The Skyrim Iceberg Explained

Skyrim is a game that contains a lot of in game information, but is all of it true? Let's investigate some conspiracies in this iceberg!

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Chapters
Introduction - 0:00
The Sky - 1:58
The Surface - 15:58
The Body - 24:09
The Bottom - 31:00
The Depths - 39:08
Outro - 44:37
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Music Used in Order

Skyrim - Ancient Stones
Skyrim - Dovahkiin Song
Captain Creepy - Stars and Moons (City Day 1)
Winterhold - DreymaMusic
Captain Creepy - Stars and Moons (City Day 3)
The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Kaer Morhen
Oblivion - King and Country
Skyrim - Sky Above, Voice Within
Elder Scrolls Online - Moons of Evening Star
The Witcher 3 Blood and Wine - Background Funeral
Elder Scrolls Online - Alas, the Dragon Shall Break
The Witcher 2 - Dreary Stronghold
Skyrim Dawnguard - The Forgotten Vale
The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess - Snowpeak Ruins
Captain Creepy - Melodies of Skyrim (Palace 1)
Skyrim - Towers and Shadows

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[natiscool]

Hey all, thank you so much for the support! Slight mistake here at 37:46, I accidentally titled the Falmer White Souls Experiments as the Thalmer White Souls Experiments! Hopefully this isn't too annoying of a mistake! Up to you guys on how you think I pronounced it but while my script definitely says Falmer, it's too close for me to tell!

[alynch]

The idea that all Bethesda bugs are just Sheogorath messing with the player is kinda the best thing ever.

[nefsurvival]

There is actually a more factual explanation to the 7, 000 steps theory. The previous calculations are in fact correct, but they have forgotten to calculate the steps you take when you try to run away from the fckng ice troll on that godforsaken mountain.

[kevinj]

I argue for technological regression, and even push for a magical decline as well. There are 118 unique spell effects in Morrowind, while there are only 44 unique spell effects in Skyrim. (I'm only counting spell tomes available in Skyrim + DLCs, CC is a money grab, and you can't cast potion/enchantment effects). This would mean that the fall of the Mage's Guild has a *profound* impact on magical studies, and over 2/3 of our magical knowledge has been lost since the 3rd Era.

On a side note, Bethesda needs to stop cutting stuff out of the game.

[ChrissieBear]

The Skyrim Getting Colder theory actually makes sense, since Atmora, which is north of Skyrim, has gotten colder over the last 3000 years, to the point where at the start of the 3rd era it only had a few people left living there, and by the start of the 4th era it was fully uninhabitable.

Additionally, the rivers and lakes in the game are not consistent with glacial melting, and the only place you find glaciers are around the northern coast. Meaning that Skyrim didn't have inland glaciers in the past. Combined these two facts indicate that the glaciers in the game aren't the last remnants of a thaw, but rather the beginning of a freeze.

[staffy]

If I had a penny for every Australian Elder Scrolls lore analyst channel, I would have three pennies; which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened three times.

[mog-myownbestfriend]

For me, any of the theories you could come up with by reading the in-game books already belong in the darkest, untouchable depths

[teeheeteeheeish]

This game is pure magic... It takes me to one of the best times in my life. Senior year of college, me and my two best friends lucked out on this amazing downtown loft apartment. Was two stories with a rooftop terrace. My buddy knew the owner of the building, and they just wanted the thing rented; we payed $1k between the 3 of us. The second floor had vaulted 20 foot ceilings, because it was in a spire of this really old building. We would turn the volume way up on the games that we would play, and we would get a cathedral effect. The best of which was Skyrim. We blasted the volume and just enjoyed the magical soundtrack and the ambience. I had a falling out with those two friends; one got into hard drugs and the other got a wife that didn't like my swashbuckling ways lol. But you can never take memories away, especially when they are attached to such beautiful sights and sounds like Skyrim. Sometimes, when playing in a dark room, I go back in time to that amazing spire.

[johnmccall]

Another thing that points to the Hero of Kvatch being Sheogorath in Skyrim is that in the Shivering Isles DLC Sheogorath comments about the player character's eyes at one point and says that he may take those away in the future. Sure enough, Sheogorath in Skyrim has 'blind' eyes, rather than the cat eyes he had in Oblivion.

[cosmotect]

Every time I hear a bit of skyrim's music, I instantly get this massive urge to play the game again

[zacharythemad]

One major reason why technology is advanced in Morrowind is because Morrowind was once home to the Dwemer.

[nxxynx]

How obscure and unreliable the writer can be in the lore makes Elder Scrolls lore seem so much more organic than other universes. One of the only series that really creates the feeling of different organic cultures with shared deities under different names and eras of interaction and war. Another key thing in Elder Scrolls is that unlike a lot of fiction a race's culture isn't absolute, you'll find Nord mages, certain elves drinking with men etc. no character is solely defined by their racial heritage.

[bodewerchin]

Add the "Dragonborn is actually an aspect of Shor, or even Shor himself" because the throne of Shor sits empty in Sovngard and you the player can sit upon it as Dragonborn without anyone making a fuss over it at all, even tho you've just sat on the throne of a god uninvited like you own the place, because, well you do own the place, because the Dragonborn IS Shor

[DevilNeverKnows]

That Nirnroot theory is a perfect example of the lengths people will go to in order to form connections where there aren't any. It's like people have completely forgotten what an easter egg is

[JackJonValois]

The bug where maven is teleported 9000 feet above or below morrowinds geometry during the thieves guild quest should be at the lowest bottom of the iceberg.

[MarvinT]

But remember, someone had to place those steps, and someone had to move all those waypoints. Who's to say the 7000 steps actually mean the steps the first Greybeards took back when High Hrothgar was still a pristine mountain?

[fishyboi]

So on the Technological Degeneration theory, specifically the armor point, I imagine that armor in Skyrim needs to be well-suited for the weather while still being easy enough to move around in. Plate armor is not known for being particularly insulating without additional cloths, and it'd probably take far more than just some cloth to survive the cold in the northern regions of Skyrim.

Also, magic and technology are basically one in the same. If scientists figured out a way to create fire with a hand movement, we'd probably call that physics or thermodynamics, but the people of Tamriel would call that destruction magic.

[muffinman]

""Oh no! Our house is buried beneath snow up to our 2nd floor window. We must be entering an ice age.""
-Country that got a blizzard in the Winter

[dariustiapula]

Imagine yourself as a historian. Spend half of your life to finally catalogue everything. Than the damn dragonbreak ruins everything. Not just once, but uncountable number of times. Making your lifework essentially useless. Now you have to start all over again, or account for alter history.

[matthewwhite]

I know I'm late to the discussion, but the Snow Elves are called Falmer, not Thalmer. I had to check the wiki to make sure I wasn't going crazy that they once had a different name or something. Not to mention Thalmer and Thalmor would be too similar for the devs to overlook.