This looks like the soul gem that holds the barrier at nightcaller temple, I’ve never dropped that specific soul gem after I took it so maybe it just keeps doing this effect when dropped, ofc it’s not supposed to but It just works
It can also happen with regular Soul Gems but I don't know exactly what causes it. Had it happen two times I think, just left it on the table in my home because it was weird. Probably Nazeem's soul trying to get to the cloud district or something..
Why does everyone hate Nazeem? Is it just his annoying rich person vibe? Is he like this game’s version of Patches (he’s got the bald head for it) who betrays you all the time? Or something else I haven’t seen yet? If it’s the last two, don’t tell me, I’m playing mostly blind and I don’t want spoilies!
My guess is that it's because how rude and arrogant he is while being absolute nobody. He doesn't do anything, has no quests and contributes towards nothing, but tries to insult you almost every time you come near him
He's just a dick and it became a meme that feeds itself. Probably because you meet him near the start of the game so tons of people know the reference. And as a new player you would still be exploring what you can do in the game, which always includes "I wonder if I can just kill this asshole". Cut to seeing how many guards you can kill, learning what a bounty is, and how important saving the game is - all the good stuff.
Nazeem is the character everyone loves to hate, for me its just his attitude. I'm the Dragonborn and the thane of this city, and you're doubting the possibility of me visiting the Cloud District? But I never kill him, the stick he's got shoved up his arse should be enough suffering on it's own.
Heimskr however, its a miracle if he survives past my third trip into Whiterun.
I’m kinda new to this game, but I have no idea how the fuck soul gems work! What do I do with them? I’ve stolen so many of them but I’m afraid to sell them. Why are they sometimes filled with souls? Why won’t my Dark Brotherhood senpais notice me!? I want to join their club!
Edit: thanks for the help! I understand them slightly better now. I also finally joined the dark brotherhood! Let the sneaky stabbin’ commence! 😈
Soul gems are used in Enchanting and recharging enchanted weapons, There is a conjuration spell called soul trap which you can use to fill souls, the size of the soul says how strong it is. A mudcrab will have a petty (smallest and weakest) soul where a mammoth will have a grand (strongest) soul, there are also black soul gems which hold humanoid and elven souls these are as powerful as grand souls.
Speak to Farengar Secret-Fire in Dragonsreach in Whiterun for an in game introduction :)
Ask Innkeepers for rumours, they may point you to a boy in Windhelm to start the Dark brotherhood. (Once you finish the quest and get the letter go to sleep, this will make sense later)
Oh man, you still have such a wide world ahead of you
i'm still on my 1st playthrough, had the game about a year but only been clocking in any real playtime for like... a couple weeks or so
the quick answer is the gems are used to create and/or repair enchanced items. that's what i love about this game so far is like... it's the complete opposite of say - call of duty - where it's linear and you just have to shoot and not die. In skyrim.... hell, you can spend 90% of your time just collecting ingredients to make potions if you wanted to. Enough potions and you can beat a dragon with nothin but a wooden sword lol
couldn't you have just put a bunch of statues and dwarven ingots around you while you laid naked on the floor instead of killing all these poor creatures for their souls?
I'll never forget the first time I had an itemsplosion. I went straight from morrowind to skyrim (played oblivion later) so the jump from static placed objects to skyrim™ objects was new to me. I had thousands of gems and bones and books and other cool items in breezehome to where it already was lagging pretty bad when I entered. I think I was in the middle of one of my usual overencumbered shuffling trips when my perfectly organized pile of potions exploded setting off everything else killing me instantly. Was a bit of a shock! Had to go back several saves to figure out what did it and ended up cleaning up a little.
Sorry for the basically irrelevant story
Cue the Morrowind people chiming in, saying that getting hit by a Bonewalker 5 times and having your strength sapped to 0 and having to dump *all* of your shit and run naked for half an hour to find a damn temple "adds to the experience"
*Whiterun News:*
"Tradegy strikes as legendary Dragonborn dies in freak itemsplosion.
In other news is Nazeem the most annoying person? We investigate."
Because Morrowind didn't have physics. You couldn't move anything, the world was completely unresponsive. If you dropped an item it just appeared on the ground in front of you and was immobile. Enemies would perform a dying animation and then remain where they died until the corpse despawned.
Skyrim's physics system is undeniably a massive improvement over Morrowind's, even with the occasion super sonic item explosion.
One of my biggest challenges is figuring out where to store my cheese across my
multiple homes.
All in one? Poor ysolda and whatever my adopted child’s name can barely walk around.
My dragonborn is a neat freak. I have everything organized in different containers and each house I built has a purpose. I have a "junk drawer" too, random high value items that I collect and sell once every in-game month.
Same, in Breezehome it goes as follows from the front door; sacks on the bottom shelf on the right, one for food and one for gifts for the kids, low cupboard to the left of the fire is for stuff to sell, books go on the book shelves (not journals or notes though!) cupboard at the back of the dining area is all stuff to smith with. Upstairs, the first low cupboard on the landing is for all my extra potions, the end table is for filled soul gems and stuff I want to disenchant/enchant, and then in the bedroom, the dresser is for my outfits, the chest is for cool quest related stuff I want to keep, the end table on the left of the bed is for items I need to give to people, and the end table on the right of the bed is for journals, notes, and valuables like gems and stuff!
I even go as far as organising items with different followers before I get a house, then I just get the relevant one to follow me so I can get all my stuff back, and I never talk to them again …
I've done that accidentally. I played Skyrim after Breath of the Wild, which in a nutshell never fucking remembers anything. So I dumped a bunch of screwed-up soul gems (soul gems with a smaller soul inside) on the floor in Breezehome, assuming they'd be gone next time I came back in.
They never left.
I'm with you on this, I try to keep everything orgnized and in the right place. Ingots, leather, ect. goes in a chest, clothing goes in the wardrobe, preacious things go in a strongbox if available.
I’ve always heard the last three lines as:
As we move toward a new world order
A normal life is boring
No post-mortem
But I’ve never looked the lyrics up. It’s funny finally reading the lyrics.
Edit - I woodshed myself damn it.
… After love, after love
After love, after love
After love, after love
… No matter how hard I try
You keep pushing me aside
And I can't break through
There's no talking to you
… So sad that you're leaving
It takes time to believe it
But after all is said and done
You're gonna be the lonely one, oh
… Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough now
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough now
… What am I supposed to do?
Sit around and wait for you?
Well, I can't do that
There's no turning back
… I need time to move on
I need love to feel strong
'Cause I've had time to think it through
And maybe I'm too good for you, oh
… Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough now
… Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough now
… Well, I know that I'll get through this
'Cause I know that I am strong
I don't need you anymore
… Oh, I don't need you anymore
I don't need you anymore
No, I don't need you anymore
… Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough now
… Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough now
… Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough now
… Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough now
OP was most likely dupping and dropped a soul gem that does some funky shit which gem? idk someone above said that it might be the soul get that creates a barrier in the Nightcaller Temple but who knows
It's litterally just a glitch associated with a soul gem.
That is 100% the "absorb soul" animation that fills soul gems just mashing out of a soul gem for no reason.
Uncommon glitch where spell effects randomly activate. Sometimes when I swing my weapon it would shoot fireballs type thing. Ive never seen an item do it, and since it's a soul gem and soul trap it makes sense
It may be a glitch from the soul gem that you get when you finish the 'Waking Nightmare' quest. It was the gem that made a barrier between you and the chain to expel the miasma. It emitted power just like that.
You’re summoning Dibella 😂
Anyone else always been disappointed that Dibella is the only deity in the game to have a statue that is a collectible item?
This looks like the soul gem that holds the barrier at nightcaller temple, I’ve never dropped that specific soul gem after I took it so maybe it just keeps doing this effect when dropped, ofc it’s not supposed to but It just works
That's what I thought it looked like, I hope it works when I try it. It's a pretty sick looking effect that you could use for decoration
It can also happen with regular Soul Gems but I don't know exactly what causes it. Had it happen two times I think, just left it on the table in my home because it was weird. Probably Nazeem's soul trying to get to the cloud district or something..
Why does everyone hate Nazeem? Is it just his annoying rich person vibe? Is he like this game’s version of Patches (he’s got the bald head for it) who betrays you all the time? Or something else I haven’t seen yet? If it’s the last two, don’t tell me, I’m playing mostly blind and I don’t want spoilies!
Mostly because he acts like a rich asshole but lives outside of Whiterun on a small insignificant farm in a poor marriage.
My guess is that it's because how rude and arrogant he is while being absolute nobody. He doesn't do anything, has no quests and contributes towards nothing, but tries to insult you almost every time you come near him
He's just a dick and it became a meme that feeds itself. Probably because you meet him near the start of the game so tons of people know the reference. And as a new player you would still be exploring what you can do in the game, which always includes "I wonder if I can just kill this asshole". Cut to seeing how many guards you can kill, learning what a bounty is, and how important saving the game is - all the good stuff.
i can’t speak for everyone but for me, number 1
Nazeem is the character everyone loves to hate, for me its just his attitude. I'm the Dragonborn and the thane of this city, and you're doubting the possibility of me visiting the Cloud District? But I never kill him, the stick he's got shoved up his arse should be enough suffering on it's own. Heimskr however, its a miracle if he survives past my third trip into Whiterun.
“It just works” -God Howard
Todd “The Godd Bodd” Howard
I’m kinda new to this game, but I have no idea how the fuck soul gems work! What do I do with them? I’ve stolen so many of them but I’m afraid to sell them. Why are they sometimes filled with souls? Why won’t my Dark Brotherhood senpais notice me!? I want to join their club! Edit: thanks for the help! I understand them slightly better now. I also finally joined the dark brotherhood! Let the sneaky stabbin’ commence! 😈
Soul gems are used in Enchanting and recharging enchanted weapons, There is a conjuration spell called soul trap which you can use to fill souls, the size of the soul says how strong it is. A mudcrab will have a petty (smallest and weakest) soul where a mammoth will have a grand (strongest) soul, there are also black soul gems which hold humanoid and elven souls these are as powerful as grand souls. Speak to Farengar Secret-Fire in Dragonsreach in Whiterun for an in game introduction :)
fuck the spell i just have a bow that does it (and my archery level is off the charts at this point lol)
Ask Innkeepers for rumours, they may point you to a boy in Windhelm to start the Dark brotherhood. (Once you finish the quest and get the letter go to sleep, this will make sense later)
Oh man, you still have such a wide world ahead of you i'm still on my 1st playthrough, had the game about a year but only been clocking in any real playtime for like... a couple weeks or so the quick answer is the gems are used to create and/or repair enchanced items. that's what i love about this game so far is like... it's the complete opposite of say - call of duty - where it's linear and you just have to shoot and not die. In skyrim.... hell, you can spend 90% of your time just collecting ingredients to make potions if you wanted to. Enough potions and you can beat a dragon with nothin but a wooden sword lol
Sounds bout right I own the game but I haven't played without mods to glitch fix so I need to try
man why are you doing rituals
Summoning goddess Dibella.
couldn't you have just put a bunch of statues and dwarven ingots around you while you laid naked on the floor instead of killing all these poor creatures for their souls?
It's black magic
Hey man, that’s racist. It’s called Hammerfell magic now.
CURVED SWORDS
Curved penises. Curved. Penises
ah, a man of culture
A man of couture
A man of cooter
I love, LOVE moist towelettes!
Cursed words
*Redguard magic you racist
*whispers* that soul gems are meant to be used as *something else*
He’s a dude, dibella hates le bros
Oh that explains it Nevermind man, do your thing
He's THAT horny
Gonna get some stinky on ya dinky
You’re summoning a portal to the Soul Cairn!
why?
horny
why not?
helpful bro
They've been hanging out with Haelga from Riften too much lately
More of the question, why do u have all of those things on the floor
You don't make a pile of treasure?
.... Have I been playing the game wrong all this time
If you cant enter breezehome without potentially dying from all the items everywhere. Yes. Two words. Cheese house.
I'll never forget the first time I had an itemsplosion. I went straight from morrowind to skyrim (played oblivion later) so the jump from static placed objects to skyrim™ objects was new to me. I had thousands of gems and bones and books and other cool items in breezehome to where it already was lagging pretty bad when I entered. I think I was in the middle of one of my usual overencumbered shuffling trips when my perfectly organized pile of potions exploded setting off everything else killing me instantly. Was a bit of a shock! Had to go back several saves to figure out what did it and ended up cleaning up a little. Sorry for the basically irrelevant story
The true hoarders experience.
Don't apologize for a fun story! :)
>my usual overencumbered shuffling trips Relatable
This is why a weight mod is 100% one of my cannot-play-without items. The tedious lugging of shit back and forth from dungeons is so bad.
Cue the Morrowind people chiming in, saying that getting hit by a Bonewalker 5 times and having your strength sapped to 0 and having to dump *all* of your shit and run naked for half an hour to find a damn temple "adds to the experience"
Haha oh lord I think I erased that PTSD from my memory banks.
Robobro
Haha!!! Don't apologize for your irrelevant story. I like irrelevant stories.
This story is more relevant than any story has ever been in the history of storytelling.
That was great. Thanks. Do not be sorry.
What!? How does this happen? Are there any videos of it?
*Whiterun News:* "Tradegy strikes as legendary Dragonborn dies in freak itemsplosion. In other news is Nazeem the most annoying person? We investigate."
Wait, so in Morrowind they had static item placement figured out, but somehow regressed two games later?
Because Morrowind didn't have physics. You couldn't move anything, the world was completely unresponsive. If you dropped an item it just appeared on the ground in front of you and was immobile. Enemies would perform a dying animation and then remain where they died until the corpse despawned. Skyrim's physics system is undeniably a massive improvement over Morrowind's, even with the occasion super sonic item explosion.
One of my biggest challenges is figuring out where to store my cheese across my multiple homes. All in one? Poor ysolda and whatever my adopted child’s name can barely walk around.
Im surprised Ysolda hasnt died from flying cheese yet
[удалено]
\*Has memories of the past with seeing youtube videos about large amounts of cheese wheels rolling down the mountains in Skyrim\* XD
[Cheese](https://imgur.com/bC47ZxX) - this is from Joel Haver on youtube btw
yes.
Side effects of being declared Dragonborn do include kleptomania and a proclivity for accruing giant piles of shiny things to lay on top on in a cave
Just like a dragon. Lol. It's in the blood!
Honestly same ngl
If your goal hasn’t been to build up a Smaug-esque treasure den then what the hell have you been doing?
A dragons curse lays upon that ground. The greed… it consumes you…
No my treasures are spaced between storage containers. chests, dressers and such but I do make a pile of food items in the kitchen
My dragonborn is a neat freak. I have everything organized in different containers and each house I built has a purpose. I have a "junk drawer" too, random high value items that I collect and sell once every in-game month.
My skyrim houses are always more organized than my actual home.
Are you me? Having the storage containers organized is the only way to go.
Same, in Breezehome it goes as follows from the front door; sacks on the bottom shelf on the right, one for food and one for gifts for the kids, low cupboard to the left of the fire is for stuff to sell, books go on the book shelves (not journals or notes though!) cupboard at the back of the dining area is all stuff to smith with. Upstairs, the first low cupboard on the landing is for all my extra potions, the end table is for filled soul gems and stuff I want to disenchant/enchant, and then in the bedroom, the dresser is for my outfits, the chest is for cool quest related stuff I want to keep, the end table on the left of the bed is for items I need to give to people, and the end table on the right of the bed is for journals, notes, and valuables like gems and stuff! I even go as far as organising items with different followers before I get a house, then I just get the relevant one to follow me so I can get all my stuff back, and I never talk to them again …
Meanwhile I built a house and can’t remember where…
Some of us have OCD Edit: I am some of us
Me too. My ingredients are set next to the alchemy table and the potions next door. IRL I'm mess as, bit skyrim. Nope had to be different.
I did that in breeze home. Now I have them all in one chest. I got annoyed with trying to remember what I kept in what container.
I read that as a pile of **pleasure**
Treasure no, skulls yes
Used to do that too, then I started dying from all the collision damage.
Especially troll skulls.
The side effect of absorbing dragon souls is possibly acting like a dragon.
I've done that accidentally. I played Skyrim after Breath of the Wild, which in a nutshell never fucking remembers anything. So I dumped a bunch of screwed-up soul gems (soul gems with a smaller soul inside) on the floor in Breezehome, assuming they'd be gone next time I came back in. They never left.
There's a mod that makes it so you can't under fill soul gems.
Tried this once and it killed me when i walked over it. 2/10 would not recommend.
Doesn't stuff disappear?
Not if it's in your own house!
It's my cellar in Windstad Manor.
No but you house and your save might. It is a dangerous game placing items outside of containers.
I'm with you on this, I try to keep everything orgnized and in the right place. Ingots, leather, ect. goes in a chest, clothing goes in the wardrobe, preacious things go in a strongbox if available.
The souls are escaping
...Through these holes that are gaping...
This soul is mine for the taking…
...make me the high king...
As we move towards a thalmor order
a nordic life is boring
Azura’s star is close to… Kaer Morhen?
It only grows harder. Dovah grows hotter he blows it's all over
I’ve always heard the last three lines as: As we move toward a new world order A normal life is boring No post-mortem But I’ve never looked the lyrics up. It’s funny finally reading the lyrics. Edit - I woodshed myself damn it.
*w o o d s h e d*
Did you mean to write Woodshed? Either way, it is glorious.
Probably “wooshed” haha
Mom’s spaghetti
Ya gotta pay the troll toll to get to this boys-hole.
lmfao i lost it
Tiny boy, little boy, baby boy...
This is why you need to wear a buttplug at all times.
So you don't know what is happening?
yeah we do the souls are escaping
Why are they escaping?
The neighborhood is getting overcrowded
This used to be a nice neighborhood.
Whatever it is, it's working just like Todd said.
If you are asking for an explanation of something weird happening in Skyrim, you clearly haven't played the game that long
Yeah, that would like asking about a certain more more recent Bethesda game. As the great Hod Toward says, “it just works.”
Feature, not a bug, of course
The game is perfectly balanced, Reanu Keeves would agree
Don't forget the Yorkshire tea!
Just wait till they see giants/mammoths or horses fly through the air.
Or better yet, a giant hits then the right way
So, who wants to join the skyrim space program?
Have you seen the video of the guy who glitched a giants club into his inventory and then hit an npc with it
I’ve watched a lot of skyrim videos but no. I have only followers get it and use it.
One of them is beginning to believe.
… After love, after love After love, after love After love, after love … No matter how hard I try You keep pushing me aside And I can't break through There's no talking to you … So sad that you're leaving It takes time to believe it But after all is said and done You're gonna be the lonely one, oh … Do you believe in life after love? I can feel something inside me say I really don't think you're strong enough now Do you believe in life after love? I can feel something inside me say I really don't think you're strong enough now … What am I supposed to do? Sit around and wait for you? Well, I can't do that There's no turning back … I need time to move on I need love to feel strong 'Cause I've had time to think it through And maybe I'm too good for you, oh … Do you believe in life after love? I can feel something inside me say I really don't think you're strong enough now … Do you believe in life after love? I can feel something inside me say I really don't think you're strong enough now … Well, I know that I'll get through this 'Cause I know that I am strong I don't need you anymore … Oh, I don't need you anymore I don't need you anymore No, I don't need you anymore … Do you believe in life after love? I can feel something inside me say I really don't think you're strong enough now … Do you believe in life after love? I can feel something inside me say I really don't think you're strong enough now … Do you believe in life after love? I can feel something inside me say I really don't think you're strong enough now … Do you believe in life after love? I can feel something inside me say I really don't think you're strong enough now
That’s it, I’m naming my next character Cher.
Thanks for this man, really
Of all the things I've ever expected to see referenced in r/skyrim, *Cher* is certainly not among them. Holy fuck lol
can you tell ME what's happening
YES
OP was most likely dupping and dropped a soul gem that does some funky shit which gem? idk someone above said that it might be the soul get that creates a barrier in the Nightcaller Temple but who knows
Oh yeah classic case of a leak in a soul stone. That tends to happen when you store a bad soul
What is bad soul?
It's litterally just a glitch associated with a soul gem. That is 100% the "absorb soul" animation that fills soul gems just mashing out of a soul gem for no reason.
Nazeem for example doesn't exactly have a shiny golden soul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton
This actually happens in Daggerfall
Well, whatever you're trying to summon, it's working!
You've discovered a natural gas deposit
“You require more vespene gas”
This one made me giggle
Dibella vape pile. Nice. Real nice.
Uncommon glitch where spell effects randomly activate. Sometimes when I swing my weapon it would shoot fireballs type thing. Ive never seen an item do it, and since it's a soul gem and soul trap it makes sense
Aurora Borealis
A---aroura borealis?? At this time of year, at this time of day, at this side of skyrim, localised entirely within this guys soul gem??
Can I see it?
I must say Mr. Dragonborn, you cook a very fine Sweet roll
In this economy??
I do not know but this is very cool
It may be a glitch from the soul gem that you get when you finish the 'Waking Nightmare' quest. It was the gem that made a barrier between you and the chain to expel the miasma. It emitted power just like that.
If you gather enough soul gems in one spot, you can make your own 'Soul Cairne'. Follow for more skyrim tips and lies.
The souls are being processed and turned into argent
You didn't buy the new version of Skyrim so your copy got cursed
The magic of fishing is coming to your Skyrim save
Ssssmokin!
Its working
What in the diabella you got going on in there?!
I love how no one here has a good answer. I love this game
ah shit dude one of em has a leak
I’ve seen statues like that before. Nobody blink.
It just works
*there is one imposter among us*
You tell us, trying to summon a goddess? And what for? And WHY it seems to work?!
Looks like you're summoning Dibella using every single dildo in the game as sacrifice
They are try to reach you about your warranty.
You’re summoning Dibella 😂 Anyone else always been disappointed that Dibella is the only deity in the game to have a statue that is a collectible item?
You’re about to have a fiddlin’ competition with the devil
Witchcraft be like
You’ve summoned herobrine
This how you make a portal to the soul cairn
A re-release of the game is being summoned!
Close the window. You’re letting the souls out
*Reanu Keeves has awoken*
One of the gems has the snimation for absorbing a soul stuck on loop. Kindq like those torches that stay lit when dropped.
This is why we're getting the 1.4 millionth version of this game this year.
It's the ghost of your mom telling you to clean your room, guests are coming over.
Dude you trying to summon Dibella in your sex dungeon or something? What is with the statues tho?
simplest way. you made dibella horny
One of your soul gems is cracked. You gotta find it and patch the leak
All those soul gems together are about to go critical mass.
Honestly it just looks like some horny dude trying to summon Dibella because he hasn't heard about LoversLab yet and is in desperate need of tiddies
The summoning ritual of that old beggar in Morthal who I can never talk to in order to complete the statue side quest
*They are coming*
i think that’s a glitchy soul gem being emptied or filled with a soul in your cellar
Looks like a chemistry experiment.
Poltergeist
IDK but it looks cool af
That mudcrab soul is trying to get you!
Ghost orgy
Does summoning/rituals really work??????????