Skyrim's INSANE God

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  • Опубликовано: 28 апр 2021
  • In our latest Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim video we discuss Akatosh, Alduin, Auriel, Ruptga, Satakal and all gods that could be seen as a version of the time god. Is the Time God Insane?
    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an open world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth main installment in The Elder Scrolls series and was released worldwide on November 11, 2011. The game's main story revolves around the player character and their quest to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon who is prophesied to destroy the world. The videogame is set two hundred years after the events of Oblivion, and takes place in the fictional province of Skyrim.
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  • @silverwingdragon4161
    @silverwingdragon4161 3 года назад +776

    TES fans: "What are you, an elven god, a dragon, or a giant cat?"
    Akatosh: "Yes."

  • @dudel3565
    @dudel3565 3 года назад +214

    Fudge: Akatosh is a Mad God.
    Sheogorath: *Cheese music stops*

    • @faithhamer8438
      @faithhamer8438 2 года назад +9

      What if Sheogorath/Jyggalag is just another splinter of Akatosh but Sheogorath is just too nuts to articulate it?

    • @dirge44
      @dirge44 Год назад +1

      @@faithhamer8438 nah he's a deadra so that's impossible.
      He wasn't one of the ones who made nirn

    • @yohef4537
      @yohef4537 Год назад +1

      Sheogorath has entered the chat

    • @CloudsGirl7
      @CloudsGirl7 Год назад +2

      Record scratch, but it's a cheese wheel. 😂

    • @Chrysamer77
      @Chrysamer77 4 месяца назад

      Akatosh is more unhinged than Sheogorath

  • @Lava_Plays
    @Lava_Plays 3 года назад +310

    Akatosh is like the player character that tries to do all the quests, even though some quests contradict the motives/themes of other quests. Like how the Archmage of the College of Winterhold could suddenly decide to become a two-handed axe wielding Companion of Jorrvaskr. Then after all that "Fight for honor business", he decides to become a slippery thief in the Thieves Guild. How can the player character be the honorable Harbinger of the Companions AND the listener of the Dark Brotherhood? It's like we ourselves experience the multiple personalities that the Dragonborn has, or like how Akotosh is split into other names with motives.
    Then after everything is done that can be, he creates a new game.

    • @muslimcrusader5987
      @muslimcrusader5987 2 года назад

      What’s the song in the beginning

    • @Crazylom
      @Crazylom 2 года назад +12

      So Akatosh is essentially player factor?

    • @maki1177
      @maki1177 2 года назад +10

      this makes sense😳🤯

    • @wanderingbufoon
      @wanderingbufoon 2 года назад +18

      Then Lorkhan is that bug that crashes the game altogether

    • @ovidiufarcau243
      @ovidiufarcau243 2 года назад +6

      that`s why Players become the god of Madneess - Sheogorath !

  • @TOUGHEYES
    @TOUGHEYES 3 года назад +475

    Funny how it was Alkosh that stopped Pelinal Whitestrake from wiping out the Khajiit.
    Its like he stopped the man in his vengeful anguish, and infact had to stop him. Because who else could understand someone so torn by grief from his love that he had gone mad, and unstable by their very nature, than a mirrored counterpart in the Divines whose losing control of himself the more time goes forward? It's a Massive Bro moment that is lost to Tamrielic Folklore.

    • @thalmoragent9344
      @thalmoragent9344 3 года назад +32

      Says a lot about Pelinal tho, he was really gonna wipe out potentially a whole race of Khajit all because he thought they were Elves. Which means he wasn't gonna kill them for anything wrong they did or anything, but just for the sole fact that they were born as "Mer". I know he was pissed about the Aylieds but his hatred for all Mer is a bit much

    • @____________838
      @____________838 3 года назад +44

      He is human rage incarnate, given form by the divine.

    • @gelonvia8525
      @gelonvia8525 3 года назад +38

      @@thalmoragent9344 If you consider the idea of how he essentially created Man through the wanderers, and thus that makes them his children especially with how alot of them view him in their pantheons, then its understandable why his rage would be so strong for people raping, enslaving, torturing, and abusing his children, especially since these are the ones that thank him and love their life, while the opposite view the existence of life as a trap due to the beliefs of the Ayleid Pantheon of Divines. A bunch of ungrateful god wannabee's are killing his beloved children (or grand children, depending how you view them.)
      It definitely becomes very understandable why he would be so ragefilled, especially as a god that's not in the right mind causing him to take things way too far and kill Mer who didn't deserve it, like Khajit and Bosmer.

    • @thalmoragent9344
      @thalmoragent9344 3 года назад +25

      @@gelonvia8525
      True, he was basically the most stereotypical Pro Man/Anti Mer Warrior ever.
      We also have to remember that Alessia had a great deal of Aylied Allies, some even remained as Vassals in her Empire so as to help the humans rule for some time, so there are plenty of innocent and even good Aylieds along with other Mer, but yeah, Pelinal is the embodiment of what Lorkhan and Wandering Ehlnofey stand for, and it sucks many innocents died all because he had a hatred for them and their Et'Ada ancestor, which funny enough, he technically betrayed, or at least depending on the point of view.
      Then again, it sucks because ever since after the Dawn/early Merethic Era, the Elves have always been on a loosing, downward trend. I feel Bethesda has intentionally or unintentionally tried to make the Mer the "big bad and evil force", whilst giving the Humans Plot Armor to kill them as the "objective good", Even though many innocent Mer have been killed in the process. It's either "they started it" or "they all deserve it" or "Man good and Mer bad", and it's the same cycle every time, no matter how heinous or not so bad things the Mer do to Humans, all the while, any atrocities commited by humans are always either forgiven or just hand waved as "Ah well, it happens, they're still cool".
      As a big fan of the races of Mer, it's a shame to see Pelinal being seeing as an objective hero who's "done nothing wrong", even though there's always 2 sides to the story, or in this case, to the "hero" himself.
      Sorry for the long rant, it's just that... man, I feel the Mer always get the short end of the stick, no matter what they do, it's always genocide for them in the end. Humans often have plot armor in Fantasy though, so the thought of an "innocent elf" goes over the heads of a lot of fans.

    • @idipped2521
      @idipped2521 3 года назад +17

      The whole TES universe is a bro moment that lasts forever tbf

  • @RaynmanPlays
    @RaynmanPlays 3 года назад +243

    Me: "Ah, this one would certainly like to hear more about Skooma Cat."
    FudgeMuppet: "What a grand and intoxicating innocence."

    • @s7Matt
      @s7Matt 3 года назад +3

      What about me? I thought it would be another Sheogorath theory hahahahaha!

    • @RaynmanPlays
      @RaynmanPlays 3 года назад +10

      @@s7Matt Spoiler:
      Skooma Cat is the Khajiit version of Sheogorath.

    • @s7Matt
      @s7Matt 3 года назад +3

      @@RaynmanPlays and he is the one who cursed Akatosh into dividing him into two personalities: Auri-El and Alduin ~conspiracy theory

    • @insaincaldo
      @insaincaldo 3 года назад +1

      I'm just like why did he question that Khajiit have two in one god, the many faced cats, who's whims change with the moons?

    • @SkoomaCat
      @SkoomaCat 3 года назад +2

      O.o

  • @EdStrings
    @EdStrings 3 года назад +515

    Akatosh can’t cope with the fact that all his accomplishments have Lorkhan fingerprints all over them 😏

    • @callmecalvin7297
      @callmecalvin7297 3 года назад +9

      Yeeeeeeeup

    • @callmecalvin7297
      @callmecalvin7297 3 года назад +33

      And Elf betas ask why we hate Them so much...

    • @ladyselin35
      @ladyselin35 3 года назад +40

      Shor did nothing wrong!

    • @Im-Not-a-Dog
      @Im-Not-a-Dog 3 года назад +49

      What role does Time play without Mortality? Akatosh has no true purpose without the work of Lorkhan, and despises him for it.

    • @____________838
      @____________838 3 года назад +5

      @@Im-Not-a-Dog Does Akatosh, or does Auriel?

  • @LadyLexyStarwatcher
    @LadyLexyStarwatcher 3 года назад +45

    Mortal: "Is the time god insane? "
    Sheo: "Don't worry your pretty little head. No really, don't."

    • @LadyLexyStarwatcher
      @LadyLexyStarwatcher 3 года назад +5

      I love these sort of things. You really dig deep and kinda just find one thing. There is no other, there is no apart, or separate. Everyone is a part of the same one being, the God Head. Like, digging too deep in anything leads to either zero sum or chim in this world. Where did Bob go? I don't know, he was staring at a flower for a day then just disappeared. Also weirdly, now the hill he was sitting is absolutely covered in flowers.

  • @rhysjones7641
    @rhysjones7641 3 года назад +402

    Ya know, over the years Drew’s voice has gotten to Bob Ross levels of relaxing, in my humble opinion.

    • @albreal
      @albreal 3 года назад +30

      "happy little dremora, over here. And one more, because everyone needs a friend"

    • @nodicebrz6836
      @nodicebrz6836 3 года назад +20

      I literally use this channel as ASMR for sleep. I love hearing about ES lore and all of their voices are super mellow and relaxing

    • @emiliaantti6669
      @emiliaantti6669 3 года назад +7

      Absolutely 🤘😔 This man's voice soothes my soul

    • @HyprHotshot
      @HyprHotshot 3 года назад +2

      No one who is actually humble calls themself humble

    • @HyprHotshot
      @HyprHotshot 3 года назад

      @@nodicebrz6836 hahahaha gayyyyy

  • @jonathanrealman8415
    @jonathanrealman8415 3 года назад +24

    I always thought that the Elder Scrolls' sweetest irony is in Akatosh and Lorkahn. Akatosh the god created by the limitless created the greatest boundary, time. Lorkahn the god created by infinite limitation is working to remove all limitations via the royal sylibil of chim and eventually the moving past chim and the godhead. It is very ironic that it's the spirit of allness created all the limitations we know while the spirit of limitation is what is trying to set you free.

  • @Seifiros
    @Seifiros 3 года назад +88

    If in Elder Scrolls VI Bethesda doesn't make easter eggs with Drew as an aspect of Xarxes, Michael as Shrek with dual axes and Scott as an argonian shellback, I will riot.

    • @idipped2521
      @idipped2521 3 года назад +4

      I'm sure they will have some Fudgemuppet easter egg, but everything you mentioned is just too much

    • @Seifiros
      @Seifiros 3 года назад +6

      **sigh** It's a riot then..

    • @Squat5000
      @Squat5000 3 года назад +1

      It will have none. It's Microsoft now.
      Think fallout 76 was bad? Just wait for this disappointment.

    • @idipped2521
      @idipped2521 3 года назад +1

      @@Squat5000 Yea what happened with DOOM eternal today has me really worried and the fanboys shilling for microtransactions don't give me hope

    • @Seifiros
      @Seifiros 3 года назад +2

      Aah, I see we're back into the depressing reality of modern videogame industry. Let's not go there, lest we find nothing but dissapointment and anger. In all seriosness, I am more keen to place my hopes into the amazing modding community. By that I mean those who make legit technical improvements and lore friendly addons, not those who've turned skyrim into nsfw anime.

  • @ethandonnachie
    @ethandonnachie 3 года назад +169

    so early i just watched volendrung fly through the sky from morrowind to hammerfell

  • @sekijokes451
    @sekijokes451 2 года назад +28

    Akatosh being a sort of synthesis between Auriel and Shor is a great interpretation.
    And what pray tell is one of Akatosh's most influential creations? The beings known as "Dragonborn". Immortal Aedric souls within a mortal shell. Powerful beings within a limited form.
    Limits that they're encouraged to overcome.
    The best of Auriel and Lorkhan rolled into one.

  • @infra_r3d133
    @infra_r3d133 3 года назад +55

    Here so early I met the first incarnation of M’aiq the Liar...at least that’s what he told me...

    • @SilverFang2789
      @SilverFang2789 3 года назад +1

      Who in Oblivion is Malik?

    • @infra_r3d133
      @infra_r3d133 3 года назад +1

      @@SilverFang2789 - Lmao, I had a moment, I’ve edited the post to reflect the character I was referencing.

  • @denakarganta1502
    @denakarganta1502 3 года назад +102

    Akatosh is literally my favorite diety in TES due to both the insane nature of him but also how he is generally speaking pretty awesome, so I'm glad you guys made a video on him.

    • @denakarganta1502
      @denakarganta1502 3 года назад +2

      Also please do a podcast on Akatosh and his connections to Lorkhan because I have theory that both the Time God(s) and Lorkhan (Space) are not really opposed to each other and are only enacting the each Kalpa's events only letting the Kalpa being reset and that both will always make sure there is an avatar or representative of their influence to help keep the cycle going. For Akatosh/Auriel it could be seen through the Covenant with Alessia, the Avatar of Akatosh (Martin Septim), and even the Last Dragonborn as though he/she may be Shezzarine they also prevented Auriel's Bow from falling into Vampiric hands, Stopped Alduin and even defeated Miraak for his betrayal of Akatosh's purpose for him, ( to stop Alduin though the dragonblood may have corrupted him). With Lorkhan, his representatives could be seen through figures such as Talos (Hjalti,Ysmir,and Zurin Arctus), again the Dovahkiin, and even through figures such as Wulf who was seen in Morrowind. And what did all figures do, they kept the kalpic cycle ongoing despite the apocalyptic events occuring which we dealt with literally.

  • @Skypothesis
    @Skypothesis 3 года назад +107

    Always love these lore vids. Thank you guys for keeping Elder Scrolls magic alive while we wait eternally for TES VI!!!

  • @LysergicKids
    @LysergicKids 3 года назад +90

    I find it interesting how Bethesda uses Akatosh/Auri-El as a resolution to contradictory lore and retconning. Bethesda's use of gods as narrative devices is incredibly clever. It gives them a certain amount of freedom with the lore that would otherwise be impossible. While simultaneously making the lore more interesting and "whacky". I can't wait to see how they justify the existence of sword singers and Anesi in TES 6🙃

  • @Im-Not-a-Dog
    @Im-Not-a-Dog 3 года назад +73

    Akatosh released Pelinal to free man from the elves, and Alkosh ensured that Pelinal stayed the course when his rage led him astray. They served the singular purpose of directing Pelinal at the elves, only in different guise.

    • @denakarganta1502
      @denakarganta1502 3 года назад +16

      To add on to that it, with some theories stating that Pelinal is a Shezzarine and a time-traveller that could mean both Time and Space (Akatosh and Lorkhan) worked together to help the Alessia's Rebellion. Which could mean that both Shezzar and Aka helped the Rebellion and that to an extent maybe Auriel and Lorkhan weren't as opposed to each other as we thought, but who knows considering the nature of the series with an unreliable narrator

    • @muslimcrusader5987
      @muslimcrusader5987 3 года назад +10

      @@denakarganta1502 To add to that it could make sense since the Elves are the children of Auriel and the Ayleids turned their backs on the Aedra to worship Meridia. The Alessia Revolt could have just been Auriel’s divine punishment.

    • @slimretro2659
      @slimretro2659 3 года назад +12

      @@denakarganta1502 I strongly believe that Akatosh and Shor no longer have this petty feud and are just collabing on things like the alessian empire when mortals are fighting for their supposed "beef".

    • @denakarganta1502
      @denakarganta1502 3 года назад +3

      @@slimretro2659 possibly, I view it like they have an agreement or contract, that both will work together to keep the Kalpa going until the current cycle has come to an end and when it is Aka's turn to reset everything regardless of form so for example forms of Aka like Alduin or Sahtakal ending the current world for the next. Then everything will occur again with the feud but then slowly things settle down and the preservation of the Kalpa takes highest priority and rinse and repeat

    • @muslimcrusader5987
      @muslimcrusader5987 2 года назад +1

      What’s the song in the beginning?

  • @Im-Not-a-Dog
    @Im-Not-a-Dog 3 года назад +94

    Is it possible that Akatosh split himself into multiple personalities in order to watch each race and keep a full record of time?

    • @muslimcrusader5987
      @muslimcrusader5987 3 года назад +7

      It’s possible

    • @korimcentire5367
      @korimcentire5367 3 года назад +5

      Well yeah.... omnipotent, within all things at all times. Time is past present, and future. Therefore it is all of time. Neither good, nor evil. Just is.

    • @muslimcrusader5987
      @muslimcrusader5987 3 года назад +2

      @@korimcentire5367 he’s not omnipotent. Only the Godhead is

    • @korimcentire5367
      @korimcentire5367 3 года назад +1

      @@muslimcrusader5987 I thought the godhead was within no control of the dream.

    • @muslimcrusader5987
      @muslimcrusader5987 3 года назад +2

      @@korimcentire5367 It’s his dream. His reality. When you dream, the whole experience is your creation. You’re the centre of it all too.

  • @sylph4252
    @sylph4252 3 года назад +61

    I love the "concept organ" running gag

    • @jclarkev
      @jclarkev 3 года назад +7

      Such a big concept organ meme

  • @thegamingpigeon3216
    @thegamingpigeon3216 3 года назад +43

    The merging together and ubiquitous nature of the gods between the pantheons fascinates me. If Auri-El and Akatosh are essentially the same and in turn Alduin *is* Akatosh (I know this is just speculation but bear with me), it would've been cool if they added new dialogue in the Dawnguard DLC if you used Auri-El's bow while fighting Alduin and he commented on it.

    • @BroadwayRonMexico
      @BroadwayRonMexico 2 года назад +9

      How I see it is Auri-El embodies the beginning of time, as he was worshipped by the elves in the Dawn Era. Alduin is the natural opposite, the end of time and restart of the cycle. Akatosh is the present, as he came about by stripping away the Auri-El and Alduin bits with the tower dance (and what was left was also the schizo twin of Shor/Lorkhan, but thats a whole different story)

    • @cr90captain89
      @cr90captain89 2 года назад +1

      @@BroadwayRonMexico alduin hates elves & man, & im pretty sure that the ender of time is a firstborn of akatosh.
      because after the player completes the main storyline, parthurnaax is melancholy on the death of his brother.
      he even say's that alduin was the crown of their fathers creations & that the world would never be the same.

    • @Super50ldier
      @Super50ldier 2 года назад

      @@BroadwayRonMexico Shezarr/Shor/Lorkhan.

    • @Super50ldier
      @Super50ldier 2 года назад

      @@cr90captain89 Alduin doesn't hate Elves or Humans, Elves love him while the Atmorans and their descendants the Nords fears him.

    • @Super50ldier
      @Super50ldier 2 года назад

      @@cr90captain89 No, Akatosh was created from stripping Auri-El and Alduin bits and adding the aspects of Shezarr/Shor/Lorkhan, his brother.

  • @Sammybree
    @Sammybree 3 года назад +48

    So early that the guard isn't an adventurer yet, hence his knee is intact.

    • @sonoflethal
      @sonoflethal 3 года назад +3

      LMAOOO THATS LIKE THE THING THEY SAY!!!!!! LMFAOOOOOOO THEY SAY THAT IN THE GAME!!!!!

    • @sonoflethal
      @sonoflethal 3 года назад +3

      And also you said it the wrong way round, the adventure wouldn't be a guard yet

    • @Whiskeey666
      @Whiskeey666 3 года назад

      so early in fact that the guard is a young napper at honorhall orphange in riften

    • @RayAkuma
      @RayAkuma 3 года назад

      I love the memes

    • @Sammybree
      @Sammybree 3 года назад +1

      I saw 19 likes and I was like damn I guess I did good and then read the comments.... RIP

  • @echos5823
    @echos5823 3 года назад +36

    How to make TES fandom explode, say Alduin is Akatosh is Auri-el.

    • @callmecalvin7297
      @callmecalvin7297 3 года назад +10

      Isn't that p. Much true? Auri-El is beginning, Aka is the middle, the living and breaking, And Alduin is the end. All aspects of time, limits, and meanig

    • @carmelopappalardo8477
      @carmelopappalardo8477 3 года назад +1

      @@callmecalvin7297 when I read about all three I realized they were the one and same. Different aspects but same.

    • @Pidgeon182
      @Pidgeon182 3 года назад +1

      @WorldUnited Yep, I believe the story is that a group of Alessian Order cultists performed a ritual that split Akatusk into 3 different parts, and caused a wound in time that took over a 1000 years to resolve. I have a bit of a weird theory that the "Akatosh" personality was merged with Lorkhan/Shor during this ritual, but I have very little evidence other than speculation on that one.

    • @tezz2698
      @tezz2698 3 года назад +1

      @@callmecalvin7297 they're not that well organized. It's more like one god with several personalities/aspects born from the different versions of him that people worship.

    • @litewave5186
      @litewave5186 3 года назад

      @@Pidgeon182 you're not the only one. The wiki mentions that time also had "limitations", aka the existence of Kalpas, and yet limitations are Lorkhan's thing, and his name isn't even mentioned as a part of that.

  • @Lcgx
    @Lcgx 3 года назад +73

    When Drew gets on the mic my brain starts twisting to his honeyed words.

    • @FBI-ju5no
      @FBI-ju5no 3 года назад +6

      He has a way with words.

    • @torstenw5723
      @torstenw5723 2 года назад +3

      Almost too honeyed...I find myself almost not even hearing what he's saying sometimes

    • @Lcgx
      @Lcgx 2 года назад +2

      @@torstenw5723 im right there with you haha

  • @Mr_King96
    @Mr_King96 3 года назад +36

    Reading the title, i assume that we are finally talking about Todd Howard today

  • @tylertubemc8973
    @tylertubemc8973 3 года назад +18

    Holy shit... the beginning narrative was chillingly good.

    • @muslimcrusader5987
      @muslimcrusader5987 3 года назад

      Do you know what the song playing in the background is?

  • @Hypercane_
    @Hypercane_ 3 года назад +28

    Literally have been binging every video on this channel first video to come out that is new for me

    • @madpro7202
      @madpro7202 3 года назад

      Welcome to the community. Its a good one to be a part of

    • @FudgeMuppet
      @FudgeMuppet  3 года назад +1

      Welcome!

  • @SpaceWaterfall1
    @SpaceWaterfall1 3 года назад +11

    Man, this made me genuinely feel bad for a fictional god and almost tear up too. Being torn apart into different deties and entities by others and by simply existing, getting more fractured and losing yourself more as time passes, what an tortures and painful existance must that be? It kinda reminds me a bit of Dementia and Alzheimer, which occur more often in old age and is preatty tragic for not only the person suffering it, but also all their loved ones. I'm not an expert in the matter and I'm not taking that illness lightly, but I see parallels between the fragmentation and insanity ofAkatosh/Auriel/Alduin/Aka/etc. with dementia. I might be completly wrong or not, but I just wanted to throw out my thoughts on this.

  • @rossnorris2351
    @rossnorris2351 Год назад +6

    I'd really like to see a video on Lorkan and the spin the races put on him.

  • @kingjamization
    @kingjamization 3 года назад +39

    Last time I was this early the Dwarves were still on Nirn

  • @LoganMPierce
    @LoganMPierce 3 года назад +13

    Drew, to say that you put out great content would be a huge understatement.

  • @aeternumcadens1777
    @aeternumcadens1777 3 года назад +43

    Lorkhan has got to be the ultimate troll...like he created life as a trick/joke

    • @michaelbishop5674
      @michaelbishop5674 3 года назад +10

      Lorkhan: "We all do a little trolling"

    • @shaggyroggers1084
      @shaggyroggers1084 3 года назад

      Like the old ones of the mythos

    • @xx_donkeyfucker_xx7910
      @xx_donkeyfucker_xx7910 3 года назад +1

      @@michaelbishop5674 I tiny amount of Tom foolery

    • @fauzanabdulkahfi957
      @fauzanabdulkahfi957 2 года назад +1

      False lorkhan create the world because he wanted to usurp the dreamer

    • @aeternumcadens1777
      @aeternumcadens1777 2 года назад +1

      @@fauzanabdulkahfi957 how would expanding the dream, usurp the dreamer? I'm assuming you are referring to the God head of course

  • @wildmanjeff42
    @wildmanjeff42 3 года назад +5

    Thank you for your time making the Lore videos. I always enjoy them.

  • @osian3854
    @osian3854 3 года назад +46

    It get's even weirder when you think about the godhead as well.

    • @WVLFRVN
      @WVLFRVN 3 года назад +3

      Giggidy

    • @samuelkristensen6685
      @samuelkristensen6685 3 года назад +9

      Am I the only one that isn't that into the Godhead, Kirkbride stuff? A lot of it isn't even official right? He came up with it after leaving Bethesda.

    • @christianrose9166
      @christianrose9166 3 года назад +19

      @@samuelkristensen6685 Except a lot of that "unofficial" stuff tends to appear in the Elder Scrolls series, which corroborates Kirkbride's writings. As a result of Bethesda continuing to pull lore bits from his "unofficial" lore of Tamriel, it's become an unspoken/unofficial rule of the Elder Scrolls community that if Michael Kirkbride writes something about Tamrielic lore, it's canon.

    • @zer0zer0nin9
      @zer0zer0nin9 3 года назад +4

      Everything gets weird when the godhead is considered.

    • @odd-eyes6363
      @odd-eyes6363 3 года назад +7

      Godhead is Kirkbride nonsense
      Dude only wrote Morrowind along with 4 other people but apparently his word is law in this fandom

  • @Er1c661
    @Er1c661 3 года назад +22

    Last time I was this early Yokuda hadn’t sank yet

  • @alemirdikson
    @alemirdikson 3 года назад +6

    In my opinion?
    Akatosh is an amalgamation of Auri-El and Shor.
    I believe that, when the Marukhati Selectives "removed the Aldmeri taint from Akatosh", they did so by somehow shoving the two deities into each other, making them one.
    Akatosh is INSANE because he IS both Auri-El AND Shor.
    Two fundamentally opposed gods, becoming one and the same.
    What else could break the dragon so damn hard that it takes 1000 "years" to fix, when most dragon breaks take only a few hours, days, years at most?
    And to be honest, I'm not entirely convinced they were ever entirely separate to begin with. I believe they are two opposed halves of the same whole, in the same way that ultimately Men and Mer are one and the same. Both Ehlnofey. Both from the same place, destined for the same end.
    Anui-El and Sithis were both born at the same moment from the same interplay of the same two forces.
    Auri-El and Lorkhan were then born at the same time, as a result of the same interplay between Anui-El and Sithis.
    In various myths, particularly the Kirkbridian ones, the actions and attributes of each are largely interchangable, and at minimum mirrored to one another.
    I believe they are both the same entity. One which is fundamentally and diametrically opposed to itself. A left brain and a right brain. Auri-El and Shor-El are one and the same. One which wants desperately not to be. Perhaps even to the extent of causing a split. I believe THAT was the "Sundering of Aldmeris." The Convention. The murder of Lorkhan upon Ada Mantia. It was Auri-El, realizing what he had done. The pain it wrought, the horror he unleashed upon his fellow Et'Ada. And so he reached into his own chest, perhaps with or without help, and with "more than hands", ripped out that part of himself which he despised so.
    And then Marukh comes and stitches them back together like some sort of frankengod.
    If you were Akatosh, committing with your own hands, the greatest atrocity imaginable, ripping out the half of you that said 'this is a good idea', devoting your eternal nonexistence to making up for that mistake, and then having the rotting corpse of your former self shoved back into you by some monkey... Would you not go insane? Would you not flip out and desire an end to all things? To tear down this awful world of your making, to return to an age before?
    I sure would.
    I don't think that the copious number of aspects and interpretations necessarily matters. Plenty of gods have different interpretations and aspects without being ripped apart. That's just part of the nature of being a deity in The Elder Scrolls. So why then, is Akatosh so special?
    Because he's not just one god with many aspects. He's TWO gods, with many aspects each. Some of which have become separate gods in their own right. Both Auriel AND Shor, at the same time. Two halves of one, made separate, and then forcibly made whole once more.
    Sheogorath mirrors this.
    He is both Jyggalag AND Sheogorath. He too, had a convention in which his compatriots also ripped him apart, leaving him as a ghost of his former self, until one day some person comes in and stitches them back together.
    Furthermore, it is said the Sheo was born of the void left behind by the loss Lorkhan's divine spark, and Sheogorath's name shares similarities with names for Lorkhan. Shor and Sheor, in particular. And it was a Shezzarine, and an aspect of Pelinal Whitestrake, which ended up mantling him in the end, much like it was it was when Talos rose up and became a second coming of Shor.
    It's not a 1:1 comparison, but it's absolutely an echo, and I think that echo indeed holds some clues to be gleaned.

  • @beanywalrus00
    @beanywalrus00 3 года назад +37

    I always viewed the three main aspects of time; Auriel, Akatosh, and Alduin, as being different points of time. Auriel is the past, Akatosh is the present, and Alduin is the future.
    edit: lol you said that too, do you browse tesg?

    • @odd-eyes6363
      @odd-eyes6363 3 года назад +4

      But that's not really how it seems to work. Skyrim made a really big push towards the direction that Alduin is a different entity and that Auriel and Akatosh are the same

    • @slimretro2659
      @slimretro2659 3 года назад +4

      @@odd-eyes6363 YES! That's why I rlly hate the AKA oversoul theory that mostly involves unofficial mk lore. Skyrim proved that it isn't true. We could make a case for it before skyrim but now it's just pulling shit from mk lore.

  • @charliewhite578
    @charliewhite578 3 года назад +16

    We need to hire Super Mario to do voiceovers of these videos as parthonax.

    • @Wargulpartal
      @Wargulpartal 3 года назад +6

      I understand that reference. 🤣🤣
      You can say Mario shares same Thu'um, but use different shouts. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @fronatomy6280
      @fronatomy6280 3 года назад +2

      Marionax and Alduigi

    • @gotzn0name478
      @gotzn0name478 3 года назад

      @@fronatomy6280 😂😂😂 good shit, man.

  • @abattlecatfromakavir
    @abattlecatfromakavir Год назад +4

    We mortals need to leave poor Aka alone... He's been through more than enough pain and suffering already.

  • @CathaxisDragonheart
    @CathaxisDragonheart 3 года назад +1

    Thank you once again for an awesome way to end the day. You guys rock!!!

  • @gbcem9882
    @gbcem9882 3 года назад +107

    As if the other gods weren't crazy enough...

    • @royalty843
      @royalty843 3 года назад +8

      Sheo: cheese!!!

    • @noonenowhere877
      @noonenowhere877 3 года назад +1

      I mean to be fair to Shegorath liking cheese is pretty sane. I mean it would be madder not like cheese really...unless your lactose intolerant.

    • @KingOfDarknessAndEvil
      @KingOfDarknessAndEvil 3 года назад +1

      @@noonenowhere877 As someone who is lactose intolerant, it would still be weird not to like cheese

  • @ThePrinceofPlots
    @ThePrinceofPlots 3 года назад

    Man the music the drop everything another perfect vid

  • @cherylbolla3340
    @cherylbolla3340 3 года назад +4

    Absolutely intriguing as always.

  • @firewolf6431
    @firewolf6431 3 года назад

    I love how you start these kind of videos with a History of Skyrim

  • @lxs48
    @lxs48 3 года назад

    oh fudge, your microphone eq has improved so much from when I first watched you. This is great

  • @luckyjedi429
    @luckyjedi429 3 года назад +6

    Drew, you are a storytelling BEAST. I find it fascinating that Alduin invades Sovngarde to devour souls *if* he is also Akatosh. Is he weakening Shor’s army? Can Akatosh come into Sovngarde?

    • @Dovahkiin18
      @Dovahkiin18 7 месяцев назад

      In my opinion I think Akatosh rules over Sovengarde

  • @AdamSmith-jb2lf
    @AdamSmith-jb2lf 3 года назад +7

    I always thought that the reason Akatosh was so fragmented was because he was an Aedra that put so much of his essence into the creation of Mundus, and therefore was subject to the differences of mortal perceptions. Every race worships something like Akatosh, slightly different, and so he the god IS all of those perceptions at once, even if contradictory. That ain't even all him, though. Every Aedra has half a dozen different names.

    • @theenderdestruction2362
      @theenderdestruction2362 9 месяцев назад

      And it makes him even more badass if you think about it, man really put his everything into mundus and can still kick daedric ass, this is why I headcannon him as the only real thing keeping the other daedra from going all out, just the mere thought of him somehow getting his mind together just to kick your ass is probably the most terrifying thing any of the daedric princes can think of

  • @sagacious03
    @sagacious03 3 года назад

    Excellent video! Thanks for uploading!

  • @syn3475
    @syn3475 3 года назад +6

    Whelp time to start a new playthrough called “alduins crusader” and shout “For Akatosh!” Everytime I swing a sword.

  • @s7Matt
    @s7Matt 3 года назад +3

    These intros are going longer and longer... Amazing!

  • @95Bartlett
    @95Bartlett 3 года назад +1

    Great video I always felt that this theory best explained the nature of Pelinal's madness, Pelinal being aware of the dual nature between Akaosh and Lorkhan and that he was an avatar of both. Maybe an et'ada can hold onto that contradiction but it would send a mortal on violent cat murdering rampages.

  • @DonnieY23
    @DonnieY23 3 года назад

    Glad you mentioned the relation between Atakota and Akatosh, even if briefly. I was wondering about it just a few days ago and couldn’t find anything myself

  • @insaincaldo
    @insaincaldo 3 года назад +4

    An odd and perhaps wildly speculative thing that just hit me and only further build while watching.
    Shrines of Akatosh with the dragon embracing, climbing the hour glass while swallowing, or falling on a sword. Is a mirror of the Talos shrine statues, where man impales the serpent.
    It kinda feels like an unconscious understanding of people further dividing the dragon, via Talos the god coming into existence as a splitting from Shor, given to a mortal man.
    It also enforces Alduin fated to be slain because his role in fate had been corrupted, his form loosing divinity to be forced back into it's proper place. The dragon of the north named again.
    Was the killing of Alduin carving an aspect of corrupted Akatosh away, or was it returning it to it's path. Did we harm or heal.

  • @unknownbff1145
    @unknownbff1145 3 года назад +5

    Virgin mer - WE AEE SUPERIOR PLEASE LET US GOO vs CHAD MEN - Thank you Gods for letting us prove that we are worthy of eternal life

  • @nickthompson6642
    @nickthompson6642 3 года назад +2

    Obviously I was going to give a like, but the “or is he just a really big cat?” Made it definitive

  • @frenchlasagna8138
    @frenchlasagna8138 3 года назад +4

    The dark brotherhood in eso absolutley crushed skyrims.

  • @spicytriangle4656
    @spicytriangle4656 3 года назад

    You guys put out the best elder scrolls content out of any RUclipsr by far, as always phenomenal content boys! Just wondering if any of you guys have looked into the elder kings mod for crusader kings 2, it’s getting a remake that I would love to see y’all play on stream on something. Especially after watching your alternate elder scrolls history videos I think you guys would jam with it.

  • @jackfenwick6182
    @jackfenwick6182 3 года назад +9

    So early lorkhan still has a heart..

  • @KyleJordanGaming
    @KyleJordanGaming 2 года назад +2

    Maybe the real Akatosh is all the friends we made along the way.

  • @stscloud1433
    @stscloud1433 Год назад

    Thank yu 4 your dedication to the scrolls lore

  • @_JTC357
    @_JTC357 3 года назад +2

    I know that we’re all thinking this, but
    Sheogorath: aM i A jOkE tO yOu

  • @phancci
    @phancci 3 года назад +2

    I am not certain who the writer is for this particular video, but they are an amazing writer and I am captivated. Thank you so much for this!

    • @JumbojayMK
      @JumbojayMK 3 года назад

      They're the best elder scrolls channel

  • @crylisss
    @crylisss 3 года назад +1

    hey guys, i cant express how much I love your chznnel. It may be niche sure, but there is 970,000 of us that love and appretiate the effot you all put into thse vidoes. Personally, i fall asleep to most of your videos. They are quite relaxing.

    • @FudgeMuppet
      @FudgeMuppet  3 года назад +1

      Thanks so much for the support! We really appreciate it :)

  • @YouAreAllMaggots
    @YouAreAllMaggots 3 года назад

    Good stuff

  • @RecordedMercury
    @RecordedMercury 3 года назад +2

    "O, Aka for our shared madness I do this! I watch you watching me watching back! Umaril dares call us out, for that is how we made him!" - Pelinal Whitestrake

  • @tylerbell7300
    @tylerbell7300 3 года назад

    Sometimes these videos is all that keeps my love for these games going

  • @damienbotts7981
    @damienbotts7981 3 года назад +1

    We are theorizing about fictional gods of a video game but man that god for past present and future was full on chefs kiss good.

  • @lonelypancake5979
    @lonelypancake5979 3 года назад +3

    You know.. It's stuff like this that makes me wonder just how powerful the Dragonborn would be if
    1. They weren't mortal
    2. Weren't limited by game mechanics.
    Not to mention their connection to akatosh.. Would he/she share some of his madness? What about time related powers? The psygic order was shown to have that to a degree but what about the son/daughter of the literal time god?

  • @carmelopappalardo8477
    @carmelopappalardo8477 3 года назад +1

    So beautiful and eerie the opening.

  • @ludovicdisson3668
    @ludovicdisson3668 3 года назад +2

    "The grains of sand pass through the hourglass, and time begins again."
    I can't stop watching your video, I just love it !

  • @Celessar1988
    @Celessar1988 3 года назад +2

    at 25:37 The statue of Auriel looks like it has dragon wings, via the steps flanking it

  • @TheAmericanLoudmouth
    @TheAmericanLoudmouth 3 года назад +1

    A video about Talos is long overdue.

  • @ludovicdisson3668
    @ludovicdisson3668 3 года назад

    Thank you so much, now I finally understand the creation story of the Yokudan ! I just couldn't tell to which Aldmeri or Nordic gods (like Auriel and Lorkhan) Yokudan gods were equivalent, until you explained it

  • @frankcommatobe8009
    @frankcommatobe8009 3 года назад

    So close to a million subs!

  • @kaysonoleen5261
    @kaysonoleen5261 3 года назад +29

    early enough to watch the Tribunal betray Lord Nerevar

    • @Skypothesis
      @Skypothesis 3 года назад +1

      Come to me through fire and war
      Oh
      Oh

    • @voidghost4933
      @voidghost4933 3 года назад

      @@Skypothesis come Nerevar
      Come and look upon the heart
      Upon the heart
      Oh
      Oh
      Oh

  • @icyhugs
    @icyhugs 3 года назад +1

    Wow! A new clip :D

  • @drunkenmistake90
    @drunkenmistake90 3 года назад

    Nice video can you guys do a lore video on rats and skeevers plz

  • @jupiterloverofrain8175
    @jupiterloverofrain8175 3 года назад +21

    last time I was this early the Snow Elves still populated Skyrim

    • @localagoraphobe
      @localagoraphobe 3 года назад +2

      You should've said you were so early that the khajiit still populated skyrim. In one of the books, it says that the soon to be snow elves spotted khajiit on the shores of skyrim.

  • @KahavaveCAPIPI
    @KahavaveCAPIPI 3 года назад +3

    So, my interpretation is that the alessians made Aka mantle Lorkhan through Akatosh. He must be pissed about that. Ol Doomy is probably laughing his head off though.

    • @Pidgeon182
      @Pidgeon182 3 года назад +1

      That is my interpretation as well. Makes no sense that Nedes and Nords would completely give up such an important figure to their pantheon to me. Would also make sense that Akatosh would be so at odds with himself, since Akatusk was Anuic and Lorkhan was Padhomaic.

  • @festro1000
    @festro1000 3 года назад

    Moving at strange angles kind of reminds me of Lorkhan looking back on Aurbis on its side to see the tower.

  • @eyeofgnosis558
    @eyeofgnosis558 3 года назад +3

    I've always seen Auriel as the first iteration of 'Aka' and, because of that, can't help but revere and look into the past (like the Altmer that worship him). Whereas Akatosh emerged as a later aspect, looking to the future of a world left behind by Lorkhan's death. I suppose in this respect Akatosh is what was created when 'Aka' had to step into the absent role Lorkhan was meant to fill, and perhaps it holds some regret for what its 'Auriel aspect' did. Maybe this is why Akatosh 'gifted' the blood of Lorkhan (the Amulet of Kings) to Alessia, handing that responsibility over to mortals in the hope that one day a wielder of the Amulet would be able to mantle the absent throne of Lorkhan (i.e. what Tiber Septim achieved becoming Talos).

  • @okami6399
    @okami6399 3 года назад

    I just love the ragdolling at 10:39, we have really interesting lore in the background while that poor archer becomes jello.

  • @logandean5166
    @logandean5166 3 года назад +2

    “O, Aka, for our shared madness I do this.”

  • @slothwaffles4352
    @slothwaffles4352 3 года назад +28

    last time I was this early, edp445 still had a supportive fanbase

  • @Aethuviel
    @Aethuviel 3 года назад +1

    Your videos on Elder Scrolls mythology helped me understand real-world mythology.
    I'm not even exaggerating - I have a newfound love for mythology, and the created mythology of Tamriel (inspired from real myth) helps make it make sense.

  • @philthethotdestroyer4194
    @philthethotdestroyer4194 3 года назад +2

    ive been watching since like 2016 and these videos remind me of highschool

  • @CHLOCHLOLP
    @CHLOCHLOLP 2 года назад +1

    Elder scrolls has some of the deepest lore ive ever heard. I love that they have put so much detail and thought into the creation of the universe, and how its interpreted by the mortals in it. Never read/listened to anything like it. I enjoy learning about the histories of Nirn more than i enjoy playing the games lol.

  • @williamflitton8311
    @williamflitton8311 3 года назад +2

    Exam prep- fudgemuppet lore videos completely unrelated to what I’m learning. The best kind of exam prep.

    • @Skypothesis
      @Skypothesis 3 года назад

      Honestly exactly what I do hahaha

  • @joelhallam6759
    @joelhallam6759 3 года назад

    Have you guys done a video talking about Shadowmere? I can’t seem to find one but from what I know he has really cool lore

  • @jtg.809
    @jtg.809 3 года назад +1

    damn lol im never this early to yalls videos

  • @FC3zombiehunter
    @FC3zombiehunter 3 года назад +4

    So early the Chimer are still around

  • @Daniel-rw9um
    @Daniel-rw9um 3 года назад

    Tbh drew's videos are the best

  • @ryanlikestoontown
    @ryanlikestoontown 3 года назад

    Drew’s voice used to be my least favorite to narrate videos but nowadays to quote Xzar from Baldur’s gate”your voice is ambrosia” but for real dude you’ve gotten good at this, love when you narrate the vids 👍

  • @CW_274
    @CW_274 3 года назад

    Thank you guys for helping me sleep, listening to elder scrolls lore 🥰

  • @maxoverdrive6664
    @maxoverdrive6664 3 года назад +2

    18:33 - 18:55 is there lore on which dragon that giant skeleton was?

  • @terpy663
    @terpy663 5 месяцев назад +1

    Strangely enough, I think oppenheimer's most famous quote about Vishnu can be used to contextualize Akatosh as a god:
    "I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multiarmed form and says, ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’"
    I think it may be useful to view the fragmented sometimes conflicting aspects of Akatosh as the same god with a new persona as a tool. Sometimes these aspects are projected on to him.

  • @mkohlhorst
    @mkohlhorst 3 года назад +3

    The hourglass depicted in the video repeatedly, where's that from? I'm looking for mods that expand on the lore of the game for my next playthrough.

    • @realzachfluke1
      @realzachfluke1 2 года назад +1

      That's actually in ESO. It's cool, isn't it? That is speculated to be the realm of Alkosh himself, called "The Spilled Sand" ⏳

  • @MrEHD-fj1bz
    @MrEHD-fj1bz 3 года назад +2

    fact: light speed is a universal constant, time perception is relative

  • @fonikopiperi2507
    @fonikopiperi2507 3 года назад +1

    I ve been waiting for this!

  • @UrielManX7
    @UrielManX7 3 года назад

    Having played the Vigilant mod made all these 1st era lore so much interesting.

  • @denakarganta1502
    @denakarganta1502 3 года назад +4

    Also please do a podcast on Akatosh and his connections to Lorkhan because I have theory that both the Time God(s) and Lorkhan (Space) are not really opposed to each other and are only enacting the each Kalpa's events only letting the Kalpa being reset and that both will always make sure there is an avatar or representative of their influence to help keep the cycle going. For Akatosh/Auriel it could be seen through the Covenant with Alessia, the Avatar of Akatosh (Martin Septim), and even the Last Dragonborn as though he/she may be Shezzarine they also prevented Auriel's Bow from falling into Vampiric hands, Stopped Alduin and even defeated Miraak for his betrayal of Akatosh's purpose for him, ( to stop Alduin though the dragonblood may have corrupted him). With Lorkhan, his representatives could be seen through figures such as Talos (Hjalti,Ysmir,and Zurin Arctus), again the Dovahkiin, and even through figures such as Wulf who was seen in Morrowind. And what did all figures do, they kept the kalpic cycle ongoing despite the apocalyptic events occuring which we dealt with literally.

    • @Super50ldier
      @Super50ldier 2 года назад

      He, the Last Dragonborn is a Nordic male