#Im not surprised the most focused on character and faction is LaChance and the Dark Brotherhood

[two-bit-socrates]

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

I made some notes in a post earlier about how I thought Mankar Cameron deliberately let him and his kids be killed for the hero of kvatch to take the amulet. Now I'm very sure of it but also not because that would imply Bethesda were intentionally telling a thoroughly plotted out saga. Still, if The Elder Scrolls were a thoroughly plotted out saga it would make sense on a grandeur scale of things that Mankar deliberately set himself up to be caught and the amulet reclaimed if the plan wasn't actually for Dagon to take over Tamriel.

I just installed Skyrim on my Steam Deck and I installed Morrowind on my laptop and I have 500 other things I should and rather be doing but they're not happening rn.

EDIT: I keep coming back to the story telling and environmental design and social interactions of Oblivion and how it's not a well thought out and researched story but it's an odd way of interacting with a world that is a bare bones fantasy reflection of the u.s. in 2006 from the perspectives of people who didn't seem like they interacted with people that much. I just started up Skyrim again a few hours ago and it feels the same way but later as these same people get more exposed to life being chronically online.

I'm aware this doesn't sound like cohesive thoughts but my brain is fatigued but won't stop rotating oblivion inside it so I'm writing it down for now.

#the elder scrolls #skyrim #oblivion #morrowind #martin septim #hero of kvatch #Im not surprised the most focused on character and faction is LaChance and the Dark Brotherhood #Every npc in oblivion is so separate and distant and the towns have that capitalism alienation without the full elements to cause it #But the dark brotherhood has that fake family closeness full of people with the most violent thoughts that they act on #And that faction feels more fleshed out as if the rest of the world was designed for the brotherhood to act on their desire to kill #The game feels like the writing came from a angsty teen learning about world building to get the anger out #And i don't have a problem with that #But it makes me sad how some people will get upset about 'psychoanalysing' writers of a story which isn't what it is #It's analyzing the world through the various lenses of knowledge and concepts that the analyzer has to grasp the different perspectives bei #Shown #Just like how everything is political there is always something more that is being said when speaking