You know how people say that achieving chim is the individual realizing that the elder scrolls universe they are living in is the dream of the god head and therefore you begin what is closely related to as lucid dreaming or the effect of it by which you can virtually do anything I.e god powers. Now here where it gets crazy, you are basically a nobody with no past or knowledge of anything within the world which in it of itself very strange so I propose that the nord hero who becomes the Dragonborn only became the Dragonborn the moment he “wakes up” (achieved chim)
@Scpxqy1822 ай бұрын
Should there be a mod like this
@lordcockula6834 ай бұрын
Wrong, i watched this at 1am
@Hardcrafter28075 ай бұрын
I have to disagree with your notion that the LDB was attempting to leave Skyrim. If you pick Nord, Hadvar says it's a bad time to come *back* home. Even with other races it's implied the LDB was entering Skyrim not leaving.
@Drag7on6 ай бұрын
One thing that got me asking why was the Dragonborn crossing the Boarder. It started from another KZread channel saying that Maven Black Briar was sending the Dark Brother after the DragonBorn. Maybe the DragonBorn was a smuggler or done something really bad. You wonder why Maven was so hostile to you and telling you get out of her way. She only says that to the Dragon Born.
@yesseru7 ай бұрын
I always thought the dragonborn was crossing the border from cyrodiil to illegally immigrate, thats atleast the backstory i went for with my travelling orc bard.
@LoganMcallister-ml4it8 ай бұрын
Did you know the blacksmith in whiterun has a sister. She works for the east empire company. You can find her in Windhelm if you do the quest In the East empire on the docks of windhelm you have her to follow you.
@theprinceofawesomeness8 ай бұрын
For me Dark Water Crossing just wasn't a posibility, i thought it was that the Stormcloaks was trying to pass from skyrim in to cyridel (trying to take the fight to them) The Horse thef was just in the area, and plater tryed to cross from Cyrodel in to Skyrim and got cought as suspicius due to the Stormcloaks being there
@evanlandis9908 ай бұрын
Either the bandits are stupid for not looting, OR. They thought it was already ransacked
@RebelInTheF.D.G8 ай бұрын
Here's my head canon. The Dragonborn lives with family in or around Bruma, a rather tense region in the wake of the White Gold Concordat. Many Nords in the region have refused to cease their worship of Talos and have thus fled to Skyrim to avoid religious persecution. Knowing this and being fully aware of the current hostilities in Skyrim, the Thalmor have taken a heavy-handed approach to Bruma. In the midst of the turmoil, the Dragonborn flees the region, likely due to confronting either Thalmor or Imperial agents after repeated harassment. He flees north to Skyrim via Pale Pass, narrowly surviving the journey, the emergence of Alduin having sent tremors through the Pass that resulted in multiple avalanches that sealed it shut in the Dragonborn's wake. With no other option, the Dragonborn presses onward. At the same time, General Tullius and a sizeable caravan are approaching Pale Pass with a collection of prisoners due to be tried in Cyrodil. Amongst them is none other than Ulfric Stormcloak, the leader of the Nordic rebellion himself. Tullius sends a contubernium of pathfinders ahead of the caravan to both flush out any potential Stormcloak ambushes and ascertain the condition of Pale Pass in the wake of the tremors felt recently. The contubernium stumbles upon the Dragonborn, as well as a mouthy horse thief. Both are detained, though the Dragonborn is knocked unconscious during the scuffle. Reporting back to Tullius, the decanus explained that Pale Pass was impassable. This forces Tullius to order the caravan to turn about and head north to Helgan, the closest Imperial outpost. Arriving in Helgan, Tullius is approached by Thalmor agents that demand Ulfric's summary execution, as the Dominion is unwilling to risk losing the leader of an open rebellion espousing heretical beliefs. Knowing well that this will simply serve to make a martyr of Ulfric and likely rally his allies and supporters, Tullius is reluctant, but his hands are tied. He knows this will extend the war and cost the Empire precious resources and he knows that that is exactly what the Dominion wants. Thus, in an effort to at least delay the news of Ulfric's death from spreading throughout Skyrim, Tullius orders the execution of every prisoner in the caravan, reducing the number of witnesses as much as possible. Fortunately, possibly having sensed the power within both Ulfric and the Dragonborn, Alduin arrives and disrupts this execution and the game begins.
@mygetawayart8 ай бұрын
for your information, it's Not 2AM it's merely 1:30AM
@Ebcorehigh18 ай бұрын
I look at skyrim like a Isekai anime.
@ktcd11728 ай бұрын
You are aware that Helgen Spawns bandits, aren't you? Or did they get tossed with the Anniversary Edition? In the earlier versions once the gates of Helgen get locked and no longer open freely you will find one set of bandit and a boss chest in the section of the caves past the now repaired bridge. The other set of about 5 live in the building next to the gate on the road to Iverstead and some of them patrol down to the entrances to the keep.
@ImNotFine448 ай бұрын
Im pretty sure the dragonborn is meant to be an outsider to skyrim so wouldn’t it make more sense that he got caught coming into skyrim and not coming out of it?
@samdickenson58528 ай бұрын
According to Hadvar when you select your race, if the Dragonborn is a Nord, he is coming home to Skyrim. So I think you missed that detail. I usually play as an Imperial, I like to think that every race would have their own reason for coming to Skyrim, adventure, looking for a new life, something like that. I call my character Farwander, so he could be a wandering knight who left Cyrodill to make his name in another land, heard about the conflict in Skyrim and decided to help out there.
@deborahmumford30518 ай бұрын
I thought the dragon born was coming from cyridl
@oceandriver78 ай бұрын
This video relaxed me so much now i can sleep better. Liked and subscribed please make more 🙏 :)!
@SloppTopp228 ай бұрын
you sound like a nord
@mr.cauliflower35369 ай бұрын
The most likely explanation is that the last dragonborn was trying to escape the dark brotherhood, as you don't need to do anything to be attacked by the dark brotherhood assassin
@khazmodan9 ай бұрын
I have never thought about going to Ivarstead through Helgen..... I was always contouring the whole mountain for 30 minutes through every playthrough...
@makusutravial93739 ай бұрын
The information about Helgen and it's chest not respawning are great!
@east42469 ай бұрын
I think the Ghost of Uriel sent the Dragonborn to Skyrim
@Nagatem9 ай бұрын
This guy kinda sounds like Farengar
@Jan-zh2hz9 ай бұрын
blablablabla the truh is Akatoh made Dragonborns destiny
@imzesok9 ай бұрын
It just wouldn't make sense for the dragonborn to be leaving skyrim. They are completely oblivious to the political situation in Skyrim, and their map is suspiciously unmarked, with a whole lot of places undiscovered. it also doesn't make sense that they were trying to cross the border either. How did they get all the way to darkwater without learning where at least a few things were? It seems like they were magically dumped in this location, or at least close enough to it to walk into the same ambush as the stormcloaks. From where though? From WHEN? Even from Cyrodil people knew about the civil war, so just where did you even come from? Akavir? Some other far-flung corner of nirn? Are we even from the same timeline? Coming from Morrowind would make a little sense maybe as they really don't have a whole lot of interest in the borders of the empire as they've been independent since the latter 3rd era. However, the above problems remain: why don't you know where Riften is!? You'd literally have to walk right past it to get to darkwater. Surely you would have stopped and visited there for supplies while enroute to wherever it was you were heading(I'm assuming Whiterun was the destination given the pathing). Also, Shore's stone or even Ivarstead? Depending on the cannon direction from Morrowind, you'd have to pass by either of these places. You barely know who you are, but don't really know where/when you came from, where you even are, and utterly clueless about the political hellscape you just got dropped into the middle of. Nothing about the introduction makes even a little bit of sense when you stop to think about it for more than a minute or two. The only reasonable, in the TES universe anyway, conclusion is magic. So who did the teleporting of your character to this location and point in time, and maybe more importantly, why? It's possible you're just a vessel for Akatosh himself that he created and plopped in the right place at the right time to take matters into his own hands since the previous dragonborn(Miraak) he made to deal with this problem went rogue on him. While not terribly satisfying, it is a very plausible explanation that makes quite a lot of sense all things considered. The way things unfold in the MQ, pretty much everything kinda just points this way. On the other hand, I also don't really see a whole lot of motivation from anyone else to interfere on this scale. When in doubt, just blame the gods...it's probably their fault in some roundabout way anyways, I guess. 🤷
@KamleshMallick9 ай бұрын
I just met Froki and Hammel today for the first time in 2023 while looking for Kyne’s shrine north of Froki’s cabin. And your video pops up mentioning Froki. Skyrim is something else.
@mateuszslawinski19909 ай бұрын
What if DB wasn't travelling into (or from) Skyrim at all? Empire could just create a roundup and grab some randoms from both sides of the mountains just to perform "proper" execution of the convicts.
@TriStar16089 ай бұрын
One guy in the dawnguard dlc was one of the soldiers in helgen
@jankfoots5 ай бұрын
Who
@codycarter4389 ай бұрын
Every single time I see a video for Skyrim I’m forced to replay Skyrim. Idk why it’s like a curse? But also a blessing in disguise
@lyrianmaximus45619 ай бұрын
Because he stole a sweetroll Anyways, I read he was a new student at the College of Whispers in Cyrodil, which is how he knows basic magic. And cannon wise he was written to be Nord, so maybe he wanted to visit his homeland, and boom.
@araskes9 ай бұрын
Man, at 3:50 I both chuckled and had fucking goosebumps simultaneously watching this shit at 2:17 am It's really the kind of vid you watch when you are about to go to sleep when even such stuff seems sooo interesting
@matthewteague6239 ай бұрын
Inventing a backstory for my characters is *absolutely crucial* to me being able to enjoy that playthrough. Sometimes I go nuts and I'm almost writing a novel. I do consider "Take Notes: Journal of the Dragonborn" absolute must-have, but I'm good at babbling into a keyboard.
@nickd9359 ай бұрын
Dude I will keep coming back to your channel and watch and share your vids, should you continue like this If this gives you joy to put out this content than you gotta do everything in your power to keep this up because this is golden, and only your 2nd video and its like its you've been doing this for years👏 Keep it up man, lookin to see ur notifications👉👉
@razofdead9 ай бұрын
I believe he comming to Skyrim because you dont know people and nobody knows you… Pluss coming from Cyrodill is like commig from Oblivion
@Northwoods2089 ай бұрын
Everyone has spent a minimum of 2,000 hours playing skyrim. And those are rookie numbers lol
@xoster12729 ай бұрын
Bro got elected by the algorithm from day one
@Ironface539 ай бұрын
As far as gameplay reasons go, it's probably because it's close to the center of the map and one of the biggest main cities. Kinda equidistant to all of the content, save for Falkreath since there's literally nothing there except the Dark Brotherhood
@leaaronsanchez9 ай бұрын
I thought it was the Dragonborn coming back to Skyrim from Cyrodiil.
@jameslenox38779 ай бұрын
The dragonborn was trying to escape skyrim because someone performed the black sacrament and was trying to have them killed. Simply a case of wrong place, wrong time.
@JustNava9 ай бұрын
I think most skyrim players reach the 1000 hr waypoint, like its rare for a skyrim player to have less than 250 hrs if theyve owned the game for more than 2 years
@camronkean42069 ай бұрын
My inteprtion conserding we were on a carriage/convey we were on coming into Skyrim from the entrance area of the dawngurad and ran into the stormcloaks as the imperals ambushed them around the exit of the cliff face we and the horse theif just happend to go into the same area conserving he says was going to hamerfall meaning he was leaving skyrim while we were entering he got caught in the ambush same as us and when we tied to say we were part of the storm cloaks they knocked us out and bined us plus remember carriges go all over skyrim
@camronkean42069 ай бұрын
Weren't
@christinaedwards50849 ай бұрын
I come from elsywer, I was trying to cross the border into Skyrim, I had a massive Skooma deal set-up to meet a contact, didn’t know his name just that he came from roikstead. wrong place, wrong time it turns out. Some heretic calling himself ulfric stormcloak and with men were there at the same time and place the deal was meant to go down. Got ambushed by the imperial army. I just stayed quite on the ride to Helgen.
@ethanbeifong9 ай бұрын
The thing about it is that I always interpreted that the Dragonborn was going to Skyrim, not Cyrodiil. Also, Ralof says, "You were trying to cross the boarder, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush. Same as us, and that thief over there." So, it seemed like Lokir, the Stormcloaks, Ulfric, and the Dragonborn were all ambushed. And, in the same place and time. But, if they were ambushed near Darkwater Crossing, which is way north of the borders of Skyrim and Cyrodiil, that would mean that either Ralof's dialogue about waking into the ambush was wrong, or where they got ambushed wasn't near Darkwater Crossing. (edit) It may not be the Skyrim/Cyrodiil boarder that the Dragonborn was trying to cross. So, Darkwater Crossing is on the border of Eastmarch and the Rift. Perhaps the Dragonborn was crossing the Eastmarch/Rift border. But, then it wouldn't make sense due to being called an outsider, and some characters say that you're "new to Skyrim," which means you might have tried crossing a border of either Skyrim/Cyrodiil or Skyrim/Morrowind. But, also, it's hard to say where exactly the Dragonborn was captured, but the Eastmarch/Rift border seems a little more plausible. Unless, the Dragonborn crossed many borders and ended up near Darkwater Crossing. That would mean that Ralof was actually talking about the Imperial/Stormcloak Civil War boarders instead of the borders of Tamriel's countries (I use this term lightly). That would make more sense due to people calling you an outsider and new to Skyrim. But, I think that would apply to non-Nords. If you're a Nord, then Hadvar says that you're coming home to Skyrim. To that, I say that if the Dragonborn was a Nord, then they crossed Skyrim/Cyrodiil boarder or Skyrim/Morrowind boarder. There are Nords in Morrowind and Cyrodiil, so it's possible they could've come from Morrowind or Cyrodiil. It's also possible that the Dragonborn was seen crossing the Skyrim/Cyrodiil or Skyrim/Morrowind border and they've been following the Dragonborn up to Darkwater Crossing. But, I doubt it because the Imperials have horses, so they might have caught up to the Dragonborn faster. But, again, it's unclear what actually happened, so there's that.
@josephpruitt20679 ай бұрын
My personal headcannon goes that they were taking ulfric to cyrodil, at the same time as the LDB was crossing. Imperial scouts defeated and captured the LDB under suspicion of being with the stormcloaks. Tulluis then rushed the execution at helegen because he knew the thalmor would try to delay it
@RosieSquall9 ай бұрын
My theory has always been that the imperials captured Ulfric near Darkwater Crossing and were taking him to Cyrodill for a proper trial. Somewhere near Pale Pass the stormcloaks tried to save Ulfric, but were ambushed by the imperial reinforcements. The DB was trying to sneak into Skyrim without papers, but unfortunately, they got caught in the skirmish between the stormcloaks and imperials. Some time after the battle and with the group traveling away from Skyrim, I assume Thalmor agents contacted Tullius, asking him to turn over the prisoners (namely, Ulfric) and the General, knowing they would probably get ambushed by Thalmor or their agents on their way to the Imperial City, decides to turn back to the nearest imperial fortified post: Helgen. The Thalmor have made their interest in Ulfric clear and Tullius decides that if he can't get the traitor to the Emperor, he's going to end the rebellion right there and then. Of course, he needs numbers to back him up in case more Thalmor show up. And they do! Ellenwen herself is already in Helgen by the time Tullius's entourage gets there. Her dialogue if you use a mod that restores cut content is as follows (Tullius has no dialogue): "General Tullius, stop! By the authority of the Thalmor, I'm taking custody of these prisoners." "Your Emperor will hear of this. By the terms of the White-Gold Concordat, I operate with full Imperial authority!" "You're making a terrible mistake!" Which implies that Tullius told her to go for a ride and explains why he didn't give a damn about everyone being executed. Why he didn't start with Ulfric is anyone's guess, but my money is on wanting him to witness his loyal men getting killed one by one. Tullius was expecting some ploy by Ellenwen and her cronies, but I guess with a whole garrison that had his back in case anything happened, he could take his time to savor the victory. Alduin was completely unaccounted for, though lol
@DaddyReaper19919 ай бұрын
It's not embarrassing brother we've all spent a ridiculous amount of time on this game. Still one of the greatest games of all time. I actually just started a new play through After being away from the game for a little while.
@WE-te3vp9 ай бұрын
I always thought you just I iskiaed
@donwild509 ай бұрын
I agree with the likelihood the Dragonborn is coming from Cyrodill to Skyrim. This is especially true if the DB is a Nord, an Imperial, a Breton...or pretty much any race. Khajit traders are coming north to do business. High Elves or Wood Elves would naturally be coming from the south. The mention that there have been avalanches in the Pale Pass could explain why he is going North. It is possible he was well up the road and the avalanches occurred behind him, making the only open path he had was to the North. My main feeling was the Imperials had word that Ulfric and his men would be in the area of Helgen and the "ambush" simply swept up anyone along the roads that wasn't absolutely identified as Imperial or an Imperial sympathizer. The Stormcloaks don't know the DB, it's clear the Imperials have no record of the DB's identity. I think the Imps and Tullius were just grabbing every stranger around...just trying to make sure no potential Stormcloak slipped away. By this time in the war, summary execution appears to have been done by both sides if a person was not clearly "On Our Side." Another reason I feel the DB was coming from the south is he has little or no awareness there is even a conflict going on in Skyrim. If he was coming from the north, there is no way he could have been oblivious to the war.
@cyqry9 ай бұрын
I've never really done alchemy in Skyrim before so perhaps I'm misunderstanding the nuances of the system but... 5:52 you say Bonemeal has damage and ravage stamina, resist fire, and fortify conjuration. All the stamina effects and negatives. But combined it with Boar Tusk and Lavender creates a fortify stamina potion? Has the system been changed since Oblivion to not just create a potion/poison of whatever effects are mutual to the ingredients?
@MidJake9 ай бұрын
The system in Skyrim boils down to a certain formula. If 2 ingredients in a potion share a magical effect, if positive (eg. restore health) they create a potion, if negative (eg. damage stamina) they create a poison. In the case you are asking about, bonemeal has both damage stamina and fortify conjuration, lavender has fortify stamina and fortify conjuration and boar tusks have fortify stamina as shared magical effects. So the damage stamina of the bonemeal gets canceled out by the lavender and boar tusk only leaving its fortify conjuration.
@cyqry9 ай бұрын
@@MidJake So if the boar tusk and lavender provide the fortify stamina, what exactly is the point in adding the bonemeal?
@MidJake9 ай бұрын
The bonemeal increases the sale price + you get a bit more xp per potion created :)
@stormym54349 ай бұрын
I always use the same backstory,,,my father was a nord moth priest searching Tamriel for elder scrolls when he met my mother, a/an (insert race),,they fell in love, got married,,,moved back to Cyrodil, where she was killed by the thalmor when I was a young child, and , since he still wanted to search for elder scrolls, I was raised by the other priests, then he became blind from reading too many scrolls, came home, and told me right before he died that my destiny was in Skyrim, so I should head there….☺️
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You know how people say that achieving chim is the individual realizing that the elder scrolls universe they are living in is the dream of the god head and therefore you begin what is closely related to as lucid dreaming or the effect of it by which you can virtually do anything I.e god powers. Now here where it gets crazy, you are basically a nobody with no past or knowledge of anything within the world which in it of itself very strange so I propose that the nord hero who becomes the Dragonborn only became the Dragonborn the moment he “wakes up” (achieved chim)
Should there be a mod like this
Wrong, i watched this at 1am
I have to disagree with your notion that the LDB was attempting to leave Skyrim. If you pick Nord, Hadvar says it's a bad time to come *back* home. Even with other races it's implied the LDB was entering Skyrim not leaving.
One thing that got me asking why was the Dragonborn crossing the Boarder. It started from another KZread channel saying that Maven Black Briar was sending the Dark Brother after the DragonBorn. Maybe the DragonBorn was a smuggler or done something really bad. You wonder why Maven was so hostile to you and telling you get out of her way. She only says that to the Dragon Born.
I always thought the dragonborn was crossing the border from cyrodiil to illegally immigrate, thats atleast the backstory i went for with my travelling orc bard.
Did you know the blacksmith in whiterun has a sister. She works for the east empire company. You can find her in Windhelm if you do the quest In the East empire on the docks of windhelm you have her to follow you.
For me Dark Water Crossing just wasn't a posibility, i thought it was that the Stormcloaks was trying to pass from skyrim in to cyridel (trying to take the fight to them) The Horse thef was just in the area, and plater tryed to cross from Cyrodel in to Skyrim and got cought as suspicius due to the Stormcloaks being there
Either the bandits are stupid for not looting, OR. They thought it was already ransacked
Here's my head canon. The Dragonborn lives with family in or around Bruma, a rather tense region in the wake of the White Gold Concordat. Many Nords in the region have refused to cease their worship of Talos and have thus fled to Skyrim to avoid religious persecution. Knowing this and being fully aware of the current hostilities in Skyrim, the Thalmor have taken a heavy-handed approach to Bruma. In the midst of the turmoil, the Dragonborn flees the region, likely due to confronting either Thalmor or Imperial agents after repeated harassment. He flees north to Skyrim via Pale Pass, narrowly surviving the journey, the emergence of Alduin having sent tremors through the Pass that resulted in multiple avalanches that sealed it shut in the Dragonborn's wake. With no other option, the Dragonborn presses onward. At the same time, General Tullius and a sizeable caravan are approaching Pale Pass with a collection of prisoners due to be tried in Cyrodil. Amongst them is none other than Ulfric Stormcloak, the leader of the Nordic rebellion himself. Tullius sends a contubernium of pathfinders ahead of the caravan to both flush out any potential Stormcloak ambushes and ascertain the condition of Pale Pass in the wake of the tremors felt recently. The contubernium stumbles upon the Dragonborn, as well as a mouthy horse thief. Both are detained, though the Dragonborn is knocked unconscious during the scuffle. Reporting back to Tullius, the decanus explained that Pale Pass was impassable. This forces Tullius to order the caravan to turn about and head north to Helgan, the closest Imperial outpost. Arriving in Helgan, Tullius is approached by Thalmor agents that demand Ulfric's summary execution, as the Dominion is unwilling to risk losing the leader of an open rebellion espousing heretical beliefs. Knowing well that this will simply serve to make a martyr of Ulfric and likely rally his allies and supporters, Tullius is reluctant, but his hands are tied. He knows this will extend the war and cost the Empire precious resources and he knows that that is exactly what the Dominion wants. Thus, in an effort to at least delay the news of Ulfric's death from spreading throughout Skyrim, Tullius orders the execution of every prisoner in the caravan, reducing the number of witnesses as much as possible. Fortunately, possibly having sensed the power within both Ulfric and the Dragonborn, Alduin arrives and disrupts this execution and the game begins.
for your information, it's Not 2AM it's merely 1:30AM
I look at skyrim like a Isekai anime.
You are aware that Helgen Spawns bandits, aren't you? Or did they get tossed with the Anniversary Edition? In the earlier versions once the gates of Helgen get locked and no longer open freely you will find one set of bandit and a boss chest in the section of the caves past the now repaired bridge. The other set of about 5 live in the building next to the gate on the road to Iverstead and some of them patrol down to the entrances to the keep.
Im pretty sure the dragonborn is meant to be an outsider to skyrim so wouldn’t it make more sense that he got caught coming into skyrim and not coming out of it?
According to Hadvar when you select your race, if the Dragonborn is a Nord, he is coming home to Skyrim. So I think you missed that detail. I usually play as an Imperial, I like to think that every race would have their own reason for coming to Skyrim, adventure, looking for a new life, something like that. I call my character Farwander, so he could be a wandering knight who left Cyrodill to make his name in another land, heard about the conflict in Skyrim and decided to help out there.
I thought the dragon born was coming from cyridl
This video relaxed me so much now i can sleep better. Liked and subscribed please make more 🙏 :)!
you sound like a nord
The most likely explanation is that the last dragonborn was trying to escape the dark brotherhood, as you don't need to do anything to be attacked by the dark brotherhood assassin
I have never thought about going to Ivarstead through Helgen..... I was always contouring the whole mountain for 30 minutes through every playthrough...
The information about Helgen and it's chest not respawning are great!
I think the Ghost of Uriel sent the Dragonborn to Skyrim
This guy kinda sounds like Farengar
blablablabla the truh is Akatoh made Dragonborns destiny
It just wouldn't make sense for the dragonborn to be leaving skyrim. They are completely oblivious to the political situation in Skyrim, and their map is suspiciously unmarked, with a whole lot of places undiscovered. it also doesn't make sense that they were trying to cross the border either. How did they get all the way to darkwater without learning where at least a few things were? It seems like they were magically dumped in this location, or at least close enough to it to walk into the same ambush as the stormcloaks. From where though? From WHEN? Even from Cyrodil people knew about the civil war, so just where did you even come from? Akavir? Some other far-flung corner of nirn? Are we even from the same timeline? Coming from Morrowind would make a little sense maybe as they really don't have a whole lot of interest in the borders of the empire as they've been independent since the latter 3rd era. However, the above problems remain: why don't you know where Riften is!? You'd literally have to walk right past it to get to darkwater. Surely you would have stopped and visited there for supplies while enroute to wherever it was you were heading(I'm assuming Whiterun was the destination given the pathing). Also, Shore's stone or even Ivarstead? Depending on the cannon direction from Morrowind, you'd have to pass by either of these places. You barely know who you are, but don't really know where/when you came from, where you even are, and utterly clueless about the political hellscape you just got dropped into the middle of. Nothing about the introduction makes even a little bit of sense when you stop to think about it for more than a minute or two. The only reasonable, in the TES universe anyway, conclusion is magic. So who did the teleporting of your character to this location and point in time, and maybe more importantly, why? It's possible you're just a vessel for Akatosh himself that he created and plopped in the right place at the right time to take matters into his own hands since the previous dragonborn(Miraak) he made to deal with this problem went rogue on him. While not terribly satisfying, it is a very plausible explanation that makes quite a lot of sense all things considered. The way things unfold in the MQ, pretty much everything kinda just points this way. On the other hand, I also don't really see a whole lot of motivation from anyone else to interfere on this scale. When in doubt, just blame the gods...it's probably their fault in some roundabout way anyways, I guess. 🤷
I just met Froki and Hammel today for the first time in 2023 while looking for Kyne’s shrine north of Froki’s cabin. And your video pops up mentioning Froki. Skyrim is something else.
What if DB wasn't travelling into (or from) Skyrim at all? Empire could just create a roundup and grab some randoms from both sides of the mountains just to perform "proper" execution of the convicts.
One guy in the dawnguard dlc was one of the soldiers in helgen
Who
Every single time I see a video for Skyrim I’m forced to replay Skyrim. Idk why it’s like a curse? But also a blessing in disguise
Because he stole a sweetroll Anyways, I read he was a new student at the College of Whispers in Cyrodil, which is how he knows basic magic. And cannon wise he was written to be Nord, so maybe he wanted to visit his homeland, and boom.
Man, at 3:50 I both chuckled and had fucking goosebumps simultaneously watching this shit at 2:17 am It's really the kind of vid you watch when you are about to go to sleep when even such stuff seems sooo interesting
Inventing a backstory for my characters is *absolutely crucial* to me being able to enjoy that playthrough. Sometimes I go nuts and I'm almost writing a novel. I do consider "Take Notes: Journal of the Dragonborn" absolute must-have, but I'm good at babbling into a keyboard.
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I believe he comming to Skyrim because you dont know people and nobody knows you… Pluss coming from Cyrodill is like commig from Oblivion
Everyone has spent a minimum of 2,000 hours playing skyrim. And those are rookie numbers lol
Bro got elected by the algorithm from day one
As far as gameplay reasons go, it's probably because it's close to the center of the map and one of the biggest main cities. Kinda equidistant to all of the content, save for Falkreath since there's literally nothing there except the Dark Brotherhood
I thought it was the Dragonborn coming back to Skyrim from Cyrodiil.
The dragonborn was trying to escape skyrim because someone performed the black sacrament and was trying to have them killed. Simply a case of wrong place, wrong time.
I think most skyrim players reach the 1000 hr waypoint, like its rare for a skyrim player to have less than 250 hrs if theyve owned the game for more than 2 years
My inteprtion conserding we were on a carriage/convey we were on coming into Skyrim from the entrance area of the dawngurad and ran into the stormcloaks as the imperals ambushed them around the exit of the cliff face we and the horse theif just happend to go into the same area conserving he says was going to hamerfall meaning he was leaving skyrim while we were entering he got caught in the ambush same as us and when we tied to say we were part of the storm cloaks they knocked us out and bined us plus remember carriges go all over skyrim
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I come from elsywer, I was trying to cross the border into Skyrim, I had a massive Skooma deal set-up to meet a contact, didn’t know his name just that he came from roikstead. wrong place, wrong time it turns out. Some heretic calling himself ulfric stormcloak and with men were there at the same time and place the deal was meant to go down. Got ambushed by the imperial army. I just stayed quite on the ride to Helgen.
The thing about it is that I always interpreted that the Dragonborn was going to Skyrim, not Cyrodiil. Also, Ralof says, "You were trying to cross the boarder, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush. Same as us, and that thief over there." So, it seemed like Lokir, the Stormcloaks, Ulfric, and the Dragonborn were all ambushed. And, in the same place and time. But, if they were ambushed near Darkwater Crossing, which is way north of the borders of Skyrim and Cyrodiil, that would mean that either Ralof's dialogue about waking into the ambush was wrong, or where they got ambushed wasn't near Darkwater Crossing. (edit) It may not be the Skyrim/Cyrodiil boarder that the Dragonborn was trying to cross. So, Darkwater Crossing is on the border of Eastmarch and the Rift. Perhaps the Dragonborn was crossing the Eastmarch/Rift border. But, then it wouldn't make sense due to being called an outsider, and some characters say that you're "new to Skyrim," which means you might have tried crossing a border of either Skyrim/Cyrodiil or Skyrim/Morrowind. But, also, it's hard to say where exactly the Dragonborn was captured, but the Eastmarch/Rift border seems a little more plausible. Unless, the Dragonborn crossed many borders and ended up near Darkwater Crossing. That would mean that Ralof was actually talking about the Imperial/Stormcloak Civil War boarders instead of the borders of Tamriel's countries (I use this term lightly). That would make more sense due to people calling you an outsider and new to Skyrim. But, I think that would apply to non-Nords. If you're a Nord, then Hadvar says that you're coming home to Skyrim. To that, I say that if the Dragonborn was a Nord, then they crossed Skyrim/Cyrodiil boarder or Skyrim/Morrowind boarder. There are Nords in Morrowind and Cyrodiil, so it's possible they could've come from Morrowind or Cyrodiil. It's also possible that the Dragonborn was seen crossing the Skyrim/Cyrodiil or Skyrim/Morrowind border and they've been following the Dragonborn up to Darkwater Crossing. But, I doubt it because the Imperials have horses, so they might have caught up to the Dragonborn faster. But, again, it's unclear what actually happened, so there's that.
My personal headcannon goes that they were taking ulfric to cyrodil, at the same time as the LDB was crossing. Imperial scouts defeated and captured the LDB under suspicion of being with the stormcloaks. Tulluis then rushed the execution at helegen because he knew the thalmor would try to delay it
My theory has always been that the imperials captured Ulfric near Darkwater Crossing and were taking him to Cyrodill for a proper trial. Somewhere near Pale Pass the stormcloaks tried to save Ulfric, but were ambushed by the imperial reinforcements. The DB was trying to sneak into Skyrim without papers, but unfortunately, they got caught in the skirmish between the stormcloaks and imperials. Some time after the battle and with the group traveling away from Skyrim, I assume Thalmor agents contacted Tullius, asking him to turn over the prisoners (namely, Ulfric) and the General, knowing they would probably get ambushed by Thalmor or their agents on their way to the Imperial City, decides to turn back to the nearest imperial fortified post: Helgen. The Thalmor have made their interest in Ulfric clear and Tullius decides that if he can't get the traitor to the Emperor, he's going to end the rebellion right there and then. Of course, he needs numbers to back him up in case more Thalmor show up. And they do! Ellenwen herself is already in Helgen by the time Tullius's entourage gets there. Her dialogue if you use a mod that restores cut content is as follows (Tullius has no dialogue): "General Tullius, stop! By the authority of the Thalmor, I'm taking custody of these prisoners." "Your Emperor will hear of this. By the terms of the White-Gold Concordat, I operate with full Imperial authority!" "You're making a terrible mistake!" Which implies that Tullius told her to go for a ride and explains why he didn't give a damn about everyone being executed. Why he didn't start with Ulfric is anyone's guess, but my money is on wanting him to witness his loyal men getting killed one by one. Tullius was expecting some ploy by Ellenwen and her cronies, but I guess with a whole garrison that had his back in case anything happened, he could take his time to savor the victory. Alduin was completely unaccounted for, though lol
It's not embarrassing brother we've all spent a ridiculous amount of time on this game. Still one of the greatest games of all time. I actually just started a new play through After being away from the game for a little while.
I always thought you just I iskiaed
I agree with the likelihood the Dragonborn is coming from Cyrodill to Skyrim. This is especially true if the DB is a Nord, an Imperial, a Breton...or pretty much any race. Khajit traders are coming north to do business. High Elves or Wood Elves would naturally be coming from the south. The mention that there have been avalanches in the Pale Pass could explain why he is going North. It is possible he was well up the road and the avalanches occurred behind him, making the only open path he had was to the North. My main feeling was the Imperials had word that Ulfric and his men would be in the area of Helgen and the "ambush" simply swept up anyone along the roads that wasn't absolutely identified as Imperial or an Imperial sympathizer. The Stormcloaks don't know the DB, it's clear the Imperials have no record of the DB's identity. I think the Imps and Tullius were just grabbing every stranger around...just trying to make sure no potential Stormcloak slipped away. By this time in the war, summary execution appears to have been done by both sides if a person was not clearly "On Our Side." Another reason I feel the DB was coming from the south is he has little or no awareness there is even a conflict going on in Skyrim. If he was coming from the north, there is no way he could have been oblivious to the war.
I've never really done alchemy in Skyrim before so perhaps I'm misunderstanding the nuances of the system but... 5:52 you say Bonemeal has damage and ravage stamina, resist fire, and fortify conjuration. All the stamina effects and negatives. But combined it with Boar Tusk and Lavender creates a fortify stamina potion? Has the system been changed since Oblivion to not just create a potion/poison of whatever effects are mutual to the ingredients?
The system in Skyrim boils down to a certain formula. If 2 ingredients in a potion share a magical effect, if positive (eg. restore health) they create a potion, if negative (eg. damage stamina) they create a poison. In the case you are asking about, bonemeal has both damage stamina and fortify conjuration, lavender has fortify stamina and fortify conjuration and boar tusks have fortify stamina as shared magical effects. So the damage stamina of the bonemeal gets canceled out by the lavender and boar tusk only leaving its fortify conjuration.
@@MidJake So if the boar tusk and lavender provide the fortify stamina, what exactly is the point in adding the bonemeal?
The bonemeal increases the sale price + you get a bit more xp per potion created :)
I always use the same backstory,,,my father was a nord moth priest searching Tamriel for elder scrolls when he met my mother, a/an (insert race),,they fell in love, got married,,,moved back to Cyrodil, where she was killed by the thalmor when I was a young child, and , since he still wanted to search for elder scrolls, I was raised by the other priests, then he became blind from reading too many scrolls, came home, and told me right before he died that my destiny was in Skyrim, so I should head there….☺️