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Sorry for the joke at the beginning, I will see myself out.
I remember seeing some text from Morrowind that stated Reiklings were descended from the Snow Elves. Does anyone know of this?
Snow elves with the dawnguard DLC became one of the better lore additions that came with Skyrim, they along with the Bosmer are the most interesting culture spins on the classic LOTR elves. Every time i get to the forgotten vale i always just take a moment to observe the beautiful architecture along with the heavenly music. Their culture just feels so nice.
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Since we came upon the topic of the snow elves would it be possible for you to make a video regarding every single race in the elder scrolls universe? Yes i know that a video of that size of that size would actually take a really long time to make and would be quite quite long but i myself would watch it from beggining to end
It would be cool if in ES6 you can run into some sort of explorer that works as a researcher or scientist of some sort that has a friend who is a "pale blind Goblin" that speaks broken Cyrodillic. Just as a reference to the Falmer slowly adapting back their intelligence and sociability.
It works really well because Hammerfell(the most likely setting for ES6) has many legends about goblins but would have little to no context about the Falmer beyond the fact that they look like goblins with human skintones, so the natives would have basically no reason to know the actual significance.
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I really enjoy your videos and find the information fascinating, however I would beg you to speak slower as with your accent being quite strong it is very difficult to understand you. Even though I try to use subtitles I think you are too fast for them also and make very little sense so don't help. I am constantly having to stop and rewind again and again just to catch all that you are saying, it's extremely frustrating and disappointing as I really want to understand what you are saying. So please please slow down, take a little more time to clearly enunciate your words and let us truly enjoy your information. Many thanks for all the hard work you put in to producing these videos, it is appreciated. 👍🇬🇧
Seeing the Falmer emerge as a new "Beast race" in a newer Elder Scrolls game would be really cool
Please make a video on the mushrooms, fungi and lichens of Tamriel!💛
The thing with the 500 Companions doesn't have to be false. It could very well be, that it was just 500 Companions that followed Ysgramor to Skyrim, and that those 500 just happened to be chieftains, nobles, or individuals of renown, who then followed Ysgramor with their families and retinue.
Babe wake up Imperial Knowledge posted another video
This telling of snow elf history is frankly just different to the other videos or articles I’ve seen.
10:00 I was under the impression the snow prince battled the 500 companions as an example
you know what, Ysgramor might have butchered the wrong race of mer….dwemer called ancient skyrim home too
Tragic? Nah. They got what they deserved
I love the snow elves for some reason they were so beautiful
Like a white stag but in people form lol 😂
I've always felt so sad for Snow Elves. The vanishing of Dwemer you can somewhat understand but the genocide of Snow Elves was truly sad.
The snow elves are very much like elves in tes. Kinda, they were twisted into hideous creatures that live in Dwarven ruins.
I'd like to see the Snow Elves come back in some significant way. Maybe in a future game you discover another Enclave hidden from the rest of the world still populated. Wishful thinking I know especially given Bethesda's bad writing these days, but one can hope.
The “Night of Tears” was likely fabricated by the Atmorans, as we know they were notorious for pillaging settlements throughout their homeland and later continued the practice on Tamriel. There’s also confirmation from Gelebor on the ongoing tensions between the Falmer and Atmoran city-states.
Not to mention, what reason would the Snow Elves have for sacking Saarthal? If it was for the Eye of Magnus, why didn’t they just take the eye from its position? If they couldn’t, they likely would’ve stationed several guards within and around the ruins of Saarthal. This has fabrication written all over it.
i've always been so intrigued by them and felt really bad about their demise. So much so that fighting one of the presumably last snow elves in the dawn guard quest line felt wrong. i regretted killing him but wished i was able to take something to remember him by you know
Man sometimes I wish the next game will be in the past so we can play those extinct races
I kind of get sad when people root on for Ysgramor because "omg racist killing elves BASED" but in reality, I think it was more or less a provoked thing. Note how the Eye of Magnus was never moved. I don't think they were trying to take it, but the Atmorans were.
But thats just me.
I feel he should of butchered the Dwemer. They are far more evil.
If the Falmer are blind, how could they still raid villages and steal cattle? And how can they, at least in Skyrim, cast spells and fire arrows with such precision.. somewhere, that part of the lore doesn't really hold up.
It guts me to leave Gelebor alone in the Vale. I really wish Bathesda had given us more options with the Dawnguard. We should have had the option to save Vyrthur. The dialogue exists for it. When he gets to low health, it's like he snaps out of it and begs for forgiveness. That should have been a cue for the option to stop the fight, avoid killing Vyrthur, offer to help him get the cure in exchange for him handing Auriel's Bow over. And I wish they had an additional mission or missions with the Dawnguard to go out and find any remaining snow elves. There is some fan theories that Fort Dawnguard was originally built by the Snow Elves and I believe it. The construction of it was very different. My own theory is that the original Dawnguard were snow elves and that the Jarl of Riften knew they were snow elves. In the course of protecting the Jarl's son, they got turned into vampires themselves and one of those vampires went to the Forgotten Vale with the intent of turning those Snow Elves into Vampires or possibly to get cured and that was how Vyrthur became infected. It would have been an incredible turn of events if after killing Harkon some snow elf or snow elves turned up at the ancient fort and started a quest to bring the race back to Skyrim.
Not related to their tragedy, but it would have been a nice option for the Thieves Guild quest line that when we are given the journal that instead of taking it to Calcelmo, that we can take it to Gelebor for translation.
THEY DESERVED THEIR FATE!!!!!
The fact that the snow elves appear to be regaining their intelligence makes me think of the idea of a mutant falmer that is a sighted Einstein among his/her own kind but is of average intelligence and half-blind by the standards of the civilized people of Tamriel.
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
An interesting review on the tragedy of the snow elves. I wonder how they might develop after the events of the Skyrim main quests.
THE NORDS DID NOTHING WRONG (fact checked by true Atmoran patriots ✅)
The snow elves are the Elder Scrolls equivalent to FAFO. They found out.
New video 🎉, I love your lore videos.
Tragic?!?! those treacherous snowy knife ears got what was coming to them!
Sad so many things go extinct in Elderscrolls
What I would like to know is, do we have any records of communication between their society and the other (non Dwemer) elven races on Tamriel?
All we ever hear about is how they interacted with the Dwemer and the Atmorans – what about the other elves!?
I have no idea if this is true or not but I remember seeing somewhere that the non corrupted Snow Elves had a different Mer name that wasn’t Falmer and that the “Fal” in Falmer came from the fact that the Snow Elves were a “fallen” race of Mer. I don’t remember what it said their original Mer name was though.
My personal favorite species of the the elder scrolls.
Great video!
THE SNOW ELF VIDEO AS PROMISED YOU ARE A LEGEND
what probably happened actual lore truth was that snow elves had nukes and the nords/atmorans didnt have any, so nords set off all the snow elf nukes to go off on snow elf cities, then the fallout killed the atmorans at their homes.