There *are* conspiracy in Skingrad! Bernadette was just being friendly, I see how he could find that suspicious, But, Toutius and Davide… well. Toutius regularly goes to see one of his friends in high places - Mercator Hosidus, who is conspiring against the count with ‘his friends’ Mondrar Henim and Arterion. I mention them because they both wear black hoods, just like Davide’s brother… So here is what I think happened. Glathir was following Toutius and saw him talking his buddy, Mercator, who then went to, Mondrar Henim and/or Arterion, but didn’t see either’s face, and put together that it was Davide, orchestrating some sort of government conspiracy through a hapless Mercator, Mercator would of course be protected as the Count’s aid. Not to mention the guards are all keeping, ahem, certain things about The Count under wraps, ahem. I also see three ways Glathir could have gotten dragged into things. 1. Glathir was contacted by The Count himself as a source while investigating Mercator and his friends and put 2 and 2 together to get 5 after answering some rather specific questions about people in Skingrad. (I know I’ve pulled random citizens aside to ask questions about interested parties and given them coins for it without telling them why I’m asking more than once.) 2. The Guard were looking for the Count, but since they are very protective of The Count, and secretive, they were suspicious enough for Glathir to start putting things together for himself. 3. The Mage’s Guild, who know The Count’s secret, and ‘have been helping him keep it’ have been employing enchantments to affect the minds of the citizens of Skingrad, and well, sadly there are consequences to using those sort of spells enough on certain people. But all three could be tied back to Glathir observing Mercator and his friends plotting against The Count, and just getting confused with no details. That’s what happens when both The Guards and Mage’s Guild need to cover for the local Count, details get blurred when someone notices actual conspiracies. But you didn’t hear any of that from me, now take this gold and keep it to yourself.
1) thank you you are too kind but 2) Gaston!! How did I not scry his schedule for more evidence. I cannot thank you enough for this. I should consult you BEFORE releasing vids 🤣
The thing is, when I did this quest I was convinced there was a conspiracy and someone was watching Glarthir, it just wasn't any of the people he thought it was. It's the guard captain, Dion. He does seem to loiter near Glarthir's house, and every so often, he will stop at a specific spot in front of the chapel, bend down and seemingly mess with something on the ground. I suspected that it was an info drop off or something like that. I kept trying to check that spot to see if anything ever showed up, but never found anything. Either way, Dion was the one who came across as genuinely suspicious and antagonistic toward Glarthir.
Yeah, but he's also the Guard captain of a town that has a known person with severe mental issues in it. Every time something gets out of hand, he's the one that has to deal with Glarthir and his detached sense of reality. He's constantly dealing with him, and likely has more of an idea of the downward spiral Glarthir's taking.
Though if we're reading into his voice tone and all, he sounds more tired and fed up than anything. Like, "Oh great, Glarthir again, what's he done this time?" Especially since we know he's tried to break into the Surilie Brothers' house at least once, his paranoia has very likely given him something of a criminal record
NPCs bending down seemingly picking something up appears just to be a random NPC animation as far as I can tell. Do you notice Dion doing that animation at the same spot ? If so that is... curious
@logangustavson Maybe it was just an oddity with my game, but yes. He kept doing that animation at the same spot in front of the temple, multiple times a day. I likely wouldn't have noticed if I wasn't already following people and watching their behavior. I first picked up on it while waiting for Bernadette to leave the house and while she was eating.
I always used the arena quest to start the dark brotherhood. Winning the final match also counts as murder and I didn't bring myself to murder any innocent beggar or other character. Murdering dozens of innocents in the ensuing DB-Questline wasn't a problem though. They had it coming, when the quest marker pointed to their heads :D
8:27 he‘s got a point there. As a kid I was so confused by Skingrad at first, because I walked right through it und thought the city was just two big walls. It took me a small while to figure out the streets leading to actual Skingrad.
Skingrad is a weird town... You have a haunted house directly across from the home available for purchase, with the former having a name of someone who doesn't actually exist in the game. Then you have the Dark Brotherhood quest that takes place there, followed by that disturbing alchemist dark elf lady who asks you about the legality of necrophilia... Top it all off with a vampire count, and maybe Glarthir might be actually onto something? There's something going on all right, it's just not what/whom he thinks it is.
I made a game out of every single visit to Skingrad. Run from Glarthir like my life depends on it. Dude just saying "PSST HEY PSST" while the Hero of Kvatch runs like hell.
I started his quest then googled it because it made me feel off and found a post saying the only way to save him is to not do his quest so I just loaded an earlier save (9 minutes thankfully) and ran from skingrad after finishing my quest 😹
Happy Halloween! 🎃 Just because I love this quest & the video took legit 2.5 weeks + I have to say this... I am sorry. I played it through and questioned myself as I always pronounced the Mad Elfs name as Glar-Theer. Then I heard a few NPC's say Glarth -ur in a row. So the first half of the video, I Glarthurd. Then I broke free of the madness and went back to the true Chad Glartheer life... iykyk
@@DarkLOREDash being able to imitate another actor's performance to such a degree is as impressive as the original performance, honestly. You've definitely earned a sub from me
Oblivions quests are so good. Mechanically it's very straightforward but it tops 99% of stories in any of Skyrim's quests, and it's not even the best in the game
Gonna be brutally honest here. Oblivion's quests and questlines had an obsession with annoying me every step of the way. The game itself was hell-bent on making every second an irritance. Only clocked 31 hours, couldn't bare a moment more.
@@Pinkoorueveryone is different. I have friends who hate oblivion and hate skyrim. Likewise i have a friend who loves skyrim but hates oblivion. I am the opposite i think skyrim is annoying with all the dragon spam and overused copy paste ambience and bad music.
What I love most about this quest is that Dion's initial interference is suspicious as hell. It gives you the impression that maybe Glarthir isn't *just* crazy, but that there might actually be something going on.
I still think Oblivion had some of the best quests in the series. Having a sidequest about a guy who may or may not be paranoid and giving the player the option to side with him, consequentially making you paranoid as well, was a really good idea.
especially with the fact that you become the next mad prince. theres actually quite a few of these kinds of quests that, before the shivvering isles dlc was released, did a pretty good job of forshadowing.
How else do you make something Prophesied without having Prophets in a sense. ;P yea the lore in oblivion is near unrivaled. The end is nigh, or is it the beginning? Will it ever end? Or Can the ties be severed? ;P
4:39 Yeah I was havin a good laugh at God-Hater. I actually never heard her say that. She never wants to talk to me or just straight out tries to kill me.
I always loved this quest. The premise is fun, the amount of hidden choices and dialogue is amazing, and Glarthir is just very memorable. I remember when the game first came out and my sister and I were playing through it. She finished his quest and had to kill him. She proceeded to use Weak Fireball to shoot his body over to the alley near Toutius' house, and then (through immense effort) managed to cram his body into the barrel in that alley. I guess he's marked as a "quest object" because he never despawned. Visiting Glarthir became something of a tradition whenever we played that file. Good times.
Oblivion is a really special game for me. I first played it in 2012 when i was 12 lmao. My parents got divorced, i was staying with my mom & my stepdad at this time. Our Relationship wasnt the best, lets put it that way. I got bullied in school pretty bad & felt alone all the time. Then i discovered Skyrim, but i wasnt allowed to play it. So my mom drove me to Gamestop & bought me a game of my choice. I picked oblivion which they had for the xbox360. I didnt even register that it was the prequel to skyrim. Just picked it by coincidence. Im so glad that i wasnt allowed to play skyrim, bc i maybe never played oblivion. It really helped me, i was so excited when my little 12 year old brain noticed that i could just explore & do wahtever i wanted in this huge world. It was & still is a safe place for me. I was able to escape the suffering i went through at that time & just have fun exploring. Your Videos, the way you roleplaying & immersive yourself in the game like telling a story, really captures the feeling i had back then while playing it. Its hard to put into words but you take me back & i feel like back then playing those quests for the first time, while watching ur videos. Thank you for that bro. It may sound silly but sometimes i tear up bc of it. Really thank u for that
it brings this one eternal and indescribable joy that just as i start hearing young souls' music playing in my head, dash himself brings it up, and plays the relevant clip
Your personal voice acting of Glarthirs notes was absolutely fantastic, extremly immersive and i honestly FORGOT for a minute it wasnt actually Glarthir !!
Can we get a shoutout of these quest writers. I truly believe morrowind and oblivion along with shivering isles writing was truly on an elevated level compared to modern day Bethesda, and I refuse to believe that a lot of these talented writers stayed or will stay in future Elder scrolls content. I just miss good quest lines, differing outcomes, memorable npcs and encounters, etc.
I love the Mage's Guild entry quests in Oblivion. You can solve them in different ways. Like the one Khajit that's hiding. I thought what if I used detect life to find him and I did. Then I thought what if I cast dispel on him to dispel his invisibility. To my surprise it actually worked and he becomes visible, you even get unique dialogue for it. Every quest can be solved with spells or other methods. It gives you a problem and let's you find your own solution. Compare that to Starfield letting you pass a speech check to get a meeting in a guy's office but it still acts like your sneaking in without a meeting. It was a fake choice.
This, a lot of people think Skyrim is peak Bethesda but it was very much a step down in writing terms from Oblivion. The Fallout games (post Bethesda) are not even in the same league writing wise. They started at meh and got worse.
by far the best Oblivion content on the whole platform in my opinion! So glad you've been going at it still with this game, its so enjoyable to watch your video style
OMG, you have no idea how happy I am to see a new Oblivion video from you. Thank you for making and uploading this, tonights viewing has now been taken care of. Happy Halloween/Samhain to you too :)
Your impression of Glarthir near the the if the video is really good, kudos. I've actually wondered on and off over the years if I missed something and he was crazy but telling the truth.
Omg! Thank you for this series you make! I never thought this mission was so well elaborated! I have a tendency of playing games usually the same way over and over again. I love Oblivion, and that makes me love the game even more!
I had no clue of the sheogorath portion, but that totally fits. I love that you can find things I've never seen in a game I've been playing since it came out! Thank you for some great videos!
I seem to recall searching houses nearby to Glarthir's house, and finding one residence with a lot of Mythic Dawn paraphernalia. It's been a long time, though.
I finally bought oblivion again to play after 11 years (honestly a first time play thru because I was a kid) and after playing Skyrim for years and learning the lore I'm having a huge amount of fun I couldn't as a kid or had I not learned over the years
Funny because I literally played that quest for the first time yesterday (I recently started playing Oblivion). I got the first ending where he wants to kill you, but instead of fighting him I just fled to the guards because I didn’t want to kill him. Well, not the best idea I’ve ever had. They ganged up on him and he got completely annihilated. I’ve only played Skyrim before and I have to say I love these goofy interactions in oblivion 😂
I dont know how i miss your uploads man. Even with the notifications on and the bell icon set to all i still dont get anything from your feed. STILL WONT STOP ME FROM WATCHING THE LORE TH-cam!!!
I’m 30 minutes into the video and only just realized that you were the one voice acting the journal notes and they went ingame audio damn that’s a good job
Thank you so much for this video. I remember playing this with my little brother and he’s 21 now and actually mentioned the other week he still wonders if atleast some of it was true and there really were people after him
I swear I watched a video of someone playing this quest and they save either Tutius or Davide riding with a horse to a lake talking to someone super later at night and then returned back to the city. Was super suspicious 😅
I absolutely Love your Oblivion videos and are really looking forward to the fighter`s guild, Mage`s Guild and the main Quest line videos of this!!! And maybe you will be the one to tell us what or who M'AIQ is and if he truly is Malacath in disguise !
Oh, LOVE the presentation here. Obviously, you can’t expect great treatment or writing for mentally unwell character in The Damn Elder Scrolls ‘Blivion- disability, both mental and physical, has about as much presence in the games as a single pea under the fridge. It is still unfortunate though to see Glarthir in this state and the best thing people do for him is just… ignore and isolate him, further exacerbating his spiraling thoughts. Bernadette tried at least but the poor man needs more resources than one wine maker can provide. Probably a whole sophisticated healthcare system. But that would undermine the healing potion economy, and Big Phial can’t let THAT happen.
This us one of the most tragic quests in Oblivion, if not all of Elder Scrolls. There is no good ending no matter what you do, and at least one person will die.
At the end I could have sworn I also found that note years ago and stashed it in one of my "All special notes and books" desk in Bruma... But never found any evidence during the actual quest.
The note sounded familiar to me, too. If there's no evidence of it in the game files, though, I guess it's possible that some popular mod or other added it quietly as a prank? Now _I_ feel like I'm a crazy conspiracy theorist.
@@Lanaestra I think I remember it from my xbox 360 days, but it's been an extremely long time since I remembered finding it. It's probably just a Mandela effect.
Whats crazy is all the times ive played the quest. I've never denied him an didnt know he goes on a rampage like that ive always used him to get some gold
Glarthir's ranting about The Blades, Mythic Dawn, and Maruhkati Collective sounds a lot like a IRL conspiracy theorist ranting about the CIA, Freemasons, and Knights Templar.
I never thought he was crazy. I always found it highly suspicious that Dion IMMEDIATELY finds you after you talk to Glarthir. I dont trust Dion at all.
There *are* conspiracy in Skingrad!
Bernadette was just being friendly, I see how he could find that suspicious, But, Toutius and Davide… well.
Toutius regularly goes to see one of his friends in high places - Mercator Hosidus, who is conspiring against the count with ‘his friends’ Mondrar Henim and Arterion. I mention them because they both wear black hoods, just like Davide’s brother…
So here is what I think happened. Glathir was following Toutius and saw him talking his buddy, Mercator, who then went to, Mondrar Henim and/or Arterion, but didn’t see either’s face, and put together that it was Davide, orchestrating some sort of government conspiracy through a hapless Mercator, Mercator would of course be protected as the Count’s aid.
Not to mention the guards are all keeping, ahem, certain things about The Count under wraps, ahem.
I also see three ways Glathir could have gotten dragged into things.
1. Glathir was contacted by The Count himself as a source while investigating Mercator and his friends and put 2 and 2 together to get 5 after answering some rather specific questions about people in Skingrad. (I know I’ve pulled random citizens aside to ask questions about interested parties and given them coins for it without telling them why I’m asking more than once.)
2. The Guard were looking for the Count, but since they are very protective of The Count, and secretive, they were suspicious enough for Glathir to start putting things together for himself.
3. The Mage’s Guild, who know The Count’s secret, and ‘have been helping him keep it’ have been employing enchantments to affect the minds of the citizens of Skingrad, and well, sadly there are consequences to using those sort of spells enough on certain people.
But all three could be tied back to Glathir observing Mercator and his friends plotting against The Count, and just getting confused with no details.
That’s what happens when both The Guards and Mage’s Guild need to cover for the local Count, details get blurred when someone notices actual conspiracies.
But you didn’t hear any of that from me, now take this gold and keep it to yourself.
1) thank you you are too kind but 2) Gaston!! How did I not scry his schedule for more evidence. I cannot thank you enough for this. I should consult you BEFORE releasing vids 🤣
The thing is, when I did this quest I was convinced there was a conspiracy and someone was watching Glarthir, it just wasn't any of the people he thought it was. It's the guard captain, Dion.
He does seem to loiter near Glarthir's house, and every so often, he will stop at a specific spot in front of the chapel, bend down and seemingly mess with something on the ground. I suspected that it was an info drop off or something like that. I kept trying to check that spot to see if anything ever showed up, but never found anything.
Either way, Dion was the one who came across as genuinely suspicious and antagonistic toward Glarthir.
I like it! I'll have to look into Dions schedule further. Strange he never arrested Glarthir, as promised
Yeah, but he's also the Guard captain of a town that has a known person with severe mental issues in it. Every time something gets out of hand, he's the one that has to deal with Glarthir and his detached sense of reality.
He's constantly dealing with him, and likely has more of an idea of the downward spiral Glarthir's taking.
Though if we're reading into his voice tone and all, he sounds more tired and fed up than anything. Like, "Oh great, Glarthir again, what's he done this time?" Especially since we know he's tried to break into the Surilie Brothers' house at least once, his paranoia has very likely given him something of a criminal record
NPCs bending down seemingly picking something up appears just to be a random NPC animation as far as I can tell. Do you notice Dion doing that animation at the same spot ? If so that is... curious
@logangustavson Maybe it was just an oddity with my game, but yes. He kept doing that animation at the same spot in front of the temple, multiple times a day. I likely wouldn't have noticed if I wasn't already following people and watching their behavior. I first picked up on it while waiting for Bernadette to leave the house and while she was eating.
This quest is a great way to start the dark brotherhood quest line as regardless of who you kill its murder
The amount of beggars that could have been spared from me knowing this information is insane 😭
I always used the arena quest to start the dark brotherhood. Winning the final match also counts as murder and I didn't bring myself to murder any innocent beggar or other character.
Murdering dozens of innocents in the ensuing DB-Questline wasn't a problem though. They had it coming, when the quest marker pointed to their heads :D
@HagridWithBeard it only counts as murder if you get the journal for the grey prince
Also a great way to start your road down insanity and eventually becoming Sheogorath.
@@NicholeLastnameeven better you’ll never get in trouble for it in game as long as you trigger the quest line
"what can a crazy little woodelf do anyway?"
*Remembers what they actually do in valenwood*
😂
I snorted into my coffee reading that. Now I've got an unholy mess, but dang, thank you for the laugh. If only they knew.
8:27 he‘s got a point there. As a kid I was so confused by Skingrad at first, because I walked right through it und thought the city was just two big walls. It took me a small while to figure out the streets leading to actual Skingrad.
Skingrad is a weird town...
You have a haunted house directly across from the home available for purchase, with the former having a name of someone who doesn't actually exist in the game.
Then you have the Dark Brotherhood quest that takes place there, followed by that disturbing alchemist dark elf lady who asks you about the legality of necrophilia...
Top it all off with a vampire count, and maybe Glarthir might be actually onto something? There's something going on all right, it's just not what/whom he thinks it is.
I made a game out of every single visit to Skingrad.
Run from Glarthir like my life depends on it. Dude just saying "PSST HEY PSST" while the Hero of Kvatch runs like hell.
And then try running from the Adoring Fan
I've done this too, it's very fun.
I do the exact same thing. Every trip to Skingrad requires preparation with speed buffs, jump buffs, and planning the best routes to avoid him.
It was a survival horror game all along!
I started his quest then googled it because it made me feel off and found a post saying the only way to save him is to not do his quest so I just loaded an earlier save (9 minutes thankfully) and ran from skingrad after finishing my quest 😹
This is one of the quests I would absolutely love to revisit when Skyblivion comes out next year.
Yes!!
Happy Halloween! 🎃 Just because I love this quest & the video took legit 2.5 weeks + I have to say this... I am sorry. I played it through and questioned myself as I always pronounced the Mad Elfs name as Glar-Theer. Then I heard a few NPC's say Glarth -ur in a row. So the first half of the video, I Glarthurd. Then I broke free of the madness and went back to the true Chad Glartheer life... iykyk
appreciate all your work bro - i love your vids
It's okay Dosh! DASH! lol
Hey man, we all have those days. You Glar-thurd when you shoulda Glar-theerd. It happens to the best of us.
no offense, but ill take falanu over glarthir any day of the week.
has more of an undead overlord than even mannimarco.
@@palmoftheface4969 Amurzing!
Wow! Your voice acting for Glarthir's notes was superb!
Wow, thank you! Genuinely appreciate it. Craig sechler walked the line so well as the Elves in Oblivion
Underated copmment.
@@DarkLOREDash being able to imitate another actor's performance to such a degree is as impressive as the original performance, honestly. You've definitely earned a sub from me
Yeah this was worth watching just for the “new” dialogue. Never thought that, after so many years, someone can bring back these characters so well
@@DarkLOREDash
You nailed it bro
Oblivions quests are so good. Mechanically it's very straightforward but it tops 99% of stories in any of Skyrim's quests, and it's not even the best in the game
@@Undead_Grius Cope.
Gonna be brutally honest here.
Oblivion's quests and questlines had an obsession with annoying me every step of the way.
The game itself was hell-bent on making every second an irritance.
Only clocked 31 hours, couldn't bare a moment more.
@@Pinkoorueveryone is different. I have friends who hate oblivion and hate skyrim. Likewise i have a friend who loves skyrim but hates oblivion. I am the opposite i think skyrim is annoying with all the dragon spam and overused copy paste ambience and bad music.
I love Oblivion so much.
why do oblivion and morrowind fans have to compare everything with skyrim? u can like one game without having to hate on another
What I love most about this quest is that Dion's initial interference is suspicious as hell. It gives you the impression that maybe Glarthir isn't *just* crazy, but that there might actually be something going on.
Oh interesting, I always took it at face value. Like this local guard levelling with you like hey this guy has issues so be careful.
Toutius throwing punches while saying, I accept your surrender
Lmao
I laughed my ass off when he used 'I accept your surrender' as a battle cry.
"I can't imagine anyone wanting to hurt him."
My boy I missed the oblivion videos!
I still think Oblivion had some of the best quests in the series. Having a sidequest about a guy who may or may not be paranoid and giving the player the option to side with him, consequentially making you paranoid as well, was a really good idea.
Agree! I do love how there's still a part of me that wonders
especially with the fact that you become the next mad prince. theres actually quite a few of these kinds of quests that, before the shivvering isles dlc was released, did a pretty good job of forshadowing.
How else do you make something Prophesied without having Prophets in a sense. ;P yea the lore in oblivion is near unrivaled. The end is nigh, or is it the beginning? Will it ever end? Or Can the ties be severed? ;P
🎶Friend you better out, 🎶
🎶Or you’ll end up just as I thought.., just as I thought. 🎶
he gave me
twenty sma-ka-roos, three septims, two cyrodilic dollars bay-be
twenty sma-ka-roos, three septims, two cyrodilic dollars bay-be
🎶🎶🎶
That is a CRACKLING impression of Glarthir, you really nailed his tone and inflections perfectly
Thank you! Really made me appreciate Craig Sechler's performance. Hard to stay in the pocket and he did it beautifully!
Toutius Sextius - possibly the BEST NPC name of all time! Only Naughtius Maximus would be better.
Or Biggus Dickus perhaps
Incontinentia buttockx
Toitius sextius is sexting my wife
Pretty sure that motherf##### wants me out of his life
@@whensomethingcriesagain**snicker**
@@crimsondynamo615He has a wife you know.
Her name is Incontinentia. Incontinentia Buttocks.
4:39 Yeah I was havin a good laugh at God-Hater. I actually never heard her say that. She never wants to talk to me or just straight out tries to kill me.
i like how glarthir is the only npc in oblivion confused at oblivion npc behaviors
2:00 "WHAT"
I always loved this quest. The premise is fun, the amount of hidden choices and dialogue is amazing, and Glarthir is just very memorable.
I remember when the game first came out and my sister and I were playing through it. She finished his quest and had to kill him. She proceeded to use Weak Fireball to shoot his body over to the alley near Toutius' house, and then (through immense effort) managed to cram his body into the barrel in that alley. I guess he's marked as a "quest object" because he never despawned. Visiting Glarthir became something of a tradition whenever we played that file. Good times.
Player stories are so amazing what you can create!
Oblivion is a really special game for me. I first played it in 2012 when i was 12 lmao. My parents got divorced, i was staying with my mom & my stepdad at this time. Our Relationship wasnt the best, lets put it that way. I got bullied in school pretty bad & felt alone all the time. Then i discovered Skyrim, but i wasnt allowed to play it. So my mom drove me to Gamestop & bought me a game of my choice. I picked oblivion which they had for the xbox360. I didnt even register that it was the prequel to skyrim. Just picked it by coincidence. Im so glad that i wasnt allowed to play skyrim, bc i maybe never played oblivion. It really helped me, i was so excited when my little 12 year old brain noticed that i could just explore & do wahtever i wanted in this huge world. It was & still is a safe place for me. I was able to escape the suffering i went through at that time & just have fun exploring.
Your Videos, the way you roleplaying & immersive yourself in the game like telling a story, really captures the feeling i had back then while playing it. Its hard to put into words but you take me back & i feel like back then playing those quests for the first time, while watching ur videos. Thank you for that bro. It may sound silly but sometimes i tear up bc of it. Really thank u for that
I hope you're doing better these days, bro
Hey, thank you for taking the time to share this, i hope things are going well
it brings this one eternal and indescribable joy that just as i start hearing young souls' music playing in my head, dash himself brings it up, and plays the relevant clip
I love you man. Missed your velvet voice :)
Much love back atcha, Bobby!
Your personal voice acting of Glarthirs notes was absolutely fantastic, extremly immersive and i honestly FORGOT for a minute it wasnt actually Glarthir !!
Can we get a shoutout of these quest writers. I truly believe morrowind and oblivion along with shivering isles writing was truly on an elevated level compared to modern day Bethesda, and I refuse to believe that a lot of these talented writers stayed or will stay in future Elder scrolls content. I just miss good quest lines, differing outcomes, memorable npcs and encounters, etc.
I love the Mage's Guild entry quests in Oblivion. You can solve them in different ways. Like the one Khajit that's hiding. I thought what if I used detect life to find him and I did. Then I thought what if I cast dispel on him to dispel his invisibility. To my surprise it actually worked and he becomes visible, you even get unique dialogue for it. Every quest can be solved with spells or other methods. It gives you a problem and let's you find your own solution. Compare that to Starfield letting you pass a speech check to get a meeting in a guy's office but it still acts like your sneaking in without a meeting. It was a fake choice.
This, a lot of people think Skyrim is peak Bethesda but it was very much a step down in writing terms from Oblivion.
The Fallout games (post Bethesda) are not even in the same league writing wise. They started at meh and got worse.
emil wrote quite a few quests in oblivion
@@Dr_Pickle emil is decent at writing smaller quests, or maybe a whole faction questline at best. he can't be trusted as being the main writer though.
Shivering Isles was pure madness
Love the channel, keep at it!
Much appreciated mate, from Aus! 🙏
41:30
"i accept your surrender" *miss* x2
*lands punch and yells aggressively* "I ACCEPT YOUR SURR-" 🤣
Thats why Oblivion is so beloved classic
by far the best Oblivion content on the whole platform in my opinion!
So glad you've been going at it still with this game, its so enjoyable to watch your video style
You are too kind, Mr Aurelian!
OMG, you have no idea how happy I am to see a new Oblivion video from you.
Thank you for making and uploading this, tonights viewing has now been taken care of.
Happy Halloween/Samhain to you too :)
A belated HH to you! Shall google Samhain for my ignorance ty ty
@DarkLOREDash thank you :)
Your impression of Glarthir near the the if the video is really good, kudos. I've actually wondered on and off over the years if I missed something and he was crazy but telling the truth.
what's funny is that i did this quest for the first time today and then this video showed up in my feed
Which option did you choose??
Coincidence? I think not.
This is a great quest its a shame skyrim didn't have anything of similar caliber.
Agree, unfortunately 😕
Welcome back king
"Took out sextius before his nextius rendezvous" 😂😂😂😂
I have never been arrested by the female guard, that was new
Thanks for the long video ❤
It was due to a mod, Cyrodiil Reloaded which adds in the races (I believe they were cut) always surprises me though.
This game holds so much to me! Thank you for all these!
Me too & my pleasure 🙏
Omg! Thank you for this series you make! I never thought this mission was so well elaborated! I have a tendency of playing games usually the same way over and over again. I love Oblivion, and that makes me love the game even more!
I had no clue of the sheogorath portion, but that totally fits. I love that you can find things I've never seen in a game I've been playing since it came out! Thank you for some great videos!
I've never been so happy! Thank you for the video Dash, love your content always ❤
Hey, my pleasure!
I was singing Watch Out for the entire video. I loved when you brought up the line about Totius Sextius
I seem to recall searching houses nearby to Glarthir's house, and finding one residence with a lot of Mythic Dawn paraphernalia. It's been a long time, though.
I finally bought oblivion again to play after 11 years (honestly a first time play thru because I was a kid) and after playing Skyrim for years and learning the lore I'm having a huge amount of fun I couldn't as a kid or had I not learned over the years
BY AZURA BY AZURA BY AZURA! To lift my spirits after being stuck in traffic for an hour!
your impression of him was very good! got all the inflections spot on
Thank you kindly!
Alyied Revivalists? Like Umbacano in the Talos District?
Funny because I literally played that quest for the first time yesterday (I recently started playing Oblivion). I got the first ending where he wants to kill you, but instead of fighting him I just fled to the guards because I didn’t want to kill him. Well, not the best idea I’ve ever had. They ganged up on him and he got completely annihilated. I’ve only played Skyrim before and I have to say I love these goofy interactions in oblivion 😂
Youre going to have some real goofy fun 🤪
I dont know how i miss your uploads man. Even with the notifications on and the bell icon set to all i still dont get anything from your feed. STILL WONT STOP ME FROM WATCHING THE LORE TH-cam!!!
Happy Halloween everybody
wow ur voice work is rly good lol i ddnt expect a spot on glarthir impression
Glarthir reminds me of the dutchess of dementia from the shivering isles DLC
When I first played that DLC I was so sure there was going to be some mention or relation between he and Syl!
It's always refreshing to see another dash video about Oblivion, def these ones because they're interesting, W video
So glad you made a video on this! It's one of my favorite quests.
I’m 30 minutes into the video and only just realized that you were the one voice acting the journal notes and they went ingame audio damn that’s a good job
Always good to have a Dash vid on a Friday! 😄👍
Your videos are great! Such great flourish that you give to the quest stories!! 😃 subscribed!
Oh yes! Been waiting for a video on this quest! Thank you!!
I enjoy this so much! Amazing content, best wishes to you and your future projects! 🌻
Hey Potoo, always great to see you & thanks! All the best to you & yours
Man I love your videos. They are simply the best.
Thank you so much for this video. I remember playing this with my little brother and he’s 21 now and actually mentioned the other week he still wonders if atleast some of it was true and there really were people after him
My pleasure 🙏
Yo, this was epic bro. Really well made. Appreciate you
Appreciate it!
I swear I watched a video of someone playing this quest and they save either Tutius or Davide riding with a horse to a lake talking to someone super later at night and then returned back to the city. Was super suspicious 😅
I always said he'd be happy in the shivering isles he'd be best friends with the guy who's paranoid about the walls (tho that guy can be right lol)
Tis a shame the expansion didn't include him trapsing about
41:36 "I ACCEPT YOUR SURRENDER" while still throwing hands cracks me up every time 🤣
Toutius Sextius is the squirrely sort
I absolutely Love your Oblivion videos and are really looking forward to the fighter`s guild, Mage`s Guild and the main Quest line videos of this!!! And maybe you will be the one to tell us what or who M'AIQ is and if he truly is Malacath in disguise !
Oh, LOVE the presentation here.
Obviously, you can’t expect great treatment or writing for mentally unwell character in The Damn Elder Scrolls ‘Blivion- disability, both mental and physical, has about as much presence in the games as a single pea under the fridge. It is still unfortunate though to see Glarthir in this state and the best thing people do for him is just… ignore and isolate him, further exacerbating his spiraling thoughts. Bernadette tried at least but the poor man needs more resources than one wine maker can provide. Probably a whole sophisticated healthcare system.
But that would undermine the healing potion economy, and Big Phial can’t let THAT happen.
YOUNG SCROLLS MENTIONED MOMENTS LATER IM MORE THAN HAPPY TO HAVE SUBSCRIBED
It's about time you got to this man!
Great video !
I used to watch your videos a long time ago and I have good news for you , your voice has significantly became sexier over the years x)
Been waiting for this thanks for making my day!❤
Wait. Was that you reading the notes?? Dude. You're spot on!
Like always amazing job with the video
Thank you for all your work.
My absolute pleasure, David! Cheers
leaving the hoe [ *gardening tool for sure* ]
*unspoken i'll see myself out moment* via the door sound-
that comedic timing gave me life
I’ve had no internet for a week! A week! I missed so much! Like this!
Welcome back!
I HAVE to know where the art at 18:48 comes from. It is simply too good
Haha, you have a very interesting way of storytelling, good stuff!
Happy Halloween! Looking forward to this one
treating Oblivion lore very seriously
12:57 14:22
not a jab, this is unironically peak content
Man this video is fire pure fire
Thank you Nemesis!
Destruction has increased to 100
I love that his cartoon in the thumbnail is drawn as potato faced as the character himself.
Been waiting for this one
The "what" was so prefectly timed lol
I will always love glarthir because he gave young scrolls the voice for the halloween EP and was an absolute banger.
That elf looks like he needs 20 Schmackaroos, 3 Septims, and 2 Cyrodiilic dollars
Happy Halloween 🎃
This us one of the most tragic quests in Oblivion, if not all of Elder Scrolls. There is no good ending no matter what you do, and at least one person will die.
"SHOW ME-" *dies*
At the end I could have sworn I also found that note years ago and stashed it in one of my "All special notes and books" desk in Bruma... But never found any evidence during the actual quest.
The note sounded familiar to me, too.
If there's no evidence of it in the game files, though, I guess it's possible that some popular mod or other added it quietly as a prank? Now _I_ feel like I'm a crazy conspiracy theorist.
@@Lanaestra I think I remember it from my xbox 360 days, but it's been an extremely long time since I remembered finding it. It's probably just a Mandela effect.
Your voice acting is really good
How dare TH-cam not give me a notification for one of my favorite Oblivion quests from my favorite TH-camr 😤
Devastated for us both. 😫
Thank you for your great Content dash. I hope you will make a complete story of the shivering isles soon
That's the plan! Thank you mate
Whats crazy is all the times ive played the quest. I've never denied him an didnt know he goes on a rampage like that ive always used him to get some gold
I miss the old thumbnail. Glarthir and his axe name a more iconic duo.
Glarthir's ranting about The Blades, Mythic Dawn, and Maruhkati Collective sounds a lot like a IRL conspiracy theorist ranting about the CIA, Freemasons, and Knights Templar.
I never thought he was crazy. I always found it highly suspicious that Dion IMMEDIATELY finds you after you talk to Glarthir. I dont trust Dion at all.
I can't see images of Glarthir anymore without the music of "Glarthir is Crazy" from early TH-cam playing in my head 😂
Young Scrolls has the best EP centered all around this guy!!! It’s so good
This is my favourite quest in the Elder Scrolls series
Every time he said one of his iconic lines I was prepared for the Glarthir Song