How many oblivion gates are there? Not including the one at Xvatch. I was just curious i closed the one in Xvatch and found a random one in the woods.

There are many random ones, like 20 or 30.. I've never counted. You don't have to close them all one by one though..

There are potentially lots.

Quote UESP wiki: ' There are 90 possible random gate locations in all, although at most 50 random gates will appear (plus the 10 fixed gates).'

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As said above, there are 10 fixed gates (mainly at around the cites). Once you close those, other gates will open. They seem to open at random depending on where you are. I started in the west and moved east and they opened as I moved across. 10 fixed, 49 random gates – the last one is at the end of the game. To close all of them is quite a task. It took me a long time to close all of them. As mentioned above, it is not necessary to close them all but if you are like me; it is one more thing I need to do. I closed all the gates, explored each one, killed off the creatures, and collected all the weapons and goodies I could. If you are doing it just to close them, I suggest armor that makes you invisible otherwise it will take even longer. There is no way to keep all the weapons because even at high levels, you just can’t hold everything BUT there are a couple tricks that I can share – if you want.