So, how's your guard duty? I hear your cousin killed a dragon last month
@monkeyboyk76513 жыл бұрын
Hail Sithis
@headphoneshq60323 жыл бұрын
@Shashwat Shridhar Damn rebels...
@Marine_Dynamite3 жыл бұрын
Because there is one crazy guy that keep shouting clear skies everyday
@evervirescent3 жыл бұрын
free my homie he just wants to see the aurora
@markanxrath13693 жыл бұрын
I laughed way too hard at this
@nondescripthandle2122 жыл бұрын
So basically saying snow, snow, go away, come back another day
@TG-vt7ue2 жыл бұрын
Local "dragon" man defeats snow clouds with loud shouts, creates dry tundra in Solitude
@theknitby2 жыл бұрын
Sometimes, in those cold winter days, if you listen closely you can hear that echoing sound of "LOK, VAH KOOR!" throughout the winds of Skyrim.
@rubenlarochelle18813 жыл бұрын
I never imagined TES devlopers actually studied currents to determine climate, considering they didn't implement seasons...
@redforest92693 жыл бұрын
Maybe Nirn has a 0-degree axial tilt?
@tylerbennett44883 жыл бұрын
Come to think of it, it doesn’t make much sense. At the southern tip you have just normal forest, not even crazy high precipitation rainforest, and then halfway up you have desert. If you assume this is the equator and 30 degrees north, I guess it makes sense, except oh Cyrodiil is on the same latitude is Hammerfell but is most definitely not a desert. Then a bit higher you have snow, which does seem to check out.
@alendonvaldor58083 жыл бұрын
@@tylerbennett4488 Cyrodill is a special case however. Considering it was literally terraformed from a rainforest.
@wisemankugelmemicus17013 жыл бұрын
@@alendonvaldor5808 I think that's just a misinterpretation of Cyrodiil's geography. It doesn't make sense for a country between a colder, Scandinavian-esque country, and two warmer countries covered in swaths of rainforest and desert. Cyrodiil's more temperate environment actually makes sense when you think about it for more than 3 seconds.
@TheDoctorfat3 жыл бұрын
They originally were gonna implement seasons, or at least yearly snow, but it got cut partway through developement, you can see it in action in a video of the Bethesda Gamejame
@JacobWHill3 жыл бұрын
why in the heck do I find this stuff so interesting to watch but I can't pay attention to my science class
@LeftoverPat3 жыл бұрын
we decide when something is relevant
@orthodoxcrusader85683 жыл бұрын
@@LeftoverPat truth I know the complete story of tamriel inculding the gods and I am failing maths TES stuff is more useful tho
@karam35413 жыл бұрын
Because science classes make you learn about stuff you don't particularly care about VS. science videos on youtube you willingly clicked on.
@cassielee72724 жыл бұрын
I always wondered why Solitude was so fair weathered when other northern holds were so covered in snow. Amazing content!
@draconian_dragons65882 жыл бұрын
I assumed it was the planet being round tbh
@matthewbibby89212 жыл бұрын
@@draconian_dragons6588 … Actually that’s a good point - IS Nairn even a planet? The sun and stars aren’t actually… Well, stars at all, but instead just light seeping through from aetherius. The moon is supposedly the remains of Lorkhan, and everything revolves around Nirn rather than it being a celestial body as part of any solar system. Is Nirn even spherical or is it just a flat landmass inhabited in a realm that staves off the rest of Oblivion?
@ROBOHOLIC14 жыл бұрын
You are criminally underrated. Also, this video really helped me with my world building.
@alexisortiz6612 жыл бұрын
Are you a writer?
@ROBOHOLIC1 Жыл бұрын
@@alexisortiz661 not yet.
@Akatosh8883 жыл бұрын
Fun fact. Hjaalmarch is located atop of the Greymoor caverns in blackreach. Which have plenty of volcanic activity.
@dadude49604 жыл бұрын
although the game is built with Scandinavia in mind, it did miss something. there's not even 10% of that amount of tundra. just check how green the Nordic countries are. this landscape is more similar to the Nordics + Arctic during the ice age. something that most don't realize: tundra is a cold desert. a cold desert in the sense that they are arid. tundra has very similar properties to desert in many ways. the lack of vegetation prevents the same lacking vegetation to break down the rocks into soil. which is what makes tundra so unique. the lack of vegetation prevents further vegetation. water has a much harder time to travel upwards on tundra and will trickle down immediately. test this yourself: take a bucket filled with rocks and one with soil and pour water in. soil: the water stays on top and trickles down slowly. rocks: there's a lake on the bottom. - which is also why rock formations have the most underwater sources (mineral water). at some point, the high pressure from above, will make the rocks impenetrable for water. normal plants can't reach this far - thus no normal plants. the only thing that can live off of rocks and decompose them into soil, are sun craving microbes and plants. these do require rain though. tundra: too cold to rain. the city itself isn't tundra. there's plants and grass growing everywhere. but it is surrounded by tundra. it's also walled up. so any snow coming in would be stopped by the mountains + walls. and from the south? there's an upwards slope towards the city. wind is more likely to go to the side than up or down, when given the chance. very little would get up. and then it's a city. the temperature inside is far higher than surrounding areas. the remaining snow gets melted before it reaches the walls. aaaaand i wrote a geography essay on a youtube video.
@LeftoverPat4 жыл бұрын
Never stop being you! The possibilities for theory seem so endless when we try to extract exact climate explanations from in game clues. I think you're on to something, especially regarding uphill slopes too. I can't help but want to pretend what we see in Skyrim is actually just a small representation of what "the real thing" is... "The real thing" actually being a Daggerfall-sized map. So what you're mentioning may be that much more reasonable when we scale the world! I was also surprised at the lack of greenery, it's almost comical. Then I look at a world map.... Perhaps high rock is more GEOGRAPHICALLY similar to Scandinavia... And what's to the East? Russian Siberian wastes... Ala Skyrim.
@SeverinHawkland78553 жыл бұрын
There is a lot of tundra on low mountains actually, so it is verry like scandinavia. At least norway. Do you live somewhere in scandinavia.
@zenenglund83252 жыл бұрын
However, Alaska does have large swaths of tundra throughout it's northern region. Although Nord culture is modeled after the Scandinavians, Skyrim itself looks similar in size to Alaska.
@danghostman2814 Жыл бұрын
"...more similar to the Nordics + Arctic during the ice age." Indeed. And happily we have an entire continent "lost to ice and winter", Atmora, north of Skyrim only a bit (relatively) off the map. The glacial edge may be working its way down the intervening ocean all through the history of Tamriel from the last migrating Nords to TES V.
@_Dovar_ Жыл бұрын
Most of the Whiterun Hold should be as green as Falkreath.
@kingofcymru98553 жыл бұрын
Warm water from Markarth makes a remarkable amount of sense when you consider that it is likely to be run off waste water from the STEAM powered engines that fill the city and route to Haafingar. Had the developers payed more mind to it there would be countless outlets from the cities into the rivers, its just realistic to real world needs (like how water from a sink goes down the drain, to the sewer)
@viorelhelesteu10924 жыл бұрын
You are a hidden gem, my friend. Yet, I am pretty sure that the Adamatine Tower in High Rock and Red Mountain were there before the elves walked Tamriel, one being built by the Et'ada to decide the fate of Lorkan, and the other rising from the sea after his heart landed there (what they decided to do seems apparent).Also the Throat of the world kinda was there. The other ones were built by the Elves to mirror their spiritual ancestors. EDIT: And if by putting one in Morrowind you meant "The Brass Tower" you are officially the Tenth Divine!
@WretchedRedoran3 жыл бұрын
>Tenth Divine >Implying there's a Ninth Divine Found a true son/daughter of Skyrim!
@ncrranger63272 жыл бұрын
@@WretchedRedoran A Redoran talking about being a true son of Skyrim, my day is complete
@WretchedRedoran2 жыл бұрын
@@ncrranger6327 Found a member of the NCR who isn't talking about nuclear winters, my day is complete!
@Himmyjewett Жыл бұрын
9th* talos a hoe
@delta-a173 жыл бұрын
I always thought they modeled the world of Skyrim as it is at the hottest time of year.
@LeftoverPat3 жыл бұрын
I'd imagine if Skyrim had seasons, we'd definitely see a snowy Solitude
@delta-a173 жыл бұрын
@@LeftoverPat I'm pretty sure there is a mod that adds seasons and snowcover, complete with a snowy Solitude.
@ciaranmck44693 жыл бұрын
@@delta-a17 yeah but it's a mod though isnt it however I did hear a comment say there was a small chance for snow to occur anywhere in skyrim
@muslimcrusader59873 жыл бұрын
They made Skyrim look like Cyrodiil 2.0. I don’t like it. The whole country should be entirely snowy.
@delta-a173 жыл бұрын
@@muslimcrusader5987 Might've been pretty boring to only have one look to the whole game like that...
@evzenvarga97073 жыл бұрын
"cities like Dawnstar" thats barely a Village.
@user-un5xj1wl6p3 жыл бұрын
Village? You mean hamlet. Witcher 1 has 3 bigger villages that are obviously more developed but they still feature a lot of fill-in empty and locked hamlets... the problem is that they didn' fake the large city size... same with the IC they should've gone with a lockdown system back then but we can do it now
@alexbattaglia82973 жыл бұрын
I mean the definition of city varies from place to place, where I live a city is defined as a settlement with 1000 or more residents, but the city I live in which has around 2.5 million people would be considered a town in China
@The_One_And_Only_Atlas2 жыл бұрын
Well...yeah No one ever fucking comes there-
@hafor28462 жыл бұрын
I mean, every settlement in Skyrim is barely a village. Sometimes a village with walls.
@mrdoormat68092 жыл бұрын
Most of settlements in skyrim are downscaled to fuck. So a town that house hundreds of houses and manors are downscaled to only dozens and more. This is because of engine limitation. Most village in skyrim even only contain 5 house at most, 1 house/inn at least. So solitude can be a big city on gigantic arc that house hundred thousand of people, but Beth downscaled it so your poor little poopoobox wont explode when city cells are loaded. (Not to mention that Beth Havox engine are outdated as heck). Gameplay-story segregation mate, don't take everything at face value.
@LeftoverPat4 жыл бұрын
I wonder what some other deductions we might make from observing Tamriel's weather, and if they match up with the climate we see? What counts as canonical when it comes to WEATHER?
@warhawk6382 жыл бұрын
It's little touches like this which make me love fictional worlds, as someone who studies geography irl.
@TheWatcher3284 жыл бұрын
This is Wendover Productions level of research. Great video.
@tofuto44922 ай бұрын
It is a bit of a shame that they didn't implement seasons, but given that they didn't, I think that they chose the absolute best time of year to set the game in as it lets us look into this sort of interesting climate stuff. I think it's safe to say that in the winter, the entire country would be covered in snow, and in the middle of summer, the only snow and ice would likely be in the high mountains and the glaciers near winterhold, so its great to see this transition season. Great video!
@LeftoverPatАй бұрын
Thank you for this thoughtful comment!
@brigo1744 Жыл бұрын
You’re such an underrated elder scrolls KZfaqr I love the research you put into these vids
@unhodin2 жыл бұрын
I know this video was before its release, but despite it not being snowy, an NPC in Solitude in ESO's Greymoor expansion mentions how cold the city gets with all the snow during winter, and a large portion of the swamps and morthal are completely covered in snow as well
@LeftoverPat2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's likely every TES game is just perpetually going to be in summer and that's the real answer - at least until winter time ;)
@JaysasterGaming Жыл бұрын
Actually it does snowfall, but not all the time though.
@JaysasterGaming Жыл бұрын
Graymore Caverns maybe the cause for the most warm weather, if the volcanic activity hasn't disappeared.
@saltysaltmaker38483 жыл бұрын
The algorithm threw one of your videos at me. The fact you can make a video on coastal weather systems interesting is pretty cool.
@brycevo3 жыл бұрын
Great job with the logic and reasonings
@Look_Upon_The_Heart3 жыл бұрын
Nearly a year later and you're still responding. This makes me very happy.
@Matt_the_pirate3 жыл бұрын
Cyrodillic jungle ceased to exist because Tiber Septim rewritten the course of history and willed it not to be there in the first place when he achieved CHIM
@GeoffRogers423 жыл бұрын
Wow, I have even more respect for Bethesda's world building, great video
@RohannvanRensburg3 жыл бұрын
I think this also explains (possibly, I'm no meteorologist) why i.e. Lofoten in Norway is well within the arctic circle but doesn't get as cold as many parts of central Canada.
@LeftoverPat3 жыл бұрын
correct! also inland cities just get more extreme temperatures than coastal ones
@RohannvanRensburg3 жыл бұрын
@@LeftoverPat True! But even NYC and some coastal areas in BC (Canada) seem to get way colder temps than some of those moderately populated northern regions. The explanation of precipitation is also quite interesting. It again makes sense, then, that Moscow has a difficult time handling a moderate amount of snow (given that it doesn't happen very often).
@ophidahlia14642 жыл бұрын
This is some really well-reasoned and thoroughly researched analysis. Congrats, you've managed to make fictional video game weather way more fascinating than it has any right to be. Subscribed!
@Garinovitch3 жыл бұрын
I felt your video was really really fascinating. Personally I feel it WOULD snow in Solitude, but most games especially Skyrim aren't capable of such dynamic weathers and seasons to the point during winter months it'd be snowy (or snowier in some regions), sun setting earlier in winter months and sun setting later in summer months, etc, so they had to present Skyrim especially in a time bubble and present it in a way that would offer variety rather than snow snow snow snow snow snow for example.
@danelectro21124 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, and I'm always glad to see techno viking pop up... ;D A forthcoming video on the towers? *nudge**nudge*
@seekthuth28173 жыл бұрын
Question. Is there a reason that the northern part of Cyrodiil is so snowy, but the southern part of skyrim is so green and warm look outside of the obvious "variety within each game?"
@Pintroll3003 жыл бұрын
Altitude could explain the difference- Northern Cyrodil with its single city of Bruma could be set higher up the mountains than your southern skyrim settlements like Riverwood, Riften and Helgen, meaning the general temperatures in Bruma would be far lower than Riften for example The problem in ES is every game has a different scale to the lore and each other (The game map being far smaller than the lore dictates), making it difficult to properly compare them to verify the altitude theory; the only exception being Daggerfall
@seekthuth28173 жыл бұрын
@@Pintroll300 No, I actually think altitude would explain it very nicely. Thank you.
@YangusCool3 жыл бұрын
Mountains
@meatycitadel2 жыл бұрын
If you go further to south you'll see snows
@gertwegh3 жыл бұрын
I'm so happy, I never thought I'd see a Geography Now reference! Barbie the geography wizard!
@LeftoverPat3 жыл бұрын
Hah! Glad someone caught that
@Rex-The-Wolf3 жыл бұрын
This also explains why northern and middle wrothgar are frozen winter wonder lands amd rovenspire to be deas at tge sides of the mountains that shield the rest Even tho most of rivenspire is a wasteland, that part up north is a wasteland and appears to be very cold xD
@honinakecheta6012 жыл бұрын
I use the frostfall mod, as well as a seasons mod for Skyrim and it makes Solitude freezing cold. It doesn’t snow often, but there is a lot of cold rain
@mechkota4 жыл бұрын
I like your explanation with the ocean currency,mountains, rivers ect.. It really makes sense.Especially when you add the idea that Skyrim takes place in the autumn or teh spring. But I have some questions. 1. Why Vvardenfell and Mainland East Morrowind are having different climate than Skyrim despite the fact that they are in one longitude? 2. Same question about Wrothgar and Rivenspire?
@windhelmguard52952 жыл бұрын
three reasons: skyrim is cut off from warm continental air by the jerral mountains, morrowind has no mountain range separating it from black marsh, thus they'll get more warm air from the south. morrowind has an east coast, which could harbour warm sea currents. this would already be enough, since france and Germany have a similar thing going on.
@M_Julian_TSP2 жыл бұрын
@@windhelmguard5295 Well you may be right for Morrowind, but France and Germany both have the same climate (Cfb oceanic) on the same latitude...
@windhelmguard52952 жыл бұрын
@@M_Julian_TSP that is simply incorrect as france is nearly always warmer and/or more humid than Germany.
@M_Julian_TSP2 жыл бұрын
@@windhelmguard5295 it is generally warmer and more humid though it is still the same Cfb oceanic climate, it's just that it gets more continental going east. While in Tamriel the problem is on a bigger scale, Morrowind has humid subtropical climate (Cfa) on the same latitude and altitude as Falkreath
@baron39049 ай бұрын
@@M_Julian_TSPOceanic climates are very varied...
@treeaboo Жыл бұрын
To note, the Towers weren't built by the Merethic Elves (Aldmer), in fact none of them were, instead they're the ones who found the first tower, Ada-Mantia (the Adamantine Tower or Direnni Tower) which existed at the beginning of the world and worked out what it was. The Altmer, their primary descendants built Crystal-Like-Law on the Summerset isle. The White-Gold Tower was built by the Ayleids in the style of the Adamantine Tower, Green-Sap was is a massive graht-oak grown by the Bosmer. Red Mountain was created when Auri-El shot Lorkhan's Heart from the top of Ada-Mantia, and where it fell on Vvardenfel is where Red Mountain was born. Snow Throat is the most mysterious, it doesn't seem to have been built by mortals yet isn't as old as Ada-Mantia (or apparently the Crystal Tower or White Gold) despite being a mountain, however it's deeply connected to the Nords and humanity in general as it is theorised Kyne created men at its summit so perhaps she is its creator which is given credence by the quote "The Nords believe men were formed on this mountain when the sky breathed onto the land. Hence the Song of Return refers not only to Ysgramor's return to Tamriel after the destruction of Saarthal, but to the Nords' return to what they believe was their original homeland." - Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition. The sky of course being Kyne. Lastly Orichalc was the tower of the Redguards on Yokuda, however it appears to have sunk along with most of the continent, it's not known exactly if it was built by the Redguards or the Lefthanded Elves, though considering Orichalc is supposedly also an avatar of the Yokudan(Redguard) god HoonDing who in helping the Redguards defeated the Lefthanded Elves "achieved permanence" by seemingly turning himself into a tower it seems likely that in a sense one could say that the ancient Redguards built it, beyond that not much is known about it, though unlike Snow Throat it at least has an origin story of some sort.
@OmegaStudios3214 жыл бұрын
Another amazing video ! Keep up the good work !
@theprimestskeletron6764 жыл бұрын
It's possible that the Wheels of Lull just lied to me on this, but isnt the only tower in Skyrim somewhere around the Throat of the World? Also wow your videos are really good how are you his underrated
@thewimp96303 жыл бұрын
I was today years old when I asked myself that question.
@pickaname30573 жыл бұрын
I love you’re Channel you deserve so much more views
@LeftoverPat3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@reederickson32023 жыл бұрын
Has anyone done any digging regarding the weather mechanics themselves and what influences the current weather in a given area? I only ask this because I swear to God I had a full-blown blizzard in Riverwood once, and I have no idea why that happened or if it's a glitch or what.
@ciaranmck44693 жыл бұрын
maybe its because of a mod but I've heard that there is a small chance for it to snow almost anywhere in skyrim except whiterun
@matthewbibby89212 жыл бұрын
Sometimes if I go up to Bleak falls barrow and then head down it doesn’t seem to notice and the weather carries on for a while… Did you happen to be heading down from a nearby mountain?
@reederickson32022 жыл бұрын
@@matthewbibby8921 Good question. If I recall correctly, no. I think I had just stayed the night at the inn, and when I came outside it was snowing.
@virtualtours30002 жыл бұрын
You can explain everything in elder scrolls with one word: MAGIC!
@darkpaw15222 жыл бұрын
Great analysis, very underrated video.
@LeftoverPat2 жыл бұрын
thank you!
@johnmata81823 жыл бұрын
I usually spend ages trying to figure it out, and surprisingly you get actual wizards who pop up doing the same thing. Literally everywhere there just protected by you. So freaking rad.
@holymelon80112 жыл бұрын
I always interpreted it as seasons, like riftons fall, windhelm and snowy cities deep winter, whiterun spring/fringes of winter, solitude falkreth and markarth is spring/summer
@claws2129 Жыл бұрын
Not even thirty seconds in but I'm going to wager it's because Solitude has the mountains blocking the northern winds off the Sea of Ghosts from all but the east. It also probably has something to do with the methane gas likely bubbling up from the Morthal swamps. The strange lights in the marsh described by the townspeople actually being partly due to methane pockets igniting. Thats my theory anyway.
@LeftoverPat Жыл бұрын
You pretty much got it!
@claws2129 Жыл бұрын
@@LeftoverPat I've drawn up a couple maps for fantasy stories and tabletop games and I try to be as realistic as possible. I'm no expert by any means but I really appreciate games like the Elder Scrolls series bringing in these subtle details.
@galliumgames3962 Жыл бұрын
I’ve always assumed that Skyrim is stuck around fall solstice for development constraints as the Rift is in fall foliage and more temperature, but boreal areas are not yet covered in snow. I would guess it does snow In Solitude, but the snowfall might be delayed further into the year because of the blocking effects of mount Kilkreath and continued warm air blowing down from the south as winter has yet to cut it off. Winterhold has trees near it, and so does the Pale, so that area probably experiences a short, but warm enough summer to support the growth of trees as it’s impossible/nonsensical for trees to be frozen 24/7 365 days of the year.
@evervirescent3 жыл бұрын
i have a feeling we’re gonna get some very interesting tower lore in the near future
@M0ggea2 жыл бұрын
What a great video to fall asleep to
@kikimckiki1165 Жыл бұрын
Please do a video on the towers I’m super interested in those!
@artemaheks2 жыл бұрын
Yo this video is lit af, sorry it took me three years to see it.
@danielryder58083 жыл бұрын
Either the change in composition in the atmosphere due to the Dragonborn screaming or perhaps a lower elevation along with warm water and the jet stream wrapping around morthal redirects precipitation which is heavier like snow towards another area
@seraphinaedan10332 жыл бұрын
Well solitude wasn’t always skyrims capital, idk what the timeline for the towers is, but if it was to be placed in an important city it would likely be Winterhold or Windhelm
@JaysasterGaming Жыл бұрын
In The Three Banners War, it was Windhelm.
@zaphodlucs2 жыл бұрын
my guy, you are not allowed to make such a awesome video, wtf. GEOGRAPHY, REAL GEOGRAPHY, in elder scrolls???
@Immortal_Fish2 жыл бұрын
there's so many small details in skyrim that we all take for granted
@T.A.Stanley3 ай бұрын
Wow! love this and you! :)
@jzargo57972 жыл бұрын
This one is sad that Winterhold is so cold
@JaysasterGaming Жыл бұрын
In ESO Graymore Chapter, it does snowfall, but it could be because of the Harrowstorms though, hoever it was also 1000 years later that snowfall stops happening in Solitude.
@RaunienTheFirst3 жыл бұрын
Hey, our weather isn't always gloomy. Sometimes it's dull!
@nagihangot61333 жыл бұрын
It snowed in my Holidays playthrough.
@Mycotography3 жыл бұрын
nice channel, i see you getting many more subs, keep up the good work!
@frozeneevee3 жыл бұрын
I never really thought about it but it was strange that it doesn't snow in solitude Also, great video! learned a lot more about weather than I did before!
@Noelwiz2 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@codylbrown39613 жыл бұрын
Man great videos!
@togglefire35373 жыл бұрын
Seasons? Theres a mod for that.
@TheRealMEEDABEE3 жыл бұрын
Theory: dragons breathed too much fire and made it hot there :)
@ramen46292 жыл бұрын
Yes of course I’m doing my math homework
@napwneoenejeod3740 Жыл бұрын
Lol the red arrow about two minutes in is almost where Im from, just the south part of the Seward peninsula
@remainprofane77323 жыл бұрын
This is excellent!
@JoaoPauloSoares612 жыл бұрын
Cool, nice vid.
@Azuris190 Жыл бұрын
Great Video!
@02091992able2 жыл бұрын
Yeah it must have something to do with the swamp sometimes swamps can be fed by underwater springs which can be warm if there is volcanic activity in the area. The Bering Sea is a nasty area because that is where warm air tends to collide with cold air there.
@iambnc61682 жыл бұрын
Even some newer games doesn't have such detail in their world building.
@JonatasAdoM2 жыл бұрын
I rather like that the wind always blows in one direction, and alaways East for Skyrim is even better.
@RebelInTheF.D.G Жыл бұрын
When I think of Nords, I just think of the naked dudes that got trolled by witches in Morrowind, or the one roaming around Mournhold complaining about the heat. They've always felt like a meme to me, and unfortunately Skyrim didn't help, imo. Probably just stems from the fact that I started with Morrowind, so the bar is set absurdly high by default, but I liked Oblivion even more, so idk. Nords just feel hollow.
@WeavileLady Жыл бұрын
I think Tamriel as a whole will get dryer overtime looking at eso’s quest “Mistress of the Lake”. The former jungles of Tamriel might of applied the continent my started much more humid but over time it became drier and drier and continues to do so. Tamriel is a super continent and those get really get dry.
@peterprime21408 ай бұрын
Tamriel isn't a supercontinent. There are other continents like Atmora and Akavir.
@Jadenmic3 жыл бұрын
I love your content!
@LeftoverPat3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@michaelweiske702 Жыл бұрын
I don't believe the theory that all of the towers were "built" by the merethic elves. Sure, I could believe they built the towers in Aldmeris and Highrock, but the adamantine tower in Cyrodil was built by the Ayleids (or their slaves), which are still elves so I guess that could count. However, the White and Red tower are both geological features which have mythic origins, the white tower being where life was breathed into the world according to the Nords and the Red tower being where Lorkhan's heart struck Nirn after being shot with an arrow.
@gunargundarson16263 жыл бұрын
If only the hardware allowed it, Godd Howard would make an Elder Scrolls game with every survival mod implemented.
@barkasz60662 жыл бұрын
I think one of the next big technological breakthroughs in open world games will be seasonal changes.
@scarletbard65113 жыл бұрын
I saw that Crusader Kings reference, nerd. Nice.
@meltyninjers2 жыл бұрын
1:23 unexpected ck2 is unexpected
@Mbeluba4 жыл бұрын
Great quality and very watchable video. I was afraid it will be some uniformed geek ramblings only concerned with retroactively explaining what is it the game.
@notgoddhoward59723 жыл бұрын
Yes I was in the meteorology club.
@33ttips4 жыл бұрын
Was thinking 🤔 that was the case.. Love the Video, what about Bruma in Cyrodiil?
@LeftoverPat4 жыл бұрын
Great question! Bruma is the perfect INLAND mountain city, by contrast. In this case, I would apply the same warm currents (Elsweyr, humid Black Marsh) moving to northern climates rule, as weather gets caught in the northern Jeralls.
@33ttips4 жыл бұрын
LeftoverPat kinda like an Tamriel Jet Stream
@leahl50072 жыл бұрын
I still don’t believe Bethesda did any of this intentionally. I think they just made Solitude non snowy cuz they wanted to distinguish it from the other northern towns. Bethesda is supa lazy lol But this video was NOT lazy! I learned about weather stuff and looked at clouds for a while, so thank you very much Mister Weather Man! 😆
@DovahFett2 жыл бұрын
I don't think you can look at all the effort and money they put into any of their games and label them as "lazy". Just think about Skyrim itself for a moment. It can take 100 or more hours to see and do all the content that's present in that game. If it takes that long to see it all, how long did it take to program it into the game in the first place? Sure they take shortcuts and cut features, but it's not out of laziness, it's out of a need to avoid feature-creep and meet their deadlines. If they didn't draw the line somewhere the games would never come out. See Star Citizen for an ongoing example of what happens when a developer doesn't know when to stop adding features and consolidate what they have.
@leahl50072 жыл бұрын
@@DovahFett OKAY FIRST OFF very nice civil argument with helpful terms and examples 👍 I usually get yelled at by the internet for having opinions on the video games, so I appreciate chu 😊 And honestly, I’m not gonna deny the vast amount of effort that seems to be on display in Bethesda games. I’m super unfamiliar with programing anything more than a jumpy square, and if you add walls to the level, my programming is doomed 😅 So I’m not the best at recognizing how much effort goes into all the different aspects of a big game. I’ll say this though: presentation is a big factor for me. I recently did the Solsethem (sp?) DLC, and I walk everywhere on that island. No fast travel for me lol And I swear you can find clipping objects and land every few yards. ☹️ Maybe I’m a perfectionist, but if I was a programmer, I could not sleep until I fixed those errors! At the very least, I’d fix the ones you can see from the foot paths. There’s a lot of other details I could list, but I’m gonna leave it there cuz I’m not trying to change your mind or anything lol As far as my opinion goes, I’d say it’s more in the realm of “a feeling of laziness” rather than a fully “logical educated guess”. So yeah, I think it’s very good that you commented here, to balance out the ignorance in my statement lol 😋 Side Note: What’s “feature creep”?
@DovahFett2 жыл бұрын
@@leahl5007 Oh no, I don't dispute that the games have bugs in them, like the ones you pointed out, but here's something to keep in mind. Try to imagine all the bugs that you don't see because they were caught during development or patched out at a later time. You're only seeing the 5% of bugs that for whatever reason weren't fixed. whether it be because developers didn't have time or didn't know about them. Also consider that some bugs can be a product of fixes to existing ones. Patch one hole and two more appear. This is statements on feature creep and development time come into play. You can either spend months to years stamping out every bug you come across and chase perfection, or just deal with the most egregious ones and get a good enough out to players. Bethesda games are deceptively simple looking. Anyone that's seriously ventured into modding them will probably tell you that doing anything substantial or remotely complex is a pain in the ass. Due to their advanced age some the tools and even game engine itself are basically jury rigged to work the way Bethesda needs them to. My favorite example of this is in Fallout 3, where there's a section where the player takes a metro train to a new area instead of fast traveling. As the developers didn't have the time or skill needed to make a working train within the game engine (since it didn't support vehicles) they instead opted to create a giant hat that looks like a train car, and equip it to the player. After that they simply made the player character move really fast on a set path to simulate the movement of the train. The result is what looks like a perfectly functional train, but a quick look with a different camera angle will tell you that it's anything but. So the games may look lazy at times, but the hoops Bethesda has to jump through every development cycle to make them function are anything but. The scale and complexity of the systems they build for them just make it inevitable that some things slip through the cracks.
@USER-zn2jr2 жыл бұрын
Man you also used Ean Grimm's market music. I associate that soundtrack with Skyrim. WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
@DefecTec2 жыл бұрын
I think it’s just engine restrictions from the time, almost all of Skyrim should snow, but they just added different seasons to different areas, maybe in Tes VI we’ll get seasons
@TheMetalAllfather3 жыл бұрын
>doesn't snow in Solitude (Laughs in Clear Skies shout) Yes it does.
@nepnep14533 жыл бұрын
It’s definitely because the game starts in summer and never changes seasons. If you want to have a good look at what Skyrim looks like during winter look at the Elder Scrolls Arena map of Skyrim.
@fabriziodefrancesco70832 жыл бұрын
ah yeah, in summer...17 last seed (August!)
@weebslayer34112 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry? Did you somehow miss the gleam of those imperial soldiers?
@degiguess2 жыл бұрын
thats possible or maybe they just made each part of the map a different season for variety
@madscatt10632 жыл бұрын
Because cities don't snow, the snow comes from water in clouds.
@bayzidrahman72272 жыл бұрын
Don't forget magic. Magic can also influence the weather. Lazy but true.
@Brindle12 жыл бұрын
For an unemployed person, this video was very informative to me
@isaacspencer8463 жыл бұрын
Nirn won't have seasons. Its a geocentric solar system.
@ra_alf94673 жыл бұрын
Can you do one with tectonics plates in Nirn planet, please?
@evildoctortaco2 жыл бұрын
What mod is that for Dawnstar? It looks amazing
@riffraff10952 жыл бұрын
"The great cities by soldierofwar" I have it and it's great! It overhauls winterhold, dawnstar, rorrikstead, and falkreath.
@jakapoljansek36493 жыл бұрын
Nice geography now refference
@orthodoxcrusader85683 жыл бұрын
It did snow for me a couple of times but I have a mod that improves visual effects and weathers so maybe that caused it
@andresterrazas8552 жыл бұрын
The winds blow east cause of Hammerfell.... They always knew......
@kassandraofodyssey64753 жыл бұрын
Well, if Whiterun is so warm, why is The Rift always in Autumn?
@LeftoverPat3 жыл бұрын
The Rift is a little weirder, but same principle applies to it as it does in Falkreath, I'd say. The game always being in summertime might help this...
@darkdude92482 жыл бұрын
as dumb as it sounds, always just assumed it wasn't snowy because the density of buildings and it being the only town with a sewer system and that would help melt snow on street level.