Things you didn't (probably) know you could do in Skyrim
00:00 come to the dawnguard as a vampire
00:49 use the staff of Magnus on dragons
1:02 first visit to Whiterun as a messenger
2:05 come to the Greybeards with the unlocked shout
2:30 spare Anton Virane
3:09 eat netch jelly
3:39 come back without the writ of passage
4:37 heal Aduin
4:51 ...keep pissing Festus off
5:38 block a spell with Spellbreaker
6:22 don't hide the Gourmet's body
7:04 travel to Kynesgrove with Delphine
7:47 "save" the Whiterun guard
8:28 talk to Boethiah's champion
Dying by dragon was that guard's canon event
I just watched that part and I am WHEEZING, definitely trying that this time!! Weirdest thing I’ve tried was giving Lydia Namira’s ring to se if she’d be self-sustaining, 🤣
That guard goes back home to his family and is all like: “I feel like I’m not supposed to be here ..”
Haven’t even seen the video yet a need and I know
PoS normie meme imagine watching the worst of spiderman cancer
@@GenocideLv dude chill it's just a meme.
hilarious how far you could push the failures in that dark brotherhood quest, great finds
"Realistically we should kick you out for this, but we can't let the player have any real consequences so we're just going to say one or two annoyed lines and forget it ever happened."
@@goatslayer3160the more i wish oblivion worked on it
I swear I was annoyed when I did this quest, because the guy would keep asking me to go back and finish things properly.
and the fact that his Khajiit character was standing with his back turned to Festus while he was lecturing him was too much
@@TiL_Deimos What?
To clarify about using the staff of Magnus on dragons: dragon breath abilities are considered magic, and draw from an NPC's magicka pool. Drain their magicka, and they can't use breath weapons on you. Also, I straight-up lost it at the Odaving part. Dovahkin: "I'll save you!" *shoves the guard inside the building* Ohdaving: "Don't care." *Noclips through both walls and yeets the poor bastard into the abyss anyways*
You're the only person I've seen other than myself who has championed the dragon-slaying potential of the staff. It also has an unusually long range & instant travel time. And to top all that off: Dragons' magicka pools don't level like their health does. They always have low, easily drained magicka.
Odahviing pulls out keyboard: ~ Tcl “Collisions Off”
Dragons like all other mobs have a pool of magic and stamina If you fight a dragon for a long time and exhaust its resources, you will see that it will stay on the ground and only try to bite you
@@xolfblanoir1193 unfortunately for dragons dovahkiin knows "0 cost magic setup" and can spam destruction and restoration non-stop
**Breathes on you menacingly**
The Champion of Boethiah has balls of steel to call a goddamn daedra a bitch
Most of Skyrim's warriors have balls of steel
He's got balls of ebony
@@alessandrott7568 If he eats a Daedra Heart do they turn into Daedric Balls lmao
He's pretty based.
LMAO@@SamFromSolitude
I love Sven's "I better get going," then he just falls over dead.
Man was indeed, going
@@LeleiTheTigressto sovngarde, yes
Bro accepted death
Honestly that makes me wonder if his soul is still in his body when beothiah is talking.
@@kevinelnohomo7920Man doesn’t have a Sovnegarde worthy bone in his body. Probably went wherever mudcrabs go after they die.
Finally a "You haven't done this in Skyrim" video with at least a few things I haven't done.
If you kill the cultists of Boethia before talking to the shrine, one of them will be reanimated by Boethia and give you the quest.
That's what I did quite naturally on my first playthrough. I was on a mountain top with my follower when I decided to make a save, because the area was unknown. Me and my follower were just shooting arrows at that Boethias worship place, and when everyone was dead, we went there to loot the bodies. I had no idea it was a significant place - I just thought that with that many hostile people there, they must be safely exterminated.
@@sarcasticstranger3817 I just imagine it Boethia: "yes, you will be my champion" Dragonborn: "(still looting)" "look, you're not the first deadric prince I've come across, I only came here to see what valuables they had"
@@lordandsavior6726LD: I'll accept your quest or whatever as your champion. Just mark it on my map. LD thoughts: Too bad for her tho she just going to get a dragon soul rather than mine like the others are😂
Did you know that Boethia's Champion is actually hostile with his own bandit group?
I only got the Ebony Mail because two of his own members were attacking, he died by them before he could have his chance at me, lol.
Knifepoint ridge glitches for me every time, there's boulders blocking the entrance down further into the mine and the quest markers just hover above where the bandits & champion usually are. Any1 know a fix?
Sounds like a mod conflict@@Mere-Lachaiselongue
I was wondering why they all died when I missed an arrow lol
In fact he ist really hostile to them, it's juste the area effect of the ebony mail that aggro them if he comes too close.
9:00 you can speak to Boethiah's Champion?!? Man, what a chill dude. Would love to crack open a cold one with him.
If you have Namira's Ring you can crack open as many cold ones as you want. 👀Might just be a biiit of a challenge talking Boethia's Champion into joining you...
@@Catras_unfairly_gorgeous_smirk naaaaaahhhhh, you did not just say that
I recommend hearing all of his dialogue. Mans a chad
1:04 the strategic placement of the goblet...the empire needs to enforce undergarmets within their uniform.
I'm adding "witless dagger jabber" to my parlance.
And I am adding "parlance" to my... list of fancy words that I use
returning to Festus to hear his reactions at not doing the whole job is great LOL
Wait, so do those two others there wait for you to cure yourself before they continue? Like, you spend months going to Morthal and back (hypothetically) and they're just like "So can we join the Dawnguard yet? What if he doesn't come back?" Isran: "I have a good feeling about that one."
no they dont wait, they move on and do their normal castle routine of making stuff and eating and sleeping.
Those two guys I spared during the Dark Brotherhood first quest have been waiting in that cabin with their wrist tied and a jute bag over their head for more than an in game year now I still pay them a visit to check on them from time to time
@@Bob-ue2ec nah das feral 💀💀💀
@@Matchy_TheoneProductions tbh I'm surprised didn't implent where Astrid would kill them after we have left for no witnesses or Bethesda make it where they are let go after a while and after the events at the failed posion of the emperor you get mercenaries after you or something from these fellas
Using the staff of Magnus on a dragon gives them the hiccups.
I found out about the Staff of Magnus' effect on dragons after doing the College questline. It's one of the best ways to defeat them. Funny part is, I had a dragonpriest build going, so I really felt like I had control over these beasts.
you give me inspiration for a op build using enchant and fortify
Although, technically, as a dragon priest, _they_ had control over _you_
lol I LOVE the additional dialogue from Festus!! He cracks me up every single time. “ARE YOU STILL LISTENING??” 🤣
I love how he’s always dressed up to play the part 😭💀💀👌🏽
There is also a unique dialogue with Delphine. If you visit the dragon burial mound above Kynesgrove before you do the Attic room thing you can tell her that you've been there.
R.I.P Starfield. Back to Skyrim.
Outer worlds ruined space travel for me
@@mrboosh506wait you mean no man's sky right??? Outer world's didn't really have space travel
@@pyraangel-wu3hhI think he actually meant Outer Wilds
Bold of you to assume I ever left XD
im only just now realising that with spellbreaker, the entirety of the college questline can be completed without casting a single spell
What about the entrance?
@@KeepCalmCapybara I think it's possible to get in from above with the help of a certain mysterious bucket, you can go directly to Tolfdir as the quest skips forward
@@KeepCalmCapybarayou can skip it by persuading her that you already know basic magic. Just requires a good level of speech and maybe some persuasion points.
I watched a video around a year ago where someone did the entire questline without casting a single spell and spell breaker was what he used on this part.
@@hyperboi4077 Video from Ymfah?
Balgruuf: "Jarl Ulfric proclaims a war against my hold? That has to wait. You'll need to help me with a main quest first."
Witless dagger jabber 💀
Never thought about being a vampire at that Isran scene. It's almost always that if you are a vampire as a dawnguard its because of the soul cairn quest or later. Guess thats a thing that can happen.
I caught the common-cold version of sanguine vampirism or whatever it's called having run into random vamps on my way to start dawnguard and didn't realize. Thatsbthebknly one of those I've seen but it's neat
i caught mine from redwater den lmao
It always happen to me when i play with 'better vampires' lol
Heres a tip for yall. If you talk to any city guard a lot, theyll reveal places on your map that werent there before. Keep pressing "e" to them til they end with saying "What is it?" ... also if u click on the red & blue flags on the maps of imperials or stormcloaks, they reveal them on your map!
When i figured that one out I was so happy, it makes so much sense. I realized because when you click on the map table you get a message on the top left saying your map was updated or something similar.
The way Iddra yells ”it’s attacking” is so funny.
"It's attacking! 🙄"
I actually did travel all the way to Kynesgrove with Delphine my first time doing that mission.
I think I did too. You can't travel back with her though, she gets confused halfway through. At that point in the quest she can be seen in both Whiterun and Riverwood, so she doesn't know where to go.
Same, I would also recruit Esbern a follower, and a dog, never doing the main quest line, so I'd have a ragtag group of followers going on quests together
Bro i travelled to solitude with her in my first time 💀💀💀
@@sabaideebeehaha reminds me of similar thing you can do in oblivion, get both martin and jauffre as companions, and bunch of other npcs from quests and dlcs, i think i ended up traveling with 7 or 8 people
I usually do it because I'm trying to get the miserable moo's bare minimum done early on so the game doesn't have a seizure during the Seige of Whiterun, which is another reason why few have ever bothered waiting to reach Whiterun until after receiving the summons to war. It breaks the game either way, might as well just get the medicine down now so you can enjoy the sugar more later. (gods that's an old reference at this point)
Ok, using the Staff of Magnus on the Dragon is hilarious. Who would have thought draining it's magica would result in it dry heaving like a cat!?
I actually did go to whiterun as a messenger before meeting Balgruuf on my first play through because I was pretty dumb at 15. So when I left the cave and spoke to Hadvar, he’s like “bro join the legion” so I did that first assuming Skyrim was way more linear than it actually was lmao.
"I better get going" *dies*
0:51 it looks like the “huh” cat meme every-time he tries to cast dragon breath.
I've actually done all of these. Except heal Alduin. That one never even occurred to me. Weird.
Tbh our objective was to murder the black winged lizard not save him so i can see why it didnt occur to us.😂
i honestly didnt even know healing spells could workon dragons. i figured theyd be immune like daedra and automotans
That dragon sounded like it had a cold.
Festus Krex was by far my absolute favourite character in the entire game. I love his dialogue so much
One of the best characters that actor did. Among the other 1000 people lol
Well, you're right. I've only ever done two of these: Started Dawnguard as a Vampire, because I thought being Blade would be fun, only to be disappointed that Isran understandably said no, and blocked Tolfdir's spell with Spellbreaker because I was doing a magicless mage run ala Wizard Of Oz and it was the only way I could think to do it.
If you have the anniversary edition, you can get the warlock ring from the fishing quests. It gives you a really weak ward when you block with weapons. Thats how I did it *OR YOU CAN JUST KILL YOUR CLASSMATES RAHHHHHH*
Gonna go kill Nazeem, be right back.
Display him to the cloud district, it's what he would've wanted.
7:04 I actually always travel to Kynesgrove with Delphine because if I fast travel, she usually gets stuck somewhere on the way (Usually in Windhelm when you turn down the path to Kynesgrove) and I lose her. If I stay with her, at least I know where she gets stuck and I know how to help her to get her unstuck.
somehow my ai just lose all composure on legendary and end up being stuck on “follow me” command, and they just dont fuckin move 😂
boethia's champ is one of few npc who use the b-word in their dialogue, I suggest you make a video compiling all of them!
Dragon: "Yoo-" LDB: "Bad dragon." *Bonks with staff of magnus*
*Dragonborn Somewhat saves guard* Dragonborn: You almost killed him! Odahviing: Instead you saved him. So much effort, for what? *Odahviing Snatches Guard to his death*
The Fetus scolding got me rofling
Me: *reads title* Also Me: “Is that a challenge?”
I got one for you. Just did it. When you read the black book Epistolary Acumen, if you fail to clear the dungeon Neloth has a unique line of dialog.
LOL I didn't realize how much I could get on Festus' nerves. In my next run i have to do this. I'm dying. That's so damn funny 🤣
When I first saw this video in my recommendations, I initially wrote it off as another one of those "You (probably) never knew this about Skyrim," videos that are full of stuff that EVERYONE has done before. I'm glad I still decided to watch it and be proved wrong, there's a lot of cool content I've never seen before, and definitely never did in any of my playthroughs. I think there's only 3 in the whole video that I've done or seen done before. 10/10 video, keep doing what you're doing, and I hope more people come watch and don't write it off the same way I did to begin with. Great work, man.
I always wanted the option to make Balgruuf high king.
Only one that deserves it.
@@raphaelsoloonly jarl, maybe. personally my vote is partysnax for high king. nothing could go wrong with that
1:04 camera shot is a masterpiece
Sad we can't do Dawnguard as Vampire who betrays his own kind lol I actually did the Going to Whiterun after meeting Ulfric and it was fun to see something new lol Already knowing 2 words from Whirlwind was also interesting I remember I went with Delphine the very first time to find Kynesgrove xD Pissing Festus off was fun to watch here lol
as someone who actually did go whiterun as a messenger, I just wanted to get the dragon plate imperial armor as fast as possible
There's a lot of dialogue if you are a vampire before the dawngaurd quests, but nothing before the guy shows up to actually tell you about the dawngaurd for the first time, unfortunately
the dragon was making the sound of a cat before it throws up
I loved hunting down words of power! Throughout all the playthroughs until my current, I hadn’t realized Arngeir could direct you to them. In the end though the Arcwind Point Glitch happened 😩 I know it’s easy for some to say “Delete Dawnguard and start over”, but… nah… not after everything! DragonBone Armor, my collection of legendary weapons, Borgakh. But glitches are Skyrim, Skyrim is glitchy! I’ve embraced it! And found all the words of power available to me on my own 😂
That actually is insanely impressive!! I literally always just go ask him, pure laziness. lol
You can easily deal with that glitch with finishing the quest through console commands but yeah this is not a solution to all game
@@kerimaras3229 playing it on PlayStation and having essentially no knowledge of it, I’ve never had the option of console commands, but…did you get stuck in a rock crevice at arcwind point, and is this a common thing? Because if so…well, just please tell me. I promise, no one will be harmed in my rage fit.
@@Miss_Camel I didn't know playstation side not having acces to console commands. And being stuck while trying to find arcwind point is really understandable because of its weird location Haha!
@@kerimaras3229 oh I did that, but it kept giving me the same one after 🤣
Nice! I did a couple of these things. But you're right. NOBODY walked to Kynesgrove with Delphine.
I did it once for kicks and giggles. Never again. She's just too annoying.
I have. she was annoying and attracted danger like flies to poop.
I did it
Im late, but I did it a couple times because fast traveling always managed to break my Delphine AI by around windhelm's borders and I had to physically walk over to her to fix it ingame anyways
@@KirbySaysBweo late is fine.... NOBODY watches these videos when they are new! Haha
Poor Festus, he’s too old for this shit
This video made me love Skyrim even more. I didn't even think about any of those things you can do, and I'm pretty sure there are a lot more. Keep it up
Festus having so much trouble with the Dragonborn almost make sense Astrid wanting you dead.
Imagine being some random messenger and the guy you’re delivering it to is like “Not listening by the way can you kill a literal dragon for me please?”
Boethiahs Champion actually seems to be a pretty cool guy
Wiping out the residents of Signa Mine as a werewolf is pretty fun
It would be nice to slip netch jelly to the guard in Dragonsreach, he would not die from the fall. Another option in the form of a vampire lord is to grab him, the dragon will release him and he will be attracted to the main character
The guard dies when the dragon lets him go, not because he fell. Paralysis does not protect against damage and does not make you invulnerable.
Bethesda thought of so much, so many little sectrets. They realy knew what they were doing with Skyrim. Great vid
wow, Delphine actually has rare dialogue if you travel with her? never could actually knows that
What, really? Almost all characters that could take you to places have unique dialogue should you choose to travel with them. The game starts at Helgen, and whether you choose Hadvar or Ralof, you'll hear unique dialogue when you travel with them as opposed to traveling alone.
@@sarcasticstranger3817Hadvar and Ralof…
@@tubbeyt I fixed it :)! Thanks!
@@sarcasticstranger3817hadvar takes you to his sister in riverwood and even offer you a place to sleep and stack items for a few days. You can also take equipment from them as theyre helping you. Sadly the status goes away after a few days and they will ask you to leave or say "you shouldnt be in here" Never went with rolof so idk what that deal is. Might do that in my next playthrough
@@jamie36 Hadvar doesn't have a sister. Ralof has a sister in Riverwood and her name is Gerdur, she owns a sawmill
i like the little sub-plot going on thru the video, clever
"things you didn't do in skyrim" correction: things i'm ABOUT to do in Skyrim
I've done about half of these, the others are welcome surprises. Thanks for the vid
So many things i didn't know it was possible. Thank you!
The staff of Magnus with the Wabajack staff makes the perfect dragon killer, then a couple of Daedra summons to tank the melee dmg.
The woman at 7:35 said attacking so weirdly. AH-TAH-KING. Either she’s named the dragon or she’s unlocked a new shout.
This is amazing, i honestly up til now thought all dragons magic stats were infinite.
Okay, you almost got me. Besides eating Netch Jelly I haven't done a thing on this list 😄
Whirlwind Sprint?! I could've gotten the third and final word for that shout from them before having to learn it?! There's always something new to learn everyday from Skyrim. Always more and more details that not many experience or know.
Not quite. They teach the player once, revealing to us one Word that doesn't exist yet. Two more Words are located on the Walls of Words.
Bro we've had 10 tiny details in skyrim with theepicnate for a decade or so I've got this list beat.
Damn that dragon acts like the Huh Cat
Best comment ever
0:50 you gave that dragon an asthma
"legendary" still has a glitch in it modern players (XB1 generation and up) might wanna check out. when the "Find Red Eagle's sword" quest is activated, and you get up to the caern in question where he's buried, the adventurer corpse on the ground still has a copy of the book that triggers the quest to begin with...and it can start the whole thing over and over again repeatedly! once you kill red eagle after opening the passage to him, re-read the book on the adventurer, and run back up to "ascent". the briarheart will have rerezzed with everything back in his inventory, including enchanted swords as well as a new copy of Fury. stick that in the weap slot in the caern, and it will drop the "quest item" tag off of Fury, enanbling you to have BOTH versions of red eagle's sword. you can farm enchanted swords AND fury!
I swear that quest is so broken for no reason.
Honestly really love the ability to talk to beothiah champion makes him not feel like he is more than just a random bandit that got cool armor on and honestly he should feel like he's not just another bandit he's beothiah former bloody champion.
Balgruf: "Ho you're approaching me?"
I definetly didn't use the dead thrall spell over and over again so that I'd have a pile of corpses in my basement....
I think it is possible to save the guard by using a wabajack staff on him and turning him into a crab. As far as I know, he will even have unique remarks and words of gratitude for Dova.
I confirm that it is indeed a working way of salvation. But I doubt about the unique replicas...
I wonder if it is possible to break the plot if you incarnate in the form of a vampire lord during the first visit to Whiterun, the battle with Mirmulnir, the visit to the Greybeards, the battle with Odahviing...
I don't think it'll break the plot but it might temporarily prevent you from doing quests. Depending on your combination of mods or lack thereof, people could aggro at you on sight, you might not have an option to interact with other characters, and you definitely can't shout in vampire lord form. Same goes for the Whiterun Furries.
Great video!
I did do some of those things! I came to the Graybears with shouts unlocked. Blocked a spell with Spellbreaker. Traveled to Kynesgrove with Delphine.
love how in basically every scene your character is just standing there like: In today's episode of this just happened.. this:
I have to admit I have done most of these. Not all, but most. Good shyte anyway, like/sub earned.
When I saw the first one I thought I already did this before. I’m glad I’ve watched the rest.
Skyrim fact i figured out a decade ago. Earn a shout whether its whirlwind or fire breath... earn level 1 and come with atleast 1 shout earned. When u learn shout 2 use shout to unlock and for some reason 3 that wasnt even there appears and is usuable. So start with 1 unlock with 1 extra shout ready to unlock 3. Parthanax and or borri will end up giving u from level 1 to 3 real quick
"First visit to Whiterun as a messanger" I mean not on the first playthrough but I did focus on the civil war on a different one.
these extra interactions in games give me life.
I'm sure most of us went to Kynesgrove with Delphine in at aleast one of our playthroughs. I'm glad I was curious enough to try and talk to Boethiah's champion using the voice of the emperor. I was pleased to find that there was such an extensive dialogue for an otherwise hostile npc
The only way to save that guard from Odahviing is to use the wabbajack to temporarily turn him into a rabbit or a mudcrab.
All the ways I tried to save that damned guard, and the answer was so simple! :) Thanks.
Keep pissing off Festus 😂
Even atfer all these years of playing, I never thought to try some of these.
I actually did heal Alduin once because I was such a high level that I thought it was funny
Omfg the eat netch jelly 💀 3:10
I'm so proud that i had done the spellbreaker bit before watching this video.
I did infact visit whiterun as a messenger for the first time. Was so focused on joining the stormcloaks and thought that was the main quest that I did that first.
I’ve seen a fair few of these thanks to ymfah’s videos, but never tried them myself
Actually that's a clever way to stop the war forever. Hold the Axe Ulfric give you and never deliver to Balgruuf. Ulfric will forever think Balgruuf kept it so no war. And Balgruuf won't know about the supposed war. 😂😂😂😂.
Im sorry we have all eaten netch jelly
Netch jelly and/or the plate/bucket is the Werewolf Gate Skip of Skyrim
@@akechijubeimitsuhide all common things to do in my playthroughs
If you're already a vampire when first meeting Isran, you can get some more unique dialogue. Since the fort isn't fully restored at this point, he doesn't have a way to immediately spot a vampire, and thus he sends you to Dimhollow. The part with Spellbreaker isn't unique to Spellbreaker. It's more likely a bug, since this often happens to me if I'm already standing in the spot I'm supposed to, ready to cast the ward spell. Moving away and waiting for Tolfdir to instruct me to take up position seems to fix it. And lastly... How the hell are you able to travel to Kynesgrove with Delphine without slicing your wrists, jumping off a very high cliff or poking a hornets nest? I normally feel like doing that within the first seconds when I first meet her. Aaaargh, I really hate that B**ch!