mechanically, that is why but in terms of what will be canon for the series, Benor is just such a beast that he one-hands elven two-handed swords like childs toys
The distinction between souls is artificial and arbitrary anyways. There is no natural law that divides souls on a spectrum, but rather a magical regulation law, that makes sure gems are manufactured and enchanted in such a way that forbids the capture of sentient souls. Black gems are considered dangerous because they are outside this regulation. Basically.
Every times he mentions being the DragonBorn i think to that Scene in pirate of the Caribbean. "You've got to be the worst Dragonborn, I've ever heard of" -"ah , But you have heard of me"
I love the incidental racism in Tolfdir's task for the rest of the students Brelyna, the Dunmer, a race often associated with ancestor worship and extensive religious tombs is assigned the task of seeking for warding magics and the Khajiit, traditionally considered a race of thieves, is given a task to see if any thieves or grave robbers have been through before xD
For those who didn't spot it, the Orcish Mace can be seen at 45:34, at the base of the stairs leaning against the pillar. It blends in really well. Don't feel bad about not finding it, Jon, people with better perception than you could still easily miss it.
Damn, that blended in well with the surroundings. This is one of the rare moments when the audience of Many A True Nerd have a really hard time finding the object as well.
I saw it immediately i'm pretty sure, and he later was standing nearly on top of it looking further away, it physically hurt me to watch but I understand Jon went with perception as a dump stat.
I feel like he should occasionally just phone-a-friend so they can find his lost stuff. After all, It seems that everyone but Jon notice his randomly lost guff
Jon, all those summonings staffs like staff of the familiar that you don't care about, you can give them to your followers and they actually use them! They cast them at the start of a fight and then go over to their weapon, because it's them casting it, it doesn't count towards your limit, so if you gave the sanguine rose to Benor, you could have the dremora and the frost atronach out at the same time
Just wanted to point out that training, like skill books, saves your progress to the next level. So if you were at 38 and a half in a skill it would take you to 39 and a half.
"Why didn't you help more" *was clearly doing magic on the glowy thing that coincided with jyrik becoming able to be hurt and taking damage* JON PERCEPTION = -97
For the record, in high levels, j'zalgo is the best companion in the game. All other companions have a level cap, he continues to level with you. It's pretty awesome.
Pretty much, the difference between Alteration and Illusion is as such. Illusion only changes peoples perception of things. Alteration changes how things actually are.
I love Benor. He's like some sort of appears in your must vulnerable moments. Kind of like the eagles in Lord of the Rings, he just rocks up at the last minute to save the day.
Oh Jon, so preoccupied with his bloodthirsty murder of the dungeon boss he completely seemed to miss how it was completely immortal until Tolfdir started zapping the orb.
Tolfdir was interfering with the Sphere's influence over Jyrik the "Yes! I am invincible!" Draugr thus allowing it to be harmed and eventually defeated. When I did this quest for the first time (few weeks ago, in fact), I was aware of this, because I actually listened to the comments Tolfdir was making.
48:40 I like how he managed to get through that puzzle without ever realizing the Forward Left Pillar from the facing the gate perspective actually controlled 3 at a time when spun. Itself and the one both across and next to it.
+Goncalo Almeida No, the Divine souls of Vivec and Almalexia are the biggest, and they require Azura's Star to hold as a soul gem is not sufficient ...whoops, that was Morrowind (:
Even by Lore standards it is how mages train and it was a part of personal training in Oblivion, where the leveling system is a lot more complex but mechanically it is kind of cheesy when all spell purchases and perks are tied to the skill level Sheogorath would approve such cheese tho
Tiki Torchs it depends on the circumstances tbh, there is a glitch in the riften prison where you can get your illusion up by crouching near a cell and repeatedly casting muffle, forever.
For those who want to know more about the lore of Saarthal, Saarthal was a battleground between the snow elves or most commonly known as the "falmer" and the nords, alongside the nords was ysgramor. This battle at Saarthal between the nords and snow elves was called "the night of tears". The nords eventually took down the snow elves during the battle. The reason the snow elves look like the way they do now (falmer) is because when the snow elves fled from the nords they fled to the dwarves who they thought could save them from the nords which they did but at a price, blindness! The dwarves would manipulate the snow elves by blinding them. This is the reason why in dwarven ruins you might see falmer fighting against dwarven machines. For more info go to the skyrim wiki. I just was one who enjoys reading about the lore.
First at this point they were still Atmorans. Second they never forced the Snow Elves to flee from Saarthal. The Snow Elves massacred them leaving only a handful of survivors. They were not at war. That's why it is called the Night of Tears. Then Ysgrammor (one of the survivors) went back to Atmora and came back with his 500 Companions. They then wage war on the Snow Elves eventually forcing them to require sanctuary. Then the Dwemer offers them sanctuary if they agree to becoming blind. Not all snow elves took the deal but regardless most did. The Dwemer then enslave them and the War of the Crag happens. The Dwemer then disappear due to Kagrenac in Morrowind. Then the Snow Elves eventually devolve into the derelict state we know them as today.
er, not quite. the night of tears was the elves sacking and murdering everyone in Saarthal. in retaliation Ysgramor returned to Atmora and brought the Five Hundred Companions to slaughtered all the falmer, some of which survived by running to the dwemer.
I find that Jon, unlike other popular let's players has avoided the deadly curse of complacency. When a channel gets large enough, they start to coast, assuming that their subscribers will watch whatever content they put out. This leads to massive differentials between subscriber count and actual views. The strongest example of this is the channel Machinima. Some of their content gets less than 95% of their subscriber count in actual views. That is what complacency does to a channel
The biggest problem I have with Jon is that he's pretty much blind and assumes everything and then starts raving and ranting when it doesn't go his way lol
Invisible is in Illusion technically magelight/candlelight used to appear in Illusion as Starlight but Skyrim changed up some of the magic schools The Conjuration trainer actually mentioned part of the Mages Guild questline in Oblivion, when he mentioned the ban on necromancy
Invisibility was an Illusion spell in Morrowind / Oblivion, Jon. In terms of the lore, the schools are only a Mages Guild thing - so invisibility could be an Alteration spell to one person and an Illusion spell to another, and they'd both be right. Magic doesn't naturally have categories.
GHARTOK PADHOME Paralyze is a perfect example of this. In Daggerfall it was alteration. Then in Morrowind and Oblivion it was illusion. Now back in Skyrim it's alteration again.
Black soul gems always fill with grand souls; the difference is how obtained (living sentient humanoids); Shouts can disarm you, it was leaning against wall at 45:34
And "human" souls are only Grand quality. That black soul gem has the best quality soul it can contain. Watching him drop it to try and get rid of the soul drove me mad.
Jon, you are not limited to helping people in town. The Jarl's entire hold counts. It can be tricky to find 1 last person to quest for in the smaller holds. They lack enough shops, smiths, halls of the dead and such. Don't sweat it. You'll probably end up doing it on accident. By the way, keep an eye out for a woman who hates bears just as much as you do.
Black Soul Gems are always grand - as all human souls are grand. That's also a reason why the Black Star is so good - every time you take a soul, it's grand
Lore answer to Jon's question about Draugr: The Draugr are groups of ancient man, mainly Nords, who were alive during the time that the dragons ruled all of Mundus. They worshiped the dragons, with the highest in their ranks being the dragon priests. Each priest was given two tasks. Their primary task was to control their subject populations through governmental and religious control. Their second task, given to them much later after Alduin was banished the first time, was to prepare large burrow sites that would serve to hide away large tombs that would then house thousands of their most loyal subject in an eternal slumber, until Alduin returned to Tamriel. The new subjects would then help assert Alduin's commands as he would try to conquer the world again. Unfortunately for those subjects, the slumber turned out to be permanent for large swathes of the population, and they will never wake again due to a currently unknown cause, although there are probably many theories as to what caused it. Even those that woke, including the dragon priests themselves, suffered from immense flesh and bone deterioration due to the long sleep, giving them the zombie-like appearance we see today.
Jon, there are times when I think you'd benefit from giving Become Ethereal a go. It's not usually all that effective in combat, but it can save you a lot of time and/or hassle on those occasions when you want to just jump down from somewhere but the fall would kill you. The BE shout protects you from all damage as long as it's active, which includes falling damage--and even the first level lasts long enough for most falls. With all three words you're invulnerable long enough to literally jump off the Throat of the World and survive.
Throw voice is actually quite useful jon, if you are sneaking and use it against a far away wall they will go investigate, giving you time to wail on them.
Jon, the Draugur that don't wake up are just fancy containers, like urns or stuff. The in-game reason they don't wake up though is that they've been in there for so long that the magic that keeps them awake has simply worn off iirc. Tolfdir did help in the fight: you can only damage Jyrik Gauldurson while he's draining the Eye of Magnus. And Jon, Nord names follow faux-Scandanavian pronunciation rules: J is pronounced Y. So, Jyrik would most likely be Yirik.
@3:25 - Gotta love how quickly they tell you "You're going to become Arch-Mage, but it's going to just be an empty title." :) @33:50 - Says the guy who insists on using the basic Healing...
Seeing as making someone disappear is by definition an illusion, I do think invisibility makes sense being associated with that school. Alteration changes the substance of things, such as transmutation and stoneflesh spells, while Illusion changes how things are perceived by others. ("They're ILLUSIONS, Michael, not tricks!")
He was draining the power of the sphere, which would've made the draugr invincible had he not stated early. Sometimes he will take forever to start casting on it though. Also, it's clever that he used sparks, which will drain magica.
Psijic Order has ties to the origination of the Mages Guild, which was started by a member who left the Order but the Mages Guild fell out of favour after the Oblivion crisis, and was replaced by the College of Whispers in Cyrodiil while the College of Winterhold remained independent
I let loose a little "nooo!" when John tried dropping the black soul gem filled with Grand Soul. Even though all humans and elves have Grand Souls it's like making a horcrux, it's bad for your own soul lol.
Jon. inside the college is a trapdoor to a place called the Midden. You will have to go there later in the collage questline but you can go there now. In the Midden is something called the atronach forge with a large amounts of candles around it. If you take your ebony weapons and put them in a dwarven chest there along with 1 daedra heart, 1 centurion dynamo core, and 1 black soul gem (filled or unfilled) you will get a daedric version of that weapon. This only works if you don't enchant or improve the weapon first.
Enthir in the collage will get you the daedra heart and black soul gem and maybe the dynamo core but in the last dwarven ruin you went to there was one in the centurion you fought.
As for the draugr that don't wake up - the Nords have been known to let their dead wind-dry. They've likely not gone through the proper rituals to become tomb-guardians, and are just regular corpses.
The mace is literally at your bloody feet when you say where you were standing when the mace was shouted out of your hands.....you are literally standing on top of it.
I really love wards, such a cool spell while at the same time ridiculously useful, especially for a battlemage or paladin class who doesn't have alchemy or enchanting abilities to provide resistance to magic
Hey Jon, on the lock picking mini game if you put your lock pick all the way to the left side and move it slowly to the right side you will hear a click somewhere in between the left and the right. That is where the sweet spot is. It works on any level of lock
Jon said Benor 37 times in this part making the Benor counter at 326.
That was my mace. I dropped it when I fought the dragon while you hid behind a rock
And then you lost it
If it was your choice, you'd still be using a bow and arrow...
I was looking for my mace
Hey do you like the rufel axe i gave you i had to kill a talking dog to get it for you
Has anybody seen flipping Benor around here? He's wandered off again.
Tolfdir uses his magic to make the boss not invulnerable. Jon: "Can you not be doing something more useful?"
I mena its not like before Tofdir intervened no body was doing ANY damange to th boss, clearly Joh just needed higher DPS
And now I have higher DPS. And staffs.
Where's Benor?
yes, that's what i said...
"The guards and Benor did most of the work there"
we had already presumed that, but your honesty is appreciated
I hope Jon got the last hit, that's all that matters.
RIP Orcish Mace 00:00 - 43:31
Haha, talk about an awful life span
Why is Benor holding a two-handed sword with one hand?! Because it was a one-handed sword Jon
mechanically, that is why
but in terms of what will be canon for the series, Benor is just such a beast that he one-hands elven two-handed swords like childs toys
It's just an elf sword.
43:29 Perception = 0 43:57 Perception = -1 45:33 Perception = -1000
that is the best part. jon has no perception luls
I swear I heard something over here.
Benor? Is that you?
At least he's self aware
The struggles of trying to see a green grey thing on a green gray floor when your color blind
Jon the mace you lost by the disarm spell rolled to the bottom of the log stairs. you can see it at 45:34 leaning against the wall
Even 5 years later this stresses me out so much. Watching him start each search right beside where it actually is without ever lookng
@@stytler06 yes
yes
Jon...a human soul is a grand soul.
It's black
John Bean the highest level of soul is grand. Human souls go into black soul gems but is still of grand value soul
thank you
The only reason Human Souls go into the Black Gems is because their "Sentient" Souls...
The distinction between souls is artificial and arbitrary anyways. There is no natural law that divides souls on a spectrum, but rather a magical regulation law, that makes sure gems are manufactured and enchanted in such a way that forbids the capture of sentient souls. Black gems are considered dangerous because they are outside this regulation. Basically.
"...This guy might be Dumbledore in disguise!" Just the nastiest burn. I laughed entirely too hard.
Every times he mentions being the DragonBorn i think to that Scene in pirate of the Caribbean.
"You've got to be the worst Dragonborn, I've ever heard of"
-"ah , But you have heard of me"
Benor doesn't understand human concepts such as "love", "education" or "pacifism". All he knows is "axe".
Well why don't he axe Jon about those topics than?
That's not true!
Benor just understands that love and pacifism will be all that is left after he educates people with his axe
I love the incidental racism in Tolfdir's task for the rest of the students
Brelyna, the Dunmer, a race often associated with ancestor worship and extensive religious tombs is assigned the task of seeking for warding magics
and the Khajiit, traditionally considered a race of thieves, is given a task to see if any thieves or grave robbers have been through before
xD
For those who didn't spot it, the Orcish Mace can be seen at 45:34, at the base of the stairs leaning against the pillar. It blends in really well. Don't feel bad about not finding it, Jon, people with better perception than you could still easily miss it.
Damn, that blended in well with the surroundings. This is one of the rare moments when the audience of Many A True Nerd have a really hard time finding the object as well.
I like how he stood right on top of it and didn't notice.
I saw it immediately i'm pretty sure, and he later was standing nearly on top of it looking further away, it physically hurt me to watch but I understand Jon went with perception as a dump stat.
I feel like he should occasionally just phone-a-friend so they can find his lost stuff. After all, It seems that everyone but Jon notice his randomly lost guff
Oliolli3 Thank god I thought I was going crazy when I saw it.
43:45 I'd say I'm amazed that he didn't even notice he was disarmed, but...
Jon, all those summonings staffs like staff of the familiar that you don't care about, you can give them to your followers and they actually use them! They cast them at the start of a fight and then go over to their weapon, because it's them casting it, it doesn't count towards your limit, so if you gave the sanguine rose to Benor, you could have the dremora and the frost atronach out at the same time
I love how as Jon is trying to calculate where the mace landed, he is literally on top of it
10:12 Benor has basically turned into that overprotective father-type figure.
I would love to go to the Winterhold College. No student loans,free room,free food no magic discrimination and field trips.
deadly field trips
Emil You have to pay somehow
Matt Smith butt it's a risk worth taking and it's a win win situation
Survivor 2021 This is the only magic school I would go to.
Well... there is the constant threat of death, but I guess that's universal in Skyrim.
Just wanted to point out that training, like skill books, saves your progress to the next level. So if you were at 38 and a half in a skill it would take you to 39 and a half.
You and Benor are giving this play through a sort of buddy-comedy vibe, and I love it!
Jon, Tolfdir did help he took away the invincibility of the draugr.
Ice form is actually, like, really good Jon. You should use it more than never.
Turtlesaws I don't think it's that good, especially if you have a companion
Jon, the paralyzing sword was a One-Handed weapon.
"I haven't had this much fun since my first playthrough of skyrim"
*single tear rolls down my eye*
45:35 The mace was right there, nestled against the base of the wooden ramp.
45:34 is that your mace?
Yep. I also just posted that :) However using the time-stamps 43:57 to 44:00 :)
I can't help but see Brelyna as Tali with magic. She's just so cute.
King William The Conqueror She was my first Skyrim wife. I couldn't handle the cuteness.
Your mace is leaning on the wall at the bottom of the left stairway in the room where you were disarmed.
"Why didn't you help more" *was clearly doing magic on the glowy thing that coincided with jyrik becoming able to be hurt and taking damage* JON PERCEPTION = -97
The restoration faculty member gets adorably happy when you tell her you respect restoration.
39:03 that honed ancient nord war axe does more base dmg than the ebony at 34! XD
nvm i forgot the bonuses
For the record, in high levels, j'zalgo is the best companion in the game. All other companions have a level cap, he continues to level with you. It's pretty awesome.
Mike Flynn The dark brotherhood associate and serana also level up to the level cap.
Pretty much, the difference between Alteration and Illusion is as such. Illusion only changes peoples perception of things. Alteration changes how things actually are.
fighting draugr in a goddamn magical bathrobe, every hit he takes is like 1/3 of his health, the frustration is real.
Jon, your amazing magica regeneration also comes form cleansing the focal points.
I love Benor. He's like some sort of appears in your must vulnerable moments. Kind of like the eagles in Lord of the Rings, he just rocks up at the last minute to save the day.
I think the mace of molag bal would be really good for this character!!!!!
Josh Teear Yea but it runs out of charge really quickly
It's not like there is a shortage of souls to trap in Skyrim.
LocoSoloLobo But in order for him to fill them he'll have to kill people with the bound sword
Hectic Man Dude..... The Mace has Soul Trap built into it
Riki The Legendary Heropon oh yea I forgot about that
Love how the mace was literally on screen like a second before Jon said that it had probably been. Perception 1 indeed!
Oh Jon, so preoccupied with his bloodthirsty murder of the dungeon boss he completely seemed to miss how it was completely immortal until Tolfdir started zapping the orb.
I was going to say "Go Team Dragonborn!" but let's be honest.
Go Team Benor!
The elven sword of stunning is one-handed, Jon. Use it yourself!
A human soul in a Black Soul Gem is a Grand Soul by classification
you could not knock the soul out because it was already filled to the max
Tolfdir was interfering with the Sphere's influence over Jyrik the "Yes! I am invincible!" Draugr thus allowing it to be harmed and eventually defeated. When I did this quest for the first time (few weeks ago, in fact), I was aware of this, because I actually listened to the comments Tolfdir was making.
*stares directly at the mace
(1 minute later) " man my perception is so bad I bet I could stare directly at that mace and I wouldn't see it"
48:40 I like how he managed to get through that puzzle without ever realizing the Forward Left Pillar from the facing the gate perspective actually controlled 3 at a time when spun. Itself and the one both across and next to it.
43:57 to 44:00 Your Orc mace is at the bottom of the stairs.
grand soul = human soul. grand is the highest soul in the game
Dyrell Chambers No, black is the biggest soul, and it's only filled with human souls
Gonçalo Almeida no human souls can only fit in black soul gems but they count as grand souls.
Dyrell Chambers Oh, ok. Sorry then
Gonçalo Almeida no problem. Skyrim is a big game with lots of nuances.
+Goncalo Almeida
No, the Divine souls of Vivec and Almalexia are the biggest, and they require Azura's Star to hold as a soul gem is not sufficient
...whoops, that was Morrowind
(:
How would casting muffle over and over again count as cheating? Its called training.
Even by Lore standards it is how mages train
and it was a part of personal training in Oblivion, where the leveling system is a lot more complex
but mechanically it is kind of cheesy when all spell purchases and perks are tied to the skill level
Sheogorath would approve such cheese tho
Tiki Torchs it depends on the circumstances tbh, there is a glitch in the riften prison where you can get your illusion up by crouching near a cell and repeatedly casting muffle, forever.
Tantrika X CHEESE!
i love that skyrim characters are starting to come alive in the comments
For those who want to know more about the lore of Saarthal, Saarthal was a battleground between the snow elves or most commonly known as the "falmer" and the nords, alongside the nords was ysgramor. This battle at Saarthal between the nords and snow elves was called "the night of tears". The nords eventually took down the snow elves during the battle. The reason the snow elves look like the way they do now (falmer) is because when the snow elves fled from the nords they fled to the dwarves who they thought could save them from the nords which they did but at a price, blindness! The dwarves would manipulate the snow elves by blinding them. This is the reason why in dwarven ruins you might see falmer fighting against dwarven machines. For more info go to the skyrim wiki.
I just was one who enjoys reading about the lore.
First at this point they were still Atmorans. Second they never forced the Snow Elves to flee from Saarthal. The Snow Elves massacred them leaving only a handful of survivors. They were not at war. That's why it is called the Night of Tears.
Then Ysgrammor (one of the survivors) went back to Atmora and came back with his 500 Companions. They then wage war on the Snow Elves eventually forcing them to require sanctuary.
Then the Dwemer offers them sanctuary if they agree to becoming blind. Not all snow elves took the deal but regardless most did. The Dwemer then enslave them and the War of the Crag happens. The Dwemer then disappear due to Kagrenac in Morrowind. Then the Snow Elves eventually devolve into the derelict state we know them as today.
er, not quite. the night of tears was the elves sacking and murdering everyone in Saarthal. in retaliation Ysgramor returned to Atmora and brought the Five Hundred Companions to slaughtered all the falmer, some of which survived by running to the dwemer.
I can't even watch other Let's Plays anymore. Jon edits out anything boring and I can't stand how dull everything else on TH-cam is in comparison.
I find that Jon, unlike other popular let's players has avoided the deadly curse of complacency.
When a channel gets large enough, they start to coast, assuming that their subscribers will watch whatever content they put out. This leads to massive differentials between subscriber count and actual views. The strongest example of this is the channel Machinima. Some of their content gets less than 95% of their subscriber count in actual views. That is what complacency does to a channel
scarletspeed7 Riki also notices a similar issue, Riki stuggles to watch anything other than Masaeanela, Chuggaaconroy, and MATN
Only other channels I can enjoy now are Sw1tcher and NerdCubed.
The biggest problem I have with Jon is that he's pretty much blind and assumes everything and then starts raving and ranting when it doesn't go his way lol
Yes, he does have a tendency to blame the game
You should probably buy some new spells from the teachers
Invisible is in Illusion
technically magelight/candlelight used to appear in Illusion as Starlight
but Skyrim changed up some of the magic schools
The Conjuration trainer actually mentioned part of the Mages Guild questline in Oblivion, when he mentioned the ban on necromancy
illusion changes perception of reality alteration actually changes reality
I love how the guy who voices Savos Aren is the dedicated "dodgy character" voice
Invisibility was an Illusion spell in Morrowind / Oblivion, Jon. In terms of the lore, the schools are only a Mages Guild thing - so invisibility could be an Alteration spell to one person and an Illusion spell to another, and they'd both be right. Magic doesn't naturally have categories.
GHARTOK PADHOME
Paralyze is a perfect example of this. In Daggerfall it was alteration. Then in Morrowind and Oblivion it was illusion. Now back in Skyrim it's alteration again.
That's because it always was alteration. Somebody used an illusion to make it appear otherwise. Then it was altered back again.
Have you seen Benor?
Jon look at 45:34 the mace is slightly to the left of the crosshair, propped up against the stone pillar
That teacher guy is unfailingly pleasant and inquisitive. I like him.
"Just look at all these coffins!"
the orkish mace that you lost is right next to your left index finger at 45:33
At 45:34 the mace is at the bottom left of the ramp next to the stone pillar.
Black soul gems always fill with grand souls; the difference is how obtained (living sentient humanoids); Shouts can disarm you, it was leaning against wall at 45:34
Grand soul is the largest soul a black soulgem can hold. It's comparable to a grand soulgem. Just less common and illegal.
And "human" souls are only Grand quality. That black soul gem has the best quality soul it can contain. Watching him drop it to try and get rid of the soul drove me mad.
Where's the character account for Jon's watermelon helmet
Oh! Don't tell me that's gone bloody missing, too?
Love the channel Jon
Can you tell me where your accent is from as we can't quite work it out
Cheers keep up the good work!
"take the stairs, chillout jon not everything is an action film." my goodness makes me realize my dragonborn is a total drama queen about everything
45:34 look at the bottom of the ramp jon
45:33 *looks at mace* "need to find this bloody mace"
You need the spell summon dremora lord. The thing can go one on one with a dwarven centurion and win.
the elven sword was one handed Jon, two handed ones are called geatswords
Jon, you are not limited to helping people in town. The Jarl's entire hold counts. It can be tricky to find 1 last person to quest for in the smaller holds. They lack enough shops, smiths, halls of the dead and such.
Don't sweat it. You'll probably end up doing it on accident. By the way, keep an eye out for a woman who hates bears just as much as you do.
Black Soul Gems are always grand - as all human souls are grand. That's also a reason why the Black Star is so good - every time you take a soul, it's grand
The mace was at the bottom of the wooden stairs next to the wall (min 45:34)
If you need to get down a high drop, Become Ethereal.
Works wonders!
Lore answer to Jon's question about Draugr: The Draugr are groups of ancient man, mainly Nords, who were alive during the time that the dragons ruled all of Mundus. They worshiped the dragons, with the highest in their ranks being the dragon priests.
Each priest was given two tasks. Their primary task was to control their subject populations through governmental and religious control. Their second task, given to them much later after Alduin was banished the first time, was to prepare large burrow sites that would serve to hide away large tombs that would then house thousands of their most loyal subject in an eternal slumber, until Alduin returned to Tamriel. The new subjects would then help assert Alduin's commands as he would try to conquer the world again.
Unfortunately for those subjects, the slumber turned out to be permanent for large swathes of the population, and they will never wake again due to a currently unknown cause, although there are probably many theories as to what caused it. Even those that woke, including the dragon priests themselves, suffered from immense flesh and bone deterioration due to the long sleep, giving them the zombie-like appearance we see today.
Okay I found it hard to spot the mace, even when it was pointed out to me, I think Jon needed a natural 20 to get that
Two episodes ago; "I just do not see the use of Unrelenting Force"
Now; "Something is happening... FUS-ROH-DA!"
Jon, there are times when I think you'd benefit from giving Become Ethereal a go. It's not usually all that effective in combat, but it can save you a lot of time and/or hassle on those occasions when you want to just jump down from somewhere but the fall would kill you. The BE shout protects you from all damage as long as it's active, which includes falling damage--and even the first level lasts long enough for most falls. With all three words you're invulnerable long enough to literally jump off the Throat of the World and survive.
after leaving Tolfdir you really got hit with the "the draugr are training" effect
Benor literally fell from the sky and slew your foe like an avenging angel. Please marry this man, Jon.
Throw voice is actually quite useful jon, if you are sneaking and use it against a far away wall they will go investigate, giving you time to wail on them.
Jon, the Draugur that don't wake up are just fancy containers, like urns or stuff. The in-game reason they don't wake up though is that they've been in there for so long that the magic that keeps them awake has simply worn off iirc.
Tolfdir did help in the fight: you can only damage Jyrik Gauldurson while he's draining the Eye of Magnus.
And Jon, Nord names follow faux-Scandanavian pronunciation rules: J is pronounced Y. So, Jyrik would most likely be Yirik.
I want this series to be on episode 100 so I can just binge for days, keep it up Jon!
Wish was granted!
@@energizer7354 holy blast from the past! lol and yeah I suppose it was!
@3:25 - Gotta love how quickly they tell you "You're going to become Arch-Mage, but it's going to just be an empty title." :)
@33:50 - Says the guy who insists on using the basic Healing...
Seeing as making someone disappear is by definition an illusion, I do think invisibility makes sense being associated with that school. Alteration changes the substance of things, such as transmutation and stoneflesh spells, while Illusion changes how things are perceived by others.
("They're ILLUSIONS, Michael, not tricks!")
You weren't doing any damage to that end guy until Tolfdir started zapping the big ball. Without him "not helping" you would have never killed him.
He was draining the power of the sphere, which would've made the draugr invincible had he not stated early. Sometimes he will take forever to start casting on it though. Also, it's clever that he used sparks, which will drain magica.
Psijic Order has ties to the origination of the Mages Guild, which was started by a member who left the Order
but the Mages Guild fell out of favour after the Oblivion crisis, and was replaced by the College of Whispers in Cyrodiil while the College of Winterhold remained independent
I let loose a little "nooo!" when John tried dropping the black soul gem filled with Grand Soul. Even though all humans and elves have Grand Souls it's like making a horcrux, it's bad for your own soul lol.
36:05 oh my god, the Frost Atronach picked up a nearby pot and started bashing a draugr’s head in with it. Skyrim is an ultimate game
at the 36:00 mark does Frosty pick up a barrel and throw it?
If you find a book called "The lost legend" (or something along those lines) it will tell you more about the Gauldurson quest
Jon. inside the college is a trapdoor to a place called the Midden. You will have to go there later in the collage questline but you can go there now. In the Midden is something called the atronach forge with a large amounts of candles around it. If you take your ebony weapons and put them in a dwarven chest there along with 1 daedra heart, 1 centurion dynamo core, and 1 black soul gem (filled or unfilled) you will get a daedric version of that weapon. This only works if you don't enchant or improve the weapon first.
Enthir in the collage will get you the daedra heart and black soul gem and maybe the dynamo core but in the last dwarven ruin you went to there was one in the centurion you fought.
I love how Jon acknowledges that his perception is "legendarily low" and that we've already seen the mace.
As for the draugr that don't wake up - the Nords have been known to let their dead wind-dry. They've likely not gone through the proper rituals to become tomb-guardians, and are just regular corpses.
The mace is literally at your bloody feet when you say where you were standing when the mace was shouted out of your hands.....you are literally standing on top of it.
In this episode, Jon is properly flippin' magical (tm).
I really love wards, such a cool spell while at the same time ridiculously useful, especially for a battlemage or paladin class who doesn't have alchemy or enchanting abilities to provide resistance to magic
Sp4rt4nSl4ya though you could just use spellbreaker
not if you roleplay a templar/paladin class who hate daedra/undead and other unnatural beings
Hey Jon, on the lock picking mini game if you put your lock pick all the way to the left side and move it slowly to the right side you will hear a click somewhere in between the left and the right. That is where the sweet spot is. It works on any level of lock
Best answer for the invisiablity guy. "Well... you are invisible. Your clothing isn't." hopefully resulting in a streaking mage.