Probably one of my best videos yet since I really discovered something. Specifically: That the dragon cult itself likely changed over the years and seems to have had 3 phases. Pretty cool!
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Very enlightening!
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This video was a lot of effort to make as the dragoncult is very poorly documented online, with some mistakes here and there which seems to have bled into several lore videos online. Hope you enjoyed it!
Just as I said at the end of the video, huge thanks to weather dragon from the UESP who gave input for the video! A link to his socials is in the video description
Honestly one of the topics I'm most excited for
glad you covered the dragon Priests
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Would you be interested in making a video on the lore of the umbriel books?
Oh-hoho, tooting our own horn are we? 😂
Even your oldest videos are pretty high quality, so you're always setting the bar higher with each video.
Lore, the very soul of the Elder Scrolls and the greatest reason we explore the world thereof. It has also become the way of a Bethesda game.
The argument of ancient nords and later ancient nords could be reworded, prehistoric nords and ancient nords. The one with lost knowledge and the other who preserved that knowledge.
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Tribalism. Totem animals. Primal barbarian societies. This is what I imagined Nords before Skyrim came out. And after that, seeing populace of imperialised parodies of once glorious Atmorans (yes, it also includes my favourite Stormcloaks – I have a hard time understanding their devotion to Talos, imperialist warmonger that probably wasn't even a Nord), I got quite disappointed. And while I support Stormcloak rebellion for their independence attitude, even in them I see taint of imperialisation. Oh well, at least during escape of Cidhna Mine, I freed Madanach, so in case Ulfric betrays his ideals (such as aiming for Ruby Throne), my characters are no longer oath-bound to him (They swore allegiance to Ulfric Stormcloak who will drive out the Empire and make Skyrim independent land, and that Ulfric Stormcloak died the moment he betrayed these ideals), and there is another tribal ruler with aim for independence, and his culture is even more totemic and primal than Nords. Skyrim belongs to her inhabitants! And same applies for any other “provinces”!
Huh. I never keyed in on "That's SHOR!" when I saw those reliefs in the various Halls of Stories and such. Honestly I always saw them as the "Dragon Priests" back then. Thinking that what you were seeing was Worshipers, the Priest, and above the Priest on the Relief, the God/Spirit they were interceding with.
Chalk one up for me being stupid, but stupid in a different way than most I guess.
Though the weirdest thing for me of that ancient religion? The fact that "The Snake" was part of their iconography and belief. I mean for a religion that started on Atmora which everything I've ever heard of is just constantly frozen over. You don't exactly see a lot of snakes in Greenland, you know?
Wonder how the "Old Ways" of Solstheim's Skaal comes into play as well. As the Dragonborn DLC seemed to suggest that they were actually the same religion as the Dragon Cult by their dialogue and sources, as they refer to Miraak as a "betrayer" of… their religion? And the loyalist that defeated him being one of their people. So somewhere the All-Maker (through the religion) gets added in as well and the totem worship of things like the Tree Stone, Beast Stone, etc? Or was that part of it? Or was it transformative? As the Skaal Religion seems to go back to Miraak's betrayal at the very least. And that betrayal seems to predate "The Dragon War" as I understand it, possibly before Alduin shows up as they depict the Dragon Cult as the benevolent force, and Miraak's betrayal as unjustified as an attempt for dominion instead of rebelling against tyrants.
I spazzed out on that one dragon priest that made his followers kill their child….truly evil.
Oh man. What an excellent video. I love how even though we have a lot of information on the Dragon Cult, there’s still so much unknown about them.
Feldir the Old: Hold, Alduin on the Wing! Sister Hawk, grant us your sacred breath to make this contract heard! Begone, World-Eater! By words with older bones than your own we break your perch on this age and send you out! You are banished! Alduin, we shout you out from all our endings unto the last!"
fantastic video. had a good time thanks
this makes me wonder more about miraak's betrayal of the cult, and think more about his mirroring of alduin's betrayal of his own destiny. if the cult were more akin to tyrannical, then would that make miraak more morally grey? especially in his mantra stating "and when the world shall listen. and when the world shall see. and when the world remembers. that world shall cease to be." but we never get an elaboration on what he meant 🙁
How good man, cheers. I translate 3 Australian Aboriginal stories for work and been reading heaps of dnd. You just helped make heaps of things come together haha not just ES
16:57 not too long, i could listen to your lore videos for hours. They're so good
Atmorans worshipping snakes always annoyed me. No snake could survive anywhere near atmora
Quite the extensive video on the Dragon Cult. Thinking about it, it does indeed make sense for it to change over the centuries given all the different climate and political developments. A lot more depth to it provides great fascination.
Did i miss something, or did he mention the fact that you actually talk to a literal Atmoran god in Skyrim, Tsund? Or the fact that Ysgramor (who was an actual Atmoran) worships Shor in Sovrenguard?
Great video as always! I always go to your videos for elder scrolls lore as you keep it clean and concise! Don't sell yourself short everything before this was great too!