Summary
Oblivion has one of the most famous tutorials in video game history. Players must navigate their way through the sewers, eventually emerging into the blinding sunlight on the other side. There’s something significant that has to happen in those sewers before the story can progress, and a whole new crop of Oblivion players has been trying to circumvent that event in the remaster.
Oblivion Remastered shadow dropped last week, leading tomillions of people jumping into the polished version of the almost-20-year-old game, some of them for the first time. Oblivion opens with your character in a cell, but they are freed by Emperor Uriel Septim who reveals he has seen you in his dreams, and informs you that he has foreseen his own imminent demise.
While following the Emperor out of your cell and through the sewers, an assassin appears from the shadows and kills him, a death which, as you were informed just moments before, Septim saw coming and had already accepted. Despite that, so many of us restarted/reloaded the original Oblivion 19 years ago, convinced we could stop the canon event from happening.
Don’t Cry For The Emperor
He’s Already Dead
As noted by IGN, it seems everyone is staunch in the belief that they can save the Emperor in the remaster too. Likely a combination of OG Oblivion players hoping something has changed and new players hoping the Emperor can be saved. There are already countless videos and images online shared by those who have tried to save poor Septim from being brutally murdered.
Since the cutscene that features the Emperor’s death is triggered when you speak to him, some have chosen to adopt a high vantage point and take out the assassins as they come. The problem is, as demonstrated byNervous_Tumbleweed34onthe Oblivion subreddit, to paraphrase Smash Mouth, the assassins keep on coming, and they don’t stop coming.
No one has figured out exactly how many assassins will come if you keep wiping them out, and that might be because there is no end to the steady flow of potential Emperor killers. If, by some miracle, you do manage to figure out how to prevent the Emperor from getting killed, don’t do it.Aggressive-Fudge1072achieved the impossible, revealing on Reddit that all it does is break the game, making progression impossible.
That’s probably for the best as, without spoiling too much - I’m only a few hours in and never played the original, so don’t panic - Oblivion’s entire story is rooted in the Emperor being killed during its opening moments. The only way he was going to be savable in the remaster is ifBethesdamade an entirely new story arc based on his survival. Had that happened, there’d be no doubt it’s a remake and not a remaster, right? This game has really blurred that already unclear divide.
