The Companions & The Silver Hand | The Elder Scrolls Podcast #44



WELCOME to the Elder Scrolls Podcast with FudgeMuppet. In this episode, Scott, Michael & Drew explore the Companions of Skyrim.

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49 thoughts on “The Companions & The Silver Hand | The Elder Scrolls Podcast #44”

  1. Yes, ty for addressing the night of tears. I constantly see comments talking about Nords being racist against elves. Well gee, I can't imagine where that came from. People see thru their own lens, because I don't see very many comments about how dark elves have enslaved the Argonians and the Khajiit.

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  2. I dislike Ysgramor because he is genocidal maniac. A group of snow elves destroy his settelment and he decides to wipe out the whole race. People hate the Thalmor for being racist but they are only trying to take over a portion of the world instead of wiping out its inhabitants.

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  3. The "honorable" Companions: The highest ranking members are werewolves who drank their brethrens blood after their forebears made a pact with some witches. They will "settle" any dispute in your favor if you give them money, basically like the mafia. If you can make a claim that someone is a bandit or a witch they will kill almost anyone, and anyone in proximity to that person, without proof or investigation.

    The "evil" Silver Hand: The guys who for some reason don't like the Companions.

    Me: The lvl 70 dragon soul sucking Nord who two-shot Alduin, saved the world twice, took down the dark brotherhood and journeyed to Sovngarde and back. But who then for some reason decided to join the Companions over the Silver Hand and now enjoys being called a "whelp".

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  4. keep calling it the night of tears, and i will keep calling it the night of cheers.
    fuck all the human nords, elves had to protect what belonged to them.
    this story always triggers the hell out of me .. you know what .. i'm dropping this at 2:13 every time the night cheers is mentioned, for me the elves are on the right, and humans are the wrong. night of cheers where the elves regained what was taken from them from the invading occupying cursed human nords race!
    and for me the night of cheers will always be a pride! to have. death to the nords.

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  5. The Silver Hand are a bunch of Bandits and Criminals. Ysgramor might have tolerated the Bosmer and respected their hunting/Green Pact. Also the Silver Hand could have wanted to kill all the Companions and claim the Skyforge but didn't want to have to deal with the guards. I say all hail Talos and Ysgramor and the Companions. Nothing wrong with being a Werewolf either.
    Additionally with the Skyforge it has power more ancient then Ysgramor and the Companions. Including with the Underforge there is that stone basin and totem pedestals. So what does that mean? Perhaps the Werewolves are deeper lore then you think. Boethiah is one of the most evil Daedra and I say the Companions are quite honorable. Also all the Circle and the drunk treat you quite decent. Additionally Aela is one of the best characters and I respect her strength/accepting of Lycanthropy. As well as her pragmatism. What's more is I like your guys content in many ways however, I disagree with sooooo many of your opinions about things.

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  6. I definitely think Kodlak accepted being a werewolf in a time when he didnt think about the afterlife. Which is interesting to see as I think its Farkas, is also at an age where he doesn't think about the afterlife and opposes the cure. I'd like to think Farkas is probably Similar to how Kodlak was.

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  7. Hey fudgemuppet I know you probably dint review mods but when I use the orinatior mod on xbox where it expands the perk trees I run into the issue where Nords get free level up and that they just need to do 1 thing in every skill to get to to level 16 skill which could level them up far to fast which I think is overpowered. They could easily get to 4 or 5 by barely doing anything.

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  8. Y’all just need to have about approx. ~1 more convo before recording these podcasts. I just feel as tho I’m lacking the intensity of your scripted vids boys, idk 🤷‍♀️

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  9. Yunno they could always repair parts of the Hall as time went on, right? Doesn't have to be magic that's keeping the Hall in good health, I mean there's missing planks here and there in the roof 😂

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  10. Funny that you mention Jesus, because I’ve always thought of the Companions and and the Harbingers as the Israelites and their kings. It doesn’t parallel exactly, but it’s kinda cool.

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  11. The Silver Hand being offshoots of the Companions makes sense. I think they are filled with non-Nords because they were made out to be a pretty generic faction. I enjoy Skyrim a lot (mainly thanks to mods to be honest) but one of my biggest gripes with it is the fact that the Silver Hand vs Companion questline is so shallow. :/ I would have loved to become an epic warewolf hunter.

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  12. Companions are definitely lacking in TES5. We have a lot of overhauls for the mages guild but no one has ever done it for the companions and their questline. I too feel like the Silver Hand is a splintered faction from the companions originally. They should of been a joinable faction or atleast a resolution to change the direction of the companions back to the old ways. We won't see a companions again in TES6, we may get one in ESO when Whiterun is released. If we get the Druadach Mountains in TES6, maybe there could be a companion npc out there doing a quest.

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  13. Itfeels good to watch because it feels like I'm in a discussion abut the lore. I don't have a lot of friends that play any RPGs so I don't get to talk to anyone about it.

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  14. I like to think the rot is a side effect of him rejecting being a werewolf or that it's a curse from hircine to keep him from freeing his soul, and or the souls of others from his hunt.

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  15. I was disappointed by the Companions and Silverhand storyline tbh an organization of werewolf hunters should be more akin to the dawnguard not a ragtag bandit group :/ I once read a really good FanFiction once about a former companion member who was comparable and a close friend to Kodlak in age, skill and honor and found out the circle are werewolves felt betrayed because family except his youngest son were killed by a werewolf years ago and founded the silverhand with his son and another badass companion member who disliked each other a lot but looked past it to destroy the inner circle it'd make a great mod. Too bad Silverhand isn't Dawnguard esque organization who you have the chance to join before you became a werewolf and kill the inner circle but the Companions stay intact because no more werewolf leaders so their beef with them is ended

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  16. Hey fudge an idea just dawned on me. They have the loremasters library on ESO website where we learn a good amount of lore from all different type of things in the game . You ever think of covering these in future videos even take polls see if ppl want to watch that? I just think it would be a cool idea to help illustrate these stories.

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  17. What about a class build where you wear heavy armor with spellbreaker shield, and you use magic in your right hand and do a lot of shield bashes and magic blasts and only pull out a mace when your magicka runs low. This is my favorite play style and I feel like no one ever tries it but you will have fun

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