Me and my friend are convinced that Umbra’s true power is utter replacement. The ability to completely take over it’s weilder, and the uncanny disappearance of its wielders mentions in history, make me think it literally replaces you, physically, metaphysically, and everything in between. So in my opinion Umbra is a sentient Soul Gem
I look at it more like demonic possession how the sword works in its method.. it's like a demon possessing an item then coming in contact with a suitable host
Why don't you just git gud and stop being a Daedric Princes bitch? That's why the Dwemer disappeared. They were like 'fuck this, this is stupid. We're all going to invent our own pocket dimension where we can focus on nuclear bombs and actual technology that these elder scroll bad guys have no clue what to do with. They were like the anti-"fantasy forever" race. "You dumb peasant farmer bastards keep dying of old age at 20, we're going to go invent the internet."
I totally get what you mean, ive been playing the same dark elf as my main character for years in all elderscrolls games and would love to make content from his perspective
@@thalmoragent9344 not too much lore besides that he started his adventuring days in morrowind, being a spelunker and explorer for hire and a mercenary on the side who after the collapse of the tribunal temple, left to go the heartlands in search of alyid artifacts, and getting roped into helping fight deadra in the oblivion crisis untill leaving for skyrim to help the empire fight in the civil war. My main thing is wanting to write a good reason for him to be in morrowing the heartlands and skyrim without him being "a chosen one", hes definitely more of a freelance explorer, finding caves for mining company's or scouting out bandit camps for the empire and its associates
Mr. Drew, I will admit, I knew only a part of Umbra's story. Your telling of it has clarified the parts I did not know and, for that, I am grateful. It is quite frightening to think a sword possesses sentience and can corrupt the very being of a mortal. However, it is quite a tale and I am happy that you told it so well and so clearly. Too bad for Clavicus Vile, though, poor prince cannot admit his failure in containing what seems like a piece of metal, yes? LOL Thank you, kind Sir.
It was also inspired by the legendary sword Stormbringer, from Michael Moorcock's Elric novels - the same books that served as inspiration for Geralt of Rivia.
Let's see, sentient black sword, red runes on the blade, drinks souls, corrupts the wielder... Yep, checks out. "Blood and souls for Arioch!" Time for an albino high elf build methinks.
AE Build idea: Umbral Knight. An argonian spellsword that focuses on conjuration, shock destruction magic, heavy armor, and two-handed. They revere the Umbrielic Hist at Sleeping Tree Camp, using Umbra to harvest souls in order to strengthen the tree. These souls they can call on to aid them in battle in many forms of undead.
It's always a blessed day when there's a Drewmora video, but whether those blessings are Divine or Daedric is always in question. Regardless, thank you Drew!
It’s such a privilege to find an amazing RUclips channel right at the start of its rise to fame! Your videos are excellent and you’re going to be big soon!
The stuff you make is wonderful, I love your sense of craftsmanship in this. I wonder how hard it'd be to take the transcripts of these videos and sort of impose them into books to put into Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind where they fit and make a cool little scavenger hunt mod. At the very least it'd be a wonderful way to advertise the channel lol if I ever learn the CK I may hit you up to ask your permission to do that
Tell us more dear Master, tell us about the Star-Made Knight, the bloody, the third, the blamer. Tell us more about their wicked deeds, the Ayleids. Love you brother, u are truly a legend.
I was recently contemplating on the nature of wills in Elder Scrolls, particularly the Dragonborns and Umbra's similarity to them. And then I see our favorite Daedrologist's video. Man is my day made!!.
Honestly the more about the lore I learn when it comes to umbra, the more I think it's a reference to the one ring. The similarities are just to striking.
I have my own personal theory on umbra... I think umbra SHOULD be unable to effect the mind of the last dragonborn... For the same reason the ideal masters couldn't control durnivir forever... a dragon soul in NOT a moral one and is VERY different and FAR more advanced in its design... the ideal masters could effect durnivir's brain, but is soul stood incorruptible!!! Umbra, likely can only control its host through controlling the soul as that is not a leap AT ALL for a sentient soul trap sword... and that logically wouldn't work on the last dragonborn because his soul is the same Design and make as that of durnivir's soul.....
Extend that ability to all special souls, that would create an explanation as to why the player characters of Morrowind and Oblivion where able to use the weapon.
I don't know what the general consensus on them is, but I adored the Greg Keyes books. Really wish Zeni/Bethesda would commission some more novels. All that's out there that I can find are a trilogy of self published books someone is selling on Amazon lol.
Umbra is starting to become Daedric in nature, due Clavicus Vile's essence, I guess, with how it (in creation club) resurfaced like other Daedric Artifacts.
The ultimate trickster and egotist decided to put part of his sentience into a living weapon. Honestly, we're lucky it turned out as good as it did. If it would have inherited the right bits of Clavicus, Umbra could have been a world killer even without Umbriel. Clavicus had already invested any semblance of "Good" that he possessed in Barbus, so what then was left to make the personality of Umbra?
I don't think "good" is the right word exactly. Barbus is made out of loyalty, which is kind of ironic. The greatest deal he ever made was to invest a large chunk of his power into the one friend that will never betray him.
See this is the problem with you god damned skyrim lore people. You completely ignore the entirety of the history of an item found in skyrim, you dont say a god damn word about the history of it, how its encountered in morrowind, oblivion etc. Skyrim isnt that unique…
Umbra: deep and complex lore surrounding the nature of identity and consciousness My thick-skulled orc warrior in Oblivion: “Oh cool, a sword where I don’t have to pay to recharge my magic items!” 😂
Holy fuckin shit!!!!! I have been stumped for year oh this . Back when I twas just a young Billy goat playing morrowind fuckin around with exploiting the glitches to make myself a light footed god capable of jumping across large portions of the map with ease. This is when I happened to stubble upon a lone ork. Of course I murder him and found this amazing sword . Thank you so much for helping me finally put a name to a thing I was questioning the validity of .
I love Elric of Melniboné lore... I mean Elder Scrolls lore! But really, an ancient evil black runed blade form from the stuff of chaos that is a sentient entity that demands to drink the souls of the slain, needs a host, forms a "symbiotic relationship" with that host sharing the stolen life essence of victims, and ends up being a parasite/corruptor/destroyer of it's host? Add on to that Clavicus Vile's penchant dooming his champions to slay their love ones. Yeah, definitely inspired.
From an RP perspective, it would be cool if equipping umbra would remove your more humane responses to any interaction. Like how you only increase the damage of the ebony blade by killing friendly npcs
I don’t think we have enough information to go on, but I like to consider Umbra in Skyrim a new sword, a 2.0 if you will. My head canon is that Umbra was indeed destroyed in the events that concluded Lord of Souls, but Clavicus Vile still liked the idea of the artifact, and so had it recreated, but in a way that gives him more control over it.
As you know, Umbra is a sentient sword that steals a little of it´s user´s soul little by little but, since it comes from the prince of shady deals, Clavicus Vile, could someone make a deal with Umbra to steal souls from dragons? It would be a great weapon for non dragonborn warriors.
Jyggalag literally MVP of the entire culpa. Everyone feared him so much that they teamed up to bind him into madness, but even still he's dunking on the others endlessly.
If elder scrolls rules are you are your mother’s race usually… does that mean that theoretically (immoral as it may be) orc tribes could breed their own mounts by taking khajhiti concubines and planning very well
i v seen so many umbra videos using the creation club mod as an actual event that happened in the cannon timeline I mean sure cannon is subjective but not to this extent I know cannon is tricky but a mod really does bethesda and its writer(designers) accept some of the mods as cannon or am missing somthing
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"My name is Umbra, and I'll see you in the next one"
well played
That was a nice touch
Had to rewind just for that lol.
Me and my friend are convinced that Umbra’s true power is utter replacement. The ability to completely take over it’s weilder, and the uncanny disappearance of its wielders mentions in history, make me think it literally replaces you, physically, metaphysically, and everything in between. So in my opinion
Umbra is a sentient Soul Gem
Oooo that's a fascinating thread to tug on
I look at it more like demonic possession how the sword works in its method.. it's like a demon possessing an item then coming in contact with a suitable host
Why don't you just git gud and stop being a Daedric Princes bitch? That's why the Dwemer disappeared. They were like 'fuck this, this is stupid. We're all going to invent our own pocket dimension where we can focus on nuclear bombs and actual technology that these elder scroll bad guys have no clue what to do with. They were like the anti-"fantasy forever" race. "You dumb peasant farmer bastards keep dying of old age at 20, we're going to go invent the internet."
Nice
That’d be honestly so cool
I'm surprised by how quickly you put out such high-quality content. Carry on, mortal
It shouldn't be a high bar for you, considering how long you take to speak a single line of dialogue
He clearly made a deal with Clavicus to be able to do this.. hopefully the price paid is OK
Is he.... Mortal....
FOR SCOTLAND!!!!!
Umbra is by far the most interesting weapon in the elder scrolls universe. Good work on the video!
What about Muatra? Just kidding. Unless?
Umbra is arguably my favorite ES weapon alongside Dawnbreaker in terms of aesthetic. The lore is even better though.
I love how you always put yourself into the story as the Daedrologist! Makes me want to create lore videos from the perspective of my Redguard scout.
I totally get what you mean, ive been playing the same dark elf as my main character for years in all elderscrolls games and would love to make content from his perspective
@@YismirGoldFingers
Interesting, any backstory you've got for you Dunmer? Maybe even one that's Lore-friendly, perhaps?
@@thalmoragent9344 not too much lore besides that he started his adventuring days in morrowind, being a spelunker and explorer for hire and a mercenary on the side who after the collapse of the tribunal temple, left to go the heartlands in search of alyid artifacts, and getting roped into helping fight deadra in the oblivion crisis untill leaving for skyrim to help the empire fight in the civil war. My main thing is wanting to write a good reason for him to be in morrowing the heartlands and skyrim without him being "a chosen one", hes definitely more of a freelance explorer, finding caves for mining company's or scouting out bandit camps for the empire and its associates
Don't
Loved the ending, Umbra!
I was worried nobody else noticed.
Quality content as always, Umbra 👍
Mr. Drew, I will admit, I knew only a part of Umbra's story. Your telling of it has clarified the parts I did not know and, for that, I am grateful. It is quite frightening to think a sword possesses sentience and can corrupt the very being of a mortal. However, it is quite a tale and I am happy that you told it so well and so clearly. Too bad for Clavicus Vile, though, poor prince cannot admit his failure in containing what seems like a piece of metal, yes? LOL Thank you, kind Sir.
It was also inspired by the legendary sword Stormbringer, from Michael Moorcock's Elric novels - the same books that served as inspiration for Geralt of Rivia.
Let's see, sentient black sword, red runes on the blade, drinks souls, corrupts the wielder...
Yep, checks out.
"Blood and souls for Arioch!"
Time for an albino high elf build methinks.
@@garylaverty6607”But isn’t he most similar to dark-“
“Not in Elder Scrolls.”
Nice LOTR reference
Just wanted to tell you I love your channel. I'm glad you branched out on your own. Out of the FudgeMuppet crew your my favorite.
great relic, my personal favorite. Excellent LOTR reference as well, love your script on this one lol
Yes you said Umbra :) and nice reference to the LOTR. And as always great work!
AE Build idea: Umbral Knight. An argonian spellsword that focuses on conjuration, shock destruction magic, heavy armor, and two-handed. They revere the Umbrielic Hist at Sleeping Tree Camp, using Umbra to harvest souls in order to strengthen the tree. These souls they can call on to aid them in battle in many forms of undead.
It's always a blessed day when there's a Drewmora video, but whether those blessings are Divine or Daedric is always in question. Regardless, thank you Drew!
hahahaha yeah, for sure!!!
😈¯乁༼☯‿☯✿༽ㄏ😇
Manifesting an eventual camelworks and drewmora collab 🙌 thanks for curing my insomnia for all these years drew!
Collabs are in the works :)
@@DrewmoraYT ayee!!!
It’s such a privilege to find an amazing RUclips channel right at the start of its rise to fame! Your videos are excellent and you’re going to be big soon!
The stuff you make is wonderful, I love your sense of craftsmanship in this. I wonder how hard it'd be to take the transcripts of these videos and sort of impose them into books to put into Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind where they fit and make a cool little scavenger hunt mod. At the very least it'd be a wonderful way to advertise the channel lol if I ever learn the CK I may hit you up to ask your permission to do that
It is relatively one of the most useful and realistically designed sword in the games.
OMC! A Drewmora video. Now it's a great day! Thanks Drew 🙏
Tell us more dear Master, tell us about the Star-Made Knight, the bloody, the third, the blamer. Tell us more about their wicked deeds, the Ayleids.
Love you brother, u are truly a legend.
I, too, often have to negotiate with my sword... but in a different context. Great video as usual!
Keep it sheathed... 😂
I really hope Umbra shows up in TES 6
I was recently contemplating on the nature of wills in Elder Scrolls, particularly the Dragonborns and Umbra's similarity to them. And then I see our favorite Daedrologist's video. Man is my day made!!.
This story was awesome to listen to. You describe certain things so beautifully and poetically, keep it up Daedrologist :)
I loved the ending. When you said you had taken the sword to your tower I thought "this is not good". Great video Umbra.
The lore of this artifact is so interesting, thanks for making this video Drew..I mean, Umbra
Great video as usual! The bits where you talk about your studies as a daedrologist remind me of those wizardology books I used to read way back
Another banger thank you for your dedication and amazing narration Drew!!
Honestly the more about the lore I learn when it comes to umbra, the more I think it's a reference to the one ring. The similarities are just to striking.
I fucking love Umbra. The Umbra/Azura's Star combo
It’s always a really great day when Drew drops another video, I’m sleeping good for the rest of the week 💯🔥
Loved the Lord of The Rings reference.
I have my own personal theory on umbra...
I think umbra SHOULD be unable to effect the mind of the last dragonborn... For the same reason the ideal masters couldn't control durnivir forever...
a dragon soul in NOT a moral one and is VERY different and FAR more advanced in its design... the ideal masters could effect durnivir's brain, but is soul stood incorruptible!!!
Umbra, likely can only control its host through controlling the soul as that is not a leap AT ALL for a sentient soul trap sword... and that logically wouldn't work on the last dragonborn because his soul is the same Design and make as that of durnivir's soul.....
Extend that ability to all special souls, that would create an explanation as to why the player characters of Morrowind and Oblivion where able to use the weapon.
SO stoked to have a bunch of your videos to binge now that I’m done with final exams 😋 keep it up my guy 🖤
I just learned about your channel today. It is a shame I haven't heard of it sooner!
4th time watching the Umbra video. I hope you are happy Drewmora.
The ending sign-off was perfect! -Chef's kiss-
Goddamn, that plot twist at the end made my heart stop
new job for you modders out there, make a clavicus vile that's modeled after Drew and his FUCKIN HANDSOME ASS FACE WHICH MAKES ME FEEL THINGS
Umbra is the most interesting and coolest Daedric Artifact that exists and that's a fact
I don't know what the general consensus on them is, but I adored the Greg Keyes books. Really wish Zeni/Bethesda would commission some more novels. All that's out there that I can find are a trilogy of self published books someone is selling on Amazon lol.
For a second I thought I was watching lord of the rings at those lines
Umbra is starting to become Daedric in nature, due Clavicus Vile's essence, I guess, with how it (in creation club) resurfaced like other Daedric Artifacts.
Awesome video, Umbra is my favorite weapon in all of fantasy so I’m thrilled to of learned about it in such a captivating way!
I happened upon Champion's Rest and this blade for my first time ever only a few hours before you uploaded this video. Spooky!
“My name is…” - I see what you did there. 😉
Great now somebody has to make another Umbra mod.
Where we fight a Breton once named Drew, but is now Umbra. XD
I think we need to appreciate the comment ‘a used guar salesman’ that’s gold. No I’m sorry that’s pure gold 😂
Seamless Lord of the Rings reference.
Nice Lord of the Rings reference 5:07 Dork Lord would be proud! xD m.youtube.com/@DorkLords
Amazing video! I love the intro to this video! Keep up the good work and the content! Love the channel!
someone needs to go get that Thang away from the homie
I’m a simple man…I see a Drewmora video, I watch it. It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.
In a way umbra is made from a daedric prince so in a way, wouldn't that make umbra a daedric duke?
The ultimate trickster and egotist decided to put part of his sentience into a living weapon.
Honestly, we're lucky it turned out as good as it did. If it would have inherited the right bits of Clavicus, Umbra could have been a world killer even without Umbriel.
Clavicus had already invested any semblance of "Good" that he possessed in Barbus, so what then was left to make the personality of Umbra?
I don't think "good" is the right word exactly. Barbus is made out of loyalty, which is kind of ironic. The greatest deal he ever made was to invest a large chunk of his power into the one friend that will never betray him.
“My name is umbra, and I’ll see you in the next one”
….what?
Umbra reminds me of the Anubis sword from JJBA Stardust Crusaders
Great touch ending it with, “my name is umbra…”
Would have been funny if he changed his channel name to Umbramora
Thank you for keeping these up my dude, thank you so much ♪
I can't believe I missed this when it first came out. Babe, wake up... Drewmora uploaded another video.
I like the touch at the end calling yourself Umbra!
So... Venom but a sword instead of a gooey alien
Babe quick a new Drewmora video just dropped
"My name is Umbra," that's perfect.
I would not pass the test, and would be beautiful and terrible as the dawn.
World Cup or Umbra??!!
5:07 always love how you slip in references like this 😂
One more great listen
Good lord the machinima on this channel + the lore + Drew's soothing ass voice. 😮💨🧑🏾🍳💋 Can't get enough!!!!
Another great vid! love your lotr references, keep u the great work ! 👍👍❤
Half laughed, half cried at "it's a strange feeling, self worth" at 5:45
5:07 well played with the FotR reference!
I feel like the greatest missed opportunity in Skyrim was not equipping the Ebony Warrior with Umbra. It would have made perfect sense.
Drew, you've done it again!!!
respect for that LotR line reading
“My name is Umbra and I’ll see you in the next one.”
You good, man? Not still holding that sword?
By the 9, that lord of the rings reference
Umbra is one of my favourite daedric artifacts
I see you with the Galadirel quote!
Used guar salesman gotta be the background of my next character 😂 Love the video Drew!
See this is the problem with you god damned skyrim lore people. You completely ignore the entirety of the history of an item found in skyrim, you dont say a god damn word about the history of it, how its encountered in morrowind, oblivion etc. Skyrim isnt that unique…
Umbra: deep and complex lore surrounding the nature of identity and consciousness
My thick-skulled orc warrior in Oblivion: “Oh cool, a sword where I don’t have to pay to recharge my magic items!” 😂
Nice Lord of the Rings reference. 👍
Holy fuckin shit!!!!! I have been stumped for year oh this . Back when I twas just a young Billy goat playing morrowind fuckin around with exploiting the glitches to make myself a light footed god capable of jumping across large portions of the map with ease. This is when I happened to stubble upon a lone ork. Of course I murder him and found this amazing sword . Thank you so much for helping me finally put a name to a thing I was questioning the validity of .
I love Elric of Melniboné lore... I mean Elder Scrolls lore! But really, an ancient evil black runed blade form from the stuff of chaos that is a sentient entity that demands to drink the souls of the slain, needs a host, forms a "symbiotic relationship" with that host sharing the stolen life essence of victims, and ends up being a parasite/corruptor/destroyer of it's host? Add on to that Clavicus Vile's penchant dooming his champions to slay their love ones. Yeah, definitely inspired.
As a hand of Sithis, you are welcome to try Umbra :D
Umbra: "YOU KEEP THAT DAMN PERSON AWAY FROM ME!!!!"
Smooth insertion of that LoTR bit 😉
From an RP perspective, it would be cool if equipping umbra would remove your more humane responses to any interaction. Like how you only increase the damage of the ebony blade by killing friendly npcs
How to avoid being corrupted by umbra willpower 140, intelligence 125, personality 100, luck 75.
Nice quote drop from LOTR when describing Umbra passing through time. My turn:
“One sword to rule them all…”
I don’t think we have enough information to go on, but I like to consider Umbra in Skyrim a new sword, a 2.0 if you will. My head canon is that Umbra was indeed destroyed in the events that concluded Lord of Souls, but Clavicus Vile still liked the idea of the artifact, and so had it recreated, but in a way that gives him more control over it.
Perfection! Thank you Umbra!
Thank you, Umbra the Daedrologist, for yet another beautiful video. ^^
As you know, Umbra is a sentient sword that steals a little of it´s user´s soul little by little but, since it comes from the prince of shady deals, Clavicus Vile, could someone make a deal with Umbra to steal souls from dragons? It would be a great weapon for non dragonborn warriors.
Jyggalag literally MVP of the entire culpa.
Everyone feared him so much that they teamed up to bind him into madness, but even still he's dunking on the others endlessly.
I wonder if Dawnguards Unbound masters are actually Umbra? It would explain their thirst for souls, deception and power
If elder scrolls rules are you are your mother’s race usually… does that mean that theoretically (immoral as it may be) orc tribes could breed their own mounts by taking khajhiti concubines and planning very well
i v seen so many umbra videos using the creation club mod as an actual event that happened in the cannon timeline I mean sure cannon is subjective but not to this extent
I know cannon is tricky but a mod really does bethesda and its writer(designers) accept some of the mods as cannon or am missing somthing