The Vigilants of Stendarr might appear to be quite badass - but in reality they're pretty stupid. Elder Scrolls: V Skyrim Dawnguard lore. Support me on / avarti
Me: Vampire. Wielding the Mace of Molag Bal. Wearing the Ebony Mail, Ring of Nameria and Mask of Clavicus Vile Vigilants: "If you see any Daedra Worshippers around here let us know!"
@@ghuttsmckenzie4269 Clavicus Vile approves of your action. He loves a good plot twist. Barbas whimpers in sadness at your violence. Hircine approves of your hunt, well done! Those weak Vigilant prey! Molag Bal chuckles in glee. Yes yes .. soak in the Dark Side! Embrace it!
@Rick O'Shay Weird. XD So they see a weapons from one of the few non-evil Daedras they go "NOPE That's not ok!" but don't care about the actual evil ones? ...No wonder they're idiots. XD
Meanwhile the daedra have the strongest armor, the most powerful artifacts, the most potent of magic, and some of the most powerful beings in the universe behind them...
@Ahmad the redguard As much as their gear isn't worth a lot of gold, I may as well add them to an armory as a display. To one day sell them for some quick gold. That or to make me look like an armored walking merchant.
AJ Jones that's a decent question. Azura and Meridia are generally regarded as good (or at least not pure evil) by mortal standards. I also wonder whether the vigilant hates them and worshippers of them
Of course they would. Those idiots see everything in black and white. No shades of grey. They go all 'WHAT?! DAEDRA WORSHIPPING? DIE!' regardless of anything else but their own fanatical views. They wouldn't care that they have a common enemy; they'd simply want to wipe her, and her followers, out along with the undead.
>Valiantly fights vampires to protect my village. >Contracts Sanguinare Vampiris, but doesn't notice it because it's just a small disease and I just thought I had a cold or something. >Realize a couple days later that I've become a vampire. >Cry >Goes to the Vigilants to get help. >Get my faced smashed in with a mace. >Die. >Go to coldharbour. *_Yeah that's fine ok_*
I don't think they're even doing the job right. Killing vampires I mean. Daedra on the other hand....They should just quit while they still have dignity left.
because the dawnguard folks actually know what they're doing. also they have far better gear. vigilants had the potential to be the magic-oriented version of the dawnguard, utilizing powrful spells instead of weapons, but instead we got losers with robes, useless spells and steel swords
@@sneedfeedandseed2410 "Know what they're doing" Proceeds to send a new recruit alone with only a crossbow, to a cave full of vampires who destroyed a hall full of armed idiots
I recently made a vampire character who joined Volkhar. When walking down a path with Serana, I came across a group of 3-4 Vigilants who were attacking a lone vampire mistwalker. It was funny because I expected the vampire to be on my side and the Vigilants to be hostile but it was the opposite; and so Serena started attacking the vampire mistwalker too. But then out of nowhere a group of Dawnguard enters and start attacking Serana and I. Because the Vigilants were technically unhostile to us, now THEY start fighting the Dawnguard. Unpredictably though, Vigilants end up defeating the Dawnguard. Finally after it was all over, the Vigilants approached me and Serana and told us of their holy mission in hunting Daedra and other abominations who prey on mortals. The streets are getting more dangerous each day.
@@R41Ryan during one playthrough I was using The Master of Disguise mod, I was wearing Daedric Armor and walked into Markarth I got attacked by that Vigilant of stendarr that triggers the house of horse side quest.
I have a cool mod, it's called the Four Horses of the Apocalypse. Death can instantly kill enemies below a certain level by simply touching them... And I just run them over with my horse and they just die... I won't even bother using weapons on these vermin attacking my fellow vampires.
@@shadowstrider5033 Good idea, but it's seem most of the vampires/lycanthropes seniors really enjoy to bullies their juniors, that's why I only drinks skooma with my dremora boys.
@@shadowstrider5033 No I'm roleplay as kindhearted Santa so I don't kill peoples. I put daedric boots in riften as Thanksgiving presents but somehow people try to kill each others. I redecorated Ulfric's thrones with fancy runes but somehow he got angry because he got explosive chronic diarrhea. And last time I met with vampires senior I greet them with some smoking red balls, they didn't happy and start to attack anyone including themselves. I ran, i ran with my horse uphill to the throat of the world. I never turn my back, and never return... Become Santa in Skyrim are depressing my friends, I contemplating my whole breaths with Paarthurnax, we were married ever since :)
*summons dremora lords and soul cairn undead while chilling on the road *vigilants walk by “Commune with any Daedra and we’ll hunt you down!” *Vigilants walk away
Vigilant Tolan: "The Hall of the Vigilants is destroyed, my organization is scattered, and the vampires are stronger than we thought!" Also Tolan: "I'm going to charge into a vampire-infested cave alone and without any form of reinforcement! STENDARR VULT!"
@Joe Appleby Whoa there friend. I agree, he had some serious guts. But he really could have helped more if he hadn't done a suicidal charge. Also seriously not all Daedra are bad. I personally like Lorkhan a lot.
@@davidfalloutbandit As long as your willing to use the restoration loop exploit its viable, no need to make it op just enough to make a fortify smithing item 200% or something like that and you can get decent armour rating on the greaves and bracers to compensate the lack of mage/full armour.
@Ifrit 13x actually Skyrim is pretty armor friendly when it comes to mages, armor doesn't give any penalty to your magic abilities, Neverwinter Nights 2, put armor feats out of all magic classes except clerics and bards, and even if you spend extra xp points to get those feats they give you heavy arcane spell failure penalties when you're wearing armor. In Skyrim however you can cast any spell you want without any penalty while wearing a full set of ebony armor. Not that i'm complaining i like the idea of wearing armor while being a mage. P.S: Why should paladins wear robes? They are just high ranking knights.
IKR? Every time I found them it was always a pack of 3 with 1-2 already dead and the last one on his last leg. I'd kill the vampire and the survivor would be like, "Yeah buddy I'm in the Vigilants we hunt these monsters. If you hadn't shown up, I'd have totally taken him myself." Sure buddy.
just a normal piece of bread Exactly. The Vigilants are pathetic compared to most of the militant groups of skyrim. The Vigilants sure as hell aren’t the Silver Hand
Tarlo The Boar idk if you would be interested but there is a mod that is its own unique quest, a dark souls inspired quest where u join the vilgilants tho it could cause ur game to crash when you enter the new lands they made but it’s worth going through it
Imagine a Moral choice based questline for them, where you find a lot of good people who just so happens to be daedra worshipers? Ah... but, we can't realy expect that much from bethesda...
There's mod called Vigilant, you play as the paladin there and hunt down a Molag Ball www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/67103/ this is one of the best Skyrim quest mod
Same. Whenever I see them, I basically see them as free experience for Vampire Lord/Werewolf perks, or as free necks to bite for advancing ranks in Better Vampires. Even my paladin character despises them for how they pervert and twist the teachings of the god of mercy. Though he doesn't outright kill them, he does not raise a finger to help them should they come across a tough foe.
Intimidating? Last Vigilante I met tried to kill me just to save his own life. Look where that got him and that was the last he saw of me. Might still be at the abandoned home the last I left him there.
These Vigilant shitheads crashed Ysolda and I's wedding for no reason. Granted,I'm a vampire lord and all but still,Ysolda acts like I crashed my own wedding.
Vigilant of Stendarr upon seeing a Dawnguard _“We’ve got our eyes on you”_ Instead of oh I don’t know... maybe giving said Dawnguard a helping hand, they’d rather be jealous of the fact the Dawnguard is more effective than the Vigilantes could ever be, and they constantly get bodied by Vampires.
Yea I agree but the focus of the vigilantes and the focus of the Dawnguard were different. The vigilantes were more of a policing order whose enemies expanded past just vampires. While the Dawnguard is an actual military force purely focused on hunting vampires. If the Dawnguard had to fight a surprising assault from a Daedric force they could be caught in the same situation as the Vigilantes were.
@@acendantoverlord5737 the Dawnguard have better weapons better armor better base and armored trolls they would stand a better chance against the dadera than the vigilants
KingMilkToast would they tho? The Dawnguard have the means to detect Vampires in their presence which makes it impossible for a vampire to slip in the Dawnguards ranks. But a Daedric cultist would be able to and once they get inside Fort Dawnguard they could open a portal to oblivion in the middle of the night. Doesn’t really matter that Dawnguard has a better base if all their defences can be ignored. And further more their weapons and armour albeit better than that of the vigilantes are designed to fight Vampires and the undead. Dawnguard soldiers train to fight purely vampires they would have no experience or knowledge to properly combat a Daedric threat. The Vigilantes have multiple branches across Tamriel and have seemingly existed after the Oblivion crisis 200 years before Skyrim so they must have been doing something right for being a “Policing” force against “all things evil”. While the Dawnguard are a faction that failed once before in the past and only focus purely on killing Vampires as a “military order”. These Factions are VERY different from one another and have different focuses than each other.
I kinda wish there was a _“United against Daedra, Vampire and Werewolf”_ faction encompassing maybe The Vigilantes of Stendarr, Dawnguard and Silver Hand, the upsides of each faction could help with the downsides of each other. For example, the Vigilantes aren’t skilled vampire hunters, therefore the Dawnguard would be perfect to make up for that weakenss, or maybe the Dawnguard and Vigilantes don’t know much about Werewolves, therefore the Silver hand would specialize in such a enemy... and like Overlord said, Dawnguard might be infiltrated by a daedra worshiper/cultist (especially since Molag bal created vampires, I’m certain he’d want to go after Dawnguard) therefore the Vigilantes would easily root out the cultist (in theory.. I don’t actually know how well they do this, but for the lores sake we’ll say they’re really good at weeding out daerda worshipers/cultists).
When you casually strut to the vigilants of Stendarr wielding the Ebony blade, wearing the ebony mail and they be like "cavort with any Daedra and we will hunt you down".
I found it hilarious that I stole a Daedra Heart from them, and they sent thugs after me. I then saw that vampires burned down the inn they stayed at later in that same playthrough.
Seeing how the vampire terrorizes people in Skyrim I don't blame Isran for being an extremist and also Isran is not stupid because despite his hatred towards all vampires he let Serana stays at Fort Dawnguard because he see more benefit at having a vampire on their side.
Isran was right about the Vigilants being weaklings, yeah sure he can be suspicious and paranoid especially around Serana but he was justified that the Vampires were a legitimate threat that needed to be dealt with. The Vigilants were weak with no real combat training or efficient gear to fight against Daedric threats like Werewolves and vampires, I think even the college of WInterhold is much more competent because most of them are skilled mages. The Dawnguard are smaller in numbers but are much more capable in fighting the vampires with their own specific armor and weapons to deal with such a powerful threat.
Honestly the Collage of Winterhold should be a great asset to any other group due to not just the educators being masters of their respective schools of magic, but also the extensive library it has.
@@Timmothy_plays They even have spells to directly counter Vampires but i guess the Vigilants are either too unskilled to use them or too stubborn heck might even be a combination of both.
It must really confuse the hell out of the vampires in my game when they're sent to kill the Vigilants but show up to the Hall of the Vigilant and find that I already killed them for that enchanted mace.
@@Cx10110100 If u have the vanilla game you can enter the place normally. Also I think before you can unlock the quest you could visit the place before it got raided.
@@Cx10110100 Yes I haven't played Skyrim in ages. But I remember you could get to that building before it got destroyed but you might get disappointed the leader of the Stendarrs has the same dialogue lines as the average Stendarr npc you encounter...
@@Cx10110100 Pretty sure the halls are in tact until you reach the level the dawnguard quest starts. Could be wrong but I haven't been able to get the game working properly lately.
The Vigilants of Stendarr emerged after the Oblivion crisis, they took it on themselves to hunt Daedra and daedra worshippers to prevent another Oblivion crisis from ever rising... meaning they were more like witch hunters than actual vampire slayers like the Dawnguard. The likes of Werewolves and Vampires were secondary targets at best, due to being derivative of daedric influences, but because of their fixation with the Oblivion Crisis, the vigilants preferred to target Cultist covens rather than eliminate the actual monsters.
Ehhhhh Idk I can see the silver hands point of view given how they see the companions that became werewolves as impure and evil. However I believe they were just not expanded upon enough more fleshed out well
@@l0remipsum991 True. But still, their methods are disgusting. I swear the Silver Hand has a torture fetish as requirement for joining. I don't see anyone approving of any of their long winded torture sessions.
@@princessbinas They're cruel but still more competent and intelligent than the Vigilants. I'll give them credit for that. I'm surprised they're not a joinable faction though.
It's sad to see that they can't even preform the one thing that their code tells them to do (i.e. have mercy for others). They had one job and they fucked it up.
Funny thing about Justice and Mercy. They are opposites. To be only just, you cannot be merciful for anything, no matter the minority of the infraction. To be only merciful, you cannot pass judgement for anything, no matter the crime. It is in being Good that a deity can combine these two disparate qualities effectively. Justice and Mercy are not ends in and of themselves, therefore. The Vigilants are the fanatically justice-devoted faction of Stendarr's followers. Of course they lack mercy.
instead of mindlessly killing werewolves/vampires/daedra worshippers they should at least try to help them every once in a while. they could find alternative ways to purge vampirism or lycantropy, and if that doesn't work, they could just immunize people against it. they could also save countless lives by educating people about the dangers of dealing with daedra and etc... loads of possibilities.
It is possible for mercy and justice to co-habitate if you employ some wisdom. Obviously you aren't necessarily bound to show mercy to a worshipper of Boethiah for instance, because they're generally murdering psychopaths who live for bloodshed. A fledgling conjurer however who is just getting into summoning Daedra though...? Some mercy may be shown there with a strong warning. They might yet be set on the right path given a second chance.
Two New video ideas: Why the Silver Hand are geniuses : due to their desire to continue to be the Companions without the curse of becoming a werewolf. And why Nazeem is an idiot. For the memes and the facts he has TRUELY little power overall in Whiterun Hold. Chillfurrow Farm is basically a bare bones garden and his wife is cheating on him with the acolyte of the Temple of Kinerath. Just some more ideas.
@Mad Max Rockatansky In the acolyte's storage, there's a key to Nazeem's house (cut content, but neverthe less) and in the game files the acolyte and his wife are listed as in a relationship.
@@ghuttsmckenzie4269 seriously and my vigilante has conjuration at 100 and uses the dawnbreaker. So he can be atleast the sole decent, non dying vigilant
I'd like to offer a third possibility as to why Tolan ran headfirst into a Vampire-infested crypt: Grief. The Man was the only survivor of the massacre at the Vigilant's base, so it's entirely possible he was suffering from survivor's guilt. He knew he wouldn't survive the encounter, but he was going to take down as many vampires as he could with him... which turned out to be 2.
I think hircine is my favorite of daedric princes, not just because I like werewolves but also because he is fair and he doesn't torture his worshippers in the afterlife, in fact hircines plane is a lush hunting ground where skilled hunters can enjoy themselves hircine is also forgiving, like in his quest if you choose not to kill sinding he will actually thank you and that he wasn't mad towards either option, he rewards you regardless because he is just nice. That's why hircine is the coolest daedric prince
To think that the vigilants would attack Serana is not really accurate. Isran is more radical and against vampires than anyone and he accepted her into his fortress. Also I don't think the vigilants of Stendarr have a presence in Morrowind so your point that they would just blindly do war with the dunmer is not accurate either. There's Stendarr of every race so i think they know well the cultural importance of some daedra.
Vigilant of stendarr: How about Fort Dawngaurd??? Vigilante of stendarr: 😒 Vigilant of stendarr: well close by it is a worn out shack Vigilante of stendarr:😁
Yeah, they did do well in protecting that church. Especially with the Knights of the Nine back at it. Wait......What ever happened to them after Oblivion?
@@bluesnake1713 there isn't a lot of lore in skyrim about them. Like the blades they were pretty much lost to history except with nobody left in their order. However i think they were taken out in the first raid from the dominion in the first great war. There is also a theory that those who survived became vigilants of stendarr but its a hunch
The thing that really pisses me off about the Vigilants is that they take the stance of “mercy”, but only mercy for those who _might_ be impacted by Daedra. I always thought that they should’ve been more of a merciful group of healers, offering aid to those afflicted by disease, and only attacking when in defense of people, or as retaliation against a group they know are evil.
@@bluesnake1713 now you are just on skooma there, what matter of nonsense is that? bows that shoot lightning? that what those robe wearing mages call a staff.
@@Hawkens4k I never touch that fowl vial more than ever getting my hands on it. Also you're speaking of Crosshows. Sure staffs are a thing, but come on....You got to admit it could be possible.
Whenever I encounter the vigilants of stendar they’re cat calling me on the side of the road, but they’re not vigilants ... they’re vampires dressed as vigilants.
I think the thing with Tolan running into Dimhollow Crypt was that he was blinded by rage. The Vampires had stripped him of everything, his friends, colleagues, his honor, and had insulted his very purpose he had devoted himself to. He was angry and reckless, which blinded him.
I watched this video because there is like an our ago, I was heading to Meridia's temple (I have Wintersun - Religions of Skyrim mod and wanted to be a follower of her religion). Just after I was praying her, heading off to Solitude (doing Potema quest, needed Meridia's powers because on Legendary with some difficulty mods Draugr can be pretty hard to deal with), 2 Vigilants of Stendarr was on my way. I talked to them, by habit to talk to every NPC on the road, and they told me they know I have some daedrics artifacts on me (Dawnbreaker and Azura's Star are the only two I have). When I refused to give it to them, they attacked me. Okay so, for context I'm with Lydia and Aela as followers. I did the Companions questline (and I am a not cured, yes), and I wield Dawnbreaker. So, 2 vs 3 to begin with, but yeah Skyrim doesn't take followers in account for those kind of situations, but even without it, I'm being known for being the leader of the Companions. They know I'm the champion of Meridia, who is absolutely against undead and things like that. Maybe they even know I'm Azura's Champion too, and I'm the dragonborn. There is absolutely no reason to attack me. Even if they want to follow their ideas of purity, they are against undeads too. I killed so many vampires, so many Draugr, and I have a weapon specialized in this, from one of the only "good" daedras. It's just stupid choice by Bethesda (because when they talked to me it was in French, my game is in French and all my mods is in English, so it's vanilla the thing where they attack you because you have some daedrics artefacts, or Cutting Room Floor, who restore cut content, restore it in French because my game is in French idk), or an oversight. But if I consider this "canon", it's just pure stupidity.
To be fair, Serana had to grow as a person before she was this benevolent. She went through her own torture before officially deciding to fight back against vampiric injustice.
Tolan's comment could be defended as him saying that the Vigilants in Skyrim thought that there would be sporadic vampires here and there attacking people that they could fight off and not be facing an ancient, established and powerful clan with many powerful members and an elder scroll with an island fortress who had a plan with a world wide impact.
The only way you get views with Skyrim content is clickbaiting with titles like 10 SECRET SKYRIM ENEMIES YOU MISSED and then it's just normal enemies you see in your playthrough, it's better if he keep posting those where he actually puts some effort in doing the video while also creating new points of view on the TES factions and characters and also getting views for himself
Vigilants of Stendarr reminds me of Witch Hunters (or worshipers of Church of Eternal Fire in general) in Witcher 3 - mostly because of their narrow-mindness and hatred towards other kind of living entities.
Difference, Radovid leading the church of the eternal fire was a threat to the whole world of magic users/nonhumans. Vigilants with their npc leader couldn't threaten a kid in a halloween costume.
Dawnguard really needed a plot thread or questline to unify the remains of the Vigilants and the Dawnguard. Isran would have benefited from having an inflow of people that actually had some idea of how to fight (instead of random farmers) and the vigilants would have found a new purpose/relevancy.
I kind of wish Bethesda would make a game were its more focused on one faction then giving you wide reign. I mean i feel like it would be pretty cool if we played a initiate to the Vigilants of Stendarr and you move up the ranks till you become a leader than have to lead the faction in a area of Tamriel
Or they could keep the choice but add actual depth and meaning to joining a faction? Bethesda’s just lazy sure they lay decent foundations but always fail to build on them
@@ellisbarnett0292 They could have just as easily run out of time. A game isn't completely finished coding-wise at the snap of your fingers. It can easily take two years to make a simpler game. If you rush coding, you will just wind up complain about how they rushed a game that is far glitchier than Superman 64 or blander than ET for the Atari so that they could make a quick and easy buck. That's not just me assuming. It has happened before and a quick Google search can prove it. All I can say is, be more considerate of those who use coding to create different features in games. I am so tired of people giving the shaft to people who are on a tight schedule because it wasn't their wet dream come true.
princessbinas but that’s not an excuse. There are games that have had the same or less time to develop yet still have the detail... Witcher 3 for example (I’m not comparing the games themselves so steady on) had half the development time and not to mention the difference in budget, yet had a number of fully fledged storylines that were actually enjoyable and not the the monotonous crap that Is so typical of Bethesda
What and lose their honour and reputation? As soon as word gets out that they slaughtered vigilantes, everyone will know they’re werewolves and there’ll be a lynch mob after them torch and pitchfork style
Mada Playz according to what Skyrim tells us, the inner circles’ lycanthropy is a “closely guarded secret” even the other low ranking companions don’t know (or at least that is what is implied)
I broke out in a hysterical laugh when I learned they had a headquarters and that it was destroyed, I didnt even know they had a base of operations before the DLC.
I didn’t even think of this the first time I watched, but it’s entirely possible that a vampire native to Skyrim might be *too compassionate* to take the cure for vampirism. The guy who cures vampirism in Skyrim requires a filled black soul gem to do so, effectively requiring a client to subject someone to a fate worse than death in order to get cured.
you should do why the dawnguard are smart. like they have the crossbow, armored trolls(good dog's) and some awsome spell that are actualy good. not mention the castle. The vilgiant of stendar called Isran to exstreme yet he is still alive. if the dawnguard is canon way to go they could become one of the most powerfull factions in Tamriel.
Thank you for doing this video, here are a few more reason's they are idiot's 1) They are horribly under equipped for there job: they run around in robes and yet use only basic restoration and alteration spell's. When fighting they attack with only blunt iron and steel weapons to fight, they do not have shield's, bow's or any type of attack magic, they don't even have any turn undead or banish spell's to help them. 2) They tend to trust random stranger's: The member you meet in Markarth that recruit's you (the first well armed individual he meet's) into helping him raid a house he suspect's hold's a daedric cult, he does this without even checking if your a member or not. Likewise you can find dead Vigilante's that where murdered by vampire's that they probably approached while thinking they where normal. 3) They are horrible at there job's: They couldn't trained these guy's past basic spell and weapon use because almost every time you see Vigilant's in action they either die quickly, get brainwashed or break under mental-strain, i remember seeing these guy's get decimated in a fight with a single Flame Atronach. On top of this they are way too aggressive to the point of casting even Mage-light on one is enough to provoke them. 4) They left there base defenseless: While sure there main base is manned by group of poorly armed member's they still seemed to of done nothing else to defend the building, there where no fence's, watch tower's, or anything to defend them from a incoming attack from . . . oh i don't know a pack of vampire's. 5) They don't seem to know anything about there enemy's: This might be the worse of all, they want to fight daedra and other monster's, yet they don't seem to know how to fight them (evident by there lack of preparedness), they seem to think they can just lock up the daedric artifact's while not knowing there respective prince's can call them back at any time (except apparently nocturnal), and they underestimated VAMPIRE'S of all thing's. Say what you will about the other monster hunting groups of Skyrim but at least they know how to fight what they hunt. These problem's are inexcusable for a organization that has been around for 200 year's like they claim to be.
What has always cracked me up about them is...y'all are really gonna give me the side eye for carrying Dawnbreaker? Fine. Imma let the dragon eat you next time. They cop an attitude with the damn Dragonborn, who (at least when I play) is a nice person going around helping folks, saving the world, etc. But they wanna give 'em crap for having a collection of Daedric artifacts. I sometimes wish you could put in ye our own responses LOL so I could say something like "Has it occurred to you morons that I'm collecting them up so they don't wind up in the hands of evildoers?"
My biggest issue with the Vigilants always was that they had no special weapon or something equal to that to kill Daedraworshippers. I mean how tf you want to kill even one werewolf with that poor equipment and a little bit of restoration magic.
You usually run into their corpses more than their living members. Also when my buddy tested VR for the first time i sent him loose in the wilds near riften and he managed to slaughter a group of them in the first five minutes before getting motion sick.
Vigilants: "We hunt daedra wherever their presence is known." Me (Wearing the Savior's Hide, Masque of Clavicus Vile, Namira's Ring, wielding Volendrung and carrying the Skeleton Key and six Black Books.): "You can all hunt deez nuts, if you n'wah's think you're bad enough."
I remember I stopped in vigilant hall that was close to Dawstar to train up my restoration, After spending a hefty amount of gold I tried to steal all of it back but was unsuccessful on multiple tries. As I was role playing a daedric worshiper/artifact collecter I had no qualms with murdering them all with Molag Bals mace to reclaim my gold after it got tiresome going the sneaky route.
Just Elliot it is a quest mod which involves several souls-like bosses, and also a part of coldharbour. The best way to experience it is to play it yourself, preferrably with some dark souls mods.
What you should also touch base on is vigilant Tyrannus. This npc accompanies the player in the molag bal daedric quest: House of Horrors, once bal starts his poltergeist shenanigans, Tyrannus will become so fearful of the daedric prince (which he thinks is just an abnormally strong daedra and not a prince) that he will tell the player "it's you or me!" and will attack you. While you can argue you can't let one member spoil the entire faction you can however argue that they are hypocritical as when they sense danger or death is near they run away or try to murder an innocent instead of standing by their convictions and beliefs and show in the end they are weak cowards. not all are, and some face death bravely for their beliefs and for the innocent, but in the end they are flawed to a point that is lethal to themselves and this is precisely why Isran left to start the Dawnguard besides the fact their is a vampire menace threatening all life on Tameriel and possibly the whole of Nirn.
I was once wandering the outskirts of morthal,a place infamous for its deadly swamps filled with venomous spiders and the dark rumours of vampire activity. While making my way towards the local Inn to share the stories of my many adventures with the locals over some nice cold mead. I feel a dark,evil presence coming over me,I quickly turn around and lay eyes upon a master vampire,his two apprentices and two accompanying death hounds. I quickly reach for my blade but alas I was not fast enough for the vile hounds swarmed me and the vampires were beggining to cast their evil magic upon my dying body.But then,when all hope had faded I hear a loud warcry,accompanied by an even louder:"DIE YOU FOUL BEAST" Two brave warriors of stendarr emerged from the darkness and stormed the vampires with their warhammers. As the first vigilant began his the master vampire summoned a beastly gargoyle and the vigilant was yeeted out of nirn shortly after.Seeing this the other warrior lost his courage and ran for his life but was shot down quickly. This embarrassing display however gave me the time to chug a couple of potions,grad my steel sword and fus roh dah'd the vampires into the bog,we're spiders ate their carcasses. I then dealt with the gargoyle and the remaining death hound and continued my journey to the Inn. Therefore,please respect vigilants.
Well met traveler. As much as people Rag on the Ciy guard, Many a dragon and Vampire has been felled by their Bravery to charge straight into the Maw of the beasts, giving me a chance to Reload my crossbow for another shot. before the Foul creature is dog piled by the entire city wielding Knives.
The Vigilants of Stendarr would appear much more intimidating and fit to hunt daedra, if they just had curved swords like those warriors from Hammerfell.
i wish that once your the champion of every daedric prince,vampires would not attack you and consider you as a superior,werewolves would not attack you(talking about solstheim) and the companions would recognise you as a champion of hircine,etc.
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Me: Vampire. Wielding the Mace of Molag Bal. Wearing the Ebony Mail, Ring of Nameria and Mask of Clavicus Vile
Vigilants: "If you see any Daedra Worshippers around here let us know!"
"Yeah sure I'll let you know!" 😊
*Proceeds to beat them to death with the mace*
@@ghuttsmckenzie4269 Clavicus Vile approves of your action. He loves a good plot twist. Barbas whimpers in sadness at your violence.
Hircine approves of your hunt, well done! Those weak Vigilant prey!
Molag Bal chuckles in glee. Yes yes .. soak in the Dark Side! Embrace it!
xDog .SoldieRx is Molag Bal a Sith lord?
Rick O'Shay Same that happen to me too
@Rick O'Shay Weird. XD So they see a weapons from one of the few non-evil Daedras they go "NOPE That's not ok!" but don't care about the actual evil ones? ...No wonder they're idiots. XD
They couldn't even detect I was a werewolf and carrying like 3 Daedric artifacts...
Well that was supposed to be a feature but...
@@lukec2004 thx rushed 11/11/11
Thanks to the Nexus, they do for me. I can't even adopt a husky cause of it...
At least wolves are pretty chill with me.
Especially if said artifact is the masque of clavicus the vile lol
For a order that claims to hunt daedra you would expect them to use some good gear not shity robes and iron weapons
Meanwhile the daedra have the strongest armor, the most powerful artifacts, the most potent of magic, and some of the most powerful beings in the universe behind them...
Don't forget Steel weapons. Strong than Iron, but not enough.
@Ahmad the redguard And at least they can't improve their weapons or get a hold of Skyforge Steel.
@Ahmad the redguard So worse than Nord's belief on magic then.
@Ahmad the redguard As much as their gear isn't worth a lot of gold, I may as well add them to an armory as a display. To one day sell them for some quick gold. That or to make me look like an armored walking merchant.
The Vigilants train new recruits by letting them watch Van Helsing and giving them a steel mace and a pat on the back.
Alex Dude that sounds awesome
Lol
lol!
New recruits also have the ability to become a dragon.
They basically give you a torch and point you to the nearest vampire cave
@@mafiamentality8751 murder time
Would the Vigilants have a problem with Meridia? She's almost as hardcore in hating the undead as they are.
From the lore it seems that she used to be a divine, but was cast out frm Thad because of her love for man.
AJ Jones that's a decent question. Azura and Meridia are generally regarded as good (or at least not pure evil) by mortal standards. I also wonder whether the vigilant hates them and worshippers of them
NZvectris not exactly. She was one of the magna ge and was cast out of the group after consorting with deadra
Of course they would. Those idiots see everything in black and white. No shades of grey. They go all 'WHAT?! DAEDRA WORSHIPPING? DIE!' regardless of anything else but their own fanatical views. They wouldn't care that they have a common enemy; they'd simply want to wipe her, and her followers, out along with the undead.
Unless they have the knowledge of the lore of Nirn being made, they....would still have no understanding.
>Valiantly fights vampires to protect my village.
>Contracts Sanguinare Vampiris, but doesn't notice it because it's just a small disease and I just thought I had a cold or something.
>Realize a couple days later that I've become a vampire.
>Cry
>Goes to the Vigilants to get help.
>Get my faced smashed in with a mace.
>Die.
>Go to coldharbour.
*_Yeah that's fine ok_*
*_Sacrifices The Vigilantes To Molag Bal_*
Big oof
I mean you could always go to a previous save
@@romanminaster5180 You actually do kill a vigilant in Markarth to get the quest where you get his mace.
@@peacemekka I know, molag bals molag mace is already mine, now I'm just waiting for the Molag Ballad
we hunt deadra, but we cant handle 3/4 vampires greatest faction
The Dawnguard is a much better organization anyway.
@@euric869 not that they're good either
I don't think they're even doing the job right. Killing vampires I mean. Daedra on the other hand....They should just quit while they still have dignity left.
@@euric869 yes. sending only one of their member to deal with the vampire threat is a good sign of a better organization.
@@cybercybex I mean the whole premise of the game your sent to dangerous places alone.
Stendar (to other divines) : *those aren't mine, really, I swear*
XD so true
Poor Stendar
Esp in front of Talos and Akatosh....
Stendarr: I am Mundus now hurr durr
Stendarr: I am the god of mercy
Vigilants: cool, we're gonna go out an persecute people in your name
*orange eyes, fangs, artefacts humming with pure malevolence*
"yeah we hunt deadras and shit, we can recognize deadra worhsipers easily"
*bruh*
Anyways...Here's something we can all agree upon.
Dawnguard > Vigilants of Stendarr
because the dawnguard folks actually know what they're doing. also they have far better gear. vigilants had the potential to be the magic-oriented version of the dawnguard, utilizing powrful spells instead of weapons, but instead we got losers with robes, useless spells and steel swords
Not when it comes to slapstick humor.
Yep
@Stellvia Heonheim I thought skyrim was 18+
@@sneedfeedandseed2410 "Know what they're doing" Proceeds to send a new recruit alone with only a crossbow, to a cave full of vampires who destroyed a hall full of armed idiots
Serana is smart, kind and compassionate...
Serana: Proceeds to use necromancy to reanimate Lund to fight off his pet skeevers.
Well he' dead so its all cool
@@tauempire1793 when i killed him he said "Thank you"
kostasifa well to be fair he only had to deal with it for five to ten minutes
Serana: Proceeds to IGNORE the dead bandit and instead revive the F**KING RABBIT corpse to help in our fight against a legendary dragon..
@@davidfalloutbandit he'll be the legendary enemy against the dragon!
I recently made a vampire character who joined Volkhar. When walking down a path with Serana, I came across a group of 3-4 Vigilants who were attacking a lone vampire mistwalker. It was funny because I expected the vampire to be on my side and the Vigilants to be hostile but it was the opposite; and so Serena started attacking the vampire mistwalker too. But then out of nowhere a group of Dawnguard enters and start attacking Serana and I. Because the Vigilants were technically unhostile to us, now THEY start fighting the Dawnguard. Unpredictably though, Vigilants end up defeating the Dawnguard. Finally after it was all over, the Vigilants approached me and Serana and told us of their holy mission in hunting Daedra and other abominations who prey on mortals.
The streets are getting more dangerous each day.
"It just works."
Vigilant of Stendarr: We will kill any daedra worshipers we find
Me in full daedric armor carrying several daedric artifacts: Are you sure about that?
Vigilants will actually try to kill you in the wild if they spot you in fell daedric armour.
@@R41Ryan
No they won't. That's a misinformation in the wiki.
@@shadowstrider5033 Damn, I was hoping I wasn't wrong when I saw that. That would have been such a cool feature.
@@R41Ryan during one playthrough I was using The Master of Disguise mod, I was wearing Daedric Armor and walked into Markarth I got attacked by that Vigilant of stendarr that triggers the house of horse side quest.
Robomerc it is cut content they Would take your deadric things
Me with my 8 daedric artifacts- "Yo what's up vigilants!"
I like to call them virgilents and then yeet 'em with my Molag Bal mace.
I have a cool mod, it's called the Four Horses of the Apocalypse. Death can instantly kill enemies below a certain level by simply touching them... And I just run them over with my horse and they just die... I won't even bother using weapons on these vermin attacking my fellow vampires.
@@octavianpopescu4776 I seen that mod, I cba with op mods
Ra it's funny I collected all the items b4 and stunted on em.
Good thing they are kind enough to heal my rockjoint, while I'm hang out with my Dremora boys.
Fuck yea!
You know what's better? Join the legion of Vampires or Lycanthropes and be completely immune to diseases in the first place.
@@shadowstrider5033 Good idea, but it's seem most of the vampires/lycanthropes seniors really enjoy to bullies their juniors, that's why I only drinks skooma with my dremora boys.
@@rustyfolk9128
Just get stronger and kill them all in telvani fashion? Power rules everything at the end of the day anyway.
@@shadowstrider5033 No I'm roleplay as kindhearted Santa so I don't kill peoples. I put daedric boots in riften as Thanksgiving presents but somehow people try to kill each others. I redecorated Ulfric's thrones with fancy runes but somehow he got angry because he got explosive chronic diarrhea. And last time I met with vampires senior I greet them with some smoking red balls, they didn't happy and start to attack anyone including themselves. I ran, i ran with my horse uphill to the throat of the world. I never turn my back, and never return... Become Santa in Skyrim are depressing my friends, I contemplating my whole breaths with Paarthurnax, we were married ever since :)
Skyrim Character: exists
Avarti: You are not a clown, you are the entire circus
*summons dremora lords and soul cairn undead while chilling on the road
*vigilants walk by
“Commune with any Daedra and we’ll hunt you down!”
*Vigilants walk away
Then you attack them. Archery skill level up.
1000 gold bounty
Vigilant Tolan: "The Hall of the Vigilants is destroyed, my organization is scattered, and the vampires are stronger than we thought!"
Also Tolan: "I'm going to charge into a vampire-infested cave alone and without any form of reinforcement! STENDARR VULT!"
He killed a few vampire
@@DarknessXER I refuse to believe those where his work.
@Really Bitch Ah okay, so it must of been the hound's work, thanks for clearing that up.
@Joe Appleby Whoa there friend. I agree, he had some serious guts. But he really could have helped more if he hadn't done a suicidal charge.
Also seriously not all Daedra are bad. I personally like Lorkhan a lot.
Riku Morwing Lorkhan isn't daedra.
At this point I feel like I'm going to be next
"Why Little Shmuplet is AN IDIOT" IDIOT written in Yellow
and the video is just a text to speech loop of a voice saying "elmo undertale".
No, they are stupid because they don't know how to use magic, armor, weapons, and they are always either dead or dying when you find them.
I wish mixed armor + robe game-play was viable..I love the templar healer/mage look they have,but that about it..
@@davidfalloutbandit
As long as your willing to use the restoration loop exploit its viable, no need to make it op just enough to make a fortify smithing item 200% or something like that and you can get decent armour rating on the greaves and bracers to compensate the lack of mage/full armour.
@Ifrit 13x actually Skyrim is pretty armor friendly when it comes to mages, armor doesn't give any penalty to your magic abilities, Neverwinter Nights 2, put armor feats out of all magic classes except clerics and bards, and even if you spend extra xp points to get those feats they give you heavy arcane spell failure penalties when you're wearing armor. In Skyrim however you can cast any spell you want without any penalty while wearing a full set of ebony armor. Not that i'm complaining i like the idea of wearing armor while being a mage.
P.S: Why should paladins wear robes? They are just high ranking knights.
IKR? Every time I found them it was always a pack of 3 with 1-2 already dead and the last one on his last leg. I'd kill the vampire and the survivor would be like, "Yeah buddy I'm in the Vigilants we hunt these monsters. If you hadn't shown up, I'd have totally taken him myself." Sure buddy.
@@davidfalloutbandithonestly you should be able to put robes over armor
Imagine vigilants of stendar fighting the companions bc they werewolves. Smh
I wouldn't call it a fight. Lambs to the slaughter more like.
just a normal piece of bread Exactly. The Vigilants are pathetic compared to most of the militant groups of skyrim. The Vigilants sure as hell aren’t the Silver Hand
if im not mistaken didnt they try that durning your intonation quest for the companions and whats his name turned into a werewolf and killed them all
They'd get their spleens pulled out of their assholes.
Not many who can handle the Companions anyway.
If you ask me then The Vigilants of Stendarr had potential to be a pretty badass Paladin style guild but no,all of that was wasted.
Tarlo The Boar idk if you would be interested but there is a mod that is its own unique quest, a dark souls inspired quest where u join the vilgilants tho it could cause ur game to crash when you enter the new lands they made but it’s worth going through it
Imagine a Moral choice based questline for them, where you find a lot of good people who just so happens to be daedra worshipers? Ah... but, we can't realy expect that much from bethesda...
OH I forgot the mod name is called “Vigilant”
There's mod called Vigilant, you play as the paladin there and hunt down a Molag Ball www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/67103/
this is one of the best Skyrim quest mod
Yeah but hey thats bethesda for ya. "It just works" please use the in game store! lol
“Vigilante of Stendar can seem quite intimidating...”
Me: nah man, I hunt them for sport
Same.
Whenever I see them, I basically see them as free experience for Vampire Lord/Werewolf perks, or as free necks to bite for advancing ranks in Better Vampires.
Even my paladin character despises them for how they pervert and twist the teachings of the god of mercy. Though he doesn't outright kill them, he does not raise a finger to help them should they come across a tough foe.
Intimidating? Last Vigilante I met tried to kill me just to save his own life. Look where that got him and that was the last he saw of me. Might still be at the abandoned home the last I left him there.
It's so much fun watching them die, I hate them with a passion for some reason.
These Vigilant shitheads crashed Ysolda and I's wedding for no reason. Granted,I'm a vampire lord and all but still,Ysolda acts like I crashed my own wedding.
@@joshuaseagondollar2495 That's not very merciful.
"May Stendarr have a brain, for WE will have none!"
Vigilant of Stendarr upon seeing a Dawnguard _“We’ve got our eyes on you”_
Instead of oh I don’t know... maybe giving said Dawnguard a helping hand, they’d rather be jealous of the fact the Dawnguard is more effective than the Vigilantes could ever be, and they constantly get bodied by Vampires.
Yea I agree but the focus of the vigilantes and the focus of the Dawnguard were different. The vigilantes were more of a policing order whose enemies expanded past just vampires.
While the Dawnguard is an actual military force purely focused on hunting vampires. If the Dawnguard had to fight a surprising assault from a Daedric force they could be caught in the same situation as the Vigilantes were.
@@acendantoverlord5737 the Dawnguard have better weapons better armor better base and armored trolls they would stand a better chance against the dadera than the vigilants
KingMilkToast would they tho? The Dawnguard have the means to detect Vampires in their presence which makes it impossible for a vampire to slip in the Dawnguards ranks. But a Daedric cultist would be able to and once they get inside Fort Dawnguard they could open a portal to oblivion in the middle of the night. Doesn’t really matter that Dawnguard has a better base if all their defences can be ignored. And further more their weapons and armour albeit better than that of the vigilantes are designed to fight Vampires and the undead. Dawnguard soldiers train to fight purely vampires they would have no experience or knowledge to properly combat a Daedric threat. The Vigilantes have multiple branches across Tamriel and have seemingly existed after the Oblivion crisis 200 years before Skyrim so they must have been doing something right for being a “Policing” force against “all things evil”. While the Dawnguard are a faction that failed once before in the past and only focus purely on killing Vampires as a “military order”. These Factions are VERY different from one another and have different focuses than each other.
@@acendantoverlord5737 ya you're right
I kinda wish there was a _“United against Daedra, Vampire and Werewolf”_ faction encompassing maybe The Vigilantes of Stendarr, Dawnguard and Silver Hand, the upsides of each faction could help with the downsides of each other. For example, the Vigilantes aren’t skilled vampire hunters, therefore the Dawnguard would be perfect to make up for that weakenss, or maybe the Dawnguard and Vigilantes don’t know much about Werewolves, therefore the Silver hand would specialize in such a enemy... and like Overlord said, Dawnguard might be infiltrated by a daedra worshiper/cultist (especially since Molag bal created vampires, I’m certain he’d want to go after Dawnguard) therefore the Vigilantes would easily root out the cultist (in theory.. I don’t actually know how well they do this, but for the lores sake we’ll say they’re really good at weeding out daerda worshipers/cultists).
When you casually strut to the vigilants of Stendarr wielding the Ebony blade, wearing the ebony mail and they be like "cavort with any Daedra and we will hunt you down".
I found it hilarious that I stole a Daedra Heart from them, and they sent thugs after me. I then saw that vampires burned down the inn they stayed at later in that same playthrough.
Nice
Nice
Aaahhhhh... Wonderful!
Isran told them they were being stupid. He WARNED them, dawg.
Then he wound up doing stupid stuff as well.
Mfw isran, the extremist told them that theyre stupid
@@KiraDidNoWrong8274 if he was a true extremist he would've killed Serena and you for associating with her
@@ComicBookGuy420 he is an extremist, hes also not stupid
Seeing how the vampire terrorizes people in Skyrim I don't blame Isran for being an extremist and also Isran is not stupid because despite his hatred towards all vampires he let Serana stays at Fort Dawnguard because he see more benefit at having a vampire on their side.
Isran was right about the Vigilants being weaklings, yeah sure he can be suspicious and paranoid especially around Serana but he was justified that the Vampires were a legitimate threat that needed to be dealt with.
The Vigilants were weak with no real combat training or efficient gear to fight against Daedric threats like Werewolves and vampires, I think even the college of WInterhold is much more competent because most of them are skilled mages.
The Dawnguard are smaller in numbers but are much more capable in fighting the vampires with their own specific armor and weapons to deal with such a powerful threat.
Honestly the Collage of Winterhold should be a great asset to any other group due to not just the educators being masters of their respective schools of magic, but also the extensive library it has.
@@Timmothy_plays fr without it you'd never find the elder scrolls
@@Timmothy_plays They even have spells to directly counter Vampires but i guess the Vigilants are either too unskilled to use them or too stubborn heck might even be a combination of both.
It must really confuse the hell out of the vampires in my game when they're sent to kill the Vigilants but show up to the Hall of the Vigilant and find that I already killed them for that enchanted mace.
Wait wut? The hall is destroyed by default isn't it
@@Cx10110100 If u have the vanilla game you can enter the place normally. Also I think before you can unlock the quest you could visit the place before it got raided.
@@euric869 so basically just go for it after start in New game and avoid taverns should do it?
@@Cx10110100 Yes I haven't played Skyrim in ages. But I remember you could get to that building before it got destroyed but you might get disappointed the leader of the Stendarrs has the same dialogue lines as the average Stendarr npc you encounter...
@@Cx10110100 Pretty sure the halls are in tact until you reach the level the dawnguard quest starts. Could be wrong but I haven't been able to get the game working properly lately.
The Vigilants of Stendarr emerged after the Oblivion crisis, they took it on themselves to hunt Daedra and daedra worshippers to prevent another Oblivion crisis from ever rising... meaning they were more like witch hunters than actual vampire slayers like the Dawnguard. The likes of Werewolves and Vampires were secondary targets at best, due to being derivative of daedric influences, but because of their fixation with the Oblivion Crisis, the vigilants preferred to target Cultist covens rather than eliminate the actual monsters.
The Silver Hand are even stupider than the Vigilants of Stendarr.
Also, I still think Farkas is a secret genius.
silver hand are very badly written. they're essentially bandits with silver weapons.
Ehhhhh Idk I can see the silver hands point of view given how they see the companions that became werewolves as impure and evil. However I believe they were just not expanded upon enough more fleshed out well
At least the Silver Hand planned out an elaborate trap in Dustman's Cairn. They also managed to sneak inside Whiterun and kill Kodlak.
@@l0remipsum991 True. But still, their methods are disgusting. I swear the Silver Hand has a torture fetish as requirement for joining. I don't see anyone approving of any of their long winded torture sessions.
@@princessbinas They're cruel but still more competent and intelligent than the Vigilants. I'll give them credit for that. I'm surprised they're not a joinable faction though.
Idiot/Stupid characters: *exists*
Avarti: "its free real estate"
They’re also hypocrites
Considering that violent fanatics serve THE GOD OF MERCY!!!
It's sad to see that they can't even preform the one thing that their code tells them to do (i.e. have mercy for others). They had one job and they fucked it up.
Funny thing about Justice and Mercy. They are opposites. To be only just, you cannot be merciful for anything, no matter the minority of the infraction. To be only merciful, you cannot pass judgement for anything, no matter the crime. It is in being Good that a deity can combine these two disparate qualities effectively. Justice and Mercy are not ends in and of themselves, therefore.
The Vigilants are the fanatically justice-devoted faction of Stendarr's followers. Of course they lack mercy.
instead of mindlessly killing werewolves/vampires/daedra worshippers they should at least try to help them every once in a while. they could find alternative ways to purge vampirism or lycantropy, and if that doesn't work, they could just immunize people against it. they could also save countless lives by educating people about the dangers of dealing with daedra and etc... loads of possibilities.
It is possible for mercy and justice to co-habitate if you employ some wisdom. Obviously you aren't necessarily bound to show mercy to a worshipper of Boethiah for instance, because they're generally murdering psychopaths who live for bloodshed. A fledgling conjurer however who is just getting into summoning Daedra though...? Some mercy may be shown there with a strong warning. They might yet be set on the right path given a second chance.
@@andyknightwarden9746 well thought-out. It's just like real religious extremists to cherry pick the parts of their religion that suit their ideology.
I'm waiting for a video titled: Why the Adoring fan is a GENIUS.
Not genius enough to run when I used him as my dark brotherhood sacrifice😈
@@ComicBookGuy420 yet smart enough to learn reincarnation lol
@@shadysam7161 hopefully he got reincarnated with an actual iq🤣
@@ComicBookGuy420 lmao
"The Dark Elves aren't bad people" - the Argonians beg to differ
Nitzan G Apparently, slavery doesn't make you evil so long as it's legalised... or something.
Don't forget they were actually supposed to take your artifacts by force or otherwise at one point.
when does that happen?
Oh I want them to try😂 how do u get them to do that
@@ComicBookGuy420 it's a mod that brings back much of Skyrim's cut content.
@@TitanSubZero15 a mod named...?
@@ComicBookGuy420 Cutting Room Floor at nexusmods
They most certainly knew I was a werewolf when I got tired of their rambling and beat the vampires to their HQ.
lol, i did that in the base game
@Joe Appleby no but Stendarr worshippers do taste good
Virgin Vigilants of Stendarr vs Chad Dawnguard
Virginants of Stendarr vs Chadguard
@@CloroxBleachMan Actually that sounds more better than mine.
Jared Ramos “more better”
Virgin daedra simps vs chad vigilants and dawnguard
Two New video ideas:
Why the Silver Hand are geniuses : due to their desire to continue to be the Companions without the curse of becoming a werewolf.
And why Nazeem is an idiot. For the memes and the facts he has TRUELY little power overall in Whiterun Hold. Chillfurrow Farm is basically a bare bones garden and his wife is cheating on him with the acolyte of the Temple of Kinerath.
Just some more ideas.
@Mad Max Rockatansky In the acolyte's storage, there's a key to Nazeem's house (cut content, but neverthe less) and in the game files the acolyte and his wife are listed as in a relationship.
I made a vigilant character just because they are CONSTANTLY DYING
Man you and my character would be best friends.
@@ghuttsmckenzie4269 seriously and my vigilante has conjuration at 100 and uses the dawnbreaker. So he can be atleast the sole decent, non dying vigilant
@@jackbelmont4389 my guy is a vampire Lord who conjures atronochs and eat corpses.
@@ghuttsmckenzie4269 I'm a Dark Brotherhood Werewolf who enjoys changing at the hint of Silver Hand or Vigilants
I'm a dawnguard warrior magic person who will find a way to punch all the daedric entities
I'd like to offer a third possibility as to why Tolan ran headfirst into a Vampire-infested crypt: Grief. The Man was the only survivor of the massacre at the Vigilant's base, so it's entirely possible he was suffering from survivor's guilt. He knew he wouldn't survive the encounter, but he was going to take down as many vampires as he could with him... which turned out to be 2.
I think hircine is my favorite of daedric princes, not just because I like werewolves but also because he is fair and he doesn't torture his worshippers in the afterlife, in fact hircines plane is a lush hunting ground where skilled hunters can enjoy themselves hircine is also forgiving, like in his quest if you choose not to kill sinding he will actually thank you and that he wasn't mad towards either option, he rewards you regardless because he is just nice. That's why hircine is the coolest daedric prince
To think that the vigilants would attack Serana is not really accurate. Isran is more radical and against vampires than anyone and he accepted her into his fortress. Also I don't think the vigilants of Stendarr have a presence in Morrowind so your point that they would just blindly do war with the dunmer is not accurate either. There's Stendarr of every race so i think they know well the cultural importance of some daedra.
next episode “why glarthir is unappreciated genius” maybe?
This made my day.😂😂😂
@Stellvia Heonheim Just a town eccentric
Vigilant of stendarr: How about Fort Dawngaurd???
Vigilante of stendarr: 😒
Vigilant of stendarr: well close by it is a worn out shack
Vigilante of stendarr:😁
It's almost as if they really were going for cheap and free real estate.
@@bluesnake1713 i mean i guess i can't talk much bs, the knights of the nine held up in a church
Yeah, they did do well in protecting that church. Especially with the Knights of the Nine back at it. Wait......What ever happened to them after Oblivion?
@@bluesnake1713 there isn't a lot of lore in skyrim about them. Like the blades they were pretty much lost to history except with nobody left in their order. However i think they were taken out in the first raid from the dominion in the first great war. There is also a theory that those who survived became vigilants of stendarr but its a hunch
@@jamesbudd3096 I doubt those that survived joined them. Even if they did, would be one regret for them.
The thing that really pisses me off about the Vigilants is that they take the stance of “mercy”, but only mercy for those who _might_ be impacted by Daedra.
I always thought that they should’ve been more of a merciful group of healers, offering aid to those afflicted by disease, and only attacking when in defense of people, or as retaliation against a group they know are evil.
one cannot see the light if they stare directly at the sun, that is how you become blind.
That's right. They were blinded by the light....of the sun. Wonder if you could make glasses with the material to make glass armor and weapons.
probably, though i bet you could find a nice pair in a dwemer ruins, after all, they seemed smart enough to make mechanical golems.
@@Hawkens4k Perhaps very smart to be making guns as well. Not just guns....Guns that shoots energy.
@@bluesnake1713 now you are just on skooma there, what matter of nonsense is that?
bows that shoot lightning? that what those robe wearing mages call a staff.
@@Hawkens4k I never touch that fowl vial more than ever getting my hands on it. Also you're speaking of Crosshows. Sure staffs are a thing, but come on....You got to admit it could be possible.
Whenever I encounter the vigilants of stendar they’re cat calling me on the side of the road, but they’re not vigilants ... they’re vampires dressed as vigilants.
I think the thing with Tolan running into Dimhollow Crypt was that he was blinded by rage. The Vampires had stripped him of everything, his friends, colleagues, his honor, and had insulted his very purpose he had devoted himself to. He was angry and reckless, which blinded him.
All these videos are sick, keep it up dude
Not once was I ever intimidated by these guys. I distinctly remember murdering them as a werewolf every time they approached me about daedra worship
I watched this video because there is like an our ago, I was heading to Meridia's temple (I have Wintersun - Religions of Skyrim mod and wanted to be a follower of her religion).
Just after I was praying her, heading off to Solitude (doing Potema quest, needed Meridia's powers because on Legendary with some difficulty mods Draugr can be pretty hard to deal with), 2 Vigilants of Stendarr was on my way. I talked to them, by habit to talk to every NPC on the road, and they told me they know I have some daedrics artifacts on me (Dawnbreaker and Azura's Star are the only two I have). When I refused to give it to them, they attacked me.
Okay so, for context I'm with Lydia and Aela as followers. I did the Companions questline (and I am a not cured, yes), and I wield Dawnbreaker.
So, 2 vs 3 to begin with, but yeah Skyrim doesn't take followers in account for those kind of situations, but even without it, I'm being known for being the leader of the Companions. They know I'm the champion of Meridia, who is absolutely against undead and things like that. Maybe they even know I'm Azura's Champion too, and I'm the dragonborn. There is absolutely no reason to attack me. Even if they want to follow their ideas of purity, they are against undeads too. I killed so many vampires, so many Draugr, and I have a weapon specialized in this, from one of the only "good" daedras.
It's just stupid choice by Bethesda (because when they talked to me it was in French, my game is in French and all my mods is in English, so it's vanilla the thing where they attack you because you have some daedrics artefacts, or Cutting Room Floor, who restore cut content, restore it in French because my game is in French idk), or an oversight. But if I consider this "canon", it's just pure stupidity.
To be fair, Serana had to grow as a person before she was this benevolent. She went through her own torture before officially deciding to fight back against vampiric injustice.
Tolan's comment could be defended as him saying that the Vigilants in Skyrim thought that there would be sporadic vampires here and there attacking people that they could fight off and not be facing an ancient, established and powerful clan with many powerful members and an elder scroll with an island fortress who had a plan with a world wide impact.
They were blind like the Jedi in star wars fighting evil threats but not the one that mattered
0:47 “Living Proof.” In the Dlc when we’re going into the Soul Carin she says Vampires aren’t counted among the living. Just putting it up there...
How many more of these goddamn videos are you going to do?
I mean, I'm not complaining, but you're just pumping these out mad quickly.
The only way you get views with Skyrim content is clickbaiting with titles like 10 SECRET SKYRIM ENEMIES YOU MISSED and then it's just normal enemies you see in your playthrough, it's better if he keep posting those where he actually puts some effort in doing the video while also creating new points of view on the TES factions and characters and also getting views for himself
ジョルノ・ジョバァーナ I would agree
@@Jollycreed I wasn't jabbing at the quality, it's just that so many of these have been done in such a short space of time that it's unreal.
There's a lot of stupid people in skyrim
I like tjem
Vigilants of Stendarr reminds me of Witch Hunters (or worshipers of Church of Eternal Fire in general) in Witcher 3 - mostly because of their narrow-mindness and hatred towards other kind of living entities.
Difference, Radovid leading the church of the eternal fire was a threat to the whole world of magic users/nonhumans. Vigilants with their npc leader couldn't threaten a kid in a halloween costume.
@@TransformingToybox right , a better compassion would be the volkhair vampires to radovid's hunters
Dawnguard really needed a plot thread or questline to unify the remains of the Vigilants and the Dawnguard. Isran would have benefited from having an inflow of people that actually had some idea of how to fight (instead of random farmers) and the vigilants would have found a new purpose/relevancy.
I kind of wish Bethesda would make a game were its more focused on one faction then giving you wide reign.
I mean i feel like it would be pretty cool if we played a initiate to the Vigilants of Stendarr and you move up the ranks till you become a leader than have to lead the faction in a area of Tamriel
But I like joining different factions...
Or they could keep the choice but add actual depth and meaning to joining a faction? Bethesda’s just lazy sure they lay decent foundations but always fail to build on them
@@ellisbarnett0292 They could have just as easily run out of time. A game isn't completely finished coding-wise at the snap of your fingers. It can easily take two years to make a simpler game. If you rush coding, you will just wind up complain about how they rushed a game that is far glitchier than Superman 64 or blander than ET for the Atari so that they could make a quick and easy buck. That's not just me assuming. It has happened before and a quick Google search can prove it.
All I can say is, be more considerate of those who use coding to create different features in games. I am so tired of people giving the shaft to people who are on a tight schedule because it wasn't their wet dream come true.
princessbinas but that’s not an excuse. There are games that have had the same or less time to develop yet still have the detail... Witcher 3 for example (I’m not comparing the games themselves so steady on) had half the development time and not to mention the difference in budget, yet had a number of fully fledged storylines that were actually enjoyable and not the the monotonous crap that Is so typical of Bethesda
Instead we get the bards college
I'll like to see them find out the Companions are werewolves. The Companions would destroy them in combat
What and lose their honour and reputation? As soon as word gets out that they slaughtered vigilantes, everyone will know they’re werewolves and there’ll be a lynch mob after them torch and pitchfork style
@@ellisbarnett0292 aren't the guard already knew that companion are werewolves?
Mada Playz according to what Skyrim tells us, the inner circles’ lycanthropy is a “closely guarded secret” even the other low ranking companions don’t know (or at least that is what is implied)
I broke out in a hysterical laugh when I learned they had a headquarters and that it was destroyed, I didnt even know they had a base of operations before the DLC.
Molag: "He is weak! Kill him!"
VoS: "Get out of my mind!"
Me: "Lol he isn't talking to you."
I didn’t even think of this the first time I watched, but it’s entirely possible that a vampire native to Skyrim might be *too compassionate* to take the cure for vampirism. The guy who cures vampirism in Skyrim requires a filled black soul gem to do so, effectively requiring a client to subject someone to a fate worse than death in order to get cured.
Khajiit had literally every Deadric Artefact that you can get, Khajiit was also a vampires, and they couldn’t tell this one apart from normal Khajiit.
“Serana is living proof that…”
Living, you say?
Interesting.
you should do why the dawnguard are smart. like they have the crossbow, armored trolls(good dog's) and some awsome spell that are actualy good. not mention the castle. The vilgiant of stendar called Isran to exstreme yet he is still alive. if the dawnguard is canon way to go they could become one of the most powerfull factions in Tamriel.
When I got Molags Mace, I slaughtered as much of them as possible.
Daddy Molag was proud.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
calling the prince of domination daddy...
not sure that was intentional, but nice
channels ahem ahem and rape
Thank you for doing this video, here are a few more reason's they are idiot's
1) They are horribly under equipped for there job: they run around in robes and yet use only basic restoration and alteration spell's. When fighting they attack with only blunt iron and steel weapons to fight, they do not have shield's, bow's or any type of attack magic, they don't even have any turn undead or banish spell's to help them.
2) They tend to trust random stranger's: The member you meet in Markarth that recruit's you (the first well armed individual he meet's) into helping him raid a house he suspect's hold's a daedric cult, he does this without even checking if your a member or not. Likewise you can find dead Vigilante's that where murdered by vampire's that they probably approached while thinking they where normal.
3) They are horrible at there job's: They couldn't trained these guy's past basic spell and weapon use because almost every time you see Vigilant's in action they either die quickly, get brainwashed or break under mental-strain, i remember seeing these guy's get decimated in a fight with a single Flame Atronach. On top of this they are way too aggressive to the point of casting even Mage-light on one is enough to provoke them.
4) They left there base defenseless: While sure there main base is manned by group of poorly armed member's they still seemed to of done nothing else to defend the building, there where no fence's, watch tower's, or anything to defend them from a incoming attack from . . . oh i don't know a pack of vampire's.
5) They don't seem to know anything about there enemy's: This might be the worse of all, they want to fight daedra and other monster's, yet they don't seem to know how to fight them (evident by there lack of preparedness), they seem to think they can just lock up the daedric artifact's while not knowing there respective prince's can call them back at any time (except apparently nocturnal), and they underestimated VAMPIRE'S of all thing's. Say what you will about the other monster hunting groups of Skyrim but at least they know how to fight what they hunt.
These problem's are inexcusable for a organization that has been around for 200 year's like they claim to be.
What has always cracked me up about them is...y'all are really gonna give me the side eye for carrying Dawnbreaker? Fine. Imma let the dragon eat you next time.
They cop an attitude with the damn Dragonborn, who (at least when I play) is a nice person going around helping folks, saving the world, etc. But they wanna give 'em crap for having a collection of Daedric artifacts. I sometimes wish you could put in ye our own responses LOL so I could say something like "Has it occurred to you morons that I'm collecting them up so they don't wind up in the hands of evildoers?"
Isnt that *the* line of the person that will turn to evil sooner or later? 😄😄
Wait you can play as a good guy?
Damn Kitty
When I play I'm the evildoer😈
Prior to the Dawnguard update, I loved visiting the Hall of the Vilgilants and just laying waste to the place. Was always a satisfying massacre.
5:18 the dragon born is stupid for blindly charging into every cave/fort/ruin in skyrim
The issue is that one's a demigod. The other is an old man running balls deep into a vampire infested crypt
My biggest issue with the Vigilants always was that they had no special weapon or something equal to that to kill Daedraworshippers. I mean how tf you want to kill even one werewolf with that poor equipment and a little bit of restoration magic.
For me, the quest mod Vigilant is canon. Makes them actually badass.
Me: Vampire, Mehrunes Razor equipped.
Vigilant of Stendarr: Need Something?
Me: YOUR SOUL, MORTAL
I thought this up when I saw it;
"Me and the boys about to get killed by the dragonborn."
You usually run into their corpses more than their living members. Also when my buddy tested VR for the first time i sent him loose in the wilds near riften and he managed to slaughter a group of them in the first five minutes before getting motion sick.
mace to the face
Lace at the pace.
Vigilants: "We hunt daedra wherever their presence is known."
Me (Wearing the Savior's Hide, Masque of Clavicus Vile, Namira's Ring, wielding Volendrung and carrying the Skeleton Key and six Black Books.): "You can all hunt deez nuts, if you n'wah's think you're bad enough."
"the dark elves aren't bad people"
Black marsh and Elsweyr are typing in chat
Keep it up, I'm loving these, you actually made me go back to playing Skyrim !
I remember I stopped in vigilant hall that was close to Dawstar to train up my restoration, After spending a hefty amount of gold I tried to steal all of it back but was unsuccessful on multiple tries. As I was role playing a daedric worshiper/artifact collecter I had no qualms with murdering them all with Molag Bals mace to reclaim my gold after it got tiresome going the sneaky route.
Vigilants of Stendarr ? Dragonborn : "Hmm, usually found dead...... good source of necklaces, robes & potions."
Just come to recommend the mod Vigilant, the best quest mod for Skyrim.
And to watch your probably great video
Never heard of it. What's it do?
Does it give you bungee gum nen?
@@justelliot4870 That's why i recommend it, it's unfairly underrated
Just Elliot it is a quest mod which involves several souls-like bosses, and also a part of coldharbour. The best way to experience it is to play it yourself, preferrably with some dark souls mods.
@@brunoactis1104 is it on Xbox?
What you should also touch base on is vigilant Tyrannus. This npc accompanies the player in the molag bal daedric quest: House of Horrors, once bal starts his poltergeist shenanigans, Tyrannus will become so fearful of the daedric prince (which he thinks is just an abnormally strong daedra and not a prince) that he will tell the player "it's you or me!" and will attack you. While you can argue you can't let one member spoil the entire faction you can however argue that they are hypocritical as when they sense danger or death is near they run away or try to murder an innocent instead of standing by their convictions and beliefs and show in the end they are weak cowards. not all are, and some face death bravely for their beliefs and for the innocent, but in the end they are flawed to a point that is lethal to themselves and this is precisely why Isran left to start the Dawnguard besides the fact their is a vampire menace threatening all life on Tameriel and possibly the whole of Nirn.
Another stupid thing about them is that they are quite weak and patrol in small numbers.
"uwu who's this" *proceeds to killcam you at full health with an iron warhammer
I was once wandering the outskirts of morthal,a place infamous for its deadly swamps filled with venomous spiders and the dark rumours of vampire activity.
While making my way towards the local Inn to share the stories of my many adventures with the locals over some nice cold mead.
I feel a dark,evil presence coming over me,I quickly turn around and lay eyes upon a master vampire,his two apprentices and two accompanying death hounds.
I quickly reach for my blade but alas I was not fast enough for the vile hounds swarmed me and the vampires were beggining to cast their evil magic upon my dying body.But then,when all hope had faded I hear a loud warcry,accompanied by an even louder:"DIE YOU FOUL BEAST"
Two brave warriors of stendarr emerged from the darkness and stormed the vampires with their warhammers.
As the first vigilant began his the master vampire summoned a beastly gargoyle and the vigilant was yeeted out of nirn shortly after.Seeing this the other warrior lost his courage and ran for his life but was shot down quickly.
This embarrassing display however gave me the time to chug a couple of potions,grad my steel sword and fus roh dah'd the vampires into the bog,we're spiders ate their carcasses.
I then dealt with the gargoyle and the remaining death hound and continued my journey to the Inn.
Therefore,please respect vigilants.
Well met traveler. As much as people Rag on the Ciy guard, Many a dragon and Vampire has been felled by their Bravery to charge straight into the Maw of the beasts, giving me a chance to Reload my crossbow for another shot. before the Foul creature is dog piled by the entire city wielding Knives.
The Vigilants of Stendarr would appear much more intimidating and fit to hunt daedra, if they just had curved swords like those warriors from Hammerfell.
i wish that once your the champion of every daedric prince,vampires would not attack you and consider you as a superior,werewolves would not attack you(talking about solstheim) and the companions would recognise you as a champion of hircine,etc.
Serana she seems like a good candidate for analysis.
No
Only if it's for how good she was
@@Riviscira agreed
when i was playing skyrim, i came across 3 Vigilants Of Stendarr guys attacking one week vampire fledgling with maces
They should of made fort Dawnguard there HQ then the Vampires or daedra would have a hard time trying to wipe them out
*look's at vigilant equipment* are you sure about that?
*Shows burnt Hall of the Vigil* yes friend im very sure
"The dark elves aren't really that bad" tell that to all their slaves 🤣
The Vigilants of Stendarr don't even do anything. Their only relevance is getting deaded in Dawnguard.
There is one in markath that asks you about a haunted house.
And then betrays you at the behest of Morgul Baal.
"The Dunmer aren't bad people"
The Argonians would like to have a word with you
Some vigilant told me he'd kill any Daedra worshipers he saw, but did nothing about Serana who was standing right beside me as he was talking.
You think they’d check out the obvious giant Daedric shrines teeming with worshippers instead of skulking around Whiterun.
Can you do the Mythic Dawn
I just love how he calls everyone idiot :D
Deja Sini he is sheograth after all
Hail sithis 🤣