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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
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.
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.
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.
"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"
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!
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.
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.
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 😉
_"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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)!
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! :)
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!
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.
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.
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
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 ! :-)
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...🙂
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"
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.
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.
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.
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
@@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
@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.
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
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
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!
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.
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......
+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 .
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..
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.
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...
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
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.
@@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...
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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!
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.
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
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?
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
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.
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".
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. :)
"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...
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!
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
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)
"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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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Can you please read about the Daedric and a sleeping tree
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
Oh you bet it tickles my fancy.
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Series called The Elder Scrolls. Elder Scrolls themselves rarely appear. Hmm...
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Can you describe the Talos enantiomorph? I wanted to understand it more
Imagine reading an Elder Scroll, going blind; and the only thing you learn is Akatosh's favorite pie recipe.
At least you can tell your wife and make the most delicious pie in Imperial City
Hey man, a pie that is the favorite of a timeless god is probably a really good pie.
@@chugiakjrtheplaywwright6461 literally the best pie ever
@@genericnpc08 or its the shitiest pie ever because akatosh has weird taste
This would fit in the Elder Scrolls Universe more than it should
Everyone: "Dont read it, you'll go blind"
Last Dragonborn: "Lol watch me read 3 in a row"
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.
Holy fuck I just realized that you read the three scrolls and not one scroll three times during that quest
@@SadMaddyyy yup blood dragon and sun i think
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.
The Dragonborn also has a Dragon Soul, which means their place in time is weird by nature.
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.
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Could be Ataxia. It's quite a problem back home in Cyrodiil.
Now that you mention it.... People that read them do get rather pale... Good thing Arcadia has a fix then
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"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"
“How it is that the Dragonborn punched every single shop keeper in Skyrim?”
“…. did… did s/he just kill a child..?”
"Wait... Why did Dovahkin constantly storm shout in whiterun?"
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!
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.
That’s what I thought until I saw Serana carrying one.
Maybe they still are telling the story, both before and after it happens.
bingo bingo
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.
@@corybryan2105 FUCK
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.
So, if you read an elder scroll in game, does that mean you actually read an elder scroll to read an elder scroll? Readception?!
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 😉
Damn that Feeble Dragon
I bet the monk whose last reading was of the launch of Creation Club was pissed.
_"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.
Cadfael - starring Derek Jacobi.
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.
maybe the real elder scrolls were the friends we made along the way
Or the all blue
When you stare into an Elder Scroll, M'aiq the Liar stares into you
Hahaha such an underrated comment
Pure Genius
There's probably a Moth Priest who would agree with that.
The next game is 'The Elder Scrolls VI: The Elder Scrolls"
Skyrim : Prisoner of Stormcrown Island - re-make of the original.
@Quetzocoatlas Gamer Id like a new DLC
@Quetzocoatlas Gamer Skyrim 7 : Lords and Ladies of the Valley...
@@mjag2834 you realize the series is called elder scrolls not skyrim right? Skyrim is just the sub name of the fifth entry.
@@henrymarckisotto9025 But do you know THE WAY ? ? ? ;)
Summary of the Elder Scrolls: "It just works."
Jokes old and it was for fallout
@@Sam-pr9rr fallout 4 is boring for me so i dont know what u mean
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
@@Sam-pr9rr yeah sure, you obviously need validation, so i will give it to you
All I hear is a JoJo reference to be honest.
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.
GhettoBagel Hmm... Seems legit.
That’s an interesting analogy for it.
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.
Are you suggesting that there's pornography somewhere on the Elder Scrolls themselves?
Radavvadra So, in a way, one could say the Elder Scrolls contain every single crappy smut fanfiction imaginable...
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.
that is such a good theory that its cannon in my head now, thank you.
Does that mean a crash-to-desktop is actually a truthful falsehood?
...Oh my god
nah you zero sum out of the game
The Morrowind SPEEDRUN is technically cannon so sure why not
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.
Nerd
@@danieldennehy3578 Yes
Ender CorePL lmao very honest
Quantumly entangled scrolls... Now the whole “shows all futures and all pasts at the same time” bit makes sense
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.
I now understand the Elder Scrolls
Said no men or mer ever.
Lasyltherni "Khajiit are not known as mages, so J'zargo has much to prove."
M’aiq once heard of a scroll that was un-understandable. He wishes he could read this out as his wedding speech...
I do know the Elder Scrolls, quite well actually.
*_ELDER SCROLLS_*
not even aidras or deadras, and don't even talx about those weak flying lizard thingnis people call dragons.
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
its really not mcguffins, much more a chekov's gun or deus ex machina
@@brynhildr6981 You clearly don't understand either of those two terms. But I'd agree it's not much of a MacGuffin either.
@@SeeMyDolphin i say chekovs gun cuz you spend like 4 quests getting dragon’s scroll and use it once
@@brynhildr6981 But you use it, and it's highly plot relevant, so it's in no way a Chekov's Gun.
@@SeeMyDolphin a chekov's gun is an item used once near the end of the story with an informed value throughout the story.
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)!
Thanks. I'll be using this impressive excuse in real life all the time for myself. :)
355 hours? I remember my first month of playing too
@@Emberrss I put in 355 hours in the first week. Get on my level nerd
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! :)
Mr Station r/wooosh
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!
This actually hold some weight to it. It makes sence i like your theory sir!
Don’t have time now but somebody reply to this comment so I can come back later please
@@saturnzdiplomat4794 here u go 😁
@@saturnzdiplomat4794 yo
Makes sense
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.
yea then overfill 5 to make you wonder, why aren't these new scrolls locked in the whitegold tower?
Then make an MMO that is really divisive amongst the fans and make these Elder Scrolls only appear as mere stat buffs.
every game is a story that is on 1 of these scrolls
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.
They were used in TES: Arena.
20:50 I'm sure you were looking at the "amulet of the elder council".
There were amulets in this video? o.O'
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
Literally Just A Cat nope
So the elder Scrolls = Bethesda Devs
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 ! :-)
This is what I was thinking. Makes sense when you think about CHIM and maybe Dragon Breaks being about saved games.
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...🙂
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"
An elderly man scrolling on his smartphone.
The elder scrolls.
I’ll leave now.
I won't deny it I found that pretty funny.
I feel dumb now because I read it twice before getting it. At least it was obvious the second time lol
This has got to be the cleverest response I've yet read. Good one.
Perish
☺️
Ladies and gentlemen, things are about to become confusing!!
Edit... I got a heart off of Camel, I'm now happy for the week :).
When the top level was placed, aaha, no more could be built!
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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.
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.
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.
Its the confirmation that the elderscrolls are spyware
Hey this elder scroll says special edition but there isnt a difference between it and the normal version
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
*Reads Elder Scroll* "This will make you become blind" Me: Wtf
*reads elder scroll* "Ha ha, made you look"
@@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
@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.
I just can't imagine dragons reading an Elder Scroll without laughing
"I'll leave that to the philosophers, i.e. The TH-cam comment section."
This videos dialogue is so underrated
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
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
But only in the Time and Space in Oblivion and not in the Anima and Animus of Dimension?
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!
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.
That's an interesting comparison
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......
+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 .
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..
Was thinking this as well when Camel was talking about how they appear and disappear
The Elder Scrolls VI: Plot Device
They're also said to be indestructible so you could potentially run around with elder scrolls wrapped around you and be invincible
I wish i could do that...
Then why can’t craft armor that includes the elder scrolls in skyrim, there is at least 4
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.
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...
@@kbm989m9 How could you craft with a material you cannot cut. Then again you would see people running around with oragami armor.
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
So that is in a elder scroll: The Console Command.
Only the cult of the tilde key can properly understand The Console Commands.
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.
@@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...
Cheats, Hacks, & return to DOS prompt !
"The game itself is an Elder Scroll" I freaking love this. What a realization.
It blew my mind too. 😅😅😅
Make a lore about nirnroot noises damnit!
*_VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO_*
It is the Elder Scrolls.
*_Trust Septimus!_* *He knows you can know!*
the developer was probably proud of himself for making them easyer to find with a -cool- awefull -sound effect- brain damaging effect.
Nirnroot was an accident, I remember reading a book on oblivion about it
It’s so crazy how good he is at making me watch the entirety of each and every one of his videos.
magnus made the blueprints for all of creation right? what if the scrolls ARE those blueprints?
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.
What if he got the blueprints from the elder scrolls
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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!
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.
Your voice is so chill and you pick the best music to listen to late at night chilling before bed
an elder scroll is basically a high level Calculus text-book
Crackulus
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
The Elder Scroll is the game itself, and all it encompasses. And all games to come.
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?
They actually openly state that snow elf magic is crazy
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
@@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
It's actually godly meme that no one can understand besides godly beings
A Peacock us mortals can be blinded by its cringyness
I bet it reads "ur mum gay"
Not even godly beings can truly understand the Scrolls.
I love the Elder Scrolls Series, I just can't get enough and I really like these Lore Videos!
It's basically the Akashic Records of the Nasuverse. Well a piece of the Root at least.
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.
The falsehoods are glitched saves that we try so hard to fix XD
"You will understand women when you understand Elder Scrolls"
- Skyrim Proverb
(Or it should be)
It's basically LSD, only in scroll form, and with horrible side effects should the user not be ready for their trip
even if you are ready for the tirp :P
So just "Let go or be dragged?"
Lsd+dmt+shrooms×30 bottles of skooma
just a very high doses
@ 10:40, I definitely heard "Long ago, the Dwemer devised a MEME."
I literally love you. Haven't even watched the video yet but I liked it. Thank you for all that you do.
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".
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. :)
Thankfully, Wikis exist.
*Giant smashed you into the clouds*
Dragonborn: wtf
Elder scroll: yeah...about that..
But then will i get blind if i look directly at my skyrim disk?
xavier chapelot Yes
I did
No because we are above Aedra, Daedra and the Elder Scrolls themselves
@@kprojectskurt just open the disc player, power it on and look at the laser => there you have your blindness
@@heron5045 still he has a point.
"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...
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!
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.
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
That's all Sheogorath's doing. Right next to setting resurrected ancient redguard kings on fire, it's his favorite thing to do
XerasDezarrys You forgot the cheese stuff.
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.
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.
Was not expecting to hear a reference to Deep Space 9's Garak at 3:05. I love it!
i really want a eye of magnus lore vid:(
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...
Camel always delivers
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
Someone needs to go ask Mora what tf they are
i highly doubt he knows
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.
@@jakeand9020 there could theoretically be a single page with the only 100% correct explanation. If there is, it's probably hidden in Apocrypha.
This is my most favorite tes video. Thank you a lot!
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)
Not gonna lie. I completely forgot the elder scrolls existed.
a bagel You forget the very things the Series is named for?
Darth Fenrir489 It's understandable. Sometimes I forget about the Dragonballs.
+Hooded One true
This was pretty informative! Thanks for uploading!
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?
The power of Sithis (as Auriel’s counterpart).
Love the depth of your videos.
The games are the elder scrolls because if you spend too long staring at your screen you'll go blind
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A physical manifestation of the incomplete-but-living memory of the dreamer.
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.
"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.
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.
Fahri Nugraha It is possible that the Elder Scrolls are the very blueprint of creation that Magnus made.
Wait. The person who took inventory was blind... no wonder they couldn't keep count. "I didn't feel this one earlier...*
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
Seeing some of the ridiculous things some gamers do, I do not blame the people who read their stories for going crazy XD
@@Alyxandeyr And now I'm feeling guilty for all of the pots I put on the heads of city guards...
Even after all this time I still like to listen to your Skyrim videos while I play.
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🤯🤯🤷🏽♂️
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
19:42 someone get that man some scalp moisturizer!
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.
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.
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
Christian Totherow I have the same issue
Really blew my mind when you dropped the bomb about the real-world games being the actual Elder Scrolls. Good job, Camel!
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.
Elder Scrolls are EVERYTHING! To know the Elder Scrolls is to know everything.
The Elder Scrolls are just scrolls that are really, really old.
Matthew Chirino or they haven't been written yet
Elder scrolls are just old people that scroll a page on the internet