NPCpedia: The Mudcrab Merchant
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Rich and drunk, sell your junk. The Mudcrab Merchant is one of the most beloved elder scrolls easter eggs to date, and today we find out why.
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00:00 - 03:34 - A CRAB
03:34 - 04:52 - MUDCRABS
04:52 - 06:12 - ATLASVPN CRAB
06:12 - 09:27 - FIND THE CRAB
09:27 - 14:57 - USE THE CRAB
14:57 - 16:12 - EASTER EGG CRAB
16:12 - 19:19 - LEGACY OF THE CRAB
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the real question is, will it protect me from the Daedra?
You should do a heropidea on Titus from space marine
That mudcrabvoice is now canon
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I just got the Mudcrab Merchant back to my house with the Command Animal spell, now im gonna sit back and watch this with him
11:50 holy moly lmao
Im so going to do this now
That's a really good idea, does that actually work?
@@c.jarmstrong3111 go try it
Yeah I was just wondering if I could get a skeleton to put on a constant effect armor with Turn Undead
One of my favourite Oblivion-isms is when your opponent gets interrupted or dies partway through yelling and it's just "I'VE FOUGHT MUDCRABS". Yeah man, we all have.
It works in Morrowind because the raw power displayed by enemies and magic in the lore/setting makes it totally possible for a sentient mudcrab to exist and not feel silly. If I found an identical character in The Outer Worlds, for instance, I'd just roll my eyes and sell him stuff. Morrowind keeps you guessing and it feels like nothing is impossible after that first NPC plummets to death in front of you with insane boots. There's a dangerous realism to Morrowind's magic, with enough consequences to make it believable.
You’ve got two NPCs mixed up, Tarhiel (parody of the UNC Tar Heels hence the jumps), and the scammer on the way to Balmora. Tarhiel drops the scrolls of Icarian flight, whereas the scammer gives you boots of blinding speed.
@@Pantsinabucket ohhh, the blinding speed boots... what a memory.
The books in the game reinforce there is consequences for magic.... Read the books in the game friends
It is considered one of the strangest provinces.
Fun fact due to what's in Old Salty's inventory he is either I direct reference to or possibly the same mudcrab
whats in his inventory?
@@jarrah580 booze and gold.
He should have been friendly
This guy always reminds me of the pet crabs I had as a kid. Joe and Josephine, who cleverly escaped their confinement, pinched the cat, and hid behind a dresser, only to be recaptured and placed back where they belonged. RIP to those friendos.
YES YES FINALLY THE MOST IMPORTANT NPC IN THE ELDER SCROLLS LORE
I like the implication that the crab has lived a life prior to its crustacean continuance, perhaps as a human or mer
"I'm gettin' CRUSTACIOUS with it"
I cannot😭
Hey, this is (to my knowledge) your first sponsored vid. I know you used to take much pride in not having any sponsors, but really I’m glad you’ve decided to do it. I hope this channel can grant you a more stable livelihood and that you can put out even more content ❤
I don't know why but the "come hither crab" segment made me laugh so hard.
On of my favorite mudcrab merchant memories is using command creature + water walking to bring him to my house in solsthiem. It was a long trip but it was worth it to have live in the raven rock house with M'Aiq, Fargoth, the Mudcrab Mercant, and that one Nord erotic dancer from Suran.
Oh man, hearing Dagoth Ur saying just the most common things like "Hey man, i just wanna talk." never gets old.
This is why AI is great. But i'm going off into the wrong direction with this topic, just wanted to share these thoughts.
I’ve waited for this video ever since M’aiq.
Literally same
Me too ☺️😊😄😃🤩
Why you lying?
Obligatory mention of the Mithail Monster series of mods and their recreation of the Mudcrab Merchant for Solstiem in Skyrim. They even gave him his own little tent to chill in, how sweet of em.
“I’m gon get crustaceous with it” truly a masterpiece
I also think he's so special because the game doesn't point him out. It's so easy to kill him and miss him forever until possibly learning about it decades later in a RUclips video. Games now want you to see all the content, they don't want to risk having you missing out on anything. It makes them lose a bit of their magic.
Uncle Leo but better.
Ghostcharm really the embodiment of that SpongeBob meme where you have other youtubers pumping out sub-par content then you've got Ghosttaking his time and slappin down those perfect little patties.
Finally, the recognition he deserves
Crab homie is the realest dude in all of Tamriel
"Cliffracers drive you criminally insane."
How little this narrows it down...
after i heard about the merchant - and before i knew where he was - i quit hunting mudcrabs for sport and waited to see if they were hostile or not
you hit the nail on the head w/ the y2k more analog vibe. subscribed
this gives me the idea of creating a mudcrab race of people that bring materials and trade from the ocean and get into a market war with the khajiit
Just want to make sure everyone clapped for Matt.
I did lol
Who woudln't?
During my main playthrough, as soon as I found this guy I marked his location for the recall spell and made my playwr home his island. All my loot, collectables, and junk were left either in his inventory or on the ground around him including most of the 36 lessons and daedric artifacts
God that 8-bit pokemon sounding elder scrolls tracks...you touched my inner nostalgia so deep my guy. that alone I applaud. Thanks for the videos. I really dig your style.
Wanted to throw in that I think the Mudcrab merchant could be possibly a Mudcrab that was somehow able to retain a more sophisticated intelligence, rather than becoming a basic crab. Since Mudcrabs are said to exist in the last Kalpa, and after that time period devolved sotospeak into what we see ingame. But this guy...somehow he has retention of intelligence. And I think the alcoholism is due to the very struggle of being possibly the only member of its species to hold any significant intelligence. Just imagine...being the only human among thousands of primates around the world. All your brethren are simple, animalistic, devoid of any notable sentience. And then there is you. All the same at face value yet you are capable of high intelligence, complex thinking and in depth emotional understanding. The only one to understand anything beyond survival, watching your kin hunted as animals to feed the dominant races, while you drink your lonely sentience away, peddling wares as a low key circus attraction in a lonely desolate corner of a desolate land. The story has *so much* more potential to be had and I really hope they continue it with the next major release somehow. Elder Scrolls lore really is a one of a kind gem.
I can't believe how hard I laughed at the "oh shit I think he got stuck on this tree" bit
Man, please, never stop covering small NPCs in games, it's really a delight to watch your videos
I can't believe I just sat through a 20 minute video about a video game Crab, and I can't believe I loved it
bethesda should have put him in every game as a merchant and expanded more on what he says each game to continue his legend and show him getting a shop and then a bigger and better shop next game etc., giant missed opportunity.
Everything you just said is entirely stupid and im glad the devs didnt do any stupid thing like that. This is OBVIOUSLY a throw away funny character made on a whim. This is just a poor simple easter egg character and you want to turn it into a recurring meme? You sick bastard!
The opening dialogue of the Mudcrab Merchant, "How dry I am, how dry I am. Nobody knows how dry I am." is actually lyrics from an old song called "The Near Future" by Irving Berlin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Near_Future and the lyrics took on a life of their own as they spread out across the culture of the early 1900s.
The song is also very notably featured on The Twilight Zone in the episode titled "Mr.Denton on Doomsday" (it's a fantastic episode, but be prepared for being sad as hell if you watch the clip) ruclips.net/video/Uf85LWrmsj4/видео.html
Just another piece of general mudcrab lore. One of the Morrowind books on necromancy (specifically Corpse Preparation Vol. 3: The Fresh Corpse) has a note on the usefulness of mud crabs to necromancers.
As the anonymous author points out, such scavengers are useful when you have a fresh corpse and wants to make a skeletal servant:
“Animals are the Necromancer's greatest allies when it comes to stripping the flesh from a corpse. The ravenous mudcrabs of Morrowind can strip a corpse down to its bones in a matter of days. Lesser crabs in other provinces can do the same in a matter of weeks.”
I like to think that the mud crab merchant was a travelling trader who complained to whichever god was listening how hard it was to traverse the wet and rocky terrain. I also like to think it was Sheogorath who answered
Crab Gaming 🦀
Alongside the 3 other Mudcrabs in Skyrim, there is a GIANT Spectral Mudcrab at the end of the fishing creation, included in Anniversary Edition!
The Man, The Crab, The Merchant
NO FUCKING WAY... I have been playing Morrowind since I was just a little Scrib, and I never thought of taking The Cash-God to my Scrib-Crib, let alone to safety...
Matt is the best voice actor ever
I feel like an appropriate lore explanation could be that the effects of alcohol cause Mudcrabs to gain sentience, but it's not known as nobody wants to share their booze with something like a Mudcrab.
The single most powerful and mysterious character in the entirety of TES
The best merchant in the merchants guild
@@UmbraBree Im going to eat your liver
@@pigbimpin4151 gotta catch me first!
I love the fact that you cover TES lore for us fellow loyal TESsies even in the now near 12 year interum... or uh *interegnum* between mainline games.
Thanks for sticking with us
My theory is that the Mudcrab Merchant is a servant of Clavicus Vile, the Daedric God of power, trickery, wishes, serenity, and bargains. It would explain the Mudcrab Merchant's ability speak and his wealth. A different Clavicus Vile servant, Barbas, appears as a talking dog and in Oblivion suggests that he was also Creeper, the Scamp merchant with $5,000.
Mess with the Crabbo you get the stabbo.
DRUNK CRAB DRUNK CRAB DRUNK CRAB
If you ever do anymore Villainpedia episodes, I recommend doing "comparison" episodes in which you compare two villains with similar backstories. Here are two who I think give you a headstart. Those being Dr. Two Brains/Steven Boxleitner (WordGirl) and The Ice King/Simon Petrikov (Adventure Time). They're both crazy, goofy, and downright hilarious lunatics with an unhealthy obsession, (Cheese for Two Brains (because he's half mouse and cheese is the mouse's stereotypical favorite food) and Princesses for Ice King) but when you look at their backstories, you can't help but feel sad. Also, they're both voiced by Tom Kenny, so there's that.
Matt nailed the Mudcrab. Edit; nailed the Mudcrab’s voice. Just to be clear.
This like “pushing the strangeness envelope” is exactly how i feel about mothership zeta or maybe even old world blues. Different setting of course but the pushing of the suspension of disbelief just another notch to get a laugh is something i think beth rpgs basically always try to do
I barter with crabs all the time, at the beach in the fishmongers. and they call me a schizo.
I always drop lamps and candles all over the island to make easily visible at night.
1:03 I still can't believe that's real and not a mod.
No joke, for the first 30 seconds, I was in the other room when the video started and thought an ad for Albion was playing.
Someone should make a mod that makes the mudcrab Merchant sound like mr. Krabs
It's a shame the Mudcrab Merchant didn't get the same treatment as M'aiq. I would've loved a silly NPC like that in Oblivion or Skyrim.
Maaaaaan every time this guy got killed by a scrib/scamp/kagouti and I had to reload! Also when I killed old salty in Skyrim and saw that he dropped a tankard I actually got upset and lost an hour reloading a save because I thought this guy had retired to Skyrim and I’d killed him!
Thanks Matt for voicing the crab It was one of the funniest things I heard today.
Headcanon: He wasn't always a mudcrab. Ran into Sheogorath, tried to haggle a bit too much or told an unfunny joke or Sheo woke up that day and Sheo decided he'd like him better as a mudcrab. But also made sure he'd stay insanely rich, even though he can't do anything with the money. Except buy alcohol. Mudcrab drinks to forget the pain. Hangs out on a rock to blend in with the mudcrabs, hide from Sheogorath. And obviously, can't go home to his wife. Maybe hopes someone will accidentally kill him instead of trying to buy his wares. Kinda tired of having to explain the whole "talking mudcrab merchant" thing, so he doesn't bother with his embarrassing sob story.
There are holes, no doubt. But it's fun to make stuff up.
Decades later, and I finally see a a Morrowind video that has laid out a perfect Mud Crab Merchant extraction mission.
Terry pratchett is goated read the entire series like 6 times
Just what I needed to get me through this slow, dull shift. A hearty helping of creb, presented by my favourite silky-smooth voiced host.
Gotta love how Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC referenced the guy.. well, crab.
Nearly a year of me using "I'm gettin' crustaceas with it" in normal life and i can say my quality of life has improved 10000%
Finally, the deep lore about the only good TES character there is
I have a suggestion for you. Most young people have probably never heard of the Wumpus, and you'll find references to the Wumpus in everything from MULE (where you can hunt it in a sort of minigame if you know about it) to Cory Doctorow's fiction.
The one even Dagoth Ur is too scared to speak of. .😳
The weekend gets ten times better when I see a new Ghost video get released
I swear to god, this channel is so damn unterrated. These videos are pure gold!
Who knew you could talk about a very silly easter egg character with 5 lines of dialogue but an absurd amount of gold for 19 minutes.
HE UPLOADED. IT ISN'T EVEN MY BIRTHDAY. HELL YESSSSSSSSS
By the way I do notice the change in your editing styles. Little feedback: I do like the touch of hyper-activeness but your signature calm and monotone voice walking through mountains of lore is just the best and the reason I watch you so much. But still love the video though, keep up the good work!
Congrats on the sweet sponsorship Spectral Smoothie! Your friend Matt did a good job! I've got a brother named Matt, but he ain't do voices.
Heh, never knew about this Mudcrab. Too busy pissing off guards in Balmora.
As far as joke characters like this go... Hmm... Well it's less a character and more a monster. There was a crab monster in Final Fantasy XI, yes the first MMO one, and his name was Bubbly Bernie. He was an NM associate with a short quest recovering a clock, or something like that, for a townsperson in the city of Bastok. You trade a certain early game fish to this ??? spot at the lighthouse, and out comes Bubblie Bernie to do battle with you. Now, he's not much of a force to be reckoned with in reality, but through some sort of cultural joke, people in game always used to talk about him like he was one of the unbeatable Notorious Monsters from the endgame. I was in a Linkshell(Guild) once where for an event one week we dragged an entire alliance out there and equipped really low level gear/jobs, popped Bubbly Bernie, and fought it as if it were King Behemoth. To this day, the wiki page says, "An alliance(18 players) can defeat Bubbly Bernie at level 1."
If you ever need multiple voices for any little old thing and Matt and you and your other talented crew can't cover'em all, I'd totally love to be an extra!
Dm me on disc I’d love to include you ❤
@@Ghostcharm :O! Hot damn! I'll have to open that Discord link in the description!
If I remember correctly, someone in Morrowind is talking about Mudcrabs taking over Pelagiad. And that town is in the same region as the Mudcrab merchant, I think.
i only to into TES in Skyrim, so a lot of times i have no idea who the characters are in these series, but i really do appreciate how in thorough you are in these videos. you're doing such a good job on these videos!
"I'm gon' be gettin crustaceous with it all day, every day" 😂😂😂😂😂
Father has returned
I always imagine the mudcrab merchant to have a British accent, a Swinderly merchant.
Finally, a deep dive in to the lore the people have been craving.
It's a drip or drown world and this little guy is swimming.
After 2 playthroughs, i still havnt found this guy. the creeper at suran is the real one. Atleast he stays at a place easily approachable, unlike this crustacean who god knows lives on which rock
I’m generally curious if the Ebony Warrior counts as an “anti hero” or an “NPC” or something of the like.
This crab helped me become the WEALTHIEST man in Vvardenfell!
I like to think that he's some sort of Daedra stuck in a mudcrab
14:25 Yeah, but those are all the things you love about it in the end
You gotta do an npcidia on Theresa from fable! These videos are my favourite thing on RUclips too 🤙
I fully thought the VO during the transport bit were all voice clips from an actual different video game until the "oh shit he ran into a tree"
it was AI voice, right?
The hardest part of morrowind for me was getting the gold to make my first cheat spells
I really like your channel man. All videos, even this little ones, always have an amazing production quality, it's an awesome thing for a lover of games like me to see and even discover things i didn't know. Keep up the good work, you surely deserves a lot more subscribers.
And i now want to play Morrowind.
Nice to see Morrowboomers come to a scientific consensus. I came up with the same plan over a decade ago! Unfortunately I ran into a bit of snag with my choice of location, it's really hard to navigate a Mudcrab into the basement of Tel Uvirith. The Telvanni don't believe in handicapped/n'wah accessible buildings.
Now im kinda sad that they didnt make old salty a merchant in skyrim but just a bigger mudcrab that attacks you.
I frfr did just stop eating my Gorton's fried fish squares and tartar sauce to clap for Matt. Just letting it be know. Thanks for being cool as fuq, Matt.
Damn Matt killing it with that voice acting! The portrait of him was a little outdated though. Looks like that pic was taken 2 years ago
yeah i clapped for Matt, but Jared from school/work that told us about the crab back in 2002 is the real MVP
I absolutely love your videos, but specifically the NPCpedia series. There's something so calming listening to the lore of these characters, especially M'aiq. Thank you for such a cool idea, and keep up the good work !
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the mudchad
Mudcrabs in TES 3 resemble rock crabs from oars in relleka, in fact I think it’s kind of an Easter egg on osrs’s part
4:33 HAHAHAHA
You are telling me a shrimp fried this rice? Madness
Mudcrab be ballin
babe wake up a new ghostcharm video just dropped
We need a Mr. House villainpedia
i want someone to make mod that turns crab merchant into mr crabs