of protagonist I'd like to write. generally with some kind of chaotic edge. not necessarily in being a little goblin, but in having some motives or ways of thinking that serve as spanners in the works. I like characters who can't be bribed or corrupted by power not because they're incorruptible saints, but because they have PRIORITIES. look. it's all about their boo. or their stamp collection. maybe they saved the world in the process of finding the rarest stamps. could work. either way, the villain is like 'ULTIMATE POWER', and the Unchosen One is like 'hmmm yes but then it'd be too easy to get all the stamps"

@@hestiathena4917 Sounds Pratchetty, perhaps Sandersonesque.

I like that! I'm rereading a series I enjoyed growing up called Gregor the Overlander, which plays with prophecies, and holds some of this tension both at the beginning and end. While aimed more at middle grade readers, t's actually still a really good series as a young adult now, I see things I didn't notice before, and I have to say Suzanne Collins is really quite a skillful author! The pop culture success of the Hunger Games partially highlighted but partially led to overlooking that for many.

@@roecocoa Also I have quite enjoyed some books from both of those authors :D I enjoy seeing them mentioned

ZuEs 😂

@@johannesstephanusroos4969 Look at you, trying to write Ζεύς with your infantile alphabet. What a grand and intoxicating innocence.

Isn't that most rpgs?!

​@@Raximus3000Yes, every single one

@@clowncargaming8046 So, isn't the point of this video kinda wrong? Every rpg starts you from the lowest possible chosen one or not, hell even the "inversion" is not as well done as in Bard's tale.

@@Raximus3000 Every RPG starts you with low stats sure. But not every RPG says you're the chosen one, maybe most, but not all. In VTMB you're just a human turned into a vampire, there is prophecy and you're involved in it, but it's all revealed to be untrue nonsense. In KCD you're just the survivor of an attack on your village, but you don't survive because of some prophecy, you survive from the skin of your teeth. You also don't even get to avenge your parents/village.

@@clowncargaming8046 Yes, and every one that you are, you start from scratch. Mana series and a dragon quest are like that. In an rpg setting the "chosen one" is not powerful from the start is pretty standard by definition.

I mean you could argue that the Dragonborn mantles Miraak by the end of the Dragonborn DLC. Not good news for him as he is now the new puppet of Hermaeus Mora to be collected at a later date but still XD

Walk like them until they walk like you

DB mantles Miraak.

⁠@@antonakessonexcept the Dragonborn does things even Miraak couldn’t. You kill Vahlok and Alduin. Why mantle someone considerably weaker than you?

There is a theory that the LDB 'mantled' Shor, simply because he could sit in Shor's throne, something that the Hero of Kvatch couldn't do in the Shivering Isles until he mantled Sheogorath

I hope I'm understanding this correctly. Sorry to the scholars if I got mantling wrong.

they dont have to be divine, it can genuinely be anyone. you have to be so uniquely like them that the universe forgets you are two separate people. if the person isnt really unique, then its about mimicking their exact quirks, which is incredibly hard to do, and is why mundane people dont really get mantled. if the only difference between john the farmer and bill the farmer is that john blinks twice after sneezing where most people either do it once or three times, and bill says the word "elemental" a little funny, then its really hard to mantle them, because its really hard to get their unique aspects correct enough for it to happen. BUT, if a person is extremely unique, then its easy to mantle them simply by following in their footsteps. crazy, weird, unusual, and abnormal people are easy to mantle because they do many things that nobody else ever would. the only problem is, you also have to do those things. for exceptional people, this requires exceptional actions, which makes mantling powerful people very complicated, because many of the things they did were extremely hard to do. you and the person merge in existence, making you similar to a reincarnation, but also at the same time still being your own unique you. this allows you to be unique and different in your own ways from the person you are mantling, allowing you to change the very nature of the being that comes out of it. you dont have to be them exactly, meaning you can change their attitude towards something or how they treat certain people, how they respond to certain things. you can make a person a racist, or make them not a racist, or you can be the race they were racist towards if you hit the other unique qualities well enough. and this is just an example. I believe mantling more than one being is possible as well, and a previously mantled entity can be mantled again, both forming a mantling of three or more separate beings into one.

@@aidenaune7008 Do they have to be dead before you can mantle them or can there be two of the same guy?

@@EdwardHatch-b5i they dont have to be dead. if they are both alive, they merge into one physical being. this is exactly what happened in the sheogorath DLC of oblivion.

Interestingly, the Dragonborn DLC kind of suggests that Miraak was "supposed" to have been the "Chosen One" who defeats Alduin, but he chose not to.

In Morrowind you don't even have to follow the prophecy at all

And to make it all the better, the "Chosen Ones" actually twist the prophecy in their favor and against the desires of the Seer, uniting the world in...relative...peace. *Spoilers for any reading further!!* All cuz the Seer gets flash fried in a pyroclastic wash, and can't say shit against the Dragonets of Destiny.

And one of the dragons wasn’t even the "correct" kind. They couldn’t get an egg for the one from the prophecy, but they could go steal one from the dragon hippies that live in the rainforest.

SPOILERS Yeah, their prophecy was an absolute scam.

Idk why but RU-vid keeps deleting my comments.. Third time’s the charm All my homies HATE morrowseer

Add to that the fact that only 2 of the main 5 are into the whole prophecy thing anyway, and one of the two sees it as an impossible burden. The other two want to revel in the freedom of not being bound by a prophecy anymore but agree that stopping the war is necessary, and the last one doesn't really care about the prophecy other than that peace means no one wants to invade her tribe's territory anymore.

It’s the caterpillar that says that.

@@intergalactic92 Oh, you may be right. Been YEARS since I've watched that with my daughter.

This is a universe where the God of Time can get concussed if he's hit hard enough by magic, at which point the laws of causality and time break down until he recovers enough to sort it out, after all.

@@runningthemeta5570 You. You are the one from my dream. I have seen you write that which you describe: imperfect, true, but complete. So it must come to pass.

Qui-Gon Jinn is who then?

@@davidlz830 Qui-Gon is a wise mentor figure, but his "letter of recommendation" was trashed immediately by the other masters, so much so that Anakin became a padawan only because Obi-Wan played the "you don't want me to dishonor my master's last wish, don't you?" card.

Something like that happens in Neon Genesis Evangelion. SPOILERS FOR A 30 YEAR OLD SHOW BELOW, PUTTING THIS WARNING HERE JUST IN CASE. The hero isn't exactly "the chosen one," but he's close enough, one of a small handful of Chosen. Since the series is (at least partially) about how much it would suck to be a mecha anime protagonist in real life, he's eventually left so traumatised and depressed that he just stops engaging with the plot at all. He spends most of the last third of the show in his own head, refusing to get involved in the story.

Reminds me of the way megaman X acts in some of the later games. Bro just did not want to participate.

If you’re into podcasts, Absolutely No Adventures is exactly this premise. It’s short, only like eleven episodes, but it’s very fun and very sweet. The chosen one just wants to run a bakery with his friends

tvtropes "Refusal of the Call"?

You can also just play that way. The one thing elder scrolls has always done right is the ability to tell everyone to basically piss off while you go do your own thing. They kinda botched this up in Skyrim unfortunately, but hey at least you still don't have to do said quests, Dragons be damned.

So you could say that the Neravarine is a Christ-like figure in theory?

If by "only candidate" you mean the only one to attempt, that's not really accurate. It's pretty well attested among historians and Bible scholars that multiple people claimed to be the Jewish messiah before and after Jesus of Nazareth.

@@Eowar Right, many people claimed and still claim to be the Messiah, but none of them ever had the possibility of being the actual, chosen Messiah. That was always going to be Jesus.

I like your thinking but Jesus was literally the son of God. From a story standpoint that would be like saying Hercules was just an average person.

@localvega688 yes, thar is true, but for most of Jesus's ministry, the Jews didn't know that. Everybody thought he was just some small-town guy doing crazy miracles

...my guy that is King Arthur. He's holding Excalibur and everything.

.... How do I tell you this...

What a grand and intoxicating innocence.