Skyrim and it's open world serve as the epicenter for hundreds of fascinating mysteries. Over the last couple of months, we've been cataloguing every Elder Scrolls 5 mystery featured on the channel before into a single iceberg. Today's installment shows off some of the most intriguing theories and details yet as we continue our Skyrim Mysteries Iceberg.
For Narfi's sister, the vampire boss in Redwater Den has a journal mentioning that he stopped for "dinner" at the Vilemyr Inn in Ivarstead about 5 1/2 months before the start of the game.
Vampires are the worst 😒
I'm so sad for Narfi, he needs a kind soul to take care of him, not to be killed.
Also, two iron arrows can be found floating above her skeleton so some believe that the innkeeper shot her by accident.
It kinda debunks itself. Since Reyda disappears a year prior to the game.
Yeah, the girl died before then though. Just coincidence.
The weird thing about the Narfi mystery is that when you tell Narfi you found his sister he assumes you found her alive and asks "did you tell her Narfi cries?" But if you go to the barkeep first he'll say the same exact voice line "did you tell her Narfi cries?" But it will be the barkeep's voice actor and it will almost be a mocking tone
Wow ,what an observation
Camelworks did a video on Raeda and her death not that long ago that mentions this detail
@nyahbilak5102 at least his comment is factual unlike the top comment on the video lol
I like the idea of the Greybearda hanging out with Big P, and just just pitching the idea of "Hey, it's molting season again, why don't we keep some of your shed skin and give it as an offering to Akatosh. It's only weird if you make it weird bro." And Big P saying "yeah ok".
OMFG 😂❤
As I recall there's two girls in Rorikstead and one is bullied relentessly. If you talk to her she has a bit of dialogue where she says that she saw a dragon fly over to the shrine of Akatosh but nobody believes her. It may be that Paarthurnax just visited at night or when it was storming so he could more easily avoid detection.
She also mentions having a dream with a giant grey and gentle dragon who's good Which is def paarthurnax I always kill her father and adopt her since she's CLEARLY a dovah prophet
Seems a little unlikely since one, he's incredibly tightly guarded by the greybeards and says he doesn't know much about what happens outside his mountain. He prefers to meditate on the top of the Munahmen. Decent theory, but remember, there are other dragons that survived the dragon war like Mirmulnir, the dragon you fight at the western watchtower.
I believe that she is being trained to be a priestess of Akatosh. Although, she wants to learn fire magic she is taught others. Akatosh is behind the fertility of Rorikstead contrary to the Daedric influence by others.
Paarthurnax definitely visits the Rorikstead Akatosh shrine.
@@JoshSweetvaleamazing proof you have there. Oh wait 😂
Always nice to see the high king put out more Skyrim facts.
All hail to Nate, you are the high king, in your great honor we'll drink and we'll sing.
It's literally a mystery video, there's no facts just theories
@@AdamasutojrAJR they are only theories until spoken by our lord Nate
@@AdamasutojrAJR what do you want elf?
HIGH KING NATE
I know you'll always be the Skyrim/Elder Scrolls lore guy on KZhead but I want to let ya know that the way way discuss these things over the years honestly has made learning about this world be so fun and easy to digest for players new and seasoned Thank you for that
I think i’ve learned more facts from Nate’s Skyrim videos than from my real school(s)
Tbh I annoy my family even tho they don’t play it but I can talk for hours about this game just because if Nate lol
I think Fudgemuppet has more content about the Elder Scrolls, Nate is more about Skyrim
@@sixtenfrid6895 School sucks at teaching anything about Skyrim.
Fully agreed!
There are a hand full of dragons that were never killed by the blades, and thus never resurrected by Alduin. Paarthurnax is one, and Mirmulnir, the first dragon you fight, is another. There are more, canonically. That could explain the scales. This information is available via the book Atlas of Dragons, in Skyhaven Temple. The other (known) surviving dragons are Ahbiilok (Believed to be hiding in Morrowind) and Nahfahlaar (location unknown).
there's also the two dragons in the forgotten vale
@@fruitsnommy Also doesn’t Miraak have some dragons?
Dragon in Blackreach is also alive and chillin
@@Sinnixk was about to post that
@@mrr9636 I don't think Mirraks count because his were stuck with him in another dimension
I think maybe only the tonal architects were allowed access to the city of music and the probe could sense the Dragonborns ability to use tonal magic through the thu’um.
I actually really love this theory and it makes really great sense
I find the whole "Throat of the World" teleportation stuff interesting. My best guess would be that the Throat of the World is like the place on Nirn where the borders between worlds are weakest. So it makes it easier for Gods or magic to slip through from one realm to another. My best evidence for this would be the quest for the White Phial, which, I think is in Windhelm. The White Phial is the alchemy shop and the guy who runs it has been searching for the Phial his whole life. Eventually you go and track it down for him, but it's cracked. In order to repair it, he needs snow from the Throat of the World. Why, specifically from there? If the snow on High Hrothgar is the same as everywhere else, then surely you could just scoop some off the ground outside the store, but I think he needs it from The Throat of the World specifically because the snow there has been imbued with magic/divine energy or something. It's like there's some kind of 'veil' between the worlds, and The Throat of the World is where the veil is thinnest, which is why Tsun sends you back there, and why Paarthurnax always hangs out there.
this is actaully supported by the greater lore, space is implied to be the chaos of oblivion, with each planet being the realm(and possibly part of ) one of the gods, so it makes sense at the highest point in skyrim, as close to space/oblivion and by extension the planets/ divines one can get, the normal rules of reality would start to have less sway and the whims of the divine would have more influence
I think this is it, because if we look further into fiction ideas, it also ties in with the tale of mount Olympus in ancient Greece, where supposedly it's the connection between Earth and the gods. Also, it's worth noting that it is a popular idea, the lore of other fantasy games have used it too, take a look at league of legends lore, where mount targon is the connection between Runetera and Targon Prime, more or less mount Olympus irl. Basically the Throat of the World in Skyrim. So probably the throat of the world in Skyrim really is the bridge between the Nirn and Aeterius.
I always thought that Throat of The World was special because the ancient Nordic heroes using Elder Scroll to send Alduin into the future kind of ripped apart realities and that place was the weakest point between realms 🤔
@@inoue6 that could work too But again it does tie to the idea of mount Olympus
but i thought dragons just liked mountains?!?!?!?!?
Kagrenzel: "City of Kagren" Kagrenac was the chief Tonal Architect of the Dwemer before their disappearance, he created the Numidium and is often pointed to as the reason why the Dwemer disappeared due to his work on the Heart of Lorkhan. My theory is that Kagrenzel was perhaps the storage site of the Numidium during a portion of its construction; the orb you encounter is a rudimentary artificial intelligence meant to act as security. It scans any who arrive, and all fail and are killed. Except the Dragonborn. You pass due to your natural proficiency with the Thu'um, itself a form of tonal magic; the orb can't effectively differentiate so it believes this shared trait with the Dwemer (tonal architects) means you ARE a Dwemer, or perhaps Kagrenac itself, and grants you passage to the deteriorated workshop.
I really like this theory!
All this time and I never realized it had Kagrenac's name in it. The theory is plausible at the very least. That cavern certainly is big enough to fit a thousand foot automaton.
The thu'um explanation is great lol
Dang!!
Oh yeah, i totally forgot that the Dwemer has giant robots
The fact you called a great dragon, Party Snacks, absolutely sent me lmao I love your videos so much. They help me wind down and relax at night. And when I tell you I laughed so hard hearing "maybe Party Snacks flew by and dropped these off" I wasn't ready 🤣🤣
It sent you where?
@@QualityPen TO ATHERIUS, BLESSINGS OF THE EIGHT DIVINES UPON THEM
@@itsyvonblitz6819 nine 🔫
@@pink-flower. Skyrim is part of the Empire, traitor!
A new fun fact I recently learned, if you use Dead Thrall on one of the Miraak cultists and make them your thralls, they may cough, hum, and say some things other NPCs with their voice types wouldn't normally say in battle. It's almost like you were meant to be able to recruit them at some point.
it's almost like they just copied and pasted the follower code as the spell effect ...
You're a great underrated KZheadr Nate. I'm proud to say that I've been here for years.
Underrated??? How so??
Exactly...underrated...show some respect.
He has over 1 mill subs, i think that is a really good amount
being underated with a million+ subs is a weird, yet there he is! He needs at leas 3M
Idk what y’all are talking about xd he has over a million subs and most of his videos get more than 100k. Views many getting a million. This videos been out for less than an hour and he has almost 6k views xd.
One of the most lightly touched upon Dwemer mysteries in Skyrim is that of Hrodulf’s basement. Here’s a long recap for those that don’t know. On Solstheim you can find a burned out shack by the coast. Go into the basement and there will be some reavers talking about how they killed the inhabitant and locked him in a secret tunnel. Kill them, and you can find the homeowners’ journal. In the journal, he talks about how he’s being driven mad by a noise in the basement, and how he’s getting to the bottom of it. Throughout the journal he slowly degrades into madness, as he digs and finds the source of the noise. Well, move a bookshelf and you can find a hidden tunnel behind it, where the reavers said they stashed his body. Go in, and you’ll start to hear the sound as well. It turns out that the previous occupant had dug up a very unique looking dwemer ruin. Firstly the ruin is only a single room. It isn’t attached to any other ruins, it’s just a small, tube-shaped room sticking out of an even smaller cave. In the room are some chests for loot, and whatnot, but also a table and a chair. The homeowner’s body can be found, with a bloodstained letter on it. The letter contains his last rambling of madness before he was killed, warning not to come to the cabin, due to the horrible secret that he discovered. Along with one other thing. At the end of the tube, the back wall of the room is this strange Dwemer.. thing. It’s like a semi-done sticking out of the wall, with strange noises coming from it, perhaps some kind of machine? Here’s the thing though, this thing is unique. Literally. The texture and model were made, from scratch, for this one strange room. It isn’t reused anywhere else, it exists solely in this one location. If you know anything about Skyrim, this is odd. The developers do not waste resources. They reuse assets constantly, to the point where a big criticism is the lack of unique items and weapons. For instance, to make short shelves, literally just took the wall-shelves and put them halfway into the ground to create the illusion of knee-high shelves, something that they use hundreds of times. They don’t like wasting space. And yet, somehow, this random, wall sized dwarven egg thing, tucked away in a hidden tunnel within a hidden basement in a shack in the middle of nowhere with no quests tied to it gets a unique texture and model not used anywhere else, made special for it. So what do we have? A small, hidden dwarven room, with no entrance or discernible purpose. It has nothing but a table, chairs, and a massive, custom made object made solely for this room. Also, the table and chair are facing the object on the back wall, not towards the front of the room, almost as if the chair was there to keep an eye on it. It’s weird. And almost nobody talks about it, because it’s so small and out of the way, but the developers clearly put so much effort and care into making it, it’s obviously meant to be something important and unique, but it’s just left, unexplained.
Huh, interesting
I gotta remember this on my next playthrough ('m in the middle of Oblivion now lol.) Very cool info. Thanks!
I ALWAYS go there and sit there and listen. I try breaking out of the room to see if there's anything.
I know, right? It's freaking crazy. How about that weird structure in northern solsteim that's in the middle of a reikling camp. What the hell is that?
@@darrenortez9816 The one on the mountain? That’s a Dwemer airship. You see, back in the third game, Morrowind, there was also a Solstheim DLC, it was called Bloodmoon. In that, there was a man who asked you to find his airship. Turns out he’d built an airship out of dwemer machinery and sent it on an expedition to the island to find an amulet, and when you get to the island you find that it’s already crash landed due to the crew’s bad decision making. Fast forward a few ages, and the airship’s remnants are still on the mountain, on Solstheim, and apparently Reiklinfs thought that it would make a nice home.
I noticed in my game, and confirmed on a new character that there are 2 iron arrows floating away from Narfi's sister's skeleton when I reach ivaarstead. I assume they were supposed to be static and in her corpse
I always assumed that the Sovngarde statues were statues of Shor. And giving the theory that the Dragonborn is "a mortal shor" it'll make sense the statues would always stare at their "master".
Shor seems to be a nordic name for Lorkhan, and dragonborn seem to be touched by/marked by Akatosh. Doesnt explain the statues i suppose
@@cxfxcdudeAll player characters and Tiber Septim are Shezzarines, incarnations of Lorkhan, the Dead God of Freedom.
TIER 3 1:51 Undecipherable stone tablet language 2:44 Origin of wisps 5:07 The forgotten king of the Forgotten Vale 6:04 Nazeem's bigger role & Ahlam's affair 9:39 Reyda: Tragedy or Murder? 12:43 Alduin's fate 14:23 Dragon scale offerings 15:29 Arniel & the Dwemer's disappearance 18:51 The Riekling civilisation 20:46 The twice-forsaken Dragon Priest mask 26:45 The gray fox legacy 30:48 Daedro-Dwemer artifacts TIER 4 34:39 Sovngarde's Doctor Who statues 35:42 Kagrenzel: Music City 40:27 Maven's unfulfilled sacrament & Christophe's predicament 44:27 The Atronach Forge 47:57 Temple of Mara: Priests or Solicitors of murder 50:11 The shout of Kyne 54:40 Florentius' divine enlightenment from Arkay Had wayyy too much fun with naming these
Why isn't this pinned?
@@wordbearer8202 Thanks for reminding me of this gem of a message. I'm glad these timestamps could be useful for you all :D
@@terrilogic557 thanks brother
I love that your exploring more long form content instead of burning yourself out on more regular short term stuff :)
For what it worth I love longer stuff too: P
I feel like the body in Maven’s ritual site IS Christoph and you were the target she was after. Since she has her hand in so many things it makes sense that the DB did something that she would want to kill us for and she had someone she kill for the ritual. Two birds, one stone.
And maybe that's the reason the ritual didnt work? Because there was already a contract on the Dovahkiin
@@icrievretim I think half of the black brotherhood contract are on the Dovakhiin
The most curious thing about the "Throat of the World Language" part is that WE the player are capable of reading it. I understand it might be for gameplay reasons, but why would our character be capable of reading such unknown language, when it's clear it's not the one used in Tamriel nowadays? Does absorbing dragon souls give us knowledge of this language?
Ingame the greybeards say we absorb all the dragons knowledge with their soul.
IIRC, wasn't there an NPC journeying up the mountain, who said something about only "meditating on" the runes, and not actually reading them? Something along those lines, it's been years since I've played. Maybe Old Atmoric (I guess that's what I could call it?) is another one of those things that the Dragonborn instinctively already knows.
@@mcgibs as my comment above says, the greybeards literally say we gain the knowledge of the dragons we slay, 99% of the time we kill the dragon at white run before going up high hrothgar.
Perhaps… much like the skyforge… it’s a remnant from BEFORE civilization and possibly even from creation itself…. So a language created by the original gods who gave up their powers for mortality… this being a divine language…. And the dragon born LITERALLY being a divine being…. And literally mantling a god due to his absorbtion of dragon souls [cough]splinters of akatosh[cough] ….. he’s able to read the language the same way as the dragon language…
The thing is…. There have been many Dragonborn in the past…. But very few if any at all have absorbed dragon souls due to few of them “surviving” to their age after the founding of the dragon hunters in the empire. ….the only one I know for a fact to absorb dragon souls is talos….. who mantled a god due to becoming so powerful….. We know that any species can be GRANTED dragon born status due to one of them being a dark elf female if I’m not mistaken… it’s a “title” and power literally granted to and taken away by akatosh… or who Evers taken over the job… my money it’s talos. The thing is, we know that it can be taken away, But the one it was taken from had absorbed no dragon souls…. So what if when you absorb a dragon soul you make it a permanent effect. If you can make it’s a permanent effect through your empowered will, then you can keep going and keep getting more powerful… eventually mantling a god. Perhaps this is why we can read the unreadable language. It’s a good language that only those of god soul can read… or those taught to read it.
Thank you for making these videos! As someone who is really interested in the TES lore, I treasure them.
Florentius Baenius is the “source? The voices told me” guy of Skyrim. This has been without a doubt my favorite iceberg series as of late and I can’t wait for the next one 🔥🔥
ya know lowkey happy to hear about Nazem's wife she deserves happiness
9:01 Get you someone that looks at you like Acolyte Jensen does
Nah we all know Nazeem is cheating in the wife with him and she's tryna get proof
Would love to see you touch on the Yngol Barrow orbs --the bouncing blue lights that follow you through the dungeon. I thought they were one of the more interesting/memorable features in any of Skyrim's dungeons, but I can't find any explanation of what they actually are.
I actually just encountered them today while doing one of the vampiric rings quest! I looked it up and they said at the end of the dungeon the orbs should come together to make the ghost of Yngol. But for some reason it didn't do that for me so Idk if it's true. But then there's another theory that they are the life essence of Yngols crew which I just found fascinating. I'll probably look into it more some other time but it has been on my mind all day now, lol.
Another thing about Narfi's sister is when you pass by her remains for the first time two arrows can be seen above her just flowing downstream
Isn’t there a note/journal in the game of a vampire mentioning dinner in Ivarsted? Sounds like Reyda’s killer alright
@@mrr9636there is about 6 month time difference in reydas disappearence and when vampire had dinner in the town.
47:48 Well in Oblivion we "inherited" a wizard tower up north-east after leaving the tunnel. With upgrading it's a great source of alchemy ingredients(even giving you +15 to alchemy skill while in that room), another room had the Atronach maker(forgot the precise name) which made atronaches depending on type of salts and a soul gem. So it could be connected to Skyrim's one beneath the College.
The Atronach Forge? I always found it odd that it was never mentioned in game.
@@trekker105 It's one of "inheritance" DLCs.
Perhaps the reason she still has the black sacrament laid out... is because Christophe figured out that Maven was going to have him executed (the note's not subtle) and he fled into hiding. Christophe's not around, the contract isn't complete, and Maven isn't happy.
or maybe she interrogated Christophe (to find who was the "bigger guy" that forced christophe to wrong her) and then used his body for the sacrament to kill the real threat to her business
Maybe she is just a recurrent client of the brotherhood and jus had a black sacrament settle up 24/7 just in case, sounds very in character for her and she event know Astrid by name.
Well the sacrament works by contacting the Night Mother, Astrid and the Brotherhood cant hear the sacrament because there is no listener. It’s strongly implied that if someone is secretive enough about the sacraments performance Nazir and Astrid wouldnt find it. **cough cough Mavin, and Motierre**
I kinda wish they went back and finished some of the cut storylines from the game instead of just giving us remasters for over a decade.
Maybe Vahlok is maskless because at that point the Dragonborn already took Konahrik from the past, that's why in the present he doesn't have it, would love to see the reactions in the past xD
Before i picked up skyrim 4 years ago, you had me wrapped around your lore hands, i was obsessed and knew everything before i played, when i finally played, i would catch myself calling out “omg nate talked about this” and id go back and listen to your videos as I played and you single handedly brought me so much joy and delightment, thank you nate for these long videos it truly means alot
12:30 One interesting real life fact to add here is that during the Renaissance in Britain drowning was one of the most common causes of death according to statistics. This is because people often went on their own near rivers and especially women wore heavy woolen clothes that quickly got drenched in water and became so heavy it'd be difficult to resist the current, and even if you survived the hypothermia might still kill you. Even though Skyrim isn't set during the Middle Ages women in Skyrim still wear fairly large woolen dresses (though linen also seems common but given the climate they must wear wool) that would have the same problem. So like the chance of her just drowning is actually really high.
My favorite theory about Florentius is that he's not talking to Arkay, but instead Sheogorath.
That would be on-brand for Sheogorath.
yea this is essentially what i always thought lol. Not necessarily even sheogorath, but just that its entirely possible some other deity or daedra is the one speaking to him and its not even arkay despite him genuinely hearing the voice
Oh my gosh, I've missed your content so much my guy, I love your videos and I'm so happy to see another one come in my feed today, keep up the good work Nate ❤️ ~Jack Lewis
I've been looking for you, got something I'm supposed to deliver, Your hands only. Lets see here... Ah, a letter from jack lewis, moving up in the world aye? Looks like that's it, Got to go
@@Cattling7961 I used to be a courier like you then but then I took an arrow to the knee
Ayo another sacred stones fan
@@StonyCarrot1001 wait I know you
‘A simple minecrafting’ got me so good. The delivery of that line was fantastic 😂
The stone statues turning to face you when not looking was the first reason i quit skyrim was so young it scared me so badly! Love this series brining back some great memories!
Wait til the mannequin start moving in windhelm. I was like fuck that place and left.. wish I could burn that shit down with my thuum
i actually caught one of the statues turning back to it’s original position after i turned around super fast i laughed so hard i started coughing and wheezing
The Throat of The World was the location of one of the few Dragon Breaks in history, it's why using the Elder Scroll there is so effective. That's probably a part at least in why you get teleported there.
I disagree. The Time Wound is an unresolved paradox/phonecall. Felldir used the Scroll to kick Alduin into the future, and the Dovahkiin used the same scroll in that future, closing the loop/answering the call.
Given the fact that Dibella has her own "Sible" with a similar ability and the deadra are just the gods that didn't help build Nirn yet still have people that can see and hear them, I'd say that it's fully in the realistic realm of possibility that Arkay would do something similar.
I'm still thrown off by the high elf priest in Falkreath. Dude's first line is describing how Arkay was once a man. Like...nobody else seems to mention this in the series. Talos was the only mortal to ascend to divinity. Right??
@@michaelsmart7445 There's a book in the second elder scrolls game, Daggerfall, called "Arkay, the God of Birth and Death" that claims he was a mortal who came to have such a great understanding of life and death that when it came time for his own death he prayed to the gods to give him more time so that he could teach it to others, and their response was something along the lines of "No, but we can allow you to labor forever in this field if you really want that." Thus creating Arkay, death's custodian. But while we can assume that's how Arkay is seen by many who worship him, it's not the only explanation out there, so it's for us as interpreters of the world and its lore to decide what we think it most viable. Personally, I don't believe Arkay was a mortal first as cool as I find it, cuz the dude has his own planet orbiting nirn, and Talos does not.
@@TrickyDryad also do to how mantling works its possible like sheogorath he was both always a god and a mortal man who became that god, that there was always a god of birth and death but the man came to understand it so deeply and on the same level as the very god who preceded over the process that the universe stopped distinguishing the two
@@seelcudoom1 You know I really hadn't thought of that for some reason, looking back at it, it almost feels as if the book I mentioned is just describing the process of an individual mantling Arkay. But the thing is like, does anyone outside of the shivering isles know that the hero of Kvatch mantled Sheogorath? Is it possible for another mortal to watch you become an Aetherial god? Cause if Arkay was a mortal, as well as having been a deity all along, how would people know that? Just hypotheticals really, sorta makes me giggle to think that some random death obsessed shopkeep passed out one day only to have the skyrim "alduin's death animation" play on his corpse.
@@michaelsmart7445 there's also the elven equivalent to arkay, xarxes, who is sometimes depicted as a priest of auri-el ascending to divinity
I like to think that Maven’s target is the Dragonborn, who is the only target of the dark brotherhood we know for sure survives all assassination attempts.
I was thinking the same thing cos if the Dovahkiin had somehow got on Mavens bad side she is definitely the kind of person that would make you want to try to immigrate to another province or state to escape from, although the Dovahkiin was trying to enter skyrim when captured not leave it so that puts a hole in the theory
@@ColossalReaperN7 actually, it's never specificied if you were entering or leaving, ralof simply says you were caught trying to cross the border, didn't say in what direction
@@AtomicFlounder42 that's a good point
Personally I think mavens ritual simply failed because there wasn’t a listener
I think that, rather than there being some underlying importance to Alduin's soul being why you don't absorb the soul, it's the location that's significant. Entirely possible that any dragon that is killed in sovngarde has their soul boil away.
Jesus that's terrible to think about.
A thought I just had about the Daedra having Dwemer made artifacts. The wizard guy you meet in Morthal tells you he's walked the planes of Oblivion and met Daedra and Dwemer as well. What if some Daedra offered an out to a select few of the Dwemer before (or even saving after) their disappearance, provided they could offer the princes a boon? Maybe some Dwemer still exist in the planes of Oblivion because of a deal they cut with that planes master.
This dude is the reason why I haven't quit playing Skyrim; the amount of love put into these videos; the lore I haven't learned before. Man, Nate, when ES 6 drops, _please_ keep doing what you do.
A small note about Arniel's shade, most summon/conjure spells manifest a fully solid character, whereas summon Arniel's Shade, an etherial version of Arniel is manifested. To me, this sounds like Arniel either lost part of his essence or some other part of himself, or is somewhere where he can't be summoned properly. It's also worth noting that summon familiar also manifests an etherial wolf. I don't know enough to say if that means anything different though.
Theres are a few other characters like it but as far as I know they are all linked to a dedra in someway so it's possible he got sucked up by the ideal masters or somethi ng
Summon wolf familia
The spell to summon Arniel's Shade also has no magicka cost, which makes it more like a lesser power, as though he is being summoned from the Dragonborn's soul, which fits the theory about the Dwemer being bound to the skin of Numidium.
When it comes to the dragon priest, there is also warlord Gathrik. If you face him at high enough of a level he will be a dragon priest, despite him not having a mask. It would fit better if it’s his mask, since he is a warlord, thus making him a leader. 23:00
Most people forget the fact that whether the mask was made for vahlok (which it likely was) the reason it never was buried with him, was because some asshole went back in time and took it. Mask would have disappeared from history at some point, thus vahlok not receiving it.
@@fodspeedmy personal head canon is the fight with miraak broke his mask, and you traveled back in time to before it was destroyed
@@rickisnothome mask would have never been given to him, if was in sanctuary at that point. Before it was taken outside the sanctuary, DB went back in time and brought it to future, thus removing it from past before it could ever been given to vahlok. It would have likely been given to him, as reward for beating miraak, Unless it was for ysgramor or something. But in all those scenrio, mask was disappeared before it could have been given to anyone.
the mask is given to the warlord, aka the democratically appointed temporary leader in times of war, the appointed part is canonized in the fact that you need all the masks to be put on their busts to unlock or rather allow for the usage of the warlord mask that would grant the status of war general to the wearer (that imo would be actually just one of the already existing priests and i do believe the "he was so good at it he didnt need one" theory on vahlok is strong enough to stand on its own) and in the time where they were alive the only way to do so is if they all got together and handed their masks willingly to be put on the pedestal when times of war came. The wooden mask however is most likely made hundreds of years later with the sole purposr of teleporting you to a time prior to the war that most likely rendered the warlord mask broken or lost forever, hence why it was created in the first place. So there you go, end of mistery
@@brotsky0 whole theory of vahlok being strong enough that he didn't need it, makes not alot of sense, because we see him in practically same state as he would have been when he fought miraak, and he was no different than a normal dragon priest, Where as miraak is dragonborn, who can shout and have had access to shout like bend will. So vahlok without even being able to use voice wouldn't have stand a much of chance against miraak. Unless he had a powerful artifact that in lore can make him pretty much immortal. It more likely kohnarik mask was given to him as last ditch move to beat miraak and was put back in its place after the fight. Because lot of people don't give miraak credit, he was literally the strongest dragonborn ever, because of the fact he could use bend will, which not only bends the will of dragons but also mortal and earth itself. But regardless point is that, mask would have disappeared from history at some point thanks to LDB.
I believe that the reason that dragon priest doesn’t have his mask is because we went back in time and stole it before he could get it so he remains mask less
What about the letter to Saphire on Solstheim in Glover Mallory's basement about him being her dad, you can give her the letter and it makes her happy and it also give more info on her backstory Edit: misspelled Saphire and put Saphyra, I corrected it
Thats around the tip of the iceberg though, plenty of people know about it
@@exploertm8738 More like the sky above the iceberg.
Parthenax wasn't the only Dovah to have survived, there 5 - 10 that did so, several of them are unnamed. One unnamed Dovah can be read about in that one Enchanting skill book, Twin Secrets (I think that's the name of the book). The book is written in a firsthand account of how an Enchanter travelled to Vardenfell long after the eruption and abandonment of the city and encountered a Dovah that has made it's home there.
Yes, the Atlas of Dragons book mentions that at least three other dragons beside Paarthurnax survived. Those being Milmurnir (the first dragon that the Dragonborn kills in the Dragon Rising quest), Nahfahlaar (the dragon that appears in Redguard, also called Nafaalilargus) and Ahbiilok (that may or may not be the dragon from the Twin Secrets book).
Also the Dragon in Blackreach survived as well
It's also entirely possible that the scales were placed at the shrine after Alduin started resurrecting dragons and some random person just came across some scales dropped by one of the many dragons now roaming Skyrim.
What about the dragons in akavir are all of them dead as well?
@@Bezimienny15150, yes they are, and it's canon. At least that's what the Akavir have said. The Akivir that that ended up working for Talos.
I found your channel during peak COVID quarantine and binge watched every video, to the point where I've seen each one multiple times. When you stopped uploading I was really sad but was happy that you were taking a needed break. I'm ecstatic that you're back and taking more time to take the breaks you need and spending more time to make high quality content for us. Every time I hear your "Hey guys, how's it going" opener I get a rush of happiness that I felt watching every video during covid. Your channel was one of the bright spots in that hard time for me and it makes my day to see you upload again. Thank you, Nate.
There are plenty of high budget movies/tv shows/channels that I just can’t bare to sit through but for some reason this little channel you’ve got going on here has me absolutely captivated. I have so far watched at least 7 hours of your content and I plan on watching even more. Great videos, please make more!
You really are a diamond in the rough dude. I stumbled on your stuff a couple years ago and it honestly has made me go back to skyrim to look for weird things every time I decide to binge your stuff for the day at work. I greatly appreciate the work you do.
Why "in the rough"?
@@sallysalter7014 because there is a lot of crap on this platform and to me he stands out as better than most.
My theory for the Konahrik mask and Wooden mask: The Konahrik mask may have been a mask belonging to a powerful dragon priest thousands of years ago, either a leader of sorts or maybe just the most powerful among the dragon priests. And my thought is that the owner of this mask might have infused their soul with the mask to increase it's power. As the mask has the ability to summon a spectral dragon priest. So I think this mask holds the power of a once all mighty dragon priest and it is now kept locked away and possibly used as a weapon when it is needed but it can only be used if all 8 of the dragon priest unanimously agree on it, hence the need for all 8 masks on the altar. And maybe Vahlok had used this mask during the resistance against Miraak but he was not burried with the Konahrik mask as it never belonged to him and was only used as a weapon for dire situation. And as for the wooden mask, my thoughts are that it doesn't travel you through time at all. But instead, travels you to a different dimension or something like that. Because I think the wooden mask was used as almost a key for the Konahrik mask, or another added layer of protection. It was made for incase somehow someone managed to get all 8 dragon priest masks and put them onto the altar, it would just open up completely empty. They would need the wooden mask to get to the other dimension first to then place in all 8 dragon priest masks. And I'd assume the wooden mask would probably be a secret and kept hidden away somewhere. And as for why I don't think it travels back in time, well what use would the mask have had in the age of the dragon priests if it only travels back to the age of the dragon priests? For them it would've just done absolutely nothing. So I think instead it goes to another dimension of sorts.
My theory on Konahrik is that it's literally a reward for whoever bests the other priests, although I'm kind of stumped on the wooden mask, it reminds me of the Time Wound in the main quest about how you have to be in a very specific spot for it to work, it might just be game design for that part though. I do like your idea about it being a key of sorts, but it's still strange how some random breton got their hands on it
@@JargonMadjin I agree Jargon, it seems more likely that it's like "You need to beat everyone else to get this mask." rather than, "Everyone needs to agree, to get this mask." Konahrik means Warlord. If you can best all 8 Dragon Priests at the height of their power, you would be a pretty powerful Warlord.
these iceberg videos have been really making my day. KEEP EM COMING EVERY SECOND IS SO JUICY I LOVE THIS STUFF
Due to life I have no time that I can put into any big videogames like skyrim anymore, so I really appreciate these videos because it still let's me relive the game in my head. Thank you bro
Sometimes I forget that I am subscribed to Nate. It's always a pleasant surprise when I get a new long form video about whatever mystery he has dug up
Missing detail about the Atronach Forge: The empty slot on the Forge fits a Sigil Stone, acquired from the Conjuration Master Ritual, and installing the Sigil Stone unlocks the ability to summon Daedric equipment and Dremora. (It is also compatible with the Space Core from the official Steam mod, which allows the crafting of a unique helmet).
Personally, I think Maven put the hit on the Dragonborn. Think about it. Sometimes while you are traveling and are NOT apart of the DB yet, you can encounter an assassin trying to kill you. On their body is a note from Astrid stating that the Dragonborn has had a hit set on them. Of course, being the Dragonborn, you kill them. Mavens note did complain about the DB slacking. Perhaps because we, the Dragonborn, haven't been killed yet. It's just a theory.. a GAME theory.
Why does she act indifferent to us if she put out a hit on us?
Regardless of how much I’ve actually played it (and I’ve played a lot but not like this) the elder scrolls lore is so fascinating!
One point about the thing with Narfis sister, Reyda. In the journal of the vampire that founded Redwater Den, he mentions taking a snack while in Ivarstead so he may be the one to kill Reyda.
Nate actually made a video on this, but I read some comments here the dates don't actually add up but still it's probable
How happy I am to finally watch the second part. Siting while raining outside, a cup of hot tea, and Nate's videos, that's what I call good times
i honestly cant wait for part 3!!! i love his so much, im a massive skyrim fan and knew a lot but im finding stuff out that i didnt know which is amazing, thank you, keep up the amazing work i love your channel
Thank you for your hard work! This was just the thing to watch after work today. It’s amazing how much lore there is to be found in the Elder Scrolls.
Ugh, i **love** the forgotten vale. It's so beautiful to me. We love ya, Nate! You're much appreciated in this community. Thank you for everything ya do. Stay up, stay safe, and stay HYDRATED!!😤😆🥰
I believe that Aumriel was once a Snow Elven Queen or High Priestess of some sort. Was definitely a living Snow Elf at one point. How she ended up the way she got and her background is an interesting story that we'll probably never get.
Dwemer I think, male snow elves were turned to falmer and women to whisps. Dwemer may have experimented with their 'sound magic' (can't remember the name) and didn't want to try on themselves?
@@Bezimienny15150, most believe this to be the truth as well. This whisp is unique, which is why there is way more to her.
@@Bezimienny15150 i think its "tonal manipulation"
This theory would actually be really credible and seems almost like the closest one. Only downfall is we dont know what gender the Falmer are. Ive seen a few that could seem like they were women, but it begs the theory of why Wisp Mothers are ONLY women. Other than that tidbit, this theory is amazing. Plus, didnt the Snow Elves practice magic anyway, and the magic they did was healing/life saving? Makes more sense for Wisp Mothers being High Priestess/Priestess's or healers that made them be able to summon Ice Wraiths. Would make even more sense for Aumriel too, since she is the only named Wisp Mother out there that we know of. If you continue on the theory, only men are Falmer, it would explain their immense strength and need for having a high weapon skill other than bow. It also makes sense as to why they are flat chested with loinclothes instead of rags of clothes. But that doesnt solve the theory of why some have chest armour that covers theyre whole upper body. Like so many questions, but this is the most credible theory out there to explain both and how both came from ONE race.
@@Bezimienny15150 you can find male and female falmer in dwemer ruins, although female falmer are less frequent, you can find them, they are usually mages/frequently attack you with spells and staves, you can even see some of them have an hairdo similar to one frequently used by elven women characters in the game.
Appreciate your time and effort in the videos man it has rekindled my love for yet another play through
Unless there's some other piece of lore that I missed, I don't think the wooden mask makes us travel through time... I think it's a sort of pocket dimension, kinda like Azura's star. I don't know why I always thought this, maybe it's the lighting, or the fact that you don't hear anything, on what was supposed to be Skyrim's capital city. There's definitely some sort of "other-wordly" feel to that place when you put on the mask. Maybe the Dragon Priests crated this pocket dimension or keep their masks safe when they weren't using them. Maybe it's a sort of "Ultron-like" situation, where they would meet there and appoint a temporary "Warlord" in situations of great strife, which would require ALL of the Dragon Priests to be there to choose said Warlord, whether it was one of them, or some other powerful warrior that could fill that role.
“Without further ado, let’s do further.” I actually snort-laughed at that. Awesome video! I love the lore of these games, and you’ve done an amazing job presenting them. Glad to have been a subscriber for as long as I have!
I'm really sick with a fever now. You have no idea how much I appreciate you doing this content. Without you, I simply can't sleep
Me too! Hang in there!
I see a lot of similarities between the universe is music theory of the dwarves and the creation myth of JRR Tolkien in the Simarillion, could be a nod to that
Is nobody going to mention 29:35 ??! That was utterly hilarious. I shouted in public 😂
These are so well done Nate! I can't believe we get a full hour in each one of these. Incredible amount of work and a legacy for years to come. Truly outstanding!!
My favourite KZheadr is back for part 2 this is awesome love you Nate!
just found you a while awhile ago got stuck in the hospital and gotta say thank mans, got me through being in the room for a couple days keep the work up man doing an amazing job
I always assumed the Dwarven scanning thing was to verify that you were dwarven or not. And since there were no dwarves, it would always trigger the trap door. Still, it’s curious what would have happened if you weren’t seen as an intruder.
If that's the case why didn't it do that for the bandits and instead killed them?
@@needaccount94 it could mistake us for a dragon (soul) and want to capture us. Also the dragon in Blackreach could be trap the same way. Blackreach used to connect with many other Dwemer City before the disappearance.
The Midden is easily the scariest part of the game. I remember being scared shitless as a kid and put off going there for so long xD
I hope you dwell more into Blackreach. On my current charachter I decided aim more towards doing all quests, even side quests, exploring everything, and dwell into the books there are. But I'm in Blackreach right now, decided do that nirnroot quest and fully explore the area. What is really disturbing me is all of these buildings apart of Blackreach, I wonder how it looked before today in Skyrim. There was a war center building, a market, and the most that is mysterious is the silent city catacombs. I just completed going through there and wasn't anything but I found human servants to the falmer in there. Maybe need to look up more on this situation, and find out any information / art of what this place looked like before the Dwarven disappeared and before the Falmer turned to the Falmer.
love the series so far!! thank you for your effort nate! i love your videos in general, and this was a crazy good compilation :)
The Falmer and Dwemer are by far my favorite part of Skyrim! And as a Historian I wish there was more of them to see!
This has been awesome Nate. I've watched your content I guess since you started putting Skyrim content out. I have to say you have done a excellent job and I know it's getting hard to make videos of a game over 10 years old. Thank you for the hours of work you've done.
I hope KZhead pays you decently because you deserve so much for the quality you put out. You've been one of my favourite KZheadrs throughout the last years. Keep going
If you want him to get paid, then you don't press the skip ad until 15 seconds into the ad.
always here for when you decide to post thank you for sticking around over the years I know some people expect KZheadrs nowadays to strictly adhere to the algorithm however I think that goes against the creative nature and process of making these videos it's so great to see you post a new video and I'm never in any rush to get another one because I know when we do receive it, it will be top tier quality
So, I have a theory about Arniel, that perhaps many of us have overlooked. The crystal he hits, looks sort of like a Grand Soul Gem, a darker one..like a Black Soul Gem. What if he went to the Soul Cairn? What if, possibly because everything involving the vampires later came in Dawnguard, the devs forgot to put him there? Or, maybe the lot of us did vampire stuff first and then went to the College afterwards when we had nothing better to do, lol.
If I remember correctly, the "dagger" he hit the Soul Gem(?) is a very important artifact of the disappearance of the Dwemer, as it was a "key" that trigger the event. So even that's a Grand Soul Gem, it highly unlikely that his soul was send to the Soul Cairn.
@@BuiBaoNguyenyes it's the dagger the dwarfs uses on the heart of Lorkan. It might also be part of how the tribunal got there powers although I'm not so sure abt that 1 I haven't played morrowind I want to but the graphics give me a headache
Nah, he Dwemer'd himself.
@@trappestarrgaming3422The Tribunal used the tools to drain Godness from the Heart of Lorkhan
YAY, i love these! strong work man
My headcannon is that Nazeem owns Drunken Huntsmen
Very successful business, obviously
I've never really dived into lore but I had to for Skyrim. Its just so amazing and immersive I had to. Your videos are awesome and provide so much outstanding info, just wanted to say thank you! Keep up the amazing work. Do you plan to do stuff for Starfield?
love the content and your voice is very nice to listen too which is probably why your one of the only Skyrim / fallout channels I watch
i've been a long time fan of the elder scrolls series, and i think you explain and explore all of these oddities better than anyone else, you create such a digestible and fun to watch format that i dont reckon anyone else could reach. keep it up big pimp!!!!!
This is such a good video. Skyrim is too big to experience all patterns of radiant events and read all books, so missing out on interesting mysteries happens a lot. Great job!
Hey Nate just wanted to say thanks as over the past week I’ve been struggling to sleep and i mean this with as little disrespect as possible your videos are the best background noise to fall asleep to thank you.
Goddam you’ve earned earned my subscription. Your videos caught me right away. I be Stuck on them, and just on them, for the last 3 days. Listening to almost all your Skyrim myths while playing Skyrim. Never thought „just a new“ Skyrim run would get me so much addicted to every single myth there is. But now I’m intreaged, we’ll done.
Great video!!! so good thats ur back😀
I don't even play Skyrim but got sucked into listening to these videos in deep lockdown 2020. Now they give some kind of weird nostalgia for the dark, slow hibernation of that year. Thanks Nate!
Ahhhh man was hoping for the little guitar solo at the end of this one 😂 can that please be a thing? Great content my dude! So glad to see you back posting on KZhead! 💜
rieklings are just giants that didn’t drink enough milk
The reason ES6 is taking so long is because they're making a Nate NPC and they're still writing his dialogue, so much lore that even M'aiq is going "Damn" Edit: You can actually keep Mora's book after using it, just don't exit your inventory after using it and drop it immediately after use, the game will then attempt to remove it from your inventory but since it's on the floor, it won't work, you can then pick it back up and be on your way
If you do that can you use it again?
@@e-dog677 The leveling effect of the book only works once, which is why people used to use a bookshelf bug to duplicate the item, but at least you get to look at what's on the pages any time you want after that
@@JargonMadjin They patched that.
@@thebotdestroyer852 'Kay, I haven't done the quest in literal years so meh. Edit: Were you talking about the bookshelf bug or the drop from inventory bug?
@@JargonMadjin The bookshelf one.
I started playing Skyrim about a year ago and honestly finding your videos was such a blessing and I am very happy to say I found this channel ! So unique and mesmerizing, you can truly tell you care about the content and it’s audience as well as the game itself. Thank you for being so helpful and creative on here :))
enjoy it hahahah, wish I could go back to the time it was released ; It's a phenomenal experience
Always love these videos. Thanks for the amazing content!
These are alot of fun and really excite my imagination about Skyrim. I been playing a bit more again and the one at the end about the dawn guard soldier being able to talk with Arkay is fun. I didn't know that was a thing. Makes me wanna play thru the dawn guard dlc! Thanks Nate!
Yay! I think this is my favorite iceberg so far!!! Thanks for all your hard work putting it together and making this video.
With regards to the replicated disappearance of the Dwemer, I wonder if Nerevar could have summoned the entire Dwarvish race as a shade but was offed before he could tell anyone about it. Also if our friend in the college hit it a different way, could assume the power of the tribunal. Also the implication that the heart of Lorkhan is akin to a powerful soul gem with the soul of god in it.
Im about 99% sure you would only be empowered akin to the tribunal if you did that on the Heart of Lorkhan itself, perhaps you could use soul gems as a tuning fork of sorts for various purposes maybe even one of them enhances the self
Always get excited when he uploads a Skyrim video. Thanks Nate!!!
NATE MY MAN! Love these icebergs video, amazing background documentary for when i'm animating! Keep it up!