» Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:36 am
The game wants to make my character ask questions about things that anyone living in the world should know already, and the history differs greatly from my game of Oblivion. Okay, I have a way around that:
My character is an Altmer reincarnated (not long before the game started) in this universe as a result of a failsafe spell that triggered upon his assassination (universe-jumping unintentional). In his original universe, he was the vampire archmage of Cyrodiil, who never gave the Amulet of Kings to Jauffre, but instead prevented the Oblivion Crisis by drinking Martin Septim's blood and lighting the dragonfires himself.
In actuality, I did say "Why am I giving you this amulet? That's dumb. It's safer with me," became vampire archmage of Cyrodiil on an Altmer with the same name, and the Oblivion crisis never occurred, but this was due to never approaching Kvatch. There was no way in-game to drink Martin's blood, unfortunately, though it would have been a nice solution. That character also became effectively unbeatable due to enchanted equipment, unless he was wearing the wrong equipment for the encounter. Also: Never did Shivering Isles.
I figure that he lived for some time, being effectively immortal, building up the power of the Mages' Guild, leading it to de-facto control over the Empire, before being assassinated, but that the Thamor and all the other consequences of the Oblivion Crisis (except perhaps the eruption of Red Mountain) never existed in his reality. So I have a convenient explanation for why he has no clue who the Thalmor are, or what the White-Gold Concordat was, etc. The reincarnation apparently omitted spell and enchantment details, but that was not unexpected, eh? He probably had a cache of spellbooks and such in his universe, not expecting to be tossed into a different one. (He may or may not have been thrown forward in time when he was reincarnated. 200 years is a long time to go without being assassinated if you're trying to upset the balance of power and effectively take over the world)
As for how he was assassinated? One can't be paranoid all the time, forever, even if they're a vampire and protagonist of a Bethesda game, and thus decide to never sleep.
Ideally he desires to rule Tamriel. I forsee an opportunity to claim the Imperial Throne. The only question is: Can the Empire's strength be built back up to drive back the Thalmor? I say yes. All it takes is well-trained blacksmiths and enchanters. They're still using non-improved armor and weapons. :V