A New Generation Is Trying to Save the Emperor in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered — and the Assassin Corpses Are Piling Up

If you’ve played The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion oregon its precocious released Oblivion Remastered, you’ll cognize the opening tutorial conception and its iconic 'leaving the Imperial sewers' infinitesimal well. You’ll besides cognize each astir that shocking decease that arrives conscionable earlier you marque your last flight and, blinking, look into the beauteous unfastened satellite of Cyrodiil.

Warning! Spoilers for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered follow.

The shocking decease I’m talking astir present is of people the assassination of Emperor Uriel Septim, an assassination helium knows is coming and has travel to presumption with. Veteran fans person replayed Oblivion capable astatine this constituent to cognize it’s coming, too. But backmost successful 2006 erstwhile Oblivion archetypal came out, it became a rite of transition to effort to prevention him from the inevitable Mythic Dawn backstab that kicks disconnected the story.

Hundreds of arrow shots aboriginal and players soon discovered that determination was thing that could beryllium done to prevention mediocre aged Septim, not without tinkering with the crippled with mods oregon console commands. Oblivion lone truly makes consciousness if the Emperor dies astatine the beginning, truthful it stands to crushed that the developers astatine Bethesda forced it to hap nary substance what the subordinate did to effort to halt it.

And now, 20 years later, a caller procreation of Oblivion fans is trying to prevention the Emperor, and by that I mean trying and failing successful overmuch the aforesaid way. Players are waiting, bow and arrow primed, for the assassin to look from the shadows successful a bid to termination him earlier helium stabs the Emperor, but alas, it is nary good.

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Some newcomers to the crippled didn’t adjacent cognize they were expected to speech to the Emperor successful the archetypal place, and truthful ended up with a country afloat of dormant assassins arsenic the endless watercourse of Mythic Dawn goons emerged to conflict the group.

Others are seeking retired their revenge connected the Mythic Dawn, piling those corpses high.

Newcomers are besides discovering that the assassins volition conscionable support connected coming if you don't speech to the Emperor. They won't stop. They can't stop. They are infinite.

— Eclipse (Miniatures Arc) (@3clipserenders) April 27, 2025

Other players are taking to console commands to spot what happens, and, yes, it breaks the cutscene that’s expected to play retired aft the Emperor is killed.

If you’re thing similar me, erstwhile you archetypal played Oblivion you reloaded your prevention to effort to prevention the Emperor and, aft aggregate failed attempts, gave up. I confess I besides tried successful Oblivion Remastered, conscionable successful lawsuit the developers added immoderate caller result to the game, but alas, the Emperor indispensable dice now, successful 2025, conscionable arsenic helium had to each those years ago.

Meanwhile, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered players are informing newcomers to bash Kvatch earlier the level scaling makes it an implicit nightmare. We’ve besides got a study connected a subordinate who managed to flight the confines of Cyrodiil to research Valenwood, Skyrim, and adjacent Hammerfell, the rumored mounting of The Elder Scrolls VI.

And beryllium definite to cheque retired our broad usher to everything you'll find successful Oblivion Remastered, including an expansive Interactive Map, implicit Walkthroughs for the Main Questline and each Guild Quest, How to Build the Perfect Character, Things to Do First, each PC Cheat Code, and overmuch more.

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