#oblivion

[uesp]

Pictured: Houses with the unique architectural style of The Imperial City that become unoccupied over the events of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and the actual house that the Imperial City will sell to you.

#uesp #the elder scrolls #lore #oblivion #I was more referring to Jakben Imbel's and Umbacano's mansions #but technically the Imperial Palace behind them is also missing its primary occupant...

[elderscrollsconceptart]

"Decayed Pomp"

concept art for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Shivering Isles DLC

Art by Adam Adamowicz

#adam adamowicz #the elder scrolls #tes #art #concept art #the shivering isles #shivering isles #fantasy #oblivion

[mukuuji]

the lavender field

#fanart #the elder scrolls #oblivion #my oc #brett

[oblivionloading]

2020 can't possibly get any worse. (One of the few times a post ends up getting dated for the joke. If memory serves me right, this was right at the end of the year, a few days before New Year's Eve.)

#The Elder Scrolls #Elder Scrolls #tesblr #oblivion

[skyrim-forever]

Please reblog/reply with where and why! I'm curious :)

#tesblr #tes #the elder scrolls #skyrim #oblivion #morrowind #tes polls

[moraelyn]

#oblivion #oblivion meme

[thescrolls-haveforetold]

i have no oc to do knights of the nine so yk what? BAURUS knights of the nine. BAURUS can do it

#the elder scrolls #tes #oblivion #baurus is best

[molags-balls]

#skyrim #funny #elder scrolls #morrowind #oblivion

[hyrmamoras]

#oblivion #not mine

[oblivionloading]

Talking smack to the local guard captain is a great way to get your ass kicked... At level three, anyway.

#The Elder Scrolls #Elder Scrolls #tesblr #oblivion

[hugintheraven]

How Bethesda fixed Vampires without realizing it

So there's a LOT of takes on vampires across media, and most of them are radically different from each other. The Elder Scrolls series has an interesting version that I haven't seen anywhere else, that incidentally fixes a bunch of lore issues with vampires, and yet Bethesda hasn't ever really leaned into any of that.

So, the issue with vampires in large RPGs like Elder Scrolls games, D&D, etc, is that a world where various elements of character building are supposed to be balanced, vampires are heavy on the upside and light on meaningful drawbacks. So in Oblivion, Bethesda completely reworked their vampires, coming at it with a blank slate:

Vampirism is a 4-stage affliction, with each stage increasing the numerous benefits of being a vampire as well as the middling drawbacks. Stage 4 brings with it all humanoid NPCs recognizing you as a ravenous monster and attacking you, basically wrecking the game. And, this is the unique part, you reduce stages by drinking blood. Being a vampire is LESSENED by doing the most vampiric thing out there, it actively makes you weaker.

And this is great. From a gameplay perspective, you vanish below ground to kill zombies/robots/whatever, and you grow stronger as the dungeon goes on. But if you don't rush through it, or if it's large, you surface having ignored your hunger for several days and have to do a whole second quest to sneak into town at night and drink blood, where the only reward is to engage with the game again. It's a drawback in the gameplay sense rather than the stats sense. And it lets game designers throw the player against weak vampires in town early on, and face dungeons full of max-bloodlust monsters later once the player knows how things work.

Meanwhile, from a lore perspective this is also great. Suddenly, it's not that vampires have to be evil, it's that they have a choice. A good person who flees their family to hide in a cave is going to starve, turning into a ravenous, uncontrolled, extremely strong monster. Someone who's comfortable sneaking around town drinking blood, meanwhile? They never lose control. They walk in the sun. They're perfectly human. Or as human as anyone can be while the blood of their neighbors flows in their veins.

And Bethesda doesn't DO ANYTHING with this. People you talk to in-game just treat it as "all vampires are evil, why would you expect anything else", when they've created a world where vampire morality is so much more interesting. The few vampires who exist in civilization that you're not supposed to kill don't really discuss their condition at all. And there's plenty of evil vampires choosing to live in caves running societies of vampires, when that makes no sense compared to basically any other way of life they could set up.

Bethesda games are a masterful disaster, in this as in everything else.

#The Elder Scrolls #Oblivion #Skyrim #Vampires

[sloppystyle]

#v #oblivion

[sourcreammachine]

rule

#196 #r196 #r/196 #/r/196 #literally 19684 #r/196archive #196 campfire #rule #apartmentofawesome #oblivion

[molags-balls]

Skyrim's graphics haven't aged one bit. Still beautiful in 2024.

#skyrim #elder scrolls #morrowind #funny #oblivion

[unrinconmas]

Why Oblivion is so fun?

#humor #funny #games #tes #the elder scrolls #oblivion #videos

[oblivionloading]

The Black Horse Courier is named after the black horse that kicked the head of the person who wrote the first story for the paper, mere seconds after completing it.

#The Elder Scrolls #Elder Scrolls #tesblr #oblivion