I think she lied about that story cos delvin mentions he's sapphires uncle, meaning the other mallory brother is her father, meaning she lied about her parents being butchered by bandits.
@@zaksanderson6606or.. hear me out, its already been confirmed the father ditched her and her mother, and, again hear me out, step parents exist and in situations like this will replace the parent who left.
@@zaksanderson6606also, no woman would lie about that so either, her parents are dead or they literally sold her out to bandits. Either way its extremely traumatic
4:34 "What's even stranger is how they're constantly apologizing for attacking you. That's fine, you tell yourself, maybe they're Canadian..." Love that line!🤣
Same, that was something I was unaware even was in the game. And the position of the child skeleton might suggest something even darker; either she died during childbirth (or directly after) or died while pregnant.
I'm surprised you didn't include Forelhost, the last bastion of the Dragon Cult. When it was being sieged by Skyrim High King's forces, rather than being taken prisoner or killed by them, Rahgot (the priest in charge) ordered everyone to be poisoned in a mass suicide. There was lots of dissent and in a part of the ruin you see a mass grave that included the skeletal remains of children. Every grim stuff.
@@jeffreyknickman5559 And this video is about the darkest bits of the game Skyrim. Not talking about one of the things that rival's Serana's backstory in terms of being dark is weird.
8:08 Hermaeus Mora didn't directly kill Septimus, he most likely just removed the life support keeping Septimus alive. After all, Septimus have been living in an isolated excavation alone without food for years, as a human. That's why he turned into ash like the reanimated dead
@@vexile1239 - I dont think the dwemer zero summed themselves... but Septimus seems to be a very clear case of zero summed. Also, Zero Sum can be considerate suicide? realising that you are not really alive, just part of a dream... doesnt seems to fit the suicide definition....
If you kill all the cult members in the room instead of sacrificing the Priest, he will thank you. Will automatically faill that mission every playthough. I use mods so I don't care about Trophies
And that's why after munching on a priest i killed them with Ebony Blade,resureected them 2 times 2 times with ritual stone just to kill them again(and sacificed Eola to Boethia)
Potentially the best option, as it's a no-witnesses method of wiping out a whole cannibalistic demon cult, and still fits roleplaying in some cases as opposed to just reloading an old save after seeing them, then using the knowledge to hunt down each member sneakily with a character who wouldn't know.
@@TheMbangel Yeah, killing the priest is the intended choice for characters who don't rightly react to a cannibal by just killing her on sight for being an abomination. I think the option to identify and slaughter the cult was an unintended nice choice as a result of non-essential status on the characters. There's no hint at being able to do it, but then again, killing Astrid is the same way and was clearly considered as an option. Hard to be sure here, but it doesn't seem planned so much as a coincidental path that happens to be good.
That was my first reaction to the quest. It was a hard choice because I had replaced vanilla Eola with a really cute custom content replacement and I thought she would be fun companion, before I found out about her dinning habits. I decided to take a sword to her instead of kill the priest. I had two other companions with me at the time and it turned out to be one of the cooler Skyrim moments as the whole room erupted in chaos when Eola died.
It's interesting that he can actually do that when other princes rely on indirect killing. It might mean that being one of the original Daedra, Mora is just stronger, but with both Tamriel killings being in close proximity to his own artifacts, it could also just be that he has more power around them than just in random places. There's also Sanguine directly walking in taverns but it might just be that someone summoned him on his day and he just stayed to have fun, which certainly fits him.
Festus doesn't belong here imo. He goes out fighting, in what seems to have been a fierce battle. He may be a mage and a sneaky killer, yet he dies like a true Nord.
Considering just how many arrows hit him, it's very likely that the agents who killed him had a lot of trouble doing so, and resorted to overwhelming force. With that many different arrow wounds, it also would have been a quick death in the fight, the kind of thing Nords really seem to prefer.
Frostflow Lighthouse was one of the creepiest areas I've seen in a game, and I stumbled across it completely randomly. It was such a cool experience to go through the quest and seeing the chaurus for the first time like something straight out of a horror game. Having something that developed in a random location is crazy.
The first time I was playing through Skyrim and I was tasked to kill the old women in the orphanage. I was trying to move around and try to figure out how to get her alone and out of sight of the young lady working there who takes over. And I thought I had finally gotten hidden and using a bow and sneak I launched an attack with a arrow. She died instantly but the moment she did the young lady started freaking out so I started trying to get out of there and flee expecting for guards to start coming for me only to realize no one was after me.
The cannibal quest is the most disturbing for me because it requires you the player to actually do some things in order for it to happen. All other things were all done very long ago or didn't require the players direct involvement to happen. Say what you will about Harmeus Mora, he just killed 3 people with your involvement. It's not like he demanded you to violate and eat them too.
6:47 Yeah… This cannibalism bit in the game… Particularly cause she’s talking about it in a area with rotting corpses, but eating people at all… It turned my stomach the one game I was doing this quest… 🤢
I think since we know it was on Bal's summoning day, that same day was probably when Harkon did the sacrificing a thousand people, with all three being turned that same day, along with the hundreds of innocent people dying. Possibly the worst thing in Skyrim's history. It's pretty obvious that it was rather scarring for Serana with her refusal to ever really discuss it beyond saying it happened, and being hurt by it so much that she's not comfortable with temples of any kind, even one to Mara. We know from that particular thing that there was in fact some kind of temple where it happened, meaning it must have been mainland Skyrim.
I thought the darkest was the ghost kid in Morthal. There's another ghost kid in Skyrim who, at the end of the quest, says something like "now I can finally rest" and I don't think it's even the same kid. But even the darkest stuff in Skyrim pales next to Enderal. Skyrim was a soft M rating for the most part. It just had some blood, and a few dark themes. Enderal went pretty hard on its M rating (assuming it was even rated, being a mod). But, as it's a Skyrim mod, it's certainly worth mentioning.
Poor Serana, getting violated like that. Getting so violated that you basically die is just a fate worse than death itself. I do wonder if you can get violated by Hircine or any other daedras. You probably can, but in Serana's case, she got violated by Molag Bal, who lives in Cold Harbor. Her mom, Valerica, also got violated, but how Harkon and the Snow elf vampire we fight with Serana got vampirism, i don't really know. All i know is that they both became vampires, of which Harkon is quite powerful. Personally, i've always sided with the Dawnguard and Isran, because i don't like the idea of being a walking corpse with a serious case of craving blood. I prefer to be a werewolf. I prefer to be a bad dog, so to speak
The falmer got turned into a vampire by one of his initiates. Harkon got it by sacrificing thousands of his subjects. Not sure what would happen if Hircine did, mainly cause it isn't his thing. Honorable hunting is his sphere of influence.
Were they, though? Serana took part in it by her own volition, being a follower of Molag Bal. The same about her parents... and she enjoys being a vampire. This talk of trauma on her part seems a little forced imo.
I know this may be too long for some people to read, but if I find the time, I'll just make a video exploring this subject. Harkon was rewarded his vampirism for sacrificing in his own words, a thousand innocent lives, making him arguably the most horrible person in all of Skyrim. His being a former king sometime before the Allessian Empire started suggests it was probably his own people he killed, implying he not only sent a thousand innocent souls to Coldharbour, but probably did it to just his own people, making it even worse. The point where he became a vampire lord is probably when his kingdom collapsed. The part where it gets really interesting is that Serana confirmed already Castle Volkihar was previously owned by someone else who had a sun dial. Since it's clearly Nordic construction and not Snow Elven, this indicates either Harkon ruled an area somewhere else and then moved into the castle soon after his turning, or his kingdom was ruled from Volkihar, but controlled a collection of smaller settlements on the mainland. If this is the case, it would mean that some previous king also ruled from Volkihar and Harkon took over after he died. It's also unclear how early this means Harkon had to have ruled. We know from Serana that it was before Cyrodiil had an empire, and the Ayleids were themselves an empire. So for Harkon to have ruled as a king in Skyrim, it would mean he'd have to have been one of the first Nords ever to live in Skyrim. My guess is that when Atmoran migration first happened, the humans in Skyrim were ruled in a collection of kingdoms like High Rock has, and that Harkon ruled one in the northwest. We know that Saarthal was sacked by Snow Elves, but there's no information on how many other places the earliest Nords may have settled. The only way to completely reconcile a Nord king in Skyrim ruling before Cyrodiil had an empire is that he was around in the same general time as Saarthal was prospering, but was forgotten by history entirely. Ahzidal's story makes it more confusing, as he's stated to have learned magic from the Ayleids after the sacking of Saarthal. To aim for maximum compatibility with other information, I have one idea as to how it all works. Saarthal was one of the earliest Nord settlements in Skyrim, but there were others at that time which the historians have no record of. One of these, I'm going to call the Volkihar Kingdom for convenience, and that was in what's now called Haafingar. In these very early years, Nords mostly lived in relative peace near Snow Elves, but were probably never especially friendly like is usually the case with man and mer civilizations. Sometime very early on, the Volkihar Kingdom had a different king, but he died, and and was replaced by Harkon, who I imagine being a rather greedy and terrible ruler. During this time, the Ayleids were present in Cyrodiil, but hadn't formed an empire yet and were governed differently, explaining Serana's confusion at the mention of a Cyrodiilic empire. Harkon then ruled for likely a few decades, and started to think about his life ending. Wanting to avoid it, he made a pact with Molag Bal, who he may even have worshipped already considering he's so in favor of might-means-right and dominating the weak, and agreed to give him a thousand souls in exchange for being made a pureblooded vampire. He then waited for Molag Bal's summoning day and got him from Oblivion to claim the thousand subjects, completely destroying his kingdom in the process, but being given immense amounts of power for it. On that same day, Serana and Valerica were both offered to him for the horrible process of how they too were turned. In reaction to the mass death, other Nordic settlements developed various horror stories, likely with truth to them, and sightings of monstrous abominations started to occur from the vampires' feedings. Eventually, Harkon started the Volkihar vampire clan in this time as a sort of new version of his former kingdom, and they developed the tendency to take thralls, many of which then were probably Snow Elves due to the main Nord population in the immediate area of the castle being gone. Later on, Saarthal gets sacked, and the Snow Elves wipe out all remaining Nordic settlements, then Ysgramor's story happens with the five hundred and they take over Skyrim, starting with Jorrvaskr and then building Windhelm and continuing their expansion. Ahzidal is found along the way and helps them by enchanting their stuff, explaining why a mere five hundred was so powerful, and gets his revenge in the process, likely being involved in the last battle on Solstheim where the Snow Prince died, then ruling as a dragon priest until the Dragon War messed it up for him. Once the Nordic expansion reach Haafingar again, they found traces of Harkon's evil work, and noticed an old castle out on an island, but were afraid of it due to the vampires and nobody alive remembering that it was one of their ancestors' buildings. Eventually this leads to Castle Volkihar's current reputation as the entire place being cursed as ferrymen at Solitude, Windhelm, and Dawnstar say it is. It becomes known only as the scary place locals are afraid to visit, not understanding what it is, and the Volkihar clan becomes known as being present in Skyrim with the horror stories of vampires ambushing victims from the ice, but the two never get connected by common people, and nobody ever figures out where these vampires come from.
@@newbie504 Uhhh yeah, wasn’t her choice to worship Molag Bal and didn’t have a choice with letting Molag SA her, I’d guess she forces herself to like being a Vampire as a coping mechanism for the trauma she experienced.
I visited the Frostflow Lighthouse once. Once was enough. However, since it came up on this list and I started back to playing Skyrim again this week. I will give it another visit.
Yea, I had one "bad boy" run for the achieves and then never again with that (and a couple of others). I take the priest out to the feast, but kill Eola and the entire room and set the priest free. Markarth is a bit more quiet after that and taking care of the Cidna Mines.
With Sigmus the leading theory is that the ogma infinium made him realise he was in a video game and it was too much for his brain to handle so he just vanished
serana has alot of catching up to do too cause she have never heard of the empire and i dont think the dragon cults would have been around when she was a girl
Knowing serana background make me wish we'll get main characters strong enough to fight daedric princes especially molag bal in TeS:VI, bonus point if serana also appear again
I do not think Hermaeus killed the scholar. The reason they usually go through intermediaries is because it's not that simple for them. You'll note the only other real kill we see is by Hermaeus again at the Skaal village, and that's because he interfaced with a daedric artifact and allowed it to happen. What's more likely is that the scholar achieved chim upon reading/interacting with/finding the Oghma Infinium and zero-summed as he couldn't handle it. Which you could argue is an indirect kill by Hermaeus via one of his artifacts, but still. Him getting ashed isn't Hermaeus zapping him in the mortal plane.
Unless I'm just an idiot and always missed some vital step, I was always bummed out that the ghosts forced into servitude weren't freed with the evil mage's death in Ranveig's Fast. They remain hostile and apologetic no matter what happens
In Oblivion the racist countess of Leyadin has a hidden torture dungeon in the castle that everyone working there knows about because they're kept up at night by the screaming through thick stone walls.
There is this quest that activates after you reach a certain level, Its called “The Break of Dawn” where you are task with entering the dungeons beneath the Statue of Meridia, retrieving the Dawnbraker sword and killing the necromancer who carts in dozens of bodies of the dead Civil War soldiers and performs rituals in a attempt to create his personal undead army. Seeing all those half charcoaled Imperial and Stormcloak copses everywhere inside was pretty gruesome and eerie when I was first playing the game.
Judge me if you want but i used console commands to allow me to marry Eola. I maxed out the werewolf perk tree. I have 0 room to judge I am "good guy" but that does not mean i am *good* guy
Was about to get ready to like, but then you opened with "Skyrim is, without a doubt, the darkest game in the elder scrolls series..." I haven't even fuckin' played any of the other games, and...no the actual hell it fucking isn't. Not to mention many of the things you show on this channel use pre-established lore. Y'know...from the previous games?
Fun fact: Festus Krex's corpse is a safe container that you can use to stash stuff.
Sapphire’s backstory was one of the most brutal parts of Skyrim
I think she lied about that story cos delvin mentions he's sapphires uncle, meaning the other mallory brother is her father, meaning she lied about her parents being butchered by bandits.
Maybe delvin had another brother it doesn't make sense for her to lie about something like that@@zaksanderson6606
@@zaksanderson6606or.. hear me out, its already been confirmed the father ditched her and her mother, and, again hear me out, step parents exist and in situations like this will replace the parent who left.
@@zaksanderson6606also, no woman would lie about that so either, her parents are dead or they literally sold her out to bandits. Either way its extremely traumatic
Serana turned by molag bal into a vampire is another one.
4:34 "What's even stranger is how they're constantly apologizing for attacking you. That's fine, you tell yourself, maybe they're Canadian..." Love that line!🤣
I resent that as a Canadian I play these games to beat people and laugh while I do it.
That mother and child in Saathal is new to me, couple of these I didn't know that's pretty cool
I think they were in Labyrinthian, not Saarthal. Easy mistake to make.
@@skwiddyt He said Labyrinthian.
Same, that was something I was unaware even was in the game.
And the position of the child skeleton might suggest something even darker; either she died during childbirth (or directly after) or died while pregnant.
I'm surprised you didn't include Forelhost, the last bastion of the Dragon Cult. When it was being sieged by Skyrim High King's forces, rather than being taken prisoner or killed by them, Rahgot (the priest in charge) ordered everyone to be poisoned in a mass suicide. There was lots of dissent and in a part of the ruin you see a mass grave that included the skeletal remains of children. Every grim stuff.
That's in a different video
Jonestown vibes.
@@TheAussief1forbidden kool aid
And here I was wondering if someone was going to mention the mass suicide at Forelhost.
@@jeffreyknickman5559 And this video is about the darkest bits of the game Skyrim.
Not talking about one of the things that rival's Serana's backstory in terms of being dark is weird.
8:08 Hermaeus Mora didn't directly kill Septimus, he most likely just removed the life support keeping Septimus alive. After all, Septimus have been living in an isolated excavation alone without food for years, as a human. That's why he turned into ash like the reanimated dead
I thought he zero summed like the dwemer did
@@vexile1239 - I dont think the dwemer zero summed themselves... but Septimus seems to be a very clear case of zero summed.
Also, Zero Sum can be considerate suicide? realising that you are not really alive, just part of a dream... doesnt seems to fit the suicide definition....
Good point. He directly killed Miraak though and I still hate him for that.
Darkest for me was the cannibal cult... Had no idea what they were til I had to sacrifice that dude
If you kill all the cult members in the room instead of sacrificing the Priest, he will thank you.
Will automatically faill that mission every playthough. I use mods so I don't care about Trophies
whats even worse is the guy who supplies meat to markarth is there too and if you talk to him he laughs and says bloodiest beef in the reach
@@elderdragon325 LOL ewwww
@@ci7210 ahh yes I did that finally on a new game. I just thought they were werewolves. LOL nope... cannies
And that's why after munching on a priest i killed them with Ebony Blade,resureected them 2 times 2 times with ritual stone just to kill them again(and sacificed Eola to Boethia)
You can kill all members of the cannibal club instead of sacrificing the priest. Just to mention it.
Potentially the best option, as it's a no-witnesses method of wiping out a whole cannibalistic demon cult, and still fits roleplaying in some cases as opposed to just reloading an old save after seeing them, then using the knowledge to hunt down each member sneakily with a character who wouldn't know.
I killed them my first (and only) playthrough. Did not even know you can sacrifice the priest.
@@TheMbangel Yeah, killing the priest is the intended choice for characters who don't rightly react to a cannibal by just killing her on sight for being an abomination. I think the option to identify and slaughter the cult was an unintended nice choice as a result of non-essential status on the characters. There's no hint at being able to do it, but then again, killing Astrid is the same way and was clearly considered as an option. Hard to be sure here, but it doesn't seem planned so much as a coincidental path that happens to be good.
That was my first reaction to the quest.
It was a hard choice because I had replaced vanilla Eola with a really cute custom content replacement and I thought she would be fun companion, before I found out about her dinning habits. I decided to take a sword to her instead of kill the priest. I had two other companions with me at the time and it turned out to be one of the cooler Skyrim moments as the whole room erupted in chaos when Eola died.
Aren't they vendors? I try to avoid killing vendors even if I don't use them much.
We see Mora kill the Skaal shaman and Miraak, so it is something of a pattern.
It's interesting that he can actually do that when other princes rely on indirect killing. It might mean that being one of the original Daedra, Mora is just stronger, but with both Tamriel killings being in close proximity to his own artifacts, it could also just be that he has more power around them than just in random places. There's also Sanguine directly walking in taverns but it might just be that someone summoned him on his day and he just stayed to have fun, which certainly fits him.
What about Astrid’s burnt body? Even, when alive?!
True, I think I’d rather be speared by arrows instead of being burnt alive
Then again, at least you get a decent permanent perk if you clear out the lighthouse.
Dude I love these videos, his voice is so soothing
Damn after all serena went through im surprised she's still motivated to do anything
Dark brotherhood also has a torture chamber 😅
Festus doesn't belong here imo. He goes out fighting, in what seems to have been a fierce battle.
He may be a mage and a sneaky killer, yet he dies like a true Nord.
Considering just how many arrows hit him, it's very likely that the agents who killed him had a lot of trouble doing so, and resorted to overwhelming force. With that many different arrow wounds, it also would have been a quick death in the fight, the kind of thing Nords really seem to prefer.
@@UnswimmingFishYT Right? I guess Klingons and Nords would agree that this was an honorable death and a good day to die.
Frostflow Lighthouse was one of the creepiest areas I've seen in a game, and I stumbled across it completely randomly. It was such a cool experience to go through the quest and seeing the chaurus for the first time like something straight out of a horror game. Having something that developed in a random location is crazy.
The first time I was playing through Skyrim and I was tasked to kill the old women in the orphanage. I was trying to move around and try to figure out how to get her alone and out of sight of the young lady working there who takes over. And I thought I had finally gotten hidden and using a bow and sneak I launched an attack with a arrow. She died instantly but the moment she did the young lady started freaking out so I started trying to get out of there and flee expecting for guards to start coming for me only to realize no one was after me.
The cannibal quest is the most disturbing for me because it requires you the player to actually do some things in order for it to happen. All other things were all done very long ago or didn't require the players direct involvement to happen. Say what you will about Harmeus Mora, he just killed 3 people with your involvement. It's not like he demanded you to violate and eat them too.
6:47 Yeah… This cannibalism bit in the game… Particularly cause she’s talking about it in a area with rotting corpses, but eating people at all… It turned my stomach the one game I was doing this quest… 🤢
And even worse, her father is involve too. In the ritual
I think since we know it was on Bal's summoning day, that same day was probably when Harkon did the sacrificing a thousand people, with all three being turned that same day, along with the hundreds of innocent people dying. Possibly the worst thing in Skyrim's history. It's pretty obvious that it was rather scarring for Serana with her refusal to ever really discuss it beyond saying it happened, and being hurt by it so much that she's not comfortable with temples of any kind, even one to Mara. We know from that particular thing that there was in fact some kind of temple where it happened, meaning it must have been mainland Skyrim.
I thought the darkest was the ghost kid in Morthal. There's another ghost kid in Skyrim who, at the end of the quest, says something like "now I can finally rest" and I don't think it's even the same kid.
But even the darkest stuff in Skyrim pales next to Enderal. Skyrim was a soft M rating for the most part. It just had some blood, and a few dark themes. Enderal went pretty hard on its M rating (assuming it was even rated, being a mod). But, as it's a Skyrim mod, it's certainly worth mentioning.
There was Rin, the kid from Goldenhills Plantation
Enderal is just a masterpiece
Enderal is chef kiss! It’s so hollow that makes Skyrim look sweeter than a sweet roll 😅
Slid killed lydia in my play through. I saved just before we both fell down so couldn't save her.
I'm always accidentally killing my followers. 😤 They run in front of me, or they take too much AOE damage.
Silid the Warlock's heinous actions would make Molag Bal proud
7 - i always thought it was a dwemer trap that killed him not mora.
Poor Serana, getting violated like that. Getting so violated that you basically die is just a fate worse than death itself. I do wonder if you can get violated by Hircine or any other daedras. You probably can, but in Serana's case, she got violated by Molag Bal, who lives in Cold Harbor. Her mom, Valerica, also got violated, but how Harkon and the Snow elf vampire we fight with Serana got vampirism, i don't really know. All i know is that they both became vampires, of which Harkon is quite powerful.
Personally, i've always sided with the Dawnguard and Isran, because i don't like the idea of being a walking corpse with a serious case of craving blood. I prefer to be a werewolf. I prefer to be a bad dog, so to speak
The falmer got turned into a vampire by one of his initiates. Harkon got it by sacrificing thousands of his subjects.
Not sure what would happen if Hircine did, mainly cause it isn't his thing. Honorable hunting is his sphere of influence.
He was given vampirism as a reward for letting Molag Bal SA every single woman living in Volkihar
Were they, though?
Serana took part in it by her own volition, being a follower of Molag Bal. The same about her parents... and she enjoys being a vampire. This talk of trauma on her part seems a little forced imo.
I know this may be too long for some people to read, but if I find the time, I'll just make a video exploring this subject.
Harkon was rewarded his vampirism for sacrificing in his own words, a thousand innocent lives, making him arguably the most horrible person in all of Skyrim. His being a former king sometime before the Allessian Empire started suggests it was probably his own people he killed, implying he not only sent a thousand innocent souls to Coldharbour, but probably did it to just his own people, making it even worse. The point where he became a vampire lord is probably when his kingdom collapsed.
The part where it gets really interesting is that Serana confirmed already Castle Volkihar was previously owned by someone else who had a sun dial. Since it's clearly Nordic construction and not Snow Elven, this indicates either Harkon ruled an area somewhere else and then moved into the castle soon after his turning, or his kingdom was ruled from Volkihar, but controlled a collection of smaller settlements on the mainland. If this is the case, it would mean that some previous king also ruled from Volkihar and Harkon took over after he died.
It's also unclear how early this means Harkon had to have ruled. We know from Serana that it was before Cyrodiil had an empire, and the Ayleids were themselves an empire. So for Harkon to have ruled as a king in Skyrim, it would mean he'd have to have been one of the first Nords ever to live in Skyrim. My guess is that when Atmoran migration first happened, the humans in Skyrim were ruled in a collection of kingdoms like High Rock has, and that Harkon ruled one in the northwest. We know that Saarthal was sacked by Snow Elves, but there's no information on how many other places the earliest Nords may have settled. The only way to completely reconcile a Nord king in Skyrim ruling before Cyrodiil had an empire is that he was around in the same general time as Saarthal was prospering, but was forgotten by history entirely.
Ahzidal's story makes it more confusing, as he's stated to have learned magic from the Ayleids after the sacking of Saarthal.
To aim for maximum compatibility with other information, I have one idea as to how it all works. Saarthal was one of the earliest Nord settlements in Skyrim, but there were others at that time which the historians have no record of. One of these, I'm going to call the Volkihar Kingdom for convenience, and that was in what's now called Haafingar. In these very early years, Nords mostly lived in relative peace near Snow Elves, but were probably never especially friendly like is usually the case with man and mer civilizations. Sometime very early on, the Volkihar Kingdom had a different king, but he died, and and was replaced by Harkon, who I imagine being a rather greedy and terrible ruler. During this time, the Ayleids were present in Cyrodiil, but hadn't formed an empire yet and were governed differently, explaining Serana's confusion at the mention of a Cyrodiilic empire.
Harkon then ruled for likely a few decades, and started to think about his life ending. Wanting to avoid it, he made a pact with Molag Bal, who he may even have worshipped already considering he's so in favor of might-means-right and dominating the weak, and agreed to give him a thousand souls in exchange for being made a pureblooded vampire. He then waited for Molag Bal's summoning day and got him from Oblivion to claim the thousand subjects, completely destroying his kingdom in the process, but being given immense amounts of power for it. On that same day, Serana and Valerica were both offered to him for the horrible process of how they too were turned.
In reaction to the mass death, other Nordic settlements developed various horror stories, likely with truth to them, and sightings of monstrous abominations started to occur from the vampires' feedings. Eventually, Harkon started the Volkihar vampire clan in this time as a sort of new version of his former kingdom, and they developed the tendency to take thralls, many of which then were probably Snow Elves due to the main Nord population in the immediate area of the castle being gone.
Later on, Saarthal gets sacked, and the Snow Elves wipe out all remaining Nordic settlements, then Ysgramor's story happens with the five hundred and they take over Skyrim, starting with Jorrvaskr and then building Windhelm and continuing their expansion. Ahzidal is found along the way and helps them by enchanting their stuff, explaining why a mere five hundred was so powerful, and gets his revenge in the process, likely being involved in the last battle on Solstheim where the Snow Prince died, then ruling as a dragon priest until the Dragon War messed it up for him.
Once the Nordic expansion reach Haafingar again, they found traces of Harkon's evil work, and noticed an old castle out on an island, but were afraid of it due to the vampires and nobody alive remembering that it was one of their ancestors' buildings. Eventually this leads to Castle Volkihar's current reputation as the entire place being cursed as ferrymen at Solitude, Windhelm, and Dawnstar say it is. It becomes known only as the scary place locals are afraid to visit, not understanding what it is, and the Volkihar clan becomes known as being present in Skyrim with the horror stories of vampires ambushing victims from the ice, but the two never get connected by common people, and nobody ever figures out where these vampires come from.
@@newbie504 Uhhh yeah, wasn’t her choice to worship Molag Bal and didn’t have a choice with letting Molag SA her, I’d guess she forces herself to like being a Vampire as a coping mechanism for the trauma she experienced.
So...my cannibalistic werewolf who follows namira and imbibes skooma regularly is considered dark...?
I mean, werewolves should be following Hircine, so there's that......
I visited the Frostflow Lighthouse once. Once was enough. However, since it came up on this list and I started back to playing Skyrim again this week. I will give it another visit.
Cannibalism quest made me sick to my stomach i only did it for the Ring of Namira which was required for a achievement after that never again 🤮
Yea, I had one "bad boy" run for the achieves and then never again with that (and a couple of others). I take the priest out to the feast, but kill Eola and the entire room and set the priest free. Markarth is a bit more quiet after that and taking care of the Cidna Mines.
The namira ring is only worth it if u r a non mage char.
wish i had some popcorn thanks for the video good sir
"Keep your hands off the Skooma"
That'sCoolDude wants to know, your location.
I would argue that Morrowind is a darker game in tone than Skyrim
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Where do you find the background videos you use in your videos or do you record them yourself in-game?
You can film them your self, but if you use someone else's footage you are supposed to ask and credit them.
With Sigmus the leading theory is that the ogma infinium made him realise he was in a video game and it was too much for his brain to handle so he just vanished
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Either Semptimius zero-sum'd or Mora unplugged his life support
serana has alot of catching up to do too cause she have never heard of the empire and i dont think the dragon cults would have been around when she was a girl
Serena was victim??!! Makes sense why she isn’t a option to marry , she literally got scarred / traumatized
“Maybe they’re Canadian” 🤣🤣🤣
Knowing serana background make me wish we'll get main characters strong enough to fight daedric princes especially molag bal in TeS:VI, bonus point if serana also appear again
i been wondering what race is your character and the armor, the hat too, they look incredibly good.
I agree with 1, 6 and 8. The other stuff I either did not care of would not have noticed without a video
It is great to see fall damage still posting skyrim content
Begging for the 1 hour analysis/lore video from you lmao, your voice is that good
You forgot the old guy in the dragonborn dlc that gets killed by herma mora
Mom, fall damage posted a new video!
Why would you rat out Fall Damage to your Mommy? Now he's going to get grounded for a week 😭
I never consume human flesh in these games. That is a line, even in imagination, that I will not cross.
When I start a new NPC that leads to a quest:
So... how long until you die?
My top darkest moment is any amount of time I need to spend in Rorikstead
I choose to ignore that part about my girlfriend Serana
"Maybe theyre Canadian." Lol nice zinger.
I do not think Hermaeus killed the scholar. The reason they usually go through intermediaries is because it's not that simple for them. You'll note the only other real kill we see is by Hermaeus again at the Skaal village, and that's because he interfaced with a daedric artifact and allowed it to happen. What's more likely is that the scholar achieved chim upon reading/interacting with/finding the Oghma Infinium and zero-summed as he couldn't handle it. Which you could argue is an indirect kill by Hermaeus via one of his artifacts, but still. Him getting ashed isn't Hermaeus zapping him in the mortal plane.
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Unless I'm just an idiot and always missed some vital step, I was always bummed out that the ghosts forced into servitude weren't freed with the evil mage's death in Ranveig's Fast. They remain hostile and apologetic no matter what happens
cannibal. I collect all the cannibals then EVERYONE gets an arrow! better than wearing the cannibal ring.
Surprised the story of how the Falmer got turned into the Betrayed didn’t make the list…
No homo I love this guy's story telling voice
In Oblivion the racist countess of Leyadin has a hidden torture dungeon in the castle that everyone working there knows about because they're kept up at night by the screaming through thick stone walls.
There is this quest that activates after you reach a certain level, Its called “The Break of Dawn” where you are task with entering the dungeons beneath the Statue of Meridia, retrieving the Dawnbraker sword and killing the necromancer who carts in dozens of bodies of the dead Civil War soldiers and performs rituals in a attempt to create his personal undead army.
Seeing all those half charcoaled Imperial and Stormcloak copses everywhere inside was pretty gruesome and eerie when I was first playing the game.
All you do is get meridia's beacon and that's when it starts
Insightful.
"A new hand touches the beacon..." 💎
If it were a mace every time you hit someone it screams "a new face touches the beacon"
I definitely feel like morrowind was darker
„Maybe they‘re canadian“
Does bro narrate on ancient aliens on sky history channel
What would happen if you dropped a skooma on j'daar
Oh, Canada eh!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Judge me if you want but i used console commands to allow me to marry Eola.
I maxed out the werewolf perk tree. I have 0 room to judge
I am "good guy" but that does not mean i am *good* guy
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the darkest game? my frnd you have not read the books in morrowind, that shit is dark AF
JFC playing through right now this is terrible shit but Ill keep going
Maybe there Canadian
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The game is evil.
Man... enderal ruined skyrim for me🙃
I wish I could dislike ads.
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Was about to get ready to like, but then you opened with "Skyrim is, without a doubt, the darkest game in the elder scrolls series..."
I haven't even fuckin' played any of the other games, and...no the actual hell it fucking isn't. Not to mention many of the things you show on this channel use pre-established lore. Y'know...from the previous games?
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