#martin septim tes

[m00n-elixir]

they've been wanting that cookie so bad for 200 years 😔😔

original 👇👇

[brambeag]

remake schmemake

[sigrid-of-solstheim]

I love the part in Oblivion when you get back to Cloud Ruler after trying to recover the amulet of kings and Martin's like "you're back! I told Jauffre not to worry :D" And then you turn around and talk to Jauffre and he tells you Martin barely slept while you were gone.

[mostwantedpotato404]

MARTIN SEPTIM/SEAN BEAN I'M COMING

[olessan]

Virtuos and Bethesda appear to have taken a lot of care with the new character models, and for Martin and Uriel in particular they've apparently gone as far as to have:

made Martin look noticeably like Uriel VII, enough that you could probably tell they were related if they ever stood side by side - the eyebrows and nose especially, which are pretty much 1:1

made the new faces with apparently some consideration for their voice actors' appearance despite no mocap, e.g. Uriel's nose looks a LOT like Patrick Stewart's

And both of these are while they (and seemingly the majority of the npcs) also look extremely on-model to the OG models, and not to later interpretations (e.g. the Legends cards)

[virtintin]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN OBLIVION REMASTERED IS OUT AND I HAVEN'T SEEN A SINGLE MARTIN PHOTO

MARTIN I NEED YOU

[kaylluwu]

oblivion remake but the only difference is the added ability to hold martins hand and tell him you appreciate him

[malkaveean]

damn they need to add some kind of warning that there are new cutscenes in oblivion remastered. just booted up the game and martin septim appeared out of nowhere he kissed the hero of kvatch with tongue too. sorry todd i didn't know you were chill like that

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Martin Septim

3D render for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

Artist Unknown

[vseerundaa]

[mmadnesss]

martin septim seeing the hero of kvatch for the first time and immediately being drawn to them

and when they say they’re here for him? that he’s the son of the late emperor, and they’re bound to sweep him away to jauffre? the way they look at him, like he’s the one thing that matters in the Nine’s almighty world. oh, that will take some getting used to.

he is cautious at first, of course— he knows because his time before he was a priest that the instant allure of anything is something to be wary of. by the time they’ve almost arrived to weynon priory, the two have made camp out in the wilderness beneath the moons of Nirn so many times, shared a campfire for warmth between their bedrolls night after night, he can tell when they’ve fallen asleep by the sound of their breath, the characteristic twitches of their legs.

he also knows how to tell when his hero is having a nightmare, the plane of oblivion come back to haunt them even in their sleep. knows when to wake them up, to lull them into a calmer state of sleep with a little conversation, perhaps telling them stories of his youth, his days as a farmer’s son. sweet nothing tales of him chasing runaway chickens around the yard. anything to keep the daedra from visiting them in their sleep. when the hero asks him to pull his bedroll closer to theirs, he knows it’s over for him.

oh, he’s smitten. completely gone. but the hero doesn’t know; how could they? they’re bound by their word to uriel, their late emperor, the father he never knew. that was all this was, wasn’t it? first, he was their mission. then, he was just someone familiar. someone who knew at least a fraction of the horror that the hero experienced inside the oblivion gate because he bore witness to the siege of kvatch.

nothing would come of these feelings he had. nothing could.

until the night before they’re to arrive at weynon priory, he hears the hero mutter his name in their sleep. so softly at first, that he could have been hearing things. but then when the hero repeats themselves, a few minutes later… well, perhaps his situation wasn’t as hopeless as he thought. he can’t help the grin that tugs at the corners of his lips as he closes his eyes, falling asleep to the sound of his hero’s breath.

[soliiform]

I saw a clip of the Mehrunes Dagon v Akatosh fight in the Oblivion Remaster and the way the dragon looks back at the HoK before turning to a statue hurts me.

[sigrid-of-solstheim]

Can you even blame Martin for making googoo eyes at the Hero of Kvatch? Imagine your whole city gets demolished by the legions of hell and you're stuck barricaded in a church praying for a miracle when a 6ft tall beefy Nord woman busts in covered in demon blood with a cigarette on her lip and personally princess carries you to safety. Of course he's smitten.

[babyblueetbaemonster]

Sophistry!

[olessan]

I had expected the NPCs to not be very close to their OG likenesses and am very surprised to see how on-model not only Martin, but also Lucien and Vincente look.

The main differences here appear to be:

Martin: his eyes are further apart closer to average. His eyebrows have the same overall shape despite the texture quality difference.

Lucien: slightly more obvious curve on the upper lip, and he has a more obvious beard now (similar to Martin, IMO this was the OG stubble texture being like 20px in resolution). Nose has an asymmetrical bump at the base.

Vicente: his head isn't as broad but keeps his overall silhouette, and his eyes are at less of an angle now - but they have changed colour, vampires appear to all have icy blue eyes in the remaster.

This close of a 1:1 match is likely so consistent across all the NPCs (see: the Adoring Fan and some of the wonkier ones) because Virtuos and Bethesda made new models for the character creation shape keys, and probably did not attempt to resculpt anyone to have unique faces. Most of the OG NPCs are made with the same CC that players use, and the same is true here.

LotRO is another game that recently got a character model update that worked the same way.

[kiranokira]

You could have atleast kissed the brick before throwing it at me 💔💔