Skyrim: 5 Things They Never Told You About Whiterun

Hey how's it going guys it's Nate here and welcome to Whiterun the Magnificent ancient capital of a hold which bears its same name what run is one of Skyrim's oldest and most significant locations for centuries it's unbeatable position at the center of northern Tamriel made it a trade haba and for a time she was rivaled only by the imperial city itself for her wealth and size but years of war bad winters and political instability have taken their tolls in recent generations and today white run while still standing proud doesn't roar quite like she used to regardless the city plays a pivotal role in both Skyrim's main questline and its civil war and is filled to the brim with a cast of unforgettable characters and of course like the rest of the Elder Scrolls five Whiterun is also a place with its own hidden secrets and little details that elude the gaze of most players so today we'll be getting to know this iconic settlement just a little bit better as we take a look at five things you probably didn't know about the city of Whiterun in the elderscrolls v skyrim starting off early in Skyrim's main questline will be led to Whiterun following the dragon outbreak and forced to fight off a certain very feisty winget beast near the town's western watchtower in thanks for your valiant service to the city white runs your old bull group the greater will name you one of his Thane's and grant you permission to purchase breeze home a vacant property within the city for you to move into for most people breeze home will be their first player home and it's a nice little property that can be upgraded just about to your heart's content however did you know that in Bethesda's original plans for the place you weren't supposed to be the only one claiming to own breeze home when you first purchased it let me explain what that means a bit better meet tarik he's a cut character that was supposed to be squatting inside of the breeze home property once it became yours yeah he'd just be living in your house when spoken to what tarik would claim that a wild he noticed that this home was vacant so he moved in and now it's his he doesn't care about whatever weird silly deed you have or how much money you paid for it no no no this is his house now take a listen to some of his lines of dialogue you're in my own that's right this year Place breeze home it belongs to old Tarek Oh what do you want um you can't kick me out of here you want me gone you're gonna have to kill me now I don't care about no deeds or laws or other nonsense like that this house was empty so I settled in and now it's mine I'm a generous man to those who treat me right might be I'll even let you live here with me if you mind your manners now rather ominously it seems the only way we could have gotten rid of Tarek would have been to murder him to death there aren't any dialog files in the game data suggesting we would have been able to talk slash buy him out of the building we just have to take matters into our own hands hilariously though Tarek does say that he quote unquote might let you live with him if you're a good roommate and sure enough it seems we could have just spared him and shared the home with Tarek - when spawned in with console commands Tarek doesn't really seem to hurt anything he just hangs around and he tolerates any upgrades you make to the property so I'm not necessarily convinced that removing him from the home came with any benefits or would have come with any regardless it would appear that the Fez de had originally intended for the player to have one final obstacle before they could call Brees home all their own next on our list we have the Curious Case of Christoph Barlet now this is a story that actually starts in Riften though rust assured it's one that ends in Whiterun should the player break into the home of maven blackbriar Rifkin's notorious criminal kingpin known for her nefarious connections and massive business enterprises we can find a note on mavens dresser in her bed written by a certain Christophe Barlet it reads as follows quote dearest mavin after our disagreement a fortnight ago I feared that business had finally gotten the best of our friendship since I still have yet received a reply to my last letter it seems my suspicions are correct I realized my mistake has cost you a lot and all I can hope to do is make amends I'll be staying at the bannered mayor in Whiterun should you wish to speak with me regards Christophe Barlett end quote now the game doesn't leave us any context at all regarding this mysterious letter there's no quests associated with it no dialogue we can't ask Nathan who this Christophe fellow is none of that so we have to make some guesses it seems Christophe is or perhaps was a business partner of Nathan's but the relationship soured and now Christophe is trying to reconcile but that can't be all there is to this narrative right well should we head on over to the bannard Mayer in Whiterun where Christophe said he would be stayin the man will be nowhere to be found however on a table towards the back nearby where earth guard the unbroken always sits we can find another letter this one from maven addressed to Christophe it reads quote Christophe upon reading your last letter I was deeply touched you're right I was angry but now I realize my anger was misplaced it's time to leave our disagreements in the past and rekindle our friendship I will be sending someone to fetch you and bring you to Rifton I wish to avoid a scene so he'll be calling at night make sure you pack all your belongings securely as the journey ahead could be rather treacherous signed maven blackbriar aha Maven's responds now anyone familiar with her personality knows that maven doesn't seem genuinely interested in reconciliation she appears to be pretending to be up for working with Christoph again but really is trying to lure the man to his death by the hands of some hired brute I mean come at night bring your belongings as the journey could be treacherous it's obvious Christoph is getting disappeared now this is where the trail runs cold as one might expect there's no more information about this poor Christoph Barlett guy that can be found in the game so I suppose we ought to assume the worst some players have pointed to a skeleton that can be found within the pond below the Dragons reach drawbridge suggesting that perhaps those bones or Christoph's remains I personally find this quite likely given that it just wouldn't make sense to dump this guy's body there near what is easily the most well defended and guarded building in the city when a mercenary hired by maven could just lead him outside of the city gates and kill slash leave the poor dude anywhere so in my opinion he's probably not under the bridge but whatever happened to mr. Barletta how he died where he was left heck if he's maybe alive is a mystery but I'd be willing to bet good money that miss blackbriar could provide us with some valuable insight coming in at number 3 your old bull gruff the greater is the proud and honorable ruler of Whiterun throughout sky arms main storyline he serves as a valuable ally to the Dragonborn and unlike some of sky arms less savory powerbrokers ball graph clearly exerts a genuine concern for the well-being of his people now like all of Skyrim's urals mr. bull gruff cannot under any circumstances be killed he can be deposed of during the events of the Civil War should you side with the Stormcloaks and promptly exiled and replaced but he can't be killed however thanks to the lovely power of console commands anything's possible in tez five and should you remove the yah rules essential status and promptly murder him to death through commands something interesting will happen he will be replaced by his brother ronger and when I say replaced I mean it ronger will have his own fully voiced Ural dialogue where he explains that with balgruuf dead he's risen to the throne ronger became the yarra when his brother balgruuf who had the job before him was murdered he'll also assume bull grips role throughout the rest of the storyline in civil war working with general Tullius help stop Ulfric and helping the dragon war capture oda ving in dragons reach it's time to act you there I have a message for you to deliver to our friend the esteemed you I love wind head I'm not the High King but neither am i a boy if Alfred wants to challenge my rule in the old way let him though I suspect he'll prefer to send his storm clubs to do it for him so if balgruuf was never supposed to die if the chance for such a thing to ever happen never occurs organically in gameplay why on earth did bethesda go so far as to give him a replacement just in case did they have some poor voice actor do all this work just in case one of us killed bull gruff with the console sure Bethesda's dedicated to little details but that seems a bit much well as you might already be expecting the actual reason behind this appears to be cut content you see there was going to be a quest in which euro Bowl graph was killed and thereafter would be replaced by Krong Gaara but it was cut from the game before release the date request the whispering Dora sees mephala Daedric goddess of lies and secrets begin talking to bull grips kids from behind an old wok door in white runs basement now this quest the whispering door exists and is fully playable in the game in it we simply investigate the door speak him a follow a bit and she gives us a unique plate of hers and that's it it's a really short mission but originally in Bethesda's earlier drafts of the quest mephala would have convinced bull groves own son to murder him yeah it's a terrifying dialogue and scripts related to this cut portion of the quest can be done in Skyrim's game data it looks like Bethesda decided to remove this part of the mission just a ruling it a bit too gruesome deciding nope we're not gonna risk calls from parents and potential run-ins with the ESRB this is why the quest we get to play is so short and why cron door is already pre scripted as euro B's replacement and so players privy to console commands can if they desire have Bowl graph replaced at any point in the game without any fear of some playthrough breaking bugs just make sure you keep an eye on the kiddos over there they might be up to something for fourth spot speaking of killing your old bull gruff ear Aleph is his personal dunmer body yard and house carl whose job is to make sure that never happens she's betrayed as quite the badass and is extremely protective of her yarol whom as she won't even let us go near early in the game without a thorough explanation now ear left claims that she and bull Gravano neech other since the two were used and goes so far as to say that they even fought in battle together perhaps during the Great War when bull gruff eventually rose to the position of Ural ear left insisted that she serve as his principal protector and thus here we are however it seems hero left maybe leaving a pretty big chunk of her past out of the back story that she tells us let me pivot for a second so the Skyrim has an official game guide published by prima games written by Bethesda that game guide has various notes about many of Skyrim's characters describing their histories personalities etc and the prima game guide tells us that ear left is actually a former member of the Morag Todd unfortunately it doesn't elaborate too much we don't know how long she served when she left how she joined none of that but for those of you who don't know the morag tong is essentially morrowind version of the dark brotherhood in all actuality the more acting is in fact much older than the Brotherhood and the DB really emerged as a splinter organization from the more I Tom centuries ago but regardless of the factions origins evidently ear Olaf has quite a bit more experience in training than she lets on so it's good to know that white runs favourite euro is in such competent hands and finally last on our list just west of the city of white run though still within the white run hold proper lies fort grey Maura this ancient defensive structure is said to about one point in time provided the city of Whiterun with quite a great deal of protection though in recent decades it's fallen into disrepair and has been occupied by a tribe of bandits however did you know that it would seem for grey Mora has quite a bit of significance in the Elder Scrolls lore or at least its origins do you see in the Elder Scrolls 1 arena right about where fort gray more is today in Skyrim there was a town called Blackmore that we can visit it was its own independent fully functioning settlement the township of Blackmore wouldn't be featured again in the elder scrolls - Daggerfall because well Daggerfall didn't take place in Skyrim it took place in High Rock but that game did introduce a book series called the real barons ayah and it mentions a town called dark Moor just west of Whiterun so not gray more or black more but dark more evidently for a time the septum emperess baron Ziya herself was living there for a while the book doesn't mention more about the town of dark Moor and we never hear about it again but it's quite clearly in the same location as the town of Blackmore and of course grey more so it seems the site of this fortress was once on it's very own City and even more interesting the next Elder Scrolls online DLC which centers on skyrim and as a particular focus on vampires and dark magic is called the Elder Scrolls online grey more it's really weird it makes no sense whatever's going on here with this strange fortress whatever its backstory is as a proud settlement and why it no longer is we don't exactly know but hopefully we get our answers relatively soon and with that we are going to wrap up five things you probably didn't know about the city of Whiterun in the elderscrolls v Skyrim thanks for stopping by everybody which of these tiny details are trivial fun facts did you find any the most fascinating and what Skyrim Easter eggs are hidden secrets do you know of that I've yet to cover leave a comment down below as always like writings are very much appreciated again thanks for watching and hope to catch you all in my next video peace out everyone

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Length: 16min 14sec (974 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 27 2020