The Elder Scrolls Lore: Mannimarco
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ม.ค. 2020
- Mannimarco was an infamous Altmeri Necromancer who was responsible for the Planemeld. However, the Planemeld is not all he is known for, as throughout Tamriel's history, he has been the center of numerous problems. This video explores his origins, what lead to his demise, his artifacts, and the impact his existence has made on Tamriel.
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My boy Manni out here making Voldemort look like an elementary schoolyard bully.
They had no business making him that sexy in the cinematic trailers tbh
👁️👄👁️ thank god they did
*remember the arse-faced oblivion iteration*
@@HAZNAUT lol it was soooo hard to take anyone serious in oblivion. Mannimarco is talked about being the most powerful mage in existence and king of worms but he shows up in the mission looking like a 50 year old prune with a dad box and shrieking voice... you could legit make up the most menacing character in TES history and oblivion would make him look like a potato.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder my friend
y'all dome f'd up hominids
In Skyrim those necromancers in that cave trying to resurrect him is terrifying to me. Not because of them, they were easily dispatched. Because it implies that is possible. He still exists already, of course, as the undead deity Necromancer’s Moon, but the fact that they could also restore his earthly form? There’s no way Oblivion was the last we ever hear from him.
I'd love for him to be the main villain in a future title, perhaps one set in High Rock where we first met him.
That might be fun. Personally I kinda like him as this recurring secondary antagonist that never goes away no matter how many times you “defeat” him or how many primary antagonists rise and fall in between. Definitely agree though if we ever revisit High Rock, he just has to come back there it’s where we first met him.
Are you talking Wolf Cave? In that one they were trying to resurrect Potema not Mannimarco. Or was there a Skyrim quest I actually missed?
Yeah that one was Queen Potema. There’s another cave where they’re trying to resurrect Mannimarco but I’ll have to look it up.
Hob’s Fall apparently.
Oh cool a history lesson on this guy. I wonder what the intro song would be?
Lady of scrolls: “sephiroth!!!”
That's probably influenced by Wilburgur, who used the theme during the fight with Mannimarco in his Oblivion series.
@@heresthadude1080 lol that was the first thing I thought on one of the best mod for me in Oblivion hehe beside from Necromancer mods
I killed Mannimarco with a High Elf named Sephiroth Kilmister. Thought it would be funny as hell...and then this video comes out.
Mannimarco really exemplifies one of the Elder Scrolls' most impressive aspects; the ability to create intriguing and fantastic characters that don't even really have that large a role across the games' stories, and yet feel as though they are a massive part of Tamriel's history.
You should play ESO then.
Seeing as most of this lore is from that game, the good stuff anyways.
@@killval849 ESO isn’t canon.
@@oppionatedindividual8256 Yes, yes it is.
@@oppionatedindividual8256 it is
Mannimarco: "I will... never be a memory."
"Children, listen as the shadows cross your sleeping hutch,
And the village sleeps away, streets emptied of the crowds,
And the moons do balefully glare through the nightly clouds,
And the graveyard's people rest, we hope, in eternal sleep,
Listen and you'll hear the whispered tap of the footsteps creep,
Then pray you'll never feel the Worm King's awful touch."
"She's back! Our lady is back! And she has chosen you!! All hail the listeners [of Lady of Scrolls' amazing content]!!"
I'm part of the school of thought that believes the Mannimarco we fight in oblivion is an imposter taking his name to rally support in a bid for taking over.
makes sense as according to daggerfall Mannimarco essentially became a daedric prince and him in Oblivion doesn't seem that Daedric
That's my headcanon
I believe he was an incarnation of the deified Mannimarco, an avatar imbued with a portion of his power.
Wrap in the West happened. He became a God while retaining his Mortal Form in the other timeline that he did not became a God.
@@ragingsage3973 the real question is how many of the diverging possibilities spawned a manimarco?
Daggerfall had 4 basic endings
Empire
Underking
Manimarco
Orc
Regional Iliac Bay power(which itself had a dozen varients but for simplicity sake I'm counting them as one)
Now was there one god and one mortal or one god and a mortal lich version for every ending he didnt achieve godhood?
Because if it's the second than there could be a half dozen manimarcos outside his godform hanging around which is terrifying
Both you and Fudgemuppet have new videos it feels like my birthday
I always get the vibe from Molag Bal that he's Morgoth/Melkor from Tolkien's works and that Mannimarco is Sauron in both his true form and his fair form
Mannimarco always reminded me of Sauron, especially his appearance in the cinematic trailers of ESO.
The major difference between them would be in loyalty. Sauron was loyal to Morgoth until his end, where Mannimarco betrayed Molag Bal, or at least he tried.
Ah yes, Vecn-, uh, Nagash- uh, Mannimarco, a fascinating character
For y'all that did not know:
Vecna is from Dungeons and Dragons.
Whilst Nagash is from Warhammer Fantasy (which is different from Warhammer 40.000).
Both of which are Gods whom mastered Magic. The difference is that Vecna obtained the knowldedge of Necromancy as a side effect, whilst Nagash *strived* for it.
Sry but Nagash is far more powerful than him
@@comteraffayn8351 Be that as it may, dramaturgically speaking, they fill the same role.
@@Falkenhorst2000 yeah but Nagash is far better *angry fanboy noise*
@@comteraffayn8351 No, Vecna!
Just goes to prove the old adage: *"around elves, watch yourselves."*
Pelinal Whitestrake wants to know your location.
@@hellokatyfac3
*intense* *sweating*
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I prefer the adage: "Kick ass, ask questions never".
Its so cool that you use so much fanart. Brings community together
The fact that I started learning TES lore several years ago, and STILL learning new stuff just goes to show how much effort Bethesda and Todd Howard put into TES.
Especially considering this is one of the most prolific characters in the franchise, crazy how you missed it after years of research lol
He's at least 14.3% smarter than me
Oh yeah well uhhh....ur dumb stupid and ur mom gey
It's like watching both of you as scholars fighting each other trying to prove which one is right XD
@@IamaDinosaur Nah usually she's right... As it usually is in these kind of situations.
@@ImperialKnowledge Can't wait to see your videos soon! Hope you can talk about that ESO Dark Heart Of Skyrim where they actually made Skyrim again XD
@@ladyofscrolls4598 i was on the fence until i saw this, your now my fave
A 40 minute video on Daddimarco, truly an amazing gift. Really great job on it! I didn't know about the Jills trying to repair the warp in the west, possibly fixing the whole Two Mannimarco thing.
That's one hell of an intro! And it's Mannimarco
*It makes me wanna turn as a necromancer and rename my soul gems of each victim's I kill ^^*
Hell yeah! One Winged Angel always makes a statement!
Are you millennial ?!?! Seems you miss FF7 EPIC boss ost
@@zorhan2229 Millenials grew up with FF7, you're thinking of Gen Z.
I always Soul Trap Nazeem, Grellod, Ulfric, Miraak, J'Zargo, Ancano, Astrid, Mercer, the captain that tries to get you executed, the guy at the 3,000 steps that leads you into an ambush & the Ebony Warrior then feed their souls to my phylactery (Undeath: Classical Lichdom mod).
I think I could still find his throne room in Daggerfall without looking
up the route. Lots of ancient liches and ancient vampires in there. I
think the first enemy you encounter on the way there is a zombie.
Follow the undead to reach their king
Simple but efficient to not get lost, with the present videogame technologies and machines I hope one day the mini maps or band with arrows to guide you will be less important and more elements to guide you in game, like the kind of ennemies encountered and some things in the environment, with more details you can guide the player better (but that's lot of work and the open world would be quite shorter with this kind of system, but way less empty, and with less random items to collect, I know some like that but not me haha)
@@PetitPoneyDuVercors26 that's sounds great but i (personally) think it being an option would be best because without some map markers i would be extremely lost myself, heck even with them i still somehow manage to get lost in skyrim X'D like i will legit look at the map and think im going toward the marker ':) only to end up being the opposite direction X'D
Allways wanted to learn more about Mannimarco. Necromancy is sort of my "thing", and big necromancers throughout fiction really interest me.
i hope you mean its your primary play/interest and not the type of "thing" like whatever the hell that dunmer in oblivion had going on
@@antaila I haven't played Oblivion, but I think I can guess what you mean, and no, not like that.
I just think necromancy is cool, and it's one of the first things I ask about in video games.
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"I will make you another in a long tradition of Worm Thralls, and take my time in studying you. Your very soul will be forfeit to me."
It is often postulated that the reason Mannimarco continuously returns from the dead is because he has achieved a state of traditional lichdom as far as typical lore for liches in most fantasy settings goes. For example, in DnD and Harry Potter, a lich is created when a wizard binds their soul or part of their soul to an object such as a phylactery or horcrux, and is able to return with a new body should their body be destroyed. The only way to destroy them for good is to destroy their phylactery or phylacteries. Many liches in The Elder Scrolls do not appear to behave in this way, or if they do, it's not represented in game mechanics. It could very well be that all liches are like this, but either in-game limitations don't allow this fact to be expressed, or it simply takes a very long time to reform.
There are a few notable liches in Tamriel's history for whom we do have some form of insight regarding this. In Morrowind, Barilzar's undeath seems to have some connection to his Mazed Band. In Oblivion, the Hero of Kvatch is contracted by the Brotherhood to kill Celedaen, who is attempting to attain lichdom by trapping his own soul within an hourglass known as the Sands of Resolve. This is a process that apparently takes some time, and you can kill him by simply pickpocketing the Sands of Resolve. His journal says that his phylactery is only vulnerable during the process of becoming a lich, and that he is apparently able to discard it after the process is complete without consequences. Lastly, in Skyrim, you can encounter the Dragon Priest Hevnoraak, who is unique in that you can only kill Hevnoraak after emptying three vessels that contain his original blood in a ritualistic manner, suggesting his blood vessels may have been phylacteries of sorts, and by performing the ritual, you are able to reduce him in a weakened state where he can be permanently killed.
Overall, the lore seems to suggest that there are multiple pathways to lichdom that give one varying degrees of immortality and even different forms, as the liches of Daggerfall and Morrowind are completely skeletal, liches in Oblivion and Skyrim seem to be more embalmed and still have some flesh, and of course Mannimarco is often depicted as still retaining his original appearance, but with sunken features and pale skin like a vampire. Since Mannimarco has died multiple times, it's my personal headcanon that he obtained a more immortal form of lichdom, and that he will continue to return until his phylactery is found and destroyed.
To be fair, we've never seen Mannimarco the lich without his cowl. In ESO, he's still technically mortal, in Daggerfall all we see are his eyes, in Oblivion he looks nothing like he was in Daggerfall or any other depictions since then. Even his staff suffered; in Daggerfall and ESO it's an elegant artifact, in Oblivion it's a branch with a skull stuck to it.
I found about this comment just now so late to the party comment. If lichdom really does work like that in TES then maybe his phylacetry or however you write that could be the very necromancer's moon itself, which would make him unkillable because he can be killed but never permanently
I personally believe that Mannimarco's phylactery is the moon he ascended to be. So there's no way to permanently kill him unless you destroyed the moon
@@jvaschagas1082 Lol you beat me to it by a whole month
I think he had done so much evil and vile shit in life that he feared his own death and the torture that awaited in the afterlife. What other reason could there be to want to become a lich?
To quote Xykon from Order of the Stick,
"Power's not about having a bunch of spells or nick-nacks. Power is imposing your will upon *everyone*.
Incorporeal ghost, immortal lich, hell even a brain-in-a-jar! You do what you must to stay out of the fires below.
What you've told me is that you're channeling the failure of three pathetic losers who didn't have power enough to keep their skin in the game! They couldn't stay out of the fires of Hell!"
Tamriel doesn't operate on a Heaven/Hell system. Rapists don't automatically find themselves in Coldharbour, for instance.
Mannimarco just really wanted to flip Arkay off. He admits just as much.
Ah all the vampire and other undead mad puss you would get
@@patronofviolenceanddebauch5031 putting the romance in necromancer
"Thousands of generations will pay for your ignorance"!
-Mannimarco upon his release from Coldharbour by the Vestige
At least he warned us.
I left him there.
Thank you for a new video. I also love the length you put in so much work making these videos. I listen to your playlist almost every night before bed.
It's crazy how this was exactly what I was curious about last night. I was literally looking through your uploads for a video on this.
Always satisfing my curiousity! Thank you!
Wth this editing is flawless!!! Instantly subbed
What I absolutely love about him is while he was the villain, he technically won, as he succeeded in ascending to godhood during the dragonbreak
Don’t we literally kill him in oblivion?
@@oceandriver7you killed one of him. The weaker one. The other mannimarco is that moon that shows up and makes black soul gems.
@@passingrando6457That's one theory of many on it. I personally believe that was a mortal avatar of Moonimarco (the one who became the Revenant) and that the King of Worms is probably off somewhere else, continuing to be his own High Priest. Letting a mere avatar perish would get the Mages Guild off his tail and allow the Order of the Black Worm to continue operating elsewhere. It seems odd that after all that the King of Worms would just drop dead as a mortal Altmer and not turn into a skeleton or pile of ash when slain. It also could've been a powerful willing sacrifice cultist who pretended to be Mannimarco so his death could trick the Mages Guild into letting their guard down.
5 mins in and already hooked,
like always!
Damn, the background music you use is amazing.
I’m just barely discovering your channel. I’ve never played Skyrim, but just recently got into ESO. These videos really help me catch up with the lore! And I appreciate the use of Shadow of the Colossus music. Good job.
Your lore videos have always been top notch and the level of depth and love put into them speaks for itself. However, rewatching this video I noticed that your delivery is becoming more fluent and you aren’t as repetitive as you’ve been in some previous videos. It’s so great to watch you hone your craft!! ❤️❤️
Not knowing he was in any other game I got excited when I found a book in skyrim called king of worms and it was about him
This is awsome. You have a gift here. You are the Elder Scrolls Womon we all seek the lore. Thanks so much.
Amazing!!! You have the best Elder Scrols lore videos I've ever seen :D
So well written, great quality lore video!
That intro was so fitting, love it
Your videos give me hope for my work day. Just 7 more of your videos and I'm off work lol.
I love the videos you make and this is my favorite since mannimarco is my favorite character in the elder scrolls thank you
Thank you for this amazing video, i just finished all your videos in one sitting ;_; Im so glad i found your channel. Keep up the good work !
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Before ESO and Skyrim Mannimarco have been my Fave character, any lore vids on him that it quality I like but I LOVE your version of him.
I thank you for this piece of work my Queen.
whats wrong with mannimarco in skyrim?
@@LegacyZwerg
I'm pretty sure they were saying that before Skyrim and ESO really gave him more popularity and lore, Mannimarco had been their favorite. As in, he's been their favorite character for a very long time.
Much like shoddycast, my favorite lore masters. Well done. New subscriber.
First video I watched from you and now subscribed necromancer is my favorite style of magic and Mannimarco is one of my favorite characters from eso
ty for uploading im always eager to learn more about necromancy ;)
He is such a badass character
*happy necromancer noises*
Happy necromancer noises?
Like One Winged Angel for the intro??
Lol
So I'm late in viewing this work of lore keeping. And what a work it was. Mannimarco has always been one my favorite characters since I first began researching the elder scrolls lore. Being a user of necromancy since my first time on Nirn in Morrowind, I have always wondered about some of the in depth details about Mannimarco's rise and fall. Thank you for this telling.
All shall serve, whether in life, or in undeath.
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Hooray a new vid!
I've been waiting for this
Love your vids
yo TY for putting your sources in a linked Google Doc, I love that so much, normalize that xD
must be the best video you made thus far !!!
This is perfect please make a video of everything in elder scrolls you are the Lore Queen
I cannot reconcile the lore behind Mannimarco with my experience of sniping him from across the cavern where he was hiding in Oblivion. It's so hard to believe that the great necromancer was taken down quietly by a sudden arrow to the skull.
His appearance in that game does his story a massive disservice.
just assume its not the real Mannimarco but just a pretender
That would take me having enough investment in the character to make excuses for him in canon. I would rather him just be a trick ass punk like all sorcerers and wizards.
Wands are for WIMPS!
as powerful as he is his mortal lich body is still vulnerable, in addition this isn't Mannimarco at the height of his power and followers the worm cult had lost a lot of it's power since the interregnum of the second era by the time of the end of the 3rd era in which the first 4 main games take place he had to skulk about and manipulate from the shadows i assume that last war with Vanus and the mages guild did way more damage to him and to his power base
think of it like this even the most badass of warriors are useless if you cut off their hands and feet Mannimarco in daggerfall and oblivion was barely a shadow of who he once was
I love this channel so much
Love your lore videos! Watching them all!
I was watching some of these lore videos to fall asleep. In the middle of the night I awoke to the ominous chanting at the start of the video. I nearly peed myself and I was home alone...
Usint the One-Winged Angel theme was a GENIUS decision. Got hyped real quick
FYI I LOVE THE NEW SIGIL U USED IN THE VIDEO
Question is... Has he heard of the High Elves?
I ran into some mudcrabs the other day
@@CoyoTWil3 *snort*
Stop right there subliminal crumb!
The choice of One Winged Angel as the opening song is just * chef’s kiss *
Great video. I subscribed.
It's videos like this that make me sooo happy that the quest mod undeath was created and as a result my Breton necromancer character can fully realize his ambition which is to become a lich king and rule over all. However unlike Mannimarco he doesn't kill without reason and would rule fairly and wouldn't be tyrant as long as all except his sovereign rule.
crazy how many of these supposedly Mannimarco arts are in fact depictions of Raistlin Majere
yea i noticed that too... raistlin was not a lich, or and elf or even part of the elder scrolls
That's one sick intro.
Binge watching your videos as I have gotten back into playing Skyrim in 2020. Your lore videos, in my opinion, are the best on this platform. I now know so much about Mannimarco. I didn't think about that connection with Calixto. Why doesn't the necklace ever feature any spells or enchants on it in the base game though? Also... I think in TES6 we might see a return of the necromancer.
The Necromancer's Amulet is enchanted, though. It's pretty terrible compared to its previous incarnations, but it is magical.
Dislikes are from the followers of the mages guild 🧙♀️
The fact that the amulet disappears and reappears from time to time makes it sound like a daedric artifact.
Nice vid!
May I request/suggest dialing in the volume? The volume jumps blew my head off with headphones :)
Keep em coming!
What I don't understand is why Mannymacaroni is considered a powerful necromancer, but not thought about taking over the soul cairn from the Masters.
Because the Masters rule a relatively unimportant plane? Mannimarco wanted true divinity.
Subbed for the intro alone
Loved the video :D such a cool character
One tiny bit tho Clivia is Abnur's half-sister
I’ve been craving an in depth look at traditional yokudan religion, you always give us every scrap of lore there is to find, think you might be interested in teaching us about this?
The little that I know indicates that some of the gods don’t line up with the aedra/daedra the way most of the other traditional cultures tend to, my theory lately is that the yokudan gods might have originated from a previous kalpic cycle-as the yokudans themselves are said to have survived this with the walkabout. I really wanna know what other people think
That last bit of music was a 'hell of a choice.' 😉
Mannimarco: "Behold as I rise from the grave!"
*SPLATS*
That opening song is epic af
Changing you PFP? Bold I actually like the old one. Reminded of a picture of Saint Mary, but elder scrolls theme.
Aaaah, so that's the "dark elf" looking guy in those cool cinematics I've been seeing.
I'm now going to start a new Necromancer playthrough.
I was just watching Black Butler videos and I noticed you have Black Butler ost as one of your background musics :)
loved the video truly great work but one correction varen became blind after he read an elder scroll which gave him the prophecy of a vestage stopping molag bal when he awoke from the betrayal he was among the moth priests that brought him back to health and lived among them for a while being one of their order moving on from him being betrayed but then he read an elder scroll that showed him the five champions being lead by a vestage defeating bal and thats why he became the prophet ive play the eso storyline on 9 characters lol
Great video could you possibly do a lore video for each ESO expansion
These videos make me want to play Skyrim and all of TES games, but then the Witcher music comes on and I become conflicted. Witcher or TES??? AHH
Great video btw thank you Lady of Scrolls
Why not both (sort of)? www.reddit.com/r/witcher/comments/ep6uik/so_nice_to_be_back_in_uh_skellige/
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Play elder scrolls online
I use a mod that replaces the vanilla soundtrack with the Witcher 3 one
I SQUEALED when One Winged Angel hit lmao
Fitting this video about Mannimarco would open with “One-Winged Angel”.
Manninarco is such a fascinating character, but I can’t stop thinking of how he looks like sephiroth
Watching this before I finished the oblivion mages guild quest on max difficulty, I like to imagine mannimarco has become akin to a Lovecraftian eldritch being after his apotheosis in daggerfall, who cannot die, and can be resurrected at any time by his followers.
epic intro!
Amazing
That intro is :chefkiss:
Everytime I here Manimarco my brains interprets it as Madame Markos from Suspiria
Listen this is the first video of yours I've seen, but you sound a LOT like Auri from the Song of the Green mod for Skyrim, so it is now my headcanon that she is very knowledgeable about Mannimarco
In allinalls video.
A thalmor at the end if the evangelidium video.
The man is said to have said
"The worm reports success"
Insinuating that they they're talking about an inside man.
Or manimarco taking a role in helping the 3rd aldmeri dominion build a 3rd numidium.