The Cadwell Conspiracy

pierceoftheender · July 2014

---COLDHARBOUR SPOILERS---

If any of you remember the main quest were you can choose to bring Cadwell back with you to tamriel after you jumped into the water and saved Sai Sahan, and you DID choose to bring him back. My conspiracy, or I guess you could say "PROBLEM" with that quest and the coldharbour quest is... HOW THE HECK DOES HE TELEPORT FROM TAMRIEL TO COLDHARBOUR??? (level 44+ will understand) anyways you bring him back from coldharbour and then go there AGAIN and see him, just standing there?!?! i even went back to the Harborage to see if he was still there... YEP. either Zenimax intended this or didnt, i have no idea.

Nazon_Katts · July 2014

Don't mock my friend Cadwell. It's a condition of mental divergence. You find him on the plane of Coldharbour, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the deadric hordes of Molag Bal. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for you and him in every way, nevertheless Coldharbour is actually a construct of the Daedra. He is mentally divergent, in that he is escaping certain unnamed realities that plague his life here on Nirn. When he stops going there, he will be well. Are you also divergent, friend?

pierceoftheender · July 2014

Nazon_Katts wrote: »

Don't mock my friend Cadwell. It's a condition of mental divergence. You find him on the plane of Coldharbour, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the deadric hordes of Molag Bal. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for you and him in every way, nevertheless Coldharbour is actually a construct of the Daedra. He is mentally divergent, in that he is escaping certain unnamed realities that plague his life here on Nirn. When he stops going there, he will be well. Are you also divergent, friend?

im, im not mocking him, HES AMAZING

i just dont understand how he could be leading a group to hollowed city, and be at the harborage 3 min. later

Nazon_Katts · July 2014

Because you and him are in multiple places at once, just at different times. You haven't thought about instantaneous teleporting having side effects, have you?

And for reference (go see that movie, if you haven't):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ya6G5S8MA

WhiteCoatSyndrome · August 2014

Doesn't Cadwell gate in King Dynar later? So probably that way.

Artemiisia · August 2014

after what Cadwell did to me with finished gold, I hate him

Nox_Aeterna · August 2014

Hum funny that you ask.

Cadwell is the players guide , then ask yourself , how can your char be faster than the guy that knows all the paths?

Merlin13KAGL · August 2014

pierceoftheender wrote: »

HOW THE HECK DOES HE TELEPORT FROM TAMRIEL TO COLDHARBOUR???

Same way you do.

Same way dozens of MG and FG members did.

Same way he jumps from place to place to place, exempt from the dangers inherintly in Coldharbor.

In short, inexplicably - he's Cadwell!

CH is his home, for all intents and purposes. Why wouldn't he be able to come to and fro' at will?

(Not to mention his background as Undaunted, his 'ins' with various Aedra and Daedra...) Cadwell is about as well traveled as they come.

Maegi · December 2016

Vanus, that mage you rescue near the end and the ayelid king. Vanus even remarks at some point about how useful Cadwell is for porting around places.

Yes, I realize this thread is 2 years old. Still relevant.

EleonoraCrendraven · December 2016

Oh that crazy genius!

Nestor · December 2016

Caldwell is Angier Stower's Father. His ability to be in two places at once is a familial trait.

Bonzodog01 · January 2017

Cadwell is Meridia's "right hand man". Right from the start, he has been planted to make sure you find your way to her city after having proved yourself on a number of heroic quests against her supposed foe, Molag Bal.

However, theres a huge hole in this that it took me time to work out.

She has endowed him with special fast travel abilities that enable him to pretty much go wherever he likes. This is explained somewhere right near the end of the coldharbour story, but you need to sit and talk to him extensively to get this out of him.