Narfi & Reyda – Skyrim's Most UNSOLVABLE Mystery Finally EXPOSED – Elder Scrolls Detective

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1. This extended movie of a video is 4 months of work, be sure to let me know what you think about this insane rabbit hole of intrigue, information and mystery! Looking forward to your thoughts. PS: I’d 100% suggesting watching the video through then giving me your full thoughts! I did my best to cover everything ❤

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   TIMESTAMPS:

   00:00:00 – Intro
   
   00:03:03 – Town Of Ivarstead
   
   00:05:00 – Narfi The Beggar
   
   00:06:12 – Straw That Broke
   
   00:07:03 – Finding Reyda's Skeleton
   
   00:11:04 – Contract: Kill Narfi
   
   00:14:51 – What We Actually Know
   
   00:15:32 – Two Iron Arrows
   
   00:19:25 – Water Current
   
   00:23:26 – Who Dun It & Why
   
   00:22:44 – An Accident?
   
   00:24:17 – Animals & Creatures
   
   00:24:35 – Temba-Wide Arm Bear Problem
   
   00:25:11 – Stormcloak Killing Troll
   
   00:27:31 – Was It A Hunting Accident
   
   00:29:49 – Treasure Hunters
   
   00:30:49 – Town Guards
   
   00:31:25 – Bandit's
   
   00:32:25 – Vampires
   
   00:33:45 – Venarus Vulpin
   
   00:37:05 – Reyda A Soldier?
   
   00:37:56 – Calendar
   
   00:39:48 – Faked Death
   
   00:40:16 – Villagers Hate Ivarstead
   
   00:42:00 – Necklace
   
   00:42:51 – Reyda Killed Narfu
   
   00:43:20 – Reyda A Witch
   
   00:43:59 – Narfi Rarest Ingredients
   
   00:47:29 – Master Alchemist
   
   00:48:31 – Satchel Rare Items
   
   00:49:28 – Secret Workshop
   
   00:50:29 – Abandoned Alchemist's Shack
   
   00:56:38 – Where Is Reyda?
   
   00:57:06 – Orphan Rock Coven
   
   00:59:26 – Fish Gift
   
   01:02:30 – Hagraven Killed Reyda
   
   01:03:33 – Popular Community Theories
   
   01:04:06 – Narfi Killed His Sister
   
   01:06:07 – Mental Trauma
   
   01:06:32 – Narfi Knows She's Dead
   
   01:07:06 – Heaven In Clouds
   
   01:08:54 – Narfi Innocent
   
   01:09:16 – Narfi Harmless
   
   01:10:06 – Goodbye Mother & Father
   
   01:11:03 – Narf's House Ruined
   
   01:11:48 – Avalanche
   
   01:15:16 – Townsfolk Called Narfi's Assassination
   
   01:16:02 – Werewolf & Moon
   
   01:18:31 – Why Was Narfi Killed?
   
   01:18:45 – Narfi Owed Money
   
   01:20:40 – Stealing From Neighbours
   
   01:22:55 – Klimmek Death Stares / Fishing
   
   01:25:11 – Joffthor Hidden Code
   
   01:27:41 – Bigger Cut Quest
   
   01:29:22 – Wilhelm Master Deceiver
   
   01:31:21 – Comforting Narfi
   
   01:32:33 – Wilhelm 200 IQ Lying
   
   01:33:36 – Geirmund's Hall Island
   
   01:36:05 – Wilhelm Loved Reyda
   
   01:36:39 – The Merciful Innkeeper
   
   01:37:10 – Two Inns Of Ivarstead
   
   01:39:47 – The Ghost Haunting Ivarstead
   
   01:41:15 – Treasure Hunter Wyndelius Gatharian
   
   01:44:16 – Wyndelius' Journal
   
   01:47:38 – Sapphire Dragon Claw Wyldelius Sends Insane
   
   01:48:25 – Wilhelm Sneaking Around Barrow
   
   01:49:23 – Guardian Of Shroud Hearth Barrow
   
   01:50:39 – Jakalor The Draugr Warlock
   
   01:52:35 – Wyndelius Kill Reyda
   
   01:55:10 – Screams In Night
   
   01:57:58 – Wilhelm Screams
   
   01:59:38 – Wilhelm Repeating Narfi's Dialogue
   
   02:03:04 – Cursed Necklace
   
   02:03:30 – Wilhelm Immense Guilt
   
   02:05:15 – Wilhelm Working With Reyda
   
   02:06:04 – Wilhelm Had The Claw
   
   02:07:20 – Wilhelm & Bersi Selling Nordic Treasure
   
   02:08:29 – Why So Many Buckets?
   
   02:09:19 – Barrow Victim
   
   02:10:15 – Why Does Wilhelm Give Us The Claw?
   
   02:12:31 – How Did Wilehlm Get The Claw?
   
   02:13:45 – Reyda Lived At Vilemyr Inn
   
   02:14:48 – Wilhelm Used Reyda As Theif
   
   02:15:33 – Reyda Used An Invisibility Potion
   
   02:16:54 – Wilhelm & The Cart
   
   02:18:02 – Why Did Wilhelm Want Reyda Dead?
   
   02:19:39 – Wilhelm Hates Magic Users
   
   02:20:56 – Book Herbane's Beastiary: Hagravens
   
   02:22:18 – Wilhelm Be Sussin'
   
   02:23:09 – Follow Arrows Truth
   
   02:25:47 – True Dark Nature Of Wilehlm
   
   02:26:25 – Dark Brotherhood Killed Reyda
   
   02:26:58 – Romlyn Dreth Illegal Mead
   
   02:29:53 – Lynly Star-Sung In Hiding
   
   02:32:50 – Where Is Svidi
   
   02:34:41 – Lynly & Bersi
   
   02:36:45 – Rift Banner Easter Egg
   
   02:38:23 – Lynly Paying Wilhelm
   
   02:40:19 – Valuable Gems
   
   02:42:16 – Wilhelm Pays Assassinations
   
   02:42:22 – The Black Sacrament
   
   02:45:05 – Maven Black-Briar Black Sacrament
   
   02:46:28 – Vilemyr Inn Dark Brotherhood Meeting
   
   02:47:23 – Wilhelm Guilty
   
   02:48:54 – Wilhelm's Mental Torture
   
   02:50:07 – Wilhelm Galaxy Brain Plots
   
   02:51:24 – Which Dark Brotherhood Assassin?
   
   02:52:10 – Gabriella Uses A Bow
   
   02:53:09 – Gabriella Sneaking Goddess
   
   02:54:22 – Gabriella Uses Iron Arrows
   
   02:54:44 – Unicorn
   
   02:55:46 – Gabriella Hiding Bodies In Water
   
   02:56:14 – The Apex
   
   02:59:04 – Gabriella Whiterun & Markarth Skeletons
   
   02:59:48 – Reyda Killed By Accident
   
   03:03:11 – Welcome To The Madhouse
   
   03:04:00 – Court Wizard Wylandriah
   
   03:08:27 – Request To The College Of Winterhold
   
   03:09:43 – Greenmote
   
   03:11:36 – How Does She Know
   
   03:12:54 – Callipers Easter Egg
   
   03:13:50 – Wylandriah Whorships Sheogorath
   
   03:15:15 – Wylandriah Was Reyda's Mentor
   
   03:17:29 – Fellstar Farm Cheese Prince
   
   03:18:40 – Butterflies Of Sheogorath
   
   03:20:18 – Butterfly Bug In A Jar
   
   03:22:50 – Fellstar Farm / Fallen Stars / Aetherial Fragments
   
   03:24:12 – The Mad Star / Fell Star
   
   03:26:34 – The Purities Of Mania
   
   03:30:58 – Stars All Over Ivsatsyead
   
   03:31:31 – Sheogorath Invents Music
   
   03:32:37 – Sheogorath Killed Reyda With A Crossbow
   
   03:33:24 – Sithis Shaped Hole
   
   03:34:23 – Syndelius Gatharian Sent Mad With Keys
   
   03:36:50 – Thunder On The Mountain
   
   03:42:53 – Loki Norse Mythology
   
   03:46:01 – Sheogorath Kissed
   
   03:53:50 – Recap
   
   04:04:16 – Outro

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2. I dont think the innkeeper is sus for not finding reyda. Evenin the modern world police dont find bodies underwater unless they wash ashore or if they have a good reason to suspect the body is underwater and are actively looking. If you were just a good samaritan looking for a missing woman would you start swimming through all the rivers surrounding the area on the off chance youll find the body?

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3. What a job, man….👏👏👏👏

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4. 1:17:50 I interpreted as a metaphorical way of expressing how Rayda might as well be dead, or is at least dead with respect to Narfi as she’s been gone for over a year—not that he knows she’s actually dead.

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5. I’m 11 minutes in and I am curious about what can be in the next four hours of footage!

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6. Camel, if Bethesda approached you and wanted you to design a quest or create new/expand Elder Scrolls lore for TESVI, would you do it?

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7. This and many other unsolvable mysteries in ES5:S are there because the game was rushed for the original 11.11.11 release date and lots of questlines were cut from the game, all the pieces were left intact but either the quest was left unwritten, npc dialogue not recorded, or the physical assets of later questline connections left unplaced. At release this was entirely acceptable as a sacrifice to meet release, and the game doesn't really suffer. After 11 years, and multiple releases on multiple consoles, multiple expansions, DLC, and the Special Edition witg updated textures, new items, and the updated engine, there's really no excuse to have so many puzzles left unsolvable except that Tod Howard thinks they're too complicated (for himself) and if it's hard for Tod, it's "impossible" for anybody else. 🤣

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8. What happens if the nightmother tells the listener someone has performed the sacrament to kill the Listeners wife? Can the listener say no to a contract given by the nightmother?

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9. The prince of madness was once the prince of order. Music is a very pure form of order is it not. I mean it can be chaotic but for the lost part its orderly. Was his creation of music his attempt at regaining his order through the chaotic death of these young woman?

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10. This video is amazing but also wtf could be more powerful than the fact that the tits are clearly modded for this 4 hour murder investigation. Sir I have feelings for you that's the funniest thing anybodys ever done

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11. Nobody:
    absolutely nobody:
    Camel: Sheogorath is real and he's stronger than modders

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12. hmmm4_4 could mock but the mole people could be stopped with such info also if the world ended the campfire tales would be plenty Goood show kinda nice

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13. algorithm boost

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14. What a FANTASTICALLY put together theory! The Sheogorath stuff seemed like a bit of a stretch to me hahahahah but all the rest, Wilhelm, Bersi, Gabriella, it's perfect. I felt like I was reading an Agatha Christie novel as it all came together in the end! Brilliant work, looking forward to the next installment in the series!!

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15. Loki had many offspring not just one. Nari and narfi both being some of his children

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16. i would guess that wilhelm using narfi's voice line is probably a leftover from maybe when they hadn't chosen which actor to use for that character yet

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17. The rift has a lot of connections to sheogorath. All the crazy ppl already mentioned in this video and the crazy ppl in the riften sewers/warrens. Also In anniversary edition u can find dawnfang/duskfang in the sewers which in the shivering isles dlc u get by completing the quest baiting the trap. Which was mentioned in this video. U also get Nerveshatter in the rift. Just weird connections between sheo and the rift.

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18. 3:22:31 AYO WHAT

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19. Ah shit, here we go again

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20. Idk if anyone else has said this already, but if stars in the Elder Scrolls are holes and Sheo is the "Mad Star," then "Sithis-shaped Hole," just means "Fell Star." >:-)

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21. This is excellent critical thought 👍

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22. I watched some of the editing of this video on Twitch. Hope to see he keeps up sharing the editing process.

    – AntiSkillshot

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23. I had mostly the same conclusions as you, but I thought Rayda was using her alchemical skills to make potions as a sort of drug dealer. This was because of the special potion in the Shrouded hearth barrow and the various weird actions around the town. Also, Narfi's "madness" had symptoms of confusion, paranoia, and obsession. random and often obscure fasciation and reptation of these random and obscure actions and beliefs such as mining a mountain, which are associated with most types of psychosis. Still, without other symptoms, such as hallucinations, he seems to most likely have psychosis associated with damage from substance abuse. Alcohol abuse wouldn't really do this, although it could be an effect of it, significantly if what he was previously taking was cut off suddenly. He says, "no more Sleep," so I think Rayna took up alchemy to make sleeping potions to help Narfi rest after a traumatic experience such as his parent's death; she may have continued giving it to him either because she viewed the psychosis sided effects as a necessary evil to give him some rest, possibly she didn't care about the side effects as caring for him was to hard work for her. She saw the side effects as a price worth paying to get some peace, or she found alchemy more and more fascinating and was interested in what was happening as a sort of unethical experiment. The alchemical skills developed and became both a lifestyle and a profession. She started making experimental potions for people in town for either additional money or her interest and experimentation, which given the dissatisfaction with life generally in the town, it is easy enough to believe they accept a potential short-term escape. Still, it had negative effects on the people of the town, and I was thinking Wilhelm found out, disapproved, and contacted the dark brotherhood. After that, I more or less agree with the conclusions you came to. great video, thank you for it : )

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24. My first thought was perhaps one of the town people (like the bar keep) killed her, but there are alot of bears too so there's that

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25. Sithis-Shaped Hole…

    As you mentioned, the stars are holes in the world that open onto Aetherius, and Sheogorath is called the Sithis-Shaped Hole — or put another way, a hole in the heavens (a star) through which Sithis can pass through. Astrid mentions that most everyone in the Dark Brotherhood is mad, in some way — "[…] we've always welcomed those… shunned by society. Werewolves, wizards, eternal ten year-old vampires… what does it matter? In truth, I've rarely met a lunatic I haven't liked." There's an association there. Sithis is the chief entropic force in the setting, and Sheogorath represents madness — the entropy of the mind.

    Could it be that there's some kind of pact or alignment there? That the influence of Sheogorath makes it possible for Sithis to influence Nirn?

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26. Wyndalriah's misuse of calipers gets on my nerves tbh. Beacause those AREN'T calipers.

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27. well time to install skyrim again

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28. For a split second around 45:07 and 45:08 you see a picture of sheogorath, I dont know why its there but I found it on complete accident while the video was buffering

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29. 31 hours IN A ROW of montage! You better click that like dudes

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30. Camelworks and EpicNate, my all time favorites

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31. I appreciate the hard and meticulous work that went into making this video but it is over 4 hours long and full of repetitious information. It's one thing to do a little recap here and there but you have several instances of repeating the same information 2 or 3 times in a row. I urge you to do more editing on this one because the topic is fascinating but who has time for 4 hours of repetitious information.

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32. “Loopy” “spacey” bro my girl wylandriah just has ADHD.

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33. Skyrim: "hey here's an miscellaneous quest featuring Narfi who's a bit of an odd fellow."

    Camelworks: makes a 4 hour video on said quest and a conspiracy that involves nearly the entire hold of the rift.

    Jokes aside though, a very good video. I'm glad I watched it all. One thing though, I feel like the direction of the waterflow is simply a developer oversight or restriction of the game engine, similar to why the arrows float instead of being at the body.

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34. This is going to be the best four hours of my life. No stress or work, just Camel content. Thank you Camel!

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35. Your efforts have borne fruit. That's another masterpiece added to the collection 🤌 Thank you 🙏

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36. did sheogorath held you hostage so you would do a 4h video about a skeleton in skyrim?

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37. You've put a lot into this, a game that hardly anybody plays anymore, yet is still ingrained in our minds forever.
    Do you think there's enough material to see you through until TESVI?

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