Can you play Skyrim without leaving Windhelm?

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Published 2022-08-09
This is an educational tutorial on how to survive in Skyrim as a Dark Elf without ever leaving the city of Windhelm. Solving crimes, breaking economies, and saving the ocean all in one package.

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0:00 - Chapter 1
4:32 - Chapter 2
10:45 - Windhelm Noire
19:09 - Disco Windhelsium
25:29 - Windhelmillionaire
26:36 - Democracy

All Comments (21)
  • @bobbyferg9173
    One way you can make infinite money in Windhelm is by selling the strange amulet to Calixto and pickpocketing it from him to them sell it to him again. His panic over someone finding his amulet sets him in an infinite loop of materializing money to not get caught
  • I still remember the first time I played Blood on the Ice on the old 360 version. Got to the part he kills the lady in the market place and apparently the game just randomly chooses a woman in windhelm for him to axe. In this case it ended up being the argonian lady who lived outside at the docks, who I had married. So when I got the quest to catch the murderer in the act he just stood in the market for 2 whole days, until my wife walked there from Riften to be murdered in front of like 12 people.
  • For those wondering how to solve Blood on the Ice without implicating the mage, show him (the mage) the amulet before talking to the Jarl's servant. He'll point you towards the real murderer. Then you just need to follow Calixto each evening until he pulls out a dagger. As soon as he pulls out the dagger, you can attack him without issue, thus saving the girl, catching the killer, and becoming a hero. If you do it in the right order, the quest doesn't bug out.
  • @CrazyBaby19
    My 12yr old son suggested for you to try and do a challenge without leaving Winterhold but you can enter the college. He also wanted me to tell you that he really enjoys your videos and always looks forward to your new videos.
  • @Janoha17
    That only leaves Markarth as a walled city to see how much can be done without leaving. For the added challenge, you HAVE to save Margret from the Forsworn in the market.
  • @aurochtamer
    Not sure if they ever fixed it, but there are two argonians in the shelter on the docks who are almost always locked in because the dev's didn't give them keys to get out. If you unlock the door and let them out, they have sidequests. One's a skooma addict who will raise your Sneak skill in exchange for stealing a bottle of skooma for him. The other tells you about Tobjorn Shatter-Shield underpaying the argonians and you can go "convince" him to give them a fair wage.
  • losing it over what is essentially “he’s a dilf he gets a pass” “daddy status” honorable mention
  • Maybe the skill reset mod would be better as something like "every in game day, set all skills back by 5 levels". I feel like this would provide a pretty big challenge while also making advancement still possible.
  • @lefdee
    While the killer quest can be buggy, it helps to not tell the steward about the amulet and have the court mage arrested. Just confront him on your own and he'll plead his case and help you find the real killer. My guess it the branching paths and time sensitive events are what breaks it so much
  • Hey Joov, do you think you can play Skyrim as Gordon Ramsay? Chefs attire, fork as your weapon, heal with only cooked food, and of course shouts.
  • @bubbleshock14
    For years I thought the court mage was the butcher, and for some reason I just assumed the quest ended there. One playthrough I even killed him as revenge for his victims. It's only in my last playthrough that I realised that wasn't the end of the quest and found the real killer. Sorry Wuunferth :(
  • @justme0910
    Blood On The Ice is my favorite Skyrim quest because it has so many interesting ideas (like being able to either save all the potential victims after Susanna if you put the clues together yourself, or get several women murdered through inaction or incompetence), but by the Eight, is it broken. Imagine if you could actually do some proper investigating (beyond looking at a bunch of pots)! Unlock multiple suspects that you can accuse! Have some race-based advantages or disadvantages (like struggling to get the Nords to cooperate with you if you're a Dunmer or Argonian, but being able to get some unique intel from the other Dunmer/Argonians if you are)! Use your knowledge of the arcane arts or your connections to various factions to your advantage! It'd be so fun to figure out the pattern of the murders for yourself with a high enough Conjuration skill. Or to ask someone at the College about the amulet. Or to use the murders as fuel for anti-Stormcloak propaganda if you're with the Imperials. Or if people assumed there was a connection between the Butcher murders and Aventus Aretino trying to call the Dark Brotherhood, leading you to the Innocence Lost quest a bit more organically if you haven't already done it. But alas, 'twas not to be.
  • There's actually a house near where I live that was built almost entirely out of stolen lumber. They eventually got caught but it was still really impressive that they finished it beforehand.
  • @Patterrz
    This is the first time i've seen the fishing in Skyrim and it's exactly what I expected it to be
  • You can also go straight to Wuunferth instead of getting him arrested, he will just go straight to telling you to go and wait for the killer to arrive at a certain time and place in Windhelm.
  • The very last video I watched before this was a ranking of adoptable children, which ended with a heartfelt plea to adopt Sofie and take her out of the cold. Then, I watched the opening of your video.
  • @RatsyTM
    I've recently been doing my own challenge inspired by your playthroughs. It's a challenge where you stay in one settlement in Fallout 4, and trying to build a sprawling community and manufacture items using the Wasteland Workshop DLC. I recommend doing it yourself, as it's super fun and makes you really think!
  • @3102002poma
    About free lockpick: they DO actualy give you one for free. But by them I mean the Theive guild. It is in their rules to give one in prison to any member. But in the game you get it regardless if you in or out of the guild. For fact-checking I can't clearly tell from where I know that, but it is in one of the guild books. There one book for signhts and, if I remember correct, another with such thieth rules
  • @ChipCheerio
    To be fair, the racism of Windhelm is trivial compared to the pure and unmitigated racism of the Dunmer.