Been hearing a bit about this guy and wanted some info from you guys cheers :thumbsup:

Race: According to The Real Barenziah he is part Bosmer and part Dunmer, with possibly some other mixture of races. Judging from his appearance, he seems to be primarily Bosmer, though the Dunmer part of him comes through quite a bit as well.

History: Not much; about all there is for before Arena is that he gained the Staff of Chaos by seducing Barenziah and tricking her into retreiving it for him. Reading the later chapters of The Real Barenziah gives just about all that's known about him. I don't believe his birthplace or how he got the position of Imperial Battlemage are known at all.

Motive: Why did he trap the Emperor and take his place? That's the big mystery. Battlespire says he was working with Mehrunes Dagon, so he may have been trying to help him, though in that case he could have just killed the Emperor, kept the Amulet himself, and thus caused the Dragonfires to go out - though quite possibly that wouldn't have worked at that time. More likely he just wanted power, though that sounds too simple; I'd prefer him to have something more fun for a motivation.

I'd say, he was a power hungry mer. He wanted to sit in the big boy's chair, and stop getting women who are very loose for the late emperor Uriel. He most likely allied with MD to be able to lock up the emprah, and I doubt he had intentions to release the daedroth onto Nirn.

Seems like a bit of a [censored] cheers for the info

Yeah, that would have ended his comfortable seat as emperor really quick. Besides, I don't think Dagon had any plans on Tamriel at the moment. Though exactly what Dagon wanted out of the arrangement is uncertain, I think. Maybe he had a real grudge against the battlemages at the Battlespire? Or perhaps he simply wanted to add that part of Oblivion to his realm?

No, he wanted to invade Mundus, but to his troops, especially his top lieutenant, it wasn't time yet.

If you're referring to Camoran, he was playing Dagon like a chump.

You mean Jagar Tharn?



This is fine, but if he had the Emperor imprisoned in his realm, why didn't he just kill him and invade with the barriers down? It seems that by imprisoning the Emperor in Oblivion that Jagar Tharn would have given up his only leverage over Dagon.

He's the classic "evil chancellor" character type. He's a collection of different races, probably all of the mer with a mix of Breton and Cyrodillic thrown in. He was apparently a VERY powerful magician, even before acquiring the Balac-thurm, he wouldn't have been Imperial Battlemage if he wasn't.

He was most skilled at the school of Illusion, being able to, essentially, polymorph (to use a DnD spell).

He was a very naughty man.

Read the Battlespire walkthrough. But to help hasten your discovery, here is what I mainly refer to http://www.imperial-library.info/content/havok-wellhead#Imago_Storm

The barriers didn't exist yet.

...What? According to that train of thought, the "barriers" have existed since time out of mind. Ever since Akatosh/Lorkhan covenanted with Alessia.
Although I'll admit the whole idea doesn't make much sense to me...

Arena is largely retconned anyway. The specifics will get muddled, but the general story remains intact. Heck, it's been in semi-retcon mode since Daggerfall, ala The Real Barenziah. I would say to take note of Battlespire, as that was happening during TES I: Arena.

Keep in mind that Dagon is the Prince of Destruction. The Real Barenziah details all the conflicts that arose due to an incompetent and power-hungry ruler sitting on the throne; it's easy to guess from his character in The Real Barenziah that Jagar Tharn simply took the throne because of his thirst for hunger, but Dagon aided him because of the havoc such arrangements would wreak.

Since Red Tower and its Stone was still functioning, the barriers were not in danger of failing, so Dagon's real invasion would have to wait until Mankar Camoran. In the meantime, Dagon got bloodshed from dozens of smaller conflicts across Tamriel.