Ysmir’s beard! You actually did it!!! I didn’t think you guys saw my comment! Unless it was just a shit ton of people who suggested it as well. I didn’t expect a Stalhrim Episode so quick!! Thank you guys so much!! Very appreciated, and greetings from the cold northern reaches of the tip of the Idaho panhandle!!
tílq of the jaffa Yes. Potatoes indeed, my observant friend. They are in abundance throughout our lands. Us Idahoans know the art of Potatocraft. We are the only people who discovered the secret of the Potato. There are cults of wild men throughout the mountainous regions of this northern state. They believe that potatoes hold the secret to eternal wisdom, and their fanaticism when it comes to their Potato god, the Salted One, the Sacred Spud, knows no bounds. We commoners who live in small towns such as myself, must make offerings of sweet potatoes, gold potatoes, red potatoes and more to these fanatics, lest they come down from the haunted Bitterroot Mountains and steal our children in the night, never to be seen again. I swear on moonlit winter nights like these that if I listen close enough, I can hear the ghostly wails of children long lost, cursed to wander through the fog that enshrouds the forested mountains which loom over our small town...
@@somekindofdude1130 I'm with the grammer nazi's now use proper grammer or I will make elder scrolls six have a voiced protagonist who always yells at people for using improper grammer
Y'know part of me wonders if maybe there isn't a possible connection between stalhrim and the 'unmelting snow' you get to repair the White Phial, since both things appear to be frozen water in such a way that prevents it from coming to harm.After all, stalhrim doesn't seem to melt either, even when exposed to the sun, so it's possible the two things may be related in some way. After all, Curalmil was an ancient Nord who was an absolute master of alchemy, and who was the one that created the White Phial, so it is possible that he saw stalhrim being used for creating gear, and thought to do something like that but for an alchemical artifact instead, thus the Phial.
@@martijnbakker1277 maybe Curalmil damaged it himself before his death. He could've coveted his prized possession so much that before he died, he broke it to keep anybody else from reaping its miraculous magical benefits.
It was the Ancient GrayBeards who made the Never-Melting snow. That being the case, if there is a connection could The Thuum/Voice be the key in the creation of Stalhrim? If it was necessary for a thuum user to create Stalhrim, it would make sense why the creation method has been lost to time. Really the only people who even practice the voice anymore are the Graybeards. If the Quote On Quote retainers of the Old Nordic ways find your use of the thuum astonishing; that’s gotta be a sign they don’t know it.
@@incarnation_of_immortality3422 So does that mean a lot of ancient Nord Tongues/Clever-Men simply shouted at vast swaths and plains of ice to further harden it and keep it from melting?
Could you imagine if the Dwarves got a chance to tinker with stalhrim? I keep imaging their giant centurions equipped with stahlrim plating over their usual armor and stalhrim tipped saw blades for hands... Stalhrim bolts in their spheres that pierce the thickest of armors with ease... My gods the horror.
At first glance, Stalhrim is some compound, which was melted down, and then poured directly into the sarcophagus to protect the body inside. When it cools, it forms that solid cover which looks very much like ice. However, the solution to the mystery is not in what was poured into the sarcophagus. The solution to the mystery is actually revealed by the tool you use to extract the Stalhrim, the Ancient Nordic Pickaxes. They are the key to the answer. Those Ancient Nordic Pickaxes were made of iron. The laws of physics dictate that any mineral cannot scratch any mineral harder than itself. To know how hard any mineral is, we need to look at the Mohs scale. Iron ranks on the Moh scale at 4, which means iron cannot scratch any mineral with a Moh scale rating higher than 4. Steel is 4.5, which is why that steel nail file could not scratch Stalhrim. Even still, you needed THOSE specific Ancient Nordic Pickaxes to mine Stalhrim, even though they were made of simple iron. Why? Why do you need those, when not even a standard-issue pickaxe is not sufficient? Here are the keys. 1: You can only find four Ancient Nordic Pickaxes, all of which are on Solstheim. There are no others, anywhere. You get one from Ralis Sadarys, you get another from Glover Mallory, one can be bought in the Skaal village, and the last is found near Tel Mithryn. Note how you cannot find any in Skyrim. They are only found on Solstheim, and even then, you only find those four. 2: One of these pickaxes has a name, Hoarfrost. The names of the others have been lost to time. Still, the fact that one has a name means the others once did as well. The fact that they had names also indicates they were used for ceremonial purposes. This is further reinforced by the fact that each were engraved with runes, which were either blessings of some sort, or they served to call upon the gods themselves. This leads to indicate the pickaxes were unique creations, and that they were created for a specific purpose. If you look at both sides of the equation, both the Stalhrim itself, and the fact that you have ceremonial pickaxes which were specifically-created for dispelling the Stalhrim, you come to one conclusion. Stalhrim is not a stone, or indeed a mineral of any kind. Stalhrim is entirely a magical conjuration. To say it another way, Stalhrim is a ward, similar to the kind mages cast in front of them to protect them from incoming spells. But whereas a ward is simply a projection of the mage's own willpower, Stalhrim is a physical conjuration. I believe this conjuration was either created by the dragon priests who ruled over the Nords, or by the dragons themselves. Those dragon priests then created those pickaxes as the antidote in the case they should ever need to exhume a body. Maybe those pickaxes were not actually pickaxes at all. Maybe making them in that shape was merely as ceremonial as the purpose which they served. The correct usage was as a staff, and that staff would channel a spell which would conjure and dissolve the Stalhrim. However, over the thousands of years, that ceremony, and all written records of how to perform the ritual, were lost to the time. However, these tools still hold enough of the magic in them, that if misused as the pickaxe which they portray, they will still penetrate the Stalhrim. It is entirely a case of using something in completely the wrong way, but the magic remaining inside the staff means it is capable of acting against the Stalhrim like a pickaxe would against stone. So, there is the solution to your mystery. Stalhrim is not ice, or indeed any mineral at all. It is a magical conjuration summoned by the burial priests, the physical equivalent of a ward spell. The "pickaxes" are not pickaxes at all. They are ceremonial staffs created to summon that conjuration, and to dissolve that conjuration if the need should arise. The reason we cannot replicate that ceremony today is because that civilization died thousands of years ago, and no documentation has survived the millennia.
Stalhrim is simply enchanted ice, the ancient Nordic pickaxes were most likely enchanted with special magic to be able to break Stalhrim. You're looking way to far into it.
@@amenthegreat3761 I suppose while he gives an interesting perspective to it, yeah he may be going a bit far into it. Calling it a ward for their dead despite it being used as a weapon and stuff is certainly a stretch. So yeah, an enhanced ice made by means that simply isn't remembered by many save for a few, requires a special rune on a pickaxe that has to be forged/etched in a way that also been mostly forgotten.
The closest material in real life that could approximate stalhrim is pykrete (a mixture of ice and wood pulp). In fact, there was a plan where it was to be used to make an aircraft carrier out of it during WWII. Even though the project was canceled, the material proved to be very resilient. Doubtful that it could be used for making personal armor, but I figured I would share this info for fun. [Introductory source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete]
@@fizzlebeef165 you miss understand pykrete it was invented by chemists. It is stronger than concrete but as durable as plastic, its bulletproof. They even built ships out of it. The only issue is..it must kept at freezing temperature, otherwise it does melt. It took a year to melt the ship i guess though. Its a composite material,like fiberglass. It just have a lower melting temp.
Water ice, at supper-cold temperatures (around −179.2 °C; −290.5 °F), such as found on Titan (along with liquid methane rain), acts like solid rock, and is MUCH harder than the ice we know. If they came up with ice-magic to keep the ice at those extremely low temperatures, it could still be based on water-ice. They probably used some kind of magical catalyst that allowed the ice to slowly propagate and regenerate, but only up to a certain distance from the initial seed, or the few sources of it would have grown out of control long since. That would explain why the stalhrim in the armor and weapons does not propagate as it does in the crypts, lacking the original seed. That makes me wonder... Atmora was said to have once been more habitable, but to now be sunk in a deep freeze, and it also seems to have been the source of stalhrim-crafting. Is it possible that the original source of stalhrim got out of control, and the catalytic reaction finally froze the entire landmass?
Remember that one quest to reforge the white phial? You need to collect never-melting snow created by the Greybeards, who used the Thu'um to 'ask that the snow doesn't melt' or something like that. And since shouting in ancient times was, while maybe not common, not rare among the Nords either. I'm thinking along the lines that Stalhrim is created through a kind of ritual, where Nord Tongues would forge the ice by convincing it to take shape. Since shouting became rare, so rare as to be limited to the Greybeards and those under their tutelage, it'd make sense Stalhrim usage would face a sharp decline as well, to near extinction. Thanks Jurgen Windcaller...
This actually makes the most sense out of any theory I've heard. Taking the fact that the thu'um was more common in that age and that nords still respected their wizard-heroes as "Wise Men" in a more shamanistic sense, you can only imagine the things the ancient nords could accomplish with voice-magic. Having an army of tounges coming together in a choir of sentence-long Thu'umic magic(which I remind us Miraak could use to Eat Dragons Whole) makes those old stories of nord armies leveling mountains and swallowing storms seem more Realistic.
I love the idea that the Last Dragonborn's final armourset is Stalhrim, connecting to the idea that they may become High King of Skyrim or Emperor of Tamriel. Can you imagine strolling into Windhelm at the front of an Imperial army at the climax of the civil war, the Dragonborn throws open the door to the Palace of Kings, and in that moment, Ulfric Stormcloak sees not a young adventurer, a new and relatively unexperienced Dragonborn, but the image of Talos or Ysgramor, of ancient Nordic Kings, clad in Stalhrim with the mighty power of the Thu'um. If Bethesda had been a bit more intelligent with this sort of thing, they could have written an awesome dialogue reaction for Ulfric, considering he's so adamant about traditions and connection to heritage.
I love stahlrim armor it would be awesome in elder scrolls six if they would give you the option of light and heavy armor in each different types, would love to rock a light ebony armor set !!!
@@PelinalDidNothingWrong right! Would also like to see some variants to each armor set. Fit each build accordingly. Sneak archer had a hood, one handed build a helmet. Different chest pieces for each set.
I made a Nord character that focused solely on frost everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, mastered destruction for ice spells, summon a frost atronach every now and then, bust out the stahlrim axe and shield if I wanna get up close, it was a fun build
@@awesomesauce5974 same I love a good stereotypical run. Want to do fire? Why yes a Dunmer Ashlander will be fine! Wanna be a warrior? Can I interest you in a 2H heavy armor Orc in these trying times?
@@TheEmpireDabsBack yep! Iv done ice, Fire,pure magic,pure 2h,vamp build,wolf build, life steal only builds, summon only builds,the list goes on. The game is insanely repayable,one of the only games i never sold after a few months.
To be exact, daedric armour is created from ebony that is tempered by the essence of a daedra (their heart). To go further, ebony is said to be the blood of the gods, so there is maybe something about it being tainted by daedra.
@@DuskyPredator "Tainted by the daedra"? Trainted isn't the word I would use, as according to the Anuad the Aedra themselves supposedly resulted from the intermingling of the blood of Anu and Padomay, where as the Daedra are born purely of the blood of Padomay. So if that is correct, the Aedra are already "tainted" to some degree. Interesting thing about ebony, though. I didn't know it was hypothesized by some to be the blood of the gods. Very curious. Maybe the strength of Daedric armor comes, then, because one is native to Aetherius and the other to Oblivion. Two somewhat different divine essences being combined into one.
@@HickoryDickory86 I think that there was something earlier about certain large deposits of ebony being attributed to when Lorkhan had his heart ripped out upon the other Aedra learning his betrayal. To be specific, the daedric stuff we see in the games is made to mimic what daedra like the Dremora wear, as well like bound. But how what the Dremora have, and a possibly why you can't loot a lot of it, is also why it looks like bound armor and weapons, they actually force lesser daedra into the form of the item. If I had to make some assumptions, keeping something like weapons and armor in Mundus is difficult because it doesn't belong if one simply tries to summon it, also possibly a will of its own. So one can kind of forge their own by taking something similar that belongs in Mundus, the blood of an aedra (ebony), and element of a daedra (daedra heart, probably dremora which use such things).
@@richardhicks5031 It is the origin we have been given for the ebony deposits, but whether it is a hard rule as only the single god, or perhaps any Aedra, I don't know is quite a definitive fact. Especially considering the lore like aspect of such facts that can be hard to get a definitive answer. Like, something to ponder. Is it relevant that Boethia has an artefact called the Ebony Mail, such as whether created from the Ebony found in deposits, or that Boethia is is specifically mentioned as defeating an Aedra in regards to Trinamac?
A video exploring the differences and variations of spirit matter in the elder scrolls would be awesome. Like what type of soul does a god have, what sets that apart from what the princes of oblivion possess. Food for thought.
I have a theory: perhaps it's related to unmelting snow? Perhaps the thuum is used to teach the ice to become hard like steel and to ignore the sun as the snow does
Someone else said the that practice of creating stahlrim fell out of practice with the Nords around the same time that Jurgen Windcaller made everyone use the Thu’um solely for worship of the gods. Maybe that’s because they used the Thu’um to make stalhrim before and then stopped.
Ha. The nine dislikes are probably those golden-skinned, pointy eared, thieving Thalmor pricks who didn’t accomplish the little task their mommy Elenwen gave them. The secret of Stalhrim belongs to the Nords!!!
@@plainplane7580 they landed on skyrim and named it merith in honor of the elves, then the elves slaughtered them and the nord left, came back completely clapped the elves out of skyrim
@@plainplane7580 It's hard to say what exactly was the cause of this war, but all the facts say that it were the Elves who attacked the Atmorans. The Falmer primarily feared that due to the human's shorter lifespan and higher fertility they would soon be outnumbered. Secondarily, they knew of the Eye of Magnus, an insanely powerful fragment of creation unearthed by the Atmorans in Saarthal, and they couldn't have it that the Men were in possession of it. That would be the reason why they specifically targeted Saarthal for their surprise attack. Furthermore, do you really think the Atmorans, who just fled a civil war from their home, would immediately think of war again? Or even be equipped to do so? On an enemy that they don't know and likely even outnumbered them at the point of the attack? The only reason the Elves succeeded was because they took them by complete surprise, mind you. So to me, all the facts speak for an Elven surprise attack, as befits their nature.
I'm with Hunter, the only reason the Atmorans were massacre was because of surprise attack only Ysgramor and his two sons survive if the Atmorans put a fight they problably would have survive more of them, how do we know this fact? Well because only 500 companion conquer an entire kingdom outnumber 10 to 1.And they also flee from Atmora because of a very huge and bloody civil war they didn't want to take part in.
I actually remember something dimly from many years ago when I played Bloodmoon. I remember a passage from one of the books, which described Nordic Shamans, drawing upon "Ancient Energies" to create Stalhrim. I don't think that its simply enchanted ice, as in, regular water ice with a spell cast on it, but rather it is magic ice, as in stalhrim is frozen magic, that has become solid, in the same way that ice is frozen water that has become solid
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I wonder if Stahlrim was made by the nords in Atmora. Being as nords have that resistance to cold, but ancient Atmorans had an even better connection with the cold, maybe used there blood or something to add to the magical effect. You guys mentioned that the buried their dead with the protection of the Ice, so like the Dunmer, had a similar belief of born of the ice and return to the ice. So perhaps it was in their blood the key to Stahlrim. But has since been diluted because of not living in their home continent.
Skyrim armor in real life Ebony:just wood Glass:easily breakable and may hurt the one wearing it Stalhrim:melts Daedric:wood with a heart Dragon bone:no dragons=no armor Dragonscale:just search for lizards
Well realistically the closest thing to stalhrim is pykrete which would take a bit to fully melt and is a very strong material If they use fiber glass for glass armor it would be way less breakable but more dangerous to its wearer as when it breaks it will fully shatter and will severely irritate the skin and would limit movement
So, my first thought after seeing the thumbnail was a throwback to when I watched adventure time. I pictured Ice King yelling about his "invincible ice armor!!!!!"
I have a small theory. Perhaps stalhrim was brought over to tamriel from Atmora. It would explain how there are no fresh deposits of the material and why it is so rare. Stalhrim that wasn't put into tombs was already made into weapons and armor. When the nords ran out of unused stalhrim, it's use died along with it. It could also explain how the ice never melts because Atmora is described as being impossibly cold, possibly making ice there nigh impossible to melt.
This is my favorite armor and weapons!! I still use the same stahlim sword that you guys made a video about haha and I loved the glass armor one and searched your whole Chanel for this video! And it’s right here!!
Another fine upload from my favorite YT channel! I would love to see a video about the constellations/celestials, I'm have a hard time understanding what are they exactly
2:57 According to the 36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 17, Vivec and Nerevar traveled to Atmora but found only frozen bearded kings Brings a whole new context i guess lol. Were all the kings frozen cause they were wearing stahlrim armor? The world may never know.
What about the patch of snow on the top of the throat of the world that doesnt melt and has been used to repair the white vial? Any possible relations?
Yes, I think so. The smith in Raven Rock mentioned a connection. Although, noone in Skyrim knows how to work it. Nor can they obtain it since it's protected by Paarthurnax.
@@egglordthenosferatu3479 i decided to let paarth die as the dragon he wanted to be, rather than let him live long enough to be consumed by his instinct as a dovah. he wanted to be paarthunax till the end of his days. so i made it a guarantee. i hold no guilt.
I have a theory that the secret into creating Stalhrim is somewhere hidden in Hermaeus Mora's plain of Oblivion, and I have no doubt that it would be a simple as a type of spell. Probably an Alteration kind of spell like Transmute
@@MeanAndPristine that would make sense. I can imagine that it would involve stuff that the dragonborn wouldn't be capable of learning in game like creating that one snowstorm ritual or that amulet that gave that skaal follower (I forgot her name) that gave them protection from Miraak's control.
It seems to me that Stalhrim might be the Nord equivalent to Dwemer Brass. The brass was enhanced using Tonal Architecture, and it might be the same for Stalhrim through the Voice. Which would explain why new Stalhrim hasn’t been created for a long while, considering the lack of Tongues. Both are known for being impossible to replicate, incredibly durable, and requiring smiths to reuse what is already available.
Oooooo I like this theory. Stalhrim falling out of practice matches up with the timeline of Jurgen Windcaller founding the Greybeards, I think it definitely has to do with the Thu’um
It looks like there is definitely a magical aura to the Stalhrim tombs and ore deposits. When you check out the area around the Stalhrim it is giving off a blue hue in the air where as the cold air swirling around normal ice and snow in Skyrim / Solstheim is white. My guess is the areas where Stalhrim generates like in tombs etc are areas that were enchanted by the ancient Skaal Nords. It’s a forgotten magic like you stated. It returns every 35 days like all other Ore materials and once the Stalhrim is mined that blue hue always remains..
I always believed Stalhrim was I bit of a renewal resource. Meaning that it grew, an example world be a Nord buried with armor made of Stalhrim given enough time (and I mean a lot of time) the Stalhrim would incase the body or a sword left undisturbed would become a misshapen club of sorts. I don't know how it dose this, maybe it forms similar to crystalline or polycrystalline structures, even living organisms are able to produce crystals like calcite. Funnily enough the word Krustallos in Ancient Greek means both ice and rock crystal. Maybe still it could be some sort of bacterial formation which holds some similarities to real life microbe-made rocks in a cave in Sweden that researchers form Denmark’s Nordic Center for Earth Evolution found. Both crystal and bacteria need proper conditions to grow its possible that the dark cold Nordic Barrow and the entombed Nord bodies with in are exactly what Stalhrim needs to grow.
Well actually, Glass is made from Malachite. It is just called glass because of it's translucent look. When comparing hardness on Moh's scale, Malachite ranks surprisingly similarly to steel. It's not AS dense and hard as steel, being around 3.5-4, where steel is 4-4.5, but it's notably more light in weight (For reference, Titanium is like 6+ I think).Which is probably why they were able to afford to put more Malachite on the armor and keep the weight down, making it more powerful than steel at like half the weight. Although Stalhrim is definitely just a "Todd Howard: It just works, don't question it" moment.
Stalhrim Armor and Weapons are my favorite:) Second Favorite is Ebony Armor, but Dragonbone Weapons Third Favorite is Dragonplate/Dragonscale Armor, but Nord Hero Weapons. (All these ranks I'm talking Aesthetic with some Functionality)
For a little insight and fun reading check out pykrete. In Ww2 they used a mix of about 20% sawdust, 80% ice to make the stuff and it was strong enough to make boats stop a bullet debateably (1000psi psq). Maybe they weren’t mining ice but rather something like asbestos that had a bunch of surface area to mix in with the water and add density and strength. Would explain the special use of pickaxes for mining deposits without breaking or changing specific properties of the stuff before they could powder it (it also might be toxic if mined by the wrong kind of metal exposure)
Anytime I play a warrior-type, I run my crafting up to get the ebony perk so I can make Stalhrim armor and weapons, then I put the chaos enchantment on the weapons (thanks for the tip, BTW).
I’ve been playing the Dragonborn dlc lately and one of my theories on stalhrim and the special pickaxe is that it’s potentially like flint knapping in that particular materials are needed to make the tool to knap flint effectively without rendering it into useless shards , so it may be capable of withstanding great blows from a weapon but trying to get useful pieces from a source of it with a standard pickaxe only nets scrapings or chips
It was originally believed that diamond was actually ice with a high mineral content that reached such a low temperature that it could no longer be thawed.
Also if it is like pykrete and they mix a powder in with it that may be why they make tombs out of it. The powder could act as an insulator allowing the ice to stay frozen in the ambient temp which is always at or near freezing in northern climates. Even if it gets warm enough to melt the ice if the alloy never allows heat to penetrate between the particles binding the water then it won’t melt, especially considering water is a heat sink so it will pull heat from the core of the alloy and resist quick temperature changes
My guess would be, given that it was a material created and used by the ancient nords, it's probably created via some sort of technique using shouts. Like somehow they shout at the ice with a mix of Ice Form and Force, giving it the enchantment of everlasting cold as well as strengthening it by condensing it down.
It's actually created by the Skaal of old, who drew the magic from Solstheim itself to create tombs of ice for the Nords who died during the war with Morrowind.
Maybe stalhrim is like dwemer metal and is made from some sort of tonal magic lost to time, maybe even made using a long lost shout. That would also explain why only their pickaxes will work, as they're made from a similarly made material.
It'd have been cool if this particular armour, aside from frost enchants getting a boost, that in frigid areas you'd have frost surrounding your character buffing you from fire or in warmer, hot areas, you "sweat" which would counter act your better frost resistance (if the enchantment is chosen) with a temporary weakness to shock. I mean the Vampire gets wrecked in sunlight so I don't know why they couldn't be as exclusive with the Stalhrim as it's primarily in frigid areas. Same could go for with glass. During the day you could either be blinding or "translucent" while wearing it. And at night, your translucency would be given away from a light source so it'd make things interesting for sure.
Honestly you should wear a full light set of Stalhrim armor and have a type of katana (blades sword, ebony blade, Harkins sword, etc) it makes you look like a samurai badass
Wow nords really were such magnificent in the ancient times, They were more traditional, they were more barbaric, they build entire underground and in cave cities and burials.They build beautiful stallhrim weapons, armor, arrows, bow and shields not only that they were master craftsmen of the forged.They were true warriors and respect their traditions to the end, they use to be fear by the empire of elves and their fear is very well earn because only 500 companios conquer an entire kingdom against an empire of elf.Now they just live of old glories and try to keep with their traditions but their cities, their armor and they are not the same as an ancient Nord or even not near as an Atmoran.
I wonder if Stalhrim has any relation to the unmelting snow at the Throat of the World, basically snow that the early graybeards "taught" how to remain and never melt.
If I had to guess I would say alteration magic is involved at least somewhat, maybe it's a combination spell of alteration and destruction, or maybe conjuration and alteration.
My own headcanon for stalhrim is that it could be the snow that Kynareth breathed onto when she created the nords, she could’ve given them the knowledge to make tools to break and work the ice. To me it makes some sense from a lore perspective, the warriors and kings could wear them so that Kynareth could protect them in battle while increasing their dead in ice so that either Kynareth could protect them in death or just as religious thing, ashes to ashes sort of deal, would explain why they didn’t incase the snow prince despite being allowed the customs of a nord king’s burial, he didn’t come from Kynareth, from ice thus he cannot be protected by it. As the nords moved away from just Kynareth and embarrassed the full pantheon they lost the knowledge. I know the Skall just believe in the All maker but maybe it is their version of Kynareth. Edit: I forgot that part but I came to that conclusion because of the requirements for learning to craft Stalhrim, it needs you to know how to work Ebony, Stalhrim armor is a tad stronger than Ebony in terms of protection. We know, or at least I think it’s theorized, that Ebony is the crystallized blood of Lorkhan, to me it makes sense that Stalhrim would be snow turned to Ice by Kynareth’s breath.
While it's not explicit in the game, one item available on Skyrim is most likely Stahlrim or related to it; the White Phial, constructed of a patch of never-melting snow... while it may not directly be Stahlrim, it's a bit too similar to not be related at least.
I have one possible major theory on stalhrim ore or enchanted ice creation maybe even requiring a dragon born or dragon mastering the ice form shout and being able seal the Nord's dead permanently and such... Which would explain why its been lost in time, and can even be in relation somewhat to thrall permanent summons and permanent magic that can only be obtained by a master of the voice and there are even a few way's to extend magic duration in game also. Meaning it's highly possible there were mighty dragonborns or dragons and or users of the voice to do permanent shout effects, not to far fetched though since even the greybeards can kill with just a whisper!
Truthfully if ice is frozen to a low enough temperature it could be as hard as rock, stallrim's rarity could be the result of the atmora being underwater. A place as cold as that would surprise me if they made furnaces that fuse material together using very low temperatures and honestly that effect from the armor its subliming to air but its so cold that it keeps its form
Elves : "We'll make Armour and weapons out of Glass!
Skaal/Nords : "Hold my mead"
Feel like this chat is going to get good lol
Dragonborn: Makes an armor made out of dragon bones
Me: Hold my Lean!
Downloads an Immersive Bikini armor mod for Men
Honeymead Brewery: "WeI'll make armour and weapons out of frozen mead!"
Matt Fontwell technically people have made clothing/gear from dead creatures in real life since like forever so that’s not that impressive
Yours is sharp and breakable making sharp shards but ours is Cold on top of all that... Nords for the WIN!!!
Elves: Armour out of glass
Nords: Amour out of ice
Khajiit: Armour out of moon sugar
Wouldn't you end up eating it?
You didn't know about the sugar of the moon armor set yet?
(runs into the store naked and in psychosis)
YOU GOT ANY MOAR ARMOR PAL
I can dig it.
Just don't sweat in it...
"the lead skater in alduin on ice"
LOL!
Nice reference
Nice one
The Question remains, fellow senile scribbles watcher, Stalhrim or Dragonbone?
@@raidenjeskar2823 Stalhrim
Ysmir’s beard! You actually did it!!! I didn’t think you guys saw my comment! Unless it was just a shit ton of people who suggested it as well. I didn’t expect a Stalhrim Episode so quick!! Thank you guys so much!! Very appreciated, and greetings from the cold northern reaches of the tip of the Idaho panhandle!!
I also suggested it too
:V was thinkin somin like this two my man!
Potatoes.
tílq of the jaffa Yes. Potatoes indeed, my observant friend. They are in abundance throughout our lands. Us Idahoans know the art of Potatocraft. We are the only people who discovered the secret of the Potato. There are cults of wild men throughout the mountainous regions of this northern state. They believe that potatoes hold the secret to eternal wisdom, and their fanaticism when it comes to their Potato god, the Salted One, the Sacred Spud, knows no bounds. We commoners who live in small towns such as myself, must make offerings of sweet potatoes, gold potatoes, red potatoes and more to these fanatics, lest they come down from the haunted Bitterroot Mountains and steal our children in the night, never to be seen again. I swear on moonlit winter nights like these that if I listen close enough, I can hear the ghostly wails of children long lost, cursed to wander through the fog that enshrouds the forested mountains which loom over our small town...
That was the best thing I've read in a long time, thank you. 😂
It just works
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@@somekindofdude1130 I'm with the grammer nazi's now use proper grammer or I will make elder scrolls six have a voiced protagonist who always yells at people for using improper grammer
I wonder.... if Ebony is the dried blood of a god, could Stalhrim be the tears of a god?
Acendant Overlord the piss??
I was thinking it is nevermelt-soul-ice :o
I'm stupid now that I realize but I thought it was crystals.....🤣
Or the çùm
@@Sixty.6 me too
Y'know part of me wonders if maybe there isn't a possible connection between stalhrim and the 'unmelting snow' you get to repair the White Phial, since both things appear to be frozen water in such a way that prevents it from coming to harm.After all, stalhrim doesn't seem to melt either, even when exposed to the sun, so it's possible the two things may be related in some way.
After all, Curalmil was an ancient Nord who was an absolute master of alchemy, and who was the one that created the White Phial, so it is possible that he saw stalhrim being used for creating gear, and thought to do something like that but for an alchemical artifact instead, thus the Phial.
This ☝🏻
The white phial is also unscratchable, just like stahlrim. However it got damaged is a mystery, since "you wouldn't be able to, even if you knew how!"
@@martijnbakker1277 maybe Curalmil damaged it himself before his death. He could've coveted his prized possession so much that before he died, he broke it to keep anybody else from reaping its miraculous magical benefits.
It was the Ancient GrayBeards who made the Never-Melting snow.
That being the case, if there is a connection could The Thuum/Voice be the key in the creation of Stalhrim? If it was necessary for a thuum user to create Stalhrim, it would make sense why the creation method has been lost to time. Really the only people who even practice the voice anymore are the Graybeards.
If the Quote On Quote retainers of the Old Nordic ways find your use of the thuum astonishing; that’s gotta be a sign they don’t know it.
@@incarnation_of_immortality3422
So does that mean a lot of ancient Nord Tongues/Clever-Men simply shouted at vast swaths and plains of ice to further harden it and keep it from melting?
Could you imagine if the Dwarves got a chance to tinker with stalhrim?
I keep imaging their giant centurions equipped with stahlrim plating over their usual armor and stalhrim tipped saw blades for hands...
Stalhrim bolts in their spheres that pierce the thickest of armors with ease...
My gods the horror.
Would be BADASS
@@noisemarine561 dude, yeah!
Hm... Since the Rkindaleft Style Weapons in ESO, I think they did employ Stalhrim for such roles. Seeing them in action, though, is seldomly seen.
That sounds alot like the Aetherium Weapons and Armor mod
At first glance, Stalhrim is some compound, which was melted down, and then poured directly into the sarcophagus to protect the body inside. When it cools, it forms that solid cover which looks very much like ice. However, the solution to the mystery is not in what was poured into the sarcophagus. The solution to the mystery is actually revealed by the tool you use to extract the Stalhrim, the Ancient Nordic Pickaxes. They are the key to the answer.
Those Ancient Nordic Pickaxes were made of iron. The laws of physics dictate that any mineral cannot scratch any mineral harder than itself. To know how hard any mineral is, we need to look at the Mohs scale. Iron ranks on the Moh scale at 4, which means iron cannot scratch any mineral with a Moh scale rating higher than 4. Steel is 4.5, which is why that steel nail file could not scratch Stalhrim. Even still, you needed THOSE specific Ancient Nordic Pickaxes to mine Stalhrim, even though they were made of simple iron. Why? Why do you need those, when not even a standard-issue pickaxe is not sufficient? Here are the keys.
1: You can only find four Ancient Nordic Pickaxes, all of which are on Solstheim. There are no others, anywhere. You get one from Ralis Sadarys, you get another from Glover Mallory, one can be bought in the Skaal village, and the last is found near Tel Mithryn. Note how you cannot find any in Skyrim. They are only found on Solstheim, and even then, you only find those four.
2: One of these pickaxes has a name, Hoarfrost. The names of the others have been lost to time. Still, the fact that one has a name means the others once did as well. The fact that they had names also indicates they were used for ceremonial purposes. This is further reinforced by the fact that each were engraved with runes, which were either blessings of some sort, or they served to call upon the gods themselves. This leads to indicate the pickaxes were unique creations, and that they were created for a specific purpose.
If you look at both sides of the equation, both the Stalhrim itself, and the fact that you have ceremonial pickaxes which were specifically-created for dispelling the Stalhrim, you come to one conclusion. Stalhrim is not a stone, or indeed a mineral of any kind. Stalhrim is entirely a magical conjuration. To say it another way, Stalhrim is a ward, similar to the kind mages cast in front of them to protect them from incoming spells. But whereas a ward is simply a projection of the mage's own willpower, Stalhrim is a physical conjuration. I believe this conjuration was either created by the dragon priests who ruled over the Nords, or by the dragons themselves. Those dragon priests then created those pickaxes as the antidote in the case they should ever need to exhume a body.
Maybe those pickaxes were not actually pickaxes at all. Maybe making them in that shape was merely as ceremonial as the purpose which they served. The correct usage was as a staff, and that staff would channel a spell which would conjure and dissolve the Stalhrim. However, over the thousands of years, that ceremony, and all written records of how to perform the ritual, were lost to the time. However, these tools still hold enough of the magic in them, that if misused as the pickaxe which they portray, they will still penetrate the Stalhrim. It is entirely a case of using something in completely the wrong way, but the magic remaining inside the staff means it is capable of acting against the Stalhrim like a pickaxe would against stone.
So, there is the solution to your mystery. Stalhrim is not ice, or indeed any mineral at all. It is a magical conjuration summoned by the burial priests, the physical equivalent of a ward spell. The "pickaxes" are not pickaxes at all. They are ceremonial staffs created to summon that conjuration, and to dissolve that conjuration if the need should arise. The reason we cannot replicate that ceremony today is because that civilization died thousands of years ago, and no documentation has survived the millennia.
Stalhrim is simply enchanted ice, the ancient Nordic pickaxes were most likely enchanted with special magic to be able to break Stalhrim. You're looking way to far into it.
@@amenthegreat3761 no he is not
@@talonconley282 yes he is, the game literally tells you what Stalhrim is, It's just enchanted ice.
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I suppose while he gives an interesting perspective to it, yeah he may be going a bit far into it. Calling it a ward for their dead despite it being used as a weapon and stuff is certainly a stretch.
So yeah, an enhanced ice made by means that simply isn't remembered by many save for a few, requires a special rune on a pickaxe that has to be forged/etched in a way that also been mostly forgotten.
Elves: Glass
Nords: Ice
Dark Elves: Exoskeletons Of Bugs And Crustaceans
Wood Elves: Made of you
Khajiit: Moon Suger
Skyrim: The bones of a Dragon
The closest material in real life that could approximate stalhrim is pykrete (a mixture of ice and wood pulp). In fact, there was a plan where it was to be used to make an aircraft carrier out of it during WWII. Even though the project was canceled, the material proved to be very resilient. Doubtful that it could be used for making personal armor, but I figured I would share this info for fun.
[Introductory source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete]
@Vlad True to that.
They didnt make the carrier because thats just straight up stupid
That web address is broken.
@@fizzlebeef165 you miss understand pykrete it was invented by chemists. It is stronger than concrete but as durable as plastic, its bulletproof. They even built ships out of it.
The only issue is..it must kept at freezing temperature, otherwise it does melt. It took a year to melt the ship i guess though. Its a composite material,like fiberglass. It just have a lower melting temp.
@@madscientistshusta Sorry about that. Here's a new link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete
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Water ice, at supper-cold temperatures (around −179.2 °C; −290.5 °F), such as found on Titan (along with liquid methane rain), acts like solid rock, and is MUCH harder than the ice we know. If they came up with ice-magic to keep the ice at those extremely low temperatures, it could still be based on water-ice. They probably used some kind of magical catalyst that allowed the ice to slowly propagate and regenerate, but only up to a certain distance from the initial seed, or the few sources of it would have grown out of control long since. That would explain why the stalhrim in the armor and weapons does not propagate as it does in the crypts, lacking the original seed.
That makes me wonder... Atmora was said to have once been more habitable, but to now be sunk in a deep freeze, and it also seems to have been the source of stalhrim-crafting. Is it possible that the original source of stalhrim got out of control, and the catalytic reaction finally froze the entire landmass?
What
If Atmora is under this stiff there really is no getting it back!
Remember that one quest to reforge the white phial? You need to collect never-melting snow created by the Greybeards, who used the Thu'um to 'ask that the snow doesn't melt' or something like that. And since shouting in ancient times was, while maybe not common, not rare among the Nords either. I'm thinking along the lines that Stalhrim is created through a kind of ritual, where Nord Tongues would forge the ice by convincing it to take shape. Since shouting became rare, so rare as to be limited to the Greybeards and those under their tutelage, it'd make sense Stalhrim usage would face a sharp decline as well, to near extinction. Thanks Jurgen Windcaller...
This actually makes the most sense out of any theory I've heard. Taking the fact that the thu'um was more common in that age and that nords still respected their wizard-heroes as "Wise Men" in a more shamanistic sense, you can only imagine the things the ancient nords could accomplish with voice-magic. Having an army of tounges coming together in a choir of sentence-long Thu'umic magic(which I remind us Miraak could use to Eat Dragons Whole) makes those old stories of nord armies leveling mountains and swallowing storms seem more Realistic.
I really like how you tied it back to the timeline
I think the jagged crown looks great with stalhrim armor
Arthas, my son
I love the idea that the Last Dragonborn's final armourset is Stalhrim, connecting to the idea that they may become High King of Skyrim or Emperor of Tamriel. Can you imagine strolling into Windhelm at the front of an Imperial army at the climax of the civil war, the Dragonborn throws open the door to the Palace of Kings, and in that moment, Ulfric Stormcloak sees not a young adventurer, a new and relatively unexperienced Dragonborn, but the image of Talos or Ysgramor, of ancient Nordic Kings, clad in Stalhrim with the mighty power of the Thu'um. If Bethesda had been a bit more intelligent with this sort of thing, they could have written an awesome dialogue reaction for Ulfric, considering he's so adamant about traditions and connection to heritage.
@@gamistoklis-kun9726 An Karanir Thanagor
@@caspianhorlick4529 Just wearing stalhrim while being a Giant! Best Playthrough so far!
I love stahlrim armor it would be awesome in elder scrolls six if they would give you the option of light and heavy armor in each different types, would love to rock a light ebony armor set !!!
Yeah. I'm working on a light armr lay and kinda bummed I can't use ebony.
If there isn't well there is always nexus
I'd love that! It'd be really cool to rock Light Ebony Armor as a Barbarian character
@@PelinalDidNothingWrong right! Would also like to see some variants to each armor set. Fit each build accordingly. Sneak archer had a hood, one handed build a helmet. Different chest pieces for each set.
I made a Nord character that focused solely on frost everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, mastered destruction for ice spells, summon a frost atronach every now and then, bust out the stahlrim axe and shield if I wanna get up close, it was a fun build
I did something simular with fire, those kind of specialized builds are always fun to use.
@@awesomesauce5974 same I love a good stereotypical run. Want to do fire? Why yes a Dunmer Ashlander will be fine! Wanna be a warrior? Can I interest you in a 2H heavy armor Orc in these trying times?
Oh its a must!
@@TheEmpireDabsBack yep!
Iv done ice,
Fire,pure magic,pure 2h,vamp build,wolf build, life steal only builds, summon only builds,the list goes on. The game is insanely repayable,one of the only games i never sold after a few months.
I do
It is "Leman Russ build"
"I look like a dragon slaying badass, meanwhile you look like the lead skater for Alduin on Ice".
*Todd Howard:* _"It just works."_
FUS RO DAH!
Lol
You see Todd Howard is simply using a thu’um called “annoy the shit out of people”
How about the different bone armors next? Bonemold and Dragonbone being the obvious variants.
Glass armor-made from malachite
Ice armor-made from stalrim
Daedric Armor-made from hearts
To be exact, daedric armour is created from ebony that is tempered by the essence of a daedra (their heart). To go further, ebony is said to be the blood of the gods, so there is maybe something about it being tainted by daedra.
@@DuskyPredator "Tainted by the daedra"? Trainted isn't the word I would use, as according to the Anuad the Aedra themselves supposedly resulted from the intermingling of the blood of Anu and Padomay, where as the Daedra are born purely of the blood of Padomay. So if that is correct, the Aedra are already "tainted" to some degree.
Interesting thing about ebony, though. I didn't know it was hypothesized by some to be the blood of the gods. Very curious.
Maybe the strength of Daedric armor comes, then, because one is native to Aetherius and the other to Oblivion. Two somewhat different divine essences being combined into one.
@@HickoryDickory86 I think that there was something earlier about certain large deposits of ebony being attributed to when Lorkhan had his heart ripped out upon the other Aedra learning his betrayal.
To be specific, the daedric stuff we see in the games is made to mimic what daedra like the Dremora wear, as well like bound. But how what the Dremora have, and a possibly why you can't loot a lot of it, is also why it looks like bound armor and weapons, they actually force lesser daedra into the form of the item.
If I had to make some assumptions, keeping something like weapons and armor in Mundus is difficult because it doesn't belong if one simply tries to summon it, also possibly a will of its own. So one can kind of forge their own by taking something similar that belongs in Mundus, the blood of an aedra (ebony), and element of a daedra (daedra heart, probably dremora which use such things).
@@DuskyPredator it's not the blood of the "gods" but a good more specifically lorekon
@@richardhicks5031 It is the origin we have been given for the ebony deposits, but whether it is a hard rule as only the single god, or perhaps any Aedra, I don't know is quite a definitive fact. Especially considering the lore like aspect of such facts that can be hard to get a definitive answer.
Like, something to ponder. Is it relevant that Boethia has an artefact called the Ebony Mail, such as whether created from the Ebony found in deposits, or that Boethia is is specifically mentioned as defeating an Aedra in regards to Trinamac?
Awesome video. Can't wait to see your video on how the Altmer make armor out of lies.
A video exploring the differences and variations of spirit matter in the elder scrolls would be awesome. Like what type of soul does a god have, what sets that apart from what the princes of oblivion possess. Food for thought.
I have a theory: perhaps it's related to unmelting snow? Perhaps the thuum is used to teach the ice to become hard like steel and to ignore the sun as the snow does
Someone else said the that practice of creating stahlrim fell out of practice with the Nords around the same time that Jurgen Windcaller made everyone use the Thu’um solely for worship of the gods. Maybe that’s because they used the Thu’um to make stalhrim before and then stopped.
Blacksmith: How do you like your armor
Nord: Icy like my home land
Altmer: Eh glass for me
Seeing a new FudgeMuppet video makes me harder than Deathbrand Armor
...Good for you...
What WHAT THE FUCK
The Deathbrand armor is the coolest looking armor. And its stats are pretty great too.
Deathbrand armor is the same as light sthalrim in look
@@the_dropbear4392 Yeah but "Deathbrand" sounds better.
Ha. The nine dislikes are probably those golden-skinned, pointy eared, thieving Thalmor pricks who didn’t accomplish the little task their mommy Elenwen gave them. The secret of Stalhrim belongs to the Nords!!!
Everything belongs to the Nords
@@WhaleofDreams *Arrives on a continent and immediately gets into conflict with the native elves* "Why would the elves do this?"
@@plainplane7580 they landed on skyrim and named it merith in honor of the elves, then the elves slaughtered them and the nord left, came back completely clapped the elves out of skyrim
@@plainplane7580 It's hard to say what exactly was the cause of this war, but all the facts say that it were the Elves who attacked the Atmorans. The Falmer primarily feared that due to the human's shorter lifespan and higher fertility they would soon be outnumbered. Secondarily, they knew of the Eye of Magnus, an insanely powerful fragment of creation unearthed by the Atmorans in Saarthal, and they couldn't have it that the Men were in possession of it. That would be the reason why they specifically targeted Saarthal for their surprise attack.
Furthermore, do you really think the Atmorans, who just fled a civil war from their home, would immediately think of war again? Or even be equipped to do so? On an enemy that they don't know and likely even outnumbered them at the point of the attack? The only reason the Elves succeeded was because they took them by complete surprise, mind you.
So to me, all the facts speak for an Elven surprise attack, as befits their nature.
I'm with Hunter, the only reason the Atmorans were massacre was because of surprise attack only Ysgramor and his two sons survive if the Atmorans put a fight they problably would have survive more of them, how do we know this fact? Well because only 500 companion conquer an entire kingdom outnumber 10 to 1.And they also flee from Atmora because of a very huge and bloody civil war they didn't want to take part in.
Plot twist: it’s just Pykrete with a keep cold enchantment.
If stalrhim is stronger than majority of metals in tamriel and an ancient nordic pick axe can break it why not use the pickaxe to fight.
Just because it's a great mining tool doesn't make it a great weapon.
@@johan.ohgren you obviously haven't seen what I can do to a vampire with a fork.
@@skullkrusher-dx4kg 😂😂
Balance, also i have feeling that they can break stalrhim not due how hard they are, but MAGICCCCCC
I actually remember something dimly from many years ago when I played Bloodmoon. I remember a passage from one of the books, which described
Nordic Shamans, drawing upon "Ancient Energies" to create Stalhrim. I don't think that its simply enchanted ice, as in, regular water ice with a spell cast on it, but rather it is magic ice, as in stalhrim is frozen magic, that has become solid, in the same way that ice is frozen water that has become solid
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I wonder if Stahlrim was made by the nords in Atmora. Being as nords have that resistance to cold, but ancient Atmorans had an even better connection with the cold, maybe used there blood or something to add to the magical effect. You guys mentioned that the buried their dead with the protection of the Ice, so like the Dunmer, had a similar belief of born of the ice and return to the ice. So perhaps it was in their blood the key to Stahlrim. But has since been diluted because of not living in their home continent.
Atmora was a verdant forest whem the Nords first left for skyrim
Skyrim armor in real life
Ebony:just wood
Glass:easily breakable and may hurt the one wearing it
Stalhrim:melts
Daedric:wood with a heart
Dragon bone:no dragons=no armor
Dragonscale:just search for lizards
Well realistically the closest thing to stalhrim is pykrete which would take a bit to fully melt and is a very strong material
If they use fiber glass for glass armor it would be way less breakable but more dangerous to its wearer as when it breaks it will fully shatter and will severely irritate the skin and would limit movement
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So, my first thought after seeing the thumbnail was a throwback to when I watched adventure time. I pictured Ice King yelling about his "invincible ice armor!!!!!"
I have a small theory. Perhaps stalhrim was brought over to tamriel from Atmora. It would explain how there are no fresh deposits of the material and why it is so rare. Stalhrim that wasn't put into tombs was already made into weapons and armor. When the nords ran out of unused stalhrim, it's use died along with it. It could also explain how the ice never melts because Atmora is described as being impossibly cold, possibly making ice there nigh impossible to melt.
Stalhrim is by far one of the most majestic armour's on solstheim.
This is my favorite armor and weapons!! I still use the same stahlim sword that you guys made a video about haha and I loved the glass armor one and searched your whole Chanel for this video! And it’s right here!!
I find it funny, I find it kinda sad, that the only way I'm making Stalhrim gear is by grave-robbing, which is bad.
Ugh I love that you guys are answering these important questions
Another fine upload from my favorite YT channel! I would love to see a video about the constellations/celestials, I'm have a hard time understanding what are they exactly
Thou hast brought a blessing upon me at 4:30am. I shall not sleep but watch this
2:57 According to the 36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 17, Vivec and Nerevar traveled to Atmora but found only frozen bearded kings
Brings a whole new context i guess lol. Were all the kings frozen cause they were wearing stahlrim armor? The world may never know.
Atmora is literally frozen, both physically (it's really cold), as well as being frozen in time (time does not pass).
@@SpaceWhaIe Where is it mentioned Atmora is stuck in time?
@@redfallxenos4585 Its the North Pole.
@@redfallxenos4585 It's the north pole of Nirn, so it's always a cold, desolate wasteland. In other words, the landscape there never changes
@@wardeni4806 That doesn't really relate to how it is also "frozen in time"
What about the patch of snow on the top of the throat of the world that doesnt melt and has been used to repair the white vial? Any possible relations?
Yes, I think so. The smith in Raven Rock mentioned a connection. Although, noone in Skyrim knows how to work it. Nor can they obtain it since it's protected by Paarthurnax.
I was going to comment the same thing. 👍🏻
@@johan.ohgren well... used to be protected by paarthurnax...
@@scythescythe884 you monster! You killed him!
@@egglordthenosferatu3479 i decided to let paarth die as the dragon he wanted to be, rather than let him live long enough to be consumed by his instinct as a dovah. he wanted to be paarthunax till the end of his days. so i made it a guarantee. i hold no guilt.
Armour lore videos should increase, I mean I love it!! Do something about armour motifs for races.
at least the ice armour can keep you chilled throughout the summer
Hey keep this stuff coming I've been back playing Skyrim love watching content over it
I have a theory that the secret into creating Stalhrim is somewhere hidden in Hermaeus Mora's plain of Oblivion, and I have no doubt that it would be a simple as a type of spell. Probably an Alteration kind of spell like Transmute
On the contrary, the process of forging and dispelling stalhrim is likely one of the “secrets of the Skaal” that Mora was trying to steal
@@MeanAndPristine that would make sense. I can imagine that it would involve stuff that the dragonborn wouldn't be capable of learning in game like creating that one snowstorm ritual or that amulet that gave that skaal follower (I forgot her name) that gave them protection from Miraak's control.
J’zargo thinks you like like the lead skater in Alduin on ice
Loving these wepons/armor analysis videos man
It seems to me that Stalhrim might be the Nord equivalent to Dwemer Brass. The brass was enhanced using Tonal Architecture, and it might be the same for Stalhrim through the Voice. Which would explain why new Stalhrim hasn’t been created for a long while, considering the lack of Tongues. Both are known for being impossible to replicate, incredibly durable, and requiring smiths to reuse what is already available.
Oooooo I like this theory. Stalhrim falling out of practice matches up with the timeline of Jurgen Windcaller founding the Greybeards, I think it definitely has to do with the Thu’um
It looks like there is definitely a magical aura to the Stalhrim tombs and ore deposits. When you check out the area around the Stalhrim it is giving off a blue hue in the air where as the cold air swirling around normal ice and snow in Skyrim / Solstheim is white. My guess is the areas where Stalhrim generates like in tombs etc are areas that were enchanted by the ancient Skaal Nords. It’s a forgotten magic like you stated. It returns every 35 days like all other Ore materials and once the Stalhrim is mined that blue hue always remains..
I always believed Stalhrim was I bit of a renewal resource. Meaning that it grew, an example world be a Nord buried with armor made of Stalhrim given enough time (and I mean a lot of time) the Stalhrim would incase the body or a sword left undisturbed would become a misshapen club of sorts.
I don't know how it dose this, maybe it forms similar to crystalline or polycrystalline structures, even living organisms are able to produce crystals like calcite. Funnily enough the word Krustallos in Ancient Greek means both ice and rock crystal. Maybe still it could be some sort of bacterial formation which holds some similarities to real life microbe-made rocks in a cave in Sweden that researchers form Denmark’s Nordic Center for Earth Evolution found.
Both crystal and bacteria need proper conditions to grow its possible that the dark cold Nordic Barrow and the entombed Nord bodies with in are exactly what Stalhrim needs to grow.
The weapons kinda reminds me of the White Walkers in GoT
That’s it. Time for a nordic vampire conjuration run with stalhrim weapons and armor.
I fall asleep to the Skyrim Sountrack on the reg. love it
Icy now how these chill fellows make these cool weapons.
People: how can armor from glass and ice...
Todd Howard: *it just works*
Well actually, Glass is made from Malachite. It is just called glass because of it's translucent look. When comparing hardness on Moh's scale, Malachite ranks surprisingly similarly to steel. It's not AS dense and hard as steel, being around 3.5-4, where steel is 4-4.5, but it's notably more light in weight (For reference, Titanium is like 6+ I think).Which is probably why they were able to afford to put more Malachite on the armor and keep the weight down, making it more powerful than steel at like half the weight. Although Stalhrim is definitely just a "Todd Howard: It just works, don't question it" moment.
Stalhrim Armor and Weapons are my favorite:)
Second Favorite is Ebony Armor, but Dragonbone Weapons
Third Favorite is Dragonplate/Dragonscale Armor, but Nord Hero Weapons.
(All these ranks I'm talking Aesthetic with some Functionality)
For a little insight and fun reading check out pykrete. In Ww2 they used a mix of about 20% sawdust, 80% ice to make the stuff and it was strong enough to make boats stop a bullet debateably (1000psi psq). Maybe they weren’t mining ice but rather something like asbestos that had a bunch of surface area to mix in with the water and add density and strength. Would explain the special use of pickaxes for mining deposits without breaking or changing specific properties of the stuff before they could powder it (it also might be toxic if mined by the wrong kind of metal exposure)
Anytime I play a warrior-type, I run my crafting up to get the ebony perk so I can make Stalhrim armor and weapons, then I put the chaos enchantment on the weapons (thanks for the tip, BTW).
When fudge muppet uploads *inserts funny picture*
When i watch it *insert like a boss*
Great video guys! Keep up the great work. Also, i would love to have a video about all the great houses of morrowind!
I’ve been playing the Dragonborn dlc lately and one of my theories on stalhrim and the special pickaxe is that it’s potentially like flint knapping in that particular materials are needed to make the tool to knap flint effectively without rendering it into useless shards , so it may be capable of withstanding great blows from a weapon but trying to get useful pieces from a source of it with a standard pickaxe only nets scrapings or chips
Mr Freeze knows what it is! enchanted ice.. Or Diamonds, Adamant.
Adam West Batman taught me :D
Phones next to my ear as you are talking
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It was originally believed that diamond was actually ice with a high mineral content that reached such a low temperature that it could no longer be thawed.
Also if it is like pykrete and they mix a powder in with it that may be why they make tombs out of it. The powder could act as an insulator allowing the ice to stay frozen in the ambient temp which is always at or near freezing in northern climates. Even if it gets warm enough to melt the ice if the alloy never allows heat to penetrate between the particles binding the water then it won’t melt, especially considering water is a heat sink so it will pull heat from the core of the alloy and resist quick temperature changes
My guess would be, given that it was a material created and used by the ancient nords, it's probably created via some sort of technique using shouts. Like somehow they shout at the ice with a mix of Ice Form and Force, giving it the enchantment of everlasting cold as well as strengthening it by condensing it down.
It's actually created by the Skaal of old, who drew the magic from Solstheim itself to create tombs of ice for the Nords who died during the war with Morrowind.
Don't forget about the unmelting snow on top of the high mountain
Maybe stalhrim is like dwemer metal and is made from some sort of tonal magic lost to time, maybe even made using a long lost shout. That would also explain why only their pickaxes will work, as they're made from a similarly made material.
How does ice armor work? Well, going by the last episode of JoJo... it just works.
Beriorn Is that a jojo’s reference?
First the glass and now ice. I fucking love you!
It'd have been cool if this particular armour, aside from frost enchants getting a boost, that in frigid areas you'd have frost surrounding your character buffing you from fire or in warmer, hot areas, you "sweat" which would counter act your better frost resistance (if the enchantment is chosen) with a temporary weakness to shock.
I mean the Vampire gets wrecked in sunlight so I don't know why they couldn't be as exclusive with the Stalhrim as it's primarily in frigid areas.
Same could go for with glass. During the day you could either be blinding or "translucent" while wearing it. And at night, your translucency would be given away from a light source so it'd make things interesting for sure.
Honestly you should wear a full light set of Stalhrim armor and have a type of katana (blades sword, ebony blade, Harkins sword, etc) it makes you look like a samurai badass
8:03 wth is that for mod? XD Glover looks handsome! "Screw Theif guild, this is life! my Paradise island!" XD
I think it's similar to the unmelting snow on the throat of the world, probably formed around the same time
If Vanilla Ice was an Elder Scrolls character, he'd wear this armor.
I would so make a lightsaber out of this Crystal that way it would be an ice Sabre
I am wondering how a wearer of Stahlrim must feel like, since it is ice armor and probably pretty cold.
Yes first glass now ice you're making my dreams come true
Impressive. Most impressive. Yet the dunmer made an entire city out of dead insects.
Wow nords really were such magnificent in the ancient times, They were more traditional, they were more barbaric, they build entire underground and in cave cities and burials.They build beautiful stallhrim weapons, armor, arrows, bow and shields not only that they were master craftsmen of the forged.They were true warriors and respect their traditions to the end, they use to be fear by the empire of elves and their fear is very well earn because only 500 companios conquer an entire kingdom against an empire of elf.Now they just live of old glories and try to keep with their traditions but their cities, their armor and they are not the same as an ancient Nord or even not near as an Atmoran.
Awesome video one of my favorite armor in skyrim
I wonder if Stalhrim has any relation to the unmelting snow at the Throat of the World, basically snow that the early graybeards "taught" how to remain and never melt.
If I had to guess I would say alteration magic is involved at least somewhat, maybe it's a combination spell of alteration and destruction, or maybe conjuration and alteration.
My own headcanon for stalhrim is that it could be the snow that Kynareth breathed onto when she created the nords, she could’ve given them the knowledge to make tools to break and work the ice. To me it makes some sense from a lore perspective, the warriors and kings could wear them so that Kynareth could protect them in battle while increasing their dead in ice so that either Kynareth could protect them in death or just as religious thing, ashes to ashes sort of deal, would explain why they didn’t incase the snow prince despite being allowed the customs of a nord king’s burial, he didn’t come from Kynareth, from ice thus he cannot be protected by it.
As the nords moved away from just Kynareth and embarrassed the full pantheon they lost the knowledge. I know the Skall just believe in the All maker but maybe it is their version of Kynareth.
Edit: I forgot that part but I came to that conclusion because of the requirements for learning to craft Stalhrim, it needs you to know how to work Ebony, Stalhrim armor is a tad stronger than Ebony in terms of protection. We know, or at least I think it’s theorized, that Ebony is the crystallized blood of Lorkhan, to me it makes sense that Stalhrim would be snow turned to Ice by Kynareth’s breath.
*Lead skater in Alduin on Ice*
If you wore a full set of stalhrim armor would you be considered iced out
While it's not explicit in the game, one item available on Skyrim is most likely Stahlrim or related to it; the White Phial, constructed of a patch of never-melting snow... while it may not directly be Stahlrim, it's a bit too similar to not be related at least.
I have one possible major theory on stalhrim ore or enchanted ice creation maybe even requiring a dragon born or dragon mastering the ice form shout and being able seal the Nord's dead permanently and such... Which would explain why its been lost in time, and can even be in relation somewhat to thrall permanent summons and permanent magic that can only be obtained by a master of the voice and there are even a few way's to extend magic duration in game also. Meaning it's highly possible there were mighty dragonborns or dragons and or users of the voice to do permanent shout effects, not to far fetched though since even the greybeards can kill with just a whisper!
Truthfully if ice is frozen to a low enough temperature it could be as hard as rock, stallrim's rarity could be the result of the atmora being underwater. A place as cold as that would surprise me if they made furnaces that fuse material together using very low temperatures and honestly that effect from the armor its subliming to air but its so cold that it keeps its form
I was always under the impression that it was more like a crystal like quartz
Can you remaster the craftsman pls, I would really appreciate it
Shame you never mentioned Chillrend, which could perhaps be made out of Stalrhim in the Glass Motief.
The best guess is it is related to the thoum and hass something to do with unmelting snow.
8:50 Right so Stahlrim is the Nord equivalent or Mers Dwarven metal?
Damn those finite supplies
Maybe a lot of mainland barrows didn’t use it so that the draugr could reawaken to do their duties