Thanks to all who have left words of encouragement/feedback. The next video should be out this week and I'll try to increase upload frequency once I get the hang of this editing + commentary thing. Mike
Definitely subbed and notified. Don't feel pressure to put out as frequently as possible. This quality of content requires masterful craftsmanship. It took Michelangelo 4 years to paint the Sistine Chappel.
And so ends the Legend of Tarvyn Faren, Slayer of Cliff Racers and Doom of Merchants, in the depths of Red Mountain, the Nerevarine‘s most trusted follower and impenetrable shield of the Chosen One, his heroic sacrifice will forever be remembered and his deeds inspired the likes of St. Jiub in his Crusade against the Cliff Racer scourge. Forever immortalizing his inspiring words “We‘re going to travel together to Pelagiad, right?“ or his famous „Take me to the Halfway Tavern in Pelagiad.“ In a tragic twist of fate, his one wish could never be fulfilled. To this day pilgrims of the Nerevarine Cult honor St. Faren by offering Amulets of Command at the Halfway Tavern in Pelagiad.
Legend says two statues were erected in Balmora for the Unknow'd merchants who wielded the legendary weapons at the final battle. Their names are not remembered, their faces forgotten but none shall forget their bravery.
The eruption of Red Mountain buried the visage of these heroes in impermeable ash. Poetic, for these heroes saved Nirn, not for glory. It was simply the will of the dream no longer needing its dreamer.
This is way more inventive than the average challenge run, bravo. I expected you to just break the rules at dagoth ur and the heart, but this demonstrates way more system mastery, 11/10
The ingenuity required to remain faithful to the challenge against all odds was just out of this world, insanely well done! Rest in peace, Tarvyn, the unsung legend of Vvardenfell. May afterlife deliver you to glorious Pelagiad that was denied you in life...
I'm genuinely surprised that actually worked out, really interesting challenge. A good mix of dry delivery and genuinely clever lines with just the right amount of references and silliness. Great stuff!
Yes the scripting and footage used here was great. Awesome video structure. Explaining the issues with this challenge and how they were fixed flowed very well into the quick quips and jokes through the delivery. Your voice is also quite soothing, and pauses in narration helped to process the video footage and pace information in an easily digestible manner
@Stubhose How can one judge the magnum opus of a living artist? These machinations are unknowable to laymen like us. In the great words of our forebears, "let him cook".
Voryn Dagoth was the incorruptible companion of Nerevar in life, yet he became maddened in undeath by his loyalty. When the betrayal of the ALMSIVI happened he reconstructed out of shear will and the power of Lorkhan. Perhaps in a few eras we will see an avatar of Tarvyn attempt to rebuild the Akhulakhan and Nerevar will return from Akivir to challenge the madness of their ancient friend. Time is a flat circle.
“Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Tarvyn Faren the Loyal? I thought not. It’s not a story the Tribunal Temple would tell you. It’s an Ashlander legend.”
this was awesome. i think a good final touch of ultimate "restoration magic" would have been to resurrect Tarvyn at the end using the console commands and then just pretend the gods of Elders Scrolls did it as a reward for Tarvyn's courage and bravery hahah
This was incredible, I've seen a lot of challenge runs that give up on the final bit under the assumption you have to use the weapons yourself. I have never seen this genius workaround. Well done. @JustBackgroundNoise a challenger approaches.
Just make videos of this quality and you’ll be a RUclips trillionaire in a year or less. I’ve never even played morrowind but love wasting countless hours on videos about games I’ve never played. This video is really good because i can just listen and still follow exactly whats happening.
This is the most uniquely solved Morrowind challenge I've seen yet! I was sceptical towards the end, wondering if it's going to actually work, but it did! Never knew the command spells allowed you to pull off stuff like this.
Extraordinary planning, discipline, mechanical understanding, and exposition. Overall a breath of fresh air for youtube content these days. Thank you for being you, looking forward to whatever you do next. This video alone has solidified me as a long time viewer no matter what you do next.
At 16:02 you talk about attacking the enchanter upstairs to get her to move, if you do the first quest for mushrooms (all are in Seyda and you don’t go out of your way for them) the next quest she asked you do put a fake soul gem in the desk upstairs while the enchanter comes all the way down both sets of stairs, if you leave the cell and come back in her programming for walking back upstairs gets overrode and she will stand downstairs forever, making it easier to do all your shopping and training in the one room, and letting you steal the near 100K gold worth of soul gems and limeware platter upstairs, one of my favorite little secrets of morrowind, but not really a secret, just poor scripting on an old game. Try it out! :)
Dude, with all the support spells morrowind has, and is capable of making- that final scene where all the merchants were attacking the heart- I wish that was possible base game by making a party with speech craft.
I like to think that periodically Tarvyn would go "So we are going to Pilashiad (i dunno spelling) right?" and your character just being like "Oh yeah definitely now kill these 20 cliff racers!" The channel Just Background Noise gave you a nice shoutout for this challenge which led me here and I was not disappointed! It truly was like someone figuring out an intricate puzzle and it was so satisfying! I think the biggest thing about it is just how many different kinds of spells Morrowind has and the interesting ways they can interact with each other. That and how the AI can be manipulated into doing what you want without using cheats or mods to do it! You have definitely earned a sub my friend!
I swear Morrowind is the best isekai-themed video game ever. "The Wrong Way To Use Healing Magic" and especially "Redo of Healer" have much to learn from The Elder Scrolls.
It's fun to think that in one universe, the world was actually saved by two angry merchants attacking a heart just because it associated with the Nerevarine.
I'm watching this with Tarvyn's perspective in mind. This crazy Breton shows up and swears to take him home, showers him in gifts and keeps making him fight to near death day after day and stitched back together with magic. All the while brought way, way off course, and finally blooped into lava. What a wonderful horror story. Good show!
Hopefully we got more Morrowind content like this and Just background noise. I didn't even realize this was a new channel until after I watched the video! Good job.
"Vivec, the city where getting lost is a feature, not a bug." I laughed not because of the meme, because today I spent WAY too much time in Vivec. Doing several errands in one trip, keeping track of those and your physical location, drove me mad. I kept making rp jokes about how no where in Morrowind makes me cry but Vivec.
Enemy: i thought you were a restoration mage Mage: i am Enemy: then why are you draining my health, magicka and fatigue Mage: because draining your health, magicka and fatigue restores MY health, magicka and fatigue 👹
This is a fantastic challenge, well done! Also, kinda weird, but your voice and cadence is really soothing, if you ever did audiobooks I'd listen to them all the time (ooh, especially if it's the books from elder scrolls games)
Me: "Ok, I´m taking on this quest od yours... but only if we do my quest first!" Tarvyn: "Ok, what are we going to do?" *Agonized Cliff-Racer noises* *Dagoth Ur Taunts* *Explosions inside Red Mountain*
This is the first time I've seen anyone actually beat a Morrowind challenge without permitting the use of Keening and Sunder. I'm both awed and a little afraid.
What a legendary run! I hope you can grow this channel, assuming that’s what you want to do, because this is great! The deadpan delivery in the commentary makes it much more enjoyable for me, personally 😂
Ey this was great, I look forward to more from you! Some other mono-spell type only challenges, or challenges that take on the DLC's too would be cool to see. I know that for this one it probably would have been near impossible, or just taken way too long, especially for a first video, but always enjoy when people include the DLC, or at least killing Amalexia. Probably the second or third easiest/straight forward after destruction and mysticism would be Conjuration, but I do think its the one I'd like to see most. Though it'd be very similar to this one. Illusion feels like it'd be the most interesting in what strats you had to come up with, since it would be essentially relying on Frenzy to actually kill things, while Alteration seems like it'd be the.. 'hardest' as it'd be relying solely on the elemental shields for damage. For Mysticism I would consider doing it as an Atronach sign, make it so you can only regain magicka from enemies, be it from begin tazed or drain magicka. Then destruction is destruction. Haha big fire spell go boom. As an aside, I feel like its always reasonable to use the non-combat skills (blocking/athletics/acrobatics, given armour, sneak, security, merch/speech) in a challenge run unless its exclusion is part of the 'theme' of the run i.e no sneak/security on a 'without breaking the law' run or otherwise part of the run. Then with enchant/alchemy if it is used, I'd just default to no using skill/stat buffs while making the potions, even if it means needing to take off gear while doing it. Seems like a decent way to include it without being the busted mess that morrowind crafting spirals into.
Thanks! I like your ideas. Alteration sounds like it could be fun. Levitate 1 pt. on Target is basically a pseudo-paralyze spell. Although that may not be entirely useful considering your only offensive spells are, like you said, the elemental shields!
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Thanks to all who have left words of encouragement/feedback. The next video should be out this week and I'll try to increase upload frequency once I get the hang of this editing + commentary thing.
Mike
Amazing run and hilarious deadpan joke delivery. Keep up the great work! Subbed
Definitely subbed and notified. Don't feel pressure to put out as frequently as possible. This quality of content requires masterful craftsmanship. It took Michelangelo 4 years to paint the Sistine Chappel.
Wouldn't it be cool if NPCs leveled up too?
Oh now we're talkin'
Wealth beyond measure, lad. Hope you’re in good health and doing well.
whoa, I still check ur channel to see if you post anything. We miss you
I hope you get better Micky, we miss your videos so much
The man. The legend.
Whoa I was wondering why I haven't seen any videos from you in my recommendations
This was an incredible run. I cried a single tear when Tarvyn made the ultimate sacrifice. :'(
You spoiled the ending for me and probably everyone else fyi. Jackass
What a spoiler this was.. 😭
2:45 They say there's no better way to enjoy Vvardenfell than by walking at a snail's pace.
Now you have to replay your games with 2 merchants and Tarvyn.
Hey it's that other guy that makes morrowind videos
@@mmmwhatchasayyyyy2021 the only two that play morrowind I watch
@@ivanbukac4618 he did something a bit more creative
Thanks for recommending this video. Well worth it
Maybe Tarvyn was the Nerevarine all along.
Not to mention the 2 Balmoran merchants wielding the divine weapons Sunder and Keening like they're nothing.
@@planescaped Still wondering why he didn't use some Ald'ruhn merchants instead.
Maybe the Nerevarine was the friends we made along the way.
@@honkhonk5000 Makes me want to do a illusion run. Command everyone and make an army.
@@xenazaizm back when stealth archer wasn’t the meta, but rather literally any magic is the meta.
- "What are you doing?"
- "Opening a merchant's guild in this location"
It's a piece of hot real estate.
And so ends the Legend of Tarvyn Faren, Slayer of Cliff Racers and Doom of Merchants, in the depths of Red Mountain, the Nerevarine‘s most trusted follower and impenetrable shield of the Chosen One, his heroic sacrifice will forever be remembered and his deeds inspired the likes of St. Jiub in his Crusade against the Cliff Racer scourge. Forever immortalizing his inspiring words “We‘re going to travel together to Pelagiad, right?“ or his famous „Take me to the Halfway Tavern in Pelagiad.“
In a tragic twist of fate, his one wish could never be fulfilled. To this day pilgrims of the Nerevarine Cult honor St. Faren by offering Amulets of Command at the Halfway Tavern in Pelagiad.
Legend says two statues were erected in Balmora for the Unknow'd merchants who wielded the legendary weapons at the final battle. Their names are not remembered, their faces forgotten but none shall forget their bravery.
The eruption of Red Mountain buried the visage of these heroes in impermeable ash. Poetic, for these heroes saved Nirn, not for glory. It was simply the will of the dream no longer needing its dreamer.
This is way more inventive than the average challenge run, bravo. I expected you to just break the rules at dagoth ur and the heart, but this demonstrates way more system mastery, 11/10
Exactly what I was thinking, Ive never seen anyone beat Dagoth Ur this way def something other challenge runners should know about
The ingenuity required to remain faithful to the challenge against all odds was just out of this world, insanely well done!
Rest in peace, Tarvyn, the unsung legend of Vvardenfell. May afterlife deliver you to glorious Pelagiad that was denied you in life...
Maybe the real Nerevarine was the Tarvyn we've made along the way
I'm genuinely surprised that actually worked out, really interesting challenge. A good mix of dry delivery and genuinely clever lines with just the right amount of references and silliness. Great stuff!
Appreciate the feedback. Thanks for watching!
Yes the scripting and footage used here was great. Awesome video structure. Explaining the issues with this challenge and how they were fixed flowed very well into the quick quips and jokes through the delivery.
Your voice is also quite soothing, and pauses in narration helped to process the video footage and pace information in an easily digestible manner
I like the delivery a lot
Agreed, delivery was fantastic.
This was awesome, I love that you didn't compromise ONCE despite first saying you won't be strict with the rules. Very refreshing.
Poor Tarvyn. He saved the world, but paid the ultimate price.
How many cliff racers are you looking to kite?
Yes.
Some weird noise in the background told me to check this video out. Pretty great video honestly.
Like Sun Tzu, this fellow traveler popularized a strategy that will echo through challenge runs yet unmade.
I'd like to see this character continue the challenge in Tribunal and Bloodmoon
...you mean Tarvyn, right? Because Tarvyn is the main character
I don't think I've ever seen the Neverine prophecy abused so badly. Great work.
Goddam this was insane. Wasn't expecting that end game "fight". Pbly the craziest challenge ever attempted in this game, congrats.
Didn’t expect such a high quality video when I clicked on this. I gave it a like and hopefully Ill end up seeing another whacky challenge from you man
Another wacky challenge from him? TF you mean? This IS his only video?
@Stubhose How can one judge the magnum opus of a living artist? These machinations are unknowable to laymen like us. In the great words of our forebears, "let him cook".
Just Background Noise sent me here.
A man with no hair recommended this to me.
Voryn Dagoth was the incorruptible companion of Nerevar in life, yet he became maddened in undeath by his loyalty. When the betrayal of the ALMSIVI happened he reconstructed out of shear will and the power of Lorkhan. Perhaps in a few eras we will see an avatar of Tarvyn attempt to rebuild the Akhulakhan and Nerevar will return from Akivir to challenge the madness of their ancient friend. Time is a flat circle.
The mechanics that went behind the final completion are so cool, I love when ridiculously niche things like that come into play
“Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Tarvyn Faren the Loyal? I thought not. It’s not a story the Tribunal Temple would tell you. It’s an Ashlander legend.”
this was awesome. i think a good final touch of ultimate "restoration magic" would have been to resurrect Tarvyn at the end using the console commands and then just pretend the gods of Elders Scrolls did it as a reward for Tarvyn's courage and bravery hahah
This was incredible, I've seen a lot of challenge runs that give up on the final bit under the assumption you have to use the weapons yourself. I have never seen this genius workaround. Well done.
@JustBackgroundNoise a challenger approaches.
I really appreciate that you didnt cheat at the heart part and went through the burned of bringing the merchants with you
"A heist so daring even the Nine Divines were left checking their pockets" is such a hard line
Morrowind, the only game where the seagulls (cliff racers) attack you instead of flying away when you run towards them
The only thing better than this incredibly entertaining and creative run was the hilarious writing and jokes. 😂 Subbed for more!!
Just make videos of this quality and you’ll be a RUclips trillionaire in a year or less.
I’ve never even played morrowind but love wasting countless hours on videos about games I’ve never played.
This video is really good because i can just listen and still follow exactly whats happening.
For me, it was the Dagoth Ur impression that won the subscription. Very entertaining video, Mike, I hope your channel continues to grow.
Once again proving that Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic, worthy of study 😌
I can't imagine the feeling of having to do the merchant scumbag run not once but twice through red mountain. What a glorious victory!
This is the most uniquely solved Morrowind challenge I've seen yet! I was sceptical towards the end, wondering if it's going to actually work, but it did! Never knew the command spells allowed you to pull off stuff like this.
I cannot believe the amulet of command trick worked with the heart lol. What an incredible run.
Extraordinary planning, discipline, mechanical understanding, and exposition. Overall a breath of fresh air for youtube content these days. Thank you for being you, looking forward to whatever you do next. This video alone has solidified me as a long time viewer no matter what you do next.
At 16:02 you talk about attacking the enchanter upstairs to get her to move, if you do the first quest for mushrooms (all are in Seyda and you don’t go out of your way for them) the next quest she asked you do put a fake soul gem in the desk upstairs while the enchanter comes all the way down both sets of stairs, if you leave the cell and come back in her programming for walking back upstairs gets overrode and she will stand downstairs forever, making it easier to do all your shopping and training in the one room, and letting you steal the near 100K gold worth of soul gems and limeware platter upstairs, one of my favorite little secrets of morrowind, but not really a secret, just poor scripting on an old game. Try it out! :)
The amount of morrowind content I got fed the last couple days rlly made me wanna go back and play it, thanks so much and I can't wait for more
Dude, with all the support spells morrowind has, and is capable of making- that final scene where all the merchants were attacking the heart- I wish that was possible base game by making a party with speech craft.
The ingenuity involved was remarkable 10/10 content 👏
Wow!
That was an epic journey. Next time I cross my ways with Tarvyn I will look at him differently.
Great work!
That was some big brain shit. Impressive run!
This is the kind of content I want! Great video, very clever run!
RIP Tarvyn. True heroes are the ones that don't come home.
I like to think that periodically Tarvyn would go "So we are going to Pilashiad (i dunno spelling) right?" and your character just being like "Oh yeah definitely now kill these 20 cliff racers!"
The channel Just Background Noise gave you a nice shoutout for this challenge which led me here and I was not disappointed! It truly was like someone figuring out an intricate puzzle and it was so satisfying! I think the biggest thing about it is just how many different kinds of spells Morrowind has and the interesting ways they can interact with each other. That and how the AI can be manipulated into doing what you want without using cheats or mods to do it!
You have definitely earned a sub my friend!
Same, also came from the JustBackgroundNoise shoutout. Morrowind is my safe space, so I follow all of these channels for the feels.
"a small handful of cliffracers" the sky is filled with them lol
I keep coming back after afew weeks to check in on this channel, still waiting on that next masterpiece
I swear Morrowind is the best isekai-themed video game ever. "The Wrong Way To Use Healing Magic" and especially "Redo of Healer" have much to learn from The Elder Scrolls.
Thus is the best Morrowind video I've ever watched.
Your soft spoken witty humor and quality content just earned a subscriber good sir
came here from background noise and you share the same wealth of knowledge and soothing voice as he does. Definitely subbing for that alone lol.
It's fun to think that in one universe, the world was actually saved by two angry merchants attacking a heart just because it associated with the Nerevarine.
Tarvyn hired a bodyguard escort, but got a personal trainer and field medic instead
Rest in peace, Tarvyn - the true Nerevarine😢
I've played morrowind for many years, but I still keep finding out new things about it. Good vid
A dude called Corprus Hunk did this a long time ago as a pacifist run. Even used the same NPCs and everything.
Wow
Well done. Quality challenge content.
That was actually such a good Dagoth Ur impression
I'm watching this with Tarvyn's perspective in mind. This crazy Breton shows up and swears to take him home, showers him in gifts and keeps making him fight to near death day after day and stitched back together with magic. All the while brought way, way off course, and finally blooped into lava. What a wonderful horror story. Good show!
Restoration AND ACROBATICS, i hope you mean.
2:37 oh, goodie.
Hopefully we got more Morrowind content like this and Just background noise. I didn't even realize this was a new channel until after I watched the video! Good job.
The algorithm found you, you get a new subscriber, and I get more delicious delicious Morrowind content ❤
This was incredible. Thank you. Morrowind is an amazing game. But it also has cliff racers so it’s definitely a game of all time.
Juib took all the credit from Tarvyn for killing the cliff racers
'turns out fire hurts when you're on fire.'
Hmmm, yes, quite. 🤔
"Vivec, the city where getting lost is a feature, not a bug." I laughed not because of the meme, because today I spent WAY too much time in Vivec. Doing several errands in one trip, keeping track of those and your physical location, drove me mad. I kept making rp jokes about how no where in Morrowind makes me cry but Vivec.
Enemy: i thought you were a restoration mage
Mage: i am
Enemy: then why are you draining my health, magicka and fatigue
Mage: because draining your health, magicka and fatigue restores MY health, magicka and fatigue 👹
This is a fantastic challenge, well done! Also, kinda weird, but your voice and cadence is really soothing, if you ever did audiobooks I'd listen to them all the time (ooh, especially if it's the books from elder scrolls games)
Great video man, the ending got me emotional n shie 😢
Female Argonians actually also get a Restoration bonus, but it might be smaller than the Bretons'
Tarvyn was murdering cliffracers way before Jiub. He should have become a saint!
> oh another morrowind video recommended, yay
> wtf this guy is actually good, I'll go look at his other content
>
Me: "Ok, I´m taking on this quest od yours... but only if we do my quest first!"
Tarvyn: "Ok, what are we going to do?"
*Agonized Cliff-Racer noises*
*Dagoth Ur Taunts*
*Explosions inside Red Mountain*
This is the first time I've seen anyone actually beat a Morrowind challenge without permitting the use of Keening and Sunder. I'm both awed and a little afraid.
The ending was so unbelievable i had to check the scripts of sunder, keening & the heart...
Omg it all checks out - well done!!! :O
I see morrowind, but I hear national geographic.
What a grand combination.
A grand . . . and intoxicating combination? 🤔😏😆
First time i've ever found a channel with only their first video, i am excited to be here when the second one comes out 🎉
This was fucking beautiful. Rest easy Tarvyn.
What a legendary run! I hope you can grow this channel, assuming that’s what you want to do, because this is great!
The deadpan delivery in the commentary makes it much more enjoyable for me, personally 😂
Deserves a mod for Skyrim that changes the book so Tarvyn is the saint who exterminated all cliff racers
Your sense of humor with your calming voice is the perfect representation of Oblivion and how its both hilarious and serene at the same time
Coming here from a shoutout by Just Background Noise.
Great run. I love seeing silly ways to beat silly games.
Aka: How to be the nervarine by making someone else do it.
The Telvani would be proud
Sooo, this was basically can you beat Morrowind as Frodo from Lord of the Rings (+Sam)?
19:07 A day in the life of a true Breton geezer!
Going to find more videos...this is the only one. How dare you. I need more.
Cheers to justbackgroundnoise for shouting this out
Next video: "Watch as I beat Almalexia with the mudcrab merchant."
the ending is a tearjerker
This story arc had everything. What a finale!
The ingenuity and commitment needed to pull this off are top-tier, well done. Looking forward to more Mehrunes Mike content
Are you just background noises long lost brother ❤❤❤ i love the morrowind challenge runs PLEASE MORE MORROWIND
This was surprisingly well-made for a channel of this size.
Have a sub. And an amazing day!
Phenomenal. Talk about using game resources to a maximum. Today games couldn't hold a candle to the masterpiece that is Morrowind
You and just background noise be keeping my weekends fun at this point
fire video dawg u deserve way more subs
Probably the best morrowind video out there ❤
This was a great video.
Revived my faith in challenge runs
lol dude just casually makes his first video and its a banger
Ey this was great, I look forward to more from you! Some other mono-spell type only challenges, or challenges that take on the DLC's too would be cool to see. I know that for this one it probably would have been near impossible, or just taken way too long, especially for a first video, but always enjoy when people include the DLC, or at least killing Amalexia.
Probably the second or third easiest/straight forward after destruction and mysticism would be Conjuration, but I do think its the one I'd like to see most. Though it'd be very similar to this one.
Illusion feels like it'd be the most interesting in what strats you had to come up with, since it would be essentially relying on Frenzy to actually kill things, while Alteration seems like it'd be the.. 'hardest' as it'd be relying solely on the elemental shields for damage.
For Mysticism I would consider doing it as an Atronach sign, make it so you can only regain magicka from enemies, be it from begin tazed or drain magicka.
Then destruction is destruction. Haha big fire spell go boom.
As an aside, I feel like its always reasonable to use the non-combat skills (blocking/athletics/acrobatics, given armour, sneak, security, merch/speech) in a challenge run unless its exclusion is part of the 'theme' of the run i.e no sneak/security on a 'without breaking the law' run or otherwise part of the run. Then with enchant/alchemy if it is used, I'd just default to no using skill/stat buffs while making the potions, even if it means needing to take off gear while doing it. Seems like a decent way to include it without being the busted mess that morrowind crafting spirals into.
Thanks! I like your ideas. Alteration sounds like it could be fun. Levitate 1 pt. on Target is basically a pseudo-paralyze spell. Although that may not be entirely useful considering your only offensive spells are, like you said, the elemental shields!