No one in Skyrim knows what THIS creature is...

In Skyrim a Wispmother is still a mystery, but the secrets of actual Wisps in the Elder Scrolls can be even more hidden! Which theory do you think makes the most sense with the in game lore?

[SilverFang]

The ghosts of snow elves who lost their children during their war with the Nords.

[Kazuma]

I love a lore where you can categorize subsets of ghosts like a biology class.

[okayman]

Book I read in Skyrim on whisps says they are part of the whisp mother and that she uses them to lure in victims . Sorta light a angler fish with its light.

[charlessmith]

The snow elves that the dwarves experimented on in the 1st Era. The wisps I believe are conjurations of the wisp mother.

[mokafrappa]

Nah you aint gonna start this off with a sexy ass ghost and then not mention it

[senpaichiyochi]

Dawn star armor is definitely some if the nicest armor looks wise in game

[Akkleptos]

Some speculate they're the result of the dwemer experimenting the effects of the Heart of Lorkhan on snow elves, researching how to become gods themselves.

[kainmaxey]

This would've been hell for someone with a lisp. XD

[DomyTheMad]

i hate shorts.
but this, this i'll watch.

[SeanSnow]

I currently playing an "Ancient" Nord whos backstory is that 5000ish years ago, in the begining of the first era my Nord Ørÿnne (who is decended from dragon cultists) was tasked with hunting a monster thats been freezing hunters solid up in the mountains south west of Falkreath hold. He discovers it to be a wisp Matriarch (i like to think of wisp as akin to nature spirits like spriggan and thus would have their own hierarchy).

Battle ensues and during their climactic clash Ørÿnne being of a highborn dragon priest clan (Otar) is able to use the thu'um and thus cause an anvalanche to trap them deep under the snow. To survive Ørrÿne made a pact with the Wisp and so the wisp Matriarch posessed him and they froze solid and remained frozen until Alduin returned and revived the dragons causeing a rise in the atmospheric temperature, melting the snow that had entombed them for many millenia. Thus the Winter Revant thaws and walks Skyrim once more. With his soul bonded to the Wisp Matriach and gifted with an innate affinity for cryomancy.

[senpai]

Wth! I never noticed how caked up they are

[patriotgamingllc.]

Here’s the real question; Are they breedable?

[the-silent-gamer]

does not matter what they are
because thier looking good

[jkwj]

why do wisp mothers have belly buttons like they had an umbilical cord?

[unslaadkrosis]

They’re some kind of ghost or spirit. On the top of my head I can think of one that is found near an old well with a ruined gate, one near a shrine of Arkay, one in the middle of a frozen wasteland in winterhold, and at least 2 near Dwemer ruins

[christuspilatus]

wow. seeing my own bald skyrim dawnguard char was trippy

[Driamera]

Some kind of unharmful wisps are all over the Soul Cairn too

[juanestevas]

They’re the ghosts of snow elves, TheEpicNate315 covers this super well if anyone’s looking

[TheArkhamKnight]

Note of advice don’t go up from Helgen and follow the wisp you will die if you follow them either on the “shortcut” to the Graybeards or right after being freed

[dieselnation]

Recently ive become a prospector travelling hundreds of kilometers on foot carrying 50 pounds on my back its safe to say i respect the trouble i put my dovakin through so much more🤣