What Are THE ELDER SCROLLS? - Elder Scrolls Detective

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  • @Camelworks
    @Camelworks  6 ปีที่แล้ว +331

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    • @eligiolombard572
      @eligiolombard572 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can you please read about the Daedric and a sleeping tree

    • @sisiwjwjwjwisdid3822
      @sisiwjwjwjwisdid3822 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Camelworks Elder Scrolls? Blasfamy no scroll is more powerful than Sheogorath Daedric Prince of Madness, you know I once had an ale with Akatosh who told me the scrolls where nothing important and I am the most important being in the universe I MADE THE SCROLLS... True story

    • @MellowMars540
      @MellowMars540 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh you bet it tickles my fancy.

    • @skyslayer6104
      @skyslayer6104 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Camelworks
      Series called The Elder Scrolls. Elder Scrolls themselves rarely appear. Hmm...

    • @skyslayer6104
      @skyslayer6104 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Camelworks
      Can you describe the Talos enantiomorph? I wanted to understand it more

  • @Leo122188
    @Leo122188 4 ปีที่แล้ว +752

    Imagine reading an Elder Scroll, going blind; and the only thing you learn is Akatosh's favorite pie recipe.

    • @ra_alf9467
      @ra_alf9467 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      At least you can tell your wife and make the most delicious pie in Imperial City

    • @chugiakjrtheplaywwright6461
      @chugiakjrtheplaywwright6461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      Hey man, a pie that is the favorite of a timeless god is probably a really good pie.

    • @genericnpc08
      @genericnpc08 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@chugiakjrtheplaywwright6461 literally the best pie ever

    • @yobamagaming4168
      @yobamagaming4168 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@genericnpc08 or its the shitiest pie ever because akatosh has weird taste

    • @badernera7497
      @badernera7497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      This would fit in the Elder Scrolls Universe more than it should

  • @LuisPerez-dn7sk
    @LuisPerez-dn7sk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1715

    Everyone: "Dont read it, you'll go blind"
    Last Dragonborn: "Lol watch me read 3 in a row"

    • @Alizudo
      @Alizudo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +223

      The scrolls also have different effects depending on the reader's intelligence.
      If you're illiterate (can't read), the scroll is completely blank.
      If you are a narcissist and believe you can dominate the scroll's powers, it punishes you even more severely than normal.

    • @SadMaddyyy
      @SadMaddyyy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +174

      Holy fuck I just realized that you read the three scrolls and not one scroll three times during that quest

    • @victord.monkey9081
      @victord.monkey9081 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@SadMaddyyy yup blood dragon and sun i think

    • @JaitsuStudios
      @JaitsuStudios 4 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      Well the thing is it appears that the Elder Scrolls actively do not negatively effect someone with a heroic destiny. Possibly because those heroes are fixed moments in time.

    • @nicodemusedwards6931
      @nicodemusedwards6931 4 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      The Dragonborn also has a Dragon Soul, which means their place in time is weird by nature.

  • @articusramos808
    @articusramos808 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1793

    Sideeffects include but limited to, permanent blindness, tempory blindness, mental decay, mental enhancement, ranting, raving, screaming, internal pain, external pain, broken bones, damaged optical nerves, enhanced wisdom, useful information, worthless information, informal teaching, formal education, unorthodox sun blocking, wiping out the existence of one's self, extra scrolls, recipes, infinite number of knowledge, lack of self, destruction and fracturing of one's own mind, madness, oozing, weeping, imbalanced postures, death, diarrhea, explosive diarrhea, coughing, sneezing and fits of rage. If you experience one or more or any unlisted side effects please consult a local alchemist, apothecary, restoration school practitioner, local monastery, and or followers of Stendarr...if side effects persist consult a Daedric or Aedric being. Remember elder scrolls are not for everyone, please read responsibly. Results may vary.

    • @ghazzter
      @ghazzter 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      👋🌹

    • @restlesswretch3555
      @restlesswretch3555 6 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Why is this not top comment

    • @RaDiumDrummer
      @RaDiumDrummer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      Could be Ataxia. It's quite a problem back home in Cyrodiil.

    • @ServantofBaal
      @ServantofBaal 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Now that you mention it.... People that read them do get rather pale... Good thing Arcadia has a fix then

    • @PanPiperat
      @PanPiperat 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Also super herpes

  • @christopherwilkey3377
    @christopherwilkey3377 5 ปีที่แล้ว +273

    "This can't be right. It said the dragon born butchered whiterun over 20 times out of boredom."
    "That's wierd I read that he did it over 30 times."
    "Nevermind it says that he saves the world from Alduin. We're good... I hope"

    • @marysmith8277
      @marysmith8277 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      “How it is that the Dragonborn punched every single shop keeper in Skyrim?”

    • @kgraves119
      @kgraves119 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      “…. did… did s/he just kill a child..?”

    • @marlonquintana3466
      @marlonquintana3466 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Wait... Why did Dovahkin constantly storm shout in whiterun?"

    • @NewfieCatgirl
      @NewfieCatgirl 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Dovakhiin is stabbing his friend in stealth to get level 20 before leaving the tutorial dungeon and hit level 100 before visiting whiterun by punching shopkeeps forever for iron to transmute to gold for smithing and speech levels, fighting a mudcrab for a couple in game days while I get block and both armors to 100, etc. He can even fly by lifting himself up in a bucket, he will save us all!

  • @LWT1331
    @LWT1331 6 ปีที่แล้ว +339

    Before they were revealed in-game I've always thought of them as metafiction: that the stories we play are "told" through the elder scrolls like a story in a book.

    • @bobross4886
      @bobross4886 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      That’s what I thought until I saw Serana carrying one.

    • @ChannelName66
      @ChannelName66 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Maybe they still are telling the story, both before and after it happens.

    • @badernera7497
      @badernera7497 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      bingo bingo

    • @corybryan2105
      @corybryan2105 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      My elder scroll often speaks of many great adventurers whose exploration of the world was cut short when they took an arrow to the knee.

    • @badernera7497
      @badernera7497 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@corybryan2105 FUCK

  • @Sioolol
    @Sioolol 5 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    Actualy, the games are elder scrolls. Every game is a tale that you read (by playing) and your ability to save and replay is an example of scroll non-linear storytelling. We actualy can "read" every possible outcome by doing something and reloading the save... damn, more and more you think about it, more and more it start to make sense.

    • @anut8733
      @anut8733 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      So, if you read an elder scroll in game, does that mean you actually read an elder scroll to read an elder scroll? Readception?!

    • @realzachfluke1
      @realzachfluke1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      No, guy. The more sense it starts to make to you, the farther away from wisdom and true understanding you'll inherently be. I don't make the rules, friend, so you're gonna want to redouble your meditation efforts to get back on track divining the purposes that the scrolls have set out for you 😉

    • @thaddeushill7080
      @thaddeushill7080 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Damn that Feeble Dragon

  • @hhjk377
    @hhjk377 6 ปีที่แล้ว +618

    I bet the monk whose last reading was of the launch of Creation Club was pissed.

    • @Stroopwafe1
      @Stroopwafe1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      _"The vision sharpens, I can see it now; The yellow of septims surrounding a man who brings up the question 'how?'. Inside a trades shop I see clothing never seen before, odd looking weapons and draugr, and someone starving and freezing to death... The vision fades, and I see no more."_
      I have now forever been blinded by this last vision. And I shall forever see the dissatisfaction of people in some other world.

    • @mjag2834
      @mjag2834 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cadfael - starring Derek Jacobi.

    • @warlorddelta8
      @warlorddelta8 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      There's a grave out there somewhere filled, of course, with the corpse of the monk who read about the Horse Armor DLC and subsequently had a stroke.

  • @Kitkatze
    @Kitkatze 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1485

    maybe the real elder scrolls were the friends we made along the way

    • @kinguinhu271
      @kinguinhu271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Or the all blue

    • @findlayrutherford
      @findlayrutherford 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      When you stare into an Elder Scroll, M'aiq the Liar stares into you

    • @maeves.w.7156
      @maeves.w.7156 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hahaha such an underrated comment

    • @kc4390
      @kc4390 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pure Genius

    • @chiffmonkey
      @chiffmonkey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There's probably a Moth Priest who would agree with that.

  • @Liesmith424
    @Liesmith424 6 ปีที่แล้ว +842

    The next game is 'The Elder Scrolls VI: The Elder Scrolls"

    • @mjag2834
      @mjag2834 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Skyrim : Prisoner of Stormcrown Island - re-make of the original.

    • @sinister7290
      @sinister7290 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Quetzocoatlas Gamer Id like a new DLC

    • @mjag2834
      @mjag2834 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Quetzocoatlas Gamer Skyrim 7 : Lords and Ladies of the Valley...

    • @henrymarckisotto9025
      @henrymarckisotto9025 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@mjag2834 you realize the series is called elder scrolls not skyrim right? Skyrim is just the sub name of the fifth entry.

    • @mjag2834
      @mjag2834 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@henrymarckisotto9025 But do you know THE WAY ? ? ? ;)

  • @2Btoobee
    @2Btoobee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +351

    Summary of the Elder Scrolls: "It just works."

    • @Sam-pr9rr
      @Sam-pr9rr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jokes old and it was for fallout

    • @2Btoobee
      @2Btoobee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Sam-pr9rr fallout 4 is boring for me so i dont know what u mean

    • @Sam-pr9rr
      @Sam-pr9rr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      2B lol you’re an idiot, Tom Howard said “it just works” for fallout 76, nothing to do with fallout 4 or elder scrolls so you’re even more wrong than before

    • @2Btoobee
      @2Btoobee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Sam-pr9rr yeah sure, you obviously need validation, so i will give it to you

    • @Kikoou
      @Kikoou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      All I hear is a JoJo reference to be honest.

  • @GhettoBagel
    @GhettoBagel 6 ปีที่แล้ว +512

    I'm prolific for my poor analogies, lemme give this a shot.
    There's a folder on your computer. It's 100TB large. It contains hundreds of different types of files; photos, word documents, mp3, mp4, video games, gifs, webms, scripts, anything you can think of. You put a floppy disk in the computer, and try to drag the 100TB folder into the floppy drive, and obviously you can't. Not only was a floppy disk not meant for something this size, it also wasn't meant for the TYPES of information in the folder. Now, if you were able to put that folder on the floppy disk ANYWAY, that's what it would be like to read an Elder Scroll.

    • @DelinquentChibi
      @DelinquentChibi 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      GhettoBagel Hmm... Seems legit.

    • @reychop
      @reychop 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      That’s an interesting analogy for it.

    • @ViniSocramSaint
      @ViniSocramSaint 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Why don't you just mention a full and used hard drive?
      It has every record it should have, everything is warped somehow, other things seems incomplete, there are parts of stuff everywhere, there are sections with no infos even though it's full, drives anyone trying to retrieve anything mad, require other devices to be read without consequences but there's no guarantee about meaning, when you get something whole it's useless, or maybe it isn't, some infos can be mixed together to create aberrations that makes sense somehow, there's lots of porn, etc.

    • @ChaosWolf1982
      @ChaosWolf1982 6 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Are you suggesting that there's pornography somewhere on the Elder Scrolls themselves?

    • @axeldornelles5292
      @axeldornelles5292 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Radavvadra So, in a way, one could say the Elder Scrolls contain every single crappy smut fanfiction imaginable...

  • @Original_Syn
    @Original_Syn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    10:36 How did the Dwemer figure out how to build a machine to extract info from the Elder Scrolls in the first place though? My Theory is that it has something to do with why they blinded and eventually wound up turning the Snow Elves into the Falmer. Perhaps in return for saving them from certain extinction the Snow Elves agreed to read the Elder Scrolls for their Dwemer Saviors until they could learn enough about the Scrolls to build those Extraction Machines. I know that the Snow Elves were supposedly made to eat a Fungus that blinded them but what if the Translation wasn't 100% accurate or maybe the Fungus was just code for the Elder Scrolls since they probably wouldn't want anyone to know about the source of their power or perhaps the Fungus had something to do with Reading the Scrolls.

    • @helleetalharbi4446
      @helleetalharbi4446 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      that is such a good theory that its cannon in my head now, thank you.

  • @melvillecaleb
    @melvillecaleb 6 ปีที่แล้ว +646

    Does that mean a crash-to-desktop is actually a truthful falsehood?

    • @KingJColes
      @KingJColes 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      ...Oh my god

    • @greyscale1764
      @greyscale1764 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      nah you zero sum out of the game

    • @Mrmaverickism
      @Mrmaverickism 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Morrowind SPEEDRUN is technically cannon so sure why not

  • @EnderCorePL
    @EnderCorePL 5 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    As someone who takes interest in physics, I'd say, that the Elder Scrolls sounds completely like something referring to quantum physics and more specifically the Copenhagen Interpretation.
    In quantum physics, it is theorized that every state of every particle is true at the same time until it is observed, when the wave function collapse occurs. Listen closely to this part 7:40 This is almost a definition of wave function collapse. I'm not the best at explaining stuff, so I'd advice you to do some research yourself and look at the similarities.
    My take? The Elder Scrolls are objects of quantum nature.

    • @danieldennehy3578
      @danieldennehy3578 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Nerd

    • @EnderCorePL
      @EnderCorePL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@danieldennehy3578 Yes

    • @danieldennehy3578
      @danieldennehy3578 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ender CorePL lmao very honest

    • @tacticalrover6428
      @tacticalrover6428 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Quantumly entangled scrolls... Now the whole “shows all futures and all pasts at the same time” bit makes sense

    • @last-genrichtofen9360
      @last-genrichtofen9360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      This makes so much sense as they are beyond the aedra and daedra, and apparently have been here before this universe and will still be in the next universe. Also a very sold point in how the dwemer disappeared {something with aetherium, the (dragon?) elder scroll, and maybe the azura star or a huge soul gem made out of aetherium 100 times bigger than a grand soul gem(based on the quest were you help a mage understand what happened to the dwemer and try to replicate it on a smaller scale and it works and now the mage supposedly is chilling with the dwemer)} and that’s just a theory, a game theory.

  • @seynkrosis9658
    @seynkrosis9658 6 ปีที่แล้ว +673

    I now understand the Elder Scrolls
    Said no men or mer ever.

    • @Blitzboy369
      @Blitzboy369 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Lasyltherni "Khajiit are not known as mages, so J'zargo has much to prove."

    • @dracodeanglicus3857
      @dracodeanglicus3857 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      M’aiq once heard of a scroll that was un-understandable. He wishes he could read this out as his wedding speech...

    • @quintoncraig9299
      @quintoncraig9299 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I do know the Elder Scrolls, quite well actually.

    • @dracodeanglicus3857
      @dracodeanglicus3857 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *_ELDER SCROLLS_*

    • @rouge5140
      @rouge5140 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      not even aidras or deadras, and don't even talx about those weak flying lizard thingnis people call dragons.

  • @markhaus
    @markhaus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    One of the few McGuffins that work really well in story telling. Partly because interactive media is a bit more friendly to the concept by its nature

    • @brynhildr6981
      @brynhildr6981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      its really not mcguffins, much more a chekov's gun or deus ex machina

    • @SeeMyDolphin
      @SeeMyDolphin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@brynhildr6981 You clearly don't understand either of those two terms. But I'd agree it's not much of a MacGuffin either.

    • @brynhildr6981
      @brynhildr6981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SeeMyDolphin i say chekovs gun cuz you spend like 4 quests getting dragon’s scroll and use it once

    • @SeeMyDolphin
      @SeeMyDolphin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@brynhildr6981 But you use it, and it's highly plot relevant, so it's in no way a Chekov's Gun.

    • @brynhildr6981
      @brynhildr6981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@SeeMyDolphin a chekov's gun is an item used once near the end of the story with an informed value throughout the story.

  • @MartaTarasiuk
    @MartaTarasiuk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +325

    I knew it! My eyesight isn't so bad because I wasn't taking a proper care of my eyes! It got bad because I was reading an Elder Scroll all this time (for 355 hours according to Steam)!

    • @Ishamv3
      @Ishamv3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thanks. I'll be using this impressive excuse in real life all the time for myself. :)

    • @Emberrss
      @Emberrss 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      355 hours? I remember my first month of playing too

    • @dELTA13579111315
      @dELTA13579111315 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Emberrss I put in 355 hours in the first week. Get on my level nerd

    • @ilderogtyde
      @ilderogtyde 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gaming stimulates the eye muscles, the concentration of the eyes and the hand-to-eye reaction time all for the better.
      So you gain a better eyesight and reaction time by playing games! :)

    • @recalibrating4422
      @recalibrating4422 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mr Station r/wooosh

  • @doctorsplashtail
    @doctorsplashtail 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    i like to think of it like this: elder scrolls contain every single thing ever, whenever someone thinks of something it is written in a scroll, if that thing so happens at any point in the single existing timeline it will be available to read, and the scroll itself will become a physical thing in the universe, if something does happens that makes another thought or idea impossible, the scroll simply vanishes from reality at whatever point the said event becomes impossible, and someone can only read an elder scroll without being damaged is when they have a specific part in making that event become reality. For example, an elder scroll about Alduin winning exists as people thought he might win, however that scroll disappears from reality as soon as the dragonborn kills alduin making that other reality impossible. the scroll that predicted that the dragonborn would win (the one labeled dragon in game) becomes a physical object in reality and is more or less just an indestructible history book. The reason the dragonborn can read that scroll without becoming mad or blind is because he is a direct part of it, furthermore i think the scrolls have a one time use that will allow whatever "legend" written in said scroll can use to help that prophecy become true (ex: dragonborn uses it to go back in time and read a map to auriels bow) but after that use it really becomes useless. Further proof is when the evil snow elf (i forgot his name) revealed that he was the one that invented the blood-sun prophecy simple means he thought of the idea (so it appeared on an elder scroll) and manipulated the world according to plan to make sure that the plan would become truth (which it can be because u can shoot the sun with the arrow and make it black for a short period of time - hence why it is still a true prophecy and does not vanish from reality). In the end the elder scrolls hold all things imaginable and the real events stay put while the fake events vanish, and the gods imbue certain scrolls with power that will help the prophecy of those scrolls make it true (so basically divine intervention to help the universe last as long as possible) so things like alduin destroying the world dont happen. ik this is super long but its just a cool idea and i hope at least one person reads it. let me know if u do!

    • @ljubisavceranic7811
      @ljubisavceranic7811 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This actually hold some weight to it. It makes sence i like your theory sir!

    • @saturnzdiplomat4794
      @saturnzdiplomat4794 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don’t have time now but somebody reply to this comment so I can come back later please

    • @ljubisavceranic7811
      @ljubisavceranic7811 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@saturnzdiplomat4794 here u go 😁

    • @vivaene
      @vivaene 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@saturnzdiplomat4794 yo

    • @saturnzdiplomat4794
      @saturnzdiplomat4794 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Makes sense

  • @TheNN
    @TheNN 6 ปีที่แล้ว +541

    Wow, these 'Elder Scrolls' sound like a great idea, i bet you could make a really great, but incredibly buggy, series of games with them in the title. Oh! But not have any of these Elder Scrolls appear until the fourth game in the series.

    • @ShishouDzukiZaManako
      @ShishouDzukiZaManako 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      yea then overfill 5 to make you wonder, why aren't these new scrolls locked in the whitegold tower?

    • @TheNN
      @TheNN 6 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Then make an MMO that is really divisive amongst the fans and make these Elder Scrolls only appear as mere stat buffs.

    • @t84t748748t6
      @t84t748748t6 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      every game is a story that is on 1 of these scrolls

    • @BaldyMcFreeman
      @BaldyMcFreeman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jason Bilideau isn't one of them suppose to be about Vampires? Seeing how it has Blood in the name when its in your inventory? One is obviously about the dragons, the other must be a different "story" not involved with the Dragonborns lore. I haven't played the dlcs in a long while so this just a small point if it even is one to begin with.

    • @1q34w
      @1q34w 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      They were used in TES: Arena.

  • @yin3229
    @yin3229 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    20:50 I'm sure you were looking at the "amulet of the elder council".

    • @Alyxandeyr
      @Alyxandeyr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There were amulets in this video? o.O'

  • @EvelynnWinters2000
    @EvelynnWinters2000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    The Elder Scrolls are the developers
    They hold great power because they made the world
    They existed before the daedra and aedra because they thought up the daedra and aedra
    They predict all possible pasts presents and futures with ideas for the game that were scrapped
    They cause damage to the reader so they don't see too much and break the fourth wall
    I could think of more proof but im lazy so you can do it

    • @draco107
      @draco107 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Literally Just A Cat nope

    • @TheAstronomican
      @TheAstronomican 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So the elder Scrolls = Bethesda Devs

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      One wizard vanishes to a world in oblivion full of black binders : the source code for their world. The Elder Scrolls are compiled machine code, thus unreadable or driving you mad ! :-)

    • @elizabethschafer261
      @elizabethschafer261 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This is what I was thinking. Makes sense when you think about CHIM and maybe Dragon Breaks being about saved games.

  • @masamune2984
    @masamune2984 5 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    I’ve stared at monitors for so long playing this game series for thousands of hours that I think my vision has gotten worse over the years.
    The games are “Elder Scrolls” indeed...🙂

  • @toadwastaken5629
    @toadwastaken5629 6 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    It's interesting that the devs can just point to the Elder Scrolls whenever something ingame doesn't make a ton of sense, and we can't argue with it because "Elder Scrolls."
    I say it's interesting because isn't that what the fans have been saying in reference to the games' unexplained bugs for years?
    "Why does Skyrim have so many unsolved bugs?"
    "Because it's an Elder Scrolls game"

  • @luiscanamarvega
    @luiscanamarvega 5 ปีที่แล้ว +407

    An elderly man scrolling on his smartphone.
    The elder scrolls.
    I’ll leave now.

    • @internetcampbell2267
      @internetcampbell2267 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I won't deny it I found that pretty funny.

    • @dELTA13579111315
      @dELTA13579111315 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I feel dumb now because I read it twice before getting it. At least it was obvious the second time lol

    • @phillipallen3468
      @phillipallen3468 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This has got to be the cleverest response I've yet read. Good one.

    • @AmmeMgee
      @AmmeMgee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Perish

    • @EdricLysharae
      @EdricLysharae 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ☺️

  • @fourlamb1
    @fourlamb1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +361

    Ladies and gentlemen, things are about to become confusing!!
    Edit... I got a heart off of Camel, I'm now happy for the week :).

    • @dracodeanglicus3857
      @dracodeanglicus3857 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When the top level was placed, aaha, no more could be built!

    • @unsubme2157
      @unsubme2157 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      52

  • @thetalantonx
    @thetalantonx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    11:55 - Ok bro, this is awesome. You actually got me thinking about something in the games that I'd never considered. If using their devices produced a more definite and unequivocal vision of the future, and the Dwemer couldn't cope with what they were seeing, and spent more and more time and energy looking at the future in the hopes of changing it, they could easily have brought on their own doom - or foresaw the only way to escape the doom that was coming was to leave everything an Elder Scroll could reflect behind and jump to a different narrative/worldtrack/path and position in possible spacetimes.

  • @tipperkid
    @tipperkid 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Martin also makes mention at the end of the OC where he states that YOU are the scribe of the next elder scroll, that the hero is the scribe of the elder scrolls as they write out history. Awesome video! Auriel came to the convention at the dawn with an armful of elder scrolls as well, yet they are also explained that some Ehlnofey who became earth bones also became elder scrolls.

  • @mcstotti8691
    @mcstotti8691 6 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    Imagine beeing the librarian in the imperial archives beeing like: hey there are 2 new elder scrolls number 5 one is called VR and the other one switch. I wonder what those are.

    • @heron5045
      @heron5045 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Its the confirmation that the elderscrolls are spyware

    • @c0smic_eve
      @c0smic_eve 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hey this elder scroll says special edition but there isnt a difference between it and the normal version

  • @vocalist92
    @vocalist92 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love how the box arts for Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim and Online look like ancient book covers. Really makes the games feel like a doorway into the world of Nirn. Shame they never made remaster covers like that for Arena, Daggerfall and the spin-offs. Would make owning them like having a library of gaming novels

  • @nicholasschueler668
    @nicholasschueler668 6 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    *Reads Elder Scroll* "This will make you become blind" Me: Wtf

    • @epion660
      @epion660 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *reads elder scroll* "Ha ha, made you look"

    • @heron5045
      @heron5045 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@epion660 is going to read the scrolls in order to save the other two wanderers *reads the Elder Scrolls* and knows that he should not interfere with their fait

  • @giocommentary
    @giocommentary 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    @6:36 this is incredibly interesting to hear and reminds me of Personality Therapy. basicly its Therapy/meditation to regain Agency over one's own life (when for example you're struggling to get things done or are struggling with an addiction) In this Meditative state you're tasked with collecting and gathering everything that makes YOU believe to be part of you. good and bad, past and present, your past dreams hopes or love's and your future hopes dreams ambitions etc. The idea is to let go of them, all of them. By letting go you'll unburden yourself of the principle of past self (my past makes me now and therefore i limit myself ''we do this without thinking'') and releasing the idea of the perfect future you for your view of who YOU should be is not who you ARE. but rather the collection of ideals this world has made you believe to follow and adhere which are usually impossible to follow. (think about advertisements, the 'perfect' male or female body etc ) by letting go of these 2 principles you're more free to choose your own life in the here and now, which is the only time and place that actually matters if one wants to create change. and this is ofcourse always changing. This therapy helps you write down that what you believe to be yourself, what you want to be, have been, and maybe never will be. how you look at yourself and your past and ideal future, shapes who you are now, in that sense these lives or ideals have existed but at the same time they're only a fraction of your imagination and confronting them allows us to choose directly the path we want in that very moment as we become self aware of our own identity and habits and how they where created, Yet at the same time by acknowledging the artificial means of our actions we also disprove them as being a true part of our personality. They are real.. you are real.. but only for as long as you allow that to be you. The Elder Scrolls reminds me alot of these principles.

  • @HenningGu
    @HenningGu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    I just can't imagine dragons reading an Elder Scroll without laughing

  • @bigcarrot3863
    @bigcarrot3863 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "I'll leave that to the philosophers, i.e. The TH-cam comment section."
    This videos dialogue is so underrated

  • @Kreddit4801
    @Kreddit4801 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I'd say, ignoring the whole narration device aspect, that the scrolls are fragments of time itself, existing in no specific point in time, but exist in infinite points in time, existing in the past, present, and future simultaneously, and so showing every possible past and future

    • @ServantofBaal
      @ServantofBaal 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It would seem to me that they're actually condensed shards of entropy that can be read; they record all that was, could have been, are, might be, will be, won't be, and could be. A byproduct of creation that individuals are capable of exploiting, at great cost, as glimpsing into entropy itself would surely cause madness

    • @mjag2834
      @mjag2834 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      But only in the Time and Space in Oblivion and not in the Anima and Animus of Dimension?

  • @blueldrrich84
    @blueldrrich84 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Camel, I think this is your best video to date. Well done, man! I was glued to the screen, because (appropriately) you were delving into the biggest mystery of the entire game series. :) I really enjoyed how you explained what they are both in world and in ours. Again, excellent job!

  • @ninnusridhar
    @ninnusridhar 6 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Why do the scrolls sound more and more like quarks and quantum particles. Completely unknown unless you are directly observing them. No one knows much about them. They control all of creation and time and space. They appear and disappear randomly. They are immensely powerful. Most people can't read/understand them.
    Are we sure the scrolls aren't just a metaphysical embodiment of quantum mechanics in Nirn and oblivion. The dwemer were researching heavily. And they are nuclear physisits.

    • @egonhenriksen7968
      @egonhenriksen7968 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's an interesting comparison

    • @ninnusridhar
      @ninnusridhar 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Egon Henriksen it becomes ever so more wierd the more you think about it. Its fixed once observed. But has no definable state. The quantum physics side of things do naturally match the elder scrolls.
      Even more funnily during the 1008 first era dragon break, a lot of things happen much like a unstable quantum state exists. Time becomes meaningless. Indoril nerevar dies both of wounds in battle but also killed by tribunal during a ritual? Both are completely true. Which is a contradiction in normal viewpoints. But in a quantum state objects exist in all possibilities at once.
      The elder scrolls can not recognize any of this......

    • @Abygoneage
      @Abygoneage 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Nithun Sridhar It goes to show the Eerie comparisons between the real world and the game. There have been quite a lot of odd things concerning Bethesda's games and concerning one topic of the 5 bugs in a Jar with unknown symbols. I found the developers explanation on the matter to be incredibly vague and too simple. Especially because of the consistent questioning from many people with no clear answer on the subject . As if the developers are trying to secretly tell us something through the game that can be no less emphasized as the very basis of reality itself . Forgive me but titling such as "quantum" are just one of the formats human beings use to explain the entirety of corporeal reality and beyond. You seem incredibly well informed however which makes me weary of your motives. I do not wish to speculate for the reasoning of your comment other than it being out of a simple curiosity that you wish to Express in the comment section .

    • @ninnusridhar
      @ninnusridhar 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Abygoneage I really like the wording of your comment... And you have figured out my identity. It is I The Illuminati High Lord. Muwahaha.
      Just kidding. I am a wired combo of someone fascinated by science, mythology, and fantasy. So my science brain just activated when I saw this.
      About the idea that companies try to tell us something..... I can't say anything about that. No one knows anything for certain. Why does Bethesda not address the jars, why does blizzard still disclaim the cow level in diablo 2, we may never know..

    • @machineunit
      @machineunit 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was thinking this as well when Camel was talking about how they appear and disappear

  • @Emanon...
    @Emanon... 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The Elder Scrolls VI: Plot Device

  • @willdaniels9420
    @willdaniels9420 6 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    They're also said to be indestructible so you could potentially run around with elder scrolls wrapped around you and be invincible

    • @donkeymanusa6364
      @donkeymanusa6364 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I wish i could do that...

    • @kbm989m9
      @kbm989m9 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Then why can’t craft armor that includes the elder scrolls in skyrim, there is at least 4

    • @elitebelt
      @elitebelt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      The Scroll may be indestructible, but you are not. Physics doesn't work that way. Ever wonder why when people wear kevlar and get shot with a gun it can still inflict heavy damage to the victim? That kevlar may stop the bullet from passing through, but it also has to distribute all that energy in a much wider area to cause as little damage as possible to the victim. So basically, even if you had an impervious cloth wrapped around your body, you could still easily have the shit kicked out of you by someone with literally any blunt object.

    • @axeldornelles5292
      @axeldornelles5292 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      elitebelt Indeed.... unless we are talking about something that defies the very fabric of reality.
      Honestly, distribution of the force of the impact should be the last of our worries here...

    • @melelconquistador
      @melelconquistador 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@kbm989m9 How could you craft with a material you cannot cut. Then again you would see people running around with oragami armor.

  • @duckheadbob
    @duckheadbob 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    your description of an elder scroll @2:55 is amazing. what a solid way to Integrate a writing and game development tool into the game universe its self

  • @Masterhitman935
    @Masterhitman935 6 ปีที่แล้ว +235

    So that is in a elder scroll: The Console Command.

    • @ZefVolk
      @ZefVolk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Only the cult of the tilde key can properly understand The Console Commands.

    • @Masterhitman935
      @Masterhitman935 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Snorlax all other will experience glitches, syntax errors and may but not limited to ones lost sense of freedom and/or a burning desire to rain buckets endlessly.

    • @heron5045
      @heron5045 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Masterhitman935 actualy, the elderscrolls effect on people is quite well described: try playing the game for 5k h, experience every possible future (playtrough) and then truethfully tell me if you are not at least half blind, or go psycho every time someone mentions hitting (an arrow on) their knee...

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cheats, Hacks, & return to DOS prompt !

  • @christianluke2961
    @christianluke2961 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "The game itself is an Elder Scroll" I freaking love this. What a realization.

  • @demix2040
    @demix2040 6 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    Make a lore about nirnroot noises damnit!

    • @dracodeanglicus3857
      @dracodeanglicus3857 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      *_VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO_*

    • @Qardo
      @Qardo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It is the Elder Scrolls.

    • @dracodeanglicus3857
      @dracodeanglicus3857 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      *_Trust Septimus!_* *He knows you can know!*

    • @rouge5140
      @rouge5140 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      the developer was probably proud of himself for making them easyer to find with a -cool- awefull -sound effect- brain damaging effect.

    • @ENGLISHMURPHY
      @ENGLISHMURPHY 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nirnroot was an accident, I remember reading a book on oblivion about it

  • @jaydenmorris8549
    @jaydenmorris8549 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It’s so crazy how good he is at making me watch the entirety of each and every one of his videos.

  • @pulsefel9210
    @pulsefel9210 6 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    magnus made the blueprints for all of creation right? what if the scrolls ARE those blueprints?

    • @kbm989m9
      @kbm989m9 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Pulse Fel well I would say that this is a possibility as any of the elder scrolls contain an enormous amount of information, maybe only hermaeus moras collection of knowledge could rival the amount of information on the scrolls.

    • @marcusxane4709
      @marcusxane4709 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What if he got the blueprints from the elder scrolls

    • @R3m1ly
      @R3m1ly 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      not likely, as magnus is affected and lives within the same timestream as everyone else in mundus, oblivion, and aetherius. the void, however, where sithis inhabits, may hold an answer. as there is NOTHING there, not even time as far as i know.

    • @epion660
      @epion660 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@R3m1ly The idea of a void where time doesn't exist, where a god can communicate with Nirn just makes me imagine every fucking conversation happening at once and Sithis holding his head crying in the corner of his void of eternal suffering from cicero's voice.

    • @jakeand9020
      @jakeand9020 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@R3m1ly Not entirely, though the Aedra exist within the time stream they are not bound to it in the same manner as mortals and Daedra. So, theoretically, they could make something outside of said time. However, the Elder Scrolls are clearly beyond even the Aedra, and as such could not have been made by them.

  • @caboos262
    @caboos262 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i realize this is a very old video and chances are you wont see this, but i love the touch about the games themselves being elder scrolls. i mean it is literally right there on the cover for us to see. so obvious but never a point i had considered. love the vids, just recently found your channel and am enjoying every second. keep up the great work!

  • @rasmachris94
    @rasmachris94 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I just took the Elder Scrolls to be a set of scrolls that depicted large events throughout Nirn's history.
    They change constantly, hence no clear reading because times change constantly and each impact each person has on the world causes them to change - kind of like the butterfly effect.
    This means that the power that the Elder Scrolls possess is that of every possibility in the universe, all magic, all power, all times but change so quickly that they are unable to be read.
    The sheer volume of information they contain is what drives people insane when they read it.

  • @DrayLoco
    @DrayLoco ปีที่แล้ว

    Your voice is so chill and you pick the best music to listen to late at night chilling before bed

  • @nofranko
    @nofranko 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    an elder scroll is basically a high level Calculus text-book

  • @Haunter_1616
    @Haunter_1616 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think an interesting idea for a video in this series would be the 13 standing stones of Skyrim. What are they exactly? Where do their powers come from? Were they named after legends or people in the history of Tamriel. As far as I know the only people who mention them are Ralof and Hadvar at the beginning of the game and I'm not sure if there are any books or in game trivia about them

  • @7e8dn3id
    @7e8dn3id 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The Elder Scroll is the game itself, and all it encompasses. And all games to come.

  • @newrenobouncer1088
    @newrenobouncer1088 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Think about this: The snow elf you have to kill in Dawnguard somehow got the prophecy he made imprinted in them and nothing explains it, also what about his explody powers he has? It’s not due to vampirism, can all snow elves just self detonate big enough to destroy a whole cathedral?

    • @Noctua8
      @Noctua8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      They actually openly state that snow elf magic is crazy

    • @TheRealBalhaze
      @TheRealBalhaze 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And since there's like 2 left alive that we see it's likely they're all dead but that those 2 could either be descendants of a small group or they are extremely old for a mortal

    • @justicegaminginc
      @justicegaminginc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheRealBalhaze elves live longer lives than that of men, also snow elves have the protection of ariel so long they do not turn away from his faith

  • @bin250
    @bin250 6 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    It's actually godly meme that no one can understand besides godly beings

    • @najmibriliant744
      @najmibriliant744 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      A Peacock us mortals can be blinded by its cringyness

    • @nateatavares4268
      @nateatavares4268 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I bet it reads "ur mum gay"

    • @Janoha17
      @Janoha17 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not even godly beings can truly understand the Scrolls.

  • @ronhutchcraft2290
    @ronhutchcraft2290 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love the Elder Scrolls Series, I just can't get enough and I really like these Lore Videos!

  • @blackjack2526
    @blackjack2526 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    It's basically the Akashic Records of the Nasuverse. Well a piece of the Root at least.

  • @killianoshaughnessy1174
    @killianoshaughnessy1174 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The scrolls remind me of a wave function collapse. Unknowable until it has been observed. In the case of the scroll, the future is uncertain until it has occured.

  • @maverickcrow6252
    @maverickcrow6252 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The falsehoods are glitched saves that we try so hard to fix XD

  • @tonysmith3232
    @tonysmith3232 5 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    "You will understand women when you understand Elder Scrolls"
    - Skyrim Proverb
    (Or it should be)

  • @Pie_Smacker
    @Pie_Smacker 6 ปีที่แล้ว +265

    It's basically LSD, only in scroll form, and with horrible side effects should the user not be ready for their trip

    • @MoriShep
      @MoriShep 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      even if you are ready for the tirp :P

    • @CalamityDiamond
      @CalamityDiamond 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So just "Let go or be dragged?"

    • @someeggplant
      @someeggplant 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Lsd+dmt+shrooms×30 bottles of skooma

    • @derstoffausdemderjoghurtis
      @derstoffausdemderjoghurtis 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      just a very high doses

  • @MMAnalysis
    @MMAnalysis 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    @ 10:40, I definitely heard "Long ago, the Dwemer devised a MEME."

  • @TheSomewhereElse
    @TheSomewhereElse 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I literally love you. Haven't even watched the video yet but I liked it. Thank you for all that you do.

  • @JaitsuStudios
    @JaitsuStudios 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I always figured they were a physical manifestation or Nirns reality, which is why they constantly vary in number, power, what they reveal to an individual, and the effect they have on people. They are in essence a GUI button giving access to Nirns "code".

  • @TobyTheUchiha
    @TobyTheUchiha 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    God, this video must have been such a pain to research. When Camel googles Elder Scrolls you have to get sooo many useless and totally unrelated searchresults.
    Excellent video, thank you. :)

    • @yaldabaoth2
      @yaldabaoth2 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thankfully, Wikis exist.

  • @denzelalpharo4576
    @denzelalpharo4576 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    *Giant smashed you into the clouds*
    Dragonborn: wtf
    Elder scroll: yeah...about that..

  • @lycopolis4132
    @lycopolis4132 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    But then will i get blind if i look directly at my skyrim disk?

    • @DavidFailsYT
      @DavidFailsYT 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      xavier chapelot Yes

    • @soyboydivision
      @soyboydivision 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I did

    • @kprojectskurt
      @kprojectskurt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No because we are above Aedra, Daedra and the Elder Scrolls themselves

    • @heron5045
      @heron5045 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@kprojectskurt just open the disc player, power it on and look at the laser => there you have your blindness

    • @internetcampbell2267
      @internetcampbell2267 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@heron5045 still he has a point.

  • @tarakat2275
    @tarakat2275 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "On Today's episode of My Strange Addiction, 14 year old girl" (me) "addicted to the lore and history of the fictional video game series, 'The Elder Scrolls'..."
    I swear, I could become a famous scholar if I were to apply this ability to real life and not a video game...

    • @ChargeQM
      @ChargeQM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My infatuation with IRL history, culture, and mythology started with video games. Maybe you'll become a historian someday. Even better, you could become a writer for games like TES and make a similarly rich and nuanced world for OTHERS to ponder and consume!

    • @gamespotlive3673
      @gamespotlive3673 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same tho. I like to play the games not to win but to try to learn about lore. I'm even writing a book on my ruminations.

  • @solidmoon8266
    @solidmoon8266 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Scrolls are like the strands of fate woven into parchment. How they came to be is unknown but the events they show could be from any time in the past , present , or future. Each one has strands of certain fate woven into them, or promenintly display prophecys of very specific events and the fate surrounding them.

  • @rambobatman990
    @rambobatman990 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    i havent played elder scrolls too much because dont have alot of time, but i love everything about it, its so close to my heart and feels right, the lore, characters, and most importantly the beautiful zones and landscapes, it just has so nice feeling...

  • @Tyflood234
    @Tyflood234 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Do a video on the creation of Lorkhans body (attempt one) and attempt two and explain more about the Heart of Lorkhan and why everyone wanted it so bad

  • @eddw7650
    @eddw7650 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've always liked to think of the Elder Scrolls as the Elder Scrolls games code, inturned in an in-game form.
    Thats always made it quite interesting when playing through the games for me, as it would be quite understandable that viewing the script running your own universe (and therefore realising that your universe is a video game) would send most people completely insane.
    Its a fun way to look at it, at least for me.

  • @r.blakehole932
    @r.blakehole932 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Do the Elder Scrolls explain why characters and objects in Skyrim never seem to actually touch the ground? To me that is the biggest mystery that needs solving.

    • @ServantofBaal
      @ServantofBaal 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      That's all Sheogorath's doing. Right next to setting resurrected ancient redguard kings on fire, it's his favorite thing to do

    • @axeldornelles5292
      @axeldornelles5292 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      XerasDezarrys You forgot the cheese stuff.

    • @vsGoliath96
      @vsGoliath96 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I keep consulting the Scrolls to try and find out why the mammoths and other animals in the tundra keep falling from the sky, but all I see in the visions is Todd Howard laughing at me and offering a rerelease of the game that can be played on my toaster. I don't want that, magical space Todd! I just want the land around Whiterun to not be littered with falling animal corpses!
      I'm afraid my readings of the Scrolls have driven me quite mad.

    • @jakeand9020
      @jakeand9020 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's because in playing the game you are reading an elder scroll, so the animals, objects and land don't line up in the viewing similar to how the constellations don't line up quite right on them.

  • @bigbear1293
    @bigbear1293 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was not expecting to hear a reference to Deep Space 9's Garak at 3:05. I love it!

  • @devlequ4692
    @devlequ4692 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    i really want a eye of magnus lore vid:(

  • @WhoTookMyMirr
    @WhoTookMyMirr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Anybody else notice the big statue of Auriel/Akatosh in the snow elf temple in Dawnguard is holding a draw knife? Almost like Akatosh devised the method of using the ancestor moths to read the Elder Scrolls...

  • @Sleepy.Time.
    @Sleepy.Time. 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Camel always delivers

  • @tobias-holub
    @tobias-holub 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loved the video! Technically one could argue that the scrolls have too much of a practical use or impact to be a macguffin (timeshifting Alduin for example) but I can definitely see them being designed as a be all end all plot device to some degree haha. Also it‘s just really cool for a fantasy world to retain some fantastic elements that can‘t be entirely explained by their design or creators

  • @bigsneak4601
    @bigsneak4601 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Someone needs to go ask Mora what tf they are

    • @prismaticbeetle3194
      @prismaticbeetle3194 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i highly doubt he knows

    • @jakeand9020
      @jakeand9020 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is no reason he would know any more about them than any other original spirit. He can only posses known and/or recorded knowledge.

    • @MrJimmybanana
      @MrJimmybanana 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jakeand9020 there could theoretically be a single page with the only 100% correct explanation. If there is, it's probably hidden in Apocrypha.

  • @Frederic_S
    @Frederic_S 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is my most favorite tes video. Thank you a lot!

  • @3thhackz531
    @3thhackz531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the vid especially the last part which i kinda saw coming. But really nail on the head. They always existed in the world but dont exist(how the game is both a real object and a fictional world) every reader sees something different(all players should create totally different stories from playing) the unchanging nature after things have past(the memories of your journey that youll look back to as you the first place you saw a giant or dragon) going mad or blind for the weak (how the addictive nature is one of the few single player games rumored to ruin lives)

  • @abagel83
    @abagel83 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Not gonna lie. I completely forgot the elder scrolls existed.

    • @darthfenrir4892
      @darthfenrir4892 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      a bagel You forget the very things the Series is named for?

    • @hoodedone2423
      @hoodedone2423 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Darth Fenrir489 It's understandable. Sometimes I forget about the Dragonballs.

    • @imanrich800gaming
      @imanrich800gaming 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Hooded One true

  • @sagacious03
    @sagacious03 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was pretty informative! Thanks for uploading!

  • @morrigankasa570
    @morrigankasa570 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The question is how did that Vampiric Snow Elf in the Forgotten Vale create the prophecy within the scrolls we read during the Dawnguard questline?

    • @kgraves119
      @kgraves119 ปีที่แล้ว

      The power of Sithis (as Auriel’s counterpart).

  • @medicorene
    @medicorene 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the depth of your videos.

  • @roanc3709
    @roanc3709 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    The games are the elder scrolls because if you spend too long staring at your screen you'll go blind

    • @The053199
      @The053199 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂😂

  • @Z3rostar
    @Z3rostar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A physical manifestation of the incomplete-but-living memory of the dreamer.

  • @Red0Leader
    @Red0Leader 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    To understand the elder scrolls we have to understand the nature of the universe so that we can know what the elder scrolls are not.

  • @isorokudono
    @isorokudono 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Especially the 'falsehoods'." Camel, you been watching Deep Space Nine re-runs? Garak and Dukat are two of the BEST characters EVER written for TV. Kudos.

  • @_Cerb_
    @_Cerb_ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    could it be that an elder scrolls is one of Magnus's tools to create Nirn? a recording device to record everything that would and already happened? I mean the eye of magnus has the power to unmake the world, I wouldnt be surprised if the elder scrolls are one of Magnus's tools.

    • @axeldornelles5292
      @axeldornelles5292 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fahri Nugraha It is possible that the Elder Scrolls are the very blueprint of creation that Magnus made.

  • @cups2998
    @cups2998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wait. The person who took inventory was blind... no wonder they couldn't keep count. "I didn't feel this one earlier...*

  • @09cirohernandez
    @09cirohernandez 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    So each player is living out one of the possibilities in the elderscrolls, so we are each playing out our viewing of the elder scroll or are we writing the scroll as we play

    • @Alyxandeyr
      @Alyxandeyr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Seeing some of the ridiculous things some gamers do, I do not blame the people who read their stories for going crazy XD

    • @gr13v0u5
      @gr13v0u5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Alyxandeyr And now I'm feeling guilty for all of the pots I put on the heads of city guards...

  • @dysfunctionalethics9712
    @dysfunctionalethics9712 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Even after all this time I still like to listen to your Skyrim videos while I play.

  • @manueljansen3861
    @manueljansen3861 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Since no one sees the same thing in an Elder Scroll does that mean at 7:33 we dont see the same thing on the screen🤯🤯🤷🏽‍♂️

    • @captainzoltan7737
      @captainzoltan7737 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I saw the ebony Warrior taking of his helmet. It was Nazeem ana he then asked me if I went to the cloud district very often

  • @Abrogator91
    @Abrogator91 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    19:42 someone get that man some scalp moisturizer!

  • @AsphodelGames
    @AsphodelGames 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is how I think the Elder Scrolls came to be.
    Lohrkahn: Okay Alduin, we're gonna make another one, so get ready to do your thing.
    *WHATEVER THE SOUND OF NIRN BEING CREATED IS*
    Lohrkahn: Oh damn it actually worked this time. Sorry Al, maybe you can like... rule over it?
    Akatosh: Wait, Lohrkahn, what the fuck is that?
    Lohrkahn: Huh? I dunno. I'm gonna touch it. *Touches the scroll* OH SHIT MY HEART FELL OUT
    Sithis: And this is what happens when you touch shit you don't understand, Lohrkahn.
    Lohrkahn: FUCK OFF MY HEART JUST FELL OUT, SOMEONE HELP ME FIND IT! DON'T STEP ON IT!
    Shor: Uh, Lohr? Some dude just picked it up and is now using it to power an all powerful machine.
    Lohrkahn: Well fuck.
    *Sithis laughing in the corner of Mundus*
    Lohrkahn: Dude, maybe you can stop laughing at me and help me crush this dude?
    *Sithis still laughing*
    Lohrkahn: **Sigh** whatever.

  • @lharchmage6908
    @lharchmage6908 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They are fragments of Shor/Lorkhan thoughts and ideas for the future of his creation of mundus.
    Which is why only the dragonborn/Shezzarine can read it without real harm.

  • @Bigben0419
    @Bigben0419 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm playing Skyrim right now I want to know if Elder Scrolls predicted that the damn door to Castle volkihar won't open and I can't progress through the Dawnguard questline

  • @Bastardson_
    @Bastardson_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really blew my mind when you dropped the bomb about the real-world games being the actual Elder Scrolls. Good job, Camel!

  • @unicron004
    @unicron004 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've always interpreted Elder Scrolls to hold information and knowledge of what could happen much like possibilities in the "Many Worlds" interpretation of Quantum Physics.
    imagine reading that much information or only a certain path of a trajectory of events within a numerous bundle of paths. that would make sense as to why people in the game go insane when they try to tap into the insight of an elder scroll.

  • @raymondraptorclaw2901
    @raymondraptorclaw2901 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Elder Scrolls are EVERYTHING! To know the Elder Scrolls is to know everything.

  • @honestkyn718
    @honestkyn718 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    The Elder Scrolls are just scrolls that are really, really old.

    • @the_dropbear4392
      @the_dropbear4392 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Matthew Chirino or they haven't been written yet

    • @wintertrooper7918
      @wintertrooper7918 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Elder scrolls are just old people that scroll a page on the internet