I know he’s not really rare, but I just love when I’m wandering Skyrim and all of a sudden I see M’aiq just standing there up ahead. I always get happy when I see him
So the thief one: I had *just* joined the guild and was on horseback when the thief ran up to me. Didn’t try and mug me, but flat out said “Here, take this sister” and said something about thieves sticking together, gave me a present and then ran off. Didn’t even get off my horse lol.
@@zigzaghyena I wish life worked like this. "I'd like to take you out for coffee. Here's a burlap bag with 37 dollars to sweeten the deal." These random gifts are so weird. I once turned a corner and (surprise!) found frost dragon fighting a vampire. I helped and not only did the vampire not attack me, but it ran up to me a minute later and gave me a dagger. This is why I don't fast travel. It gives me FOMO.
That's super random thing. Sometimes thives share their stolen things with me and day somethin like "Thank you for your service, Nightingale. Nocturnal brought me many luck" and sometimes they just spawn and get killed by random citizens
The oddest thing I've encountered in skyrim is that I'm able to adopt a child. Like as the dragonborn I've done some pretty messed up stuff. Like I've killed an entire city because I was bored. And you're letting me take care of a child?
I am not sure if Skyrim during 4th Era boasts a social system that would decide if you can or can not adopt a child. You just take the orphans home if you have any.
I myself found Balbus' dead body while on a quest to kill a Dragon. Looted his fork and kept forgetting to look into it. Good to know who he was and all that.
I was in Riften stables where i was attacked by the dawnguard scouts, balbus was in the wrong place at the wrong time and got caught in the crossfire and killed. Since i couldn't talk to him I was suprised why a fork was named after him. Its just chilling in a chest at one of my homes
@@backtobasics9382 he is commonly killed indeed as he spawns in bad places I always find him outside white run near that bandit cove with the blind dude with the book, a place we’re random encounters happen like vampires bandits etc
The oddest encounter I had in Skyrim was when I came across the three drunkards enjoying themselves only to see them getting slaughtered by a werewolf after crossing a bridge a few minutes later
lmao I remember this hilarious moment when I encountered a mammoth somewhere and as I was running away a troll came to join the fight. And I was standing in the bushes watching those two going at it and then a dragon joined in too XXD. And the maximum of dragons that has attacked me at the same time is 3. So yeah I think moments like that is my favorite moments where there's just so many enemies around that it turns into a brawl.
@@zebnemma I was in the evergreen forest, already fighting with two spriggans, when an npc named "Fugitive" ran to me and gave me a sword maybe? Starting a dialouge while I was still in combat. At the same time, a dragon decided to swoop down upon us, I accidentally harmed two foxes with my spell, Lydia was nowhere (well why would she?), so it was quite a sight: me running in circles while dealing with two spriggans, two foxes, a dragon, and trying to send the fugitive the fuck away.
@@SeleneCullenPotter LMAO and that's why chaos+randomness is my favorite element in most games, hilarity ensues. And yeah the NPC always interupting a fight happens way too much. I'm shouting at the screen "Like can you fucking go away can't you see I'm kinda busy here???!" ANd yeah ofc the follower is stuck somewhere when you need them the most. One time I played Skyrim drunk and I lost Lydia in the mountains somewhere and then she was gone from that gamesave forever but I have no memory of how or when I lost her cuz I was drunk. I figured she must've fell off a cliff or something. So I remember that as a wild party night for my character that got Lydia killed that I can't remember. X'D
For those who have encountered Balbus, it's possible to make him become a permanent member inside one of your three homesteads along with your spouse, children, pets, housecarl, steward, and carriage driver. Unlike other random encounters, Balbus doesn't reset his position (before the 2.0.4 skyrim patch) meaning he'll remain in that area indefinitely. What you need to do is get him to chase to your homestead then immediately cast a fear spell/shout and have him run inside your home. Another way is to mount a horse and push him all way near your home then attack him but run inside your house then either cast a calm spell on him or sheath your weapon. If you're reading this and it worked, you can thank me later.
@@JS-rv3et Have you ever heard the quote "The more the merrier." Why not take advantage of having another friendly able body become a member of your homestead, it's what they did during the medieval days. Ultimately, it's your choice if you choose to or not, but trust me, the end results is very rewarding, especially seeing that Balbus will interact with the background in your Hearthfire home, similar to what your spouse, Housecarl, and Steward will do.
@@JS-rv3et Sorry, I do recommend you bring him inside your home, safe from giants and dragons outside. If you have any more questions on this topic, I'll be glad to answer them.
Early in the game, you come across the farmer with a cow to which he intends to gift to the local giants. If you actually follow him to the giants, they immediately become hostile and usually knock him into the stratosphere.
Do you remember Talsgar the Wanderer, the blonde Nord bard in random encounters? I met him once on my first playthrough trip to Riften. I stopped many times, because of all the wolfes&bears&alchemic ingredients. So he followed me almost all the road without despawning. He was attacked a lot of times by bandits&animals. And that maniac chopped them all with his iron sword.
The year is 2080 the nuclear fallout has started. You have 11 minutes and 51 seconds left of electricity before every piece of technology you have left is powerless you hover over the last video that you’ll see for a long time “ 5 more strange encounters you may have missed in the elder scrolls 5” it’s gonna be a good day.
I rather liked encountering him before doing anything with the Dark Brotherhood. Gave hints that there might be a character I have yet to maybe meet. And then coming across the DB quest and meeting the Gourmet made it all the sweeter.
I remember when I first encountered the wabbajack lady. I honestly had completely forgotten about the wabbajack, even though it was in my inventory. I honestly thought she was like a crackhead until I googled it and remembered the sheogorath quest. good times
One of the rarest random encounters inside of Skyrim would have to be coming across two dragons fighting against each other, which virtually never occurs.
Fun fact: there's a quest for number 5, Nate. It's started by finding a argonian named Wujeeta at the Riften docks or the fishery. She'll ask for a healing potion of any kind to get rid of a skooma addiction and will thank you if you give one to her. After giving one to her, the quest starts with you finding riften's skooma dealer and ends with Cragslane cavern. Just to let you know.
@@boonski Glitches? Nah dude, it's a feature. Just like when you get launched to space by giants, it's always been in the game. Can't be anything but a feature!
With the assassin if you've finished the Thieves Guild quest there's actually a member who talks about how he was in the rival gang. When asking "why don't you join the Dark Brotherhood" he will explain that they are rivals and not to let anyone in the brotherhood know that you've met him because you'll be marked for a hit from DB. Which is funny because I'm the Listener. So they never made an interaction where you can tell him. Cause I would have loved to have seen his reaction. 🤣
When I got attacked by a Morag Tong assassin, my blood ran cold when I saw "Honorable Writ of Execution: Artemis" (Artemis is my female Nord, appropriately named after the Greek goddess of hunt). Normally, something like this wouldn't really affect me as people will send hired thugs after me occasionally, but for some reason, I got chills just from reading the note to execute me though I think that the fact that he can legally murder me and get away with it was what scared me the most.
@@Mikani_natsu2475 The Random Encounter character most unlucky for me is easily The Madwoman (Asks to be hit with the Wabbajack). Only got to talk to her once. In every playthrough of Skyrim (I've played through most of the game with each race, beaten it with a few) she either gets killed right in front of me or I find her body in the middle of the road.
The Frighten Man or Woman are the most unlucky encounters I've met, every time I play it they end up dying by someone or something. It's fucked up because they just escaped from their kidnappers, an hour ago I ran into a frighten woman, pointed towards Whiterun, which was literally right behind me, and she ends up running too close towards a bandit hideout only to be killed by them. Divine tragedy or divine comedy, either way I felt both shock and hilarity at the same time.
@@maxgolder7147 Yes, both Graenolf and Fudgemupppet. I see EpicNate, FudgeMuppet, and Graenolf as the holy trinity, or the tribunal if I’m going to use an Elder Scrolls reference, of TES CZcams videos. Also, we have the same first name! Hello, fellow Max!
I just found out that in the encounter where you meet revelers and they give you some honningbrew mead you can offer them some blackbriar mead and they will insult you for drinking it
The info about the thief was awesome. I've been accosted by those dudes easily dozens of times. Never once did I find out about that last Nightingale bit
@@JoshuaCrockford That's the same thing I was wondering. I've never fully completed the thieves guild questline, only killing Mercer Frey and becoming a nightingale, even after thousands of hours of gameplay under my belt. I also never knew of the dialogue options involving apparel. Just something to put to the test, I guess.
HEY, how's it going Nate, it's guys here. More specifically, it's that one teacher guy who's proud of you for vastly improving your grammar and pronunciation skills over the course of the last year or so. No corrections today from me, good sir! Happy New Year! Here's to another year of rpg details and death by murder! ❤
@TurtleyTwo do it with sympathy and a smile, that's my only lesson for you. You are now a full-fledged acolyte of the Holy Order of Language Guardians. No, wait... The Church of the Semicolon. Anyway, welcome, brother. 😊
I encountered balbus without being on the dark brotherhood quest, I was traveling with dalphine when I got attacked by wolves, then balbus helped me kill them. I accidentally hit him and was forced to kill him. I then looted his fork and kept it bc i thought it was cool. rarest thing that happened to me in Skyrim
I encounter Balbus all the time. Right after escaping Helgen I always run down to the house across the river, the one with the old lady witch, because there is a spot near her house that always spawns random encounters. I tend to get dead treasure hunters and Balbus there a lot.
I was going to say just that. I've met Balbus in most of my playthroughs, even the ones I never played past lvl 10 or so, and in most of them I didn't play the dark brotherhood questline because it didn't fit the character I was playing.
Exactly!!! I'm missing much of the game by not walking around the whole place. What I love doing now is taking 3-4 companions with me as followers (a tiny (kb's) Creation mod found under "followers" with no neg side effects allows this) and roaming the countryside! You'll love it!!
For #2, if youre part of the thieves guild you can talk to a member in the cistern who reveals he was part of the tang clan, he also remarks that if the Brotherhood knew he was part of the tang, that they would put out a hit on him
Love your vids. Fun fact: I have a bit of insomnia, so every night I put the Everything Skyrim list on shuffle on my phone and relax to your awesome skyrim facts until I finally fall asleep and dream of Skyrim 😎
I knew the thief on the road fact only partly. I knew being a member of the Guild unlocked unique dialogue, but the two Nightingale options were new to me. By the way Nate: there's a quest related to Cragslane, where you're tasked to clear out the Skooma operation in that place. You can unlock it after finding an Argonian female skooma addict inside Riften, who begs you for a healing potion as she might lose her job ;) Have a great day Nate!
The thieves I’ve met on the road wore glass armor. Same basic dialogue and all. I was wearing thieves guild armor and was half way through the quest line... I never had the option Nate showed. 😔
The first time I played "Dragonborn" DLC, it took me literally 20 seconds after I left Raven Rock before I got attacked by some Morag Tong assassins... Come on, guys, get a life!
Are you aware of a random encounter with a Dark Brotherhood assassin? I was once attacked by an unnamed Argonian outside Markarth who was wearing a full set of Dark Brotherhood kit. Maybe I just missed it in one of your videos but I haven't seen anything about it before.
I remember finding the wolf pits and clearing out the fighting ring, then as I was leaving the area (just hopping from unexplored location to unexplored location), only about two minutes walk away I have the escaped dogs encounter, and I shrugged it off as "well, guess I approached from the wrong side" (I rarely take roads in Skyrim, cheesing up and through mountains is so much more fun)
My favorite encounters are assassins and thieves. Some great loot off of them, especially mid level gems that are really good for your smithing and coinage.
I don't know if this counts as a tiny detail but similar to people commenting your paleness as vampire, guards comment that your breath smells foul after you become a cannibalist (The taste of Death)
@@twice1962 My first character I played as a werewolf khajit (because a cat turning into a wolf sounded funny) and the first time I heard a guard say that I didn't realize it was dialogue for being a werewolf I just thought he was really stupid. Like yes that's fur in case you haven't noticed I'm covered in it. lol
I dont know if they were a contender, but Sond and Bottar are pretty random to encounter. I had just finished escaping Cindna Mine with Madanoch, and they kinda just spawned out of nowhere trying to sell me dwemer stuff...
I've never had the Morag Tong encounter with the note speaking about what faction your in but, I do almost always get attacked the Tong after I did the quest offered my the councilor.
About your thief encounter, i got another one where the Thief recognizes you(regular T.G. member) and give you 5 or 3 lockpicks. Cool video btw as always:D Edit: Murder me to death with a hearth
Hi, recent subscriber here. I think the Spanish Royalty armor mod was very interesting. So interesting that the idea of a video or two strictly reviewing Clothing/Armor mods best suited for aesthetic roleplaying would be fun to watch. I'm unsure if you've done such a video before however.
Cragslane cavern is the last stop in becoming thane in riften. I really have to be careful with my random encounters. I tend to shoot first and ask questions later. The liar and the wandering bard don’t like me very much but the old orc is just looking for a good death so I abliged him. Love your channel.🏹
I hadn't even started the Dark Brotherhood quest line when I met Balbus, outside Whiterun after the attack on the Western Watchtower. I had never encountered him before. 😁
My most odd encounter was when I met this guy that had the last name Dreth as in Valen or Romlyn Dreth, prior to this though I had done the aetherium quest and had a aetherium circlet, he would have a gang with him. He would be shocked at the aetherium item no matter which one you got. He would proceed to ask /buy the aetherium item from you if you decline and try to kill you, after this I was just shocked by the moment in general.
Windhelm Guard my game glitched and apparently I accidentally killed Aela (don’t know when and don’t remember). But a pack of horkers was attacking something. And when I got closer to it I found out that it was Skjor and Aela fused into each other and half way in the ground. They were literally stuck together.
i find one way to trigger one random encounter -go bleakfalls barrow -clear the dungeon -leave from the exit on the end of the dungeon -go to Anise Cabin ( The old lady ) -take a few steps straight from the door ( towards Riverwood ) -Here you'll find a "random" random encounter This always works for me in all my playthrough
Oddly enough, when I watched this vid, I had never seen Balbus (and was not surprised because I've never done Dark brotherhood), but then the next time I played I encountered him. He was near that bandit lair that's on the western side of Whiterun, and he was with a couple of vampires. He and the vampires all attacked me. I was so surprised.
Balbus is a general random encounter. I've seen him 3 times already before starting the brotherhood's quest. Although last time he was killed by a dragon. Got a cool fork though ;))
In my game, Balbus spawned at the entrance to Helgen and stayed permanently there. Unfortunately other things liked spawning there as well. A pair of spiders took him out one day when I left from storing things in the keep.
Hi Nate, TERRIFIC job with your video's on Skyrim. Please tell me how you have gotten such great scenic, action and overhead scenes/shots/photos etc of places/cities/people/dragons, et al, in the game? You have made Skyrim even better than the game itself with those images. GOOD JOB. Thanks for all your hard work! cheers Boots Langley La Mesa, ca
I found balbus on a brand new save file as I was on my way to meet the greybeards and killed him just because, but also, I had never done anything dark-brotherhood related yet in that file
Another additional part to the random thief encounter where you're actually the guild master they'll give you some of what they have as a tribute. Although I'm pretty sure you already covered this I think.
"Dragonborn, huh? Was it your ma, or pa who was the dragon?"
- Hadvar
Both of those options are horrific in different ways
Nightmare Fuel Like throwing a hot dog down a hallway
Vvulf Or shoving your arm through a pinhole
Nightmare Fuel not if the other one was a bard
Oh god
"Yeah im the gourmet" (While wearing a full set of Daedric armor)
Or dragonbone
Literally all of us
Or just for shits and giggles nothing
the armor is vital, it helps protect against splashes and spills that might otherwise burn the chef
@@entropic-decay gotta have those fire resistance enchants for extra protection
I know he’s not really rare, but I just love when I’m wandering Skyrim and all of a sudden I see M’aiq just standing there up ahead. I always get happy when I see him
Same. He's my fav npc
Saw him 4 times in a row once when riding my horse. that Kajit is faster than my deadric mount and that scares me.
For me, that’s Talsgar the Wanderer.
Always amps me up for more adventuring.
To me it's the 4 kajiits that go arround the map, im really simpathetic to them
May your roads lead you to warm sands.
M'aiq
Balbus: Do you know the Gourmet?
You: Well, of course I know him. He' s me.
This is gold
Fun fact he has a fucking dadra heart on him so I think you know what I did
Met him starting a playtrough near Riverwood way, I haven't started the darkbrotherhood questline
The rarest encounter every in Skyrim is playing the whole game without experiencing any glitches.
Sharkzilla Gaming -the rarest encounter is putting the game down and seeing another living person
@@mousetrap773 jokes on you, I have a big family
Joshua Korynta - Ysolda and Lucia don’t count, sorry.
That's still my ambition to achieve. It requires a lot of planning though.
damn infinite loading screens
So the thief one: I had *just* joined the guild and was on horseback when the thief ran up to me. Didn’t try and mug me, but flat out said “Here, take this sister” and said something about thieves sticking together, gave me a present and then ran off. Didn’t even get off my horse lol.
Annemarie Hartnett : Maybe he had a crush on your character? What better way for a thief to confess their love than with a heavy bag of gold?
@@zigzaghyena I wish life worked like this. "I'd like to take you out for coffee. Here's a burlap bag with 37 dollars to sweeten the deal."
These random gifts are so weird. I once turned a corner and (surprise!) found frost dragon fighting a vampire. I helped and not only did the vampire not attack me, but it ran up to me a minute later and gave me a dagger. This is why I don't fast travel. It gives me FOMO.
That's super random thing. Sometimes thives share their stolen things with me and day somethin like "Thank you for your service, Nightingale. Nocturnal brought me many luck" and sometimes they just spawn and get killed by random citizens
Well if u got nightingale armour on he says that he's been bestowed with luck and gives you 500 gold
That’s really sweet of them
I love how you phrase "Murder to death." As if you could murder someone to anything else.
"I hereby charge you with being killed to death for murdering this man to life."
I mean if you hit someone with a necromancy stick hard enough, miracles do be happening
If you use a soul gem on them, they'll be permanently stuck in a realm between life and death soo... lol
You can murder someone to sweetroll if you want
“To the pain”
Once i got stopped by a theif... but one problem.... *i was in werewolf form....*
Same
Ye same here
Bruh
Wait so you just werewolf of da road?
@@slogotf2789 i was running between the major cities on a murderous rampage to level up my werewolf skills, yes.
I keep all the writs of executions as souvenirs in my home. Nice to feel wanted.
😂 I DO THIS TOO! I've always considered them like little trophies for murdering the idiots that tried to murder me.
Those, journals, and other notes I keep in one spot. Actual books I put on bookshelves.
And here I thought it was just me!
*ba-dum tsk*
@Michael O Callaghan so. Dam
True. I bugged the hell of of me. Like, why can't I place the claws of the first bear I killed. It sucked.
The oddest thing I've encountered in skyrim is that I'm able to adopt a child. Like as the dragonborn I've done some pretty messed up stuff. Like I've killed an entire city because I was bored. And you're letting me take care of a child?
And a puppy. Don't forget the puppy
Im pretty sure that skyrim is aware that you can't kill kids
I don't know why but I get so triggered when you say murder to death. I guess you're gonna have to keep saying it now.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
COOKIE WOKE you take care of them I just give them money the childhood I never had.
I am not sure if Skyrim during 4th Era boasts a social system that would decide if you can or can not adopt a child. You just take the orphans home if you have any.
I myself found Balbus' dead body while on a quest to kill a Dragon. Looted his fork and kept forgetting to look into it.
Good to know who he was and all that.
I was in Riften stables where i was attacked by the dawnguard scouts, balbus was in the wrong place at the wrong time and got caught in the crossfire and killed. Since i couldn't talk to him I was suprised why a fork was named after him. Its just chilling in a chest at one of my homes
@@backtobasics9382 he is commonly killed indeed as he spawns in bad places I always find him outside white run near that bandit cove with the blind dude with the book, a place we’re random encounters happen like vampires bandits etc
I found him wandering after the quest... It didn't give me the option to tell him I'm the gourmet
"How you choose to thank bulbus, if at all, is entirely up to you."
*shows your character beating the crap out of him*.
That made me laugh and feel bad at the same time.
The oddest encounter I had in Skyrim was when I came across the three drunkards enjoying themselves only to see them getting slaughtered by a werewolf after crossing a bridge a few minutes later
lmao I remember this hilarious moment when I encountered a mammoth somewhere and as I was running away a troll came to join the fight. And I was standing in the bushes watching those two going at it and then a dragon joined in too XXD. And the maximum of dragons that has attacked me at the same time is 3. So yeah I think moments like that is my favorite moments where there's just so many enemies around that it turns into a brawl.
I saw the drunks and didn't see them die.
The drunks are my favorite
@@zebnemma I was in the evergreen forest, already fighting with two spriggans, when an npc named "Fugitive" ran to me and gave me a sword maybe? Starting a dialouge while I was still in combat. At the same time, a dragon decided to swoop down upon us, I accidentally harmed two foxes with my spell, Lydia was nowhere (well why would she?), so it was quite a sight: me running in circles while dealing with two spriggans, two foxes, a dragon, and trying to send the fugitive the fuck away.
@@SeleneCullenPotter LMAO and that's why chaos+randomness is my favorite element in most games, hilarity ensues. And yeah the NPC always interupting a fight happens way too much. I'm shouting at the screen "Like can you fucking go away can't you see I'm kinda busy here???!" ANd yeah ofc the follower is stuck somewhere when you need them the most. One time I played Skyrim drunk and I lost Lydia in the mountains somewhere and then she was gone from that gamesave forever but I have no memory of how or when I lost her cuz I was drunk. I figured she must've fell off a cliff or something. So I remember that as a wild party night for my character that got Lydia killed that I can't remember. X'D
My favorite odd/random encounter is when CZcams actually gives me notifications for Nate’s videos
For those who have encountered Balbus, it's possible to make him become a permanent member inside one of your three homesteads along with your spouse, children, pets, housecarl, steward, and carriage driver. Unlike other random encounters, Balbus doesn't reset his position (before the 2.0.4 skyrim patch) meaning he'll remain in that area indefinitely. What you need to do is get him to chase to your homestead then immediately cast a fear spell/shout and have him run inside your home. Another way is to mount a horse and push him all way near your home then attack him but run inside your house then either cast a calm spell on him or sheath your weapon. If you're reading this and it worked, you can thank me later.
Wow, that is something that would never occur to me to do. :)
Okay but why do this?
@@JS-rv3et Have you ever heard the quote "The more the merrier." Why not take advantage of having another friendly able body become a member of your homestead, it's what they did during the medieval days. Ultimately, it's your choice if you choose to or not, but trust me, the end results is very rewarding, especially seeing that Balbus will interact with the background in your Hearthfire home, similar to what your spouse, Housecarl, and Steward will do.
@@erikochristy able body huh... gonna attack that giant with his folk?
@@JS-rv3et Sorry, I do recommend you bring him inside your home, safe from giants and dragons outside. If you have any more questions on this topic, I'll be glad to answer them.
SKYRIM be like:
-You don’t kill bad guys because you are a bad guy too
-OR YOU KILL BAD GUYS BECAUSE YOU ARE THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE EVIL
yes
I kinda love hearing Nate explain how big Skyrim is.
Imagine how his ex-girlfriend has it when he describes how big something else is
yep and he has a great voice for it
I almost like it more than when he explains how not small it is.
....almost.
skyrim is a massive game
Early in the game, you come across the farmer with a cow to which he intends to gift to the local giants.
If you actually follow him to the giants, they immediately become hostile and usually knock him into the stratosphere.
Lol I've come across him but never followed him.
Wait he's random? I found him once by whiterun.. I thought that was normal
@@neonswan1482 ya everytime I make a new playthrough he was always near Whiterun
Ive never seen this. I'll look for the guy
4 years later, but does the cow he has does it have markings on it??
6:00 I though his name was literally "Cigar on a roadside" When you said it....
lol same
same
Do you remember Talsgar the Wanderer, the blonde Nord bard in random encounters? I met him once on my first playthrough trip to Riften. I stopped many times, because of all the wolfes&bears&alchemic ingredients. So he followed me almost all the road without despawning. He was attacked a lot of times by bandits&animals. And that maniac chopped them all with his iron sword.
The year is 2080 the nuclear fallout has started. You have 11 minutes and 51 seconds left of electricity before every piece of technology you have left is powerless you hover over the last video that you’ll see for a long time “ 5 more strange encounters you may have missed in the elder scrolls 5” it’s gonna be a good day.
What if it buffers?
Later:hey I built a generator this will be good for power!
What about ads?
@@bigboss6861 heres a cup a knife and oil build awah
shekmatebietch sorry sir, will fix it next time.
Balbus spawns even if you didn't start the dark brotherhood. Just in case you didn't know, because Nate didn't say that...
Ive only met him after I was impersonating the chief. So thats kinda neat
*Ginger Kubicz*
I know I've met him several times after killing off Dark Brotherhood and maybe even before that but not sure about that one.
He has a higher spawn rate if ya do the Qwest.
I rather liked encountering him before doing anything with the Dark Brotherhood. Gave hints that there might be a character I have yet to maybe meet. And then coming across the DB quest and meeting the Gourmet made it all the sweeter.
I once met him before I even met Aventus Aretino and Grelod the Kind, so I also know he can spawn earlier in the game.
What I find hilarious about Balbus is that nearly all of the cooking ingredients he can give you are poisonous and/or have negative effects 😂
3:42
I'll admit, I was disappointed in how the Devs. treated the Morag Tong in Skyrim. Pity really; there was a lot they could have done with them.
I remember when I first encountered the wabbajack lady. I honestly had completely forgotten about the wabbajack, even though it was in my inventory. I honestly thought she was like a crackhead until I googled it and remembered the sheogorath quest. good times
For me it was a guy
Wanted x3 😂😂legit just encountered that Madwoman, bout an hour ago near Winterhold
the wabbajack never leaves my inventory, it holds to many good memories
I like the random encounter where a wizard on solsteim tries a levitation spell, but ends up launching himself in the air and falling to death.
One of the funniest things I have happened upon in the game
One of the rarest random encounters inside of Skyrim would have to be coming across two dragons fighting against each other, which virtually never occurs.
Well they didn't get along
I think its funny when your playing early game an dragons decide to attack giant camps an proceed to get blitzed by the giants an mammoths.
they never fight each other when it happens to me, they just fuck my asshole double style
“I fight between dragons is really just a verbal argument”
that shappened to me at least 5 times
Fun fact: there's a quest for number 5, Nate. It's started by finding a argonian named Wujeeta at the Riften docks or the fishery. She'll ask for a healing potion of any kind to get rid of a skooma addiction and will thank you if you give one to her. After giving one to her, the quest starts with you finding riften's skooma dealer and ends with Cragslane cavern. Just to let you know.
Does flying mammoths count as random encounters? No?
Glitches don't count as random encounters lol.
@@boonski Glitches? Nah dude, it's a feature. Just like when you get launched to space by giants, it's always been in the game. Can't be anything but a feature!
is it normal?:)
@@escalatedviolence It's entirely normal! Why would flying mammoths not be normal?!
@@Duwahkeen nice profile picture
*_M'aiq says he needs more of these videos._*
Honest M'aiq : Damn, that's true, but that could only mean.....WERESHARKS! RUUUUUUUNNN!
Hewwo
M'aiq thinks that he should be included in these videos
M'aiq is tired now. Go bother somebody else.
With the assassin if you've finished the Thieves Guild quest there's actually a member who talks about how he was in the rival gang. When asking "why don't you join the Dark Brotherhood" he will explain that they are rivals and not to let anyone in the brotherhood know that you've met him because you'll be marked for a hit from DB. Which is funny because I'm the Listener. So they never made an interaction where you can tell him. Cause I would have loved to have seen his reaction. 🤣
When I got attacked by a Morag Tong assassin, my blood ran cold when I saw "Honorable Writ of Execution: Artemis" (Artemis is my female Nord, appropriately named after the Greek goddess of hunt). Normally, something like this wouldn't really affect me as people will send hired thugs after me occasionally, but for some reason, I got chills just from reading the note to execute me though I think that the fact that he can legally murder me and get away with it was what scared me the most.
👍good name
The only time I ever met Balbus was just in time to see a Sabre Cat kill him.
boonski for me, it was a bear, then on my next play through a dragon... he is quite unlucky
@@Mikani_natsu2475 The Random Encounter character most unlucky for me is easily The Madwoman (Asks to be hit with the Wabbajack). Only got to talk to her once. In every playthrough of Skyrim (I've played through most of the game with each race, beaten it with a few) she either gets killed right in front of me or I find her body in the middle of the road.
boonski lmao, not only is she mad, but also unlucky
Exactly the same for me
The Frighten Man or Woman are the most unlucky encounters I've met, every time I play it they end up dying by someone or something. It's fucked up because they just escaped from their kidnappers, an hour ago I ran into a frighten woman, pointed towards Whiterun, which was literally right behind me, and she ends up running too close towards a bandit hideout only to be killed by them. Divine tragedy or divine comedy, either way I felt both shock and hilarity at the same time.
I'm really thankful that you and ESO are keeping Skyrim alive.
@Walt Disney no...
@@thatguymilk3840 Yes
what about Greanolf?
Fudgemuppet?
@@maxgolder7147 Yes, both Graenolf and Fudgemupppet. I see EpicNate, FudgeMuppet, and Graenolf as the holy trinity, or the tribunal if I’m going to use an Elder Scrolls reference, of TES CZcams videos. Also, we have the same first name! Hello, fellow Max!
I just found out that in the encounter where you meet revelers and they give you some honningbrew mead you can offer them some blackbriar mead and they will insult you for drinking it
or you can give them honningbrew and they'll give you a necklaess of carry weight
@@dr_davidpumpkins4329 yep
@@JS-rv3et yea
"Hey, see that dude over there who just murdered a dragon to death? Let's mug him."
-every thief/bandit in Skyrim.
The info about the thief was awesome. I've been accosted by those dudes easily dozens of times. Never once did I find out about that last Nightingale bit
Makes me wonder if there's another option for guild master
@@JoshuaCrockford That's the same thing I was wondering. I've never fully completed the thieves guild questline, only killing Mercer Frey and becoming a nightingale, even after thousands of hours of gameplay under my belt. I also never knew of the dialogue options involving apparel. Just something to put to the test, I guess.
HEY, how's it going Nate, it's guys here. More specifically, it's that one teacher guy who's proud of you for vastly improving your grammar and pronunciation skills over the course of the last year or so.
No corrections today from me, good sir!
Happy New Year! Here's to another year of rpg details and death by murder! ❤
@TurtleyTwo little grammar-nazi grow!
@TurtleyTwo do it with sympathy and a smile, that's my only lesson for you. You are now a full-fledged acolyte of the Holy Order of Language Guardians.
No, wait... The Church of the Semicolon.
Anyway, welcome, brother. 😊
Honestly one of the best comment chains I've ever read.
@siphosihle madondo You should check that grammar one more time, sir.
Murdered to death.
I encountered balbus without being on the dark brotherhood quest, I was traveling with dalphine when I got attacked by wolves, then balbus helped me kill them. I accidentally hit him and was forced to kill him. I then looted his fork and kept it bc i thought it was cool. rarest thing that happened to me in Skyrim
Finds the courier "hey I'm lost, can you point me to the Hoover dam?"
I encounter Balbus all the time. Right after escaping Helgen I always run down to the house across the river, the one with the old lady witch, because there is a spot near her house that always spawns random encounters. I tend to get dead treasure hunters and Balbus there a lot.
I was going to say just that. I've met Balbus in most of my playthroughs, even the ones I never played past lvl 10 or so, and in most of them I didn't play the dark brotherhood questline because it didn't fit the character I was playing.
@@Loki_Firegod you can destroy the brotherhood by killing the lady after you've been kidnapped
-but you probably know that-
I've played Skyrim for hundreds of hours and I still learn things that's why I like to watch this channel
Only hundreds?
Me realizing I need to stop Fast Traveling all the time:
Exactly!!! I'm missing much of the game by not walking around the whole place. What I love doing now is taking 3-4 companions with me as followers (a tiny (kb's) Creation mod found under "followers" with no neg side effects allows this) and roaming the countryside! You'll love it!!
My sister was playing skyri, when she found a theif. My sister thought he said " hand over your vegetables bish!"
im dying
Donno how she could get "Or I'll gut you like a fish." to just that, but okay.
"hand over your valuables or I'll gut you like a fish"
"Hand over your valuables or fish"
"Hand over your vegetables bish"
Pls make this a mod
I actually like listening to the NPC ramblings, even after all these years haha
Combat Medic Mercy me too
Why, someone stole your sweetroll?
Got a lot of steel tu shape!
I used to like it to, until I took an arrow to the knee
On the Cragslane caverns, you as an also get a quest there from the Jarl of Riften.
For #2, if youre part of the thieves guild you can talk to a member in the cistern who reveals he was part of the tang clan, he also remarks that if the Brotherhood knew he was part of the tang, that they would put out a hit on him
Fun fact: If you cast the Ashshell spell on the thief and wait until he gets up 30 seconds later he will just walk away instead continue fighting you
Love your vids.
Fun fact: I have a bit of insomnia, so every night I put the Everything Skyrim list on shuffle on my phone and relax to your awesome skyrim facts until I finally fall asleep and dream of Skyrim 😎
Get a blue filter for your smartphone. It had helped me very much
*has
Andreas Peder Sørensen You just explained my life in 2 Sentences .. 😂👍
Left out the guildmaster option for the theif
Awesome
in 200 years nate will still be here talking about skyrim.
I knew the thief on the road fact only partly. I knew being a member of the Guild unlocked unique dialogue, but the two Nightingale options were new to me.
By the way Nate: there's a quest related to Cragslane, where you're tasked to clear out the Skooma operation in that place. You can unlock it after finding an Argonian female skooma addict inside Riften, who begs you for a healing potion as she might lose her job ;) Have a great day Nate!
The thieves I’ve met on the road wore glass armor. Same basic dialogue and all. I was wearing thieves guild armor and was half way through the quest line... I never had the option Nate showed. 😔
The first time I played "Dragonborn" DLC, it took me literally 20 seconds after I left Raven Rock before I got attacked by some Morag Tong assassins... Come on, guys, get a life!
*that* is their life
Aw man, this was uploaded 13 minutes ago.
Well, better *Nate* than never.
LKP KoroOcto : That pun is of the shittiest quality, I salute you sir or madam and I admire your spunk, farewell.
@@zigzaghyena That response was of most irresponsibility, i salute you dear man or maidden, day good :)
0:41 *”I used to be an assassin like you, until I stabbed myself in the knee”*
That was more like the upper thigh
Bro I have been playing skyrim since it came out and I still learned some cool stuff from this! Great vid man!
I know some madlad is going to make a Preston Garvey random encounter mod for Skyrim.
“Another settlement needs your help, Nazeem is killing everyone in the cloud district”
Are you aware of a random encounter with a Dark Brotherhood assassin? I was once attacked by an unnamed Argonian outside Markarth who was wearing a full set of Dark Brotherhood kit. Maybe I just missed it in one of your videos but I haven't seen anything about it before.
yeah it's happened to me 4 times
3:08 I got the fork, but in a different way. I encountered him around whiterun, and he annoyed me. So... Yeah. He also had a deadra heart.
I remember finding the wolf pits and clearing out the fighting ring, then as I was leaving the area (just hopping from unexplored location to unexplored location), only about two minutes walk away I have the escaped dogs encounter, and I shrugged it off as "well, guess I approached from the wrong side" (I rarely take roads in Skyrim, cheesing up and through mountains is so much more fun)
Lol just started up Skyrim then Nate realises a video
Ultimate Gamer he knows...
Releases**
Why do I see you everywhere Lol
Bye bye fetch quest
Ultimate Gamer eureka
My favorite encounters are assassins and thieves. Some great loot off of them, especially mid level gems that are really good for your smithing and coinage.
Love your vids man. I was already a HUUUUUUDDDGEEEEE Skyrim fan and you made me an even bigger one lmao
I love you nate. You are the greatest at these vids. Will never quit watching.
I don't know if this counts as a tiny detail but similar to people commenting your paleness as vampire, guards comment that your breath smells foul after you become a cannibalist (The taste of Death)
Karinara
“Is that...fur...coming out of your ears?”
“Don’t like those eyes you got. There’s a bad hunger to them.”
"Ugh, been tending to your hounds? You smell like a wet dog."
"I find your wolfish grin ... Unsettling."
@@twice1962 My first character I played as a werewolf khajit (because a cat turning into a wolf sounded funny) and the first time I heard a guard say that I didn't realize it was dialogue for being a werewolf I just thought he was really stupid. Like yes that's fur in case you haven't noticed I'm covered in it. lol
nate, Balbus a general random encounter, I found him at level one outside of riverwood
Nate ut videos genuinely make me feel good I cannot thank you enough, ur a true gem ❤
Thx I have been having lots of encounters with thieves on the road and I have completed the thieves guild quest line and this will help me thx again
I dont know if they were a contender, but Sond and Bottar are pretty random to encounter.
I had just finished escaping Cindna Mine with Madanoch, and they kinda just spawned out of nowhere trying to sell me dwemer stuff...
I've never had the Morag Tong encounter with the note speaking about what faction your in but, I do almost always get attacked the Tong after I did the quest offered my the councilor.
Same
I put these playing while asleep every time I wake up middle of the night I hear Nate talking about a random encounter
Still making great videos. I'm proud to say this is the first one I've found all of these before.
About your thief encounter, i got another one where the Thief recognizes you(regular T.G. member) and give you 5 or 3 lockpicks. Cool video btw as always:D
Edit: Murder me to death with a hearth
I've had that happen too.
NAte Pin ME tO DeATH
How about one of these weird heart things?
@@TheEpicNate315 I love you Nate
@@TheEpicNate315 That still doesn't count. Pin HiM tO DeATH
Nate loved him to death?
@@elliotwhite32 pin... you ?
Oh wait.
Oh scheiße.
The Balbus encounter is pretty cool. Never hear of that one before!
Hi, recent subscriber here. I think the Spanish Royalty armor mod was very interesting. So interesting that the idea of a video or two strictly reviewing Clothing/Armor mods best suited for aesthetic roleplaying would be fun to watch. I'm unsure if you've done such a video before however.
you said the taste of death in the first one instead of recipe for disaster
Eldritch Angel why do you know this😂😂
@@therealkunr5147 because he says the taste of death again in the third one, which is the correct quest
The black hand? More like *[ZA HANDO]*
What does that mean?
@@yannkam2127 Thanks! But I have another question. What's a Jojo?
Hello senpai
@@madhouse2594 a weeb serie called anime
@Jason Dyer maybe we are all crazy and he's in our heads 😨
Cragslane cavern is the last stop in becoming thane in riften. I really have to be careful with my random encounters. I tend to shoot first and ask questions later. The liar and the wandering bard don’t like me very much but the old orc is just looking for a good death so I abliged him. Love your channel.🏹
I hadn't even started the Dark Brotherhood quest line when I met Balbus, outside Whiterun after the attack on the Western Watchtower. I had never encountered him before. 😁
I have the platinum trophy and I still didn't know about all if these. Keep up the good work
My most odd encounter was when I met this guy that had the last name Dreth as in Valen or Romlyn Dreth, prior to this though I had done the aetherium quest and had a aetherium circlet, he would have a gang with him. He would be shocked at the aetherium item no matter which one you got. He would proceed to ask /buy the aetherium item from you if you decline and try to kill you, after this I was just shocked by the moment in general.
I love how your channel always has not alot dislikes. That means you sir have a loyal fan base.
earlier today i found skjor and aela fighting a dragon.
Windhelm Guard my game glitched and apparently I accidentally killed Aela (don’t know when and don’t remember). But a pack of horkers was attacking something. And when I got closer to it I found out that it was Skjor and Aela fused into each other and half way in the ground. They were literally stuck together.
Yeah, I find the companions fighting a bunch of things
i find one way to trigger one random encounter
-go bleakfalls barrow
-clear the dungeon
-leave from the exit on the end of the dungeon
-go to Anise Cabin ( The old lady )
-take a few steps straight from the door ( towards Riverwood )
-Here you'll find a "random" random encounter
This always works for me in all my playthrough
I see maiq there every time...
@@victormillen8393 maybe you save load it... restart the game, im 100% sure its not only Maiq
Oddly enough, when I watched this vid, I had never seen Balbus (and was not surprised because I've never done Dark brotherhood), but then the next time I played I encountered him. He was near that bandit lair that's on the western side of Whiterun, and he was with a couple of vampires. He and the vampires all attacked me. I was so surprised.
Balbus is a general random encounter. I've seen him 3 times already before starting the brotherhood's quest. Although last time he was killed by a dragon. Got a cool fork though ;))
Hey Nate, Balbus can spawn in anytime. I encountered him on my way to riverwood once.
For years now I play skyrim, than go on and after a few weeks I come back and play again.
PLEASE HELP ME
In my game, Balbus spawned at the entrance to Helgen and stayed permanently there. Unfortunately other things liked spawning there as well. A pair of spiders took him out one day when I left from storing things in the keep.
Thank you for lightening up my day even tough i’m vomiting my brains out.
Plus, to show the Epic Love for Epic Nate
Will never get tired of showing *Epic* love
You look tired, friend. The Bannered Mare has beds for rent.
I've actually ran into the chef fellow right outside of helgen just after starting a new game one time
It made me happy cuz I've encountered all of these at least once, except for the one in Solstheim.
Hi Nate,
TERRIFIC job with your video's on Skyrim. Please tell me how you have gotten such great scenic, action and overhead scenes/shots/photos etc of places/cities/people/dragons, et al, in the game? You have made Skyrim even better than the game itself with those images. GOOD JOB.
Thanks for all your hard work!
cheers
Boots Langley
La Mesa, ca
I found Balbus and a dragon at the same time. He’s a dragon slayer in my game now.
If I'm not mistaken, "The Taste of Death" quest is part of Namira's daedric quest...
I actually ran into Balbus WAY before I started the Dark Brotherhood questline. Like, outside Whiterun near the beginning of the game early.
I found balbus on a brand new save file as I was on my way to meet the greybeards and killed him just because, but also, I had never done anything dark-brotherhood related yet in that file
Oh yeah I almost forgot. I talked to him before killing him and he was like "have this book about the gourmet's recipes" so that's why I killed him
Another additional part to the random thief encounter where you're actually the guild master they'll give you some of what they have as a tribute. Although I'm pretty sure you already covered this I think.