Today, the story of Umbra, Enjoy!
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I liked the books.
Damn, i just opened yt, saw the video, thought "dont remember this one", see the uploaded time, 1 minute lol
This is the sword I use in oblivion. I just don't return it and leave that daedric quest incomplete
I didn’t know the books had a bad rep. I enjoyed both of them.
LETS GOOOOO
7th, yippee
This sword, as well as dawn and duskfang, were inspired by the sentient sword Stormbringer, from the Elric novels by Michael Moorcock. Not gonna lie, I have done more than one run as an Elric inspired snow elf. Even used the Stormbringer mod, which is nice, but I feel was never fully completed as I would love if it chaotically killed at will. Would definitely mess with roleplaying if your blade decided to kill Lydia just cuz. And who could blame the Black Blade, really?
What's up with there being Mannimarco King Of Wyrms in both Daggerfall and Oblivion
Basically Stormbringer, from Elric.
I have umbra, I reprogrammed it to want revenge on Clavicus Vile😅
This was really enjoyable to watch 😀
Silly Clavicus Vile, if you wanted a sword that captures souls you could have just went to any run-of-the-mill town merchant. Bought one from Alvor in Riverwood just the other day.
Thank you for these videos, have a good festive season
Umbra isn't the only Daedric artifact that wasn't actually made by a Daedra. Volundrung and Spellbreaker were both made by the Dwemer, for example. I'm pretty sure Goldbrand was forged by a Dunmer. Now that I think about it, only Azura's Star, Wabbajack, and Sanguine's Rose were confirmed to have been crafted by their respective princes. And I'm not even sure about wabbajack.
The books are HEAVILY underrrated! Some of my fav reads ever, I need more TES novels!!!
I absolutely DESPISE the "official" novels. Both for their treatment of TES lore and characters and as literature in general. My five-year-old nephew demonstrates more creativity talking to his poops in the bathroom than Greg Keyes has in his entire body, if the novels are any indication. I've read literal fanfics that are better TES content. Also, on a specific, more on-point note, FUCK what he did with Umbra.
God i love this channel
Ive read the books a couple of times, i thought that they were pretty good
Always happy to see a new video from you!
Fantastic video as always, thanks for the content!
Wait anyone is saying the novals were bad??
I wouldn't mind more elder scrolls novels. Some are bound to be misses but they're worth it for the hits
Umbra becomes very hard to explain after the novels because everything included in Skyrim Anniversary is accepted official by Bethesda, and that list includes a quest about Umbra. For those who don't know, the sword appears in a cavern, held by another host it wields. This was a man who got injured badly and was dying before Umbra appeared to him in a dream, then he awoke to find the actual sword next to him. It healed his wounds and by the time you can find him, he's gone from the normal swordsman he initially was to an incredibly powerful guy. He uses master-level destruction magic to summon storms, duplicates different spectral variants of himself that fight different ways, temporarily becomes outright invincible, and delivers blows with Umbra which far exceed what other weapons will do.
If you manage to actually beat him, which is legitimately far harder to do than the Ebony Warrior or debatably even Karstaag, you strangely don't inherit the same powers. The sword will hit very hard and trap souls like it always used to, but it won't heal you, allow summoning of spectral copies, or grant temporary protection from harm like it gave to the previous holder. This suggests that not only did Clavicus Vile fail to fully destroy the weapon, it kept getting stronger and is still its own thing with individual thought and the ability to choose who can wield its full power.
I’m surprised it took you this many years to make a video about Umbra. Make a video about nerveshatterer!
I’ve been binging your channel for days because your videos are the perfect thing to listen to/watch while i work on christmas projects and wrap
If they ever bring spears back, they should bring back the spear of the snow prince and maybe Hircines spear
When I was little, I pronounced it as the umbrella sword. 😅
I have nothing but font memories of it. It's my favorite weapon in tes haha
I wish using the sword too much just slowly changed your characters name to Umbra, make it sigbificantly more lore accurate without effecting gameplay at all
ahh, the old abortion argument
Chrysamere gang RISE UP 💪