The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Dragonborn

as we take a look at five more intriguing mysteries in The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim.

Starting off, who are Mirak's cultists and where are they coming from? Okay, so after the player has completed the main quest, Dragon Rising, in which you discover you are indeed a Dragonborn, if you have the Dragonborn DLC installed, a new random encounter becomes available, in which it is now possible for the player to suddenly be ambushed by strange, very interestingly dressed mages, called Cultists.

who will assault the player with a whole variety of spells, all the while hurling insults, declaring you to be a false Dragonborn, and professing their loyalty to Mirak.

Sometimes, they'll even question you for a moment before attacking, asking how you could be such a heretic.

Generally speaking, these encounters are somewhat on the rare side, and they'll most often happen early in the Dragonborn DLC's questline.

often before you even bothered to visit Solstheim.

And by the time you've completed the questline and killed Mirak, these encounters will stop entirely.

So let's do that, and then we'll move into what ESO has to say.

Mirak feels like an almost perfect fit, the current champion of Hermaeus Mora and primary antagonist of the Dragonborn DLC.

This man was the first ever Dragonborn, the first human born with the soul of Edova, and he was a dragon priest for much of his life.

You probably know the story from here.

Furthermore, all versions of Jilrend have a special enchantment known to the game's files as Frost Feed, which enables it to deliver 30 points of frost damage per swing, and also gives it a tiny chance to paralyze foes with every blow.

The combined stats and magical abilities of this item make it quite the force to be reckoned with, and some suspect that it may be based in Stalrim, a special type of magical ice we don't actually get to see until the arrival of the Dragonborn DLC.

Though unfortunately, while Chilrend absolutely has an interesting backstory we'll delve into, we can't actually be 100% sure of its origins and confirm that theory.

The sword made its first appearance way back in the Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion, where it could be given to the hero of Kvatch as a reward by a farmer named Vaelis Odil for defending his farm from a goblin attack, and protecting both of his sons during the quest The Killing Field.

The only difference is its name.

That said, such a change in title may be indicative of a different backstory as well.

The Blades are of course an ancient organization dedicated to defending the Dragonborn.

Their origins are rooted thousands of years ago, way back during the First Era, when an army from the mysterious far eastern continent of Akavir invaded Tamriel.