#oblivion crisis

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

I’d like to live through a week that’s not a whole new verse of “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”

Martin Septim, at some point during the Oblivion Crisis, probably

[nooklingposting]

Priest of Akatosh

What started as a quick doodle to try a new art style turned into hours of staring at Martin Septim. So really, a great day!

[scales-like-ash]

"What do you mean your hist forbids it ?! It's inactive! For over 200 years!"

"You heard me! I won't go near these... Things... and neither should you! The Rootmenders told us of their danger!"

"The Root-?! By Mora's great eye... Fine! Fine! We won't go there!"

"Are... Are you pouting?! By the Hist..."

"No, i'm not! ...you stupid tree-kisser..."

"I heard that!"

"Good!"

" ... We should gather some wood for the camp, Tentacle-kisser."

"... Yes we should, alright, let me help you, Tree-lover, hehe."

Sometimes a Child of the Hist and a Daedra Worshipper might get into a little argument when it comes to deadric relics and ruins but nothing that could hurt a true friendship :>

[gameguy20100]

My favorite thing about Oblivion Crisis from Elder Scrolls is that two nations that were "the best" at defending themselves from invading Daedric Armies were Redguards and Argonians. Even more, latter were even casually doing counter-invasions into Oblivion (Elder Scrolls's equivalent to HELL) everytime Daedric portal opened in Black Marsh

Yeah, I love that bit of lore.

The Hist basically turned Argonians into the Deadra's worst nightmare. They even started closing portals because fucking hell those lizards are mean!

[elder-dragon-reposes]

As well as being the Count of Skingrad, Janus Hassildor is a powerful mage. He has served for decades as the Count without a single scandal and is widely known as the Count most liked by his people, though they rarely see him as he lives a rather reclusive lifestyle. This is due to a dark secret that Hassildor is hiding: he and his wife Rona Hassildor are vampires. He can interact with the Hero of Kvatch several times throughout Oblivion, in both the Main and Mages Guild Questlines and some side quests. 

Biography

Around fifty years before the Oblivion Crisis, Janus and his wife Rona Hassildor were attacked and turned by vampires. Janus came to accept their new lives, but Rona saw it as a curse and refused to drink even donated blood. She would soon fall into a coma and Janus began to look for a way to cure his wife so that she could find peace once more. During his time as Count, Janus has been successful in helping Skingrad grow and thrive, which makes him very well-liked by the people even as reclusive as he is. Very few people are aware of his condition, but the Hero of Kvatch becomes one of them. He feels no kinship toward other vampires and hates vampire hunters. He also hates necromancers and the Mythic Dawn faction. 

During the Main Questline quest Allies for Bruma, the Hero of Kvatch will approach Hassildor and request his assistance to prepare for the Great Gate fight. He will refuse to send any aid while there is an Oblivion Gate outside of Skingrad as they cannot afford to lose any men. After the Hero of Kvatch closes the gate, he will agree to send guards to Bruma. Skingrad supplies one guard for the fight.

Hassildor is interacted with twice during the Mages Guild Questline. The first time, the Hero of Kvatch is sent by the guild to retrieve a book from Hassildor. After speaking to one of his stewards, Mercator Hosidus, the Hero of Kvatch is directed to a location outside of Skingrad where it is revealed that Mercator is a necromancer and will attempt to kill the Hero of Kvatch. Hassildor will appear and help to defeat the necromancers. It is revealed that there was never a book to be retrieved and that they were likely lied to and sent to spy on him instead. He tells them that he is not allied with the Necromancers and sends them back to the guild. The second encounter with Hassildor starts when he sends for the Hero of Kvatch to give them some information he has that will assist the council. Once they assist Hassildor by clearing out a vampire hideout and getting rid of a group of vampire hunters in Skingrad, Hassildor will reveal that Mannimarco has returned. 

Finally, the Hero of Kvatch can interact with Hassildor while searching for a cure for vampirism. Hassildor will explain that he and his wife had become infected and how Rona slipped into a coma. He then sends them to a group of witches who are rumored to know the cure and bring it back to him. Once the Hero of Kvatch finds the cure, Janus gives it to Rona and she dies after a short interaction between the two. The Hero of Kvatch is then free to also take the cure, but Hassildor will not as he wishes to continue ruling over Skingrad though he does appreciate knowing that he has the option for a cure. 

Cool Quotes

"You impossible fool. What possessed you to think I would suggest a meeting here, of all places? At least your gullibility served some useful purpose. I knew about Mercator, but not his friends. Now none of them are a threat any longer."

"Yes, I see that now. I regret that Traven has involved you in this way. At least you've survived... for now. Perhaps in the future, you can be trusted enough to deal with more serious matters. Now, our business here is concluded. I suggest you return to your Council."

 "While Skingrad is threatened by an Oblivion Gate, I cannot spare any soldiers for Bruma. Whatever you may think of me, I still protect my own. This is my city, and Mehrunes Dagon will not have it while I remain Count of Skingrad."

"Believe me, Mehrunes Dagon will know he was in a fight if he tries to take this city from me."

[phrogarmyinvasion]

Oh my god I am Tina Belcher...

Okay so I'm a huge fan of Bob's Burgers, okay? Like I can quote at least one line per two episodes (at *least*), I do Duncan impressions literally every day, I dressed as Tina for Halloween, I cried for an hour during episode 22 of season 13, etc.

I am ALSO a huge Skyrim fan... who is currently researching maps, Fourth Era political systems in the Summerset Isles, Greybeards age estimations, and random aspects of the Oblivion crisis. Because I am writing smut. Lore accurate, slow burn, plot-heavy smut. I do not know why I am doing this, nor could I accurately explain my reasoning, other than I was bored and it seemed like a good idea. But I look at my research, I look at the tags, and I see what I have done... who I have become... and I am merely an older Tina Belcher.

I think I need to lie down.

[sixdragonflies]

IN WHICH I WRITE AN OBLIVION FANFIC IN 2024 FORGIVE ME PLEASE!

Anyways, yeah. exactly that. I thought I’d let yall read, so if ya like Oblivion....here’s some content because I have been so fucking caught on what the hell happened to martin Pre-TES IV and I hope u wanna theorize with me and go along w me as I make this shit up lol.

MARTIN POV Pre-TES IV

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Martin Septim & Original Character(s), Martin Septim & Original Male Character(s), Martin Septim & Savlian Mathis Characters: Martin Septim, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Savlian Matius Additional Tags: Daedra (Elder Scrolls), Daedra Worship (Elder Scrolls), Mages Guild (Elder Scrolls) - Freeform, Drunkenness, Drunken Shenanigans, Betrayal, Major Character Injury, Public Nudity, Emotional Hurt, Fighting, Drinking, Angst, Sanguine Rose (Elder Scrolls), Martin's POV, Kvatch (Elder Scrolls), Pre-Oblivion Crisis, Cyrodiil (Elder Scrolls), no beta we die like men, if u wanna beta pls message, bc i havent written since quizilla and have no idea how to ask Series: Part 1 of The Last Septim Summary:

A pre-Oblivion crisis look into Martin's life before he was thrown onto the throne, where he struggles with Sanguine and keeping his head attached to his body. From the POV of Martin.

[ambarys]

During my bug testing I’ve recently been doing a run-through of Molag Mar in Skywind, loving how it turned out. Did a bit of wandering in Vivec City last week, love how unique and diverse the cantons look now. You can really see the difference between them from a distance.

[old-antecedent]

Dagon gets a bad rap from you all. It may be hard to see as a mortal, but as an et'Ada he's genuinely funny. For example, the Oblivion Crisis was far more humorous than you believe. Really, it was a joke we all were roped into helping with. Consider my part in it. Why would Mehrunes title a book he wrote "The Mysterium Xarxes"? A title literally meaning "The Secrets of Xarxes" sounds a lot more like it was written by Xarxes to me. But that's the point. Note Xarxes's position in Bosmeri culture. All that's in the Mysterium, really, is a list of transgressive potentials for great change. I cataloged some of Akavir's stranger histories in exchange for Dagon telling me how he failed to trick Alduin. Letting him take the credit for writing it lead to the most robust joke of the whole thing. Mankar Camoran was this joke. The bastard child of a (usurper) king, elevated to cosmic importance by learning of his bloodline and receiving a grand artefact to help him achieve his destiny. Remind you of anyone? He's a carefully engineered reflection of Martin Septim. The whole Septim bloodline killed by what amounts to Martin's evil twin; the empire toppled by a single elf with a stupid book! This is why the Mysterium Xarxes had this name — to convince Camoran it was of his history and make him feel more connected to it. How could the situation be made any funnier? Do not take the Deadlands' invasion of Nirn as a failed campaign. See it as a change of the channel which lead to much more interesting programming. Though I never much cared for television.

[g3rladthel4d]

Martin’s royal robes inspo board/ ideas:

they can’t pry the Martin lives AU out of my cold dead hands even if they tried.

[acornsinmypocket]

The Iranian missile attack on Israel last week consisted of about 200 missiles. Each of those cost about a million dollars to produce. This means that the Iranian government thinks **200 million dollars** would do more good exploding over the sky somewhere else than being used for welfare, education and infrastructure inside Iran. I wonder how many Iranian lives that is in car accidents and cancer medicine. Every rocket shot by Hamas costs about 800$ to produce. By a very conservative estimate they averaged spending about 700,000$ a year between 2001-2021 just on rockets. They also spend about 300 thousand dollars for a kilometer of underground tunnels. They likely have about 800km. That's 240 million dollars. I'm not even counting other war spendings right now. I wonder how many parents wouldn't have had to wait for permits getting their children heart surgeries in israeli hospitals. I wonder how many impoverished young people could have received scholarships to become engineers and musicians and climate leaders and architects. I wonder what relations of mutual growth a thriving Gaza could have built with both Israel and Egypt. I also wonder how many disabled people won't receive financial aid, how many schools would go underfunded, how many people will die in understaffed hospital wards in israel this year because some rabid militarist decided this money is better spent killing people abroad to perpetuate the pointless cycle of retaliations. I'm also furious at all of this. And so fucking tired.

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Martin, literally at any point in his life: I'm just trying to have a nice time despite knowing facts and information.

[nooklingposting]

‘I prayed to Akatosh all through that terrible night, but no help came.’

- Martin my beloved

[teamcapwasrightandishouldsayit]

what would happen if someone used the dragon resurrection shout (Slen Tiid Vo) on martin septim's statue/corpse? i mean... it resurrects dragons, as long as no-one's absorbed their soul. he was sort of a dragon and as far as i know nobody absorbed his soul. do you think it would work

[redgoldblue]

so assuming Avery is actually pregnant / doesn't early-trimester miscarry (which is not a given), there's two reasonable ways this can go, right. number one is she gets an abortion, the plotline is used to pull them all back together again, and they all have some collective hurt/comfort about it. number two, the one i would write - don't get me wrong, i'm all for women getting career-driven abortions, but hear me out - is the one where she does have the baby. under the cut bc it got long.

she goes to med school at first while pregnant - Max is right, it can be done, people in my cohort did it - and either gets lucky with the timing of the actual birth being during holidays, or just works her way to getting time off for a few weeks around it. And then... there's a baby. And you know what else there is? There's two dads (because we're 100% Mamma Mia-ing this bitch. they never find out who the bio dad is and they never seriously try. Baby comes out with Avery's exact skin tone so that's no clue.), and an entire cruise ship worth of backup babysitters. So Avery goes back to med school, and leaves the baby with Tristan and Max.

And, yes, raising a baby while also running an infirmary with a rotating cast of temporary substitute nurses filling Avery's role isn't the easiest thing they've ever done, but Robert loves fulfilling grandparent duties any time he's not on duty; Rosie gets one of those strap-on baby carriers and walks her (i don't know why i've decided the baby is a her but i have now) around the engine room pointing out parts and explaining concepts and hey, the baby never complains about her Michigan stories; Corey gets a cart and a bundle of clean sheets and pushes her down the corridors until the smell of laundry powder automatically makes her start laughing.

Max and Tristan make a pact to send Avery at least two photos a day - which ends up getting supplemented by everyone else who's with Baby - and FaceTime her most days, and whenever she gets a few days off she meets them in port. (The most expensive part of baby-raising ends up being her flights to wherever the Odyssey happens to be at the time, at least until Robert finds out and figures out a way to start paying her 'maternity leave', despite her insistence that the whole point of this is that she isn't maternity-leaving and he should probably be paying himself that and anyway, isn't she technically not an employee right now?)

And the thing is, during this time, Max and Tristan start... realising some things. Like how neither of them feel like they've lost their only partner, because they.. haven't. Like how the co-parenting's been working out better than either of them expected, because they fell instantly (minus a few minor bumps) into a shared rhythm. Like how sometimes they look at the other one holding Baby and feel like their heart's about to explode.

Also, they've both started sleeping in Max's bed. Because Baby's spent so much time sleeping in the corner of the infirmary that now if she wakes up at night and can't see both of them, she starts crying inconsolably. And obviously Max's suite is more suited to multiple inhabitants, and they're usually too damn exhausted to even remember the first time they were in this bed together.

(usually. most of the time. and when they're not, they don't make it the other's problem)

So at the end of the first year of this, the last two days of the year's last cruise have been packed with crisis after crisis after demanding patient after crisis, and as soon as they finally wave the last passenger off they hand Baby gratefully over to Robert and go crash out in Max's bed.

Avery was supposed to be meeting them on board tomorrow, but her last exam gets unexpectedly moved up by a day (believe me, med school loves to pull that kind of shit on you), so a couple hours after the passengers have gone, she shows up to surprise them. And finds Robert (a known ody3 shipper) first, who lets her take Baby with minimal captainly sulking about it, and while she rocks and kisses Baby, tells her (as a known ody3 shipper) that the two dads will be on the Pelican deck, but they're probably asleep.

Avery kinda frowns at him, but doesn't question it, and takes Baby up with her to Max's suite to find them. And they are both fast asleep, on either side of Max's bed with a space carefully preserved between them (because it's usually where Baby would be and they're both terrified of accidentally rolling onto her in the middle of the night). She's also exhausted after exams, so she crawls into it, lies on her back with Baby on top of her chest, and goes straight to sleep.

Tristan and Max wake up before her, and when they look across at each other, at Avery and Baby between them, they both simultaneously realise, oh. oh. oh, this - this three, two-and-half, four people, all together - this is it. this is the love, this is the children, this might even be the home - the second, third, fourth bucket list items to happen in this bed.

[elder-dragon-reposes]

Burd is the Captain of Bruma’s City Guard and helps to lead the Defense of Bruma during the Oblivion Crisis. He also assists the Hero of Kvatch and the Blades in uncovering the Mythic Dawn hiding in the city. 

Biography

Not much is known about Burd before the events of Oblivion. As captain, Burd is considered to be tough but fair by the townspeople. His position also allows him to serve as an advisor for the Countess of Bruma, Narina Carvain. 

Once the Mythic Dawn and their spies begin to look around Bruma for weaknesses in Cloud Ruler Temple, Burd grants the Hero of Kvatch permission to search a potential spy's house. When the Hero finds proof that the Mythic Dawn is preparing to attack Bruma and Cloud Ruler Temple by opening a Great Oblivion Gate nearby, Burd does everything within his power to prevent Bruma from becoming another Kvatch. 

Once the Oblivion Gates begin to open all around the city, Burd enters the first gate alongside the Hero of Kvatch to learn how to close the gates. After closing the gate with the Hero’s help, Burd returns to the guard and puts his men on constant alert to help prevent Burma from being overrun by Daedra. He also communicates with the Blades throughout this. Burd fights in the Battle of Bruma while the Hero of Kvatch enters and closes the Great Oblivion Gate. 

Cool Quotes

"Believe me, it was no picnic. But thanks to our friend here, I now know we can close these hell-gates. We can defend Bruma!"

"It was an honor to serve with you, sir. Now that I've seen how it's done, I think my guardsman can handle any new Gates that open near Bruma."

"This is no place I ever wanted to find myself. I don't see how we can ... No ... no, we can do this. We have to do this. We have no choice. I'm glad you're here. We wouldn't have a chance otherwise. What's our next move?"

"Thanks for coming. Since we had the Hero of Kvatch available, I didn't think it made sense to try this on our own the first time. We're ready when you are. Just say the word and we'll follow you into that hell-spawned Gate."