The "Butcher", Windhelm's Serial Killer - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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  • Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
  • The Elder Scrolls games are packed with mysteries and other fascinating tales. To get the ball rolling on potentially covering some of them I decided to open with a relatively easy going one comparatively, in the sense that unlike some the unravelling of this mystery is wrapped up in a quest. Now, that may sound uninteresting but that quest just so happens to be the most broken quest in Skyrim: "Blood on the Ice", placing the Dragonborn on the trail of a vicious murderer, stalking the streets of Windhelm.
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Комментарии • 417

  • @Based_Gigachad_001
    @Based_Gigachad_001 2 месяца назад +1343

    The Dragonborn who's killed an uncountable amount of people: Amateur.

    • @DarkSeraph95
      @DarkSeraph95 2 месяца назад +75

      Bandits, Forsworn, and knife ears aren't people

    • @gruzseuggard5437
      @gruzseuggard5437 2 месяца назад +57

      @@DarkSeraph95knife ears is crazzyy

    • @SilentGhost_X
      @SilentGhost_X 2 месяца назад +15

      Last playthrough I had 3,500 kills.

    • @nachoyoutube2732
      @nachoyoutube2732 2 месяца назад +30

      ​@@DarkSeraph95At first you had a point, at the end you were just racist 😂

    • @thefiredogcult9523
      @thefiredogcult9523 2 месяца назад +16

      ​@@DarkSeraph95 Khajiit and argonians aka farmtools aren't people

  • @SerObeseHightower
    @SerObeseHightower 2 месяца назад +949

    Thank goodness the Dragonborn sorted this one out, or else Blood on the Ice surely would have become a
    Cold case

    • @MidniteSpectre
      @MidniteSpectre Месяц назад +25

      So glad the Dragonborn was able to take this cold blooded killer off the streets.

    • @Rocco049
      @Rocco049 Месяц назад +25

      It’s chilling to think what would have happened had the Dragonborn not intervened

    • @emeraldkoala2543
      @emeraldkoala2543 Месяц назад +22

      (Insert CSI Miami "Yeah" sound here)

    • @oscaranderson5719
      @oscaranderson5719 Месяц назад +21

      you could say they were…hot on the trail. _guitar riff_ 😎🤏

    • @moviemaker2011z
      @moviemaker2011z Месяц назад +8

      (Insert the YEAAAAAAH) from the "we won't get fooled again" song.

  • @derperpines
    @derperpines 2 месяца назад +500

    Of all the many times replaying Skyrim, Windhelm is one of the few places that has actually made me feel uncomfortable. And not just because of this quest.

    • @lildon112
      @lildon112 Месяц назад +45

      Same. I could be the most OP character in the whole game but doing this quest I was still scared of accidentally running into the killer

    • @mamie8734
      @mamie8734 Месяц назад +35

      Weirdly, it was always and still is probably my favorite city. I spent plenty of time wandering around and making believe in Solitude and Riften when I was younger, but Windhelm will always have my heart. As bleak, freezing, and racist as it is

    • @themilkman6969
      @themilkman6969 Месяц назад +27

      @@mamie8734
      same here, i always make sure to play a khajiit married to either a dunmer or an argonian and to settle down in hjerim because there’s something really funny about literally the dragonborn looking at what is arguably the worst city to be in as one of the beast men/dunmer and going “i’m going to live here”

    • @remhauck1577
      @remhauck1577 Месяц назад +14

      Me too. The vibe of that city is just off.

    • @Alexander_Enderweld
      @Alexander_Enderweld Месяц назад

      It's because of those no good dirty rotten stormcloaks

  • @elderliddle2733
    @elderliddle2733 Месяц назад +259

    One thing you missed:
    The reason we don’t see blood on Calixto in the first scene is because you can actually find the clothing item blacksmith’s clothes. Here’s how it happened:
    Calixto at first stalks his victims to determine the quality of the parts he would need. In the case of Susanna, he needed tendons from her legs and arms, which are consistent with the wounds. He killed her on a specific time frame to line up with the ritual. Calixto then left the knife in her to prevent bleeding and carried the body back to Hjerem. He changed into the blacksmith’s clothes, recovered the samples he needed then changed back, then dragged the body to the square to be seen. He then screamed, getting the attention of Silda the Unseen. His ultimate goal is found thanks to ESO. He was creating a Flesh Golem that would have his sister’s soul in it. Problem is that this flesh golem would have killed him, as they are deadric abominations.

    • @blacklisted756
      @blacklisted756 Месяц назад +15

      Wow, never looked into this, that's really interesting

    • @aperson3996
      @aperson3996 29 дней назад +8

      Huh, I never thought of it that way, but I suppose it would make sense, as the fact that he doesn’t have bloody clothes on and theres no real reason to suspect it is him due to him since semeingly, Sussana just cried out for help recently. Great explanation as to how it happened!

  • @Younecorn
    @Younecorn 2 месяца назад +741

    A new era of Skyrim videos to sleep to.

    • @letsthrowapartyfornoreason1976
      @letsthrowapartyfornoreason1976 2 месяца назад +20

      His voice is so soothing i almost fall asleep but its interesting so I always gotta see whats next lol

    • @bapattack5706
      @bapattack5706 2 месяца назад +4

      My thoughts exactly

  • @GTAVictor9128
    @GTAVictor9128 2 месяца назад +228

    Fun fact: if you manage to get your hands on the final butcher journal early and pick it up in front of Calixto, he will calmly take it off you and then sit back down as if nothing happened 😂
    In TES lore as explained in the Dawnguard questline, those whose souls are captured canonically end up in the Soul Cairn. So by the end of this quest, I made sure to soul trap Calixto to ensure he never reunites with his sister in the afterlife and is instead eternally trapped in the Soul Cairn as punishment for his crimes.
    The worst thing about this quest is the fact that it doesn't earn you the privilege to own property in Windhelm. For any other city - even the Imperial stronghold of Solitude - you are named thane of the city and get to purchase a house in the city regardless of political affiliation.
    Yet Windhelm is the only city where Ulfric doesn't name you thane despite doing the city a huge favour, so the only way to be able to buy s house is by either becoming a Stormcloak or deposing Ulfric by the end of the civil war questline.

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +61

      It’s a bit of a farce to get ahold of Hjerim isn’t it

    • @pascalg16
      @pascalg16 2 месяца назад +16

      ​@@Fizhy
      It's the best house.
      And you need to finish the civil war quest too...

    • @shadenox8164
      @shadenox8164 Месяц назад +11

      Eh personally I think reuniting with his sister will end up worse for him. I don't think she will have very nice things to say to the "butcher" and that would hurt worse than being eternally separated but still holding onto the fantasy.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 23 дня назад +8

      And then there are the big brain Morrowind players who trap Vivec in Azura's Star.

    • @YDV669
      @YDV669 11 дней назад

      The dude up in Dawnstar sells you a homestead for killing a giant.

  • @JumptheTrench
    @JumptheTrench 2 месяца назад +438

    My man’s going into Skyrim territory, bros continuously cooking up bangers🔥

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +44

      Not so sure about that BUT it’s better than not doing anything!

    • @J.CH1ggins
      @J.CH1ggins 2 месяца назад +14

      @@Fizhythey’re bangers bro trust us

    • @crusadergodx9795
      @crusadergodx9795 2 месяца назад +10

      @@FizhyPlease do more content on Skyrim, I’d love to listen and watch any videos you make on it

    • @kadeng8712
      @kadeng8712 Месяц назад +2

      Cooking so hard it’s gotta be vegetable soup!!!!

    • @racoons9711
      @racoons9711 19 дней назад +3

      @@Fizhythese absolutely are bangers, better than 99% of content on RUclips

  • @Longshanks1690
    @Longshanks1690 2 месяца назад +400

    I never thought about it before, but you’re 100% right that the guards/Wildhelm nords immediately blaming the Dark Elves for “their” young women being killed is such a good place for them to go, as their prejudice has been well established and it would serve as a believable red herring. I’m now really disappointed thinking about how that could have been such an interesting angle to incorporate into the quest and what you could have done with it but what we gonna do? :/

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +83

      If, you decided to give Viola Giordano’s ring back to her directly from that unrelated misc objective, she openly states she doesn’t trust the Dunmer herself & has some rather prejudiced things to say. I’m surprised Ms Neighbourhood Watch didn’t attempt to connect the Butcher to the Dark Elves. It was just a thought I couldn’t stop thinking, there’s room for a lot of racism in this quest that would be more thematically appropriate than a Jack the Ripper Easter egg mixed up into a necromancy plot

    • @Tea_Noire
      @Tea_Noire 2 месяца назад +41

      Considering this is one of if not the most broken quests in the game, I have a feeling the devs originally intended for there to be a lot more content in this quest that got cut last minute due to the rushed release date. If you don't do all the steps in a pretty specific order, a lot of times the next part of the quest just doesn't trigger at all and you'd have to reload an old save to start it all over again. It's almost as if the game is searching for flags in the code that once existed but is no longer there, or maybe eas never written in the first place. I know it won't happen but it'd be nice if Bethesda could release a "dev's cut" of the gane with all the scrapped content put back in.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 23 дня назад

      The dunmer don't even have a reason to go after the ladies. If there is anyone they would take out, it's the guy who's entire life revolves around getting wasted at the in, and then spending all night being racist in the grey quarter.
      He is basically what he accuses the dunmer to be. A waste of breath. Meanwhile most of the dunmer are working stable jobs, being merchants, running a tavern, working the farms. But that guy is doing nothing but drinking and complaining.

  • @emeraldkoala2543
    @emeraldkoala2543 Месяц назад +148

    I always wondered what may have happened had Calixto succeeded.
    I imagine at some point after the quest ended you could go back to his house, where you'd find his dead body, and that of a horrendous Frankenstein's monster-esque creature, implying either that the resurrection went wrong somehow, or that his sister was so disgusted with what he'd done that she killed him, and then herself.
    Or maybe when you arrive Calixto is dead but the Lucilla monster is still alive, standing over his body, and either she is crazed and attacks you too, or maybe she's fully aware and tells you everything Calixto did and why she had to kill him, the conversation ending either with her sneaking out of the city to live an isolated existence in the wild somewhere, or with her begging the Dragonborn to put her out of her misery.

    • @mateuszslawinski1990
      @mateuszslawinski1990 Месяц назад +18

      Imagine this being the outcome of accusing court wizard.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 23 дня назад +7

      Imagine if it goes even further, and we get something like with the Potema quest line.
      The necromanced creature escapes and causes havoc, and we are send to clean up the mess that we caused.

  • @OperationQuip
    @OperationQuip 2 месяца назад +257

    ‘... and he also has a meat pie in his pocket’ absolutely sent me

    • @xSageFable
      @xSageFable Месяц назад +5

      I almost snorted my drink out of my nose

    • @PaulRudd1941
      @PaulRudd1941 Месяц назад +10

      His dry quips are exactly what keeps me coming back. 😂

  • @Longshanks1690
    @Longshanks1690 2 месяца назад +215

    I think this quest needed more suspects or reasons to suspect multiple people. You’re only really given a reason to suspect Wuunferth, and while you don’t need to be a Sherlock level player to see Callixto is steering you the wrong way, I don’t think many first time players would twig it out either - I certainly didn’t when I first played it. 😅
    A possible Dark Elf vengeful for how his people are treated, Imperials trying to weaken Clan Shatter Shield’s shipping to benefit the East Empire Company, people blaming Arventus Arentino for summoning the Dark Brotherhood, there’s a lot of different avenues and suspects you could have put into this quest to make it more of a compelling mystery and give the player more reason to think about who it could be, what they gave to gain and why.
    As it is, they spell it out pretty blatantly, so while Callixto is still a surprising twist when you find out it’s him either way, it doesn’t change the fact that the experience does feel kind of underwhelming in comparison to what it could have been.

    • @GTAVictor9128
      @GTAVictor9128 2 месяца назад +32

      Yep. That is why Skyrim is sometimes described as "wide as an ocean, but deep as a puddle."
      It's especially awkward when you join the Imperials as part of the civil war questline AFTER completing the Dark Brotherhood questline and having the emperor assassinated.

    • @williambartholomew5680
      @williambartholomew5680 Месяц назад +6

      If you're not able to visit Collixto's Curiosities (half the time I play he won't run his shop but instead just stand around outside, most recently a gaurd posted there round the clock too) it is hard to place him as the killer - just a suspect of circumstance.
      If you break in it's easy to place him as the real murderer especially if you discover/open the chest. But taking the tour sure paints him as a fraud and establishes that he surprisingly HAS the embalming tools necessary to do these crimes.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 23 дня назад

      @@GTAVictor9128 I usually stay away from the civil war quest, as it changes nothing about the world, besides who makes you thane.
      But in my most recent playthrough I'm planning to go with the imperial side (because Ulfric is short-sighted, despite being right) and I wonder if they would even let me in the city once I joined the legion.
      But then, I'm probably too just to consequences from New Vegas, and Skyrim will change nothing at all in how the guards treat me.
      On the other hand, if you put the wizard in jail and the butcher acts again, that should take the wizard off the hook. Or at least setting him free and shadowing him.

  • @tzvikrasner6073
    @tzvikrasner6073 2 месяца назад +91

    I did a shadowblade playthrough at point. Ignored the game and spent three months taking out guards in the backstreets of Windhelm and Riften, taking all their gear, and making a beeline for the nearest forge to destroy the evidence. It was so addicting I finally had to make a new character just to stop.

    • @Rocco049
      @Rocco049 Месяц назад +6

      Oh that sounds fun. NEW PLAYTHROUGH IT IS!

    • @tzvikrasner6073
      @tzvikrasner6073 Месяц назад +1

      @@Rocco049 Happy to help!

    • @oscaranderson5719
      @oscaranderson5719 Месяц назад +27

      I learned I could pickpocket paralysis poisons onto guards then loot them down to their skivvies. didn’t even sneak, just ran up and started stealing pants. at some point it stopped being a crime and became a raid on the Stormcloaks’ pants supply.

    • @tzvikrasner6073
      @tzvikrasner6073 Месяц назад +2

      @@oscaranderson5719 Nice

    • @YouTubecanfuckagoat
      @YouTubecanfuckagoat Месяц назад

      @@oscaranderson5719
      You need help .. but I now know I want to strip guards to their grundies & run away

  • @C_Cooke
    @C_Cooke 2 месяца назад +109

    I don’t know if this quite counts as a bug, but it’s certainly an instance of Skyrim being Skyrim. At the end of the questline, I followed the guards to the Arch Mage’s chambers to arrest him, and decided to take the Stone of Barenziah on his desk. Instead of arresting the Butcher, every guard decided to attack me for theft instead.

  • @ixeliema
    @ixeliema Месяц назад +98

    This quest drove me mad when I was fourteen and literally yelling at the TV that CALIXTO WHO OWNS EMBALMING TOOLS AND LITERALLY JUST THREATENED ME BY HANDING ME AN EMPTY BOOK AND SAYING "oh if it's blank you're gonna die soon". Not to mention he offered to "take the amulet off your hands" even knowing it was a piece of evidence, clearly displaying his interest in reacquiring it.

    • @shadenox8164
      @shadenox8164 Месяц назад +3

      The book wasn't a threat? It's just his hoaky curio museum shtick.

    • @ixeliema
      @ixeliema Месяц назад +8

      @shadenox8164 i don't think the book itself was a threat, it's just an empty book and curio museum people do that kinda thing all the time. I do however think that my guy made himself even more suspicious by saying "oooh if it's blank you're probably gonna die soon" bc I was just looking at him like "alright edgelord are you trying to say you're gonna kill me or is this the schpeal you give everyone?"

  • @Practitioner_of_Diogenes
    @Practitioner_of_Diogenes Месяц назад +18

    My biggest issue with Wuunferth is he says "Necromancy? I am a member of the College of Winterhold, in good standing! They haven't allowed necromancy for hundreds of years!"...
    This actually doesn't add up if you actually visit the place, as the expert in Conjuration, Phinis Gestor, says if questioned about necromancy, "By Sheor, no. Those archaic policies died out with the Mages Guild, and were never enforced here. Necromancy, as any other type of magic, is a tool to be used. Of course, non-mages may not see it that way, so we don't go around flaunting it."
    One could see this as Wuunferth as lying, or an inconsistency in the world building... which the former is more likely as Wuunferth does mention about the rituals the killer is conducting, which are all based on necromancy.
    That said, it's possible Wuunferth is somehow involved, as all the victims before the Dragonborn's involvement are, apparently, all Nords. If you lock up or talk to Wuunferth before the next murder, the next victim (or would-be victim) is Arivanya, an Altmer. She doesn't add up when comparing to the other victims, as they were Nords. So, one could see it as Calixto becoming more desperate and having to expand to more than just Nords as this point, or because the one with actual Necromantic knowledge being locked up, Calixto with no actual knowledge is just picking anyone he can.

  • @Joskilani
    @Joskilani 2 месяца назад +91

    What the hell? I just re-downloaded and modded up Skyrim and started playing again last night. Get out of my walls lmao

  • @mrvampire7577
    @mrvampire7577 Месяц назад +23

    If you have Dead Thrall you can have Susanna’s corpse follow you round on the quest.

  • @GraniteGhost778
    @GraniteGhost778 Месяц назад +52

    I actually didn't listen to the caution and confronted the court wizard directly myself. Didn't realize that i had bypassed the entire wrongful accusation thing.

    • @adamfighter358
      @adamfighter358 24 дня назад +6

      I did that too and the first dialogue option was "I heard you dabble in necromancy" 😂

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 23 дня назад +4

      That is the first hing to do. The easiest thing to do.

  • @indigochild8032
    @indigochild8032 2 месяца назад +49

    Not gonna lie I was half asleep around 19:24 because I love to fall asleep to these kind of vixens and I got confused as hell 💀

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +12

      I have become your fever dream

  • @MishraArtificer
    @MishraArtificer Месяц назад +30

    There's a fairly similar murder-mystery-leads-to-necromancers plot that spans two quests across two different acts of Dragon Age II...that one gets a *lot* more personal, though.

    • @Catandgoose
      @Catandgoose Месяц назад +5

      (Spoilers) I *hated* Leandra, and I still cried

  • @Inoffensive_name
    @Inoffensive_name Месяц назад +36

    A forty minute video documentary 10 years after Skyrim came out? YES PLEASE

  • @witchywoman2008
    @witchywoman2008 2 месяца назад +14

    “Triggering the quest Blood on the Ice”
    Maybe. If the game feels like it.
    (Seriously though great video 🎉)

  • @TommyBritten
    @TommyBritten 2 месяца назад +45

    I love that you are doing Skyrim content, you probabley already have a bunch of ideas but Morthal alone is infested with mysterious shit going on.

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +13

      Please feel free to let me know what you'd like to see covered, I have 2 or 3 ideas to get going but after that it's a blank canvas for now.

    • @TommyBritten
      @TommyBritten 2 месяца назад +16

      @@Fizhy That's cool, well in Morthal theres the following...
      . Fallion the redguard mage who I believe in the only individual in the game who can cure Vampirism, he is also overall just suspicious, he has a young girl he's mentoring, he sneaks of to the woods at night and you are actually asked to investigate him at some point and I believe he is suspected to be a necromancer.
      .The Jarl and her son both have some kind of clarevoyant powers.
      .Theres a quest called laid to rest in which a house is suspiciously burnt down and the wife and daughter are killed whilst the husband moves on to a new lover who turns out to be a vampire, after investigation you discover a bunch of vampires nearby run by movarth piquine.
      .Theres also just small creepy things like the inn has an innkeeper and a bard but no customers, i'm fairly sure if you move your family into the house you build near Morthal they will complain about it.
      Theres obviously a bunch of mysteries in other holds but for me Morthal is just the creepiest and most interesting, the whole vibe there just feels off somehow in a way it doesn't elsewhere.

  • @jonchh956
    @jonchh956 2 месяца назад +44

    After a recent return to Assassin's Creed content, I wasn't really expecting something from The Elder Scrolls. Whatever it is, we can always trust in Fizhy for quality videos.

  • @non1263
    @non1263 Месяц назад +5

    I never fully read the journal in Hjerim, so just now did I realize that Calixto used the words "flesh magic" rather than "necromancy". There is a difference between the two, which could be a clue as to what exactly he hoped to accomplish. As far as I know though flesh magic can't be used to "bring back" someone like necromancy kind of can, it's literally just crafting monsters with flesh. Perhaps he was intending to use a combination of flesh magic and necromancy to both give his sister a body and force her soul to inhabit it. Maybe that could lend credence to the theory that Wuunferth and Calixto were partnered with Wuunferth supplying the necromacy and Calixto supplying the flesh magic. However I get the impression that Calixto was inexperienced and merely dabbling with these dark magics and so didn't quite understand that flesh magic couldn't be used to bring someone back to life. Maybe he was content to create a creature that looked like his sister but wasn't actually because he was that demented.

  • @quietstories795
    @quietstories795 2 месяца назад +17

    I came for the GTA Myths and Legends and will be continuing to stay for the Skyrim content too now!

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +3

      Absolute legend

  • @knightslayer6161
    @knightslayer6161 2 месяца назад +22

    33:29. “Happens to the best of us” in regards to Calixto? A necromancy recognizing another?

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +14

      “Happens to the best of us” is a more general phrase simply stating that Wuunferth isn’t judging Calixto for mis-identifying the amulet

    • @knightslayer6161
      @knightslayer6161 Месяц назад

      @@Fizhy ah got ya

  • @Pokelemon3434
    @Pokelemon3434 2 месяца назад +28

    Oh fizhy and Skyrim? I fw this big time.

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +6

      Oh aye

  • @hartplastikkaktus
    @hartplastikkaktus Месяц назад +5

    there seems to be some audio glitching going on when you are in the butcher house, explaining how to pass the bugs. Just a note for future videos so you can keep an eye out for htese kind of editing things

  • @penguinmaster7
    @penguinmaster7 2 месяца назад +4

    the first time i tried this quest, the butcher killed my wife-to-be, which is doubly insulting because she was an argonian and her death had no purpose.
    of course, now i have mods that add additional options. like Deeja. you want knives? you want them in your belly? no? then you stop talking to deeja.

  • @RepublicofNvidiaGamers
    @RepublicofNvidiaGamers 2 месяца назад +14

    I was having a terrible day, then the legend with the most calming and crisp voice came back. At least I shall sleep easy tonight.

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +4

      I’ve come to bequeath unto you, Skyrim

    • @RepublicofNvidiaGamers
      @RepublicofNvidiaGamers 2 месяца назад

      @@Fizhy & I shall repay you back with a lovely message on the 12th of July my friend.

  • @jayl5032
    @jayl5032 2 месяца назад +40

    Skyrim lore outta nowhere? Nice!

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +10

      I am a man of many thoughts

  • @jaredrobinson7071
    @jaredrobinson7071 2 месяца назад +8

    Hjerim is my favorite house in the game. I always bee line to get it first so that I can find out if the quest is going to bug out on me and prevent me from getting my home before I dump hours into a playthrough.

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +1

      Understandable

  • @jeffreylooter535
    @jeffreylooter535 Месяц назад +5

    At 19:28 the sound is clipped over itself and my brain couldn’t handle it 💀

  • @crispymango5626
    @crispymango5626 Месяц назад +4

    last time i played through this quest, i took a break from it partway through to start the dark brotherhood story. i never saw the fourth victim after jailing wuunferth, instead i had gone to talk to him in his prison after killing the orphanage owner and he said “the butcher is back at work” in reference to the murder at the orphanage. the quest carried on from there. it was pretty weird!

  • @hopelessedgelord
    @hopelessedgelord 21 день назад +1

    Still love how this is like the only quest in skyrim you have to pay attention to, in order to get the right answer.
    Like every other quest competes when you've made the "right" choice this one, you made a choice good enough

  • @leeroy8936
    @leeroy8936 Месяц назад +4

    Im pretty sure he asks you to sell him the amulet because he needs it back from you and just blames the other mage to throw you off

  • @vv1050
    @vv1050 Месяц назад +2

    As grim as the narrative is, the video still felt cozy. Loved the calm cinematic shots in between the cutscenes!

  • @totallyrandomuser5760
    @totallyrandomuser5760 Месяц назад +3

    This quest is so buggy that in my play through Calixto attempted the Square murder during daytime 😂

  • @Whiskin87
    @Whiskin87 13 дней назад +1

    No matter how many hundreds of hours I’ve spent in Skyrim since 2011, I still love finding new content. This is a great immersive walkthrough!

  • @letsthrowapartyfornoreason1976
    @letsthrowapartyfornoreason1976 2 месяца назад +6

    Yes!! Fizhy skyrim content is just what I need. And a 40 minute one no less.

  • @woologist
    @woologist Месяц назад +4

    I’m playing Skyrim for the first time atm (ik I’m a bit late too it 😭) and this is how I found out that I did not complete the quest and captured the wrong man. I swear this game keeps on getting better and better.

  • @JoeyBoswell89
    @JoeyBoswell89 2 месяца назад +4

    "the game broke for but I managed to bypass this with a few console commands"
    Todd howard - "it just works"

  • @emsomatic4044
    @emsomatic4044 Месяц назад +2

    I love love love, that people still make videos about this game. everytime I think I've seen every good one, a new one pops up

  • @NIKSEEN
    @NIKSEEN Месяц назад +3

    The one thing that made me very suspicious about Wuunferth the first time I played was that he said that necromancy is forbidden in the College of Winterhold when it clearly is not.

  • @whysosleepyjoe2811
    @whysosleepyjoe2811 Месяц назад +3

    Blood on the ice is one of those quests i HAD to make a new character for

  • @Imtiredpleasedont
    @Imtiredpleasedont Месяц назад +5

    I really love these Skyrim videos.
    And your sense of humor makes me chuckle a lot in general
    The bucket punishment gets me every time I watch the video 😂

  • @Nimno74
    @Nimno74 Месяц назад +1

    That first minute was a very well worded homage to the spirit of the game, in many people's eyes. Kudos.

  • @valkeriejones3818
    @valkeriejones3818 Месяц назад +3

    This quest broke for me in my first playthrough. The time it took me to realize it was fucked beyond repair was way too long

  • @TheAxel999
    @TheAxel999 2 месяца назад +6

    Anyone else get an audio issue at 19:41 ?

    • @indigochild8032
      @indigochild8032 2 месяца назад

      I was half asleep when it happened and I got so confused 😭

  • @aurelcorstan5242
    @aurelcorstan5242 2 месяца назад +5

    This story is highly similar to the one in Dragon Age 2 where Hawke's mother is getting Necromancy flesh crafted to replace some psyco's wife.

  • @dylanAlbasini
    @dylanAlbasini Месяц назад +3

    I have always wondered what the Butcher's magic was,I also wished Bethesda would explore a little about it.I can only imagine what we're missing out on...the lore I mean not the foul magic,at least I have no interest in the magic but I guess for some of us they lose more than the rest of us.

  • @musicallystoned7489
    @musicallystoned7489 2 месяца назад +11

    You really have a knack at documenting in-game serial killers, this and your GTA Eddie Low one are my favorites so far. Really captured the true crime feel.

  • @luna_fm
    @luna_fm 2 месяца назад +5

    That quest could use a alternative route for usage of "Reanimate Corpse" spell.

    • @yias2815
      @yias2815 Месяц назад +1

      Reanimated corpses cant speak

  • @ImmaSayKOOHWIP
    @ImmaSayKOOHWIP 28 дней назад +1

    Someone finally said it. You load up the game, mod the hell out of it, setup a dope character, play it nonstop for a couple of weeks, then repeat 2-4 years later.

  • @Sparten7F4
    @Sparten7F4 Месяц назад +2

    I think Wuunferth was involved purely out of curiosity. As he says himself, he studies whatever he hasn't learned yet. Because power is the crux of the world. Calixto's motives aren't relevant to him. He has a partner to set up alibis as needed - hell, the murder after his imprisonment could have been preplanned by them EXPLICITLY to exonerate him - and this partner is both insane enough to cooperate, do the dirty work himself, and completely, totally disposable. The handwaved explanation for Calixto being incorrect about the amulet also adds to this. Wuunferth has no evidence for what he says the amulet found IS, he just asserts that Calixto is wrong and moves on without explanation.
    There's also the very real question of how Calixto got access to the locked house. And why the bloody hell he uses THAT as well as storing his linens and tools in his very own store. A guard with an axe would have a chest full of evidence against him, AND there are more tools IN the locked old house. Why not keep them there, where he'd be less likely to get outed?
    I think it's because he had a partner. Someone that couldn't be seen entering his store, but could use a bit of magic to easily slip into an unused home for work. But needed Calixto to also have tools on hand to kill and collect as needed. There's also the question of access to the house in a physical sense - and I see no evidence of Calixto's magical or lock picking skills.
    INstead, I think Wuunferth guranteed the access to a private place, and Calixto served as a disposable tool in Wuunferth's studies. And, when push came to shove, Wuunferth did as planned and set up Calixto to take the fall.

  • @YDV669
    @YDV669 11 дней назад +1

    One thing about this quest is that you have to sell the amulet to Calixto when he offers to buy it. You can always loot it off his corpse later, but if you don't sell it, you can't buy the house in Wildhelm, no matter how you finish the civil war.

  • @Wandering_Nowhere
    @Wandering_Nowhere Месяц назад +2

    Skyrim was nostalgic in the late 2010s. Now it's historic.

  • @thekeeperoftwindragons5976
    @thekeeperoftwindragons5976 2 месяца назад +2

    Skyrim was the first console game I played, it's special to me, I'm glad you are covering this game

  • @HelFrostKara
    @HelFrostKara 2 месяца назад +3

    You basically summed up my feelings on Skyrim at the start. A cozy mess :P also this is one of my fave quests. Murder Mysteries in an open world fantasy game are often pretty fun quests (Witcher 3 has some fun stuff).

  • @RandomGuythe1st
    @RandomGuythe1st 2 месяца назад +7

    @Fizhy Just letting you know that there’s audio overlap at around 19:22

    • @delta6704
      @delta6704 2 дня назад

      that scared me lol

  • @charliehaynes9153
    @charliehaynes9153 2 месяца назад +2

    Fizhy uploaded Skyrim content?! Today is a good day! Please upload more in the future, loved revisiting this buggy as hell quest 😂

  • @IreneSmith
    @IreneSmith Месяц назад +1

    Now you've done it. You've made me want to play Skyrim again.

  • @TheDoomSlayerButPettingaCat
    @TheDoomSlayerButPettingaCat 2 месяца назад +2

    FIzhy dropped a skyrim video? Hell yeah, i cant wait till you drop "Beyond Skyrim mysteries" videos.
    Edit: whenever beyond skyrim is gonna be released, all of them.

  • @hanamizuno0625
    @hanamizuno0625 25 дней назад +1

    I have played skyrim about 50 times all the way through. And i NEVER KNEW IT HAD A SECOND PART

  • @asgrahim9164
    @asgrahim9164 2 месяца назад +1

    To be honest, I could watch your videos no matter which game they're about. The narration is quite cozy.

  • @pianoforte3785
    @pianoforte3785 Месяц назад +1

    I beggg you do another video like this, going through the quest with the added commentary was really relaxing to listen to, a bonus with it being Skyrim content too😅

  • @nachoyoutube2732
    @nachoyoutube2732 2 месяца назад +6

    You should make more Skyrim videos. Would love to see your perspective on this wonderful universe 😁

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +2

      I’m on it

  • @samantha_lawrence5100
    @samantha_lawrence5100 Месяц назад

    Exactly the sort of concise, humorous, and well thought out investigation one would expect from Mr. Matthew Crawley. Well done 👏🏽👏🏽

  • @raccoonhatcity7627
    @raccoonhatcity7627 20 дней назад +3

    Having a meat pie in your back pocket is considered odd?
    Good to know.

  • @gavinspace
    @gavinspace Месяц назад +1

    great to see you doing skyrim content! this is definitely my comfort game and i come back to it all the time

  • @jasonruka1665
    @jasonruka1665 Месяц назад +2

    Just started replaying Skyrim recently … awesome to have some fresh content from one of the best to do it 🍻

  • @dannydaristotle9669
    @dannydaristotle9669 Месяц назад +1

    this quest was so buggy on one of my play throughs that i had to use three different mods just to complete it but it’s one of my favorites in the whole game

  • @Fishlord136
    @Fishlord136 Месяц назад +3

    The intro got me thinking about how Bethesda really knows how to mirror real life politics. Just like in morrowind with the struggle against the empire creating far-right racist and isolationist factions that want Vvardenfell to only be for Dunmer, so we have a similar version in Skyrim with the stormcloaks, albeit a bit less extreme
    And this mirrors how in real life, far-right nationalist parties often gain power in response to imperialism, like what we see happening right now in Ukraine or what we saw historically in Afghanistan

  • @Sgt.Paprika
    @Sgt.Paprika 2 месяца назад +2

    very nice video, i could never get the quest to work right and gave up so ik glad you made this video lol. hope to see more skyrim/elder scrolls stuffs from you :)

  • @cipher8048
    @cipher8048 2 месяца назад +1

    Wow Fizhy making Skyrim videos, such an amazing thing please consider doing series

  • @Gattancha
    @Gattancha 2 месяца назад +2

    Everything I heard you saying "Wuunferth the Unliving" my brain was correcting it to "Mumm-Ra the Ever Living"....

  • @cyndlehick9777
    @cyndlehick9777 2 месяца назад +1

    I love these type of Skyrim videos. I hope for 15 more.

  • @G.Alhumaidi
    @G.Alhumaidi 2 месяца назад +2

    I really appreciate your hard work and your dedication making a video for us just to enjoy it. Thank you so much, and please don't stop making videos for this series.
    I will always be waiting for a new video.

  • @stmsly
    @stmsly 2 месяца назад +1

    If you're looking for more ideas, a video on the dwarven airship in solstheim would be cool.

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +1

      I'll put it on the list.

  • @Manic_player
    @Manic_player 2 месяца назад +1

    Every time you upload I am very happy

  • @hollyjolly9258
    @hollyjolly9258 Месяц назад +1

    .…”What a waste.”….
    My breakfast went flying

  • @TuberoseKisser
    @TuberoseKisser 2 месяца назад +2

    When it wants to work; Blood on the Ice is quite possibly one of the best written quests in the game+ you get one of the best vanilla houses. It's a trash quest line because of how buggy it is.

  • @stevenblankenship9814
    @stevenblankenship9814 2 месяца назад +1

    Oh nice. I like this. Another dude dose something kinda like this and I really like his stuff so I hope ive found another sourse of content i can listen to while im chilling before bed 😅

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад

      Fingers crossed

  • @Krejii05
    @Krejii05 2 месяца назад +2

    I absolutely loved this quest, such a fun and unique quest i hope TES6 gets more like this.

  • @KBXband
    @KBXband Месяц назад +1

    I love Skyrim and the only thing that bothers me is that characters talk over other characters when you're trying to listen to one

  • @ShaneReynolds0421
    @ShaneReynolds0421 2 месяца назад +1

    Nice 😎👍🏼 switchin’ it up.
    It doesn’t matter the game, it just matters the narrative.

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +1

      indeed

    • @ShaneReynolds0421
      @ShaneReynolds0421 2 месяца назад

      @@Fizhy
      Narration might be the better word.
      Thanks for the reply. 😎👍🏼 I’m a big fan.

  • @PeachiyX
    @PeachiyX 2 месяца назад

    Bro you're taking the channel in the right direction...imagine in the upcoming years this channel becomes the go to for GTA 6 myths/lore and elder scrolls 6 man that's millions of people... Good luck bro

  • @lexinicole4317
    @lexinicole4317 2 месяца назад

    Please make more Skyrim videos! I love your analysis videos and Skyrim has so much, I will watch this entire series. Amazing. Thank you

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад

      Thanks, will do!

  • @simplycinclair8979
    @simplycinclair8979 2 месяца назад

    Dude I LOVE seeing you post new stuff! I’d welcome more Skyrim stuff, especially

  • @Kolonsker
    @Kolonsker Месяц назад +2

    The Dark Brotherhood:

  • @ScoutSilico
    @ScoutSilico 2 месяца назад +1

    5:39
    Ow. There goes my hearing

  • @shadhiggins40k
    @shadhiggins40k 14 дней назад

    The random bugs that cause this quest to stop working kinda are like a trail running cold it's an unintentional realistic addition as not all murders are solved but it's also pretty much a Bethesda staple to have some really bad bugs throughout the games they make.

  • @mrx4022
    @mrx4022 Месяц назад +1

    The Dovahkiin who's just slaughtered three cities: *_pathetic._*

  • @BrightBlueInk
    @BrightBlueInk Месяц назад

    I didn't know Pete the Dog got a job as a court mage! Good for him.

  • @fredrickjones566
    @fredrickjones566 2 месяца назад

    Yes more of this content! *my humble contribution for the algorithm*

  • @Blockinstaller12
    @Blockinstaller12 4 дня назад

    It's interesting that Wuunferth says the College of Winterhold doesn't allow Nechromancy, because Phinis Gestor, the maste Conjuration wizard, say that summoning the dead is fine, albeit under a few conditions, as a member, Wuunferth should know about it then.
    It makes it even more interesting then, that he responds with an appeal to authority when accused of murder.

  • @lemone12
    @lemone12 День назад

    absolutely loved the meat pie bit

  • @RobGcraft
    @RobGcraft 26 дней назад

    Dragonborn, whos collecting dragon souls like Pokemon: “amateur”

  • @csw1013
    @csw1013 2 месяца назад +4

    A Skyrim video, lately is been banger after banger after banger

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  2 месяца назад +1

      Hopefully some mash soon