A fantastic recap that was, undoubtedly, no easy task! Amazing work as usual!

To me I feel the most "canon" ending is to give the gem to the underking. Nobody gets the auto-win robot and acturin simply thanks you and dies.

Daggerfall is the definition of "i'm limited by the technology of my time"

The totem of Tiber Septim is clearly just a doll from the Shivering Isles, in which the Mad God has simply planted a spooky message. It has no power at all, and the whole Dragonbreak didn’t happen. It was all just an elaborate prank.

Go ahead and tell me that Totem of Tiber Septim is not a baby in a swaddle

Uriel: "I need you to find a letter for me. It's a lesser request, but the contents can't get out." Gorthwog: "I'm about to do a pro gamer move." *Send copies of the letter to everybody* Uriel: "Well... Shit."

There’s so much lore how do we not have a tv show for elders scrolls

That first bit where you were delving in, *chef kiss*. I can hear you staring down at a pile of open scrolls on a table with the king asking you what happened in this area and you're just like "A LOT, my lord. A WHOLE ASS lot."

Gortwog be like "dolla dolla bills" as time itself breaks

I never got into Arena and Daggerfall so the first thing I searched for after watching the summary on Arena was Daggerfall recap but couldn't find a concise video anywhere. Now I understand why that is, fantastic stuff.

Finally more lore

I finished this game completely and I was still surprised with this video. I remembered the beginning with the emperor giving us our objective and the end where we gave the totem to a faction. But I didn’t remember what happened between that. So when you said that the letter was the important objective I was like “…What?…”

I Can't wait for the Morrowind Abridged video! Another 3 years, isn't that just too short?, ISN'T IT!?

Thank you VERY much. I never could get into Daggerfall because of it's controls and abysmal beginner dungeon. Though I knew roughly what were the results in Daggerfall, I never knew what happened excactly. Again, thank you.

Love that your using the beyond skyrim soundtrack, it's actually amazing how good it is.

I started playing this game back in 1997 and it wasn't until my third playthrough (not counting all the abysmal failures) that I began to piece together the threads of the story. Yes, the quests aren't linear or scripted, but that just puts the responsibility of learning the story on the player. You can simply be an agent who follows orders or someone who begins to assemble the jigsaw. The later games improved the methods of storytelling, but not the stories they told. No later entry has matched Daggerfall's story. It seems to be the curse of modern media. As we've developed the ability to have much richer visual effects, we've stopped depending on good stories to hook the audience. This applies to games, films, etc. Thanks for sharing this & I hope you give the game more attention. It can be an uphill battle at times, but you're rewarded with a much deeper sense of accomplishment. Fighting Alduin or Dagoth Ur don't seem to have the same weight as compared to the choices the Agent makes, even though the later three stories are all "save the world" tales.

You’re literally doing what I wanted to do about a year from now: make comprehensive videos about the lore of the amazing franchise that is The Elder Scrolls with images, maps, and jokes. Keep up the good work! I’m jealous that you get to do it. Anything I make would practically be copying you with how well you explain the stories. I fell in love with Skyrim when it first came out and that game hit me hard. I played it endlessly. I stopped for a while and came back to it in 2016. It was then that I realized that these games are incredibly profound stories. I realized that I had to play Oblivion, then Morrowind, then Daggerfall, and Arena. I’ve been reading the lore pages on the internet for a couple of years and it’s just amazing how entertaining and well thought out this franchise is. Screw Game and Thrones and Lord of the Rings (as much as I love Tolkien and his work), the Elder Scrolls are by far the best fantasy genre out there!

It premiers on my birthday. I know what I'm watching on my birthday.

That King of the Farm joke had me in stitches. This whole section is hilarious. Not even 2 minutes in and this is absolute gold. Great job man.

Even though oblivion was my first TES, Daggerfall will forever be my favorite TES game. I can not move away from it for long before I get the itch to play again. Love your channel.

Words cant describe how much i love this lore videos

We need more massive, timeline shattering events, shake up the Universe a little bit

This was such a wonderful and enjoyable video to watch. I love TES lore and never really got into Daggerfall, but this was a nice way to learn about all the major plot points.

Very nice! Good job!

I always knew Daggerfall was a rabbit hole, but DAMN! I didn't expect this level of story layers xD

Double Negative brings another well made vid. Always worth the wait.

(spoiler-free comment, don't worry...) There was this magical moment when I was playing Elder Scrolls Daggerfall for the 1st time ever... I was a few hours into the game, nothing significant happened, and then I find this letter, written by someone that has been missing for a while, that his kidnapping was in fact (...spoilers, can't write here...) I still remember how MAD I was for what they did to this guy... And then the game leaves it as an open choice if you will help him or not... It's crazy, Daggerfall has like 6 or 7 story paths and you can end up with 4 or 5 different endings, I don't even remember the total amount, some of them overlap... Glorious game... Must play... 10 out of 10 standing ovation

Your Elder Scrolls content is fantastic, please continue making it

Looking forward to this!! I rewatch your content all the time dude you’re the best

Ah praise Dagoth, another lore channel to enjoy. This is really neat, since I am unlikely to ever play this one.

Gosh. This was legit so enjoyable to watch. looking forward to the next one

I really wanna know more about other divines in Tamriel. Like the cult of daedras, moons and so on. By the way, keep up your work, I really love what you do for the community

If you decide to play Daggerfall, I highly suggest the remake made in the Unity engine.

Great video! Your channel indeed deserves more subs, keep up the good work!

I feel like Daggerfall’s main quest is the best imo because it’s all about unraveling and uncovering deep backstory and lore about the various factions, and the player character is literally just a investigator. It’s much better than Morrowind imo because your character is essentially just a nobody that can become somebody by using politics and investigating to essentially determine the fate of the Iliac Bay. People wrangle on about how shallow Oblivion/Skyrim are but honestly Morrowind is a lot more shallow than Daggerfall. Like sure you are a stranger in a strange land and sure your reputation kinda matters but you hardly have much of an impact. Like getting the Moon and Star ring only seems to have much of an impact on a side quest while you basically get kinda screwed by the ashlanders because you still have to do various quests for them yet you are Nerevarine Incarnate. Yes maybe the ring is fake and a forgery but why would they assume that if Azura is their god? Plus killing Vivex before you get wraithguard doesn’t really make any sense, why not kill him afterwards for him to pass knowledge of wraithguard and the better wraithguard since killing him before is kinda idiotic. Yes you made a vow but he killed you in a past life anyway so why not backstab him? Daggerfall doesn’t have any of those issues imo because everything is open ended and it’s more fun reading letters and discovering the motivations of the various factions than being forced to do fetch quests that give you boring information on the Nerevarine. Don’t get me wrong, Morrowind is a good game too but imo I like Daggerfall main quest and narrative better imo. Morrowind has the better skills (except Ettiqute, Stretwise, climbing and Thatmuturgey are cool)

These are all amazing! Please keep making them!

I'm only familiar with Daggerfall because some mad lad ported it to Skyrim (yes, for real its called Skygerfall)

I always like your videos and can't get enough of elderscrolls lore so please keep making them they're always entertaining to watch.

Your videos are always worth waiting for.

That was really fun, thanks for making this!

This is an amazing recap that makes the meandering narrative actually make sense

WOW ! Thanks for explaining to us. I subbed to you, you definitely deserve more.🙏🏻

didn't realize there were made so recently. Really looking forward to more

These videos are so inspiring and motivating to me to keep worldbuilding my d&d world

Fantastic recap! Truly appreciated!

Great vid, but how dare you leave me in a cliffhanger about the dragon break 😭🤡

I actually love your Chanel and really appreciate your hard work

The Bluetooth hate has me thinking you’re getting paid by “big wires”

Amazingly done

If you're planning on continue this series, can you talk about the Great War in detail?

Lore master fantastic video!

I suspect the Totem, given its looks, was crafted from Tiber Septim's firstborn. And considering Wormy Boi's desire for both firstborns, totems, mantellae et al.

Well done, that was very enjoyable to listen to

This is amazing!

I here by command you with the help of my super awesome divine magic authority powers to make one of these videos for every main series Elder Scrolls game, and possibly one for each of the "spin-off" games. I am glad that we could come to an agreement and that you shall do as I say :) If I am just being a big dumb dumb and these videos already exist, I would love to be pointed in the direction of them :) Love these videos man keep it going

Looking forward to it!

This was great, Thank You!

Splendid video sir!

Make a morrowind one please and keep up the great content I just found out about your channel a couple days ago and I've binge watched all of your lore videos

So uhm… is the channel still alive ? I really love this stuff

Yo, this is super dope man, glad you're back 👍🏾 What do you plan on next? Perhaps the Snow Elves? Or maybe a run-through of some of the Pantheons, like the Aldmeri or Atmoran Pantheon perhaps? These are pretty cool vidoe formats, so I'd appreciate any cool Lore you can muster. Perhaps even more in depth Mannimarco Lore could prove to be super cool as well

Need another video I’m hooked on the series

I want to watch this video so bad, but I'm still just at the start of the main quest and just now investigated the letters that Queen Mynisera was hiding. I cannot bring my self to get spoilers about kinf Lysandus' death rn

Just makes me sad that games can't have complex stories like this AND look good

Can’t wait to see this

Nicely done

I wish this guy had over a million subs

My best guess is that the totem is kinda like an AI that remotely pilots the giant dwarven mech of mass destruction. That's why it can use telepathy, seemingly has a mind of its own and a new one can't be made so easily.

You deserve 100,000 subs

Awesome. Love daggerfall.

While I took a deep dive into games (and for obvious reasons Daggerfall and Arena can be pain to finish, for one reason or other = bugs), i just took lazy path and MAN! Your lore videos are amazing! Sooo - the only "good" ending without desctruction is to give it to Underking. Somehow unexpected :)

5:45 - uh, no. MC of Daggerall's existance isnt even acknowleged, they remain an agent and are forgotten to history.

I thought no matter what the agent did the under king comes and takes back his soul

Akatosh and his darn sacred timeline…

Wait wait wait, hold on…. Am elder scrolls game where you DON’T start as a prisoner? Madness!

Uriel Septim VII felt like a villain in this game. Haven't played it yet.

I felt good about giving the totem to the underking, but also Woodborne's letter to Barenziah.

DRAGONBREAK DRAGONBREAK DRAGONBREAK

Are you a red letter media fan? Your first few minutes gave me major mr plinket vibes lol

I love a good detective story. Imma play me some Daggerfall!

Ay nice work 👆‼️

YOU NEED TO MAKE A VIDEO ON THE DWEMER

Underking is the best ending

This may be a dumb question, but if the totem can only be used by those of the Septim bloodline, how can the other rulers use the golem to attack the other kingdoms?

Damn dude , thank you so much, I played Daggerfall Unity and couldnt understand shit

Great video. I just could not get myself to play through this game. Have tried like 4 times and I just get bored a third way through the main quest line. Funnily enough I was able to beat arena although halfway through I started to use guides for the puzzles.

23:20 idk man, the last two sound like the best, they both don’t involve the deaths of innocents.

Yay! More elder scrolls!

My brain is just mush rn

Did anyone else get Red Letter Media Plinked Review vibes from the intro?

Not a single bridge in this video. I feel lied to.

Thanks I'm about too start playing and I heard this game had many endings.

Thanks so much to this. I've been curious about ES lore but I doubt I'll ever play these older games. Glad to see poor Zurin (possibly) got his release at the end. But I guess that kind of confirms that Tiber Septim royally fucked him over.

yooooooooooooooo another video

I'm still so completely flabbergasted that ESO puts Daggerfall...on the opposite side of the peninsula from the Illiac Bay. And this is ostensibly canon, overrwriting the entire basis of Daggerfall.

The time it took to actually post the daggerfall vid just showes hoe long it really is lol

I thought gortwog stopped woodbourne? Was i lied to? Bamboozled by the orc i gave a magical gundam robot to? Prank'd into freeing the slaves?

Woo Hoo. Let's get this party started

Dropping by for the like and the comment algorithm boost

I still can’t figure out if Gothryd is a good guy or a bad guy. If you present the letter exposing lord woodborne to him or aubki they try to kill you (?) it’s confusing because the writing about this game and the diegetic story telling are different sometimes