There's something about the way you articulate your words that gets me hooked every time. You could honestly talk about types of grass in Skyrim and I'd watch the whole thing.
i accidentally glitched it bc i have a mod that makes it how werewolves and vampires dont take fall damage so i just jumped and it forced me to return to the tower to take the teleporter back down before i could interact with valerica it was annoying but found it was funny what sucks with the mod is you cant fus ro dah vampires or werewolves off a cliff to end it quick they just get back up and try to return to where you were
I feel like the Soul Cairn is so ripe for mod potential. Such a huge area with so little... there. Like you could fit so many quests and areas and NPC's into that bad boy, just literally into the already present worldspace, not even counting adding more cells for dungeons and closed buildings and stuff. You could pack a mini DLC of stuff in there. Wish a few modders would go ham on that place.
THEORY: The dragon bones in the soul carin are Durnehviir's from each time he has died inside the soul carin. He then reconstitutes and continues on forever.
@ANTOINE RAFAEL R. MAXIMO Dragon skeletons dissolve because the Dragonborn absorbs their souls, and the player character has been the first one to visit. So the theory is still good.
@@oxymoron02 @oxymoron02 I'm sure you mean dragon *corpses* dissolve because the dragonborn drains their soul, but judging by how ancient everything in the soul cairn seems, the bodies could've easily all withered away. Another point is that all of the dragons we've come across are capable of speech, even if not with humans. Durnehviir may not have been the only dragon to have been consumed by the ideal masters before they had the perfect opportunity that Valerica gave them.
But...after the dragonborn defeats Durnehviir, he tells us outright that he's never once been defeated before that battle. The dragon bones are there before we fight him, so while I adore this theory, I don't think it's him. Maybe he brought a couple friends? My personal theory is that the bones were transported there by the malfunctioning Dwemer device we can see in ESO in Blackreach. It's entirely possible that the device was running amok in places other than Blackreach, and nobody knew.
If you want to consider ESO as canon, it is entirely possible for physical objects to be transported into Oblivion, as Coldharbor features an entire Argonian settlement, a Nord Village (burnt down) A forest and an ancient Nord Tomb, all allegedly came from Tamriel.
@@a1mightydeath903 I would agree but I also implore you to find a book that references the great war (pvp) in any other elderscrolls game. Such a large important event that hasn't ever been mentioned in any other game is hardly cannon to me.
It doesnt matter whether its canon for you :p its been stated by the company that the events of ESO is 100% canon. And ESO came out a hood bit after any of the base games, so i would be surprised if there was a book on it. They probably came up with it afterwards since there wasnt too much from E1 anyways
The events are canon, but I don't consider the game canon. Like the actual game to me isn't irl canon. I hate that they made it multiplayer. Who the fuck asked for *that?*
I somehow managed to blast one of them out of bounds, had to install a mod AND use the console to finish that quest. So in short, a normal Bethesda quality quest.
@@kylebear8101 The answer to that problem is easy, become head honcho at Nintendo and reintroduce homebrew channels, this would pave the way for modding and potentially even console commands. Sorry, did I say easy?
"No sane human being would go through every part of Skyrim enough to make hours of pointing out the smallest things in the game world" Camel: "HOLD MY BEER!"
the question is "is anyone truly completely sane?" to which i say if you think you are you're more insane than the schizos who hear voices. also i ask them this question "have you ever made 1 mistake more than 1 time? if you answered yes then you are the definition of insane which is "doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results"
Trying to find YOUR soul essence gem that you have to discard in order to enter the soul cairn in the first place was stressful. This video made me wanna go back and explore it all.
If you're not already a writer you should be, you're very descriptive and that could work very well in writing, especially in a Lovecraftian style horror writing
You are helping to point out the hard work and endless hours the game developers put into the little details that a lot of gamers tend to run through and ignore. That's important work in my opinion
10 seconds in and I've already got chills down my spine. I can tell this is going to be an AMAZING episode. Thank you for your work Camel, we all really do appreciate it ❤️❤️
You are a member of the Bard's College, aren't you? The tour of the Soul Carn, talking about great stories that lay within the very bones that crossed your path and the rhythmic descriptions show a great command of poetry and language. Fabulous video. As for the word wall, I think that was where Durnehviir was perched when he made his bargain with the Ideal Master. They took him and everything around him to the Soul Cairn.
My theory on how dragon bones got there: Servants of the Ideal Masters physically moved them to the Soul Cairn in order to use their bones for the armour for the Absolute Units. My theory on how the swallowed Nord killed the dragon: As he was swallowed whole, maybe he crawled back up its throat and stabbed it through the roof of the mouth into its brain! My theory on how the summoning tomes got there: The IMs or their servants wrote them to train potential acolytes or would-be IMs themselves.
I was considering the idea that sending dragons to the soul cairn was an alternative way of disposing of them. Once they had Durnavhir, maybe they needed dragon souls to keep him going?
I like how the Ideal Masters just let a Dragonborn stroll around the Cairn, ya know, one who can absorb Dragon souls! with literally 30 filled soul gems on him and they're like "aww...just send the skeletons after him"
i do that to people who piss me off. Like that guy in Whiterun who walks around in Imperial Armor or that chick who betrayed her husband. Not a fan of traitors.
Idk how you can write more than 2 hours worth of scripting and somehow manage to maintain that bottomless poetry throughout. Awesome vid man, great way to end the Skyrim season of this series. Lookin forward to more :)
Mate its just the final Skyrim CCC he done ever region I don't think his quiting Skyrim anytime soon theres still so much to do and so much lore to uncover and camel leaves no stone unturned. Tho eventually it saddens me to say eventually Skyrim's secrets are slowly getting found meaning eventually there will a time where camel has to move on from Skyrim, but I have a feeling that's when elder scolls 6 comes out
@@TomKatt8569 yeah its very sad but eventually everything runs out of secrets some games will always have secrets beyond secrets and maybe just maybe Skyrim will have those secrets that even camel missed
I had no idea that there were so many places and points of interest in the Soul Cairn, but its atmosphere makes it difficult to comprehend just how large it is! Thank you so much for putting all the effort into making a thoroughly detailed video of this somewhat overlooked place. I also always learn several new words and ways to describe things when I listen to your voice 😄 It might be also worth noting that although you say you find "nothing" on the Keepers apart from a black soul gem, if you're a high enough level they actually drop their dragonbone weapons.
I always wondered if this was Mannimarco's Daedric Princedom, created when he ascended to godhood during the Warp in the West. However, instead of becoming a traditional Daedric Prince, he became something inherently Aedric, a corruption of what it means to be Divine (quite in-character for him), meaning that the Princedom was left Princeless, letting the Daedra of this realm, the Ideal Masters, to have the run of the place.
This was by far your greatest video in the series Camel. I’ve been watching you for years! This was perfect way to end your Skyrim Series. I actually learn quite a lot about The Soul Cairn as I had thought I’d fully explored it back in the day. You made me load up an old Skyrim save and go back in there and thanks to your video I was pleasantly surprised. This video definitely helped out in getting the sense of fully 100% The Soul Cairn something I didn’t do in the past. Thank You Camel for everything you do in video gaming
I love the Soul Cairn. Its my favorite place to just be. So beautiful but also so melancholic. I have some pure nostalgia from this place because I've always loved it so much.
Got damn dude, you're spitting pure poetry throughout the whole video... especially at 01:40:18 it's really deep the way you talk & you express yourself very well, as someone who writes dark poetry it is really inspiring!
Watching these makes me really appreciate the great vocabulary you have, Mr. Camel, as you manage to eloquently use in description words I haven't actually heard in years
I love it when Camel does these videos. Even when it turns to speculation or fan theories instead of hard facts and data, it's still interesting to listen to and watch and think about. Even if some of his mods are pretty embarrassing...
42:24 Have to mention that soul actually disappears when you enter that section after opening it up, suggesting that you arrived just in time to see the last dregs of her soul be siphoned away by the ideal master above. I'm also certain that Word Wall belongs to Durnehviir, and is how he actually travelled to the Soul Cairn. I think he found a way to teleport both himself and the Word Wall he perches on to the Soul Cairn, and obviously he is now since trapped. I think the Soul Cows with the farmer are the only ones you see alive, because of the farmer as well. He clearly has taken it upon himself to keep practising his craft from life, so he's managed to culture soul husks and even keep his livestock "alive". All other souls of animals that end up in the soul cairn likely perished very quickly, but it's only with the still working farmer, those cows remain
That and I'd say that animal souls would be consumed by the Ideal Masters more quickly than Humanoid ones. They give less power, so they are eaten faster, making animal souls a rare sight in the Soul Chairn.
Maybe the whole thing about Arvack's skull is a nod to a side quest during the Shivering Isles DLC where if you find certain named skulls found at random throughout and if you give said skull to the correct person on the Hill of Suicides, it frees their soul, disappear, and gives you a powerful timed enhancement.
I’m not sure if anyone had commented this, I scrolled for a bit and hadn’t seen it but I was level 50 when doing the soul cairn and I had level 100 smithing and I was able to loot the dragonbone weapons off of the keepers as well as the black soul gems. Anyway, thanks for the video, it was very informative.
I love these series Camel. All your videos really! Amazing work man. I appreciate your hard work you put into your videos so thank you, and keep up the great work my friend ✊
I think that the Master's victims may have placed, and perhaps even made, the spell tomes, to allow themselves a potential respite from their eternal servitude, for should and caster perform the incantation, one of the victims is summoned, freed from their prison for a laughably short time, relative to eternity
You've gotten me into Morrowind recently, and I've been binging your videos, and it's sad what Bethesda has become, man, Morrowind is so good. Made me happy to see Jiub at the end
the way you narrate is really cool! I've been listening to your videos as I've been working on projects and it passes the time really nicely. Thank you!!!
I never ever finish these ccc videos, but the calm narration and storytelling always makes me fall asleep so quick and i love fallout and elder scrolls lore.
Great work as always, camel. Your ES videos are very calming for me. Listening to how much you love these games like I do, makes a video this long feel like 15 minutes. I appreciate the content!
Ah, I got stuck here for so long because I refused to leave Jiub without his papers.....and I was stuck searching for that last one forever after I got surprised by one of them mist-men and thus proceeded to fus ro dah both them and that last paper into oblivion. I never did find that paper.
Aside from all the alliteration and possibly bad puns, you told a great story and I did learn much from the video, I have only done the Soul Cairn once, taking a guided tour was an eye opener. I do disagree with many comments about your tour of the Soul Cairn
This is one of my favorite places in Skyrim... and where you get the mount Arvak (purple flaming skeletal horse), my favorite mount of all single RPG games I played. I really hope the new DLC of "Skyrim Dark Heart" of ESO lets us visit this place again! Great Video, it hits all my nostalgia point of my time in Elder Scroll: Skyrim! =^_^=
@@IndridCold Good to know my memory isn't failing me yet. And, I do believe most people loathed their time in the Soul Cairn. It's like Blackreach but worse, especially for a completionist.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Excellent video! I thoroughly enjoyed all of your puns, allusions, and alliteration. Thank you for this! Aside from it being a literal hellscape, I like the Soul Cairn. I'm now looking forward to exploring it (again) in my current playthrough.
Hope you see this. At the beginning of the video when you were talking about the skull with antlers, you said that you couldn’t find any evidence of daedra leaving behind physical remains and it went over my head several times, but after you mentioned daedric hearts for the 150th time, I realized that the heart is a physical remnant of a dead daedra. Ps I want to get my hands on an Aedra heart.
I attempted to fully explore the Soul Cairn on a playthrough a did 2 years ago. I gave up after being in there for literally 5 days of logging on and only being there. The Soul Cairn makes blackreach look like heaven. Never again.
Why are there are no Dwemer souls or remains in evidence within the Soul Cairn? Yagrum Bagarn was off Nirn, and thus unaffected, so there should be Dwemer souls.
@@Alizudo Soul trapping and enchantment have been around since before the Dwemer vanished. Unless you are suggesting it never once happened to any of their race.
@@Argonova On the one hand, the Dwemer were extremely powerful, and extremely hidden. It's safe to say a Dwemer getting murdered was EXTREMELY rare. A Dwemer getting soul-trapped would be even MORE rare. In addition, the Dwemer vanished in the FIRST ERA. And finally, the Soul Cairn is obviously FAR larger than what we see. It's safe to say, if there are any Dwemer here, they're VERY VERY RARE, and would not necessarily happen to be in the exact piece of Soul Cairn we explore.
I listen to these videos at work. Camel makes for a great narrator when doing mindless tasks. Smooth enough to not be obnoxious but not so much that it puts you to sleep.
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Curating Curious Curiosities for Soul Cairn.
00:00:04 - Introduction
00:00:58 - Ideal Masters
00:03:08 - Geography
00:04:09 - Flora
00:05:57 - Fauna
00:08:30 - Soul Cairn
00:09:21 - Black Bar Repository (Jiub's Opus Page 8)
00:11:55 - Totem Of The Antlered One
00:16:17 - Crumbling Crypt
00:17:51 - The Nord, The Sword & The Dragon's Maw
00:20:17 - Master's Harvest
00:23:10 - A Shocking Discovery (Lightning Attractor Rod)
00:26:13 - Window In The Wall (Jiub's Opus Page 1)
00:28:11 - Hollow Tower (Jiub's Opus Page 6)
00:29:41 - Master's Garden (Jiub's Opus Page 3)
00:31:29 - The Merchant Morven Stroud (Jiub's Opus Page 10)
00:35:20 - Iridescent Vault
00:36:58 - Through The Looking Glass
00:37:22 - Devoid Depository
00:38:45 - The Soul Sweeper
00:39:49 - The Hunter's Haunt
00:40:50 - Master's Acropolis
00:43:15 - Grave Haze Grove (Spell Tome: Conjure Boneman)
00:45:08 - Twisting Spire (1st Keeper)
00:47:23 - Master's Terrace (1st Reaper Fragment)
00:48:36 - Veranda Of Voltage (Lightning Attractor Rod)
00:50:21 - The Dragon Priest's Demise
00:55:00 - Master's Maze (Jiub's Opus Page 9)(Soul Essence Gem)
00:59:14 - Master's Catacomb Gallery
01:01:31 - Dead Dragon Word Wall (Jiub's Opus Page 2)
01:04:58 - Dark Diode Dais (Lightning Attractor Rod)
01:06:05 - Master's Keep (2nd Reaper Fragment)
01:08:33 - Minaret Of Marrow (2nd Keeper)
01:09:51 - Necro Spell Shrine (Spell Tome: Conjure Wrathman)
01:10:56 - The Lost Nord
01:14:02 - Well Of Wealth (Jiub's Opus Page 5)
01:15:48 - The Shattered Steeple & Sword
01:17:06 - Preternatural Plaza (Lightning Attractor Rod)
01:18:35 - Soul Husk Farmer
01:20:23 - Spineless Spire
01:21:57 - An Orcish Onslaught
01:23:45 - Mistman's Tribune (Jiub's Opus Page 7)(Spell Tome: Conjure Mistman)
01:25:31 - Floating Arch-Tower (3rd Keeper)
01:28:51 - Master's Lookout (3rd Reaper Fragment)
01:30:18 - Eastern Watch (Jiub's Opus Page 4)
01:31:54 - Boneyard
01:33:00 - Valerica's Alchemy Laboratory
01:35:11 - Durnehviir Throne
01:35:34 - Inaccessible Chests
01:36:34 - Arvak's Temple (Spell: Summon Arvak)
01:39:37 - The Reaper's Lair
01:44:59 - Saint Jiub The Eradicator (Opus & Locket)
02:02:31 - Outro
I have over 4k hours and did not know about most things here.
Camel can you make a special last ccc episode about sovngarde?
Oh thanks Camel. I wasnt sure where the intro was.
I'll admit, I'm a little sad that this is the last episode. I would have liked an episode on sovngarde or Apocrypha.
Lp +ed we r
Ah yes, Camel, the Daedric Prince of Curiosities and Curating has returned
Legend!
Hmm, wonder what his artifact would be?
@@yannkam2127 it's just a book of puns
His artifact would be a game controller. The most powerful in Skyrim. Forged of future’s metal bearing symbols of an ancient past.
The symbols would be:
🐪
🐳 🐍
🦅
There's something about the way you articulate your words that gets me hooked every time. You could honestly talk about types of grass in Skyrim and I'd watch the whole thing.
And now I actually want that video. It would give an insight into just how important even grass variation is to making a world feel alive.
Camel really likes to use alliterations in his scripts. It brings forth a nice structure of the stories he is trying to tell.
Love the way he pronounces "elixir". Very classy.
Right there with ya, Krishna
Yeah, the combination of alliteration, highly descriptive and somewhat obscure language, puns, and several other devices is perfect.
Soul Cairn: The Movie
RIGHT? 😂
soul cairn documentary
Yeah, this could have been broken up. I don’t have 2 hrs to sit and watch a TH-cam video.
@@metalmyke1 just watch some of it and then come back and watch the rest
@@metalmyke1 no one said you gotta watch it in one sitting, jackass.
HUUUUUUGE!!!!
Hello there
Le Stuff general Kenobi
Like my pp
What are you doing over here?
Penguinz0
"We are expelled from the fortress just as Malacath was expelled from Boethia"
Wowwwwwww
That really... stinks.
What a load of crap.
That left me down in the dumps.
@@kingdavey90 Your jokes are shit!
i accidentally glitched it bc i have a mod that makes it how werewolves and vampires dont take fall damage so i just jumped and it forced me to return to the tower to take the teleporter back down before i could interact with valerica it was annoying but found it was funny what sucks with the mod is you cant fus ro dah vampires or werewolves off a cliff to end it quick they just get back up and try to return to where you were
"Make sure you're at least level 18, so the booty is too." That gave me a good chuckle.
I missed out on that age related joke...thanks...lol
@@kriss3907 third time watching i missed it every time til i went through the comments
When you said final episode, my soul experienced a worse fate than the soul cairn.
I'd be fine with an old remake maybe
Airster he only said final episode for Skyrim though 😳
I'll just playlist all the CCC's and watch on loop
@@goofman4332 You don't understand.
Airster Lmfaooooo wdym Bro 😇
Ah yes, two hours of Calming Camel Noises mixed with mysterious ambience. Just what I needed for studying.
Pretty much yeah
And sleeping
“Welcome back to Curating Curious Curiosities...”
Me: 😃
“For the final episode in Skyrim.”
Me: 😨😟😢
I feel like the Soul Cairn is so ripe for mod potential. Such a huge area with so little... there. Like you could fit so many quests and areas and NPC's into that bad boy, just literally into the already present worldspace, not even counting adding more cells for dungeons and closed buildings and stuff. You could pack a mini DLC of stuff in there. Wish a few modders would go ham on that place.
It’s empty but not that big
It's smaller than what you think
Marionnette so mod it duh
nah, the forgotten vale is better.
It would be cool to see a necromancy/vampire themed player home mod in the soul cairn
"Naturally we are attracted to the pink tunnel" the story of my life
Also "likes chests of all shapes and sizes". ~_^
Mmm pink tunnel😋
Warm and wet pink tunnels!
Hopefully a tight one too!
@@Menaceblue3 yummers :D
welcome to the internet
THEORY: The dragon bones in the soul carin are Durnehviir's from each time he has died inside the soul carin. He then reconstitutes and continues on forever.
@ANTOINE RAFAEL R. MAXIMO Dragon skeletons dissolve because the Dragonborn absorbs their souls, and the player character has been the first one to visit.
So the theory is still good.
@@oxymoron02 @oxymoron02 I'm sure you mean dragon *corpses* dissolve because the dragonborn drains their soul, but judging by how ancient everything in the soul cairn seems, the bodies could've easily all withered away. Another point is that all of the dragons we've come across are capable of speech, even if not with humans. Durnehviir may not have been the only dragon to have been consumed by the ideal masters before they had the perfect opportunity that Valerica gave them.
But...after the dragonborn defeats Durnehviir, he tells us outright that he's never once been defeated before that battle. The dragon bones are there before we fight him, so while I adore this theory, I don't think it's him. Maybe he brought a couple friends? My personal theory is that the bones were transported there by the malfunctioning Dwemer device we can see in ESO in Blackreach. It's entirely possible that the device was running amok in places other than Blackreach, and nobody knew.
I'm a year late but I remember durnehviir saying he's never once been felled on the field of battle (until he meets pc), so that wouldn't line up
What an idiot. Shows how stupid dragons are.
If you want to consider ESO as canon, it is entirely possible for physical objects to be transported into Oblivion, as Coldharbor features an entire Argonian settlement, a Nord Village (burnt down) A forest and an ancient Nord Tomb, all allegedly came from Tamriel.
There is no consideration, All lore in ESO is approved canon :)
@@a1mightydeath903 I would agree but I also implore you to find a book that references the great war (pvp) in any other elderscrolls game. Such a large important event that hasn't ever been mentioned in any other game is hardly cannon to me.
It doesnt matter whether its canon for you :p its been stated by the company that the events of ESO is 100% canon. And ESO came out a hood bit after any of the base games, so i would be surprised if there was a book on it. They probably came up with it afterwards since there wasnt too much from E1 anyways
The events are canon, but I don't consider the game canon. Like the actual game to me isn't irl canon.
I hate that they made it multiplayer. Who the fuck asked for *that?*
if you take the irl books as cannon, then also yes it is. Which the sleeping tree in skyrim is from umbriel, so it is.
The color palette of the Soul Cairn is one of my all time favorites. Also, your ability to convert the world of Skyrim into language is unparalleled.
Jiub will always have a special place in my heart. I was so happy when I saw him in Skyrim. He was also the first person I ever met in TES.
Dunno what's more depressing: The Soul Cairn or the truly awful puns. No, wait, it's trying to find those ten blasted pages! Amazing vid.
I somehow managed to blast one of them out of bounds, had to install a mod AND use the console to finish that quest.
So in short, a normal Bethesda quality quest.
@@TheXell I think I just did this…on the switch :(
Damn pages
Tbf I had more trouble finding Jiub than I did his pages lmao
@@kylebear8101 The answer to that problem is easy, become head honcho at Nintendo and reintroduce homebrew channels, this would pave the way for modding and potentially even console commands.
Sorry, did I say easy?
HOW DID YOU GET 2 HOURS OUT OF THE SOUL CAIRN
That's what I thought when seeing the video length.
Razzle Dazzle Skyrim is very VERY rich in lore.
He spent the entire time looking for those fucking pages.
You ever look for those fucking pages? Or Arvel's skull? Or try to summon the Reaper?
Exactly
"No sane human being would go through every part of Skyrim enough to make hours of pointing out the smallest things in the game world" Camel: "HOLD MY BEER!"
Camel or Nate... but yeah... this is the best comment on this one !!!!!! thanks for the laughs, and greetings from The Nehterlands, cheers mister !!!
All the more reason for the name, Camel.
Camel: "HOLD MY SCRIPT!"
the question is "is anyone truly completely sane?" to which i say if you think you are you're more insane than the schizos who hear voices. also i ask them this question "have you ever made 1 mistake more than 1 time? if you answered yes then you are the definition of insane which is "doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results"
Camel is no average mortal he deals with Daedric princes so... yeah. If anyone can, he can.
When I first played Soul Cairn, often wondered where the buildings from then it hit me. Buildings are made of bones as well as the ground are bones.
i thought the Buildings were some place from Mundus transported to that plane.
Sad to see this series is coming to an end, I love your commentary style and I love Skyrim. I have learned so much from this series.
Trying to find YOUR soul essence gem that you have to discard in order to enter the soul cairn in the first place was stressful. This video made me wanna go back and explore it all.
30:09 If I learned anything from the curious curiosities series, its that Skyrim's random leveled loot system is awful.
Yeah thats why there are mods for that
@@averageamogusenjoyer5240 there's mods for literally everything
If you're not already a writer you should be, you're very descriptive and that could work very well in writing, especially in a Lovecraftian style horror writing
That’s why/how he makes these videos. (Stay in school kids) and you too can be a “successful” TH-camr. Lmao
You are helping to point out the hard work and endless hours the game developers put into the little details that a lot of gamers tend to run through and ignore. That's important work in my opinion
damn, camel up his poetry skill on this video. beautiful narration.
He can't recognise the word 'sordid' though.
Your Curious Curating Curiosities series got me entertained for my whole visit to the hospital while waiting for the surgery, thank you so much ❤️
10 seconds in and I've already got chills down my spine. I can tell this is going to be an AMAZING episode. Thank you for your work Camel, we all really do appreciate it ❤️❤️
🤍💗💕💟💛🧡❤💜💙💚🤎🖤🤍
You are a member of the Bard's College, aren't you? The tour of the Soul Carn, talking about great stories that lay within the very bones that crossed your path and the rhythmic descriptions show a great command of poetry and language. Fabulous video.
As for the word wall, I think that was where Durnehviir was perched when he made his bargain with the Ideal Master. They took him and everything around him to the Soul Cairn.
The Divine of Elder Scrolls content blesses us once again.
My theory on how dragon bones got there: Servants of the Ideal Masters physically moved them to the Soul Cairn in order to use their bones for the armour for the Absolute Units.
My theory on how the swallowed Nord killed the dragon: As he was swallowed whole, maybe he crawled back up its throat and stabbed it through the roof of the mouth into its brain!
My theory on how the summoning tomes got there: The IMs or their servants wrote them to train potential acolytes or would-be IMs themselves.
Id say the Nord stabbed the dragon as he was being swallowed. Got his sword stuck and lost his gauntlets on the way to the dragons belly.
I was considering the idea that sending dragons to the soul cairn was an alternative way of disposing of them. Once they had Durnavhir, maybe they needed dragon souls to keep him going?
Curating curious curiosities in the Cairn. I love this series.
I like how the Ideal Masters just let a Dragonborn stroll around the Cairn, ya know, one who can absorb Dragon souls! with literally 30 filled soul gems on him and they're like "aww...just send the skeletons after him"
I have a character who is a Serial Killer with high Sneak skills that has a "Soul Trap" enchantment. It is like serving the Ideal Masters.
i do that to people who piss me off. Like that guy in Whiterun who walks around in Imperial Armor or that chick who betrayed her husband. Not a fan of traitors.
Idk how you can write more than 2 hours worth of scripting and somehow manage to maintain that bottomless poetry throughout. Awesome vid man, great way to end the Skyrim season of this series. Lookin forward to more :)
The final Skyrim episode?!
Say it ain’t so
Mate its just the final Skyrim CCC he done ever region I don't think his quiting Skyrim anytime soon theres still so much to do and so much lore to uncover and camel leaves no stone unturned. Tho eventually it saddens me to say eventually Skyrim's secrets are slowly getting found meaning eventually there will a time where camel has to move on from Skyrim, but I have a feeling that's when elder scolls 6 comes out
No don't say that. I really enjoy CCC content. but it is true one day Skyrim will be out of Secrets
@@TomKatt8569 yeah its very sad but eventually everything runs out of secrets some games will always have secrets beyond secrets and maybe just maybe Skyrim will have those secrets that even camel missed
Trucking Dargon I hope he moves to oblivion
Maybe when one of the Beyond Skyrim projects finishes, he'll make CCC videos for it
Ideal Master: sucks my soul
Me: well this certainly isn't....
Ideal Master:.......
Me: IDEAL
Ideal Master: Lmao
Me: lol
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Don't kink shame me.
@@thisisxinnamon shut up you, Slaneesh
Ideal master: *suck* heh..
This has easily been my favourite series on TH-cam, kind of sad it’s over tbh
Finnaly, a worthy video!
My meal will be legendary!
Damn how long you eating?
@@lordfckingtiger1565 He is savoring his meal like a true Champion.
I had no idea that there were so many places and points of interest in the Soul Cairn, but its atmosphere makes it difficult to comprehend just how large it is! Thank you so much for putting all the effort into making a thoroughly detailed video of this somewhat overlooked place. I also always learn several new words and ways to describe things when I listen to your voice 😄
It might be also worth noting that although you say you find "nothing" on the Keepers apart from a black soul gem, if you're a high enough level they actually drop their dragonbone weapons.
I always wondered if this was Mannimarco's Daedric Princedom, created when he ascended to godhood during the Warp in the West. However, instead of becoming a traditional Daedric Prince, he became something inherently Aedric, a corruption of what it means to be Divine (quite in-character for him), meaning that the Princedom was left Princeless, letting the Daedra of this realm, the Ideal Masters, to have the run of the place.
This was by far your greatest video in the series Camel. I’ve been watching you for years! This was perfect way to end your Skyrim Series. I actually learn quite a lot about The Soul Cairn as I had thought I’d fully explored it back in the day. You made me load up an old Skyrim save and go back in there and thanks to your video I was pleasantly surprised. This video definitely helped out in getting the sense of fully 100% The Soul Cairn something I didn’t do in the past. Thank You Camel for everything you do in video gaming
I love the Soul Cairn. Its my favorite place to just be. So beautiful but also so melancholic. I have some pure nostalgia from this place because I've always loved it so much.
"There are no map markers, there is no map."
* laughs in Atlas Map Markers for Skyrim *
30:07 The disdain in your voice made me laugh, we’ve all been there.
Ahhh I got so excited when I saw this was uploaded 4 hours ago- I love listening to you talk about Elder Scroll lore while I work 💕
This man's diction surpasses any acclaimed writer I've ever known. The way he uses similes and metaphors makes the description all the more realistic.
Just giving my like and comment before I head to work. Will watch when I get home! Cant wait 😁😁😁
Oh boy your in for a treat
@@magic593 you're*
I've watched all the CCCs several times each. Great for bedtime.
I leave it on playing by my bedside table. There's something about how he articulate his words that makes his videos soothing.
@@alfin5818 he has expanded my daily vocabulary
"No normal horse skull, neigh." Time to change the channel to Horseworks.
It's been one hell of a journey Camel...wow, the final CCC. You are a master Elder Scrolls Scholar, my hat off to you, sir.
I never skip a second in your videos like this because of how relaxing your script is.
Got damn dude, you're spitting pure poetry throughout the whole video... especially at 01:40:18 it's really deep the way you talk & you express yourself very well, as someone who writes dark poetry it is really inspiring!
Watching these makes me really appreciate the great vocabulary you have, Mr. Camel, as you manage to eloquently use in description words I haven't actually heard in years
I finally got to the end! I loved every minute of these episodes and I hope you continue with more awesome Skyrim content.
I love it when Camel does these videos. Even when it turns to speculation or fan theories instead of hard facts and data, it's still interesting to listen to and watch and think about. Even if some of his mods are pretty embarrassing...
Heya Camel, it seems like ages since I've seen a new video from you. Glad you're releasing these again and hope all is well with you. My best
42:24 Have to mention that soul actually disappears when you enter that section after opening it up, suggesting that you arrived just in time to see the last dregs of her soul be siphoned away by the ideal master above.
I'm also certain that Word Wall belongs to Durnehviir, and is how he actually travelled to the Soul Cairn. I think he found a way to teleport both himself and the Word Wall he perches on to the Soul Cairn, and obviously he is now since trapped.
I think the Soul Cows with the farmer are the only ones you see alive, because of the farmer as well. He clearly has taken it upon himself to keep practising his craft from life, so he's managed to culture soul husks and even keep his livestock "alive". All other souls of animals that end up in the soul cairn likely perished very quickly, but it's only with the still working farmer, those cows remain
That and I'd say that animal souls would be consumed by the Ideal Masters more quickly than Humanoid ones. They give less power, so they are eaten faster, making animal souls a rare sight in the Soul Chairn.
Pro tip: use the 'clear skies' shout in the soul cairn regularly
It doesn't do anything... Also, yes, just seconds before I started typing it I tested it: all three words, three times in a row. Nothing.
Pro tip: test your tips before you post them
Maybe the whole thing about Arvack's skull is a nod to a side quest during the Shivering Isles DLC where if you find certain named skulls found at random throughout and if you give said skull to the correct person on the Hill of Suicides, it frees their soul, disappear, and gives you a powerful timed enhancement.
Absolutely fantastic work, please never stop doing these!
I’m not sure if anyone had commented this, I scrolled for a bit and hadn’t seen it but I was level 50 when doing the soul cairn and I had level 100 smithing and I was able to loot the dragonbone weapons off of the keepers as well as the black soul gems. Anyway, thanks for the video, it was very informative.
I love these series Camel. All your videos really! Amazing work man. I appreciate your hard work you put into your videos so thank you, and keep up the great work my friend ✊
I think that the Master's victims may have placed, and perhaps even made, the spell tomes, to allow themselves a potential respite from their eternal servitude, for should and caster perform the incantation, one of the victims is summoned, freed from their prison for a laughably short time, relative to eternity
hell yeah, never enough CCC
You've gotten me into Morrowind recently, and I've been binging your videos, and it's sad what Bethesda has become, man, Morrowind is so good. Made me happy to see Jiub at the end
Love this content. I really enjoy listening them when I'm driving like an audio book but Better.
the way you narrate is really cool! I've been listening to your videos as I've been working on projects and it passes the time really nicely. Thank you!!!
"Naturally, we're attracted to the pink tunnel..."
🤭 I'm so mature
I never ever finish these ccc videos, but the calm narration and storytelling always makes me fall asleep so quick and i love fallout and elder scrolls lore.
The time of the video is probably how long I was actually in there..
I can easily run through the Soul Cairn in like 30 min
Great work as always, camel. Your ES videos are very calming for me. Listening to how much you love these games like I do, makes a video this long feel like 15 minutes. I appreciate the content!
Final episode 😭
Also who the hell disliked??? These videos are always incredible.
Ah, I got stuck here for so long because I refused to leave Jiub without his papers.....and I was stuck searching for that last one forever after I got surprised by one of them mist-men and thus proceeded to fus ro dah both them and that last paper into oblivion. I never did find that paper.
39:45 " Hopefully she can rest soon and get some *sweep* " HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA I LUV U CAMEL
This is some of the best channels out there for background while working. Well done, Sir - and greetings from Latvia.
the last time i was this giddy i was fighting a dragon atop the western watchtower
Still enjoy rewatching this a few years later 😊💙🐪
And a few more years later as well 💜🐪
A like isn't enough for this masterpiece
Aside from all the alliteration and possibly bad puns, you told a great story and I did learn much from the video, I have only done the Soul Cairn once, taking a guided tour was an eye opener. I do disagree with many comments about your tour of the Soul Cairn
This is one of my favorite places in Skyrim... and where you get the mount Arvak (purple flaming skeletal horse), my favorite mount of all single RPG games I played. I really hope the new DLC of "Skyrim Dark Heart" of ESO lets us visit this place again! Great Video, it hits all my nostalgia point of my time in Elder Scroll: Skyrim! =^_^=
This series is ridiculously relaxing, I sometimes listen to these videos to get me to sleep 🤣
Camel: "-Tearing at our Animus"
Me: " Sir Camel, how did you know I roleplay a Dremora!?"
this series was absolutely amazing. thank you for hours upon hours of well-written content
I'm gonna watch this a few times for sure!
Man, you should write a book. That word play was on point in this episode.
Oh exploring fever dream mana hell!
I would say I am excited but that would understate my desire for seeing and knowing all things everywhere in TES!
"Fever Dream Mana Hell"? Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time... Sips' Skyrim let's play, right? Or am I misremembering?
Mothman prophecies!
@@Benzux yeah that was sips description, I like how he loathed it the whole time XD
@@bradleyallen6883 shhh tell no one my secrets >.>
@@IndridCold Good to know my memory isn't failing me yet. And, I do believe most people loathed their time in the Soul Cairn. It's like Blackreach but worse, especially for a completionist.
as someone who writes literature as a hobby, listening to camel describes these places is simply wonderful. Beautiful wordplay, my friend ^u^b
woke up like 5 minutes ago. guess my body knew greatness was uploaded.
*knew
@@TeeteringTod lol ty swype was giving me the shaft
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Excellent video! I thoroughly enjoyed all of your puns, allusions, and alliteration. Thank you for this! Aside from it being a literal hellscape, I like the Soul Cairn. I'm now looking forward to exploring it (again) in my current playthrough.
You have such a way with words! I love how you write your scripts
Just went through the soul cairne with this as a guide. Such a fun way to explore the realm. I love this series so much
Finally
Directions to the pages
You do know that he has a video just for the pages in order to get St Jiub's Necklace, right?
Hope you see this. At the beginning of the video when you were talking about the skull with antlers, you said that you couldn’t find any evidence of daedra leaving behind physical remains and it went over my head several times, but after you mentioned daedric hearts for the 150th time, I realized that the heart is a physical remnant of a dead daedra.
Ps I want to get my hands on an Aedra heart.
Getting your hands on Aedra heart might go not so well as story tells...
5 seconds of the intro and I was expecting Prison Break to start playing
I attempted to fully explore the Soul Cairn on a playthrough a did 2 years ago. I gave up after being in there for literally 5 days of logging on and only being there. The Soul Cairn makes blackreach look like heaven. Never again.
Why are there are no Dwemer souls or remains in evidence within the Soul Cairn?
Yagrum Bagarn was off Nirn, and thus unaffected, so there should be Dwemer souls.
You only go to the Soul Carin if you're put into a Black Soulgem, and are used to make an Enchantment.
@@Alizudo Soul trapping and enchantment have been around since before the Dwemer vanished. Unless you are suggesting it never once happened to any of their race.
@@Argonova
On the one hand, the Dwemer were extremely powerful, and extremely hidden. It's safe to say a Dwemer getting murdered was EXTREMELY rare. A Dwemer getting soul-trapped would be even MORE rare.
In addition, the Dwemer vanished in the FIRST ERA.
And finally, the Soul Cairn is obviously FAR larger than what we see.
It's safe to say, if there are any Dwemer here, they're VERY VERY RARE, and would not necessarily happen to be in the exact piece of Soul Cairn we explore.
subbed, appreciate the time you take in writing the scripts, lovely commentary that's hella stylistic, it has not gone un-noticed!
By the Divines, it's finally here!
I listen to these videos at work. Camel makes for a great narrator when doing mindless tasks. Smooth enough to not be obnoxious but not so much that it puts you to sleep.