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They're kinda hot tho...

Dude... the entirety of Skyrim is laughably incompetent. The game itself, I mean. Lowest point in the series by far... except for graphically.

Alchemy and restoration is all I need to become skyrim's Saitama

Winterhold College: The Arch mage is a Barbarian class. LOLs

they fail because they look down on the restoration school

Realistically speaking, the Empire of Cyrodiil us done for. After Skyrim it will probably only consist of Cyrodiil and Highrock and the emperor will be dead. (Which by the way was ordered by a member of the elder council, so there's unrest within it.) I don't think Titus Mede II had heirs, so there might even be a struggle for who gets to be emperor. And the empire only survived in the great war because the Thalmor got too confident.

I have a devastating magic that only requires Taco bell.

So just like Hogwarts.

Well obviously they are the red headed step child of Mage colleges. They are literally squatting in the ruins of a big self inflicted magical "Oopsie", in the worst corner of a land where mages are seen as wimpy milk drinkers. Funding has been inexistent for decades, mortality rate among students is about as high as Hogwarts and the only applicants are weirdos and wackos. Hell, if you want to learn magic you might as well go and hang out with the Foresworn, they seem to be at least competent...

They let you in with just a fire spell? I had to summon a flame atranoch

The player character is their only hope. Lucky for them, that's me. SKYRIM BELONGS TO THE NORDS!

IT'S 2025 AND STILL THERE IS NO ES VI 😭😭😭😭😭😭

6:14 that's a good question. With all of the other problems I have with the college questline and the way magic works in general in Skyrim compared to previous elder scrolls games, it slipped my mind that Winterhold was a Stormcloak city. Ancano isn't a particularly powerful mage on his own, how'd he make it to the college alive?

The College of Wintergold are the types of guys who would make a deal with Tzeentch or one of his Greater Daemon just to test out a new magic and end up creating a giant monster out of nowhere to tear up the region out of sheer negligence.

The Elder Scrolls hasn’t really gotten the whole magic faction thing totally right yet, but at least in previous games you actually felt like you needed to know/use some magic. You can beat the college of winterhold without even casting a single spell. I wonder how it will be in Hammerfell, another province known to be kinda hostile towards magic and all things magical

They had to put the eye in the hall where they did, because they had no other aesthetically pleasing storage location and it really helped to tie that big empty space together quite nicely.

You don't understand, I have to haul an entire alchemy supply warehouse around with me because if I don't buy out the entire store the alchemist can't afford to buy one of my potions.

There's just a Severe Lack of Accountability and Concern and Morality and Duty in Winterhold.

2:45 bro what are u talking about alchemy is one of the most overpowered skills if u know how to use it. and im not talking about restoration loop, u just need to know few recipes and u are good to go

At the end I had glanced away and back at the video, you were talking about a faction you wouldn't mind joining, and for a split second I thought you were gonna run across the plains to the drunk revelers who hand the DB a beer. That's MY faction. Clink-clink y'all.

Might be wrong, but iirc Encano repeatedly states he has nothing to do with the Thalmor and he is not a spy. Of course he is, but they don't know for certain until he makes a grab for the Eye of Magnus.

Listen i come here to just get the questline overwith as fast as possible to get the staff and archmage robes and the free dragon priest mask, and then i go do more interesting things wirh magic just by myself until master level spells are needed, and most arent even that good save the thrall conjuration spells. I actually really love magic in skyrim and hope they kinda manage to split the difference between it and oblivion/morrowind style magic in 6. Possibly by letting you dual hand spells, and have more powerful spells that are bound to the power button. As well as crafting spells again.

Hey I stand with my man Hamelyn, let the man build his rat army.

College dropouts, amirite?

My idea for rebuilding the city of Winterhold (which happens after the following goles have bean reached 1: finish the college story and become the archmage. 2: finish the civil war, which side only changes which Jarl you talk to and how some people act around you or what clothes and armour others wear. 3: become Thane of Winterhold) involves the Jarl asking you to aid it its rebuilding as you have the funds, connections and the ability to help people the city after all the trouble caused during the story, and with, feeling even if the collage didn't cause the collapse, it still put the people in danger whith the Eye, so you gather a bunch of new characters to help rebuild the city and allow some soldiers to study magic to aid in future conflicts wile having a representative of the Stormcloaks or Legion keep an eye on everything, the Jarl gets a new castle to live in, a new stair case is constructed to allow people to get to the sea for traid and fishing, you get the old Jarl's house as a new home and a housecarl who's one of the characters you meet.

The collage is one of the most insane places where replacing the leader with a brain dead barbarian who hits people he doesn't like... Would be considered an improvement. Which is saying something considering the thieves guild is pretty messed up and the assassin guild has its own mess of crazy problems.

Something to consider, is that the idea of Empire as a sinking ship was firstly established waaaay back, in Morrowind. Caius in his parting speech to Nerevarine very much highlights that the moment current Emperor is dead, the entire house of cards is coming down. And that was before literal forces of hell invaded reality. While i can't put faith in current Bethesda writing skills, because those are have a corporeality of fcking Casper the friendly ghost, i can put faith in that game and that lore from way back when. The thing about Empires of any kind... no king rules forever.

While everything you've said here is true, the similar points could be raised about EVERY SINGLE FACTION of skyrim. Like to the point of actual absurdity. 1) Thieves Guild? Literally got robbed by their own master, blindly trusting him and claiming to know him for no reason. 2) The Companions? Proud cast of warriors, imbued by a dark pact of lycantropy with an eldritch god of hunt... who just allow some guys to enter the city and slaughter their boss. While being supremely armed, and in the literal center of main city hub of the region, just few steps next to the palace. 3) Dark Brotherhood? ONE SINGLE INSANE JESTER almost managed to assassinate their leader, when said leader was prepared and highly paranoid of him. Said leader also had a 200 iq idea of cutting the deal OF THE MAN WHOS SON IS MURDERED BY HER OWN COMMAND. The word "idiocy" doesn't even begin to cut it. 4) Vigilantes of Stendar? Ignored several warning about the vampires and got slaughtered in their own hall. I should remind you, that this is a faction who's main shtick is to FIGHT DAEDRA, LITERAL CREATURES FROM HELLISH DIMENSIONS. Icant- 5) Bardic College is non-entity, so i'm not even going to attempt talking about it. 6) The Blades first idea after barely re-establishing their base and begin the lengthy and painful process of rebuilding? Let's go kill that old-ass dragon patron OF THE MOST REVERENT FACTION IN ALL OF SKYRIM. Like what the actual, livid f*ck? The moment graybeards find that out, they don't even have to do anything, just cry murder. Such event could re-ignite civil war if it wasn't already burning bright. 7) The only faction who ISN'T that, is Dawnguard, but only IF you are playing for them. So you might as well consider them just plainly unfit for the challenge, if nothing else. The reality is, there's only two ways of looking at it. Either Elder Scrolls world is just a cartoon filled with archetypal incompetency, or the lead writer of this flustercluck is just typewritter monkey. And even ignoring mountains of evidence for the latter, i would still prefer to think it's just bad writing over "this is how things are in this world". Luckily, Bethesda yet to implore the same "argument" that they used to demolish Fallout - "It always has been silly, don't you get it?". *Yet.*

I wish theyll return attributes and attribute requirments for joining and advancing in guilds.

Instant follow: by far one of the best and intricate explanations of ES lore and politics. Let’s hope the Thalmor come crashing down screaming in the near future.

Yeah that's how collage work.only some teachers don't even care to teach you something usefull later in live. Even teach you the opositte.

Every faction in Skyrim is a shit fest, the difference is that the college is supposed to be filled with smart people, but has staff that is criminally incompetent.

A lot of people give bethesda shit for cutting mysticism, but i don't really care since it was always a poorly defined school whose spells were shifted to and from it even before it was removed. Not to mention that you can feasibly move every single spell that was in that category into another one (assuming you didn't just remove half of them). Also because classifying magic is always hard, especilly when you try to game-ify it with stat boosts for particular schools, even though it really wouldn't make sense why a mage who can turn their skin into rock (oakflesh & similar) would be inept at turning the air in front of them into a barrier (ward spells). Though if you want a truly terrible example at classifying magic, just look at D&D. In fact, classifying magic into a single category is super hard anyways, and many spells could be justified into requiring a mix of skills to pull off (telekenisis is alteration, but shooting other projectiles is destruction?). oh well, i'll just tack on another 50 mods to fix it, and hope that elder scrolls 6 doesn't just remove magic alltogether and replace it with dragon shouts 2: electric boogaloo

The Nords and Imperials wiped out the Elves in Skyrim and Cyrodiil. Somehow the two can't defeat the Thalmor? The Ra Gada cleansed Yakuda of weird left handed Elves than colonized Hammerfell wiping out Aylieds, Direnni, Dwemer (that didn't disappear) orcs and Nedes in Hammerfell. And the Bretons just mixed with Direnni elves but regularly send various rebuilt or relocated Orsibium cities to oblivion. But the 4 human nations whine at the Thalmor? The Redgards after 3 additional years defeated the Thalmor. If the Empire as a whole spent those 3 years together with the Redgards, the loss of life will be traumatically insurmountable but would definitely of been a equal truce than the unfair treaty of the Thalmor, Those 3 years? I could of reinforced Cyrodiil with a few Breton armies, tax the post apocalypse Morrowind up the ass to supply the war, And allow thousands of Redgards, Bretons and Nords die in place of Cyrodilian imperials.

Thalmor making Empire ban Talos in Skyrim is like China asking the U.S to ban Christianity. If Christ was banned in the United States, Every city in America will look like Gaza in 0.1 seconds into the ban by a angry host of Baptists Christians. And Gaza will still at least look like a city when the Baptists are done rage rebelling in all 50 state capitals. The hell Skyrim would certainly rebel against the empire, probably why the Thalmor enforced that to begin with.

your noise filter is cutting out a lot of your S's. great content tho

You think the College of Winterhold is bad? You should see Hogwarts. They do things like send 11 year-olds into a dark forest to hunt down monsters, allow students to bully others at their leisure even to the point of allowing ethnic slurs to be thrown around with death threats, allow children to play a super dangerous sport without the permission of their parents, and keep all the students in the school instead of informing parents and guardians so they can take their kids home when a mysterious chamber opens and some monster begins petrifying students. And I could go on and on. That school is a bloody deathtrap! No halfway decent adults would ever let their children attend!

7:38 this moment made me doubletake just like the mio punch, woe be upon ye'

Has ES ever established what it takes to be able to use magic?

I play a mage on almost every playthrough of Skyrim, and it's always disappointing to see how pathetically incompetent everyone at the College is. Like come on guys, you're supposed to be Skyrim's elite wizards, I could wander off in a random direction and find a nameless warlock more competent than anyone on the campus!

Playing as a mage is the best thing ever. ❤ And this analysis is funny as fuck 😂

Lore changes I would make: 1. Nord Magic would be more Scientific oriented reflecting their Theology. (Jhunal) 2. If Nords are distrustal of Magic, it should be Non Jhunal magics. 3. Remove the Elitism of the College, instead the Mages would be Advisers to Jarls and Kings. Alongside being teachers to common folk. 4. Winterhold is not devasted, if anything it was damaged but protected. 5. The Jarl of Winterhold must be a high ranking Mage of the College. 6. The majority of Winterholds populace are well taught in magic. 7. Duelling Practices in Winterhold is Magic orientated. 8. The different Schools of Nord Magic would have differing Runes.

To be fair, the Auriel aspect of Akatosh probably still probably majorly hates Lorkan, so combining their avatars is a bit like having one hand on the steering wheel, each. Lorkan is probably fine with this, so long as humanity works its way through whatever elf-swit is happening, this time.

Also they’re like *barely* a college? It’s mainly a castle where 6 or 7 mages do their own personal projects without being bothered. Tolfdir is the only one that even acts like an actual professor.

It feels like Todd doesn't know how to play as a Mage...

Maybe you can get access to knowledge of how it used to be, then use that knowledge to restore thing to the way they were. All that knowledge would come from a certain Daedric Prince you end up serving. Could only get better with the knowledge of a Daedra after all, along with a mod that lets you restore the city.

The college of winterhold, where you can literally never cast a single spell (if you have a staff to cast ward) and get arxhmage. At least the thieves guild has you have to steal stuff even if youre the loudest burglar of all time. Same with the Brotherhood and Companions, you might be the absolute worst at their preferred path but you still do something along their lines. College (Bard and Winterhold) both have you as the campus fixer more than anything

The unpleasant side effects on potions, ironically enough, worth more money. A potion that buffs something but causes violent diarrhea (flavor text I give my stamina poisons) is more valuable than just the buff on it's own. I imagine that was accidental on bethesda's part, but it's very funny.

“Discount dumbledoor” ahahahahahaha

I particularly enjoyed the description of the augur of dunlain as a magic 8 ball