WHAT ARE THEY? - The Elder Scrolls - Elder Scrolls Lore

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  • čas přidán 12. 11. 2019
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    In our latest Elder Scrolls video we discuss the lore of the actual Elder Scrolls themselves! Yes, we're not talking all about the series, but about the actual physical artifacts which feature throughout the games.
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    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an open world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth main installment in The Elder Scrolls series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 11, 2011.
    The game's main story revolves around the player character and their quest to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon who is prophesied to destroy the world. The videogame is set two hundred years after the events of Oblivion, and takes place in the fictional province of Skyrim. Over the course of the game, the player completes quests and develops the character by improving skills. The game continues the open world tradition of its predecessors by allowing the player to travel anywhere in the game world at any time, and to ignore or postpone the main storyline indefinitely.
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Komentáře • 631

  • @kestradavis5372
    @kestradavis5372 Před 4 lety +1290

    One of my favorite lines about the elder scrolls is when you ask Urag gro-Shub who wrote them: "It would take at least a decade to explain to you why that question doesn't even make sense."

    • @jjsouls6986
      @jjsouls6986 Před 4 lety +125

      He said a month.

    • @kestradavis5372
      @kestradavis5372 Před 4 lety +73

      @@jjsouls6986 right, sorry. It's been a while since I played.

    • @jjsouls6986
      @jjsouls6986 Před 4 lety +27

      @@kestradavis5372 lol no big deal

    • @sdFreerey
      @sdFreerey Před 3 lety +7

      I totally forgot about that grumpy old orc

    • @frank8917
      @frank8917 Před 3 lety +5

      Seriously who wrote it?

  • @dariustiapula
    @dariustiapula Před 4 lety +485

    Tod Howard on the Elder Scrolls "It just works".

    • @Revan-eb1wb
      @Revan-eb1wb Před 4 lety +20

      16 times the scrolls

    • @sheogoraththedaedricprince9675
      @sheogoraththedaedricprince9675 Před 4 lety +9

      Tod blames to many problems on me. Time to dust off the Wabbajack!

    • @lukeuntld072v3
      @lukeuntld072v3 Před 4 lety +8

      U see that scroll over there? if u can see it u can read it

    • @grefsteel3989
      @grefsteel3989 Před 4 lety +4

      Sixteen details the times!

    • @johnballs1352
      @johnballs1352 Před 4 lety +8

      @Neverlandia If you have not played Morrowind, Oblivion or daggerfall then please shut the fuk up about it.

  • @DFAnton
    @DFAnton Před 4 lety +409

    "No one does blasphemy quite like the dwarves."
    *laughs in Tribunal*

    • @TheChaoticToaster
      @TheChaoticToaster Před 2 lety +17

      To be fair, the Tribunal did something once that the Dwemer did on a daily basis.

    • @TRG29338
      @TRG29338 Před 2 lety +16

      The dwarves made a god lol. The Tribunal just lied a lot.

  • @GrandSupremeDaddyo
    @GrandSupremeDaddyo Před 4 lety +430

    The Elder Scrolls are unironically my favourite part of Elder Scrolls lore.
    The way characters talk about them makes me think of quantum mechanics. Like Septimus Signus got hold of a physics textbook from 2073, knew he had been given access to the inner workings of the universe, but couldn't comprehend the nonsense about entanglement, relativity and Schrodinger's cat.

    • @lazaglider
      @lazaglider Před 4 lety +39

      Intentional or not, that’s a really good analogy. I liken the scrolls back to when I was a teenager watching tv at 2am. One channel used to show ‘open university’ lectures. I remember watching some physics based ones and found them fascinating, but didn’t have a clue how to understand them. It’s like it’s all there, but you can’t quite grab it.

    • @thegoodlistenerslistenwell2646
      @thegoodlistenerslistenwell2646 Před 4 lety +11

      @@lazaglider dont worry, its actually not all there. Schrodinger himself believed the formulas were missing something.

    • @iCore7Gaming
      @iCore7Gaming Před 3 lety

      @@lazaglider i can't even grab 90% of what this guy in the video is saying. I swear most of it is just complete blabber. I feel he goes to in depth for someone like me who isn't really into much lore of the elder scrolls series.

    • @mike-0451
      @mike-0451 Před rokem

      He said it guys. He mentioned the cat. Did you know about the cat? It’s in a box and is dead and alive at the same time. Schrödinger’ cat. It’s a cat that’s dead and alive. Did you know that? Im 14 and I know this. Cat. Dead and alive. Schrödinger. Im a quantum mechanisms expert. Schrodinger’s cat.
      Manny Ramirez deserves to be in the hall of fame.

    • @OplzStretchy
      @OplzStretchy Před rokem

      @@mike-0451 now explain why the cat is dead and alive smarty pants

  • @thegrimcritic5494
    @thegrimcritic5494 Před 2 lety +100

    I love that the canonical answer to what is written in the Elder Scrolls is literally just the game’s code transcribed onto in-game paper. So you, a product of the game’s coding and programming, are looking upon the full design of the very game coding that comprises your entire existence. You all at once become aware of the entirety of your existence as well as the fact that it’s all just code.

  • @Snairster
    @Snairster Před 4 lety +679

    Fudgemuppet and Camelworks makes me want to believe the elder scrolls lore history more than real life history.

    • @noahd3717
      @noahd3717 Před 4 lety +2

      yeah p ooo

    • @Snairster
      @Snairster Před 4 lety +18

      @James Donnelly Calm down.

    • @Starius65
      @Starius65 Před 4 lety +11

      The ironic part is that fudgemuppet's explanation of the scrolls make it retcon-proof, perfect for uncoordinated writers.

    • @mastahoffman4137
      @mastahoffman4137 Před 4 lety +4

      It is an allegory for the truth of things...in a way...as many stories are.

    • @aaronb6763
      @aaronb6763 Před 4 lety +10

      @@Starius65 I was kinda thinking the scrolls account for the player base and all the different choices we've collectively made in all playthroughs of all the games. Essentially eyes into the multiverse. Wether your Dragonborn is a saintly paladin a necromancer that eats babies or a follower of old uncle Sheo running around turning people into cheese, all are Truths that can be told by the Scrolls.

  • @HoundofOdin
    @HoundofOdin Před 4 lety +381

    "No one does blasphemy quite like the dwarves."
    Except for those *damn faithless Imperials.*

  • @clericofchaos1
    @clericofchaos1 Před 4 lety +407

    you can buy one for 5.99 in es6

  • @theshittiestposter6853
    @theshittiestposter6853 Před 4 lety +602

    The elder scrolls are game disks in reality.

    • @JB-xl2jc
      @JB-xl2jc Před 4 lety +73

      Diskless is CHIM.

    • @caligulawellington3171
      @caligulawellington3171 Před 4 lety +17

      I thought it was the consol in wich you can enter commands in order to change reality. The player is the chim. Tod Howard i the Godhead.

    • @EndzeitMensch
      @EndzeitMensch Před 4 lety +12

      @@caligulawellington3171 Todd Howard is more like Clavicus Vile.

    • @caligulawellington3171
      @caligulawellington3171 Před 4 lety +4

      @@EndzeitMensch In his role as a game developer? I guess it makes sence. Then I suppose that Tamriel would be his plane of Oblivion?

    • @theshittiestposter6853
      @theshittiestposter6853 Před 4 lety +9

      @@caligulawellington3171 nono, the console is only available to those who have achieved chim, even greater understanding of chim is discovered by modders. The disk/files are the elder scroll and each playthrough is a possible future.

  • @shoozymusic
    @shoozymusic Před 3 lety +62

    I think the nature of the elder scrolls exists due to the very nature of a video game. There are many different players making many different decisions in many different ways and contexts. The elder scrolls show all possible futures and pasts through many different lenses essentially allowing for every player's time line to still fall under a prophecy.

    • @alekseimutovkin
      @alekseimutovkin Před rokem +4

      you are much closer to the answer than most of people. But you are a bit off the track. It is a bit more simpler.

  • @dmkatelyn
    @dmkatelyn Před 4 lety +168

    It should be noted that the Scrolls are heavily inspired by the real-world mythology of the Akashic Record, which is a very similar concept.

    • @grefsteel3989
      @grefsteel3989 Před 4 lety +16

      Never knew this. Fudgemuppet should look into this. Find real world examples on which things in the elder scrolls are based.

    • @sandelic1
      @sandelic1 Před 4 lety +2

      Indeed. Kudos for knowing that.

    • @bm1343
      @bm1343 Před 3 lety +2

      No way! Wow that’s actually mind blowing to me

    • @mike-0451
      @mike-0451 Před rokem

      If you’ve read anything in your life, you’ll see that all mythology and metaphysics are the same: chaos and order constantly in strife.
      It’s all the same shit and it’s obvious even to any undergrad philosophy major. Elder Scrolls is just another mythology of strife.

    • @mike-0451
      @mike-0451 Před rokem

      @@bm1343it shouldn’t. That’s like being surprised that cool aid is just flavored water.

  • @thevoidlookspretty7079
    @thevoidlookspretty7079 Před 4 lety +98

    The Dwemer got the Dragon scroll after the war, so I’m just imagining Dwarf attending Feldir’s funeral, and being like, “And this is mine.”

    • @stickmanmageofthelordtacha4917
      @stickmanmageofthelordtacha4917 Před 4 lety

      The Void Looks Pretty is that how they were wiped out?

    • @thevoidlookspretty7079
      @thevoidlookspretty7079 Před 4 lety +6

      Texas Red There are a lot of theories about how they were wiped out, but that ain’t one of them. Them having an elder scroll was entirely unrelated.

    • @stickmanmageofthelordtacha4917
      @stickmanmageofthelordtacha4917 Před 4 lety

      The Void Looks Pretty ok

    • @tommylyeah
      @tommylyeah Před 4 lety +2

      Azura cursed the Dwemer allegedly, but I don't know what of/with they were cursed; but perhaps this is a culprit of their mysterious disaopearance.

    • @grderable
      @grderable Před 4 lety +1

      @@stickmanmageofthelordtacha4917 they went to the moon

  • @MonochromeWench
    @MonochromeWench Před 4 lety +174

    i wonder has Maiq been in contact with an elder scroll. It would explain much about him.

    • @kaiyangkhoo7774
      @kaiyangkhoo7774 Před 4 lety +57

      "Maiq once read an elder scroll. So bright is the light that almost made him blind. Thank Alkosh that Maiq's eyes still sees."

    • @kayleescruggs6888
      @kayleescruggs6888 Před 4 lety +13

      Could Maiq possibly be an Elder Scroll personified?

    • @OmegaJuggalo
      @OmegaJuggalo Před 4 lety +7

      @@kayleescruggs6888 hes literally more mad then sheogorath

    • @masveil
      @masveil Před 4 lety +6

      Maiq is elder scrolls itself.

    • @aaronb6763
      @aaronb6763 Před 4 lety +14

      Pretty sure M'aiq is supposed to be Rajhin the Khajiiti thief god, also known as "The Purring Liar"

  • @sebathadah1559
    @sebathadah1559 Před 4 lety +79

    As the scroll opened in the beginning my eyes actually hurt and I winced. But then I was like...wait a second.

  • @mesektet5776
    @mesektet5776 Před 4 lety +112

    The Scrolls can be altered, actually. I seem to recall a certain Fox who was lost to memory and history and reinstated himself by rewriting his place within one of the Scrolls.

    • @TheOnlyAlchimous
      @TheOnlyAlchimous Před 4 lety +57

      You recall incorrectly. The scroll he used named the original thief of the Gray Cowl. He used that to break Nocturnal's curse on it, in doing so regained his own life instead of becoming the Fox.

    • @mesektet5776
      @mesektet5776 Před 4 lety +40

      TheOnlyAlchimous Clearly my memory was compromised, I blame Nocturnal.

    • @TerrariaGolem
      @TerrariaGolem Před 4 lety

      @@mesektet5776 :o

    • @aysseralwan
      @aysseralwan Před 4 lety +1

      @@mesektet5776 daedras be cursed

    • @Stealther11
      @Stealther11 Před 4 lety

      @@TheOnlyAlchimous but it's still an elder scroll

  • @itsclemtime2357
    @itsclemtime2357 Před 4 lety +13

    Elder Scroll: *Has beautiful drawing of Inigo on it*
    Person who looks upon it: **Screams in horror and goes blind and crazy**

  • @martins4781
    @martins4781 Před 4 lety +79

    for all this years of playing I never thought about what are the Elder Scrolls anyway

    • @arkeshn729
      @arkeshn729 Před 4 lety +7

      They always felt like macguffins to me.

    • @stickmanmageofthelordtacha4917
      @stickmanmageofthelordtacha4917 Před 4 lety +2

      Martin S I just thought they were writings that people cursed just to fuck with anybody who tries to read them and all they say is some recipe for poison labeled as *”HEALING”*

  • @dildovagins7266
    @dildovagins7266 Před 4 lety +178

    Elder scrolls are basically notes of lore writers from Bethesda

    • @notahamster333
      @notahamster333 Před 2 lety

      lmao

    • @steviegreenthumb4720
      @steviegreenthumb4720 Před 2 lety +2

      my headcanon has been for a while that the elder scrolls are the representation for the will of the player and the writers/developers together kinda thing

  • @badro-agent808
    @badro-agent808 Před 4 lety +39

    reading an elder scrolls sounds like an ayahuasca trip

  • @Galimeer5
    @Galimeer5 Před 4 lety +22

    "Just as the laws of physics describe how our universe works, a transcendent cosmological song describes how the Elder Scrolls universe, the Aurbis works. And the Elder Scrolls themselves are the sheet music of the song"
    In order to understand the Scrolls, you need to step beyond the Aurbis.

  • @lydiaives733
    @lydiaives733 Před 4 lety +25

    The scrolls sound like Augur of the obscure. Enigmatic, powerful, inexplicable knowledge.

  • @tristintaylor7999
    @tristintaylor7999 Před 4 lety +48

    The games are the elder scrolls themselves telling stories of heros, monsters and mortals. We viewing these scrolls are beings beyond mundus and nirn but even we need a device to translate such knowledge we see what the scrolls offer through the eyes of the hero so vividly and accurate we mistakenly think we are controlling the actions of the chosen but really the scrolls show every possible outcome every conceivable choice or action the chosen hero could have and did make. Based on the reader the scrolls show the choices more aligned with said readers moral compass to further blur the line between reader and hero. I like this theory a lot lol

    • @viveka2994
      @viveka2994 Před 4 lety

      Kinda like Red Dead redemption is seen thru a movie

    • @halvorson566
      @halvorson566 Před 2 lety

      Well my reading of then is has BPD. Some days it's happy, talkingbto everyone. The next im slaughtering every hold, breaking out of Cidhna Mine&then slaughter the foreshore I helped escape because fuck everyone.

    • @alekseimutovkin
      @alekseimutovkin Před rokem

      you almost nailed it. But Elder Scrolls are not games themselves. Yet, you are close. It is a bit more mundane.

    • @darklurkerirl6101
      @darklurkerirl6101 Před rokem

      Elder scrolls : game codes

  • @Jimmyinvictus
    @Jimmyinvictus Před 4 lety +22

    Septimus Signus provided one of the most interesting attempt at explaining what the Scrolls actually are, but even his viewpoint was limited by his perspective as a finite, imperfect being constrained by linear time. I think the Scrolls, like the Dwemer, work best as an enigma; give us hints and tidbits (like poor Septimus), but please don't spoil the mystery.

    • @johnballs1352
      @johnballs1352 Před 4 lety +4

      Right? Like how in the prequel trilogy of star wars they felt the need to explain the force as midichlorians, when it worked much better as spirituality/mystery

  • @jessebates2884
    @jessebates2884 Před 4 lety +101

    This may sound like a crazy analogy, But I've always liked looking at the relationship between hermaeus Mora and the Elder Scrolls like a CCG. I'll explain...
    You have a deck of possible outcomes in an unknowable order (the elder scrolls) and a graveyard of spent or lost known outcomes, organized in order in which they were spent or lost (hermaeus Mora)
    Metaphorically speaking there are events that FORCE you to shuffle the deck, burn the top three cards. But also events that ALLOW you to look at the top three cards in your deck, as well as cards that allow you to revive spent cards from your graveyard... etc etc.
    This relationship plays out with a deck of truly unlimited cards and a graveyard of seemingly unlimited cards. Hermaeus Mora cannot crave a card that is yet to be drawn, and the Elder Scrolls can only tell you the cards that might be in the deck not the order in which they will be drawn.

  • @colbyjackcheese4964
    @colbyjackcheese4964 Před 4 lety +81

    Alright fudgemuppet be honest do you know real history or ElderScrolls history better

    • @sylph4252
      @sylph4252 Před 4 lety +31

      I'm preety sure almost everyone here knows Elder Scrolls history better

    • @colbyjackcheese4964
      @colbyjackcheese4964 Před 4 lety +5

      I put so much effort into making videos that get like 2 likes and then this random comment gets 40

    • @CAPace09
      @CAPace09 Před 4 lety +2

      I study real life history *nervously looks around*

    • @viveka2994
      @viveka2994 Před 4 lety

      @@CAPace09 heretic

  • @dungeonanime
    @dungeonanime Před 4 lety +74

    What if the scrolls are actually just code, kinda like the world is a simulation theory, and the more you read the code the more you can diverge from your own programming. This might explain why the dwemer disappeared, they were deleted just not their information. An interesting theory for sure.

    • @crackedupmonk
      @crackedupmonk Před 4 lety +5

      This is the truth, not just theory. The creators of this IP have said as much.

    • @dungeonanime
      @dungeonanime Před 4 lety

      @@crackedupmonk Really? didnt know that ill have to take a look into it. thanks for the info.

    • @connorsmith6517
      @connorsmith6517 Před 4 lety

      Asgeir too woke

    • @pancakes8670
      @pancakes8670 Před 4 lety

      Magic works like a computer code

    • @SirTorcharite
      @SirTorcharite Před 4 lety +5

      @@pancakes8670 technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.

  • @alexanderrahl7034
    @alexanderrahl7034 Před 4 lety +14

    Hmm
    In a world of chaos where all have the power to choose their fate and make their own destiny. The idea of a prophecy that determines it for you would probably be a pretty scary and unwelcome thing. Something of a curse

  • @kineticstar
    @kineticstar Před 4 lety +12

    Tod Howard can't wait to reveal The Elder Scrolls 67: The Final Straw

  • @rejvaik00
    @rejvaik00 Před 3 lety +7

    "Will you look into the elder Scroll?"
    "What will I see?"
    "Even the wisest cannot tell, for the scrolls shows many things. Things that _were_ , things that _are_ and some things.....that have not yet come to pass"

  • @idipped2521
    @idipped2521 Před 4 lety +15

    I hope they make it canon that Parthuurnax lived but they probably will keep it ambiguous

  • @Elurin
    @Elurin Před 4 lety +5

    8:52 "What should mortals do when they discover one?" One thing that I think has never been thought of before: Eat it!! Consume the Elder Scroll and gain the Power of the Universe!!! I suggest in a stir fry with pork, or perhaps shredded in a pancake with blueberry syrup.

    • @Crazylom
      @Crazylom Před 2 lety

      Dunno man, Scrolls seem a bit too big...
      GIVE ONE TO GIANT!

  • @fluffyxsnoballs6756
    @fluffyxsnoballs6756 Před 4 lety +39

    Me: Half-Asleep
    Phone: Buzz
    Pickup phone sees Elder Scrolls: Well im not sleeping now.....

  • @DahrkMezalf
    @DahrkMezalf Před 4 lety +28

    So the Scrolls (basically) either:
    1) Tell the future, in a self-fulfilling, quest-giver kind of way: "The Last Dragonborn will become a Thane!".
    2) Allow you to make a wish: "I want full skill trees!".
    Who's to say which Scroll does what? And it sounds like they could pop up literally anywhere.
    - "Ope, I found this in my onion fields yesterday"
    (Annnd a plague of Blind Madness suddenly sweeps the nation, as unknowing townsfolk read a Cosmic Shopping List that drives them insane).
    Somewhere, Hermaeus Mora is laughing diabolically.

    • @DahrkMezalf
      @DahrkMezalf Před 4 lety

      @Neverlandia I know that lol; I just think it's a hilarious visual: random scrolls popping up and people going insane trying to see what they are.

    • @budgetproductions1178
      @budgetproductions1178 Před 2 lety

      @@DahrkMezalf those who doesn't have the insight to read an elder scroll will not be able to comprehend it and is not affected by its side effects.
      if you are illiterate about the scrolls, it will not harm you, but it will just be a piece of metal and paper.

  • @macgaming-theincrediblefas5295

    Last time i was this early dragon breaks redconned the outcome

  • @samuelomloop889
    @samuelomloop889 Před 4 lety +8

    What's the thing you got there?
    Fudgemuppet: an elder Scroooouuuul

  • @The_Keeper
    @The_Keeper Před 4 lety +12

    The Elder Scrolls are the patch notes from all the games. :)

  • @ethangold6936
    @ethangold6936 Před 4 lety +20

    I always liked the reading room form oblivion like that would be a kick ass room for a player home

    • @grefsteel3989
      @grefsteel3989 Před 4 lety +2

      Too many blind folk in there, not enough hot female librarians

  • @jtjames79
    @jtjames79 Před 4 lety +66

    The elder scrolls are deus ex machina. They are whatever you need them to be because you wrote yourself into a corner.
    To be fair it's deus ex machina done well.

    • @tamonk9054
      @tamonk9054 Před 3 lety +4

      There not really they can serve as most things in a story but an elderscroll can’t save your arse when you’re overrun by bandits they serve alot of story purposes but those purposes are justified on the context of the story something being key to the story doesn’t make it a deus ex machina

    • @jtjames79
      @jtjames79 Před 3 lety +5

      @@tamonk9054 the save file is an elder scroll.

    • @tamonk9054
      @tamonk9054 Před 3 lety +3

      Forlarren in morrowind the savefile is chim and that’s the only we really had anything remotely mentioned about the savefile in game

    • @DR-ng7oh
      @DR-ng7oh Před 3 lety +1

      @@tamonk9054 You can actually use an Elder Scroll against a group of bandits. Flash the scroll on their faces and you got the best flashbang.

    • @noobguy9973
      @noobguy9973 Před 3 lety

      @@DR-ng7oh ''tactical scroll going in'' -some SWAT Dragonborn

  • @ghostwarrior3878
    @ghostwarrior3878 Před 4 lety +2

    This is actually just the deal I need to hear because all my time playing the Elder Scrolls games I never actually understood a whole lot of them myself outside of seeing them in game and hearing NPCs talk about them.
    So thank you for making this, this helped answer my questions that came to me during my playthroughs

  • @leshi1926
    @leshi1926 Před 4 lety +2

    “To keep this video from being feature length...”
    Me: Damn, that’s something I would watch. SEND THAT SHIT TO HOLLYWOOD

  • @professorbaelus627
    @professorbaelus627 Před 3 lety +3

    "I can't describe the scrolls"
    proceeds to near perfectly describe them as the scripts of reality

  • @sylph4252
    @sylph4252 Před 4 lety

    I've been waiting for this. Was really surprised you hadn't made one yet. Keep up the good work

  • @cyberstryke
    @cyberstryke Před 4 lety +8

    "Trust Septimus, he knows you can know!"

    • @carebear_45
      @carebear_45 Před 2 lety +1

      yea like what the f*ck is that supposed to mean🤣

  • @andrewoost9048
    @andrewoost9048 Před 4 lety +6

    I think the elder scrolls are the elder scrolls - as in the games. Think about it, the scrolls document all potential outcomes - the games also do that by letting the player do as they choose in a world of infinite choices. The discs and programs we bought were the literal elder scrolls the whole time, which is why a game doesn't need a scroll in its plot for it to be and elder scroll (game).

  • @MonDieuMaCauseMonEpee
    @MonDieuMaCauseMonEpee Před 3 lety +3

    The Elder Scrolls are the allegories of everyone's head cannon of whoever played or developed , is playing or developing, or will one day play or will one day develop an elder scrolls game.

  • @simplestrum
    @simplestrum Před 4 lety +4

    Such power. Elder scrolls can do more than just prophesize, they can also banish, as was the case with Alduin. If they exist outside mortal comprehension and limits, then there's no end to what they can do. My opinion is that mortals only see them as prophecy parchments because that tip of the iceberg is all that is accessible to us. Mortals do not have the means to unlock or access or even comprehend the rest of their limitless abilities. Apparently, Feldir did discover as well as access its power to banish.

  • @dopetokeman3171
    @dopetokeman3171 Před 3 lety +2

    1:53 “we’d all likely ascend to Toddhood”

  • @stygianoatman
    @stygianoatman Před 4 lety +9

    They say you can't use elder scrolls as armor in the game but why not? Just strap them to yourself like a chestplate, they wouldn't need to be broken. They're indestructible so it'd be worth the weird looking armor strapped to you.

    • @crackedupmonk
      @crackedupmonk Před 4 lety +5

      Drogonborn, “it just works”
      That’s why not

    • @GuitarsRockForever
      @GuitarsRockForever Před 4 lety +4

      Bonus point: if anyone who see the scroll will be blinded, it would be the perfect armor.

    • @scottdodge6979
      @scottdodge6979 Před 4 lety +1

      I'm pretty sure they just randomly disappear unfortunately 😔. They phase in and out of existence.

  • @MrInternetMan
    @MrInternetMan Před 4 lety +17

    I'd be interested in seeing a future antagonist that wants to destroy the elder scrolls.

    • @ToxicNeon
      @ToxicNeon Před 4 lety +6

      I really love this idea! I feel like it could play well with a potential plot with the thalmor.

    • @acedarkblade1552
      @acedarkblade1552 Před 4 lety +5

      Oh, you mean Todd Howard, the Profaned Mage

    • @joshcanttakeajoke2853
      @joshcanttakeajoke2853 Před 2 lety +1

      You and the psijic order with the eye of magnus aim to destroy the scrolls to stop the cycle of rebirth and enter the Eternal kalpa

  • @nariopolus
    @nariopolus Před 4 lety +1

    Every time I listen to one of these videos I get slapped upside the head with some crazy ass lore words I’ve never heard of

  • @nroke1684
    @nroke1684 Před 4 lety +9

    What if the elder scrolls are the thoughts of the dreamer, the ego. And sithis is the unconscious, the id.

  • @robinchwan
    @robinchwan Před 4 lety

    all this time until now and i never had the thought that we're watching ( when playing elder scrolls) an elder scrolls of events that have happened or have yet to be happening

  • @arthursoter5864
    @arthursoter5864 Před 4 lety +2

    Sugestion: It would be really cool if you remaster "The Gladiator" build.
    Nice vid btw

  • @booshmcfadden7638
    @booshmcfadden7638 Před 2 lety +1

    Ever check the time, immediately forget, and have to check again? Imagine doing that with an Elder Scroll.

  • @andrew_the_ok3596
    @andrew_the_ok3596 Před 4 lety

    I’ve wanted this video for a while thank you.

  • @HighmageDerin
    @HighmageDerin Před 4 lety +3

    I've always seen them this way, they are the MS-DOS box in which the programming language of Mundus is displayed on. It's blinding to the people that live inside Tamriel because it is their source code and they can't make heads or tails out of it. It's like us trying to get a grasp on quantum mechanics the more we think we learn the more complicated it gets.

    • @itsclemtime2357
      @itsclemtime2357 Před 4 lety

      HighmageDerin Woah GLaDOS slow down

    • @HighmageDerin
      @HighmageDerin Před 4 lety

      @@itsclemtime2357 cOme tO mOndus We haVe CAKE.... but its a liE....

  • @jesse2535
    @jesse2535 Před 4 lety

    I'v been wating for this video for such a long time... now it is finally here :D

  • @barrywilkinson8470
    @barrywilkinson8470 Před 4 lety +1

    Great stuff as always great work mate👍

  • @ghostwriterj9421
    @ghostwriterj9421 Před 4 lety +7

    What about the Psiijics? Do we have any info on them working with or being affected by the scrolls?

  • @domoloveroquinn5257
    @domoloveroquinn5257 Před 4 lety +34

    Up too late squad where you at?!

  • @ASavageSandwich
    @ASavageSandwich Před 4 lety +15

    The Elder Scrolls - The ultimate instrument for Retcons

  • @The_Very_Tall_Midget
    @The_Very_Tall_Midget Před rokem +1

    I only just realized the elder scrolls are literally the codes of the game, like the actual codes that make up the game

  • @anonymoussmartass5347
    @anonymoussmartass5347 Před 4 lety +1

    So Olava the Feeble read an Elder Scroll? That’s what gave her the fortune telling power she claims to have?

  • @zealotmaster1
    @zealotmaster1 Před 4 lety +14

    freeze dried sweetrolls and that's what elder scrolls are made of

  • @grindcorepr92
    @grindcorepr92 Před 4 lety

    A difficult topic to handle. Well done!

  • @connorsmith6517
    @connorsmith6517 Před 4 lety

    I really hope we get more of an explanation or a deep dive into the lord of the Elder Scrolls in this next game

  • @Blandy8521
    @Blandy8521 Před 4 lety +2

    This video just gave me an idea.
    What if the games is someone looking at a scroll

  • @bizznick444joe7
    @bizznick444joe7 Před 6 měsíci

    What if the Elder Scrolls are your save files. You record past, present and future save files. You can also record a different timeline of what different choices you made, what skills you developed, what classes you chose, what choices you made are different every save file.
    It's interesting because the Xenogears series actually brought up the save files the Zohar was in fact something more greater than they actually were and had a greater plan.

  • @themadmystic1688
    @themadmystic1688 Před 4 lety +1

    From a physical and meta-physical standpoint, they are likely singularities containing the potential realities of the tower-wheel.

  • @Wildoutness
    @Wildoutness Před 4 lety +3

    1:14
    What if the dwemer had someone read a scroll that gave them the knowledge to read scrolls without the fear of blindness, madness or death?
    After that leaving the universe wouldn't be far behind.

    • @coleozaeta6344
      @coleozaeta6344 Před měsícem

      In their Tower of Mzark Oculory, they were trying to read the Dragon Scroll without the negative effects. It didn’t work. But, instead it looks like they may have put the information in the Scroll into a lexicon in a format that was understandable. This was to read the information without looking at the Scroll itself.

  • @devilmoonrisen1536
    @devilmoonrisen1536 Před 4 lety +2

    I always thought the elder scrolls were time itself being documented, however they possessed some level of time travel itself. In Skyrim one of the elder scrolls present is documenting your actions that are effecting the entire world and all of its boundaries, and you read one and bam, you are present in the time another one was documenting someone slaying a dragon, and if i remember correctly someone acknowledges you being there as if they can cause you to time travel, or manifest yourself where events occured within the scroll. They're a rolled up wormhole. or i have no idea what i am talking about.

  • @codafett
    @codafett Před 4 měsíci

    I love everything about the Elder Scrolls. They're the biggest mystery in the series despite being the namesake.

  • @JustPatrik
    @JustPatrik Před 4 lety

    1:42 These moth priests are legends! Not many people can read, but these can read even being blind!!!

  • @RatedAwesome
    @RatedAwesome Před 4 lety

    Ive always wondered the exact power and influence of the scrolls, particularly in other continents

  • @RXTRUX1
    @RXTRUX1 Před 4 lety +4

    So they're basicly Todd's doodles.

  • @orthodoxcrusader8568
    @orthodoxcrusader8568 Před 4 lety +3

    Ok don't mock me cause of this
    What if Ma'iq is actually an immortal being (god) who is actually the elder one the one who exists forever and that HE wrote the scrolls
    Not impossible right?

  • @justinjacobs1501
    @justinjacobs1501 Před měsícem +1

    Maybe the Elder Scrolls were the friends we made along the way?

  • @BRUXXUS
    @BRUXXUS Před 4 lety +1

    I should see if my local library has a scroll I can check out. 🤔

  • @painitful
    @painitful Před 4 lety +12

    I've always wondered why your character, on two occasions hasn't gone blind from reading the elder scrolls.

    • @painitful
      @painitful Před 4 lety +2

      @Sebastian edwards true, so perhaps that's why.

    • @doriangalathynius2795
      @doriangalathynius2795 Před 4 lety +12

      Because heroes-prophecied by the scrolls-are sort of related to the scrolls. That's what according to r/teslore

    • @truerebel5467
      @truerebel5467 Před 4 lety +4

      ​@Sebastian edwards Well if TLD didnt know how to read them he would had never been able to go back in time and learn dragonrend or found the location of auriels bow.A select few are meant to read elder scrolls and TLD just so happens to be one of the few. Also due to the fact that TLD is related to and is a dragon he is a shard of time which makes him more intuned with the scrolls

    • @quentinmclemore6934
      @quentinmclemore6934 Před 4 lety

      I mean we are talking about someone who can talk to dragons and hell even talking dogs so one can say maybe are player is actually high

    • @HeyElizabethPrice
      @HeyElizabethPrice Před 4 lety +5

      Well, the Dragonborn has the literal soul and blood of a dragon. If dragons are particularly susceptible to the Scrolls, perhaps that has something to do with it? Plus, it's also a good point that you really only see vague and odd symbols, and then the second time you're just using their power to see through a time wound.
      Also, dragonborn, lore-wise, are overpowered af so who knows?

  • @Xolcm
    @Xolcm Před 4 lety +2

    The Elder Scrolls are a paradox. They exist outside of time, yet they can't read non-linear time; they can't record what happens during Dragon Breaks, when time stops working. If the Scrolls existed before the universe and before Akatosh came into being, who is time, then what is the Scroll's original purpose?

  • @BalloutNewDregas
    @BalloutNewDregas Před rokem

    big metal tube with a roll of sparkly paper

  • @IamaDinosaur
    @IamaDinosaur Před 4 lety +1

    GodHead: *Smiles Sinisterly*

  • @joerobins5649
    @joerobins5649 Před 4 lety +1

    Isn't the point of the moth priests that they're able to narrow down the possible prophecies of a scroll into its certain prophecies?
    And that the scrolls exist because a scroll is how mortals perceive the fragments of creation, or the points of origin from which possible futures branch out. Which is why they tend to appear and disappear, because possible futures also appear and disappear as events are set in stone within a timeline.

  • @TheChaosNova
    @TheChaosNova Před 4 lety

    could you do a sneaky melee build for outer world? a sort of board supporting assassin?

  • @bhambabean1192
    @bhambabean1192 Před 3 lety +2

    My theory was just the elder scrolls are all the coding used to make the games. A sort of fourth wall. Or quantum computer, referencing to a simulation theory or something.

  • @SeanSnow64
    @SeanSnow64 Před 4 lety +3

    Personally I beilive that the elder scrolls are the blueprint for time itself and are ever changing according to how time is altered by those worthy of altering it. I also believe that Magnus while possibly not the creator I do think that he probably used the scrolls in conjunction with his staff to finish the creation of Nirn.

  • @wanderingbufoon
    @wanderingbufoon Před 4 lety

    Sounds like something you can find in Jyggalag's library

  • @JacobFaubion
    @JacobFaubion Před 4 měsíci

    I wonder if you could use the skeleton key to unlock the full power/knowledge in a scroll such that a mortal can access it

  • @markblackburn2343
    @markblackburn2343 Před 4 lety +2

    I think the Elder Scrolls are similar to the Sister's of fate in Greek Mythology. The power to literally reshape an exsistence instantly that even if Gods directly intefere have no power over.

  • @nicholasmenzel201
    @nicholasmenzel201 Před 3 lety +2

    how are the scrolls affected by time, if time is only a function of mundus because of akatosh?

  • @trbd
    @trbd Před 2 lety

    "Yeah Todd is a big Lovecraft fan how can you tell?"

  • @statiichydra1351
    @statiichydra1351 Před 4 lety +23

    Is being a daedric artifact worth it?

  • @waywardjoker6061
    @waywardjoker6061 Před 11 měsíci

    7:00 makes me think of delphine wanting to kill paarthurnax

  • @bizznick444joe7
    @bizznick444joe7 Před 6 měsíci

    You know what the Elder Scrolls lore makes me want to to play every game in the series. That's true marketing right there. Keep it a mystery. Only other story as intruiging as this was the one in Chrono Cross.

  • @subtlegong2817
    @subtlegong2817 Před 4 měsíci +1

    The Elder Scrolls are game code.
    Seriously though, I’d love at least one future game to recognize the playable character, and all previous playable characters by extension, as the temporary avatar of the Godhead (ie the player). It would explain why they fulfill so many prophecies, why they can experience an elder scroll without going mad or blind, why they can make deals with Deadra without being bound in servitude to them, and why they can achieve greater power than the most powerful characters in game. Just a thought

  • @Lyoko012345
    @Lyoko012345 Před 4 lety +1

    Perhaps the elder scrolls are the reminence of the previous Kalpas with a new elder scroll being created at the end of each one holding knowledge of the events that happened during it. And because each go around, as it were, is slightly different two people can look at two different elder scrolls and see two different outcomes of the same event. And when an events that happened before happen again they become temporary locked as the next elder scroll begins to be written. This also ties into my sub theory that there are a limited number of possible events and outcomes and each go around cycles through and randomizes the order in which they happen. And perhaps when all the events and prophecy’s of the oldest and first elder scroll lock into place something grand will happen good or bad.

  • @Evan-fd5wn
    @Evan-fd5wn Před 4 lety +1

    Good video 👑

  • @Davadazed
    @Davadazed Před 4 lety +1

    Didn't notice out early I was till I read the comments

  • @danielb1828
    @danielb1828 Před měsícem

    I am a firm believer that there was another entity before creation that it is their power that created the scrolls. And that entity disappeared after creating them..

  • @lucasthompson4171
    @lucasthompson4171 Před 2 lety

    Quandary, would the auger in the mage college of winter hold be the final form of a moth priest?