YouTuber Camelworks solved one of Skyrim's longest-standing mysteries. It's the curious case of the bugs in jars. You've perhaps run across one or two of these curiosities during your travels sometime in the past six years. Those big glass jars with big cork lids that house one living bug specimen inside. There's a bee, a butterfly, a dragonfly, a luna moth, and a torch bug. Only five. They're so rare they might as well be unique.
But why are they in the game? Is there some mission related to them? Do the symbols carved on the inside of their lids the answer to some map-spanning riddle? The far-flung theories and even further-flung math and linguistic translations have brought up no concrete answers.
Until now. At nearly 17 minutes, it's a long video. Camelworks is mainly describing the arduous search for an answer. But he got the answer. And he didn't put on a tin foil hat to get to it. He got at Skyrim's level designers, the tight-lipped people with the actual answer.
You're not going to like the answer.
Skip ahead to about 10:10 if you don't care about the process Camelworks went through.
