Skyrim: Top 5 Quests and Moments We Hate in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- Skyrim is an incredible game, easily one of the best of its time. However, no title is perfect, and The Elder Scrolls 5 isn’t an exception to that rule. Indeed, Bethesda Game Studios’ 2011 RPG also hides beneath it a number of more monotonous moments and frustrating quests that are anything but exciting and immersive. While many of Skyrim’s missions send us on captivating adventures and most of the experience is brilliant, what we’ll be focusing on today is anything but. Sit back and relax as we take a look at five annoying quests and moments in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim.
- Hry
Bold of you to assume I hate anything about Skyrim
You don't hate Nazeem?
@Chuck Ginther i trapped his soul in a fork i deleted from the game so he can never go to the cloud district
alright todd
@@noangles1564 Nazeem is the perfect annoying test subject to test how effective diseases truly are, and listen to his screams while torture the fool. Bet no one else in Skyrim would be able to scream like him. What is not to love in the game now?
Lack of skills, lack of rpg elements, daft scripted as hell npcs, tiny towns barely counting as villages and mediocre main quest.
Oblivion is still the best.
The “Paarthurnax Dilemma” annoyed me so much I installed a mod that gives you a third option. You can essentially tell the Blades, “I am the Dragonborn so I am the boss; you do what I say.” That shuts them up.
Hey! That's a good idea
I just never completed the quest after they gave it to me. Screw them. Paarthurnax is awesome.
Martian Dawn You actually yell at them in Dovahzul after saying they are acting like the Thalmor. The yelling in Dovahzul is what makes them shut up. They probably realize that, at that moment, you are so mad at them that your dragon blood is burning in your veins, and that they don't want to be on the receiving end of that massacre.
Third option suggestion. “Hey Thalmor there’s some people you’re looking for over there, don’t ask how I know”.
The blades are right Paarthurnax is a war criminal who helped Alduin enslave and kill innocent people
No mention of ”no stone unturned” try locate 24 barenziah gems scattered across the entirity of skyrim
theres a nifty little mod that you can download that gives you quest markers for all of them. mods are your friend
Never finished it
@@davecheney3460 it's not worth finishing
@@SatanicBarbeque i tried to find them like 20 hour i was so exited and boom the price for it really not worth it kill 4 dragon and you are done
You get a permanent ability that makes you find more gems in containers and stuff but if you, like me, forget to sell them, you just end up with an accidental dragon hoarde
I found Miridia's beacon in a hagraven nest. That I had snuck into. The panic I felt, thinking the hagraven had found me, and was now screaming at me... I swear I almost had a heart attack
After doing it once I'm now more careful to not grab all loot at once until I know the beacon isn't there😹
My most recent sighting of it was near a dragon speech wall. Meaning someone really wanted to get rid of it if they were willing to go to that destination to hide it.
One of my favorite mods is a simple voice actor replacement for that quest.
In my opinion, the worst part about a return to your roots is that you can accidentally eat the stupid plant and have to find even more of them
When I first did that quest, I was convinced there were exactly 30 of them with how painfully long it took me to find anymore when got down to the last few. To make matters worse, when i finally did find them all and got to the person you were supposed to give them to, a dragon appeared, whom I was not prepared for. It wouldn't let me turn it in until the threat was gone, and I was around the minimum level you'd normally be when naturally reaching that point as I did the main quest almost asap.
While it is painful I always take it as an opportunity to explore Blackreach fully, and they are not too difficult to find given they glow red from afar so you see them and when you get close... well they are screaming at you so you can't miss them. But the area to cover is just huge.
Delphine: “We want you to kill Paa-“
Me: “Oh gee look at that, you’re missing your head, don’t you need that?”
@PurpleStratocaster
Mods can fix that little problem.
@PurpleStratocaster into the console, write without quotes:
"help delphine"
you will get her object ID printed on the console
"setessential write-delphines-ID-code-here 0"
Now delphine is mortal and tips like a cow she is.
@PurpleStratocaster After you're given the objective to kill Paarthurnax you can choose to kill the blades instead, both Delphine and Esbern will lose their essential status
Paarthunax is such a precious bean. Must protecc
Parthurnaax is my dad so fuck delphine
Delphine: "We need you to kill Paar-"
Dovakiin: "Wow, it sure was nice of you to sacrifice yourself to Sheogorath, I'm sure he very much appreciates that; I'll be sure to sprinkle cheese on your shallow grave."
He bugs out and just keeps flying up and it takes over 3 minutes for him to get down.
**sacrifices Belle Delphine to my boi Molag Bal**
Sends Delphine to the Soul Cairn
Sheogorath doesn’t want Delphine.
@@dankswagydawgy6129 she'd be too arrogant for him
I was so excited to come across Sinderion’s lab. I remembered him from Oblivion and that godforsaken nirnroot. Then I open the door to find his skeleton. Great reunion.
I played Oblivion after I'd been playing skyrim for years, and I was so sad when I got to know him in Oblivion, he's really sweet, and knowing how he ended up made me so sad 😭 mind you, Oblivion kind of ripped my heart out with that main quest, took me a while to recover 💔
😂
@@JirachiRamen I play on pc, you can find it on Steam
See, I think the Parthurnax dilemma COULD be an interesting idea, since throughout the main quest the greybeards and delphine both show their distaste for the other, they both represent conflicting ideas presented to the player about their power. But it needed to be more complex, with more choices and not such a shallow ultimatum.
That's why I always install the mod that gives you the ability to put Delphine in her place. That that isn't a choice offered in vanilla Skyrim by default is the biggest slap in the face from Bethesda, honestly.
Were it not for that mod, I would gladly make Delphine non-essential and personally finish what the Thalmor started. In fact, that's what I always did before I discovered the mod. Yes, Delphine pisses me off that much. I hate her, and I hate having to deal with her due to her scripted centrality to the main quest. 😒
@@HickoryDickory86 Honestly, it made sense ultimately. In real life it is common to get ultimatums from others. Plus, Delphine and Esbern are clearly attempting to use the player for their personal goals just like Arngeir essentially said. Logically, they could have use their resources and attacked Paarthumux. But, opted to force into the player to doing it for them.
@@HickoryDickory86 yeah, but the proper thing to do would be to have a philosophical argument over whether to persecute parthurnaax with esbern. Delphine should be tossed off of the high hrothgar training grounds if possible. Esbern my homie
I think one thing they would need to do to make the dilemma interesting is give Parthurnax some two faced/sinister moments which would makes the Blades concerns reasonable since right now Parthurnax's record since the dragon war has been spotless as far as we know making the Blades sound petty.
@@silverwolf2676 Right. They _try_ to do something like that by saying that he was responsible for atrocities in the past, but we never actually see those nor their aftermaths, so it doesn't feel like it's actually the case.
A classic case of "show, don't tell".
Nate: A new hand touches the beacon...
Me: *throws phone across the room*
This^^
Pretty freaking much!
I just laughed. I don't have anything against this quest, but I enjoy the PTSD it induces in other players. XD
The ptsd starts attacking
*LISTEN. HEAR ME AND OBEY! A FOUL DARKNESS HAS SWEPT THROUGH MY TEMPLE; A DARKNESS THAT YOU...WILL...DESTROOOOY.*
The blades: You need to kill Parth-
Me, grabbing the beacon: WHAT, I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THIS DEITY IN MY EARS
A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON!!!
I bludgeon delphine with the beacon, making her the new hand and sending her on a deity quest before she can give me the order to kill paarthurnax
Question can I make them read the black book an call it a day
I think meridia is guarding party snacks
I like meridia’s quest
I really liked Meridia's quest. It was a pleasant surprise and one of the few morally good daedric quests
"You! You found my shiny rock! Bring it back and kill this asshole who's making a mess of my house!"
@@bluesbest1 I like I said, nothing morally grey or evil about this quest. Just helping out the little old lady down the street clean the pests out of the basement. XD
You're kidding right..? It's hardly a challenge at any level/mode. It's not at all fun. It's fun to get 2 dawn breakers, sure, but the quest itself is utter trash.
@@raineblackstar3522 on legendary it was tuff
@@santi_super_stunts2573 i played it on legendary 3 times. I didn't have any problems. Just went through it with my Dremora Kynreeves, Serana and daedric bow of malediction. Tbf, i did wait constantly until level 50 with OP armor and weapons before going in so maybe that's why..?
10 months later: Alright. I already said "tbf". I went into it at lvl 15 with the classic stealth archer build. *it was still too easy for me.* i go into it with a lvl 13 battle mage and a waraxe, *still too easy.* my recent playthrough? Just a dagger. No issues. I can explain that to y'all as much as i need to, but it's honestly the long version of "skill issue." Now please stfu about it. I don't want to see any more notifications mocking me for avoiding the beacon until 50 levels in! "A new hand touches the beacon" 😤😤😤 {this is the last response I'm giving you.}
I remember not knowing about diseases for years until I finally wasn't a werewolf in one of my runs and everybody kept telling me how I look terrible and I had to look it up and then I found out that diseases were a thing in the game lol
Same. It sucks that for years you are a werewolf, then realise it actually had disease immunity a decade after
I've always known about diseases but those comments from NPCs are the ONLY way I find out I have one. That one, brief little message is too easy to miss. To make it worse, it only appears when you're in the heat of battle against whatever infected you... so of course you're gonna miss it.
Bruh moment
@@jackb.nimble826 you don’t check your active effect menu often? almost never play as a werewolf or vampire so I check that often
@@eureka_effect_gaming
No, I don't. I'll play as a werewolf for a few days during the quest, but NEVER as a vampire (disgusting abominations), and I always get myself cured during the Companions questline.
I only check my active effects after fighting vampires... and that's because the message is so easy to miss and I don't to become one of those... *things* by mistake.
the first time i ever found meridia's beacon i was playing with headphones at 3 am. opened a chest, saw it, didnt know what it was, picked it up...
"A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON"
fell off my chair and woke my parents up
I feel you. Last time I just took my headphones off before I picked up the beacon. I put them back after the whole dialogue was over.
Dude, this Story made my day
Then after you float up for some reason she had no clothes and no head
It was the first time playing Skyrim(well first time actually going quests) and I was like 8, and my legit first thoughts were “I didn’t know this game had jump scares!”
I was like playing at ps3 I was level 32 there is a quest that you must defeat vokun with someone yeah so I open my reward chest then I saw the beacon I didnt know what is it it has like 0 value so I didnt pick it up but if I did I was going to probbly die
When The Elder Scrolls: 6 finally comes out:
ME: "Oh, I found a note...what's it say?"
*Quest Started*
*THE IMPATIENT ROOTS OF BARENZIAH*
*Objective: Find 50 Crimson pages of Barenziah. . . in the Soul Cairn.*
ME: Of CoUrSe Todd. Of CoUrSe.
Then return the pages to ToDd HoWErD to get 100 gold
Jesus. Don't give them ideas!
Also, Clairvoyance only works if you get the 500 credit upgrade in the Creation Club.
And 1 of them is hidden in the water in a randomized cave that you’ve already been through with no indicator and they all weigh two hundred pounds even though they’re quest items and they smell bad
Probably more like:
"Please pay 20 dollars to start this quest" and there's NO way to get out of that window!
I remember when the Paarthurnax ultimatum was given, I did try attack Delphine. But since she was an essential character, I couldn't kill her and fail the mission
I've never actually made it to that moment in the game, but when I do, even if I can't kiII them, I'm going to use the Fortify Restoration loop to create a paralysis potion so strong that it will render someone a vegetable for decades. (The number of seconds _can_ get _that_ high.)
@Lendri ''Badger'' Mujina I just found out about this trick! Time to get brewing! It's COMA time!
Honestly would’ve loved if there was a mini questline where you could kill the blades and maybe you get a player home at high hrothgar and maybe partysnax becomes a follower
I really like Meridia's Quest, plenty of Gold on those burned bodies, easy to complete, cool looking and good damage dealing weapons when used on Undead and Vampires.
The quest where we collect the Stones of Barenziah on the other hand...oh Talos, never again will I repeat that one.
Hey, completing that Stones quest basically means unlimited money forever.
@@ChargeQM yeah its really neat to get so many gems :] my only qualm is that by the time i get around to getting all of the stones, ive usually gotten enough money for pretty much anything LOL. still a really cool reward
And all to find a few more precious gems, big whoop. Sure, it means making money will be easier but by the time you complete the quest you'll have more money than you know what to do with. Like, one of the stones even requires you to own Proudspire Manor, the most expensive house in the game. Also making money in Skyrim is already stupidly easy.
never have i ever been so happy seeing burnt bodies 💀
I can't believe you did that to yourself the first time. Most I've ever gotten is 10 naturally then I got bored with the character by then.
Heard they're reforming the Dawnguard. Vampire hunters, or something, in the old fort near Riften. Might consider joining up myself.
Not you again
@@aitis8270 By order of the jarl stop right there!
Is that fur .. coming out of your ears?
@@conformistbastard9842 i don't always arrest people but when i do, it's for lollygaggin.
I used to make arrow to the knee jokes but then i stepped on a lego piece.
"A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON"
*screeches in pterodactyl*
Lizzie and Kirk 😂🤣😂
CLEANSE MY TEMPLE NORMIE
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
*tRiGgErD*
is this quest that bad? I did it on all my games and it was okay. there is an annoying bug at the end and the voice is kinda infuriating but overall it's a thousand times better than the red nirnroot or killing parturnax
screams in loot
I actually liked the Crimson Nirnroot quest, gave me a reason to walk around Blackreach and find all the little secrets
I agree I also liked that quest I got too pretty much live in blackreach for god knows how many in game days to collect all the crimson nirnroot because my thoughts if I have to give 33 away for the quest I won't have any myself so I collected the whole 44/45 that are down there lol at that point I wasn't sure the plants respawn lol
i think thats why they made it mandatory.... it took them a long time to make that area so they want the player to look it over without wasting their effort... kinda odd yet understandable.
You are insane lol
I love being a werewolf because of the transformation, abilities, and not being able to contact diseases is a blessing
I used to always go for the companions questline. As I just recently made a new playthrough. I did not go for that. Little did I know after doing some weapon quests (spellbreaker, dawnbreaker) I started to notice, I deal less and less damage. I decided to check my effects. Turned out I had 7 out of 10 diseases, and I wasn't even level 10 by the time
It great being a werewolf
@@badluck7286 would honestly love if becoming a werewolf was like becoming a vampire
@@eureka_effect_gaming that means?
@@badluck7286 it was just a disease like sanguinare vampiris
Me: *A Bosmer, with inherent 50% resistance to poison and disease, wearing the Saviour's Hide, which grants an additional 50% resistance to poison, while also being a werewolf, meaning I have 100% resistance to all diseases anyway...*
Arcadia: "Yoooou look rather pale. Could be Ataxia. It's quite a problem back home in Cyrodiil."
To be fair, she says that regardless of you having a disease lol
@@romkin1197 to be fair she's really irritating
I play as vampire, pretty sure I'm resistant to all that too if I'm not mistaken, or at least most of it.
@Matth3134 lmao feel that
She called me a nord...
Im a high elf
bruh, I've never had an issue with diseases, there are shrines literally everywhere and I always carry a cure disease around.
I know right? Who the fuck doesn't keep some Cure Disease in their inventory?
@@Dawnbreakerr always handy to keep a cute disease around
@@Hysterii
I wouldn't have noticed that typo in a million years lol
Same
I just became a werewolf it’s very op and I don’t bother with well rested anyways
If you occasionally peer up into the sky while walking on the roads of Skyrim, you’ll sometimes find a hawk flying around. You can actually shoot (an arrow or bolt of magicka) it and kill it. When you loot it, you’ll find a hawk beak, hawk feather, and some other stuff. It’s very useful for crafting your own cute disease potions!
I know it wasn't intentional but...
I wasn't aware that cute diseases were a thing. Or was it the bottles themselves that were cute?
The nirnroot quest reward is actually really good if your make potions, gives you 25% chance to duplicate a potion when you make it. Essentially giving a chance to make 2 potions for the price of one.
Yeah he failed to mention that in the vid. It’s actually a very good perk since potions are op
doesnt she also start growing crimson nirnroot? which iirc are much more effective than normal nirnroot in their potion effect magnitudes?
Exactly, plus the NPC farms nirnroot and crimson nirnroot now!
Hearing "A new hand touches the beacon" at the start of the video activated my fight or flight response
Ditto. And it's the same VA using the same voice she used for Fantasy Hitler in Dragon Age 2, so fight is automatically chosen. And then I'm sad because I don't get to stab that child murdering bitch Meredith again.
I guess you took flight and teleported outta there
Scares the shit out of me every single time
Honestly Dawnbreaker is dope though. I love Dawnbreaker. Like, fair trade.
I mean... I will restore your light Meridia... But out of spite I will be a Vampire and I will be using necromancy the whole time I am completing your quest. And I am bringing Serana too 😤☠️🤬
Delphine: There's one more thi-
Me: *runs out immediately to never receive the quest*
*opens console*
Delphine: There's one more thi-
Me: *opens console*
Delphine: Actually nvm
@@swiftbl4de336 did this, played the game for a while, found the staff of worms, reanimated esbern so I could leave him dead in the palace of kings where I reanimated somebody else
I thought about making him fight party snacks on his own though lol
You're lucky. Esbern will usually tell me after the peace treaty, before he teaches you the shout to call Odahviing, so I HAVE to get the quest in order to progress
Who's horse we are going to take?
I feel like I'm the only person who actually likes "A return to your roots" I love exploring Blackreach and half the time I do that quest I'm not even meaning to I'm just roaming around the colourful underworld of Skyrim
Same tho
I feel like the diseases really are not that bad at all because you can just fast travel to riften or whiterun or anywhere that has a temple and just activate the shrine and it cures all debuffs. Also maybe just keep a potion of cure diseases handy.
Or hawk feathers - they weigh even less than a potion. (I mean, for obvious reasons.)
Vampires and werewolves don’t have such weaknesses
yeah, I think the shrine of Arkay in any Hall of the Dead will cure them as well. I kind of like the ritual of going to the Hall of the Dead and paying my respects and getting getting my cure from the shrine in whatever town I'm near.
He makes diseases sound so hard to cure, you can just get a cure disease or go to a shrine
Just be a werewolf
@@sawyer3818 This
qdqdqipbpbp ikr. Werewolf for da win
@@sawyer3818 Or a Bosmer
There's a massive Shrine of Talos in Whiterun and another on a hill overlooking Windhelm.
To be totally fair to the Crimson Nirnroot quest, you also get the Sinderion's Serendipity effect which gives you a 25% chance to duplicate a potion you make with Alchemy, which for an alchemist, is pretty good.
If you visit the Sarethi farm before going to Blackreach, she will talk about Sindarion. The quests actually makes sense
You forgot one annoying moment...
When there's a really difficult lock to pick on a chest, but you don't get ANYTHING good after you finally manage to open it...
After you broke several lock picks, you get a damn potato, cabbage and a damned carrot. That shit is annoying!
bluephoeenix
Mzulft. Master door. 12 Gold.
...
Why?
Or... there's a lockpick within it.
Better to include this than meridias beacon
Me: *unlocks Master level door after 300 lockpicks.*
"Finally...I get to see what's inside that che-"
*chest is another Master lock.*
"..."
The Crimson Nirnroot and Patience of a Saint quests are just the developers ensuring players explore all of the areas they spent so much time creating.
That makes sense
No stone unturned is another good example
That makes sense for the crimson nirnroot and barenziah's stones but I feel like the soul cairn is kind of underdeveloped
yeah but like. you could still explore while KEEPING THE CLAIRVOYANCE OPTION
I hated the nirnroot quests so much that I go out if my way to avoid them even in elder scrolls online 😅
Tbh I like the Meridia's Beacon thing. It adds a bit of excitement when you come across it, esp since it can be during a super routine bandit camp clearout or something. Also, the sword from that quest is prob the best there is at that level in the game.
Also, I haven't run into any scenario where I didn't have a cure disease potion when I needed it.
I’m starting to think i’m one of a few players that has always done the 30 Crimson Nirnroot quest. Even on my first play through in 2011 I did it. Takes some time but I hate leaving a quest not completed.
I usually do the quest when first arriving to blackreach. I’ve memorized where 20 are so I only need to find 10, which I usually look around the water near the building with the scroll.
As soon as I clicked on the video
“A NeW HaNd toUCHes Th-“
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
I hate when I accidentally activate that quest
To be fair, I actually like the quest, I just hate that you randomly get this undropable stone at some random time in your play through
@@rat8624 looting a chest. accidentally pressing ''R''... FUCK MY LIFE have to that bloody quest again -.-
now THAT is a scarry intro
@@rat8624 no. I wilk not go away *Mortal*
"Whoever Sinderion was"?!!!
Sinderion was the master alchemist trainer in Oblivion.
This was one of the cooler cameos in Skyrim.
Aye. I actually expected him to know that...
The old Nirnroot Quest in Oblivion was way, way worse than Skyrim's version.
@@LostShipMate i still have nightmares
For Real! Sinderion's quest was like the second one I ever got in Oblivion. He thinks the Skyrim quest is annoying. I remember grabbing 150+ ninroots for this dweeb.
Lost Ship agreed. At least the crimson Nirnroot was all in one place.
For all those finding Jiub's papers and doesn't want to just search it up I found that using the storm call shout makes it way easier to see in the soul cairn
thanks
I just did the soul cairn again like a week ago, I wish I saw this before because that entire area is one of my least favorite parts of the game.
I like the disease mechanics. It's unpredictable, really makes survival mode challenging, and should be expected to happen to anyone who tries to travel in a cold tundra full of daedra knows what. What could be an improvement would be even to have cold-related diseases. How come the dragonborn never gets a cold?
yeah, it's very confusing why it would be an issue--any rando shrine gets rid of them all.
Disease: *Exists*
Lycantropy: I'm about to end this mechanic's entire career.
Argonians: *Allow Us To Introduce Ourselves.*
Vampirism: *Am I a joke to you?*
@@francodacosta4837 Yes. Yes it is.
Lycanthropy the disease to end all diseases. Unless you get the vamp glitch while you have lycanthropy... Then you are both vamp and werewolf... But get royally fucked by one because you have both.
you can still get witbane if youre a werewolf
Nate: rants about diseases
Me, an intelectual: *laughs in werewolf*
also me: *Laughs in Vampire*
I geuss that's why I never had to deal with sickness. XD
*Laughs in 100% Resist Disease enchantment*
laughs in skeleton
*chuckles in Bosmer* Gotta up that alchemy bro.
You also get the sinderion’s serendipity effect from a return to your roots. Giving you a 25% chance to produce two potions out of 1 craft. Sinderion also was the hand in-chick’s mentor and taught her how to cultivate nirnroot. Quite a bit more backstory than you highlighted too
Actually, you get a special perk after handing all 30 nirnroots. It gives a chance to create a duplicate potion whenever you craft one. It's a really good perk and it's a good reward. I didn't know about the reward until I handed the quest, you can miss this reward quite easily because the only way the game tells you you get it is by a small text in the right corner " is added." or something like that.
I remember that I was really surprised and quite happy about this perk and the work I had to do for it when I first finished the quest.
"Some missions can drive us absolutely mad..."
Sheogorath: I see this as an absolute win!
Edit: I just realized Sheogorath does the same pose in the thumbnail as Hulk from the meme.. well played, Nayt...
Lmao, YES!
Collects 50 gems to put on a crown in the thieves Guild.
I see this is an absolute win
@@cobraqueen555 i wish i could go to whatever hell Berenziah was send to so i could skip rope with her entrails
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 only if mortals could travel to plain of oblivion with a way to get back with no god assistants
@@cobraqueen555.... Do you know someone who won't be missed? I know this place close to windhelm i have to check out
“Is it better to be born good, or to overcome ones nature through hard work and meditation” -some wise old dragon probably
He was compelledby Kyne.
Oddly enough from a lore standpoint, I think joining the Blades as an option would mean ultimately the player character would become emperor of Tamriel.
The blades that remain remember their purpose, to protect and be the secret dagger of the empire. They would likely recruit more members rather quickly, and having the dragonborn as their leader is a great motivation for joining, ignoring the Imperial Legion or Stormcloaks faction that someone may normally join for a simple peasant looking for purpose.
They would benefit from the death of Titus Meade II, and Amond did say that a change in policy was needed.
A war leader emperor such as the dragonborn who also allied themselves with the Legion with the backing of the Blades organization, with the death of Titus Meade II would use their charisma to bring about a second war, but this time with much better results, the elves would be humbled using their spells against the dragonborn who could stop time briefly, call a storm to his enemies, send forth flames, or encase the thalmor in ice, I think highly that they would be defeated, and fully legitimize a claim to Tamriel.
Dragons are naturally inclined to attain power, authority and roles of leadership.
As well as a dragonborn allied and leading the Dark Brotherhood, and Blades, they could in theory at least, combine the factions to attain exacting results and goals to some extent.
Same for the thieves guild and fighters guild, fund expansion with ebony, stahlrim mining via Solstheim and have an excellent opportunity to have House Redaran and House Telvanni at the dragonborns side.
By utilizing Isran the dragonborn could bolster fighting forces, or use the vampires to help bolster stealthy operations.
For those who don’t know there was SUPPOSED to be a 3rd choice to make Delphine and Esbern shut up about killing Paarthurnax. All it did was fail the quest when you say no and Delphine is even afraid of you when you completely deny her after raising your voice and SHAKE Sky Haven Temple. It was most likely cut from the game accidentally as its fully voiced. There is a mod to restore this content but could cause some problems if you start a new game from scratch. It is available on Xbox and PC, I’m not sure if it’s available on PlayStation but I would assume it is, since it’s not using any custom assets (To my knowledge.
Sinderion: Completely decomposed to bare bones
Candles: Still burning.
Gods-damned mages.
@@lsswappedcessna Now we know where that candle in Candlehearth Hall comes from
@@starkillerrxrafael2938 Surprising that the Nords don't take to pyromancy a little more seeing how cold Hjaalmarch, The Pale, Winterhold, Eastmarch and the northernmost parts of Haafingar seem to be, especially considering that's over half of the province either covered with snow or constantly raining.
They just don't make candles like they used to.
Maybe he made them from Dreugh Wax.
Delphine: We need you to kill Pa-
*xXDov4kiinXx has left the chat*
@Macdonalds Mascot You are the ultimate incarnation of Evil to kill Best Dragon
@Macdonalds Mascot You are heartless.
@Macdonalds Mascot They practically did nothing to help. I see having paarthurnax and being able to see the grey beards more important rather than some random people who don't care if you just practically rebuilt the "club".
@Mveoxl get off my train, *SHIETBIRD*
I hope y’all know the reason Paarthurnaax is talking to the dragons upon the throat of the world after you return to Tamriel from killing Alduin is because they were planning a siege on Skyrim. Paarthurnaax was planning Alduins defeat and planning for you to stay in sovngarde. So he had no one to challenge him.
Fun fact; Sinderion is an Altmer commoner in Oblivion, he researches nirnroots.
The other reward for the crimson nirnroot more than makes up for the hassle, she also gives you a book that will make it so that you randomly generate 2 potions instead of 1 whenever you craft potions … helps a lot when you generate the bulk of your early money from selling the ultimate escape potion.
Plus, thevlady actually starts growing Crimsom Nirnroot, so you can eventually harvest it from her to make poisons.
"Whoever Sinderion was..."
Be advised, he was an alchemist in Oblivion, and his quest was, well...
To collect nirnroot.
immortal snail5774 Wich was a lot annoying than collection Crimson Nirnroot, how does somebody like this guy doesnt know about it ?
@@kadged-g5881 indeed.
Like at least Skyrim’s nirnroot was in a limited game cell, blackreach haha
@@kadged-g5881 well, atleast they only grow near water!
Yess indeed, still all over the map haha
You see those warriors from hammerfell? They’ve got curved swords. Curved. Sword.
They’ve got curved penises.
Crazyapple101 How would you know that?!
@@crazyapple1014 LMAO i remeber that video!!
Curverd penises.
Big long curved penises.
@@crazyapple1014 m-my eyes died from this sentence
@@Vizer297 I LOVE moist towlettes
Well, the amulet we get from jiub is pretty handy if you're a hoarding warrior. It has +50 carry weight and +50 stamina. Pretty useful, if you ask me.
I like Meridia's quest. My very first character that was a Khajitt who was into alchemy and stuck everything in his mouth like a six foot tall furry toddler. When I saw that beacon for the first time, I was like " OH that is neat seed." And her " A NEW HAND TOUCHES A BEACON!" Scared me. I imagine my big goofy Khajit shaking his paw wildly while poor Lydia wonder about her life choices.
Fun story: I was in the laboratory and an explosion outside would kill me whenever I left. Not knowing what to do I lied in the bed and waited. When I woke up I started the dark brotherhood quest line
Be like" Shit just went from 0 to 100 real fucking fast"
My first time was as I was starting my time in the college of winter hold, it was funny to me that they could sneak me out of there,
basically assassins just saved you
@@calebd3947 and more surprising is Astrid somehow can go through all of that, seriously one time I was sleeping in a solitude barracks u know where all the guards are somehow Astrid has sneak 100000000 and somehow got me out of their
thats so lucky i love it
Delphine: "You're either with us or against us!"
Dovahkiin: *malevolent dovah laugh* "Oh, Delphine, did you not notice The Paarthurnax Dilemma was installed?"
Actually Blades were created to serve Drabgonborn, right? So Dragonborn can't betray Blades. Blades can betray Dragonborn.
@@Petaurista13 I just want a mod that makes Delphine turn to the Blades, all of whom are your companions, and order them to apprehend or kill the Dragonborn.
@@Petaurista13 they're doing it with that ultimatum.
And they paid for it
@@Petaurista13 Noblisse Oblige is the concept that those in positions of power have the obligation to serve their people as their people serve them, making the relationship a symbiotic one. In short, just like a group can betray their leader with good cause, a leader can betray their people if they are given good reason.
And by Gods, they give Reason.
Nemo TheEight well the blades’ rules can’t control the DOVAHKIIN so... like yeah
I’ve been a werewolf for almost all of my playthroughs so I never had to deal with diseases.
Diseases have never been a problem for me, I've made it a habit to visit shrines often for the buffs and healing from debuffs.
Not mentioning the “No Stone Unturned” quest?
Aight I’mma head out
Probably because everyone knows about that quest and how annoying it is
Because it makes you money, unlimited money, you get a hidden perk for it that makes you generally find more gems which means more money
@@nicholascanale6163 yeah true but by the time you have collected all the gems you're already the richest person alive
@@nicholascanale6163 true, but it's not like no one starts up skyrim while saying "oh boy I can't wait to start 'no stones unturned' and look all over the god damn map for every stone". You will more likely have explored everything, become Thane in every hold, finished every other quest. Yes you do get a pretty sweet reward for it but still no one really loves that quest. So it would definitely fit in the category of quests that is hated.
@@TheDjmaster1997 Getting more money (gems in this case) is a dumb reward, I would have preferred some sort of mystical power or a really powerful (and actually unique) weapon/armor.
At least meridia gives you a weapon and not a freaking alchemy perk!
i love the breaker of dawn sword and i play as an alchemist sooooo whats the alchemy perk and how do i get it?
hardwire nirnroot quest thing
@@hardwirecars it gives you a little chance of duplicating your potions when you craft them
Honestly, the weapon I found to be useless. Weaker than any weapon I was carrying.
Yea I used it once to slay the volkihar clan during kindred judgement
The crimson Nirnroot quest does give you the ability "Sinderion's Serendipity", which provides a 25% chance to make two potions per craft instead of just one. its an okay perk. quests still a pain though.
I must say, I didn't hate looking for crimson nirnroots. It allowed me to explore Blackreach while sneaking all the time. Since I was on my way to Sneak lvl 100 at that time, it was actually really helpful haha
At the end of the quest I believe I got a book that gave me alchemy xp, not money.
Nate: “You have contracted-“
US Army ad: “Loyalty...”
I lost it at that.
Baffled that the us puts ads for military on yotube:)
@@diyvince59 Maybe because the majority of CZcams viewership is young men, their target demographic.
I got "You've contracted no wifi at your in law's house" How did it know?
Mine said you have contracted the future🤣🤣🤣
The intro music to TES6 is just going to be Todd Howard himself saying, “A new hand touches the beacon,” on a continuous loop.
And after each loop it duplicates but the duplicated version starts 1 second later
With a random “it just works” here and there throughout
With dubstep music playing in the background
Aaaand perfection
It just works
The roots mission wasn't so bad for me. It gave me a reason to explore blackreach and somewhat have fun
Soul Cairn quests might be some of the most painful in the game but definitely some of the most rewarding. Same goes for Meridia's beacon bc the reward is my favorite sword in the game and probably the most cool looking
Jiub's Opus is NOT worth it
@@sophielyons2722 if you like collectibles then it's fine but the horse is definitely worth ngl, unkillable and infinitely spawnable? Sign me up
“Whomever Sinderion was...”
Not only was he a character/quest giver in oblivion.. the journal in his quarters mentions the player character from the oblivion game running errands for him. Hence “a return to your roots”
But because you’re always telling us about much more obscure and interesting theories, we’ll let this one slide...
Ryan Ward Right and the original Nirnroot quest was way annoying than Crimson. Like to me, he used to be really accurate until now, he doesnt know who Sinderion his..,,
Liam Keogh Actually its only 401 years and Sinderion was an elf, he’s the same. He only died because of the falmers.
Liam Keogh And it’s proven in the lore that it’s the same one
Me: *looting a random chest
Meridia: *A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON*
Dude this scared the absolute shit out of me the first time.
Same, I was like who the fuck are youuu who the fuck are youuuuu who you is who you be I don’t even know yo assss
It freaked me out and I immediately loaded the last save when I couldn’t drop it. I’ve never picked it up since.
funny thing is in my recent play through i found it in the same chest as i did in my first ever play through XD
I thought I sat on the remote or my TV got hacked or something was broken. I was confused as hell.
I didn't get scared at the Beacon speech, but when she Teleported me to the sky (and later just dropped me) I almost had a heart attack
I have a theory about that Paarthurnax thing: Arngeir (Arngreir? I don't remember) can tell you where you can unlock new shouts, but you need dragon souls to be able to use them. Basically the game expects you to unlock every single shout, kill that poor dragon and join the blades so that you have quests and markers that tell you where other dragons are without making you casually go around the map trying to find them.
I might be late but counterpoint
Since things take at most a week to respawn you can just go to a outdoor word wall with a dragon perch, kill the dragon
Lesve
Repeat
Worst thing in my first run was indeed the Paarthurnax Dilemma. That dear old reptile is by far one of my absolute favorite characters in the game (probably only beaten by Shegorath) and back in the days I honestly didn't know that I have the choice to simply stick the finger to the Blades. So I actually made that damn quest in order to complete the main quest......and boy this broke my heart :(
Let me add just another one however, that I just recently tripped over. That quest with this old alchemy dude in Windhelm and his stupid vial.
You go on this big ass quest, stumble over yet another North-Tomb - rather big one if I remember right - pummel your way through that to get the damn vial. And you come back and would think this guy is gonna be super happy considering that I am presenting him his life goal on a silver tablet. Yeah nope, all you get is an angry rant because the vial wasn't in the best shape when you found it and some pocket money, that really isn't worth the talking.
And the only conclusion after that is his apprentice saying "yeah sorry, dude, he's old and stuff. Here get some more mula". Seriously, one of the most unsatisfactory quests in the game.
"A new hand touches the beacon." This quote triggers my fight or flight response...
*And I'm flighty*
Fuck I just commented this and now that I've scrolled down I regret it
*Makes Breakfast* A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BACON
This quote makes me have the turn down my hearing aids reaction
Fuck you jk you suck,,,,,!,
(Apparently) Unpopular Opinion:
I liked Meridia's Quest.
The first time I heard the voice it was surprising and hella creepy and flying around in the sky in front of a glowy thing is one of the most spectacular scenes in the game.
Additionally you get a sick sword that burns fools you why the hate?
I enjoyed the quest and actually used the sword commonly against enemies, I always enjoyed the side quest, the voice scared me though.
I enjoyed it for th e first time but believe me after too many fucking times hearing this fucking voice youre gonna get fucking crazy
Steps , T-Steps stones of Barenziah is MUCH!!! worse.
well thankfully she give better rewards than Maven
It's good the first time, but the fifth or sixth time? Then it starts to get annoying
Meridia's quest, if I recall correctly, also launches you into the sky to recieve your reward and I distinctly remember being dropped on my ass and dying coz the game glitches and didn't lower me to the ground correctly
I love how Nate describes the crimson nurroot quest it cracks me up
What about the stones of Barenziah quest? It's basically the upgraded version of Jiub's and the red root quests
At least Barenziah crown gives you a perk after its completion
Afonso Gomes also you see your completions glory on that damn shelf.
I used to always activate the mods the activate map markers for these three.
At least the roots are all in one area, and technically respawn. (Maybe not by default but between Flora Fixes and falmer spawns you can always get enough.) I'll take it over finding Nirnroot in Oblivion any day.
@@chaoscatgaming the red root quest gives you a 25% chance to make an extra potion in alchemy, which is a really good effect and better than the extra gems from Barenziah
Nate: “A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON”
Me: (confused screaming)
Me dropping my phone : not today
Diseases are not a problem if you do the Companion quest line. Even if you don’t become a werewolf, the Silverhand carry a lot of cure disease potion so you can just stock up
Delphine: We need you to kill par...
Me uses a wabbajack: "Hippity hoppity you are now a cheese property"
The reward for Return to Your Roots is also a permanent effect that lets you occasionally make duplicate potions/poisons, which is actually quite handy for anyone playing an alchemist.
The three crafting professions are so strong that there is no reason why anyone would NOT have them maxed eventually. You can skip smithing if you're playing a pure mage, but that's about it.
Crimson nirnroot also creates more potent potions than standard nirnroot, and for that reason, i don't mind it.
@ValorJ Omega I mean, if you don't leave them lying around your home outside of a container, they don't make the noise. If you do alchemy however, and use poisons, nirnroot does have a relatively strong damage health property, and crimson nirnroot has triple potency as a crafting ingredient, soo... yeah, crimson nirnroot makes some crazy good poisons. Could also make a pretty dang strong resist magic potion too.
If you visit the farm again half of the nirnroot she grows are replaced by crimson nirnroot.
@@t3chn0dr0n3 alchemy is lame.
I never really understood the Blades point of view, I’m the Dragonborn fam if a dragon is a threat I’ll slay it. I mean we killed Alduin there’s no dragon who could’ve posed a bigger threat. So why would we need to kill a dragon who’s shown no signs of being a threat and has actually helped us?
Same honestly, also Paarthy is one of my favorite characters in the entire game. How cool is it that we have a dragon ally/friend?
MoonCat EQ I agree it is pretty awesome.
MoonCat EQ and durnehviir
Also Paarthy is voiced by Mario.
I mean her reasoning is kinda stupid but she has a point. Paarthurnax says that he has the urge to give into his nature. So since paarthurnax is immortal, and the Dragonborn isn’t. If the Dragonborn dies and paarthurnax is still alive and gives into his nature there will be no one to stop him. BUT I WILL NEVER KILL HIM
The locket is pretty useful for me personally. Good for expanding your inventory.
just finished a return to your roots without any internet help, and it was actually pretty fun! i ended up stumbling across most of the nirnroots as i ran around taking screenshots. those floating mushrooms and glowing rocks...
Fish boi: Welcome to the salty spittoon,how tough are ya
Me: I completed “a return to your roots
Fish boi: so?
Me:without volume.
Fish boi: head right in
I actually did this because I always play in my living room while my girlfriend is sleeping next to me, so I mute the tv.
You dislike the a return to your roots
Well imagine that quest, but you have to find them throughout cyrodill welp good for you cause in oblivion you have to do that
Ha laughable I may now have tennitus but I completed the quest *WITH VOLUME*
Guess what I did?
I completed the game without killing nazeem...
I'm so proud and outraged at myself
Same I’m planning to kill him soon but don’t know how
Blades: we follow the dragonborn's orders
Dragonborn: ok so how about we-
Blades: sorry sir, we want to you kill a dragon
Dragonborn: wait but-
Blades: that's an order
**dragonborn being gone for years**
Blades: guys, I dont think he's coming back
I always go for the mod that lets me treat the Blades like they are - my lackeys who actually fucking obey
@shadowyeager www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/18465
The Paarthurnax Dilemma. Not voice acted lines, but you put the blades in their place.
@@tno895 is it on xbox
@@paladinmaguireofbos3347 Never looked for it there.
Happy hunting!
You actually also get a pretty decent buff that gives you a 25% chance to duplicate any potion you alchemise after the "returning to your roots quest"
tedious and dangerous, but an alchemist's best reward
Diseases are such a non-issue to me because I'd interact with any shrine I saw. Traveling to Whiterun frequently with Heimskr's Shrine of Talos outside made it a little passing ritual of mine. There was never a time where I really felt debuffed by a disease.
“And we seem to be the only person affected by these diseases in the game”
MEEKOS OWNER LITERALLY STATED THAT HE WAS DYING FROM ROCKJOINT
Not only that but that potion vendor in whiterun talks about curing diseases as well
And I remember the poor woman in the Warrens that was talking about ataxia and rattles
The only reasons we dont see people suffering caus they have nothing better to do than to just go get it cured. That or die caus its skyrim. Dragon born too busy for the shrine and potions shit. Towns person #5 has literaly, all the time of the day.
@@sandywolfr26 And the guards saying how they had a case of rock joint, and the girl at The Hags Cure helped them. Probably more but I usually hear the Markarth guards say it.
Also how would we know? We don’t walk differently or anything. Their melee/magicka isn’t something we can look at them and see so there’s no indication that we’re the only one 😅
“A new hand touches the beacon” fills me with existential dread every single time I hear it.
It wouldn't be so bad except: 1) It's 900 decibels 2) There's no way to skip dialogue or something 3) I know that voice only as Meredith, Fantasy Hitler of Dragon Age 2 carrying out a straight up genocide. That voice will never be anyone but Fantasy Hitler, and I'll never picture anything but her "exterminating" defenseless kids because she doesn't like their genes. So, kind of enraging. Definitely not the voice I want giving me good aligned quests.
I was playing through a mod of skyrim and found this thing randomly in a vampire den. Even in my mods it haunts me
Only good thing is thr Dawnbreaker if you know how often you need to fight undead.
@@VIofCaffeine "Often" translates to= Every time you go into a dungeon
A New Hand Touches The BEACON
Return to your roots is a quest i used to hate... But then one day i finished it... And it was actually a pretty chill journey, and a really satisfying feeling when i was finally done.
I used to play vanilla skyrim on xbox 360 on a samsung box tv , and that was about 11 years ago 😆😆man how nostalgic nates videos are , THANK YOU NATE😎😎✊
I never thought that diseases were really that big of a nuisance.
Same. Not only are they easy to cure(cure disease potion is uncommon as loot, but common in alchemy shops), but being a Lycan or Vampire makes you immune. Then there are the enchantments for it(though why bother). And if you kill things before they can hit you, or just don't encounter or fight every animal you come across, you'll never get one. I'm level 76 and I haven't had a single disease my entire playthrough.
Shrines cure them too, so whenever I got a disease early game before getting lycanthropy or vampirism I’d just go to a town and use a shrine, no big deal.
Seriously just activate any shrine like the shrine of talos in white run or the Shrine in the temple also In whiterun and boom blessing added and all diseases cured simple as that he made it sound so bad no hate tho 😂
i become a werewolf through the companions very early in the game, not because i use it but because its the best cure to it
Every time i get attacked by an animal i get a desease. And i dont notice it having 25% less onehanded damage wondering why im not dealing much damage. Then i hear "are feeling okay you look sick". And i say one of thes statments. "Oh by the gods not again" or "Damn it i fucking hate desease"
Martin becomes a dragon avatar in Oblivion, banishing Dagon.
The Blades: all dragons are evil!
Say what?
I know right, I hate the blades on Skyrim I loved the blades on Oblivion.
@@civilmagpie1454 The blades in Oblivion were well thought out. In Skyrim, did Bethesda think this through? Why change things like that ?
@@JohnnyReborn665 Weelll, when you talk to Parrthanax about the whole "Blades want me to kill you", he admits that he has a hard time to not destroy all of Skyrim for some reason. That would have been a great introduction to a third option to help Paarthanax quench his bloodlust and he starts teaching it to other dragons. Then the blades would be reminded of what was forgotten some 2 centuries ago. But I guess "Kill old friend" is good enough to Bethesda.
@@HypercomboProduction
I think they find irony in it in a way, or something because you could have a mod installed if you have special edition to get another option, but me fuck the blades finish them off already.
My boy akatosh is a dragon.. Fck blades
"Return to Your Roots" is a continuation of an oblivion questline "Seeking Your Roots" which was a hunt for nirnroots (normal green ones) for an alchemist named Sinderion (who is alive in that game). There are over 300 nirnroots scattered across the world and the quest needs you to collect 10, 20, 30, and 40 samples for the quest (100 total) with each checkpoint giving a progressively more impressive potion sample and some fun, excited dialogue from the alchemist. You're also not locked in one location for the whole time, so you can actually just do it while you adventure normally. It was a very memorable questline just by how widespread it was in the world and how it felt like you could make good progress in it simply by walking along the shores and riverbanks while you traveled (not to mention the goal numbers are much more lenient than Blackreach's version). So return to your roots being such a shell of its predecessor was a huge slap in the face.
I would also like to submit the stones of Barenziah questline to the list of annoyances. Some are super easy to find which means you're likely to pick up the quest at some point in just about any playthrough, but most are in completely random locations in the world. You also need to join the dark brotherhood, progress in the mages guild questline, get to a certain point in the thieves' guild questline, buy the most expensive house in the game, and make sure you never overlook them in random dungeons if you want any hope of find thing them all. And this all must be done without any help from quest markers which makes it basically impossible without a walkthrough. Also, I'm kind of pissed that the first thing you hear about them is likely "you couldn't have gotten that without stealing it" which is pretty rich considering how many of them are forgotten in ruins, owned by criminals that can be legally looted, or in places you literally own (only around a third or a fourth of them could be considered truly "stolen" in the eyes of the law). Then again, Brynjolf also assumes that any rich player must be a thief, so I guess the thieves' guild members are just prone to projection. Also, they are quest items that can't be removed from inventory and the 24 of them do not stack which is a pain when scrolling the inventory. And just to hammer this home: You need to have 25,000 gold to just to access the stone in Proudspire Manor, and the reward for the quest is the ability to find more gems that are a few hundred gold each. Yes, it will pay for itself in due time, but by the time you complete the quest, you will already have the skills needed to make a large amount of money without random gems.
y'all are forgetting about Ingun Black-Briar's triple misc quest:
20 Nirnroot
20 Deathbell
AND 20 Nightshade
now Deathbell are easy enough, just head to Morthal, but Nirnroot and Nightshade appear to be scattered all across Skyrim. So it's literally 'A Return To Your Roots' on steroids
"...whomever Sinderion was..."
Somebody didn't play his Oblivion.... >_>
I played Skyrim first, so when I met Sinderion in Oblivion, I was like, that sounds familiar. Replayed Skyrim and got the big sad.
thought the same thing smh
Anybody mind enlightning non-Oblivion player?
@@Ykskolme He's a woodelf that made The Hero of Kvatch collect far too many nirnroots
@@derryair9419 high elf*
I actually like finding Meridia’s Beacon. Like, I’m just going about my day, looking every container I can find, when I suddenly find the beacon and I’m like “Ah sweet, I can get Dawnbreaker now.” And Meridia’s yelling doesn’t bother me too much, as it’s a daedric prince we’re talking about. The only part of the quest I hate is the boss at the end and his damned blizzard spell; I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been one shot by it....
yeah the boss fight fuuuuuuucking sucks. but i love toddling about the crypt redirecting the light :D and the sword. deffo the sword
People complaining about Meridia’s voice everywhere yet I looked at the comments on a mod that replaces the voice with a softer one and everyone says it’s too soft 😂
I just do it for dawnbreaker
Saammee ya she’s obnoxious but Dawnbreaker is a GOAT weapon. Plus I ALWAYS find it in Bleak Falls Barrow. Like on my past 5 playthroughs in a row, it’s always in the final chest
I hate how over powered blizzard (I think that's the spell) is in the hands of npcs but you use it and it's like a flee bite I always add spell mods to actually make being a mage worthy
5:24 I cannot *believe* you said this and didn’t put that mission on the list hahah! As someone who struggles with his inventory space constantly, as many do, “No Stone Unturned” is by FAR the worst one in my opinion.
Meridia's quest freaked the shit out of me because I only got it 5 years after first playing the game. Never heard of it before. Filled a chest with stuff because I was carrying too much, got home and went back to find the beacon. "Wait that wasn't in the chest earlier" and then her voice coming out of nowhere ? One of the best moment of gameplay I had on this game