Every time Drew speaks about magic: "It is underappreciated, understudied, and the academics are bloody cowards for not studying it further." I'm surprised Drew didn't get kicked out of Winterhold yet.
Calling it understudied and calling the academics cowards for not studying it further basicly insults the teachers because they think they have learned everything from it, thus, the wise and usually levelheaded teachers try to provw him wrong, by studying it and realising the full potential of their particular school of magic
been a while since I played but it shouldn't be that expensive for either gold or magika. try doing only 100 maybe 95. make sure the duration is 1 second. I cant remember if destruction leveling helped. pretty sure I used black soulgems and filled it with humanoids
@Rendel Parales Lol Shapiro... What a fucking hypocritical moron. Hiding behind "facts" when it's really all about his religious fanatic feelings. Did you see him have that tantrum? Hilarious! I can't believe anybody takes that reactionary con artist seriously anymore.
@@lordsprietsma228 lol triggered. What a bunch of crying bitches you right-wingers are. Can't handle the slightest disagreement. Boohoohoo little nazi bitch lol
Ateration: Changing reality. Illusion: Making a fake reality in someone's head. Conjuration: Forcing other beings from different realities into your own. Restoration: Bringing raw life energy into the world by will. Destruction: Destroying and rejecting reality itself. If these are the highest forms of we call the "schools" of magic, then anyone who would call mages weak "milkdrinkers" deserves to be laughed at.
@@noxflo897 Funny enough, there were a decent amount of ancient Atmorans and Nords that were practitioners of arcane magic during that time period. I believe even some of the Companions used magic as well to help along with their conquest. Also, the Thu'um itself is a form of magic, so funny enough the point still stands.
Cold Lightning9 Not only that but Tsun calls lets you into Shor's hall if you say you are the archmage. Apparently wizard were once highly respected in Skyrim and called "clevermen"
@@Mars20231 Pretty much cements the point that you need some grasp of magic to accomplish a noteworthy great deed in the TES verse. Many of the souls in Sovngarde were Mages or Tongues, other notable warriors were blessed or had a strong, enchanted piece of weapons and gear. Many of the ancient Nords were even decent at magic. That one guy, can't remember the name, where you had to help that Dunmer get into his tomb on Solstheim. He was a Nord and was described as a genius in the Enchantment school, even becoming strong enough to manipulate and corrupt the mind. It really shows you how stupid minded the current Nords are being. They don't even understand that they're talking down to and disgracing many of their ancestors that paved the way for them with magic. It's no wonder the Thalmor are having a field day with manipulating them against each other.
Just download the Dragonborn DLC and find that one Black Book where Hermaus Mora gives you the option of gaining the ability for your allies to be completely immune to all of your attacks. Problem solved.
When my dad saw the lightning spell in Skyrim he said "well now you just got to say never underestimate the power of the dark side!" I just laughed with him we're geeks
You touched upon the beneficial uses for destruction magic to purge ailment from the body, but what more basic applications such as lighting a hearth fire or chilling a blaze before it gets out of hand?
i love that talking about how narrow minded "scholars and the great masters" are when discussing the traditional schools, inadvertently throws shade at Bethesdas lack of creativity when it came to magic.
I really wish destruction were more nuanced in Skyrim. All we get is the fire/frost/shock magics and nothing else, and I really miss the spells that would make foes become weaker to elements, or that simply drained their atributes. It allowed me to make a less flashy destruction mage in the previous games. Not to mention how underpowered this school (and magic in general) became
@@Randy_Flamethrower There are mods, true enough, but my point is that the Destruction magic we get in game doesn't do justice to what is seen in lore, or in the previous games. Much was removed, and few novelties were added. I just think the next TES installment would benefit from a more fleshed out variety of Destruction spells
@@Ac0303 With the arts of restoration and especially necromancy, one would assume that such knowledge is known. Although, I suppose that even in the elder scrolls universe thinking that electrical current can be used to restart a heart would be crazy.
A cool and memorable location to add in a future elder scrolls would be a sanctuary/hospital for mages who suffered from magical accidents to go to. So you’d meet mages who are permanently invisible or burned or turned into an animal ect ect; basically the possibilities for interesting characters would be endless. I think you could also help some of them become normal again through practice of magic and research. Kinda like quests or how new Vegas required you to have supplies or a specific medical skill to help people
Get anything destruction magic is the face of Magic. It could be considered possibly the easiest to learn the hardest to master. Any mage can learn how to use ice fire and lightning. It's possibly also the easiest to prepare yourself against unlike the other schools of magic. You can wind up harming yourself just as much is harming others.
Pretty much. No matter what discipline you take in the schools of magic, every single respectable Mage has at least a decent handling of Destruction magic. Complete masters of Destruction have been described as utterly disintegrating foes with a wave of the hand, turn people inside and out, and splitting the ground asunder. Definitely the most useful of schools for a good reason.
@@oghaze9318 there are a lot of magics that should be used differently than what they're intentionally used for. It should be illusion or destruction or completely different one. Really hard to say for me.
OG Haze what about alteration? With illusion you can turn dreams into reality, but to literally change the world around you to “turn dreams into reality”? You gotta admit that sounds pretty hard to master. Btw still love the heck out of the illusion school of magic though :).
@@elric7415 I mean alteration's possibilities are limitless. Someone with a more scientific approach to the world could easily learn to use alteration to change the chemical makeup of the very atmosphere around them, turn a dry field into a field of freshly seared animal flesh ready to be cut and served, it could allow someone to create a castle with a snap of their fingers, or alter the user's physiology in order to be able to live in any environment. The applications are varied and useful in day to day life as well as combat, but hey fuck me its only armor and gold for the game's purposes.
W: "Hey, you are Mage, right" NM: _"Yes"_ W: "Can light my pipe" NM: "Certainly" *(FireBolt)* W: *"AAAAHHHH, MY CLOTHES ARE ON FIRE"* ....(Novice Mage sneaks away) _"oops"_
@@shaunbowen3308 W: (goes into cardiac arrest) NM: I can fix this (sparks) W: turns into cinders. NM: Let's get a restoration mage and gloat how useless his school is because it can't fix this.
"Those ivory tower elitists at the Arcane University need to stop attacking free speech" is an odd take on a story that ends with the "renegade scholar" going mad and taken by Sheogorath lol
Magick was awesome in Morrowind. I had a custom spell that paralyzed everything in a wide area while also applying insanely op amounts of damage. It was basically a city busting spell.
This is such a brilliant video, Drew. Fantastic writing. There are some interesting implications here - about the dichotomy of destruction and restoration. They are at once polar opposites, yet somehow there is some overlap. As is the nature of all dualistic relationships. Please keep the philosophical content coming, I love it so much.
You mentioned drain health spells around ^:00, and that's how I played oblivion. You can set a 100pt drain enchant on a weapon for 1 second, and that's more health than a lot of enemies. The game thinks that 1 second of drain health is weak, so the enchant is cheap; but it's an instant kill. Put it on a fast attack speed dagger, and you cut through everything like butter.
Seriously...wow. So many more layers to magicka. This is why I watch you. The stories, the information, the flow of concepts, and as always, the lore. Thank you.
I enjoyed these videos regarding the schools of magic, and I'm disappointed they've all been covered... I hope you make a couple similar videos regarding alchemy and enchanting, styled in a lecture like these ones. And Possibly move onto other skills.
I love the deep understanding and subtleties of Destruction. Destruction, paired with Restoration, can be thought of as deconstruction and reconstruction. But as one mage in the Bravil Mages Guild hall said "And lets face it. Blowing things up is ever so much fun!"
Destruction and alteration too, i cant help but think that a more scientifically minded person, thrust into the dream that is tamriel, would be capable of pulling some full metal alchemist level and beyond magics. of course, then again... if they were thrust into the world of the elderscrolls and they KNEW it wasnt real but also that they were, would that mean that they just spawn in with CHIM?
@@canisarcani Personally my favorite school of magic is Mysticism. The manipulation of the very flow of magicka through the world and how it interacts with the physical. And I suppose someone who achieves CHIM is not merely a player. But a modder, a programmer, as well.
The disease part of Distruction magick fascinates me. It may be not good for direct combat, but if you want to hurt people slowly and without confrontation is great. It can be very subtle. STILL Restoration is my favourite category of magick.
My favorite destruction magic move is the combo of a very powerful fortify destruction potion and lightning cloak. Clears a dungeon out almost immediately, turning everyone to ashes.
5:10 discovered your video's 2 days ago, been watching a few here & there.. But that joke, that right there mate... that made me subscribe x'D keep it up!
hey fudgemyppet love your videos keep em coming , i just want to say i think you forgot acid the other element of destruction, its not in any of the newer games but it did show up prevalently in daggerfall.
Great video. I'd say that the advancement of destruction as a school would be hindered primarily because its initial aspects are so useful and applicable to the needs of the mighty, powerful, and well monied.
Dwemer Build pls :3 I would love to role play a dwemer who is lost in modern Skyrim. His friends and family gone, his home deserted and ruined, overrun by corrupted snow elves.
I would say that the schools of destruction and restoration are one and the same. You can use "destruction" magic to burn a log, in which process you would create new matter, a feat more usually associated with restoration. In turn, when using restoration, one could argue that to heal injuries, one would have to break down cells (destroy) to re-arrange them into healthy tissue. In both cases, one has played with the forces of life and death. Now, in order to cure diseases we would usually employ the restoration school of magic. Wouldn't killing pathogens be considered a destructive process?
Hey man great video. Really agreed with a lot of your points. One point of advice though when it comes to the books in the game if you see v. 4, v. 5 etc, the v means “volume” not “version”
Destruction and Restoration can make one great faster than ever. 1. Drain an attribute like, say, strength 2. Use restoration to maintain your ability to work out 3. When the spell fades, the gains remain
I just thought about something. Sure you could say that that lack of spell variety in Skyrim is just a shortcut or whatever but what if the real reason is because of how magic is treated in Skyrim? Magic is shunned by most people so there simply isn’t many skilled practitioners to teach a variety of spells. Would also line up with previous games as well.
Whenever I play a magic-user (i.e. all the time), I try to level up Destruction and Restoration in tandem with each other. As you said, they're equal opposites. These two are the toughest skills to level without cheating, though, so I almost never succeed without abusing a cheat mod or console command.
Another hand touches the beacon!!! No lollygagging! I used to be an adventure like you, until/then i took an arrow to the knee. What do you aim...? Idk this one Psst, I know who you are. Hail Sithis! Restoration is a valid school of magic, isn't it? ISN'T IT!!?? Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh, what am I saying? Of course you don't.
@@andreigabrielion9575 its "what do you aim to do with that hammer, friend? Knock down a house?" Guards will react this way to you having Volendrung equipped. They might also say "that's one big hammer"
One could use fire spells to cook a meal or heat a home, forge a tool or clear a field of weeds. And frost to make some ice cream during summer. Not so destructive anymore.
I like the idea of a Star Mage, a mage seeking your harness the power of aetherius via directly manipulating the energy from stars directly. That would be a top tier caster on the level of many Archmages from various magical orders. It might even be that one must be on such a level to pursue Star Magic to begin with. Anyone else wanna fight someone like that?
Here's a freebie no mod build idea for ya. The houndmaster. Character that uses animals to fight for him..... mostly dogs. Maybe he's a werewolf as well.... or maybe a vampire that uses death hounds. I image an archer cuz he's a hunter. Maybe he uses traps.... I like the idea of poison traps. It would make sense because he heals his dogs as well because he loves them more than most people. Make him super scruffy because he lives outside most of the time.
Destruction magic is one of the most underestimated schools. By that I believe it to be vastly underutilized due to it generally being used in an overly straight forward way. Most use it to simply ply elements and and other forces to inflict damage. Where I believe there is clear secondary uses for most of the spells. Most clearly; the elemental spells stick out. Fire could be used both for utility in cooking, camp fires, and the coderizing of wounds. But could also be used as a power source via heat for steam powered machines. Cold has the utility of preserving food aswell as regulating one's temperature in hot environments. And Lightning has the most obvious utility of Electricity for power, but could also be used as a form of restoration, by reviving the recently dead. I honestly think it's a failing of most games that you don't see more repurposing of destruction type magic for non-combative needs.
Late comment, but that also shows a flawed categorization of the schools as well. Each school has spells that go out of their school definition and said school definition has a broad overlapping definition.
Hey fudgemuppit I have a thought about elder scroll VI the plot will probably be in my opinion something to do with bringing back the dwemmer. That is because hammer fell has dwemmer ruins plus no one knows what happened under red mountain so they could still be out there somewhere possibly biding their time. Remember the line in the dragon born prophecy "when the brass tower walks and time is reshaped..." The brass tower never got the chance to walk so that has not happened yet. Please do a video on this topic.
Thinking about combining different aspects of destructions with one another: Wind / Air is also an element that destruction Mages can wield. Use the storm as a carrier for your homemade plague. Wind of doom goes brrr
I am actually a bit surprised that healing through destruction, basically where the very concept of 'cleansing fire' comes from, is a completely radical notion on Nirn.
In order to advance healing one must first completely understand destruction for by completely understanding destruction only then can one begin to understand how to use magic to heal.
for me lore of this kind sort of breaks roleplaying immersion because of the limitations of the games. "alright, so I've done a few quests and now I'm archmage, time to explore the hidden potential of the destruction school of magic. I guess I'll........ read this spell tome? or.... I know, I'll pay this guy to make my level go up".
Off topic but I think in TES6 restoration spells should cost much more magicka because in oblivion and skyrim you can basically spam them though it shouldn't be like in Morrowind where magika doesn't recharge at all without resting.
The Destruction school of magic is a pathway to abilities some would consider to be "unnatural"
POWER!!! UNLIMITED POWER!!!!!!!!!!!
I once created Palpatine in Skyrim.
Palps likes grinding out his destruction skill and pretending it's conjuration. Poor anakin had such low perception, he had no idea.
Odojinya87 Every time you cast lightning spell
....do it.
*casts Cure Disease*
Plague: lol no
*casts Destoy Bacteria*
Plauge: Wait, That's Illegal.
TBH sounds like targeted destruction magic
@@ChargeQM yes that’s the point
Radiotherapy
I like to roleplay a master of alteration and use nothing but console commands
Is your alteration skill has reached to 999 level?
@@moch.farisdzulfiqar6123 Clearly a member of the thieves guild.
@@moch.farisdzulfiqar6123 No, his character reached CHIM.
I do the same thing but I explain it as tonal architecture
That's called CHIM.
5:11 "a lot of damage vs. flex seal"
I almost choked on my food.
I had to stop the video to check I heard it right. God damn boi, GOD DAMN
How many times do you think drew had to say that to not laugh while saying it
making us go "lolwut!?"
*Destruction: 100*
Every time Drew speaks about magic:
"It is underappreciated, understudied, and the academics are bloody cowards for not studying it further."
I'm surprised Drew didn't get kicked out of Winterhold yet.
Calling it understudied and calling the academics cowards for not studying it further basicly insults the teachers because they think they have learned everything from it, thus, the wise and usually levelheaded teachers try to provw him wrong, by studying it and realising the full potential of their particular school of magic
@@SilverGamingFI
Yep, he's basically pushing them to go all out
*starts game of oblivion*
*creates spell*
-max drain life (100+)
-max range
-duration 1 second
-upgrade over time if applicable
*_wins game_*
Daishi Mana cost: 999999
Cost to make: 7983466 gold.
been a while since I played but it shouldn't be that expensive for either gold or magika.
try doing only 100 maybe 95. make sure the duration is 1 second. I cant remember if destruction leveling helped. pretty sure I used black soulgems and filled it with humanoids
You can also grind destruction by making a weak drain life on yourself repeatedly.
@@oldhoboman5589 Isn't that exactly what this lunatic did?
*absolutely destroying your opponent with facts* is the hidden power of destruction
Rendel Parales Grandmaster*
@Rendel Parales Lol Shapiro... What a fucking hypocritical moron. Hiding behind "facts" when it's really all about his religious fanatic feelings. Did you see him have that tantrum? Hilarious! I can't believe anybody takes that reactionary con artist seriously anymore.
@@Xenophage100 facts are a weapon not armor, his level of political mass could easily destroy you opinion
*left wing destroyed*
@@lordsprietsma228 lol triggered. What a bunch of crying bitches you right-wingers are. Can't handle the slightest disagreement. Boohoohoo little nazi bitch lol
Destruction magic's fine. Just don't go burning down any buildings
Oops
Fucking would if I could
And where’s the fun in that?!
Woah woah woah! Watch the magic!!
You watch the magic!! *casts fire storm*
Ateration: Changing reality.
Illusion: Making a fake reality in someone's head.
Conjuration: Forcing other beings from different realities into your own.
Restoration: Bringing raw life energy into the world by will.
Destruction: Destroying and rejecting reality itself.
If these are the highest forms of we call the "schools" of magic, then anyone who would call mages weak "milkdrinkers" deserves to be laughed at.
Tell that to the 500
@@noxflo897 Funny enough, there were a decent amount of ancient Atmorans and Nords that were practitioners of arcane magic during that time period. I believe even some of the Companions used magic as well to help along with their conquest. Also, the Thu'um itself is a form of magic, so funny enough the point still stands.
Cold Lightning9 Not only that but Tsun calls lets you into Shor's hall if you say you are the archmage. Apparently wizard were once highly respected in Skyrim and called "clevermen"
@@Mars20231 Pretty much cements the point that you need some grasp of magic to accomplish a noteworthy great deed in the TES verse. Many of the souls in Sovngarde were Mages or Tongues, other notable warriors were blessed or had a strong, enchanted piece of weapons and gear. Many of the ancient Nords were even decent at magic. That one guy, can't remember the name, where you had to help that Dunmer get into his tomb on Solstheim. He was a Nord and was described as a genius in the Enchantment school, even becoming strong enough to manipulate and corrupt the mind.
It really shows you how stupid minded the current Nords are being. They don't even understand that they're talking down to and disgracing many of their ancestors that paved the way for them with magic. It's no wonder the Thalmor are having a field day with manipulating them against each other.
@@cold_Lightning9
This Nord master enchanter, do you mean the Dragon Priest Ahzidal?
Words of advice: don't use the level 100 fire destruction spell with a follower. Rest in piece Ria 2011-2018.
You blew up a 7 year old?
Several
there's a spell to resurrect the dead, it's a mod though, but very handy for such accidents lol
Just download the Dragonborn DLC and find that one Black Book where Hermaus Mora gives you the option of gaining the ability for your allies to be completely immune to all of your attacks. Problem solved.
@Human Resources I've used console commands for for resurrecting the dead. The spell is quicker, and more handy.
When my dad saw the lightning spell in Skyrim he said "well now you just got to say never underestimate the power of the dark side!" I just laughed with him we're geeks
J O C K
how cute ^3^
5:10 "A lot of Damage vs Flex Seal"
I feel like the Restoration School will progress by leaps and bounds from this revelation.
You touched upon the beneficial uses for destruction magic to purge ailment from the body, but what more basic applications such as lighting a hearth fire or chilling a blaze before it gets out of hand?
Good thinking right there :D
And even more importantly: heating up my hot chocolade.
How else would I heat up my tendies?
Apparently destruction can open doors... no? Well remember the mage questline? 😂
Whats more, chilling your mead to just the right temperature.
"A lot of damage to flex seal" good grief! I love this reference.
i love that talking about how narrow minded "scholars and the great masters" are when discussing the traditional schools, inadvertently throws shade at Bethesdas lack of creativity when it came to magic.
Bethesda should get a new game engine finally
@@jeremywatters2295 or just fix the one they have instead of bolting on new broken systems like bad proc gen world spaces
I really wish destruction were more nuanced in Skyrim. All we get is the fire/frost/shock magics and nothing else, and I really miss the spells that would make foes become weaker to elements, or that simply drained their atributes. It allowed me to make a less flashy destruction mage in the previous games. Not to mention how underpowered this school (and magic in general) became
Vito Santo there are PLENTY of mods that correct this. That’s on you.
@@Randy_Flamethrower There are mods, true enough, but my point is that the Destruction magic we get in game doesn't do justice to what is seen in lore, or in the previous games. Much was removed, and few novelties were added. I just think the next TES installment would benefit from a more fleshed out variety of Destruction spells
Making a enemy weaker is cool and all but shooting a ball of fire seems to me more practical.
Why not make an enemy weaker and fucking annihilate them with the fireball instead of just hurting them
Phenderix gives you earth, wind, and water magic
What about a shock spell that can ressurect people? A small shock to the heart.
I assume it would work but no one in the elder Scrolls universe has the scientific knowledge to attempt it
@@Ac0303 With the arts of restoration and especially necromancy, one would assume that such knowledge is known. Although, I suppose that even in the elder scrolls universe thinking that electrical current can be used to restart a heart would be crazy.
for that one needs the soul in body first lol
@@Kami-Sama197 I'll just stay dead, then. 🙃
Andrei Gabriel
It doesnt restart hearts, it helps it beat faster, but once dead they cant beat again
except that last guys knowledge if destroyed would only make its way to apocrypha...no knowledge is truly lost in mundus
It was probably already there from someone else earlier in history.
AngelRaivan 8579 *later
Herma Mora transcends time
I woke up hearing destruction magic, thought it was just some mages, but it was fudgemuppet
Ah man my favorite dadric Lord
A cool and memorable location to add in a future elder scrolls would be a sanctuary/hospital for mages who suffered from magical accidents to go to. So you’d meet mages who are permanently invisible or burned or turned into an animal ect ect; basically the possibilities for interesting characters would be endless. I think you could also help some of them become normal again through practice of magic and research. Kinda like quests or how new Vegas required you to have supplies or a specific medical skill to help people
That's a great idea
Get anything destruction magic is the face of Magic. It could be considered possibly the easiest to learn the hardest to master. Any mage can learn how to use ice fire and lightning. It's possibly also the easiest to prepare yourself against unlike the other schools of magic. You can wind up harming yourself just as much is harming others.
Pretty much. No matter what discipline you take in the schools of magic, every single respectable Mage has at least a decent handling of Destruction magic.
Complete masters of Destruction have been described as utterly disintegrating foes with a wave of the hand, turn people inside and out, and splitting the ground asunder. Definitely the most useful of schools for a good reason.
Zach Hibbard Illusion would be the hardest to master, turning dreams into reality
@@oghaze9318 there are a lot of magics that should be used differently than what they're intentionally used for. It should be illusion or destruction or completely different one. Really hard to say for me.
OG Haze what about alteration? With illusion you can turn dreams into reality, but to literally change the world around you to “turn dreams into reality”? You gotta admit that sounds pretty hard to master. Btw still love the heck out of the illusion school of magic though :).
@@elric7415 I mean alteration's possibilities are limitless. Someone with a more scientific approach to the world could easily learn to use alteration to change the chemical makeup of the very atmosphere around them, turn a dry field into a field of freshly seared animal flesh ready to be cut and served, it could allow someone to create a castle with a snap of their fingers, or alter the user's physiology in order to be able to live in any environment.
The applications are varied and useful in day to day life as well as combat, but hey fuck me its only armor and gold for the game's purposes.
W: "Hey, you are Mage, right"
NM: _"Yes"_
W: "Can light my pipe"
NM: "Certainly" *(FireBolt)*
W: *"AAAAHHHH, MY CLOTHES ARE ON FIRE"*
....(Novice Mage sneaks away) _"oops"_
Hydrogen One
NM “wait I can fix this” (Frostbite)
@@shaunbowen3308 W: (goes into cardiac arrest)
NM: I can fix this (sparks)
W: turns into cinders.
NM: Let's get a restoration mage and gloat how useless his school is because it can't fix this.
No lol otherwise it might have actually just lit the pipe 😂
"A lot of damage versus Flex Seal" well spoken, I can see you a man of culture as well.
You should do a video dedicated to Shalador, his adventures, and the creation of Labyrinth and the maze
Bastony they did
Love how you took a particular school of magic and delved into it in this video...keep it up!
This series is just calling out Bethesda for their shawty work on Skyrim's magic.
@Zach A shawty.
@Zach A yah.
Destruction is the Padme to restoration's Ani. 5:04
😂
"Those ivory tower elitists at the Arcane University need to stop attacking free speech" is an odd take on a story that ends with the "renegade scholar" going mad and taken by Sheogorath lol
0:26 The arcane enchanter table is basically a glowing Satanist sign. I just switch to porn if my mom walks in so she doesn't send me to church.
it actually represents the five elements from Neopagan beliefs, it originally and still stands for cosmic order, the satanist sign is upside-down.
Dakota Stricklin when people say satanist in a general usage, they're talking about people who legitimately worship Satan.
pentagrams are originally a Christian symbol, and thats not even a pentagram
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Magick was awesome in Morrowind. I had a custom spell that paralyzed everything in a wide area while also applying insanely op amounts of damage. It was basically a city busting spell.
This is such a brilliant video, Drew. Fantastic writing. There are some interesting implications here - about the dichotomy of destruction and restoration. They are at once polar opposites, yet somehow there is some overlap. As is the nature of all dualistic relationships. Please keep the philosophical content coming, I love it so much.
You mentioned drain health spells around ^:00, and that's how I played oblivion. You can set a 100pt drain enchant on a weapon for 1 second, and that's more health than a lot of enemies. The game thinks that 1 second of drain health is weak, so the enchant is cheap; but it's an instant kill. Put it on a fast attack speed dagger, and you cut through everything like butter.
What about the Forgotten schools of magic from Arena, Daggerfall, battlespire, Shadow key, dawnstar and Morrowind?
mysticism and that one beginning with a th?
I think it became the other classes of spells. Magic schools don't seem to have a set rule. It's confusing.
That Flex Seal comment caught me off guard.
When you need to advance an entire school of magicka to satiate your kink
End Destruction-shaming now!
Seriously...wow. So many more layers to magicka. This is why I watch you. The stories, the information, the flow of concepts, and as always, the lore. Thank you.
you should do videos on whether skyrim ordinator perks are worth it
Still the best.... Another great vid. You guys have completely risen to the top of your field. No one is better.
(r.i.p. shoddycast)
I think you guys should do a video suggesting role-playing ideas for the reason the sole survivor goes and joins the raiders at nuka world
I enjoyed these videos regarding the schools of magic, and I'm disappointed they've all been covered... I hope you make a couple similar videos regarding alchemy and enchanting, styled in a lecture like these ones. And Possibly move onto other skills.
I love the deep understanding and subtleties of Destruction. Destruction, paired with Restoration, can be thought of as deconstruction and reconstruction. But as one mage in the Bravil Mages Guild hall said "And lets face it. Blowing things up is ever so much fun!"
Destruction and alteration too, i cant help but think that a more scientifically minded person, thrust into the dream that is tamriel, would be capable of pulling some full metal alchemist level and beyond magics.
of course, then again... if they were thrust into the world of the elderscrolls and they KNEW it wasnt real but also that they were, would that mean that they just spawn in with CHIM?
@@canisarcani Personally my favorite school of magic is Mysticism. The manipulation of the very flow of magicka through the world and how it interacts with the physical.
And I suppose someone who achieves CHIM is not merely a player. But a modder, a programmer, as well.
This series you've been putting up is awesome. It really makes me rethink how I play the game when I make a background.
Love what you are doing. It really adds another layer of depth when I'm going through my playthrough and makes the immersion that much stronger
“Restoration falls short”
Fortify restoration loop: “YOU WOT M8”
Aaaaand now im gonna take a break from fo76 and roll and Dunmer pyro! Thank you Fudgemuppet, for the serendipitous vid 🙏
You're telling me I caught a cold once while practicing my frost spells.
You're telling me a mudcrab fried this rice?!
Keep these elder scrolls updates coming! Cant wait to see your content when the next elder scrolls launches
The disease part of Distruction magick fascinates me. It may be not good for direct combat, but if you want to hurt people slowly and without confrontation is great. It can be very subtle.
STILL Restoration is my favourite category of magick.
“A lot of damage versus Flex Seal”
I died
This reminds me of Cade Skywalkers dark healing, where he pours the dark side into a wounded individual to heal them
My favorite destruction magic move is the combo of a very powerful fortify destruction potion and lightning cloak. Clears a dungeon out almost immediately, turning everyone to ashes.
RESTORATION MAGES BE LIKE, "I am a walking can of Flex seal."
“One day, the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you.
But I… am already saved.”
5:10 discovered your video's 2 days ago, been watching a few here & there..
But that joke, that right there mate... that made me subscribe x'D
keep it up!
There's a book (Don't remember the title) that claims that you can "ride" lightning. Essentially a way to teleport
4:43 this entire shot is beautiful
hey fudgemyppet love your videos keep em coming , i just want to say i think you forgot acid the other element of destruction, its not in any of the newer games but it did show up prevalently in daggerfall.
Great video. I'd say that the advancement of destruction as a school would be hindered primarily because its initial aspects are so useful and applicable to the needs of the mighty, powerful, and well monied.
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Dwemer Build pls :3 I would love to role play a dwemer who is lost in modern Skyrim. His friends and family gone, his home deserted and ruined, overrun by corrupted snow elves.
I would say that the schools of destruction and restoration are one and the same. You can use "destruction" magic to burn a log, in which process you would create new matter, a feat more usually associated with restoration. In turn, when using restoration, one could argue that to heal injuries, one would have to break down cells (destroy) to re-arrange them into healthy tissue. In both cases, one has played with the forces of life and death.
Now, in order to cure diseases we would usually employ the restoration school of magic. Wouldn't killing pathogens be considered a destructive process?
Thank you so much for your succulent lore videos, Fudgemuppet bros!
Master Destruction Caster: You cannot defeat me!
Me: Console Command, Thanos Snap.
MDC: Wha-? ... -Doesn't feel so good-
Really enjoyed watching your vids throughout this year.
Hope you have a Happy New Year, FudgeMuppet.
Hey man great video. Really agreed with a lot of your points. One point of advice though when it comes to the books in the game if you see v. 4, v. 5 etc, the v means “volume” not “version”
“A lot of damage vs flex seal” you just earned yourself a fucking bell amigo
Destruction and Restoration can make one great faster than ever.
1. Drain an attribute like, say, strength
2. Use restoration to maintain your ability to work out
3. When the spell fades, the gains remain
Destruction, Restoration, Enchantment and Conjuration are the main forms of magic I like to use in Skyrim. Along with sometimes using alteration.
I just thought about something. Sure you could say that that lack of spell variety in Skyrim is just a shortcut or whatever but what if the real reason is because of how magic is treated in Skyrim? Magic is shunned by most people so there simply isn’t many skilled practitioners to teach a variety of spells. Would also line up with previous games as well.
Whenever I play a magic-user (i.e. all the time), I try to level up Destruction and Restoration in tandem with each other. As you said, they're equal opposites. These two are the toughest skills to level without cheating, though, so I almost never succeed without abusing a cheat mod or console command.
Explosion!!!!! *megumins voice*
Complete the Skyrim quotes:
Another hand...
No...
I used to be...
What do you aim...
Hail...
Restoration is...
Do you get to...
Another hand touches the beacon!!!
No lollygagging!
I used to be an adventure like you, until/then i took an arrow to the knee.
What do you aim...? Idk this one
Psst, I know who you are. Hail Sithis!
Restoration is a valid school of magic, isn't it? ISN'T IT!!??
Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh, what am I saying? Of course you don't.
@@andreigabrielion9575 its "what do you aim to do with that hammer, friend? Knock down a house?"
Guards will react this way to you having Volendrung equipped.
They might also say "that's one big hammer"
Wow amazing video just subscribed yesterday this video made me want to replay Skyrim again lol I’m going to replay it on my switch this time.
One could use fire spells to cook a meal or heat a home, forge a tool or clear a field of weeds. And frost to make some ice cream during summer. Not so destructive anymore.
The intro was so metal. 🤘💀🤘
Great job as always, I love hearing about the lore and magic!
I like the idea of a Star Mage, a mage seeking your harness the power of aetherius via directly manipulating the energy from stars directly. That would be a top tier caster on the level of many Archmages from various magical orders. It might even be that one must be on such a level to pursue Star Magic to begin with. Anyone else wanna fight someone like that?
@10:55 so they realized that Chicken Soup for the Soul will not in fact cure Certainly Not a Common Cold.
There's been a series of thefts ascribed to a famed Khajiit cat-burglar...
But the guards announced they've caught the purrpetrator.
Another excellent video that contains music from oblivion..life is good
Here's a freebie no mod build idea for ya. The houndmaster. Character that uses animals to fight for him..... mostly dogs. Maybe he's a werewolf as well.... or maybe a vampire that uses death hounds. I image an archer cuz he's a hunter. Maybe he uses traps.... I like the idea of poison traps. It would make sense because he heals his dogs as well because he loves them more than most people. Make him super scruffy because he lives outside most of the time.
Destruction magic is one of the most underestimated schools. By that I believe it to be vastly underutilized due to it generally being used in an overly straight forward way.
Most use it to simply ply elements and and other forces to inflict damage. Where I believe there is clear secondary uses for most of the spells. Most clearly; the elemental spells stick out.
Fire could be used both for utility in cooking, camp fires, and the coderizing of wounds. But could also be used as a power source via heat for steam powered machines.
Cold has the utility of preserving food aswell as regulating one's temperature in hot environments.
And Lightning has the most obvious utility of Electricity for power, but could also be used as a form of restoration, by reviving the recently dead.
I honestly think it's a failing of most games that you don't see more repurposing of destruction type magic for non-combative needs.
Late comment, but that also shows a flawed categorization of the schools as well. Each school has spells that go out of their school definition and said school definition has a broad overlapping definition.
Another Great Video!
Great vid man!
Subtitles at 2:24 "Drew the Dade Rolla gist"
Why did 111 people DISlike? It's a lore video; It both lored, AND videoed. Mission accomplished, plus a tip! That should be universal liketude
2:20 "Your destruction skill increased to 100"
Hey fudgemuppit I have a thought about elder scroll VI the plot will probably be in my opinion something to do with bringing back the dwemmer. That is because hammer fell has dwemmer ruins plus no one knows what happened under red mountain so they could still be out there somewhere possibly biding their time. Remember the line in the dragon born prophecy "when the brass tower walks and time is reshaped..." The brass tower never got the chance to walk so that has not happened yet. Please do a video on this topic.
You've been stabbed! Here let me heal you.
ZAP!
Ooops. Wrong spell equipped.
5:10 😂😂😂🤣🤣 he didn't just say that I'm dying bro
4:45 poison rune being a restoration spell
The plage spells you showed are part of the apocalypse magic or the ordinator perk mod and belong to the restoration tree.
Thinking about combining different aspects of destructions with one another: Wind / Air is also an element that destruction Mages can wield. Use the storm as a carrier for your homemade plague. Wind of doom goes brrr
5:09 lmfao that one got me. 10/10
Can't wait for other College related videos. Especially Alteration, Illusion and Mysticism(my fav 3 - ok I like Resto too).
"A lotta damage vs flex seal"
Oh why did you just say that to begin with.
I am actually a bit surprised that healing through destruction, basically where the very concept of 'cleansing fire' comes from, is a completely radical notion on Nirn.
In order to advance healing one must first completely understand destruction for by completely understanding destruction only then can one begin to understand how to use magic to heal.
Nyghtking that’s not true at all lmao
for me lore of this kind sort of breaks roleplaying immersion because of the limitations of the games. "alright, so I've done a few quests and now I'm archmage, time to explore the hidden potential of the destruction school of magic. I guess I'll........ read this spell tome? or.... I know, I'll pay this guy to make my level go up".
Off topic but I think in TES6 restoration spells should cost much more magicka because in oblivion and skyrim you can basically spam them though it shouldn't be like in Morrowind where magika doesn't recharge at all without resting.