okey so, out of all of these I would go drinking at : the riften inn I would go to rent a room at : the solitude inn and I would go to eat at : the whiterun inn
Best Ambience: Winking Skeever Best Traditional Pub: Bannered Mare Best Dive Bar: Bee & Barb Most Interesting Patrons: Retching Netch Best Bartender: Retching Netch Most Unsettling Bar: New Gnisis Best Place for a Bar Fight: Candlehearth Hall
Another positive of the Bannered Mare: it's the place Jarl Balgruuf sneaks off to when he wants to speak to his people and hear out their concerns. It's the only inn in Skyrim that has the Jarl Ballin' Seal of Quality.
Technically in game it's labeled as a fletcher like the one in solitude, they just made it more tavern-like because nazeems house was never finished and they had to stick him somewhere.
Old Hroldan inn will always hold a special place in my heart because the big room in that inn is where I slept for the first time then woke up in a old shack and saw Astrid for the first time.
my one complaint about the winking skeever is the stupid plant to the right as you enter. I have accidentally "Stolen" that evil plant SO many times and pissed everybody off having to reload to avoid getting skewered. IT IS A FLOWER! PEOPLE CHILL I AM SORRY!
Slight correction, mead is constantly referred to as being “warm” throughout Skyrim, and historically, it was prepared over a warm fire That’s all. Otherwise 10/10 video.
Nice catch! There's cut content for the college that had a pair of apprentices trying to chill the mead. But I guess being in a cold climate would make it colder overall if not ice cold in places like windhelm.
Historically, mead was served both cold and warm. It's like honey beer. In America they prefer to drink beer cold. In England - warm beer. So any variant is good.
If you were playing Winterhold college carefully you could find out that two missing nord apprentices experimented with mead. They tried to make it even more delicious by cooling it with frost magic. Nord mead that always remains extra cold even in the middle of hot summer in Hammerfell. That must be fantastic!
You didn't mention how you can "own" the bed in The Bannered Mare if you give the owner firewood. You won't have to rent a room at all, plus everything is available to take except for the higher value items of course.
Where's "The Ragged Flaggon"? Especially, after u get the Amulet of Articulation for restoring the Tavern to its former glory, it's quite a nice place. Unique af. And the Vilemyr Inn should be a lot higher on the list, you didn't go into Lore/Location for it. It's right at the Bottom of High Hrothgar, which means lots of Pilgrims every year. It's an essential Inn for a lot of people. Second, you do know the Location of Ivarstead right. On one Side the Throat of the World on the other the waterfalls going down to Fort Amol. Beautiful sight. Also the Waterway to Riften. This is a premium Location for an Inn. Wished Delphine was there. Would've made more sense, since if there's gonna be a Dragonborn it would come by Ivarstead to climb the official road to high Hrothgar instead of the small road from Riverwood to High Hrothgar
Nightgale inn should be ranked much higher with survival mode. i still remember my first time traveling back from winter hold and was freezing with no camping supplies or hot soups and i just so happened to be near that inn and you do not realize how usefull an inn is in the middle of Antarctica i mean Skyrim until you are in the middle of nowhere freezing to death. That moment made me rethink my entire stance on that inn's existence.
Hold up. There's a second business open in Winterhold. My girl Birna has a great general store. She'll even give you the Coral claw if you didn't already find it in yngol's barrow
I’ll be honest, when you whispered that the moor side in sign makes you cry in your sleep, I literally jumped cause I have a full headset on in my dark ass room at like 3 am and didn’t expect a whisper. I then laughed my ass off for a solid 5 minutes. Thanks for that!
At first I was thinking "Wait a minute, these don't look anything like the layouts that I'm familiar with," before suddenly remembering I've been using city revamp mods for over half a decade. I'd forgotten how dull and lifeless vanilla Skyrim taverns are.
Yes. I'm undecided who to adopt. I've seen chakawhat's video on who to adopt but her list is really bad. Graenolf's is okay but I think there are better options than his picks
@@shadowagent3363 You MUST adopt the little orphan girl Sofie who sells flowers on the streets of Windhelm. I found her in front of the gate to the harbor
Nightgate inn is always a pit stop when heading up to dawn star or the college while playing survival mode. Great guys to wait through the bitter cold nights.
I thought the drunken huntsman was just a store, now it makes sense why jenassa is always just hanging around and why it’s open at the middle of the night
Taverns are a super fun thing for me starting up again in survival. I feel like a real adventurer having to go around to the inns to sleep and eat. As houses are expensive to own in each town.
I haven't had vanilla "inn" interiors in a long time, the only two vanilla interiors I can recall are The Sleeping Giant in Riverwood and the one in Whiterun, can't remember what is called but something with a horse
nightgate inn is my favorite because of location. it's a trash inn but my PC gets cold between dawnstar/morthal and windhelm/winterhold and it's the one inn I'm really interested in
My suspicion is that inns outside of big cities are part of a big accomodation/restaurant business chain which has standardised all the inns. Kinda like motels or gas stations in real life.
Great video! If you’re up for suggestions (that may take a while, granted) I haven’t seen anyone do an in depth dungeon analysis for drauger and dwemer stuff. Might be a fun topic or two in there
There is one inn inside a bandit fort, lets see if the video includes it. It is: the "Stumbling Sabercat" xD Nightgate Inn: Inside is boring, location is wherever, I don't even know... Had to look it up, the gourmet chef is residing there...
Now that I watch this video...I just realised how strongly my mods augment the taverns, I could barely find a seat in them after installing a few npc mods...everything is filled with bards, soldiers and scholars who all have their own little backstories...crazy stuff.
Personally I would put the retching netch on top, to be fair I'm slightly bias as I always base on the fantastic island with it's ash wastelands and freezing woods.
I've gotta rank The Bannered Mare as my favorite simply because: The Bannered Mare is the only tavern not destroyed by conflicting mods in my load order. Seriously, the ones in Morthal, Dawnstar and Winterhold don't even have doors.
Fun Fact for ya'... The Braidwood Inn is named after a motel in the classic John Candy/Steve Martin movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Comedy gold!
I would do a video on best places to buy and drink alchohol in general so you could include others and score it differently. The thieves guild bar is nice. Could even include sovngard and the thirsk mead hall
Ok list of next skyrim rankings 1. Cities 2. Villages 3. Nordic tombs 4. Dwemer ruins 5. Palaces dragon's reach, blue palace ect 6. Forts 7. Holds 8. ...ok my brain is laging now I'll be back if I come think of anything else. Thank you.
I frequent the Winking Skeever Inn in Solitude. Why? Being a thief by trade, I find that a lot more wales go to Solitude. I make sure that their purses are lighter when they leave the inn in the morning. If you know what I mean.
Sleeping Giant is the best. Just because that secret room. Help sven/faendal in their love quest, make him your follower, give him a lockpick, order him to wait in front of the cupboard. Run/push him and voila, the secret room is open. Youve got alchemy & enchantment table, decent weapons, potions, ingredients, and safe storage. Its like you have a home early game for just 10g per night😂
I once did a line of Skooma in the bathroom of The Nightgate Inn
Wouldn’t that be a line of moon sugar tho cuz skooma is a liquid
@@HemmieHaru I was so wasted i didn't know what I was doing...
@@Johnshauntedpizza You were snorting skooma covered saw dust XDD
Can confirm. I sold them the skooma.
Once…
okey so, out of all of these
I would go drinking at : the riften inn
I would go to rent a room at : the solitude inn
and I would go to eat at : the whiterun inn
A man of culture
If you went drinking at the Riften inn, you’d probably wake up with a headache naked and robbed of your belongings
@@alexanders2669 ey high risk high reward, the drinks that argonian fella sells are probably very tasty
Are you crazy. Nightgate inn obviously has the best food.
That's a great take lol
Best Ambience: Winking Skeever
Best Traditional Pub: Bannered Mare
Best Dive Bar: Bee & Barb
Most Interesting Patrons: Retching Netch
Best Bartender: Retching Netch
Most Unsettling Bar: New Gnisis
Best Place for a Bar Fight: Candlehearth Hall
You forgot about what happened in the Bee and Barb inn... Queen Barenziah had a rather... amorous encounter in this place.
👀👀
THEY'RE BARBED
@@astrofish6163 AAAAA
In Daggerfall it wasn't "REDACTED".
Another positive of the Bannered Mare: it's the place Jarl Balgruuf sneaks off to when he wants to speak to his people and hear out their concerns. It's the only inn in Skyrim that has the Jarl Ballin' Seal of Quality.
I had no idea the Drunken Huntsman and Gnisis Cornerclub were taverns until watching this
The guards even say, why don’t they just call it a tavern
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Because it’s a little unique. That’s why I like the corner club, the Drunken Huntsman is kind of lame though.
cornerclubs in morrowind are taverns so yeah 👀
Technically in game it's labeled as a fletcher like the one in solitude, they just made it more tavern-like because nazeems house was never finished and they had to stick him somewhere.
11:26 “the company ain’t that bad” (Rolff Stone-fist comes up the stairs)
Long story-short, use distinct interiors!
(It’s a mod)
Idk why but I think the tavern in winter hold has a certain charm to it
Long short history... Check your modlist before changing the meshes
That mod needs like 10 patches just to work.
@@Arthur-cc6pc sure if you have legacy installed lol
I vote for The Retching Netch!
1) Personable, memorable inkeeper
2) Very unique
3) Thankful citizens
4) Feels like Solstheim’s family room
I have to point out that Nightgate Inn is also the home of a former member of the Blades who is now in hiding.
If I'm not mistaken there was suppose to be a little town around it kind of like Ivarstead but it got cut.
Old Hroldan inn will always hold a special place in my heart because the big room in that inn is where I slept for the first time then woke up in a old shack and saw Astrid for the first time.
Windpeak Inn for me was the first place it happened for me, but Old Hroldan is one of my favorites, easily the best of the "generic" inns imo
my one complaint about the winking skeever is the stupid plant to the right as you enter. I have accidentally "Stolen" that evil plant SO many times and pissed everybody off having to reload to avoid getting skewered. IT IS A FLOWER! PEOPLE CHILL I AM SORRY!
Slight correction, mead is constantly referred to as being “warm” throughout Skyrim, and historically, it was prepared over a warm fire
That’s all. Otherwise 10/10 video.
i was gonna say this
Nice catch! There's cut content for the college that had a pair of apprentices trying to chill the mead. But I guess being in a cold climate would make it colder overall if not ice cold in places like windhelm.
Historically, mead was served both cold and warm. It's like honey beer. In America they prefer to drink beer cold. In England - warm beer. So any variant is good.
@@user-tk8gi5cl6j that’s true
If you were playing Winterhold college carefully you could find out that two missing nord apprentices experimented with mead. They tried to make it even more delicious by cooling it with frost magic. Nord mead that always remains extra cold even in the middle of hot summer in Hammerfell. That must be fantastic!
The fact that your wife was so proud that one of your videos did well and read every single comment is so wholesome, it made my day.
You didn't mention how you can "own" the bed in The Bannered Mare if you give the owner firewood. You won't have to rent a room at all, plus everything is available to take except for the higher value items of course.
There is a bed roll you can sleep on without paying in Vilemyr Inn
This is true for most inns if you complete a quest for the inn
Me as a thief: so... I can take everything, right?
This channel is great.
“Candlehearth Hall is super welcoming…” as long as you’re not a Breton, High Elf, Dark Elf, Argonian, Orc, Imperial, Wood Elf, Khajit, or Redguard…
Orcs and redguard are kinda respected by the nords. Imperials and bretons are more or less okay too.
I’m here for these Skyrim tourist guide vibes.
I just realized but the Winking Skeever on the inside is like 3 - 4 times bigger than the outside.
Shhh. No ones su post to know about that.
tbh most Skyrim buildings are much larger inside than out
T.A.R.D.I.S.
The Winking Tardis
That’s any building
Where's "The Ragged Flaggon"?
Especially, after u get the Amulet of Articulation for restoring the Tavern to its former glory, it's quite a nice place. Unique af. And the Vilemyr Inn should be a lot higher on the list, you didn't go into Lore/Location for it. It's right at the Bottom of High Hrothgar, which means lots of Pilgrims every year. It's an essential Inn for a lot of people. Second, you do know the Location of Ivarstead right. On one Side the Throat of the World on the other the waterfalls going down to Fort Amol. Beautiful sight. Also the Waterway to Riften. This is a premium Location for an Inn. Wished Delphine was there. Would've made more sense, since if there's gonna be a Dragonborn it would come by Ivarstead to climb the official road to high Hrothgar instead of the small road from Riverwood to High Hrothgar
Nightgale inn should be ranked much higher with survival mode. i still remember my first time traveling back from winter hold and was freezing with no camping supplies or hot soups and i just so happened to be near that inn and you do not realize how usefull an inn is in the middle of Antarctica i mean Skyrim until you are in the middle of nowhere freezing to death. That moment made me rethink my entire stance on that inn's existence.
In survival mode most inns get much more interesting. Without it you realy have no need of ever going into an inn
Hold up. There's a second business open in Winterhold. My girl Birna has a great general store. She'll even give you the Coral claw if you didn't already find it in yngol's barrow
I *NEVER* noticed the Sleeping Giant Inn sign design! 😱
This channel is keeping our Skyrim love on RUclips alive! Awesome stuff.
We need more Ranked vids.
There is Honningbrew Meadery outside Whiterun, also. It doubles as a fence for the Thieves Guild.
The fact that The Retching Netch's backstory was basically a _Twister_ reference REALLY threw me for a loop.
I’ll be honest, when you whispered that the moor side in sign makes you cry in your sleep, I literally jumped cause I have a full headset on in my dark ass room at like 3 am and didn’t expect a whisper. I then laughed my ass off for a solid 5 minutes. Thanks for that!
At first I was thinking "Wait a minute, these don't look anything like the layouts that I'm familiar with," before suddenly remembering I've been using city revamp mods for over half a decade. I'd forgotten how dull and lifeless vanilla Skyrim taverns are.
I give bonus points to the Dawnstar tavern because the bard has Ysolda's voice, and she goes ham on "Ragnar the Red."
This was hilarious, thank you! xD Loving the Delphine disses xD
Delphine is my bae. Just kidding, I sacrificed her to Boethiah.
Since you’ve done best spouses before, can you make best houses or best children to adopt?
Yes. I'm undecided who to adopt. I've seen chakawhat's video on who to adopt but her list is really bad. Graenolf's is okay but I think there are better options than his picks
@@shadowagent3363
You MUST adopt the little orphan girl Sofie who sells flowers on the streets of Windhelm. I found her in front of the gate to the harbor
@@elite1361 Yes. She and Runa Fair-Child. Runa is a little psychopath and I love her.
In every playthrough, I use a frenzy spell/potion on one of the patrons and watch the chaos going down. Top tier entertainment
Nightgate inn is always a pit stop when heading up to dawn star or the college while playing survival mode. Great guys to wait through the bitter cold nights.
Dont forget that the sleeping giant inn is like, one of, if not the only generic inns to have room doors on the inside
It's also the first tavern most players will enter, so the generic layout doesn't feel generic when it's first encountered.
Ranking bard songs next? 🧐🤩
Ragnar The Red is obviously the best bard song. :p
@@ItBePatYo OOH THERE ONCE WAS A HERO NAMED RAGNAR THE RED
@@hepic2874 Who came riding to Whiterun from ole Rorikstead
@@ItBePatYo he told tales of valour and gold he had made
The Tale of the Tongues is my #1
We have
1. Generic layout
2. Generic layout (with basement)
3. Generic layout (with secret room)
4. Unique layout
5. Unique layout (can’t rent room)
If I remember correctly Old Hroldan has a ghost. A soldier from the war by Tiber Septim. You can meet him when u sleep there I guess
I wouldn’t consider the drunken huntsman an inn, I think it’s a weapon shop but I see your point.
A quote from the first video I've watched from your channel that immediately got me hooked on your content. "It's all about Elder Fashion 5: SKYPIMP!"
I thought the drunken huntsman was just a store, now it makes sense why jenassa is always just hanging around and why it’s open at the middle of the night
The Retching Netch has the best story by a long shot
You should do this for Oblivion, where the inns all feel very unique even when they have the genetic layout.
Taverns are a super fun thing for me starting up again in survival. I feel like a real adventurer having to go around to the inns to sleep and eat. As houses are expensive to own in each town.
this channel has reinvested me in skyrim
I just found you and only watched two videos, but I like your presentation all honesty. Genuine, subscribed
Best channel. I found it few weeks ago, and i've already seen all of your videos (except the beard ranking). Great channel. keep it up
Ranked video idea: Shouts ranked
The Bannered Mare for the win. You walk in and feel at home.
I haven't had vanilla "inn" interiors in a long time, the only two vanilla interiors I can recall are The Sleeping Giant in Riverwood and the one in Whiterun, can't remember what is called but something with a horse
The Bannered Mare
Candlehearth Hall has my favorite layout hands down
nightgate inn is my favorite because of location. it's a trash inn but my PC gets cold between dawnstar/morthal and windhelm/winterhold and it's the one inn I'm really interested in
My suspicion is that inns outside of big cities are part of a big accomodation/restaurant business chain which has standardised all the inns. Kinda like motels or gas stations in real life.
Girls : Omg im so interested for a holiday, where should i stay?
Boys:
He forgot to mention the amazing bards at candle hearth hall and the inn in markarth. Idk but they stood out to me with their singing
the one thing i don't like about the bannered mare is that the second you leave you hear the battleborns taunting an old lady for missing her son
I can feel the Skyrim passion 🤣 hope this channel continues prospering
If i do not mistake, most taverns in Oblivion were unique. But i could be wrong, because i only saw all in the Imperial City and some in the towns.
Yet again you make one of the most important skyrim videos ever made
I always thought the Septim bed thing at Old Hroldan was a sales tactic by the tavern owner
I'd love to see a bards ranked video! Unless it would be too close to this one. My personal favorite is probably lisette
You should rank radiant quests worst to best next
Sadly the companions would end up straight to the bottom since you can be tasked with rescuing nazeem
0:10 Dude, don't scare me like that.
But good job on the video. Always nice to watch your content.
The illusive Todd
Great video! If you’re up for suggestions (that may take a while, granted) I haven’t seen anyone do an in depth dungeon analysis for drauger and dwemer stuff. Might be a fun topic or two in there
You haven’t enjoyed Skyrim to its fullest until you’ve done lines of skooma and then journeyed around markarth with Steven Tyler
There is one inn inside a bandit fort, lets see if the video includes it.
It is: the "Stumbling Sabercat" xD
Nightgate Inn: Inside is boring, location is wherever, I don't even know...
Had to look it up, the gourmet chef is residing there...
Now that I watch this video...I just realised how strongly my mods augment the taverns, I could barely find a seat in them after installing a few npc mods...everything is filled with bards, soldiers and scholars who all have their own little backstories...crazy stuff.
Personally I would put the retching netch on top, to be fair I'm slightly bias as I always base on the fantastic island with it's ash wastelands and freezing woods.
I think the bannered mayer has a special place in everyone's hearts
What’s amazing LongBrow is that you’re playing vanilla. I would like to see you review some mods on a pc.
Imagine going to a destroyed Inn, going to the basement, and finding an entire dungeon and skooma labs.
I've gotta rank The Bannered Mare as my favorite simply because: The Bannered Mare is the only tavern not destroyed by conflicting mods in my load order. Seriously, the ones in Morthal, Dawnstar and Winterhold don't even have doors.
Fun Fact for ya'... The Braidwood Inn is named after a motel in the classic John Candy/Steve Martin movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Comedy gold!
in the bee and the brab will also have someone coming to you and ask if you want something, plus it has a 3 drinks that you can't find anywhere else
"Welcome to the Retching-Netch Cornerclub, home of the finest sujama that will ever grace your lips"
Some entrepreneur went around to the different towns and sold premade tavern kits for a pretty penny.
I would do a video on best places to buy and drink alchohol in general so you could include others and score it differently. The thieves guild bar is nice. Could even include sovngard and the thirsk mead hall
Have you ever done a video about ranking Skyrim cities?
Great idea
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Thank you 😊
@@xaedeo6549 ah shoot here we go again lol that your line
And villages
Ok list of next skyrim rankings
1. Cities
2. Villages
3. Nordic tombs
4. Dwemer ruins
5. Palaces dragon's reach, blue palace ect
6. Forts
7. Holds
8. ...ok my brain is laging now I'll be back if I come think of anything else.
Thank you.
Looks like a cinnamon roll is a skooma dealer
Rank ALL of the children in Skyrim .PLEASE. Get this to the top ,I'd rly like to see that😁😁
A cold glass of mead sounds gross lol much better warm. You should do some more rankings of spots in Skyrim!
People in 2013: RUclips isn’t going to be around in 10 years
2023: Ranking Skyrim taverns
I’m literally watching your video at 2am on a Tuesday so we’re in this together bro
Nightgate Inn is actually my favourite. Nice and quiet.
There is a store across the street from Winterhold Inn. They will be devastated you said that.
you should make the music slightly louder in the background! I thought it was you talking in silence for a while, just a suggestion
The windpeak inn features the finest bard in all of Dawnstar, me
NightGATE inn👍🏻
Haelga's Bunkhouse would be my top pick. For obvious reasons
In defense of the Sleeping Giant Inn, it may have the generic layout, but there's one exception: The rooms have doors!!
I frequent the Winking Skeever Inn in Solitude. Why? Being a thief by trade, I find that a lot more wales go to Solitude. I make sure that their purses are lighter when they leave the inn in the morning. If you know what I mean.
Sleeping Giant is the best. Just because that secret room. Help sven/faendal in their love quest, make him your follower, give him a lockpick, order him to wait in front of the cupboard. Run/push him and voila, the secret room is open. Youve got alchemy & enchantment table, decent weapons, potions, ingredients, and safe storage. Its like you have a home early game for just 10g per night😂
Would the Ragged Flag on meet the criteria of this video? Not precisely an inn, but definitely a tavern.
In other news, autocorrect does not think "flagon" is a word.
the bee and barb is also the home of marcurio, which is one of my favorite followers, that would be a plus for me
Aparrently moorside is run by Falion's sister, and the sign is actually a red guard coat of arms or sum such? Still a generic layout though.😂
I dunno about the Bannered Mare, last I heard they were harboring international fugitives.
Aw, Winterhold has two functioning businesses! Shoutout to Birna's Oddments as no one knows it exists in-universe as well :D
i like how the Nightgale Inn is the place i always go to just to hang out and its the worst on his list
The Tiber septim one has a quest with a ghost
But quests don't affect the ranking so
...I would have put the winterhold Inn a bit higher on the list only due to the fact that the freaking Jarl visits it every now and then lol