to be fair, the guard says "welcome to Markarth, safest city in the reach." And technically, given that Markarth is the ONLY city in the reach, he's not lying.
First time I've ever been to Markarth (during my first playthrough) was waking up at the Temple of Dibella after losing a night of drinking against Sanguine. I walked out, wondered where the hell I am, then accidentally walked over a cliff and died after falling into the canal.
That’s one hell of a hangover cure; brutally effective. Once I worked out that was where you started Sanguine’s quest; I made sure to get the front gate before I found Sam to avoid screwing myself over.
I didn't. I noticed the awesome architecture right away and I thought I was in a Cyrodil-Oblivion like environment build by Altmer or smth. I admired the architecture today.
I think the most fascinating for me was the Falmer-Dwemer "rosetta stone" in Calcelmo's quarters. I've always wondered what it said. I think the Dwarves blinded the Snow Elves so that they couldn't see the Dwemer's most secret creations. Also, if you are blinded, you are much more vulnerable and easy to manipulate. And the "tonal magic" the Dwemer used *is* mentioned by Katria during the "Lost to the Ages" quest. She describes the resonators at the top of Arkngthamz as "tonal locks".
Here's my crackpot theory, if you remember the quest from the collage of Winterhold where the dude has you go get keening and the warped soulgem and he gets bound to you? I think, now hear me out, if he had the full set of the Kagrenac's tools as well as used tonal magic, he might have succeeded and been sent to where the dwarves are.
This theory made me remember this gag from Family Guy: Peter: "Oh, my God! Movable, printed type. We must keep this from the serfs, lest they gain literacy and threatened the landed gentry." Serf: "What you got there, m'lord?" Peter: *"NOTHING!!!* Back to your turnips!"
9:30 It would be funny if the Thieves Guild quest would have allowed the player to print out the dwarven side of the wall. That if Enthir sees it, he goes: "No, NO!! this is not the right language, go back and print the other side of the wall! ". Come back to the museum and the guards have quadrupled in people
"Bloodiest beef in the Reach" Always gets to me, does he have a special menu for his fellow cultists, or just letting the entire city partake unknowingly?
@@metetural9140 I beg to differ! I still play Daggerfall to this day and even have put more hours into it all together than Skyrim. I do still play Skyrim on and off to be fair.
Falmer: gets attacked relentlessly by Nords. Dwemer: defeats Nords. Falmer: thank you for rescuing us, how can repay you! Dwemer: rescue? More like change of ownership..
I love how the Reach feels old but powerful. Get some massive eldritch vibes in Markarth and the area as a whole is the best place for insurgents and the insane.
Also has one of the biggest and untouched ancient Nord ruins, as well. Most ruins tend to be already partially occupied by bandits, mages, and Forsworn, but Ragnvald is untouched, and dominated solely by draugr and its resident Dragon Priest, who has an interesting story himself as well.
On the stone tablet. Maybe the Falmer weren't "tricked" into being blind after all (as the old story says they were). Maybe the dwarves weren't originally cruel masters. So why were the Falmer blinded? Well in real life, when people go blind their hearing drastically increases, and one of the main things people comment on is that music sounds a lot better. And what are the dwarves known for? Tonal magic, musical magic. The Dwemer wanted to teach the snow elves about tonal magic so they could work better! And perhaps disappear along with the Dwemer, although unfortunately they weren't attuned enough by the time the disappearing ritual took place, and so were left to rot and become the Falmer we know today
Markarth is my absolute favorite city. The tall stones, the vertical aspect, the aesthetic... everything! (The city’s color dark green also happens to be my fav color). Most people like Riften, which I can agree with. Riften is stunning when the weather is good, but oft as not it’s just gross fog.
"And as your vision clouds, as the darkness sets in, fear not." Bruh. I really wonder what the dwarves' intentions were when turning the snow elves into the falmer we know today.
Is it possible that the Dwemer were also blinding themselves with the fungus? Blind people have better hearing which could help one better harness a magic based on sound. The fruit of the stones, symbol of their bond, sure sounds like it's already part of their culture.
@@dylannecros3636 not saying the entire race blinded themselves, they still needed people to build machines and maintain other aspects of the society. However, I think blinding ones self would still be very common if they expect all (if not most of) the Falmer to blind themselves as well. I'd expect at least 20% of Dwemer society maintains their vision for practical reasons.
One thing that I found interesting in that paragraph is that the Dwemer say they sent their machines against the enemies of the Falmer/Betrayed/Snow Elves. Which means that they might have gotten in a little, secret war with the nords for some time or just a few minor battles. And this also means that by that time their war machinery was as advanced as we can see in the Dwemer Ruins nowdays.
Hey Nate, I wanted mention a theory I have about Markarth: That it was specifically built to house the Falmer refugees as they fled the Atmorans. Specifically how much of a defensive structure it is. That it seems very sun focused, the city seems almost like the dwemer attempt at making a temple to Auriel> 1. The city faces the morning sun, as does the entrance and balcony of the Keep. So if you are exiting the Underkeep, or ascending it to reach the Dwemer-Falmer welcoming stone) you will see the morning sun) 2. The tower near the front of the city having a sort of solar focusing lense on its roof that shines a beam of sunlight upon an alter at its enterance which I suspect once stood a statue of Auriel. Its not a piece of dwemer machinery like we normally see, as that building has no machinery in it. 3. The building that is now the temple of dibella having an already temple-like design at its core (as in the dwemer originally built it that way, instead of it being later modified) such as that water basin in the entrance hall (which reminds me of that who water ritual the Falmer have) 4. How practically all the buildings around this central temple seems to be housing, not workshops or laboratories. And there is very very little to no dwemer machinery in these areas. 5. Most obviously, the afformentioned stone at the top of the city explicitly made to welcome to the Falmer as wards of the Dwemer. Indicating that Markarth is where they began their new lives.
Just yesterday i did “No one escapes Sidna Mine” and i realized too late I was helping Madanach, so in the confrontation between the guards and forsworn i attacked the forsworn, not realizing the guards were against me anyway, and now the entire reach is kill on sight whenever they detect me. A real shame, Markarth has always seemed so cool to me
You don't have to help the forsworn escape. You can kill Madanach in prison and take the key to the escape tunnel off his body, or pickpocket him and walk out. You only miss out on some enchanted forsworn armor, so no great loss.
There is a way to get the rewards for helping Madanach AND for killing him... As soon as you get the enchanted Forsworn armor before exiting the mine, kill him...
You can also kill Madanach and the rest of his crew within the city after you escape the mine with him, but it is very difficult. They are all very strong and they are trying to run away from you towards the gate where they disappear. Usually when you try to do this Thongvor Silver-Blood dies, but he came back to life for me after about an in-game month.
@ryanalving3785 if you are playing a mage and are quite far in development, you don't have the means to kill him in the prison, because he is tough, and you don't have your apparel to reduce mana requirements. But starting to help him and then killing him (once you get your stuff back before the exit) works.
16:18 Arnleif, the founder and former owner of 'Arnleif and Sons', is not the husband of Lisbet. When you asked her, "So who's Arnleif?", She replied "I inherited the store from my husband. His father was Arnleif. My husband, Gunnar, died about five years ago...." Therefore, Lisbet did not eat Arnleif, but she eat Gunnar, his husband Or maybe she eat them both?...
To lhis last part of the dwemer tablet. It almost sounds like "the vision fading" (the falmer going blind) is supposed to be a good thing. The talk about "radiance of our affection" and "final path to your new eternity", everything sounds so positive... People assume, that the dwemer blinded the falmer to enslave them. One hint for this being how the falmer evolved back to such a crude state. Though what if the dwemer planned for the complete opposite? They probably saw themselves as kind of "higher beings", rivaling the gods with their technology and tonal manipulation. Maybe they wanted to elevate the falmer to their level. Maybe they blinded them so they are more perceptive to sounds. Heck, maybe the dwemer themselves ate the "fruit of the stones" before (do we know, wether the dwemer were blind or not?). But while the falmer were still in the process of learning and evolving to a higher state (which obviously would be dependent on the dwemer), their teachers disappeared. Now with this lack of guidance they were forced to survive on their own, which led to their evolution do a 180 back to the stone age.
Just wanted to thank you for still making Skyrim videos. As many others I just can't stop playing it even if I sometimes take a break and play something else I always come back to our beloved Skyrim 👍
Tiny detail You cannot save logrolf's life But you can save his soul if you want to spit in the eye of molag bal/"save" logrolf If you kill him before he reaches the shrine the quest will fail And you won't get the mace But Bal won't get his soul either
I would just like to point out that Azzada's story is a perfect exemple for Boethiah not just being about murder or treason: Boethiah's shtick is about impact, influence, making your mark upon the world. Stabbing a man so as to prove you exist. Or, in Azzada's case, saving him so he remembers you forever.
The Dwemer needed slave labour because the automatons needed soul gems to work and it would be too expensive to make many robotic workers. The degenerated Falmer offered an stable source of soul gems for the automatons and cheap slave labour that is too primal, weak and beast like to fight back
Except soul gems as the power source was not conclusive, as Calcelmo pointed out in his texts, especially the ones you find in Alftand. From the way that stone read, it almost sounded like the Dwemer intended to actually guide the Falmer to becoming like them, as Nate made a guess at. But that didn't get too far before the Dwemer up and disappeared, leaving the Falmer behind to fare for themselves, and not getting along with the automatons. If the Falmer were supposed to be slave labor, you'd think the automatons would be geared to forcing the Falmer into labor, not outright attacking and killing them. Especially in Nchuand-Zel, which seems to be the place where the Falmer indoctrination began, and where once you turn the machinery back on, it all immediately goes into a rampage to exterminate the Falmer there.
the souls are artificialy made and that's is one of the reasons why they blinded them they didn't want them to be like the dark elves (trying to kill them) the whole "slave" thing was so they wouldn't be a bunch of freeloaders and war and other stuff and the robots would take to long to make
What if they blinded the snow elves to improve their hearing and use them as fine tuning? And what if tonal magic is the same as Thu'um, not words but pure notes that combine to an effect?
I didn't know I so badly wanted to learn what Calcelmo's stone said, until I woke up to this video! Thank you Nate, the lore addict in me is super happy now!
I get that Markarth has been carved out of the mountain making it a city of stone and Nate was probably taking creative license, but that bugged me too. Guess I'm just too type A about my favorite video game. Meh - there are worse things in life. Like if I'd never played Skyrim - that would suck!
@@b-52gaming3 almost done? i said that once, i think in 2012, still play the game randomly to this day, think i might have like 10,000 hours or more on the game. still not as much as nate here i bet.
“Oh man, I guess at the end of the day some people in this city gave quite a few skeletons in their closet or... refrigerator I suppose...” BEST QUOTE EVER
I really wish during the civil war quest when Ulfric demands Markarth during the truce there would be a way to explain to General Tulius that you're not giving the Stormcloaks Markath, rather you are giving the Stormcloaks (Nords) to the Forsworn. Then you'd be able to watch the Stormcloaks having to fight a guerrilla warfare against the Forsworn and use what would be considered a diplomatic loss for the empire turn into a massive strategic victory.
samsonguy10k idk🤔 something about some Ballsack guy and his mace? Maybe she’s afraid of ghosts! Daedra are ghosts right? It’s weird bc she’s a vampire but I can’t imagine that has anything to do with it 💁🏻♂️
Just too clarify if anyone is confused, Serena (That vampire daughter) had too * cough* Do stuff with Molag Bal to get her vampire power. So she was surprised to hear her Lord in an abandoned house
So, that Blinding of Snow Elves was not a cruel joke, but instead was an experiment by Dwemer to see (ha-ha) if after generations of permanent blindness a Mer race will become more powerful in Tonal Magic. Devious little buggers weren't willing to experiment on themselves, so they used Snow Elves!
My boyfriend downloaded a mod on my switch so any time I open Skyrim it’s just Nate saying “the elder scrolls V Skyrim” and tbh it’s the only source of stability in my life.
I had a guard tell me: “pst! I know who you are. Hail Sithis.” When I was going to talk to a contact for the brotherhood(wearing full shrouded armour). I found it pretty cool.
8:39 let us keep in mind that in Arena ALL the cities look the same, also Redguard does mention it is a rock city but nothing else, Bethesda did not just "change the lore."
Damn you Nate. Because of you and these videos, I've now gotta put ANOTHER few thousand hours replaying Skyrim for the 400th time. DAMN YOU AND YOUR INTERESTING VIDEOS. keep it up
Personally, I enjoy the idea that the Dwemer themselves were actually blind. It fits in perfectly with the lore in the idea that Tonal Magic is the magic of sound and without eyes or being blind, their other senses would be heightened and the tonal magic they used on themselves and others would be stronger. Its also intriguing to think because by blinding the elves, the power of the tonal magic would be increased and make them easier to command and manipulate to their whims. It would also explain the whole telekinesis bit since they may have been able to communicate with it instead of focusing on a single person. If the Dwemer had mastered Tonal magic, being able to command things to life or other things would be stronger too with blindness and the resonators you find amplifying that skill. The Tonal Magic would be their "eyes" in a sense and explain how they were able to construct such massive monoliths to their power without the whole cave structures collapsing and the enigmatic nature of their designs.
“You every been to Markarth? Some say it was built by the dwarves, but I don’t believe a word of it..”. P.S vigilant tyranus?.....darth tyranus...count dooku.
I think the Dwemer referring to the unbinding of bones is a reference to the Earth Bones, or the bones of Lorkhan, something the Dwemer were blatantly working against in the creation of Akulakhan. Kagrenac's tonal architecture experiments used the tools Sunder and Keening to manipulate the tonal energies of the heart of Lorkhan, in hopes of creating a mechanical god. Baladas of the Telvanni theorized that the Dwemer may have viewed Lorkhan creating the lives of the profane (their world and all that lived in it) could work in reverse, creating the sacred from the deaths of the profane. If they needed a handy source of sacrifices, the Falmer would have been quite a bit of cattle, but I don't think they would have been enough. The Dwemer linked themselves with Akulakhan, Falmer race intact, and that link is what caused them to all simultaneously (except Yagrum) zero-sum when the great event happened, leaving the Falmer behind. If the Falmer were at all part of the mass link, shouldn't they have also zero-summed, or did they in fact achieve CHIM? Did they reach another realization? Were they part of the link at all? ... I ask myself so many questions at night, knowing they may never be answered.
I really love that Ondolemar and Galmar scene. Note that the Thalmor were using Ulfric and his Stormcloaks to weaken the Empire (refer to Ulfric Dossier) but then they got stinged by their own venom.
Fist thing you hear: welcome to Markarth, the safest city in the Reach
First thing you see: murder
to be fair, the guard says "welcome to Markarth, safest city in the reach."
And technically, given that Markarth is the ONLY city in the reach, he's not lying.
@@ichbinjasokreativ2452 this man speaks the thruth
ichbinjasokreativ you’re forgetting Karthwasten. It’s still a city in the Reach
@@bullseye5262 it also got "attacked" by two dragons....murder...dragon....imma say the murder is safer than a dragon
Mixed Magical Markarth isn’t immune to dragon attacks...and either by man or dragon, murder is murder
First time I've ever been to Markarth (during my first playthrough) was waking up at the Temple of Dibella after losing a night of drinking against Sanguine. I walked out, wondered where the hell I am, then accidentally walked over a cliff and died after falling into the canal.
That’s one hell of a hangover cure; brutally effective. Once I worked out that was where you started Sanguine’s quest; I made sure to get the front gate before I found Sam to avoid screwing myself over.
😂😂😂
I didn't. I noticed the awesome architecture right away and I thought I was in a Cyrodil-Oblivion like environment build by Altmer or smth. I admired the architecture today.
#WRECKED
Lmao we've all made the plunge on accident one way or another 😂 it's called the Markarth Initiation
I think the most fascinating for me was the Falmer-Dwemer "rosetta stone" in Calcelmo's quarters. I've always wondered what it said. I think the Dwarves blinded the Snow Elves so that they couldn't see the Dwemer's most secret creations. Also, if you are blinded, you are much more vulnerable and easy to manipulate. And the "tonal magic" the Dwemer used *is* mentioned by Katria during the "Lost to the Ages" quest. She describes the resonators at the top of Arkngthamz as "tonal locks".
I do believe it is mentioned by septimus signus also though i might be wrong there its been a while
I murdered calcelmo to death
Here's my crackpot theory, if you remember the quest from the collage of Winterhold where the dude has you go get keening and the warped soulgem and he gets bound to you? I think, now hear me out, if he had the full set of the Kagrenac's tools as well as used tonal magic, he might have succeeded and been sent to where the dwarves are.
This theory made me remember this gag from Family Guy:
Peter: "Oh, my God! Movable, printed type. We must keep this from the serfs, lest they gain literacy and threatened the landed gentry."
Serf: "What you got there, m'lord?"
Peter: *"NOTHING!!!* Back to your turnips!"
Imagine tonal magic as radio waves from our reality
9:30 It would be funny if the Thieves Guild quest would have allowed the player to print out the dwarven side of the wall.
That if Enthir sees it, he goes: "No, NO!! this is not the right language, go back and print the other side of the wall! ".
Come back to the museum and the guards have quadrupled in people
Great idea
😄
Nothing a quick save can't fix
Galmar: “ON YOUR KNEES!”
Elf: *is standing on stairs and cant kneel because he will fall down*
Galmar: “I SAID ON YOUR KNEES, ELF!”
Uh
Elf: Ha! No.
Galmar isn't the sharpest axe in the armory
No, but he uses one, that’s good enough.
I love galmar.
"Bloodiest beef in the Reach" Always gets to me, does he have a special menu for his fellow cultists, or just letting the entire city partake unknowingly?
Partake unknowingly.
Poor lot.
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I read this as bloodiest reef in the beach 😆
You are making it too easy for people to make an adult oriented joke out of your comment.....
I was so confused when he said "And the dwarves are all gone" instead of "And the Dwarves arent talking."
His "And the Dwarves are all gone" means that they are not gonna talk because they are nowhere to be found
@@treyjordan3168 Wow! I never thought of that!
I think the way how he says that is even more weird
He said it so emotionally, sad
@@treyjordan3168 r/whoooosh
@@massattack9503 r/doublewoooosh
*"Nothing but blood and silver flows through markarth"*
- popular saying
ok
And water.
There's a huge ass waterfall in the city
I dont know, that yellow, fluid like substance i saw flowing down the streets didnt smell like blood or silver...
@@VotEtoPizdets Tastes the same.
Trust me.
So true but I am like this when they say this 🥱
Last time I was this early I walked right into that Imperial ambush. Same as that horse thief over there.
And him? That's Ulfric. Ulfric Stormcloak.
AnthonydoesYT The Jarl of Windhelm? By the gods, this can’t be happening! 😱
I don’t know where we’re going... but Sovngarde awaits.
shut up back there!
@@AnthonyDoesTH-cam watch your tongue thief, you're speaking to Ulfric
Stormcloak
"Small cult"
Includes about half of the citizens of Markarth...
BaronSengir1008 well it’s not like Skyrim’s cities are THAT big...like ten people tops.
Nic Cohen Stop right there! You have violated the laws of Skyrim and her people, what say you in your defense?
Solitude Guard
[Pause screen] -> [Load save]
“Okay. Let’s try that again _WITHOUT_ getting caught”
@@solitudeguard5318
*Quick saves and draws sword*
@@solitudeguard5318 i see you've caught up to the insanity I've been causing
They never told you that I've got connections in Markarth...
Bet
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Go on...
The fact that people still make videos for this game. It’s just crazy.
@Mercer Frey...it’s because it’s a legendary game that everyone grew up with. A legendary game for true gamers!
Grew up with lol
Yeah but will anyone play any of the previous games? Ha! No.
@@metetural9140 I beg to differ! I still play Daggerfall to this day and even have put more hours into it all together than Skyrim. I do still play Skyrim on and off to be fair.
@@OtakuHanzo you've played Daggerfall that much?! Jesus christ you are a masochist aren't you?
Falmer: gets attacked relentlessly by Nords.
Dwemer: defeats Nords.
Falmer: thank you for rescuing us, how can repay you!
Dwemer: rescue? More like change of ownership..
I like that reference
thats a misworded megamind reference, i love it.
i wouldn't say free. More like, under new management
The Nords never “owned” the Falmer.
@@GelatinousCube-jw8vg Yeah, but the Falmer were getting "owned" by the Nords.
M’aiq requests a video named Top 10 M’aiq the liar quotes
Menestas M’aiq appreciates your gift M’aiq is on his way now
How are your travels m’aiq? My follower inigo appreciates your facts!
Maiq will claim there are more. But they were his father's quotes. That is the 11th quote.
And their implications
M'aiq, why do you always lie?
15:25
Elf: gets hit with an axe
Also elf: stands there patiently
I love how the Reach feels old but powerful. Get some massive eldritch vibes in Markarth and the area as a whole is the best place for insurgents and the insane.
Also has one of the biggest and untouched ancient Nord ruins, as well. Most ruins tend to be already partially occupied by bandits, mages, and Forsworn, but Ragnvald is untouched, and dominated solely by draugr and its resident Dragon Priest, who has an interesting story himself as well.
That's preposterous! Markarth is a quiet city.... Now if you'll help me explore this abandoned house...
Good to see these videos during the boring time of quarantine!
Alan R gonna need a few thousand cure disease potions
@@fentanelfloyd8383 time to rob the Vigilant Outpost- I mean, uh, ask the Vigilants for assistance
Happy Quarantine!
Alan Ramos???
Yeah I love it too
Welcome to Markarth, the safest city in the reach
*Margaret dies 5 seconds later*
I always kill the Foresworn dude before he kills her.
You mean weylin?
@@vocodabaddest Yeah, him
That's how I knew it was the place for me.
Warden Herald I remember in my first play I had to restart 10 times coz my difficulty was so high to kill him and it only takes one shot to kill her
On the stone tablet. Maybe the Falmer weren't "tricked" into being blind after all (as the old story says they were). Maybe the dwarves weren't originally cruel masters.
So why were the Falmer blinded? Well in real life, when people go blind their hearing drastically increases, and one of the main things people comment on is that music sounds a lot better. And what are the dwarves known for? Tonal magic, musical magic. The Dwemer wanted to teach the snow elves about tonal magic so they could work better! And perhaps disappear along with the Dwemer, although unfortunately they weren't attuned enough by the time the disappearing ritual took place, and so were left to rot and become the Falmer we know today
Thats a pretty interesting theory
Your hearing doesn’t improve, you get better at using the senses you have left.
Markarth is my absolute favorite city. The tall stones, the vertical aspect, the aesthetic... everything! (The city’s color dark green also happens to be my fav color). Most people like Riften, which I can agree with. Riften is stunning when the weather is good, but oft as not it’s just gross fog.
Last time I was this early Margret was still alive
Margaret is the woman killed by the Foresworn dude when you first enter the city right? I always kill the Foresworn dude before he kills her.
@@thegreywardenherald8923 Then you kill her for being a agent of Imperial scum?
James Parker long live the empire. Death to the stormcloaks
This reply chain is a mess.
Stormcloak for life
"And as your vision clouds, as the darkness sets in, fear not."
Bruh. I really wonder what the dwarves' intentions were when turning the snow elves into the falmer we know today.
That paragraph was really cool!
Is it possible that the Dwemer were also blinding themselves with the fungus? Blind people have better hearing which could help one better harness a magic based on sound. The fruit of the stones, symbol of their bond, sure sounds like it's already part of their culture.
Thom I doubt they would have blinded more than a few of their own. Why blind your entire race if only a few are researching that magic?
@@dylannecros3636 not saying the entire race blinded themselves, they still needed people to build machines and maintain other aspects of the society. However, I think blinding ones self would still be very common if they expect all (if not most of) the Falmer to blind themselves as well.
I'd expect at least 20% of Dwemer society maintains their vision for practical reasons.
One thing that I found interesting in that paragraph is that the Dwemer say they sent their machines against the enemies of the Falmer/Betrayed/Snow Elves. Which means that they might have gotten in a little, secret war with the nords for some time or just a few minor battles. And this also means that by that time their war machinery was as advanced as we can see in the Dwemer Ruins nowdays.
Hey Nate, I wanted mention a theory I have about Markarth: That it was specifically built to house the Falmer refugees as they fled the Atmorans. Specifically how much of a defensive structure it is. That it seems very sun focused, the city seems almost like the dwemer attempt at making a temple to Auriel>
1. The city faces the morning sun, as does the entrance and balcony of the Keep. So if you are exiting the Underkeep, or ascending it to reach the Dwemer-Falmer welcoming stone) you will see the morning sun)
2. The tower near the front of the city having a sort of solar focusing lense on its roof that shines a beam of sunlight upon an alter at its enterance which I suspect once stood a statue of Auriel. Its not a piece of dwemer machinery like we normally see, as that building has no machinery in it.
3. The building that is now the temple of dibella having an already temple-like design at its core (as in the dwemer originally built it that way, instead of it being later modified) such as that water basin in the entrance hall (which reminds me of that who water ritual the Falmer have)
4. How practically all the buildings around this central temple seems to be housing, not workshops or laboratories. And there is very very little to no dwemer machinery in these areas.
5. Most obviously, the afformentioned stone at the top of the city explicitly made to welcome to the Falmer as wards of the Dwemer. Indicating that Markarth is where they began their new lives.
Just yesterday i did “No one escapes Sidna Mine” and i realized too late I was helping Madanach, so in the confrontation between the guards and forsworn i attacked the forsworn, not realizing the guards were against me anyway, and now the entire reach is kill on sight whenever they detect me. A real shame, Markarth has always seemed so cool to me
You don't have to help the forsworn escape. You can kill Madanach in prison and take the key to the escape tunnel off his body, or pickpocket him and walk out.
You only miss out on some enchanted forsworn armor, so no great loss.
There is a way to get the rewards for helping Madanach AND for killing him... As soon as you get the enchanted Forsworn armor before exiting the mine, kill him...
You can also kill Madanach and the rest of his crew within the city after you escape the mine with him, but it is very difficult. They are all very strong and they are trying to run away from you towards the gate where they disappear. Usually when you try to do this Thongvor Silver-Blood dies, but he came back to life for me after about an in-game month.
@ryanalving3785 if you are playing a mage and are quite far in development, you don't have the means to kill him in the prison, because he is tough, and you don't have your apparel to reduce mana requirements.
But starting to help him and then killing him (once you get your stuff back before the exit) works.
If the city changes sides, your previous crimes in it will be forgotten.
The Th’uum is actually a form of tonal magic; manipulating the music of time and space.
bravestlord Listen.. that.. voice you are using, it’s making people nervous. I have to ask you to stop.
@@solitudeguard5318 Too bad there's more where that came from!
@@solitudeguard5318 did you take an arrow to the knee?
"Eaten to death"
😁 a variation of the usual phrase
Correct me if I'm wrong but is that Petit morte?
and he had such good taste...
Last time i was this early nazeem allowed me into the cloud district.
Last time I was this early I was allowed to go outside...
@Kane's Cauldron Me: *Walks out to get mail*
Some homeless guy: Hey, buddy? Got any drugs?
16:18 Arnleif, the founder and former owner of 'Arnleif and Sons', is not the husband of Lisbet.
When you asked her, "So who's Arnleif?", She replied "I inherited the store from my husband. His father was Arnleif. My husband, Gunnar, died about five years ago...."
Therefore, Lisbet did not eat Arnleif, but she eat Gunnar, his husband
Or maybe she eat them both?...
Thank you!! I didn’t want to say it if someone already had. You get a like for attention to detail!
Last time I was this early the dwemer were enslaving all my brethren
block people?
Can you see?
_Can you?_
Ahhh Markarth, the epicenter of getting lost.
How ? City is tiny lol
What? I thought Windhelm is
@John Atienza. I guess that too. When trying to start the Dark Brotherhood, it’s hard to find the kids house.
Markarth and Windhelm both cause the Gandalf “I have no recollection of this place”
@@christinacrouch9711 the only thing I remember in Windhelm is how to find the blacksmith. Hell, even going to the palace got me lost.
To lhis last part of the dwemer tablet. It almost sounds like "the vision fading" (the falmer going blind) is supposed to be a good thing. The talk about "radiance of our affection" and "final path to your new eternity", everything sounds so positive...
People assume, that the dwemer blinded the falmer to enslave them. One hint for this being how the falmer evolved back to such a crude state.
Though what if the dwemer planned for the complete opposite? They probably saw themselves as kind of "higher beings", rivaling the gods with their technology and tonal manipulation. Maybe they wanted to elevate the falmer to their level. Maybe they blinded them so they are more perceptive to sounds. Heck, maybe the dwemer themselves ate the "fruit of the stones" before (do we know, wether the dwemer were blind or not?).
But while the falmer were still in the process of learning and evolving to a higher state (which obviously would be dependent on the dwemer), their teachers disappeared. Now with this lack of guidance they were forced to survive on their own, which led to their evolution do a 180 back to the stone age.
Just wanted to thank you for still making Skyrim videos. As many others I just can't stop playing it even if I sometimes take a break and play something else I always come back to our beloved Skyrim 👍
When your headphones are so high grade you can hear Nate clicking his mouse
Brand??? No seriously, I'm looking for new ones
@@catboy_official phone speaker
Tiny detail
You cannot save logrolf's life
But you can save his soul if you want to spit in the eye of molag bal/"save" logrolf
If you kill him before he reaches the shrine the quest will fail
And you won't get the mace
But Bal won't get his soul either
6: you can skip the thieves guild quest to calcelmo's lab with a bucket
Martijn Van Ooijen
Can you explain how please??
@@Kat-eo8by look at ymafh video about the thieves guild
@@Kat-eo8by you can fly using the power of bucket. Try watching Ymafh's video called "How to do Thieves Guild without stealing".
The bucket is the strongest item in the game.
"One of the guards say he saw a man flying through the sky. By standing on a bucket. Man's been hitting the skooma, I say."
"There were supposed to be sieges everywhere!"
Riverwood: 😐 😶
2:37
Didn’t know this quest was about my in-laws.
Niceeeeee.
HAHAHAHAHAHA NICE
They never told me how hot Hroki would be with the right mods.
I would just like to point out that Azzada's story is a perfect exemple for Boethiah not just being about murder or treason: Boethiah's shtick is about impact, influence, making your mark upon the world. Stabbing a man so as to prove you exist. Or, in Azzada's case, saving him so he remembers you forever.
The Dwemer needed slave labour because the automatons needed soul gems to work and it would be too expensive to make many robotic workers. The degenerated Falmer offered an stable source of soul gems for the automatons and cheap slave labour that is too primal, weak and beast like to fight back
Except soul gems as the power source was not conclusive, as Calcelmo pointed out in his texts, especially the ones you find in Alftand.
From the way that stone read, it almost sounded like the Dwemer intended to actually guide the Falmer to becoming like them, as Nate made a guess at. But that didn't get too far before the Dwemer up and disappeared, leaving the Falmer behind to fare for themselves, and not getting along with the automatons. If the Falmer were supposed to be slave labor, you'd think the automatons would be geared to forcing the Falmer into labor, not outright attacking and killing them. Especially in Nchuand-Zel, which seems to be the place where the Falmer indoctrination began, and where once you turn the machinery back on, it all immediately goes into a rampage to exterminate the Falmer there.
the souls are artificialy made and that's is one of the reasons why they blinded them
they didn't want them to be like the dark elves (trying to kill them)
the whole "slave" thing was so they wouldn't be a bunch of freeloaders
and war and other stuff and the robots would take to long to make
Last time I was this early the reach still belonged to the forsworn
What if they blinded the snow elves to improve their hearing and use them as fine tuning? And what if tonal magic is the same as Thu'um, not words but pure notes that combine to an effect?
And I really don't like Markarth: I can never find my way around.
Same, worst city in Skyrim
I know right?? It is all stone and just so complicated
There is also not that much stuff to do
Same
Lmao true Markarth is boring as shit even the beds are stone
*"It didnt take long for him to settle in Dragonsreach"* ~TheEpicNate315 2020
Dragon Bridge = Dragonsreach?
Do you get to the clouds district very often? Oh what am I saying. Of course you don’t.
Nazeem makes Whiterun feel like Whiterun, you can't say otherwise 🤣
Nate, you really thought I was gonna let you get away with forgetting the : after Skyrim in the title?
In such trying times, it's so nice to hear such a familiar, calming voice. You're doing Talos' work, love your content.
I didn't know I so badly wanted to learn what Calcelmo's stone said, until I woke up to this video! Thank you Nate, the lore addict in me is super happy now!
5:00 the clicking, I hear it in my sleep
0:04 I'm pretty sure it's "Blood and Silver" not "Stone and Blood"
I get that Markarth has been carved out of the mountain making it a city of stone and Nate was probably taking creative license, but that bugged me too. Guess I'm just too type A about my favorite video game. Meh - there are worse things in life. Like if I'd never played Skyrim - that would suck!
you can't get blood from a stone, but you can get a stone from blood...
There's a book about Markarth called 'The City of Stone'
Most likely he just took that and the saying and mixed it into the City of Stone and Blood
Another simply wonderful & excellent video, Nate!
12:53 "Dwemer music is soft and subtle, and needed to open their cleverest gates." What if Septimus Signus was talking about tonal magic?
I always felt like the civil war was cut really short, totally makes sense they wanted it to be bigger
"It didn't take Azzada long to meet his new wife, and settle down here in Dragonsreach"
So he's livin' with Jarl Balgruuf now? 😂
Nothing better in quarantine than your new video ❤️
I already felt bad about the priest when I killed him, but now I feel even worse knowing... (I got the game as of last December btw)
K. Bakugou I hope you have a lot of fun with the game!
@@spiderz5145 I'm actually almost done with it I think 😅
K. Bakugou nice.
@@b-52gaming3 almost done? i said that once, i think in 2012, still play the game randomly to this day, think i might have like 10,000 hours or more on the game. still not as much as nate here i bet.
13:15 , i don't know why but the delivery of that line compared to the usual one gave me goosebumps!
“Oh man, I guess at the end of the day some people in this city gave quite a few skeletons in their closet or... refrigerator I suppose...”
BEST QUOTE EVER
I really wish during the civil war quest when Ulfric demands Markarth during the truce there would be a way to explain to General Tulius that you're not giving the Stormcloaks Markath, rather you are giving the Stormcloaks (Nords) to the Forsworn. Then you'd be able to watch the Stormcloaks having to fight a guerrilla warfare against the Forsworn and use what would be considered a diplomatic loss for the empire turn into a massive strategic victory.
Been playing for almost a decade yet I still miss something in this game. 🤦🏽♂️
2:17. I’m impressed with that floating log. Intriguing.
Last time I was this early madanach was just crowned, the king in rags
That dwarven/falmer paragraph is crazy cool!
Last time I was this early, High King Torygg was still the High King of Skyrim
@Professor Pulsar no it's Ulfric Stormcloak
@Professor Pulsar your the wrong one imperial dog
@Professor Pulsarjarl Ulfric is not a thalmor puppet and whatever you say will not change my mind
@Professor Pulsar those are imperial lies
@@kamenriderfourze8434 Nah it’s Nazeem.
I'm so glad you're still making videos and that Skyrim still has so much to offer
3:19 if you take Serana here, she will cower. I learned that on this one channel called TheeGloriousTate426 or something like that.
Gee, I wonder why she would do that around a shrine dedicated to that particular daedra?
samsonguy10k idk🤔 something about some Ballsack guy and his mace? Maybe she’s afraid of ghosts! Daedra are ghosts right? It’s weird bc she’s a vampire but I can’t imagine that has anything to do with it 💁🏻♂️
Just too clarify if anyone is confused, Serena (That vampire daughter) had too * cough* Do stuff with Molag Bal to get her vampire power. So she was surprised to hear her Lord in an abandoned house
@@spyingbear9020 wait, isnt it the generation of vampires before her that did that, not her?
It's unclear if Serana was a Vampire Lord or a regular Volkihar one back then,since we only see direct infection cutting it in Skyrim.
So, that Blinding of Snow Elves was not a cruel joke, but instead was an experiment by Dwemer to see (ha-ha) if after generations of permanent blindness a Mer race will become more powerful in Tonal Magic. Devious little buggers weren't willing to experiment on themselves, so they used Snow Elves!
@PurpleStratocaster Falmer? I didn't said a word about current Falmer. I mentioned Snow Elves which were a fully capable race of Mer.
And Nate, stay safe and healthy, and feel free to do some extra Skyrim vids during the quarantine!
My boyfriend downloaded a mod on my switch so any time I open Skyrim it’s just Nate saying “the elder scrolls V Skyrim” and tbh it’s the only source of stability in my life.
Last time I was this early, I beat Alduin to the all you can eat Tamriel Buffett!
Mmm, mm, good!
YESSSSSSS I've been waiting on a Markarth vid since you started the 5 Things based on cities! THANK YOU!!
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If he had a sister, he'd sell her in a second!
The HackingBurger the actor who voice him voice 2 other characters that has sister also he voices nick valentine
Never stop making these videos please lol. They keep my geeky mind satisfied during this time of quarantine.
And while I'm playing Skyrim 40 seconds
I had a guard tell me: “pst! I know who you are. Hail Sithis.” When I was going to talk to a contact for the brotherhood(wearing full shrouded armour). I found it pretty cool.
3:42 go "fatch the men" instead of go "fetch the man" lol
8:39 let us keep in mind that in Arena ALL the cities look the same, also Redguard does mention it is a rock city but nothing else, Bethesda did not just "change the lore."
The Foresworn stretch into southern Highrock
I would t describe the house of horrors quest as interesting, I would is words such as maybe, ‘horrifying’ or ‘terrifying’ or possibly ‘hallowing’
So, Lyvlviev lives in "Dragonsreach" eh?
Damn you Nate. Because of you and these videos, I've now gotta put ANOTHER few thousand hours replaying Skyrim for the 400th time. DAMN YOU AND YOUR INTERESTING VIDEOS. keep it up
Did...did he just say “fatch?”
"fatch the men"
Hell yeah. Your videos are always nice to see in my sub box.
11 likes, no views? I am really early. WooHoo!
I'm loving the whole "things they never told you..." series great work
Personally, I enjoy the idea that the Dwemer themselves were actually blind. It fits in perfectly with the lore in the idea that Tonal Magic is the magic of sound and without eyes or being blind, their other senses would be heightened and the tonal magic they used on themselves and others would be stronger. Its also intriguing to think because by blinding the elves, the power of the tonal magic would be increased and make them easier to command and manipulate to their whims. It would also explain the whole telekinesis bit since they may have been able to communicate with it instead of focusing on a single person. If the Dwemer had mastered Tonal magic, being able to command things to life or other things would be stronger too with blindness and the resonators you find amplifying that skill. The Tonal Magic would be their "eyes" in a sense and explain how they were able to construct such massive monoliths to their power without the whole cave structures collapsing and the enigmatic nature of their designs.
“You every been to Markarth? Some say it was built by the dwarves, but I don’t believe a word of it..”.
P.S vigilant tyranus?.....darth tyranus...count dooku.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THESE WHILE SOME OF US ARE QUARANTINED YOURE AMAZING
For that last one,maybe "he had such good taste" is about him also being a nemira cultist,not that she ate him.
I think the Dwemer referring to the unbinding of bones is a reference to the Earth Bones, or the bones of Lorkhan, something the Dwemer were blatantly working against in the creation of Akulakhan. Kagrenac's tonal architecture experiments used the tools Sunder and Keening to manipulate the tonal energies of the heart of Lorkhan, in hopes of creating a mechanical god. Baladas of the Telvanni theorized that the Dwemer may have viewed Lorkhan creating the lives of the profane (their world and all that lived in it) could work in reverse, creating the sacred from the deaths of the profane. If they needed a handy source of sacrifices, the Falmer would have been quite a bit of cattle, but I don't think they would have been enough. The Dwemer linked themselves with Akulakhan, Falmer race intact, and that link is what caused them to all simultaneously (except Yagrum) zero-sum when the great event happened, leaving the Falmer behind. If the Falmer were at all part of the mass link, shouldn't they have also zero-summed, or did they in fact achieve CHIM? Did they reach another realization? Were they part of the link at all?
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I ask myself so many questions at night, knowing they may never be answered.
I just realized this after all these times of playing that Quest the vigilant tyrannus his name means tyrant( cruel leader) in Latin
I really love that Ondolemar and Galmar scene. Note that the Thalmor were using Ulfric and his Stormcloaks to weaken the Empire (refer to Ulfric Dossier) but then they got stinged by their own venom.
My ps4 broke so I cant play skyrim the whole break :(
Break you meant qUaRaNtInE
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Oh that sucks
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Okay.. I've let you upload a bunch of times and now I can feel a binge coming over me. I'll watch em all. I love these vids great job.
*Sees this on my home page*
Me: oh it must be like a few years old
*sees date*
Me: Surprised pikachu face 😯
0:31 The Forsworn are not Bretons, they are Reachmen.
You do realize that the snow elves started that war when they attempted to commit genocide of the once peaceful atmoran colonists.
Its probably a bit more complex, just like such events tend to be more complicated in RL.
Thanks Nate, I always enjoy your interesting and upbeat videos, and they are helping me get through this time
If anyone is gonna say in the comments that they're first, you deserve to walk on lego bricks for the rest of your life.