Last time I was this early, Isobel, Etienne and Fallaise were all human.

Sometimes I struggle to sleep at night, too busy laying there thinking, "I wonder how many more things we don't know about skyrim"

M’aiq once met a hagraven she tried to give M’aiq a weird fruit

Anise is bad because she has an arcane enchanter, strange poisons, spell books and human skulls? Sounds like every Dragonborn home ever.

Not gonna lie, a night to remember was so good and I almost felt bad for the hagraven you marry.

I'll be honest, I always felt kind of bad for Moira. I mean, she fell in love only to have them ask for the ring back and kill her.

Nate: "hagravens are one of the most disgusting creatures ever." Also Nate: "the first thing you probably wondered was how they are created."

I use Anise's cabin as a "starting" home for my characters, you can store your loot here and items dont disappear, and its also handy because of the bed and the obvious fact that there is an alchemy and enchanting table to help me out with skills and crafting my things.

“Ugliest and most mysterious” I don’t think that Nate has seen my created dovahkiin.

The hagraven named Melka is probably one of my favourite NPCs in the entire game, andwould absolutely be my bridesmaid if I ever would give in and get married to Moira. Just the fact that she actually keeps to her word and gives you the promised reward if you help her, along with a “kill something pretty with it” as she cheerfully waves goodbye to you is just so charming.

I felt bad that I had to get a ring back from that hagraven, I mean, who wouldn't wanna be married to me, the Thane of every hold, leader of multiple factions and on top of that the dragonborn? 😂😖

i don't think Hircine's entirely evil. i think it depends on what kind of day he's having, or how strong his morning coffee was.

I'm so lonely from social distancing even a Hag Raven is starting to look like a warm mug of mead on dark cold night. 🤫

*If you keep calling them CROW hybrids when they have RAVEN in the NAME I'm going to go feral

Firstly, that shy grin at 1:53, adorable. Secondly, with the Hagraves being found at so many different temples for different Daedric God's, could they potentially just worship multiple ones? So got their appearance from Hircine, their blood lust from Namira, and ritual stuff from Peryite. They each get beings to do their bidding and expand their power base. And seeing how tough Hagravens are, makes sense they got some back up from Daedra

"The sponsor of this video, Ra-" -world stops turning, birds stop singing, entire planet holds breath "'-ycon..." -collective sigh of relief

Last time I was this early, Whiterun guards had never heard of curved swords.

I also like how it seems that hagravens can also have rivalries with each other. I think the one you married accuses you of cheating on her with “that hussy Esmeralda with the glossy feathers”. I really wanted to know more about Esmeralda, and whether she had stolen the hearts (figuratively and/or literally) of our wife’s lovers before.

4:29 " Creator of Werewolves, Werebears, and *Weresharks.* " Me: Umhhhhh, excuse me. WTF!?

Nate, you have me saying murdered to death whenever I talk about killing NPCs. Thank you haha love your videos.

Maybe the hagraven had the boy before she was turned

4:22 Hircine is definitely not evil, he is among minority of the more benign although to a degree, more like True Neutral in D&D terms.

Nate is looking like a highscool cool kid with his new "rocking" headphones

First time i saw a hagraven I said "what the hell is you?!"

I misheard the promotion and thought you were sponsored by Raytheon. I was like tf is he going to advertise, ballistic missiles?

Sometimes I wonder how Nate knows all this information. I swear that he is the modern day Herma Mora.

Really funny thing about a night to remember, I'm married to the woman you need to get the ring back for, so that was akward "Hi honey, sorry I married a hagraven, I'll go get that ring now, bye sweetie, muah"

I always wanted to become a hagraven my characters were always witches.

Couldn’t the hagraven from “a life barbaric and brutal” have had the kid before she became a hagraven? That’s what I assumed

I have learned it from Nate, but there is something that I really do think of a lot... Skyrim is a massive, obscure, gigantic, enormous game

seeing a hagraven - nate: hmm, I wonder how this is created? Cicero and me: STAB STAB STAB HAHAHA!!!

Moira was actually an Easter Egg of the Fallout 3 character Moira Brown. Moira Brown became so popular with the fans, Bethesda made you marry her in Skyrim

Nate, my first question when I encountered them was, "WHAT IN THE NAME OF OBLIVION IS THAT?"

Maybe the reason forsworn and hagravens get along is directly related to the briarheart. Maybe when the human heart is replaced with a briarheart fruit it fulfills the human sacrifice needed to become a hagraven.

I was doing the little quest with the friendly Hagraven and I kept getting scared and accidentally attacking her and her breathing was so uncomfortable.

I was actually binge watching some old theepicnate videos when I got the notification

Anise is also a type of Hag from D&D. An old woman that is secretly a grotesque monster that is skilled with magic.

9:23 So this explains why I got a contract on my head from Moira when I looted Anise's cabin after she died. Doesn't explain who witnessed me though... >.>

I always look forward to watching these videos, especially at such a hard time now. Thanks Nate.

"Anise is no innocent old woman, she is a witch." Throw her into the pond!

Do hagravens lay eggs and if so could we eat one? I'm asking for an bosmer.

Actually the first thing I thought when I first encountered a Hagraven on Orphan’s Rock had something to do with that explosive fireball of death that was suddenly hurled at me and blew up in my face. In my first playthrough, I died a few times trying to get through such damaging power

Who remembers that quest,” A Night To Remember” where you married a hagraven?

I call them Nazeem's mothers

"Need something?"

I always pictured A Night to Remember as some crazy Vegas shit you do while on drugs.

14:00 don't talk to me or my daughter ever again

The Vanna White style advert pleased me greatly lol. Also cheers on making some lore vid for Hagravens! I had a fascination with them and the Reachmen when I met them! Also didn't realize they were in prior books. I used to get bored and read ES3 books, so I'm surprised I missed a lot on them!

Harpies and hagravens are probably the same type of creature, as they both have the same origin, and become the same type of creature, though harpies seem to be a full transformation where hagravens are a partial transformation. It's either a long process from witch to harpie, or it depends on how much the deity that's responsible for it favors you, or maybe even the ritual itself has something to do with it. You can tell they're the same by the body, as they're still humanoid, except the feet and wings. Except hagravens don't have wings, though they are growing feathers, which implies an incomplete transformation. What makes me think it's down to ritual or the deity's favor of the individual is the fact that hagravens are a hag, which is typically an ugly old witch, and they're always a hag even if they come from a non-hag witch as far as we know. Harpies, though I'm not sure how true this is for TES, are typically not hags, and have a subclass of harpy hag in other properties, which we can assume TES follows similarly in that harpies are not necessarily hags; also from the first clip of the harpies, the trapped ones struggling, those do not look like hags at all. It could also just be a timely process, as we haven't seen the actual transformation. For all we know, hagravens might exist only because the transformation was started from an older witch. Maybe the younger harpies we see started the transformation as a child, and that is why they speak in their own tongue, a tongue that hagravens also seem to know. I would expect the physical transformation would be a thing that happens over time, where the body's structure grows to be that of a harpy/hagraven, and why we see hagravens growing feathers while harpies have wings. This would also explain the theory of a child raven growing to be a harpy, as the child needs to grow anyways, the process is quickened, whereas a hag going through this process is already a grown person and the process would take longer to complete; this could also snowball into why the older witches becoming ravens are hags, as they're older, the process is timely, and the process probably has a huge impact on the body, causing them to turn into hags, which are old, ugly witches. It could also be a combination of both, and the single model of hagraven and single model we see of harpy in TESV and TESO are just one variation of many. I would imagine that each individual is just as unique as their model would be as a typical race-based character. I would also imaging, if it is a process, we'd see multiple steps of that process; similarly for if it's down to the ritual or the deity's favor, we'd see varying levels of success and failure of transformation. I would also assume man, mer, and any other species could also become a raven, as harpies/hagravens are literally mammalian humanoids becoming a mammalian-ave hybrid hybrid; this would also separate harpies and ravens from a true ave humanoid species.

I think the whole creation of hagravens thing is looked at too specifically. Everyone seems to be looking for a single culprit or method, when really every possibility is equally valid. As the saying goes, "there's more than one way to skin a cat."

Glad to see you’re getting some sponsors coming in finally. You should have had many sponsors by now in my opinion. You deserve it, and you deserve to be getting paid soooo much more for all you do for us who will forever love this game, and always watch your videos.

Just use the secret passcode: "Hands off"

He really pronounces the letter 'e' at the ends of words🤣

That was the cutest sponsored ad ever

Am I the only one who doesn’t skip the sponsorship In his vids he just got a unique sound in his voice

Nate! NATE! I cannot believe you didnt mention the 3 witches from Morrowind who turned into Hagravens in Skyrim.... The three hagravens inhabiting the Altar of Thrond Cave (DragonBorn) are the three sisters Isobel, Ettiene, and Fallaise from Bloodmoon expansion from Morrowind. Even if you have previously mentioned them before, I think they deserved a spot here.

Nate, I love all of these videos but I’m waiting for immersive mods 15!

Last time I was this early, all those hagravens were still marriable

Honestly I can't get enough of your videos. Skyrim is my #1 game and after all these years you keep it interesting. I thank you, Dovahkiin 🙏🏻💕

Near dark water passing (I think, Ill edit after I double check) in one of the basins that the waterfalls fill, there is a dead body with a brick tied to its legs. Edit: yes, it's in the basin right above dark water passing (there is another door there, leading in to dark water passing) it's next to the waterfall closest to the door, beside a boulder. incase you want to make a creepy details, or random mysteries thing.

nate: "when one first encounters a hagraven, perhaps the most immediate question that comes to mind is "how are these things created" me: *me when i first saw a hagraven* "wtf is this thing?"

I love your Lore videos so much, thank you Nate! It was fun learning about the Hagravens, they're some of the most interesting creatures in the game 🦅⚔

6:30 " Well, I guess for now... we'll never know". Great line.

The sponsorship!!!! My guy!!! Congratulations that's awesome. That's how you know you made it!! Also i liked the modeling haha xD

Last time I was this early emperor Titus mede the 2nd was still alive

The hag-raven with a son may well have born him as a human witch, before undergoing her transformation, you know.

I got the game years ago and still haven't passed the main quest yet, I'm taking my time with it and recently started playing again. Thanks for keeping the Skyrim videos coming, it's good to know it's still alive and popular.

Great, I was just searching to a video that could help me fall asleep. Not that your videos are boring, you just have a very calming voice. Thanks Nate, love your work. Stay healthy

Last time I was this early I woke up on the back of the horsecart, bounded hands with a horse thief, a stormcloak agent and the leader of stormcloak with his mouth covered.

I never liked ravens and when I saw a person/raven I said nope nope nope and ran out the cave in skyrim

Always puts a smile on my face when I see Nate has uploaded a new video.

Love listening/watching these videos when playing Fallout 4 + Skyrim, doing it right now! Well done Nate keep up the good work 👍

Nate, I need your help. I just found a radio at Captain Dean Boats and Bait, which is next to callville bay (Fallout New Vegas) which only plays a morse code audio. Its on top of a shelf next to the shop's counter. I couldnt find any translations online and you're the only person I thought could figure this out. Please share this with him, Im extremelly curious

"Fowl Beings..." I see what you did there. fowl or foul....I made my choice

Just wanted to say that you’re amazing and I love your content! It’s something me and my child bond over so please keep up the amazing work!!

dude. You deserve a million subs. You have to be my favorite Skyrim youtuber ever.

wait, was this a face reveal???

The only real answer is Todd Howard.. Todd Howard IS the dark force

Great video Nate. I was lacking much knowledge on the lore of Hagravens. :)

This “secrets of ...” series is definitely one of your best. Keep me coming my dude!

Welcome N'wahs. This is where I disappeared to. I, Vivec, am Nate in Disguise!

A Night To Remember aka The Hangover: Skyrim

good video have loved your videos since the begining but also wanted to say that you did a good job with the sponsor plug is was a little over a minute and not like a quarter of the video! so keep up all the good work! :D and thanks for the entertainment in this tough time.!

just found your channel and subbed (idk if that means anything anymore these days). anyhow thank you for hours of material to binge now. your content is great :D

”They mate with human males” So you say there’s a chance?

One creepy thing you didn't noticed about Anise. When you loot her place and you have the Heartfire DLC (the one with adoption if I remember well). You find child clothing in her cave. Child clothing...

Been wanting to see a video on these things!

I’m late, but man I just wanna day I’m proud of you for coming this far man. Been watching since the beginning

Damn I'm earlier then parents at the airport lmao

Here’s the real question what type of sick man would love a hagraven

I just wanted to say that I love your videos so so much. Thank you for bringing my favorite game to me in a new light in every video:)

The Gray Cowl of Nocturnal just mod for skyrim is so nostalgic and good time I love the way you show of the author hard work in hammerfell. May shadows guide you.

Last time I was this early I gave a crap about Faendal

“This is the extent of interaction that people get with anise: see her as a sweet old lady, find out she’s evil, kill her” Me: ohhhh we were supposed to find out she was evil before we killed her 😬

Dude how do you manage to still put so much skyrim content on the channel. You're awesome!

Nate: I noticed that in White River Watch there is a wolf in captivity behind a locked gated door. What is interesting is that if you attack the door with a weapon it opens and the wolf ignores you and attacks any remaining bandits. Have you seen any other doors that acts this way?

Nate: all- My first thought: Ul (You know, like Ulfric Stormcloak.)

GUESS WHAT

Really excited to see more of your videos, let's get back to Tamriel. Also, would love to get some headphones if I didn't already have some.

glad you covered these Hags, thanks for reminding me of that quest that Illia is from.