Skyrim - How Every Race was Created

Skyrim - How Every Race was Created - Elder Scrolls Lore

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In our latest Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim video we go deep into the lore to explain how every playable race in the Elder Scrolls games were created. This video was quite difficult to write, but we learnt so much in the process. We hope you learn something new and we'd love to hear any theories you have in the comments section.
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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@Sleepy.Time. 6 жыл бұрын

clearly Orcs are Bethesda's favorite race...because they only had to hire two voice actors for the entire species

@charlieclark9552 6 жыл бұрын

Sleepy .Time I am an orc, you die now, I speak like this. That's basically an orc

@hoonterofhoonters6588 6 жыл бұрын

In Oblivion one voice actor would do two races. Objectively it's awful to hear the same lines over and over, but it became part of Oblivion's awkward charm.

@Felahliir 6 жыл бұрын

*Blessing of the [insert diety] upon you!*

@Golemoid 6 жыл бұрын

Hoonter of hoonters, not even. There was 1 guy and 1 woman for all 3 elf races. 1 guy did nords, orcs, khajiits and argonians. Human races had 1 guy per race, so they had it best.

@redgreen2453 6 жыл бұрын

*_n o o n e b e s t s a n o r c_*

@PumpkinCake 4 жыл бұрын

Nords are resistant to frost because Skyrim is cold. Dunmer are resistant to fire because Morrowind is volcanic. Bretons are resistant to magic because there’s a ton of natural mages flinging spells around willy-nilly.

@TheTaintedWisdom 4 жыл бұрын

Argonians are resistant to disease because Black Marsh is a hostile environment with many viruses and carriers. Bosmer are resistant to poison because there are toxic plants, insects, and animals in Valenwood. Redguards are resistant to poison because... I don't know, maybe there are a lot of assassination attempts that go on in Hammerfell or something? Orcs are resistant to damage because being pissed off enough can distract your senses enough from pain to a certain extent. High Elves are resistant to self-esteem problems because they're pretentious jackasses. Imperials are resistant to persecution and poverty because they're white. And Kajit are resistant to concepts like laws because they're goddamn cats and cats don't give a shit about rules, personal space, the concept of empathy, etc.

@MercerSin 4 жыл бұрын

PumpkinCake if Bretons are resistant to magic because mages are everywhere, why wouldn’t every race resist magic?

@DaOttah 4 жыл бұрын

@@MercerSin idk dude, ask a Breton la

@k2jshowcattle 4 жыл бұрын

TheTaintedWisdom you are now my favorite person

@johnwhittington2998 4 жыл бұрын

TheTaintedWisdom most imperials are pretty tanned all things considered

@ShadowPa1adin 6 жыл бұрын

"The Elves banged the Nords, turned them into Bretons." -Danny Devito

@thundericeberg2315 5 жыл бұрын

The elves banged the nords... Or the nords banged the elves???

@kingkong381 5 жыл бұрын

Danny Devito is the only actor I would ever accept to play Talos.

@PokeMagicDon_and_son 5 жыл бұрын

The Elves banged the Khajiit, creating the Khajmer, cats with the most smooth fur in all Nirn

@dustinjackson4761 5 жыл бұрын

The Bretons are a mixture of Nedes, Aldmer, and Nords. The reachmen are similar, but they also have some Orsimer blood in them. The biggest difference between the Bretons and the people of the Reach is that the Bretons have French names and the Reachmen have Celtic names. There is a real life group of people called Bretons. They are descendants of Brittish Celts who fled southern England when the Anglo-Saxons invaded back in 5th and 6th centuries. They crossed the channel and settled in the area of Northwestern France that is now called Brittany. They have their own language and culture, but this inspired the developers to create the Bretons of High Rock.

@thechosenbeastdoesgames956 5 жыл бұрын

Thunder Iceberg yes

@oldcrow6752 4 жыл бұрын

"Yo, I heard Boeathea shat you out." "....That's... too literal."

@sendmemes2754 6 жыл бұрын

last time i was early the snow elves were living peacefully alongside the nords

@bonkersozzy8533 6 жыл бұрын

Send Memes don't come to Saarthal tommorow .

@michaellong6125 6 жыл бұрын

Dam Daniel back at it again with the left handed elfs

@priyazu4000 6 жыл бұрын

What about the origin of the Snow Elves and the Deep Elves?

@mortemdomini4454 6 жыл бұрын

those are non-playable races (at least without mods) so they didn't include them

@insanexynn9956 6 жыл бұрын

mortem domini but that doesn't matter, they are still races, game or not

@bluepencil9451 5 жыл бұрын

When a Khajiit takes a DNA Ancestry test and finds out they might be Mer. *Oof*

@warreng.harding8487 4 жыл бұрын

@American Restoration Initiative *high elf falls back in chair*

@1943rfagan 3 жыл бұрын

Pelinal Whitestrake saw the khajiit were 1% mer on the DNA test and that's why he slaughtered them.

@juicy446 3 жыл бұрын

Khajitmer

@Sinnixk 3 жыл бұрын

@@juicy446 khatmer (cat-elf)seems the most likely. But I like the sound of Jiitmer

@exodosthesoulbanish 2 жыл бұрын

And that their parent is a house cat kajhit

@MartaTarasiuk 6 жыл бұрын

Will you, by any chance, make a lore video about the creation of the non-playable races too?

@mewinglegorias5733 6 жыл бұрын

the races from the continent of Akavir for example or the falmer and dwemer.

@caseychapman9856 6 жыл бұрын

Klose klöm Dwemer were just a kind of elf who asceneded out of out realm through enlightenment (Most think they did so using C.H.I.M). The falmer are just Dwemer who couldn't ascend and turned feral as well as blind when the Dwemer subterranean sun died.after generations these feral elves changed more and more until finally turning in the grotesque and pitiful creatures that we know.

@wowo2017 6 жыл бұрын

casey chapman You are so wrong. The Dwemer were extremely intelligent and didn't believe in God's or at least thought of them as lesser compared to there own intellect. Eventually they developed the tools of kagranac which the when activated caused most Dwemer to dissapear except for one Dwemer who you meet in Elder Scrolls Three : Morrowind unfortunately he knows nothing ( If this is wrong please correct me )

@wowo2017 6 жыл бұрын

casey chapman The Falmer are Snow Elves that sold themselves into slavery for protection from Nords who they were losing a war too The Dwemer experimented on the Snow Elves by making them eat a mysterious fungus that caused them to go blind and years after the Dwemer dissapeared the Snow Elves began to mutate as a combination of the fungus and life underground changed them and fueled by the betrayal of the Dwemer fueled the increased agresstion against outsides and as they became more feral they became openly violent toward all outsiders even taking slaves and sacrificing them to there own gods

@tyrionlannister8500 6 жыл бұрын

What about the sloads etc there’s plenty of other races too

@Camarillian 6 жыл бұрын

Honestly I don’t blame Azura, she was angered by the betrayal of the three she trusted.

@LakinMae5 4 жыл бұрын

SirSirupy she is the crazy (ex) girlfriend of the Daedra! Fun when she is on your side, a whole lot of of hell when you cross her!

@andrewrauch5807 4 жыл бұрын

I agree with you, I am sure if some of us were a divine spirit and we were betrayed by the people that we helped and taught new ways, we would probably do the same thing. At least we can say this about Azura, she didn't kill the disobedient Chimer she just said, "Okay, you betrayed my trust so I'm going to make you and all your descendants, henceforth, shall bear my mark." Through this we can see that Azura isn't like a lot of the other Deadric Spirits, I prefer to call them spirits since they can appear as either men or women, she actually has love and mercy to her.

@josephpinkston9832 4 жыл бұрын

And in return gave them a badass aesthetic

@clay7182 2 жыл бұрын

She was on a ego trip

@heiljandal1329 6 жыл бұрын

"Metaphorrically or litteraly once covered in the shit of a daedra" quote of the century

@anonrandom7765 6 жыл бұрын

paulius puodziunas Metaphorically* Literally*

@heiljandal1329 6 жыл бұрын

Anon Random those are one of the few words i can't spell....I'm not from an english speaking country

@SanilJadhav711 6 жыл бұрын

Lol , i thought LITTERaly was a pun pointing towards shit

@robertasdanieliusmickevici9026 6 жыл бұрын

Matau ne viens as lietuvis zaidziu skyrim 😂😂

@alessandrocoatti5186 5 жыл бұрын

How do you get metaphorically covered by daedra shit

@beautyisbrutal4088 6 жыл бұрын

You want to know why the Altmer are weak to magic but the Bretons aren't? Game balance. In all honesty, it's likely that your hypothesis of interbreeding with Nords was correct. That, and, being the lowest class of society, they were likely tortured by the Altmer. After enduring enough of a specific form of strife, one becomes more resistant to it. Like the Nordic frost resist.

@ingonyama70 6 жыл бұрын

There would have had to have been an uprising at some point. I would imagine the proto-Bretons either made a pact with someone (Clavicus Vile is the most likely suspect, though Azura, Boethiah, or even Hermaeus Mora aren't completely out of the question) or just inured themselves to it somehow, so that they COULD rise up.

@unrulycrow6299 6 жыл бұрын

The Bretons weren't tortured by the Altmer though. The Direnni Hegemony was extremely chill, especially compared to all the bullshit done by the Ayleids in Cyrodiil. The Bretons were just a lower class, and took over when the Direnni Hegemony fell. Now, the mix of Nede, Altmeri and Nordstrom blood could indeed justify the high resistance to magic. But if it was caused by the torture of the Altmer, then it would be the Imperials who'd get that bonus, rather than the Bretons.

@thundericeberg2315 5 жыл бұрын

Nords resist frost Dark elves resist fire Bretons resist magic

@couldntthinkofacoolname9608 5 жыл бұрын

Those that best survived magical torture were most likely to reproduce. Naturally, magic resistance would develop.

@MercerSin 4 жыл бұрын

Damn You're Good I was thinking the same thing bout the bretons

@TeensyTea 4 жыл бұрын

Bethesda writers: So Bretons are a mix of Nedes and Aldmer - the two tallest ancestor races. Designers: Ah, so they should be super tall! Bethesda: No.

@Alizudo 4 жыл бұрын

You got that backwards. The writers make the lore, and it's the Game Devs who do a bad job of putting it in the game. It's the Developers who would be saying "No" in this scenario.

@homelessrobot 4 жыл бұрын

@@Alizudo you got that wrong, the devs aren't making character models, that would be the 3d artists. The problem is primarily that the lore is deep, and the staff is large, and not everyone is on the same page.

@pretzul6022 3 жыл бұрын

Bretens were also lower class/enslaved. Lack of valid nutrition, and mistreatment could lead to smaller offspring.

@thedankboyo2460 3 жыл бұрын

@@pretzul6022 also it could be a mutation kinda like a less obvious version of what happens to some people in the witcher universe if they have elven and mortal blood (Yennefer in the series). It could also be that this mutation came with members of the race that had more magical prowess therefore more ability to survive and procreate -basically evolution- Not saying that's how it is just providing an explanation that some people might like.

@froilanflorentino1252 2 жыл бұрын

@@pretzul6022 That's because their ancestors are indeed enslaved by the Altmers. Ironically High Elves created the most magic resistant human race.

@mallorismith3126 3 жыл бұрын

TIMESTAMPS BECAUSE THIS IS A LONG ASS VIDEO, YOU'RE WELCOME :) : Orcs: 1:20 Dunmer 4:48 Altmer 9:40 Breton 11:09 Nedes/Imperials/Nords (interconnected) 13:38 Redguard 16:45 Argonian 18:33 Khajiit/Bosmer (interconnected) 21:14

@perkitaseaman3290 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 💟 thanks my friend 🍭🍬😊🍔🍟🥛

@samrukin9885 Жыл бұрын

May akatosh be with you

@YeyazWyrd Жыл бұрын

Oh I love when people put in timestamps. Thank you, friend... however, if you look through all of fudgemuppet's videos, this is actually quite a short one, lol. Their lore videos and podcast episodes typically go upwards starting at an hour. I love listening to them as I fall asleep, hahaha. Still, keep doing the Lord's work!

@YeyazWyrd Жыл бұрын

@bellaususfitzpinguidpalate3194 6 ай бұрын

Thank you Timestamp friend❤

@retroambassador2945 6 жыл бұрын

I tend to pick my race based on the location of the game. I play a dunmer in morrowind, imperial in oblivion, and a nord in skyrim

@MahDryBread 6 жыл бұрын

Jesus, the footage in this video is extra incredible!

@lchighost 4 жыл бұрын

Whoa! Wasn’t expecting to see a comment from you on here! Glad to know that you’re a TES fan too. :)

@MahDryBread 4 жыл бұрын

@@lchighost Yup, I used to work for FudgeMuppet and Shoddycast a bit in the past

@orangeslime1878 3 жыл бұрын

Nice to see you doing skyrim challenges now. I hope you keep doing skyrim challenges because they are fun to watch.

@8wholebagsofcorn911 3 жыл бұрын

@@MahDryBread as in you edited? Or did you do research for episodes like this?

@colbyphillips2258 3 жыл бұрын

Big fan really enjoyed the shuckle challenge

@GIAP11977 6 жыл бұрын

Wait wait so wood elves are anti vegans

@tylerjaynes822 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they have a religious rule basically, the "greenheart" pact or something like that where they HAVE to eat and use whatever they kill, so if they kill humans or other elves, they have to eat them and use their body parts for stuff. That's why a lot of their armor and weapons are made from bone.

@fabiangrujic3721 6 жыл бұрын

Jupp

@Dmon10124 6 жыл бұрын

I hate vegetables and fruits and only eat meat. So im like a wood elf

@sixsideddeath5529 6 жыл бұрын

Dallas Upchurch lmao, you mean carnivore?

@DJAM3R 6 жыл бұрын

untouchable pissant Ha I thought so too, but I'mma start calling them anti vegans. Has a way better ring to it ^^

@coffee5981 5 жыл бұрын

when he says "shat him out" in his Aussie accent I died laughing

@dracospawncs 6 жыл бұрын

So I've been kicking a theory for a while now. What if argonians aren't really a race at all? Hear me out. Argonians take lots of forms. Lizards, snakes, toads, birds, even some mammalian forms. What if they aren't any uniform species that diversified. What if "argonians" are just the hosts of the Hist trees' parasitic pollen/sap? The Hist are a race of sentient, magical, psijic-esque trees. What if they crafted the argonian races to be emissaries to the races of men and mer. The Hist get some devine foresight or whatever. They see all these races conquering the continent. And how they would march into black marsh, burning everything in sight. So the trees jump the gun and start infecting the local fauna. Snakes, toads, birds, and of course, the lizards that live in Hist branches and eat harmful insects. Fast forward more than a few generations, Aldmer explorers start crashing black marsh's gates. Only they get sent packing by toxic swamps, killer bugs, and "savage lizard-men". All orchestrated by the Hist as a self-preservation tactic.

@VM-hl8ms 6 жыл бұрын

i luv it.

@MrGeneralPB 6 жыл бұрын

i don't think you are the first to point this out either, it seems very sensible when i think about it, at least from a lore perspective

@bignig9684 5 жыл бұрын

Dayum fax

@g0urd_dude246 5 жыл бұрын

The Khajiit are many races of cat-beings, many of which are not humanoid

@quincebielka8843 5 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't that still make them a race? Just made by the Hist instead of the Aedra

@ohnomybones7318 6 жыл бұрын

What if the Aldmer were rather resistant to magic and thats why the Bretons share that trait? It is accepted that the Altmer have changed from the Aldmer so perhaps they lost their resistances?

@moiserares6974 6 жыл бұрын

Cringe In A Nutshell and became weakness lmao. Kind of a bad bargain

@ohnomybones7318 6 жыл бұрын

Baby Moise but... but... but..... Elven Supremacy!

@Blagraite 6 жыл бұрын

Cringe In A Nutshell elves for the rule

@shreddman8704 6 жыл бұрын

Makes sense. All the other Aldmeri descendents changed. Perhaps in the following centuries the Altmer's constant exposure to magic and connection with Aedra lended weakness and that is how they changed. Breton practiced magic, yes, but their human blood and shorter life may have prevented magic sensitivity.

@banishedbary5239 6 жыл бұрын

Oh No My Bones but if that's the case, then why are the aldmer resistant to magic then?

@ivancvetkovic835 5 жыл бұрын

Developers of Elder Scrolls series really have rich imagination.

@acupofcoffee693 4 жыл бұрын

you mean the best dope

@hightimest3571 4 жыл бұрын

Not the developers. The fanbase. They give us bits of information and we connect the dots.

@CeruleanStallion 3 жыл бұрын

@@hightimest3571 No that doesn't mean anything you didn't create the world the developers did so it's their imagination

@thedudealt9576 3 жыл бұрын

Bethesda.

@peasant502 3 жыл бұрын

Acid, my friend, acid

@EchoByrnes 5 жыл бұрын

I always heard the orcs rubbed malacath's ASHES on them. I guess you learn something every day

@arandomzoomer4837 4 жыл бұрын

I prefer ashes.

@moistmeathateroffurries8621 4 жыл бұрын

@@arandomzoomer4837 I prefer shit

@moistmeathateroffurries8621 4 жыл бұрын

@New Kid I PrEfer iT WhEN YoU DOn't SpEAk

@moistmeathateroffurries8621 4 жыл бұрын

@New Kid and?

@moistmeathateroffurries8621 4 жыл бұрын

@New Kid hm good at replies you are not

@zaidahram2018 6 жыл бұрын

Please do another video about the beginning of creation

@FudgeMuppet 6 жыл бұрын

We are definitely considering it :))

@devilsreject3913 6 жыл бұрын

Would love a video on all the different creation myths it doesn't look like anyone else has done that yet

@TheMoonShepard 6 жыл бұрын

Zaid Ahram the creation of creation itself

@ryjak955 6 жыл бұрын

Sandhiren Pillay that's deep

@rokturi 6 жыл бұрын

how did anu and padomay get created? who is their father? lydia? yes

@thechatteringclown 6 жыл бұрын

so, are the redguard actually from a different rebirth cycle or not? anytime anyone ever talks about them, they always start their story at the beginning of the current cycle, but i saw in some lore videos (especially camelworks video about the left handed elves) that they are actually from the previous rebirth cycle and somehow managed to slip past its destruction through alduin, by passing into the current one. if that was true and the redguard actually are from a previous cycle, that would add a ton to their story and would make them that much more interesting as a culture.

@jasonpyre8572 6 жыл бұрын

thechatteringclown I literally watched this to hear some more details on that particular subject and they didn't mention it ._. Still good vid tho 10/10

@Strawhat_Kal 6 жыл бұрын

yes it is canon

@Strawhat_Kal 6 жыл бұрын

if you want more on this, watch Zaric Zhakaron's lore series

@uchytjes10 6 жыл бұрын

The answer is a hard "probably." Redguards are from Yokuda, and Yokuda is known to still exist in some form and is still accessible. However, there is also evidence that the Redgards are from a previous cycle due to how different their gods and how their magic works. Essentially, it is entirely possible that the ocean may act as a method of travel between different kalpa cycles, with places like Yokuda, Atmora, and Akavir being entire different timelines of Nirn.

@anthonycurrence6653 6 жыл бұрын

thechatteringclown I

@plinkthenecrobird8851 5 жыл бұрын

I’m constantly between Imperials and Nords. On one hand, the Nordic lore and warrior beliefs seems super cool. On the other, the imperial armor and government and military systems are also neat.

@natahndolar2142 9 ай бұрын

I just hate the high elves they basically bow down to, Nords rule themselves.

@TheDumbRatMan12 6 жыл бұрын

In my first play through, I usually choose my character based on how cool they look

@amnedits4898 2 жыл бұрын

same, I chose Dark Elves because I thought they looked badass lol

@KingJules121 6 жыл бұрын

Personnaly, I choose my race by If it's a Khajiit or not

@ryjak955 6 жыл бұрын

Jules Jeff Samaël I mean... there's a lot that fits in that category.

@JayfeatherFan1000 6 жыл бұрын

Is it a cat? Might be a Khajiit. Is it not a cat? Also might be a Khajiit. Is it a Nord? Fuck it, maybe they've evolved; just to be on the safe side, assume it's a Khajiit.

@Blagraite 6 жыл бұрын

Good one 😆

@TheShiz9797 6 жыл бұрын

Fucking furries

@shapupapi4700 6 жыл бұрын

Playing as khajiit and i was doing some brawls for thief guild quest.wow the fists are really good (claws) ditch my sword and flames spell and use fists for the whole game. I find it easier and i can deal more damage

@ineedmoneysp 6 жыл бұрын

I have always used Breton when I play. I like that they seem more adaptable overall in the game and like the characters I can make with then. There lore is good too.

@keltdood 6 жыл бұрын

Ineedmoney tru I like Bretons as much as Nords. They are my favorites

@unrulycrow6299 6 жыл бұрын

Same, the Bretons are my favourite, especially since I tend to favour mage/stealth mage builds, and they are well-suited for the job imo.

@zeroboolinme 5 жыл бұрын

I agree. I've always wondered if Tiber Septim was Nord or Breton myself. But dark elves and bretonss are badass imo.

@kuleguy2010 4 жыл бұрын

Ineedmoney their*

@RAiNfORAiNbOW 4 жыл бұрын

Stop right there Breton trash

@HuffleRuff 6 жыл бұрын

The Khajiit being made by Azura makes sense considering just how important Masser and Secunda are in the birth of Khajiit. Senche, Ohmes, Cathay, &c. all are born that way depending on the positions of the moons at the time of their birth.

@glassofwater281 4 жыл бұрын

If lore allowed it, I would most definitely play a Dwemer or a Falmer.

@adamt2564 Жыл бұрын

Falmer actually makes sense to play since gelebor zaid that there are potentially some surviving falmer outside of him and vyrthur that didn't degenerate. Dwemer though, not so much.

@PastPerspectives3 12 күн бұрын

Role playing a Falmer by eating Skeever in abandoned Dwemer ruins for 100+ hours

@adamroberts2228 5 жыл бұрын

Sooooo dark elves live long lives, are generally good at magic, a whole faction lives in mushrooms and three of them became literal gods. They also created the beautiful words n’wah and s’wit. Do I have to say anything else..... N’wah?

@zekezzekekan2144 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah but that ugly skin color they have

@arandomzoomer4837 4 жыл бұрын

Zeke Z ZekeKan I always thought it looked cool.

@andrewrauch5807 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, they ALMOST became literal gods they did not quite make it to godhood Azura stopped them before they could.

@tadas7985 4 жыл бұрын

@@zekezzekekan2144 it's ugly depending on who you ask, I think it looks cool, i like the color. It fits them i think, not a fan of bright colors so I prefer dark elves to other elves.

@ayyaskamilzaidan1007 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, sera?

@riggermo 6 жыл бұрын

As for the Bretons. The inherent resistance to magic may have been an inversion of the Atlmer weakness to magic that occurred through inter-breeding. Just a thought!

@adolfgaming1761 5 жыл бұрын

I want Danny DeVito to voice Talos

@erikwild2108 5 жыл бұрын

Killing dragons and bangin hoors!

@johnwilliams9179 3 жыл бұрын

"So anyway I started shouting "

@AmateurContendr 3 жыл бұрын

He already sounds like Barbas.

@vicieux7789 3 жыл бұрын

@@AmateurContendr first time i played i had to check who voiced barbas cus he really does sound like him

@thesfnb.5786 4 жыл бұрын

My favourite is Argonian, because of the absolute massive colouring potential in the creation menu. Besides, I've always been an outsider. Seeing them standing out like that with their reptilian looks and scaled got me onto them instantly. Also, it was the first race I ever played, seeing them not get any attention in a let's play I saw years ago made them my first choice when I got Skyrim a few years later. They were the first race I played as, I can't express how cool I think waterbreathing is how I exploded when I realised I could at any moment escape into water tøwith them having no choice but to either leave or drown. I explored the north artic for AGES! I love the histskin, and being an outsider it felt so good finally seeing other Argonians when I did, especially derkeethus who can be a follower! God I love Argonians. They are without a shadow of a doubt my favourite Skyrim race.

@kingdavey90 6 жыл бұрын

17:07 Wow that map of Yokuda looks amazing! Redguards are my favorite and most played, followed by Argonians.

@ieatrainbows0956 6 жыл бұрын

I dont think the Khajit are descended from the outmer. In the quest where you harvest elven blood for septimus, it requires falmer, wood elf, dark elf, high elf, and orc blood, but not khajit blood.

@boney2982 Жыл бұрын

also doesnt require breton blood despite them being at least half elf by descent too

@David_Alvarez77 6 жыл бұрын

As for how the Bretons could have acquired magic resistance, perhaps it could result from Nordic magic resistance amped up by the strong magical affinity of the Altmer. If I recall, Nords in Morrowind were resistant not only to frost (to which they are immune) but also to shock (which they resist at 50%). So maybe the ancient Atmorans were very magic resistant and this combined with the Altmeri magic affinity resulted in the Breton magic resistance.

@just_cade 6 жыл бұрын

I would have never known most of this information had I not watched this video. It gives the games so much more impact when you know all that went on before the games take place. The Elder Scrolls has so much depth and originality.

@firefliesburntheworld 6 жыл бұрын

Isn't one of the moons like half of Lorkhan's body when he was killed? I swear that was a thing and it had to do with Khajiit forms.

@Benzux 6 жыл бұрын

Toby Sweetman Yeah pretty much. Masser and Secunda are just the floating corpse of a Dead God. They do also have a connection with Lorkhan(Or Lorkhaj). Remember how the Khajit creation myth mentioned that Lorkhaj was given birth to in the Void? Well, that's a bad thing. The Khajit view Lorkhaj as sort of Evil. You see, the Khajit believe in these "Evil ancestor spirits" known as the Dro-M'athra. They are said to be connected to Lorkhaj, and that if a Khajit hears the beat of Lorkhaj's drum (Note that a heartbeat sounds like a Drum, which fits the story of the Aedra ripping Lorkhan's heart out) becomes a Bent Cat, eventually succumbing to Lorkhaj's will and joining the Dro-M'athra. There's a lot of stories about them in ESO, where one of the end-game Trials is called the Maw of Lorkhaj. In it, you have to cleanse a holy Khajiti Shrine from Lorkhaj's influence and destroy the Dro-M'athra invaders. As Mentioned in the video, many people don't see ESO as canon, but personally I find the Story of about Lorkhaj and the Dro-M'athra canon. I'm not sure if they are mentioned in other games or out of game canon sources though.

@DioBrando-mr5xs 5 жыл бұрын

@@Benzux Lorhkan is based and CHIMpilled

@khoooi3133 5 жыл бұрын

Toby Sweetman, I know this is old, but I'm pretty sure Lorkhaj's body was the third moon that was often hidden from sight, it is said that it controls Massur and Secunda

@andrewrauch5807 4 жыл бұрын

You're right, with the moons of the Elder Scrolls, both facts appear to be true. It could be explained like this, since Lorkhan was literally a god it could be argued that even his dead body still contains some of his god powers. It just happened that the Khajiit were, at the time, nothing more than desert panthers, and for some reason the magic locked on to them and the next generation born changed due to the moon's positions.

@SonOfHubris 3 жыл бұрын

@@Benzux eso is canon

@nerdragon2649 6 жыл бұрын

16:53 Man, I'm brazilian and I couldn't help but notice that one of the cities or islands in Yokuda is called "Bahia". For anyone who doesn't know "Bahia" is one of Brazil's states. I don't know who made this Yokuda map, but I think he knows Brazil.

@sxcJOELisNotsexy 6 жыл бұрын

João Pedro Gonçalves Guimarães That would make sense as Yokuda is west of Tamriel. A continent which is loosely based on Europe. People also theorize that Akavir, (a continent east of Tamriel) is loosely based on Asia.

@nerdragon2649 6 жыл бұрын

MiztarBriteCide I've never realized this before. So cool! I wonder if the Yokudans used to have their own Rio de Janeiro.

@mateuscardoso5469 6 жыл бұрын

KKKKKK nem percebi mano

@nerdragon2649 6 жыл бұрын

Ojuara Onateac Thanks, pal.

@SkullGamerFull 6 жыл бұрын

Now that you have mentioned, i've noticed that the coolest surnames in the western hemisphere are generally French, Italians and Portuguese surnames. I have a grandfather called Ivaldo Carneiro Fontenele Portela Magalhães, a pity that my parents did not register me with these last names. At least I got the french one, Fontenele. xD

@eclipseslayer98 6 жыл бұрын

So in reality, there are only Men, Mer, and Lizards who drank too much SAPP.

@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 5 жыл бұрын

Kinda

@mondaynightryas2350 6 жыл бұрын

...How every Race was created... "..I'm not gonna talk about the creation.." hm...

@Damnto 4 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@SkullGamerFull 6 жыл бұрын

That theory at 16:15 kind of makes sense, but enviromental changes should not be disregarded since the mutations that occurred with the two groups of atmorans varied during the geographic isolation of both. They may descend from the same human group, but just as the Amerindians are different from their Siberian ancestors, they no longer have the same genetic makeup, because of the different genetic mutations in geographically isolated Siberians in Asia and geographically isolated Amerindian in America. The same can be said of needs and atmorans. Just as the genetic mutations of the ancient atmoras gave birth to the pure blood atmorans, the genetic mutations of the atmorans who came to Tamriel earlier gave rise to the needs, so technically the nords would be 75% atmorans and 25% needs, but as the needs are a race emerged from the ancient atmorans so that would make it part atmoran and part tamrielic, which would eventually result in the nords being 87.5% atmorans and 12.5% Tamrielic-Atmorans (Have to think in a better name for these tamriel adapted atmorans). Maybe i'm just talking shit but that's what I think of this.

@fuzzydunlop7928 5 жыл бұрын

I'd use the term 'proto-Nordic' for describing them.

@Lm701 5 жыл бұрын

I couldn't imagine having a knowledge like this...

@brunettelatina3966 4 жыл бұрын

My brain would explode

@dcole7506 5 жыл бұрын

Bro so awesome thank you for your story telling. And your history on Skyrim I appreciate you learning the history accurately can you make multiple videos on each race and their full background history?

@azreon25 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve watched this video many time because I love the elder scrolls and the lore, I have had a thought about the origins of the Orcs and Chimer, I would say that when Boethiah “ate” Trinimac she may have just trapped him in her realm for so long that he became corrupted by it, a Daedric princes realm is an extension of themselves, and time only flows if they want it to, so Boethiah “eating” Trinimac doesn’t have to be so literal, and the event itself could have been what changed the Aldmer followers to the Orcs and Chimer. Just had to comment that, love the videos. Are we getting another 5 things we want from elder scrolls 6 or could you be going into more details on what you’ve already done?

@HeyYouItsCorTheImmortal 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video, it's really cool and I learned a lot, I think I now have a deeper understanding of my Orc named Steve

@harrowedone974 6 жыл бұрын

Are Spriggans related to the Hist? Also, is The Pocket Guide to the Empire a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference?

@noxflo897 6 жыл бұрын

Harrowed One No. They are creatures of Yiffre the god of the forest

@baronofbahlingen9662 5 жыл бұрын

Infiniti Flux I thought they were Kyne/Kynareth’s

@elizabethgouverneur2972 4 жыл бұрын

Harrowed One there should be a hist spriggan breed that would be cool

@homelessrobot 4 жыл бұрын

no, it's a reference to many real life 'pocket guides'.

@chrisroyal5425 5 жыл бұрын

Just started to get in to ESO and your videos are helping me learn the lore, thanks!

@Galucia 5 жыл бұрын

It is redic how detailed the lore of these games has become with time and how deep it gets. Great video, thanks for trying your best to break it down.

@nimbuscloud380 6 жыл бұрын

5:09 when a relative wants to give you a hug

@forsakenmarksman755 6 жыл бұрын

I'm probably the only person ever who plays 90% of his builds as argonians (unless their a professional build) because their lore is just so damn good.

@therabbitplays4154 6 жыл бұрын

Don't worry 90% percent of times I play I'm a khajiit

@brandonblish7417 6 жыл бұрын

Nah I play a lot of them as one of the beast races they're the best

@therabbitplays4154 6 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@ingonyama70 6 жыл бұрын

I like being an Imperial or a Redguard, usually, but Argonians make for excellent exploration builds.

@Memnoch_the_Devil 6 жыл бұрын

Forsaken Marksman I love to choose Argonians and then spend most of my time traveling by water instead of by foot

@feferfefer 6 жыл бұрын

thanks for all the hard work in researching this, I really appreciate your dedication!

@editorrbr2107 4 жыл бұрын

OK, here’s my speculation. Given the pariah abbey, and thus High Rock’s strong association with Azura - the prince of magic, perhaps their magical resistance was a blessing from the chillest of the Daedra princes. We Bretons can’t go to Sovngarde, the Nords don’t consider us one of their own (despite some sources claiming Atmoran ancestry), the Aldmeri of course look down on us as mongrels; likewise so do the Imperials, who are Nedic/Atmoran. We are the left out in the race of men. Taking pity on us, Azura bestowed the gift on Bretons, leading to our potent magical abilities and resistance.

@ComaDave 5 жыл бұрын

Ancient Aldmeri argument over the future of their race: Altmer: "The shoe is the sign!" Chimer: "It is a SANDAL!" Bosmer: "No! No! It is a sign that, like him...we must think not of the things of the body, but of the face and head!" Altmer: "Give me your shoe!" Bosmer: "Oh, GET OFF!" Orsimer: "Follow the gourd! The Holy Gourd of Orsinium!" Snow Elves: "Hold up the sandal!" Altmer: "It is a SHOE! It is a shoe!" Ayleids: "Stop! Stop, I say! STOP! Let us...let us pray. Yea, he cometh to us, like the seed of the grain........." (Meanwhile, the Dwemer were already away somewhere below, designing better footwear)

@brendan9868 5 жыл бұрын

Fucking love that movie

@barbacuedclorox3709 3 жыл бұрын

Yes making the first rocket shoes

@supernova582 6 жыл бұрын

The first Elder Scrolls game I played was Morrowind and I just fell in love with the alien land and the culture and history of the dunmer that's why I play as a dark elf besides they are as adaptive to harsh conditions like the argonians you can get a small taste of the challenging landscape that Morrowind would be like in the dragonborn dlc in Skyrim

@randommandoade1465 6 жыл бұрын

Thats when Imperials became playable I started at Morrowind to and saw a new race unseen in the others so I tried them and I play as an Imperial in Oblivion and Skyrim.

@kuleguy2010 4 жыл бұрын

supernova582 I play dunmer in es 1, 2, and 3 then imperial in 4 and 5. I play an rp playthrough where they're all part of the same family. the Dawn family and through cross breeding the dunmer eventually became imperials. I also use color names for each character. Auralia Dawn (female), Viridian Dawn (Male), Azure Dawn (Male), Mazarin Dawn (Male), and finally Violet Dawn (Female)

@nayten0324 3 жыл бұрын

I’m one of those guys who play a race depending on the game and what the story is. I always play a Nord I’m skyrim because it doesn’t feel right if the Dragonborn is another race, I play imperial in oblivion, dark elf in morrowind and in ESO I just play as an orc for no real reason

@HaydenX 6 жыл бұрын

This was an excellent video, and I would love a video about the true falmer, the maormer, and the ayleids.

@GigaJolt 4 жыл бұрын

i like how you have ancient stones on loop for the whole video. that's one of my favorites from the soundtrack.

@shafin1011 6 жыл бұрын

Finally Im earlier than most people . unfortunately i landed in the dawn era..

@Garnondorf 6 жыл бұрын

Imm Badassaltr The start of the time lore does the same with your head like reading an Elder Scroll ;)

@WarriorNoldor 5 жыл бұрын

Made a High Elf that sided with the Storm Cloaks and married a Nord

@bamboonium8140 5 жыл бұрын

Templar Warrior filthy mudblood

@Alizudo 4 жыл бұрын

@@bamboonium8140 There's just no pleasing the Stormcloaks, is there?

@moistmeathateroffurries8621 4 жыл бұрын

@@Alizudo imperial bastards

@Callsign_Bear 3 жыл бұрын

@@moistmeathateroffurries8621 racist country hicks. Empire for life. Your leader used you all as pawns in his game to become high king. Now, thanks to this war, whatever side wins will have to face the Aldmeri Dominion on their own. Skyrim is fucked, and so is the Empire. When you and your family are being dragged out of your homes to be burned at the stake, remember who put you there. It wasn't the Empire. It was that fuck wit Ulfric

@Emustrider 6 жыл бұрын

Love working with your videos in the background .

@trevorlange 3 жыл бұрын

"The Pocket Guide to the Empire" passage about the Khajiit has a strong "Heart of Darkness" vibe to it

@Fancybrickman 6 жыл бұрын

Eso is a lore gold mine and already confirmed canon. You can't just cherry pick what you like

@Frieza24esf 6 жыл бұрын

DragonInferno99 Ω The whole TES is inconsistent so what's your point? Do you forget how much lore bethesda changed each tine their new TES single player title came out?

@valeclaw1697 6 жыл бұрын

Sorry but uh... ESO broke lore in the new patch. No such thing as a 'mortal dragon' and their explanation involves stuff im pretty sure we learned past oblivion didn't actually happen. ESO has the potential to be cannon, when its resources are mentioned later. Main series lore is, in my opinion, where stuff is actually cannonized.

@Hexondro 6 жыл бұрын

For the people who say Eso is non Cannon I'm sorry but you're wrong the makers of the game said at the very beginning something about a dragon break. Figure it out.

@Frieza24esf 6 жыл бұрын

3edgy5me Then new patch involves a necromancer who found a dragon skeleton and is trying to reanimate it. So where is the lore broken exactly?

@threebee7842 6 жыл бұрын

Fancybrickman right?!? You can explore the lore of dwemer or other elves or ancient nords or the daedric or Aedric etc and you can explore their ancestor lands cultures lands or certain event of their history its just an amazing and beutiful cluster fuck of knowledge,

@slippinjimmybean 6 жыл бұрын

High Elves : Heaven Dark Elves : Morrowind Khajit : Kangaroos Argonians : Ponds Humans : Birth

@caitlinspry6278 6 жыл бұрын

Phoenix The Balrog Hunter wonder why I love khajits...

@Vairyehil 6 жыл бұрын

Altmer : Heaven.

@kuleguy2010 4 жыл бұрын

orcs?

@iainkilcar7463 4 жыл бұрын

Please high elves are to uppity to be from heaven

@thomasjenkins7506 4 жыл бұрын

redguards: breaking space and time to escape the previous kalpa along with the left-handed elves.

@Omega-rn4xo 6 жыл бұрын

This is a very good video, and if you want more like this then i would suggest the shoddycast elder scrolls lore series

@Garouwerks 5 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND WORK, GREAT VIDEO!

@somedude8234 6 жыл бұрын

I came up with a theory for how the khajiit were made: just before lorkan I believe he foresaw the fall of man so he created the khajiit to gain the elves trust so when the time was right the khajiit gods would give one of them a vision or dream like in tes 3 Morrowind to tell him/her to rally the khajiit up to assist man this would explain why they worship the moons which is lorkans corpse. That would also make a good game I think

@knightlygaming1906 6 жыл бұрын

I would love this see this

@johndoe1139 5 жыл бұрын

Wrong impossible ur dumb

@Super50ldier Жыл бұрын

Lorkhan's body became the planet of Nirn, not the two moons.

@ldengland629 6 жыл бұрын

I think that Bretons are resistant to magic because they can use it effectively because of their elf blood but due to the over tipping of the balance of nord blood than elf blood the Bretons are not flooding with magic like high elves and so are not effected by it

@HandlesAreRetarded42 2 жыл бұрын

Another great vid. And thanks for keeping ad rolls to a minimum.

@TranscendentLion 6 жыл бұрын

Well done on managing to squeeze all of that into a (relatively) short video. :D

@taimasplash 5 жыл бұрын

The two races I almost always play is probably Khajiit and Nords

@zeno7836 5 жыл бұрын

It seems not a lot of people like to play as a wood elf, I find them the most interesting honestly and I guess I’m just a sucker for a bow. But their lore is just so mysterious and intriguing, not to mention they seem to be their own solitary race that are very strict in their beliefs.

@TheEyeballs86 3 ай бұрын

I'm a big lore buff with The Elder Scrolls, and I absolutely loved this video. Thanks so much.

@darthfur4023 5 жыл бұрын

Breton's had the ability to absorb magic in a couple games as well

@roadhouse6999 6 жыл бұрын

Where did the Ayleids come from? They're the only elves without a "mer" suffix, and that confuses me.

@420-V.T.L-Machinist 5 жыл бұрын

Summerset isles i beleive. They came after Topal the Pilot mapped tamriel and sailed all around its coast then accidently into cyrodil then back to summerset

@plaidpvcpipe3792 3 жыл бұрын

That was probably just what Imperials called them. They were just Aldmer who lived in Cyrodiil.

@laurenkirby97 3 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing somewhere that the ayleids were just what the imperials called them and to everyone else they were just aldmer. Could be misremembering though.

@walterbunn280 5 жыл бұрын

So... i just remember playing this game that was suspicious like the original elder scrolls like.... 20 years ago. A major plot point was that elves lacked a sliver of divinity, whereas humans retained their fragment, and it was a major driving factor in their battles. Elves were jealous of the divinity humans had obtained; humans liked the advanced cultural, magical, and technical insight held by the elves. With that said, the Deep Ones, Hermaeus Mora, and the sload are kind of the wild card in all this. The Sload aren't technically in Elder Scrolls 5, but the Seekers and the tentacles in Hermaeus Mora's realm might be a thing. The Argonians, with the ability to breath underwater, seem like they would be heavily influenced by the Sload.

@miniespeon158 6 жыл бұрын

It must take ages to find all of this info, thank you!

@PfizZz 2 жыл бұрын

I love your videos, thanks for caring so much!

@WillowLemmons 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine in a thousand years nirm becomes modern. We got humam cats,and lizards walking around.

@Kostadin_Arolski 6 жыл бұрын

"Hallo, my name is Michael" is like a morning text for me. We love yo bois

@JohnnnyGash 6 жыл бұрын

Great video Fugde!

@arm33man 10 ай бұрын

lovely description I learn something 👍

@CadaverJunky8 6 жыл бұрын

12:20 Nord and Baratheon blood too by the looks of it.

@nurrakugy5126 5 жыл бұрын

Ours is the Fury

@mr.pepper6442 5 жыл бұрын

Mine are redguard, nord, and also dark elf

@Azira-IX 4 жыл бұрын

This is so good!! Thank you! ❤️

@oldcrow6752 4 жыл бұрын

Dude, I love your videos.

@JC23783 6 жыл бұрын

Were the Dov (dragons) in Skyrim before the Falmer? I've never heard of any interactions between the two before humans came into the picture. Only that the Atmorans drove out the elves, worshipped the dragons, but then eventually drove them out as well.

@CornBreadtm1 5 жыл бұрын

The Dovah came to Skyrim from Akavir and basically enslaved the nordic race there. The snow elves had enslaved the nords but since the Dovah worshiping priests learned the thuum they over threw the snow elves and basically history went it's course where the nords became basically Nazis and took over all of the surrounding countries and all the other races hated them and joined together to beat them up till Skyrim became just the small hold it is now. The nords also taught the thuum to each other so more than just he priests could use it and over threw the Dovah.

@claytownusa7008 6 жыл бұрын

Dunmer have always just been extremely interesting to me because they are unlike any other fantasy race I have ever heard of culturally and aesthetically.

@helyum9259 2 жыл бұрын

0:00 "what's going on ladies and gentlemen, my name is michael and welcome to fudgemuppet. we all have favorite races" that made me chuckle a bit

@RinVindor 6 жыл бұрын

You should do a video on how Soul Gems and their creation and relation to the world of TES works.

@U.S.CyberSoldier50 6 жыл бұрын

My 2 favorite races are the Altmer & the Nords but I mostly play as the Nords.

@surprisedpatrick5933 6 жыл бұрын

BOS Sentinel nice to see a fellow synth hater around here

@Vairyehil 6 жыл бұрын

Pity.

@leofernandez2705 6 жыл бұрын

BOS Sentinel same along with the bretons and wood elves

@U.S.CyberSoldier50 6 жыл бұрын

I liked the Nords even back in Oblivion

@Blagraite 6 жыл бұрын

BOS Sentinel that's what every Nord fan say

@strainedOS 6 жыл бұрын

Hello from a land of slush and rain AKA England

@jagermann5081 6 жыл бұрын

sounds like denmark to me

@biglad2889 6 жыл бұрын

Corvo Attano your not wrong

@Pat0p 6 жыл бұрын

Corvo Attano Hello from a land of ice and snow AKA Canada

@punishedwaluigi3518 6 жыл бұрын

Aka Most of Europe

@thatwelshman2713 6 жыл бұрын

Hello from the shitter land of slush and sheep fucking AKA Wales

@henotic.essence 4 жыл бұрын

Wow I really love the Khajiit lore theory! Very well thought out!

@jotveerkhangura4109 5 жыл бұрын

Ulfric Stormcloak, all the Jarls, the Thalmor, and General Tullius are all shape shifting Argonians that control all of Skyrim together and set a Civil War as a ploy to grow their businesses which is weapons, armor, and food. Both are extremely profitable during a war, making all of them millionaires while the ordinary citizen of Skyrim kills their neighbors.

@BigFlockaDocka 4 жыл бұрын

So they are in game zuckerbergs??

@SSJNathanDavies 6 жыл бұрын

awesome could you do the other races that you dont play but are in the lore like snow elves, dwemer, sea elves, left hand elves, fox people and ayleids cant remember if there was anymore

@SSJNathanDavies 6 жыл бұрын

yea them too lol

@maul5578 5 жыл бұрын

SSJ5Nathan Davies802 akairivi

@breezyisbased556 4 жыл бұрын

1:25 orcs 4:50 dark elves 9:44 high elves 11:16 bretons

@pasifikbwoy7278 2 жыл бұрын

no redguards racist

@amampathak 6 жыл бұрын

Just wow, this is amazing

@quietartist4281 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making these videos

@meddaredda9756 6 жыл бұрын

Make a shadow scale build

@wardy6366 6 жыл бұрын

I wish you included Snow elves Left handed elves Dwemmer Dragons

@danyal6181 5 жыл бұрын

Left handed elves?

@jaspergregorio9774 4 жыл бұрын

Left Handed elves are cool

@JackTheBreadGuyOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

Heh heh heh, what about the right handed elves? What about the Ambidextrous elves?

@wardy6366 4 жыл бұрын

@@JackTheBreadGuyOfficial 😂😂

@MF-R 2 жыл бұрын

I always play as Breton, mostly because they're just magic humans. Knowing there lore now has only mad me think they're cooler. Like, they're the bridge between man an mer, that's pretty neat. And honestly, their magic res makes them one of the easier to turn into a God within ganeplay mechanics. So many magic eaters made (100% res + 100 magic absorb) making them immune to and powered by spells cast at them.

@hahagivemesubs4008 7 ай бұрын

My head cannon for Bretons being resistant to magic is that during their intermixing with the altmer only those who could resist kinky magical cbt survived long enough to have children

@igavinwood 6 ай бұрын

I think that's a better reason then many I've heard. Fits with how poison and weak forms of virus are used to boost the immune system so it can fight the full version. It's a principle that goes back beyond written history and is still used today. It also helps that the origins of all life on Nirn stems from the same primordial source, even though there have been many iterations since then, yet the building blocks of that life are the same in man and mer. The really odd races are those from the beast races. We all know about the Argonians, but there is also the Birdrace that existed in Cyrodil before the mer races came to Tamriel. Understanding where they came from would be interesting. I'll go for an offshoot of the Hist :)