Ius - The God You've NEVER Heard Of - Elder Scrolls Detective

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - Intro
01:40 - Many Gods Of The Elder Scrolls
04:38 - Ius, The Extremely Agitated, God of Animals
06:02 - Daggerfall Story Book
10:08 - Ted Peterson Interview & The Funny Backstory of Ius
13:58 - Why Things Like Ius Are Important For TES Lore
16:05 - What Is Ius?
18:43 - Lycanthropes
19:55 - Hircine, The Master of Beasts
20:45 - The Green Pact / Treaty of Frond and Leaf
25:17 - Kyne / Kynareth, Mother of Men & Beasts
26:52 - The Many Obscure Gods of The Elder Scrolls
32:00 - The Bosmeri Wild Hunt
39:51 - Daedric Demi-Princes
47:54 - The Celestial Mage
49:06 - Retcon Rant
50:36 - Outro

[Camelworks]

The Elder Scrolls God you've never heard of. If Bethesda plays their cards right they'll make him the focus of the main story in The Elder Scroll VI.



TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - Intro
01:40 - Many Gods Of The Elder Scrolls
04:38 - Ius, The Extremely Agitated, God of Animals
06:02 - Daggerfall Story Book
10:08 - Ted Peterson Interview & The Funny Backstory of Ius
13:58 - Why Things Like Ius Are Important For TES Lore
16:05 - What Is Ius?
18:43 - Lycanthropes
19:55 - Hircine, The Master of Beasts
20:45 - The Green Pact / Treaty of Frond and Leaf
25:17 - Kyne / Kynareth, Mother of Men & Beasts
26:52 - The Many Obscure Gods of The Elder Scrolls
32:00 - The Bosmeri Wild Hunt
39:51 - Daedric Demi-Princes
47:54 - The Celestial Mage
49:06 - Retcon Rant
50:36 - Outro

[LordofIsleofTritone]

So, Skyrim villagers rallying around to avenge the chicken the Dragonborn accidentally kicked is clearly out of fear that the chicken is going to summon Ius

[dorndy]

I'm so sick of Camel claiming there's no Australian animals in elder scrolls, i distinctly remember 6 foot tall spiders in Skyrim.

[KingTalion]

Lmao the "who, unlike me, cannot be pegged" got me, nice

[feli-the-sunfairy]

Note: I still need to finish the video, but.
"If it's in the game, it's canon" doesn't mean Ius is canon, it means the book is canon.
But Wombats ARE canon because they are in the book.
Reason: They are not explained in the book, meaning that the reader would know what is meant.

[superwolf]

Can we please get a series that talks about the other obscure gods like this one?!?!

[zeehansen]

With the scales, it likely alludes to his methods of retribution. It's balanced, even, and eye for eye.

The farmer is killing and eating thoughtlessly, so he is killed and eaten without thought.

The wombat is tormented and attacked, unable to leave for the thing he wants (the princess) so therefore, the king is trapped tormented and eventually maimed for his want (a business that will never leave)

[IndoorSunset]

The Augur Of Dunlain video was 3 years ago ALREADY?!?!? Man time flies. Well here goes my afternoon. Thank you Camel for keeping TES content coming. Bethesda should give you a the Fudgemuppets you're own cameo in TES 6 for how much you all are committed 👍😊

[Greatot]

I'm surprised you didn't mention it, the best theory I know is that Ius is just a form of Sheogorath. Think about it, his story is completely crazy, and the writer seems to express things that aren't ever actually done in Elder Scrolls lore, like talking to animals. He says he "knows a racoon", the story of the Wombat has people growing drugs and getting cursed to say "hmm, precisely". Seems like the best way to connect Ius to the modern lore is to say it's just another random and crazy way for Sheogorath to appear, answering the prayers of cows and giving Wombats powers

[dudepool]

Dude, Bethesda needs to give you, and the guys at Fudge Muppet a kick ass quest dedicated to you all.
Thank you for digging so deeply into the games, to keep my love for TES going. You guys are legends written in the stars above Tamriel.

[AathielVaDaath]

Anyone called "the extremely agitated" DEFINITELY needs more screen time.

And they probably have siblings "the mildly inconvenienced", "the non-plussed", "the generally groovy", the "cautiously optimistic", and the "too damned happy".

Obviously they are divine beings from the beast races that have sonce disappeared from Tamriel.


As an aside, we need to find out more about this demi-god of pastries. Perhaps we can finally have a divine reckoning against the one who keeps stealing our sweet rolls

[UnswimmingFishYT]

Based on his carrying of scales and association with nature, and his being a demi-prince making more sense than any other known thing in TES, I'd guess Ius may have been the son of Peryite. Peryite is known to manage nature along with his more commonly shown disease-making, so it makes more thematic sense that Ius would be related to him than with the other princes.

[Bronythepony]

Im getting strong inspired-by-Pratchett vibes off of that book. “Faster than a very fast thing” and a silly god that at first look makes me think of Herne the hunted.

[ProfArmitage]

For obscure beings, don't forget Vernaccus, The Elusive Beast, The Unpursuable One, He Who Cannot Be Touched, The Bane of Kynareth. I'm not just suggesting him because I was part of a team in 2020 that created a Morrowind mod in which the player becomes the Champion of Vernaccus, rebuilds one of his shrines, and eventually mantles his power.

[mhallicegaming]

Seems most princes could be at least in part responsible for sireing him, though most have realms in violence. Most interesting would be Sheogorath as his tale has enough touch of madness to be something of his. Even more interesting I think would be the reachmen version of Namira. Specifically the story of an entire town cannibalizing itself....instead of just breaking a wall to escape....it sounds like a curse Namira would do and making a small creature like a wombat her chosen lines with the reachmen calling her the Children's God because she is the God of small creatures, specifically pests but we don't know that a wombat in TES isn't considered a pest like a rat is for example. It just seems weird to me that everyone in these stories is consumed.

[dovahfett]

Your rant about the gods reminded me of when I first learned the Forsworn worship the old gods, I was so excited to learn about these new deities until I found out they're just the daedra

[anjairis]

Ius is obviously a werewombat of godlike powers. He might seem agitated, just like a wombat would be but just like wombats he just likes to do godlike zoomies and headbutts which could result in evil farmers exploding.

[andrews]

I'm convinced that the Talking Mudcrab Merchant was an ironic punishment bestowed upon somebody by Ius. If this is at all able to made into a video I'd love to see it

[Im-Not-a-Dog]

I believe that Ius is a remnant of the 12 Worlds of Creation from before the creation of Nirn. Just as the Hist were from their own world, I believe Ius was a deity that existed on a world that was just populated by animals.

[TheZarric]

Unheard and overlooked gods.
That's a detective series.