A Very Big Skyrim Secret Has Just Been Revealed

Skyrim is a place of many locations and perhaps none are quite as mysterious as Blackreach. A massive, ancient Dwemer city/cavern, Blackreach is easily The Elder Scrolls 5's largest subterranean region and is more of an underworld than simple dungeon. Complete with gorgeous glowing fungus and strange, still-power Dwemer machinery, Blackreach has baffled Skyrim players for years and in today's video we'll be exploring some of it's biggest mysteries and how they were recently revealed. So sit back and relax, as we dive into the secrets of Blackreach from The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim.

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[Zahn-rad]

"Tonal manipulation is manipulation using tones and sound"
"Dragon shouts are more of tonal manipulation than magic"

Alright, I raise you one more. I'm not saying that large artificial sun is this tonal machine, but what if us activating/using our shouts, our tonal manipulation on that giant gong didn't just make the Dragon wake up from inside Blackreach, but quite literally summoned it?

[debypoole]

I got so lost in black reach I rage quit and had my mom get me out.

[Seldoona]

Blackreach was one of the few truly magical moments I had playing Skyrim. Like of course there was the "oh wow!" moments, but Blackreach made me sit back in silence for a moment, just to take it all in. Blackreach by far my favorite area of Skyrim.

[necronut]

August 2020: Skyrim in Skyrim is announced. As soon as you get to Riverwood, a courier arrives and gives you a package. The package contains a mysterious box that allows you to play Skyrim. Now you can die in a recursive reality in which you're playing Skyrim in another Skyrim, in another Skyrim, in another Skyrim, in another Skyrim...

[been_rly_n_paragliding_lately]

It would be really cool if they somehow connected the “Time Wound” at the Throat of the World to all this Blackreach/time-travel stuff.

[kylemarsh]

The dragon scroll, a scroll which sent Alduin forward in time, the scroll of the creatures of time was locked away in Blackreach in a machine capable of reading it. Then we find out that the dwemers built a time machine in Blackreach. I wonder if it is connected.

[patrickkroth]

"M'aiq never has visited Blackreach. Only sometimes - from time to time."

[grand_howler]

It would be hilarious if the Dwarves are just repeatedly sending themselves back in time to keep “re-building” the time machine until they finally get it right. Kinda like an *intentional* time-loop.

[edenevie]

So basically when we Shout at the artificial sun, we're inadvertently triggering something that drags this poor dragon out of their place in time and space, and then proceeding to kill them and eat their soul?

[blakeallen]

3 things are certain in life: death, taxes, and Todd Howard releasing Skyrim again

[merked]

Wait, so if Shouts are tonal, it makes sense that when you shout at the orb in blackreach (activated by Tonal Manipulation), the dragon appears, because maybe (and it makes that ding noise), you activated it with the voice, summoning the dragon from somewhere in Time and Space...

[luthien]

Maybe the dwemer actually came from the future, on accident, hence explaining their technology, and without being able to return settled in Tamriel until they finally figured out time travel and went back to the future?

[torinjones]

0:35 then you remember it's a Bethesda game so the population would be 30 at max.

[Mantulisme]

Imagine living in such a beatiful place but you're blind.

[josephbloom]

The dwarves already had the Dragon Elder Scroll, were clearly studying it, and were always tinkering with the laws of nature. Maybe they created this machine to try to discover the secrets of how a dragon break works, and even wanted to try to create their own artificial dragon break that they could control the effects of, instead of relying on an elder scroll or some other cosmic tool of nature or the gods.

[xBelmont]

Everyone always seems to forget that the Elder Scroll you track down during Skyrim's main quest, is found in Blackreach. A scroll that you use to look back *in time*.

The scroll's properties are probably what spurred the Dwemer to build their machine. They just mechanized themselves a contraption that had the same space-time bending properties of an Elder Scroll. Or, the scroll itself is required for the machine to work at all, since during ESO, that scroll should still be in Blackreach.

[theiconicprodigy]

I love secrets. especially ones that are secret to everybody.

[misteryman]

"a dead, dwarven archaeologist"
You mean that she was an archaeologist studying dwarves right? 'Cause she was actually a Nord when alive...

[joeyabbott]

i just imagine the dwarves being teleported to a modern day tamriel with cars and indoor plumbing