You're the mages guild. You have the strongest mages in Skyrim province. Your founder literally created a college via magic. Yet you can't conjure up a freakin' hammer and fix the bridge.
Often I roleplay my character to be from the winterhold , and I've found the people a long time ago, however I never knew the were part of a cut quest.
True. I’ve told myself more than once I’ll do a mage build. It’s just easier to build on archery or sword training, especially archery. I love the sneak build. Mages aren’t the same in Skyrim as for example, dragon age
Destruction magic (and all magic in general besides illusion) take foreveeeeeer to level up compared to standard physical attacks with one-handed, two-handed and archery. I struggled to do a mage build when i first tried it because simple combat was a pain in the ass and took twice as long
@Pinkel Wurst i actully like the plot and most things about skyrim im not one if these toxic fans that cant shits on the game, its just very sad to know she dies.
@@frostfall407 You mean after you get the staff of magnus?, she is scripted to die after you return with the staff. I think you might be confused with her being flung away by Ancano, she does survive that. If not?, you most likely have a mod.
@@thatoneguywiththeextremely8182 Daedric princes *can* create, but creation requires that they sacrifice their own power, exactly as the Aedra did. They don't do that, and that's why they're Daedra.
i've finished the game 5 times or so and have played more than 1000 hours. a few days ago i've been watching some playthrough or a guide and only then did i realize the guardian stones at the very beginning were actually 3 different stones, not just the mage stone! i couldn't believe all this time i ignored the other two, i was sure they added the side stones just for the very first one as a decoration to make it more noticeable so the player can't miss it
Immersive College of Winterhold, is probably one of the best mods for Skyrim, imo. This could be due to how disappointing the vanilla version of the college is.
Ulixes - Really? That’s extremely rare. Literally like one in a million. Maybe less. It’s so unique, reliable statistics are hard to come by. Iirc, to this day nobody is quite certain how or why it even happens, though it’s theorized to be a result of eye injuries from early childhood. Historically, almost all cultures have held strong superstitions, usually regarding it as a mark of some kind of supernatural blessing... or curse... So, consider yourself very, very, very lucky... or very, very, very unlucky... 😅
@@KyleJordanGaming if it has something to do with eye injuries it makes sense, since I had surgery at 8 weeks old to remove a cataract from my right eye which I was born with (another rarity, I'm a medical mystery it seems lmao). I would consider myself lucky now, because its actually really cool and I love it, but back when I was in high school I didn't like it because it was a target for bullying, like anything that's different often is. As it is now, I'm super proud of it! :D
@@KyleJordanGaming thats the biggest load of B.S. "To this day, no one knows how or why...." This isn't a fairytale. We know both how, and why it can happen, and MANY reasons for it. It can be a benign genetic anomaly. It can be caused by a good handful of diseases, right from infancy. It can be caused by eye injury, internal bleeding of the eyeball, surgery on the eye, etc. It can be caused by tumors.. And another good handful of diseases and conditions that can be acquired later in life. As for the HOW. Either due to your genetics, disease, or some sort of trauma, your melanin production, distribution, and concentration is altered and affected, leading to a different color. I think you could even easily explain this to a small child, without resorting to "we have no clue! Might as well be magic"
Invisible Too many loading screens, plain stone walls and that awful lighting from the blue pools combined with bland characters really makes it an awful place to visit imo
i'll be honest with you, the college sadly was the MOST disappointing area in the game [next to Alduin's final fight vanilla version] you arrived talked to some strangers, you take ONE SINGLE PATHETIC "lesson" in destruction school IF YOU CALL IT EVEN A LESSON to begin with it! you go to a silly dungeon, then do few quests here and there, the cliched bad guys is cliched, you get your elder scroll, and become the archmage .... for some reason this feels really wrong, and someone makes fun of the destruction school, and ... poof! the college is done! couldn't we take more classes to feel like we are REALLY IN A COLLEGE OF MAGIC? i am talking about Harry potter's Hogwarts level of classes, quests, and professors! why only destruction school? why not take classes in other schools as well? not everyone likes destruction! hell my favorite school is conjuration! i love to summon stuff and daedra! very short quest line very plain fellow students who in a day and a night become your followers because you are the NEWBIE ARCHMAGE! and you do not get any requests for doing any research as an archmage or do any master level quests for being a real archmage either! skyrim's wizardry role playing is extremely lacking i am not talking about combat i'm talking about trying to role play as an apprentice mage that studies and graduated from the college then went out and continued the research becoming independent hyper mage, then discovers that the mage is the dragonborn. sheeesh!
Could've been better, but the whole Psijic Order thing was absolutely amazing. I hope we get an invitation to the Psijic Order one day in one of the next TES games.
Of all the organizations in Skyrim, the Bard's College and College of Winterhold were my biggest disappointments. One makes you a glorified gofer, and the other makes you Archmage, but leaves you with a meh feeling.
I went by it thinking" hey another dragon kill" so i left a dragon's tongue. Funny later finding out it was a wizard , who did that to themselves. How sad:)
Too bad none if the mods that add "great collapse" answers were unfinished quests. I hate it when they make mysteries that can't even be theorized about. Our lore on The Great Collapse is "It happened around the time Red Mountain erupted, The Nords blame the Mage's College and The Mages say they didn't do it". Like come on, throw us some ominous clues or something. Give us a creepy book, a dead guy in an odd place, an "empty" room with a door that won't open. Something.
Yeah they really flaked out on the whole area. Who wouldn't either rebuild or have torn down the broken homes that make up half the town. I think the entire hold has maybe 2 guards? What I really hate is not only are they going to expect modders to fix the next one, but they're going to make US pay for it all! :-)
This explains a lot. I always felt that there were a lot of loose threads from things that characters say, but I always figured that I just hadn't found the right secrets. Now I know that they don't actually exist. Too bad, I'd totally marry that elf lady in spite of my general dislike of high-elves for being arrogant and wanting to destroy the entire world of men because of their god-complex.
I’ve recently started an Ice magic character, and did the College of Winterhold first. I love it, and was waiting for this video. And I noticed you can use your arch-mage position a lot, examples, trying to buy the elder scroll back from Urag. Or talking to Neloth, and even telling Tsun. I find it very cool. Haha, but great video as always!
They could have made this one of the coolest parts of the game. They should have made it harder to get accepted like they did in oblivion. I mean all you need to do is a weak ass spell to get in. That was just lame for me. I also felt like they made it so cool looking on the outside but once you got in you were kind of let down at just how blah it was. i was expecting a harry potter style experience and instead got one of the lamest story/quests. anyways hopefully TES6 solves these problems.
@@drenchedinsyrupp6059 I always felt this was a stupid copout personally. They shouldve been given a shamanic type caster class. Thier based off of the Norse and they had a rich native tradition of folk magic. Obviously in our world this was hoodoo but in ES it would be real. I mean seriously if they are so against magic how the hell did they create the Dragur?
@@michaelhowze8198 magic is tied to ancient nordic traditions which are largely practiced by the nords on solstheim the draugr were made by the dragons
The college is not thousands of years old, it was formed in the mid to late second era. It's about 1000-1100 years old, according to lore in Skyrim. Mirabelle or her voice actor is mistaken. Probably the former actually believes the propaganda of the first era, when in fact the paperwork and Serana confirm it's age to be the second era. The Mages Guild was not formed until the second era as well, and is older by several hundred years and existed in Winterhold prior to the construction of the college.
The winterhold college just like most things related to mages in skyrim is really boring.....i mean seriously it feels like Bethesda hates mages because not only is it really hard to play mages at hard dificulties but leveling up destruction magic is extremely slow and painfully boring, Might be just me tought.
That's true. It's just a shame that almost every nord is portrayed as a racist, a big scaredy cat, a nitwit or a combination of these. I just wanna see a nord rip his shirt of and fight a cavebear untill it runs off, and that with his bare fists to impress the lasses and get some free mugs of mead from the lads. I did see a werewolf and a snowbear fight in a ravine close to winterhold, their roars echoing off the walls and onto the sea of ghosts. Truly an epic battle to behold. Maybe I was so impressed because I never expected to witness it. To my surprise the snowbear won, and it wasn't even close. But the college is hyped up immensely. You can ask any tavern owner, the wizards of the jarl and even some shopkeepers where you can learn more about magic. They all tell you to go to the college of winterhold. But in the end I've learned nothing from the college. I couldn't even level my skills at the trainers, because by the time I made it to the college I was already high level in most skills, or had to level other skills first in order to train them higher. Something I was hoping and expecting to do at, well, the college. And then I became archmage. I get that they can't teach me anything, apparently, so then I must be the best wizard, but honestly, I'm a two handed, heavy armour wearing brute with restoration magic on the side. Can't even conjure that nice guard a warm bed.
Yeah, As most as i love Bethesda i feel like their biggest issue is that they waste too much on everything and very rarely focus on just one thing and that hurts their games very hard sometimes i mean look at fallout 4, i don't hate it as much as those angry fallout new vegas fanboys but you can see that Bethesda is not really doing all that well under Todd Howard's management.
shitty surplus not really. I mean Oblivion wasn't big on magic either. Morrowind was the only game where playing a pure mage was kinda worth it. When you compare mages to some of it's contemporaries or even combat in general, Skyrim and Oblivion were confusing and bad.
Still remember the first time uncovering the evil daedra pirate trapped beneath the college 👍🏻 feel like the reward for said quest could of been better but it was set up real nicely.
The reason for the levelling glitch with the magic anomalies is due to the variable type used to store levels, which would appear to be an unsigned short with a max value of 65,535. If this number is surpassed (as is the case by the player levelling up by 1), the value resets to 0 which Skyrim's engine won't allow so it pushes it up to the next valid value which is 1.
Alright, I finally replayed the quest and heres the truth: Tolfdir will come up to you and tell you that she died. You never see her body, she does perish in some battle or anything, and that makes sense to me on why I honestly couldn't recall-- because its simply not a memorable death.
@@ExtremiSS88 mead is just wine with an alcohol content not high enough for it not to freeze like vodka. Highest vol. % I was able to produce with my own mead was 19% haha
I can understand having to cut these quests b/c the game had to ship, but given Bethesda's buggy-at-release tendency, why even bother? Even if they could release these games without much issue, why not just patch these back in at a later date as some free dlc akin to Witcher 3?
I think you should do a TES lore video on "The Necromancer's Amulet" history. The quests in both #Skyrim and #Oblivion are some pretty epic questlines in the all #TES games and I never really seen many videos made on it yet.
Sure it was far from perfect, but I'll tell you one thing, it set the entire tone on my first-ever playthrough of Skryim. Being sequestered in a cozy, cool-looking fortress inside with free lodging and a couple fun characters, rife with materials and resources and all the skill masters in one place where elsewhere you'd be lucky to find _any_ magical things or people . . . I liked it. Plus with a couple mods here and there implementing more NPC's and the Winterhold guards, that place is a literal fortress, and great for early-game safety.
1.) I think I went out of my way to try and find those guys once. What a shame those guys are dead... 2.) Damn! I should use console commands to add some guards to the College next time I play the game. Also, I had no idea about the chest being there. Maybe I should use TCL in more locations. 3.) So that explains why those things tank hits really well... 5.) Yeah, I heard about that "Rogue Wizard" quest. I'm still not entirely sure why it was implemented though.
Did you know that there is a gold ring under the well in the market place in whiterun. Use tcl to get to it. Looks like someone ended a relationship and threw their wedding/engagement ring into the well in a cathartic manner. Or maybe it was a wish or something.... I'm just guessing. Or it could be a reference to Ringu(The Ring) horror movie.
im not so certain the first deal with the apprentices was ever meant to be a whole quest, it was likely just another of those things to breathe a little more depth into the world. the elder scrolls games have had a large number of unmarked "quests" that are just there to add flavor for those willing to do the work to find them.
They could still work on and finish so many quests with updates. So many people myself included love getting back to Skyrim again and again. I would love having something new to explore every time I get back to it. There are so many abandoned quests worth being completed.
7:33 not many player are going to reach LV 37448. It’s a a cap used to stop the game crashing. There’s one for every int in the game, health, Magicka, carry weight, spell duration, damage etc, permanent effects or full restore potions are just have large int, 999 days or 9999 restore health etc.
Glad i decided to watch this. Found Ilas-tei’s ring during the Companions quest, held onto it since it had a unique name, but nothing ever came out of it. Now i finally have some kind of resolution.
They gotta do a damn Winterhold DLC for Skyrim or ESO!! It's all cool we got the fancy Psijic island and Altmer Nazis, but the real magic of Tamriel in my opinion was in Winterhold and it's story. The Bosmer can keep their tree songs, Khajit their moon magic, and Argonian Hist magic... I want the great college! We get Dominion Nazi college, and isolationist scholars instead. The Dunmer have their trinity and Telvanni mages have their nostalgia, cool, but in ESO us Bretons don't really have a cooler place to go than Winterhold, considering it accepts everyone... or hey you could start giving us actual landmarks like the Direnni tower or some of the others, that would be cool.
yeah he gives you gold if you bring him sort type of ( soul gem) in ( a limited cuantity ) depending on your level, waste of time if you ask me,use it on staves or enchantments its better
The Mod 'Cutting Room Floor' enables most if not all of these - it's essentially a project that enables, fixes, and finishes content found in Skyrim and Skyrim Special Edition's source - so it'll let you play with all sorts of interesting new content, similar to what MrRhexx covered in the video.
Your videos are still amazing. I loved the short lived DnD series, would loved if you explored other lores besides Elders scrolls when you feel like it.
There's a glitch with marabella stopping the quest (she would'nt send you to the dwarven ruin to realize the staffs in labyrium side quest) having at least 10 playthroughs it only happened once! And whats up with solstiens nelix with the caged springgons? The cage requires a key (dropped sidequest?)later!
The best thing that happened to me was casting a less ward spell during the lesson, having nothing happen, and being forced to attack/kill another student just so I can skip the lesson. Why fix a glitch when you can just put in a way to skip it. A way that you definitely had to look up cause no one will think of that. I wouldn't even care if it was just a random side quest that didn't matter, but this part almost blocked me from getting all the dragon priest masks
I had a similar glitch happen to me in the Companions. Skior dies about halfway through the quest line. But a few in game days after the quest line was completed, Skior was alive and doing whatever he was does in Jorrvaskur (sorry about the spelling).
Like that one quest where your supposed to tell some dudes family you found him dead in a cave but when you try to tell his family the dialogue doesn't come up so the only way to be done with the quest is fail it
For the students (#1) I never even thought that they would be in the world of Skyrim. I always justified the reason they went missing was because they were the skeletons down in the Midden and the four students he mentioned were four of the rings you have to collect in order to summon the daedric lord
7:40 It`s logic. I don`t know why the cap isn`t 65 536 (2 to the power of 16), but when you add one, an error will be thrown. Of course, skyrim catches this exception, but the number will be overflown, making it 1
@@dovahkiin2 Right, and some don't even have enough Magika to cast a spell. Perhaps, we need a MOD that adds a temporary ailment with similar visual effects of "Mana Sickness" whenever the MC's magika depleted beyond 0.
funny thing if you get the cutting room floor mods plus the unoffical patches plus one other i cant remember the name of it restores all of those broken quests and the work as they were ment to
I found all of the missing college mages but didn't bother looting their bodies considering I was already quite rich by the time I decided it'd be fun to explore the ice fields around the sea of Ghost on my third most recent playthrough
Now those damned magical anomalies make sense! I loathe the College and always push it to being one of the last places I visit. Maybe my next playthrough sees me going there way earlier than usual.
You're the mages guild. You have the strongest mages in Skyrim province. Your founder literally created a college via magic. Yet you can't conjure up a freakin' hammer and fix the bridge.
The bridge still works, doesn't it? No need to fix it
Zyph_Legend but it looks like doodoo
I've seen the video for this lol
Or magically travel to other locations...
It’s been like 80 years
That moment when you realize you found all the missing mages on accident....
Catmandew 1 hahahahaha 🤣 true
I did so..... I looted them all and didn't really think about it until I found this quest
Who didn't
Often I roleplay my character to be from the winterhold , and I've found the people a long time ago, however I never knew the were part of a cut quest.
Same
Says "im going to make a mage build" *5 hours later has 65 archery and 20 destruction*
Was gonna be a mage but ended up using mehrunes razor the whole game
True. I’ve told myself more than once I’ll do a mage build. It’s just easier to build on archery or sword training, especially archery. I love the sneak build. Mages aren’t the same in Skyrim as for example, dragon age
Destruction magic (and all magic in general besides illusion) take foreveeeeeer to level up compared to standard physical attacks with one-handed, two-handed and archery.
I struggled to do a mage build when i first tried it because simple combat was a pain in the ass and took twice as long
@@ricoanderson6626 counjartion is an easy level 100 if you know how
Always start as an High Elf... About an hour in i quit and never play again... Lol never understood why i couldn't be a mage in-game.....
I never understood why Mirabelle had to die, she seemed fine and then just died off screen, she was the only somewhat likeable person there.
@Pinkel Wurst wait she dies? Totaly forgot now im sad.
@Pinkel Wurst i actully like the plot and most things about skyrim im not one if these toxic fans that cant shits on the game, its just very sad to know she dies.
For some reason she never dies for me she somehow always lives
@@frostfall407 You mean after you get the staff of magnus?, she is scripted to die after you return with the staff. I think you might be confused with her being flung away by Ancano, she does survive that. If not?, you most likely have a mod.
@@Patrick_The_Pure no I return and shes there and she acts like normal
Tofdirs favorite saying is "I have no idea!" and "I don't know!"
That is what old wise wizards say.
"What in the world" also gets some wizard love
And “This is simply fascinating!”
"The only thing I know is that I know nothing"
thats because only the smartest know that there is always something new to learn. but yes it is funny to hear him excitedly say "i have no idea!".
@@ashaxkook133 you may have alot of knowledge but have less senses as you get older
"Half of the town of Winterhold was absorbed by the earth"
So, 3 buildings?
those were the remains, winterhold used to be bigger
@@yog-sothoth7396 he knows he is saying that is how much was taken during the collapse, duh
@@XxN00BxX212 no, he is talking about the destroyed buildings in winterhold, that are tree, but there where more buildings that entirely disapered
@@XxN00BxX212 Winterhold was the capital of Skyrim before the collapse
nah, it’s 7 buildings
Shalidor:LOOK AT THE FLICK OF MY WRIST *creates the college of winterhold*
Deadric Princes:Cool dude
But... the book on aedra vs daedra specifically says daedra cannot Create, only change.
Filthy Frank is a daedric prince???
@@thatoneguywiththeextremely8182 imperial propaganda
@@thatoneguywiththeextremely8182 Daedric princes *can* create, but creation requires that they sacrifice their own power, exactly as the Aedra did. They don't do that, and that's why they're Daedra.
BryceBryceBaby they stop being daedra when they create, therefore daedra cannot create
I don't even have noticed that Mirabelle dies in the questline! Since...2011.
i've finished the game 5 times or so and have played more than 1000 hours. a few days ago i've been watching some playthrough or a guide and only then did i realize the guardian stones at the very beginning were actually 3 different stones, not just the mage stone! i couldn't believe all this time i ignored the other two, i was sure they added the side stones just for the very first one as a decoration to make it more noticeable so the player can't miss it
multiz0rak wow! That must have been quite a surprise.
Mirabelle's ghost is summonanle in my modded game 😎
She survived on one of my play throughs
Speech 100
Nirya's chin can be sharpened on a grindstone
JPaul C lol
Hahahahahhaha
JPaul C and improved with a steel ingot
Are you sure you want to enchant Nirya's chin(Legendary)?
Faralda: “I’m about to end this chin’s whole career.”
0:00 - 0:06
And they still haven't fixed that bridge by... uhm I don't know maybe MAGIC?
The bridge being broken does also serve to discourage people from entering the college unauthorized.
In your face
Immersive college of winterhold let's you fix it with magic
Branch Tree Doesn't dude say he left it that way as a reminder not to use the magic that caused the destruction?.
Branch Tree yeah like conjure up a fucking hammer and fix it
It pisses me off that they released the remastered version but never bothered to finish or fix broken missions
"Murdered to Death"
Wooops... Wrong channel
ReikoChannel 😂😂😂😂😂
Yup
I don't get the joke
Sérgio David channel called epicnate does a lot of Skyrim vids and uses that term a lot
Yup... Killed to death in battle.
Aw man ... followed to the wrong channel.
Immersive College of Winterhold, is probably one of the best mods for Skyrim, imo. This could be due to how disappointing the vanilla version of the college is.
GARBAGE DAY
I mean... it’s magic college.... in Skyrim hahaha what do you expect? Nords probably think a torch is a fire destruction spell HAHAHAHA
I was wondering why the College of Winterhold didn't last very long. The whole thing was pretty much just one long quest length.
Did you pay your $10000000000 tuition?
And it includes a dumbass dwarven ruin
In all fairness, the quest we got was great: it was just too dang short
I FOUND RUNDI AND LOOTED HIS BODY WITHOUT KNOWING ABOUT THE COLLEGE
LMAOO I FEEL HORRIBLE, IM STILL WEARING HIS ROBES
I don't see why Bethesda didn't "finish" producing some of these quests using a patch
I apparently have the same eyes as Tolfdir and that has actually made my day. My right is brown and left is green. Whoo heterochromia!
Wow thats cool
Ulixes - Really? That’s extremely rare. Literally like one in a million. Maybe less. It’s so unique, reliable statistics are hard to come by. Iirc, to this day nobody is quite certain how or why it even happens, though it’s theorized to be a result of eye injuries from early childhood. Historically, almost all cultures have held strong superstitions, usually regarding it as a mark of some kind of supernatural blessing... or curse... So, consider yourself very, very, very lucky... or very, very, very unlucky... 😅
@@KyleJordanGaming if it has something to do with eye injuries it makes sense, since I had surgery at 8 weeks old to remove a cataract from my right eye which I was born with (another rarity, I'm a medical mystery it seems lmao). I would consider myself lucky now, because its actually really cool and I love it, but back when I was in high school I didn't like it because it was a target for bullying, like anything that's different often is. As it is now, I'm super proud of it! :D
@@KyleJordanGaming thats the biggest load of B.S.
"To this day, no one knows how or why...."
This isn't a fairytale.
We know both how, and why it can happen, and MANY reasons for it.
It can be a benign genetic anomaly. It can be caused by a good handful of diseases, right from infancy.
It can be caused by eye injury, internal bleeding of the eyeball, surgery on the eye, etc. It can be caused by tumors.. And another good handful of diseases and conditions that can be acquired later in life.
As for the HOW. Either due to your genetics, disease, or some sort of trauma, your melanin production, distribution, and concentration is altered and affected, leading to a different color.
I think you could even easily explain this to a small child, without resorting to "we have no clue! Might as well be magic"
fact number 0: the college is for some reason the most boring and underwhelming area in all skyrim
Invisible Too many loading screens, plain stone walls and that awful lighting from the blue pools combined with bland characters really makes it an awful place to visit imo
Pretty sad that a single mod makes it one of the most interesting.
i'll be honest with you, the college sadly was the MOST disappointing area in the game
[next to Alduin's final fight vanilla version]
you arrived talked to some strangers, you take ONE SINGLE PATHETIC "lesson" in destruction school IF YOU CALL IT EVEN A LESSON to begin with it! you go to a silly dungeon, then do few quests here and there, the cliched bad guys is cliched, you get your elder scroll, and become the archmage .... for some reason this feels really wrong, and someone makes fun of the destruction school, and ... poof! the college is done!
couldn't we take more classes to feel like we are REALLY IN A COLLEGE OF MAGIC? i am talking about Harry potter's Hogwarts level of classes, quests, and professors!
why only destruction school? why not take classes in other schools as well?
not everyone likes destruction! hell my favorite school is conjuration! i love to summon stuff and daedra!
very short quest line very plain fellow students who in a day and a night become your followers because you are the NEWBIE ARCHMAGE! and you do not get any requests for doing any research as an archmage or do any master level quests for being a real archmage either!
skyrim's wizardry role playing is extremely lacking i am not talking about combat i'm talking about trying to role play as an apprentice mage that studies and graduated from the college then went out and continued the research becoming independent hyper mage, then discovers that the mage is the dragonborn. sheeesh!
you mean cutting floor? or is it midas magic world?
Could've been better, but the whole Psijic Order thing was absolutely amazing.
I hope we get an invitation to the Psijic Order one day in one of the next TES games.
Of all the organizations in Skyrim, the Bard's College and College of Winterhold were my biggest disappointments. One makes you a glorified gofer, and the other makes you Archmage, but leaves you with a meh feeling.
I was wondering why their was a charred corpse by the sea thanks for the explanation
I went by it thinking" hey another dragon kill" so i left a dragon's tongue.
Funny later finding out it was a wizard , who did that to themselves. How sad:)
That guy got murdered to death by the skeevers
wrong channel :D
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@@Mebunny21 epicnate was the one who said that a lot wasnt he?
I think the mod Cutting Room brought a lot of these back into the game. Going to look into a College overhaul mod after this thanks great one!
leftofyou I can vouch for that. I use that mod every play through and those quests and cut NPCs are there.
Yeah cutting room floor brings back every single thing he mentioned.
Yeah I remember it seems like those fill soul gem quests never end
Too bad none if the mods that add "great collapse" answers were unfinished quests. I hate it when they make mysteries that can't even be theorized about. Our lore on The Great Collapse is "It happened around the time Red Mountain erupted, The Nords blame the Mage's College and The Mages say they didn't do it". Like come on, throw us some ominous clues or something. Give us a creepy book, a dead guy in an odd place, an "empty" room with a door that won't open. Something.
Yeah they really flaked out on the whole area. Who wouldn't either rebuild or have torn down the broken homes that make up half the town. I think the entire hold has maybe 2 guards? What I really hate is not only are they going to expect modders to fix the next one, but they're going to make US pay for it all! :-)
I actually found 2 of the missing appretices, always wondered about them
SightseeingSkyrim ... found all 4 by accident lol
This explains a lot. I always felt that there were a lot of loose threads from things that characters say, but I always figured that I just hadn't found the right secrets. Now I know that they don't actually exist. Too bad, I'd totally marry that elf lady in spite of my general dislike of high-elves for being arrogant and wanting to destroy the entire world of men because of their god-complex.
I like the steward of the jarl. Malur Seloth
He is says"My job is to serve the Jarl, not waste time talking with travelers."
Daniel Charland well I know I am not the only one who hates the high elves for those reasons now
Get the mod cutting room floor and you can get the quest, depending on who you help you can marry either
It's funny cuz a literal man who's *now* a god tried to kill em all off
SPEECH: 100
I’ve recently started an Ice magic character, and did the College of Winterhold first. I love it, and was waiting for this video. And I noticed you can use your arch-mage position a lot, examples, trying to buy the elder scroll back from Urag. Or talking to Neloth, and even telling Tsun. I find it very cool. Haha, but great video as always!
They could have made this one of the coolest parts of the game. They should have made it harder to get accepted like they did in oblivion. I mean all you need to do is a weak ass spell to get in. That was just lame for me. I also felt like they made it so cool looking on the outside but once you got in you were kind of let down at just how blah it was. i was expecting a harry potter style experience and instead got one of the lamest story/quests. anyways hopefully TES6 solves these problems.
Well they just have to test you if you even have that magic talent in you.
>new bethesda
>good writing
Got bad news for you, son....
i mean, to be fair, skyrim has few magically-gifted people
@@drenchedinsyrupp6059 I always felt this was a stupid copout personally. They shouldve been given a shamanic type caster class. Thier based off of the Norse and they had a rich native tradition of folk magic. Obviously in our world this was hoodoo but in ES it would be real. I mean seriously if they are so against magic how the hell did they create the Dragur?
@@michaelhowze8198 magic is tied to ancient nordic traditions which are largely practiced by the nords on solstheim
the draugr were made by the dragons
No wonder those anomalies took so bloody long to kill on my level 80.
Try level 160
Your Skyrim videos are always great.
Edit: This one is no exception
The college is not thousands of years old, it was formed in the mid to late second era. It's about 1000-1100 years old, according to lore in Skyrim. Mirabelle or her voice actor is mistaken. Probably the former actually believes the propaganda of the first era, when in fact the paperwork and Serana confirm it's age to be the second era.
The Mages Guild was not formed until the second era as well, and is older by several hundred years and existed in Winterhold prior to the construction of the college.
Ok nerd
Pfft, Skyrim videos in 2018. Catch up.
JK, yesterday I hunted a sabre cat just for a trophy for my house.
Dawson Glawe I
Haha dude I was grinding for Daedra Hearts at Mehrunes’ Shrine. Get on my level scrub
Maiq is sad
Xhorxhi25 just go to Ethier and buy hearts from thier and wait 2 days and reapeat
I have finally escaped the black dragon at the start of the game.
Get on *my* level scrubs
It would've been nice if he mentioned the rings that you can find in the library. That's always a fun little thing that I do while in the mages guild
Asher Aumack-Raner the rings and subsequent little quest and reward arent worth the effort, imo
Benton Addison I agree, but I usually do it because it takes 5 or 10 minutes and I thoroughly enjoy doing it. It's kind of a tradition haha
The winterhold college just like most things related to mages in skyrim is really boring.....i mean seriously it feels like Bethesda hates mages because not only is it really hard to play mages at hard dificulties but leveling up destruction magic is extremely slow and painfully boring, Might be just me tought.
Jack Wilson idk im level 26 and my destructions like 60. Just use better spells
It kind of makes sense, skyrim is all about cool nordic shit. Every other elder scrolls game is pretty big on magic
That's true. It's just a shame that almost every nord is portrayed as a racist, a big scaredy cat, a nitwit or a combination of these.
I just wanna see a nord rip his shirt of and fight a cavebear untill it runs off, and that with his bare fists to impress the lasses and get some free mugs of mead from the lads.
I did see a werewolf and a snowbear fight in a ravine close to winterhold, their roars echoing off the walls and onto the sea of ghosts. Truly an epic battle to behold. Maybe I was so impressed because I never expected to witness it.
To my surprise the snowbear won, and it wasn't even close.
But the college is hyped up immensely. You can ask any tavern owner, the wizards of the jarl and even some shopkeepers where you can learn more about magic. They all tell you to go to the college of winterhold.
But in the end I've learned nothing from the college. I couldn't even level my skills at the trainers, because by the time I made it to the college I was already high level in most skills, or had to level other skills first in order to train them higher. Something I was hoping and expecting to do at, well, the college.
And then I became archmage. I get that they can't teach me anything, apparently, so then I must be the best wizard, but honestly, I'm a two handed, heavy armour wearing brute with restoration magic on the side. Can't even conjure that nice guard a warm bed.
Yeah, As most as i love Bethesda i feel like their biggest issue is that they waste too much on everything and very rarely focus on just one thing and that hurts their games very hard sometimes i mean look at fallout 4, i don't hate it as much as those angry fallout new vegas fanboys but you can see that Bethesda is not really doing all that well under Todd Howard's management.
shitty surplus not really. I mean Oblivion wasn't big on magic either. Morrowind was the only game where playing a pure mage was kinda worth it. When you compare mages to some of it's contemporaries or even combat in general, Skyrim and Oblivion were confusing and bad.
Still remember the first time uncovering the evil daedra pirate trapped beneath the college 👍🏻 feel like the reward for said quest could of been better but it was set up real nicely.
I’m relatively new here to your channel and I gotta say I love everything you do man, you go so in-depth and your voice makes everything better
Why didn't they fix these quests for the special edition.
It’s bethesda...
your video titles are almost like clickbait but the content is amazing, thanks for the great job!
Love these lore videos you do, keep up the good work
Rhexx make video about augur of dunlain
I love you Rhexx, Keep making skyrim lore it's the best!!!
65,565 is the max level the Dragonborn can become fun fact.
I wonder why they specifically picked those numbers? Why not have an even number?
I am continuously surprised by a game that came out almost 8 years ago. Really its a work of art for as much shit as it gets
Love your videos!!! They help me immerse into the game so much easier knowing all this lore and background history, keep it up!
The reason for the levelling glitch with the magic anomalies is due to the variable type used to store levels, which would appear to be an unsigned short with a max value of 65,535. If this number is surpassed (as is the case by the player levelling up by 1), the value resets to 0 which Skyrim's engine won't allow so it pushes it up to the next valid value which is 1.
Safebox Gaming English please!
Oh hey notification, it's been a while since I watched rhexx. Well back in I go
Wait, i dont think mirabelle has ever died for me
i've played the special edition for ps4 and she didn't die for me either. It's possibly for the older versions
Ash Axkook Interesting.... I believe I first got skyrim for ps3 around seven years ago
I don't remember her ever dying for me, but I could be wrong. It's been a while since I've completed the College questline on a character.
Alright, I finally replayed the quest and heres the truth: Tolfdir will come up to you and tell you that she died. You never see her body, she does perish in some battle or anything, and that makes sense to me on why I honestly couldn't recall-- because its simply not a memorable death.
I just went through all my mage saves on skyrim on all my consoles she isnt dead in any of them except for my ps3
Faralda: “I’m about to end this Mer’s whole career.”
Another great video, keep it going rhexx!
I half expect this guy to give me a quest to delve into a dangerous ruin in search of an ancient stone tablet that may or may not actually be there.
Wizards freezeimg mead just use some frost magic or leave it out side it is skyrim
cheese lord sheogorath I think it's the high alcohol content, for example Vodka doesn't freeze.
Harry Tomecek still gets cold
True haha
@@ExtremiSS88 mead is just wine with an alcohol content not high enough for it not to freeze like vodka.
Highest vol. % I was able to produce with my own mead was 19% haha
Mages gonna mage...
The quest to bring sergius grand soul gems works just fine for me
the first thing I think of whenever I hear "Shalidor" is Sheograth saying "Shally" from ESO lol
I can understand having to cut these quests b/c the game had to ship, but given Bethesda's buggy-at-release tendency, why even bother? Even if they could release these games without much issue, why not just patch these back in at a later date as some free dlc akin to Witcher 3?
they most likely just didn't care anymore and started work on the jake paul cancer level game; "fallout 4".
I think you should do a TES lore video on "The Necromancer's Amulet" history.
The quests in both #Skyrim and #Oblivion are some pretty epic questlines in the all #TES games and I never really seen many videos made on it yet.
Sure it was far from perfect, but I'll tell you one thing, it set the entire tone on my first-ever playthrough of Skryim. Being sequestered in a cozy, cool-looking fortress inside with free lodging and a couple fun characters, rife with materials and resources and all the skill masters in one place where elsewhere you'd be lucky to find _any_ magical things or people . . . I liked it. Plus with a couple mods here and there implementing more NPC's and the Winterhold guards, that place is a literal fortress, and great for early-game safety.
1.) I think I went out of my way to try and find those guys once. What a shame those guys are dead...
2.) Damn! I should use console commands to add some guards to the College next time I play the game. Also, I had no idea about the chest being there. Maybe I should use TCL in more locations.
3.) So that explains why those things tank hits really well...
5.) Yeah, I heard about that "Rogue Wizard" quest. I'm still not entirely sure why it was implemented though.
Keegan Stormblade maybe the rouge wizzard quest was meant for after the main quest, like how the dark brotherhood forever quest is
Did you know that there is a gold ring under the well in the market place in whiterun. Use tcl to get to it. Looks like someone ended a relationship and threw their wedding/engagement ring into the well in a cathartic manner. Or maybe it was a wish or something.... I'm just guessing. Or it could be a reference to Ringu(The Ring) horror movie.
Very detailed and a lotof work went into finding all the info. Subbed
Magical Anomalies, a.k.a:THE BIGGEST PAIN IN THE ASS IN SKYRIM
im not so certain the first deal with the apprentices was ever meant to be a whole quest, it was likely just another of those things to breathe a little more depth into the world. the elder scrolls games have had a large number of unmarked "quests" that are just there to add flavor for those willing to do the work to find them.
They could still work on and finish so many quests with updates. So many people myself included love getting back to Skyrim again and again. I would love having something new to explore every time I get back to it. There are so many abandoned quests worth being completed.
being a mage is so difficult until you get the apprentice spells.
It was so easy for me all thanks goes to underground boxes lol.
7:33 not many player are going to reach LV 37448. It’s a a cap used to stop the game crashing. There’s one for every int in the game, health, Magicka, carry weight, spell duration, damage etc, permanent effects or full restore potions are just have large int, 999 days or 9999 restore health etc.
Glad i decided to watch this. Found Ilas-tei’s ring during the Companions quest, held onto it since it had a unique name, but nothing ever came out of it. Now i finally have some kind of resolution.
I didn't know a single one of these, currently doing my third detailed playthrough! I really liked this content 👍
the college in winterhold was just like public school.
i learned to burn things
god i never get sick of these videos. i really wish he made more of them
none of this even touches on the unfinished mess that is the midden... so much potential
And the battle rages on, thanks for the video and looking forward to the next.
They gotta do a damn Winterhold DLC for Skyrim or ESO!! It's all cool we got the fancy Psijic island and Altmer Nazis, but the real magic of Tamriel in my opinion was in Winterhold and it's story. The Bosmer can keep their tree songs, Khajit their moon magic, and Argonian Hist magic... I want the great college! We get Dominion Nazi college, and isolationist scholars instead. The Dunmer have their trinity and Telvanni mages have their nostalgia, cool, but in ESO us Bretons don't really have a cooler place to go than Winterhold, considering it accepts everyone... or hey you could start giving us actual landmarks like the Direnni tower or some of the others, that would be cool.
I came for the DND Videos but I must say your Skyrim Videos are amazing too.
The “missing mages” aren’t forgotten quests, they are just little waster eggs
And you can actually put the rings somewhere and meet a dremora who has treasure
swear i remember Sergius telling me something about giving him 10 grand soul gems or something
yeah he gives you gold if you bring him sort type of ( soul gem) in ( a limited cuantity ) depending on your level, waste of time if you ask me,use it on staves or enchantments its better
Early af! Just had that feeling Thank u rhexx!
The Mod 'Cutting Room Floor' enables most if not all of these - it's essentially a project that enables, fixes, and finishes content found in Skyrim and Skyrim Special Edition's source - so it'll let you play with all sorts of interesting new content, similar to what MrRhexx covered in the video.
Great stuff. Loved it.
That's an awsome video, especially the theory about savos aren blew my mind
Love this video's man!!! love the lore!!! keep it up
I love the way you say Oblivion
Your videos are still amazing. I loved the short lived DnD series, would loved if you explored other lores besides Elders scrolls when you feel like it.
This is some good detailed content holy shit
There's a glitch with marabella stopping the quest (she would'nt send you to the dwarven ruin to realize the staffs in labyrium side quest) having at least 10 playthroughs it only happened once! And whats up with solstiens nelix with the caged springgons? The cage requires a key (dropped sidequest?)later!
FINALLY THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGAND IS BACK!!!
The best thing that happened to me was casting a less ward spell during the lesson, having nothing happen, and being forced to attack/kill another student just so I can skip the lesson. Why fix a glitch when you can just put in a way to skip it. A way that you definitely had to look up cause no one will think of that. I wouldn't even care if it was just a random side quest that didn't matter, but this part almost blocked me from getting all the dragon priest masks
I had a similar glitch happen to me in the Companions. Skior dies about halfway through the quest line. But a few in game days after the quest line was completed, Skior was alive and doing whatever he was does in Jorrvaskur (sorry about the spelling).
I found Ilas-Tei years ago, now I know who he is
Like that one quest where your supposed to tell some dudes family you found him dead in a cave but when you try to tell his family the dialogue doesn't come up so the only way to be done with the quest is fail it
For the students (#1) I never even thought that they would be in the world of Skyrim. I always justified the reason they went missing was because they were the skeletons down in the Midden and the four students he mentioned were four of the rings you have to collect in order to summon the daedric lord
7:40 It`s logic. I don`t know why the cap isn`t 65 536 (2 to the power of 16), but when you add one, an error will be thrown. Of course, skyrim catches this exception, but the number will be overflown, making it 1
I always felt like the college's quest line was lacking.
Collage guard ?! Wtf?
xxx yyy mod
Gogojuice 87 Actually he probably used a console command to get their code and place them there.
A collage of guards?
Sheogorath Daedric Prince Of Madness It’s a mod.
Bro ur Videos are so awesome
in regards to fact 4. I was under the impression that every one in the world could use magic.
thats right
but some have more magica etc
@@dovahkiin2 Right, and some don't even have enough Magika to cast a spell.
Perhaps, we need a MOD that adds a temporary ailment with similar visual effects of "Mana Sickness" whenever the MC's magika depleted beyond 0.
funny thing if you get the cutting room floor mods plus the unoffical patches plus one other i cant remember the name of it restores all of those broken quests and the work as they were ment to
I think this is the earliest I've ever been
4:20 SEALL kajsjxjsjsjsjsj nice voice crack
Hey Rhexx! Great video! Ever thought of making Lore for a universe of your own making? Might be cool!
I actually had a glitch in my game where after I became the arch mage I was able to give nirya the notes she had wanted.
If only skyrim gave me the level of emotion and feeling you exude in this 10 min video in the hundreds of hours i played that game
I found all of the missing college mages but didn't bother looting their bodies considering I was already quite rich by the time I decided it'd be fun to explore the ice fields around the sea of Ghost on my third most recent playthrough
“Miraaks limit is 150.” Me: laughs in level 337*
Now those damned magical anomalies make sense! I loathe the College and always push it to being one of the last places I visit. Maybe my next playthrough sees me going there way earlier than usual.