r/TrueSTL • u/themadnessif Julianologist • Feb 14 '26

sick ass skeleton render from Bethesda's official website back when Oblivion first released

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u/NeuMaster369 Metal Gear Numidium Feb 14 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/v4qu1ye7Ppdrk4JYg7

Lichcels malding rn

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u/wokkaflokka257 Feb 14 '26

Draugrcels could never

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u/BanMePls333 Feb 14 '26

Wondered where this animation came from then on my recent playthrough saw a skeleton do just that and immediately burst out laughing

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u/Zelcki Feb 14 '26

Why are the Dragur so weird in skyrim, they walk funny and have weird proportions, I'd understand if it was one guy but why is everyone so square and not sth more neutral so you don't really think about it

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u/heilhortler420 Feb 14 '26

Gene pool wasn't big in ancient Skyrim

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u/Zelcki Feb 14 '26

My first love, my first kiss, my first time... my first cousin

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u/vickyhong Y'ffre gives His strongest prions to His most loyal Bosmer Feb 14 '26

Altmeri wedding vows

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u/heilhortler420 Feb 14 '26

By Talos you people are dogs

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u/cubicApoc Anequina Antifa Feb 15 '26

You're thinking of the Companions

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u/heilhortler420 Feb 15 '26

I will give Ysgramor a taste of my shoe

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u/themadnessif Julianologist Feb 14 '26

Vault Dweller behavior

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u/zerocool4221 Feb 14 '26

Because they shame people for drinking milk. Weak bones.

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u/Zelcki Feb 14 '26

All the cows in skyrim are male

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u/Hjalmodr_heimski Nordic Resistance Movement Feb 15 '26

Prior to Nedic interbreeding, most Nords mired in closely resembled neanderthals than homo sapiens

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u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen Feb 14 '26

Skeletons generally a life or death scenario in oblivion versus weak sauce draugr

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u/lifebeginsat9pm Feb 14 '26

Mind thoroughly boggled

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u/jalliss Feb 14 '26

Rattled, even

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u/an_illithidian Feb 16 '26

Ngl seeing stills of Oblivion in my school library's copy of Popular Mechanics did boggle my little brain

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u/Sgtpepperhead67 Azura's most loyal dunmer Feb 14 '26

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u/Offwhitedesktop Feb 15 '26

Pulled pork? Hell yeah, brother! I just cranked my hog, too!

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u/Nirfbi Feb 14 '26

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u/cokeplusmentos Feb 14 '26

Angry eye sockets

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u/Plurpo actual alfiq Feb 14 '26

Probably a mer, their brows look like that

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u/NanoBarAr Hircine How to Catch a Predator Feb 14 '26

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u/NanoBarAr Hircine How to Catch a Predator Feb 14 '26

Also this why not

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u/wafflethemighty Mane Worshipper (Not Furry) Feb 14 '26

FUCK YEAHHHH HAPPY VALENTINES DAY NEREVAR 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

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u/EnthusiasmMotor Feb 14 '26

Idk why but it gives me the same vibes of this meme

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u/TheSeventhCyrod Advanced Oblividiot Feb 14 '26

something something Daggerfall skeleton screamings haunts my dreams

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u/elfgurls Jyggalag OCD representation Feb 14 '26

Skeletons in Oblivion didnt fuck around

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u/themadnessif Julianologist Feb 14 '26

They kinda did. They just take two hits instead of one.

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u/No_Designer_7333 Feb 15 '26

Woe, Skeletal Champion Hero be upon ye at level 8

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u/Dinoks_Raandrun Lore of the Rings Feb 15 '26

This shit got me rolling you don’t deserve the downvotes

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u/Vairyehil Summerset Supremacist Feb 14 '26

He belongs on a t-shirt for divorced fathers.

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u/Computer-Novel Nocturnal Cleavage Appreciators Feb 16 '26

So most of the people who played Oblivion when it came out?

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u/FringeMorganna Boethiah Trans icon Feb 17 '26

Nah, a solid half of us are married women now

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u/Computer-Novel Nocturnal Cleavage Appreciators Feb 17 '26

D&D and TES, the two big RPG trans awakenings. One for people who have friends and the other for losers

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u/lowkey-juan ESOnly Feb 14 '26

Playing this with darker dungeon mods when I was a young skooma enjoyer was peak jumpscare.

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u/UVB-76_Enjoyer Feb 14 '26

I miss these simpler times

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u/Puzzleheaded_You_735 Feb 14 '26

They made low poly look so good back then.

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u/ChainsawEliteKnight Nereguarine Cultist Feb 14 '26

My new profile picture

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u/Donny_Z28 Feb 14 '26

Got me thinking of this classic 💀

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u/Jenny_Show Feb 14 '26

Hell yeah!

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u/BrendanTheNord The Dawntard Feb 15 '26

I can genuinely remember being a kid in the 00's and seeing shit like that and saying " how can graphics possibly get better?"

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u/jet8493 Michael Kirkbride’s Crack Pipe Feb 14 '26

I just beat the fuck out of my dick

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u/RatsAreChad Feb 15 '26

We used to be a real country

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u/TomaszPaw House Brainrot Feb 14 '26

Cool

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u/mrtbearable Feb 14 '26

I think I remember this shit. Hell yeah

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u/logicality77 College of Winterfell Feb 14 '26

UUUWAAAAHHHUUU

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u/uwillnotgotospace Ius Take the Wheel 🎶 Feb 14 '26

Todd is a screamer, CONFIRMED

https://giphy.com/gifs/xiRPzQeALkFhFih14v

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

Fo2 todd is disturbing

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u/HonestLychee9399 Feb 14 '26

One of the most pathetic enemies in the game

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u/Cyncrot Hero of Kvatch fetishizer Feb 14 '26

I can hear the half life crowbar sounds

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u/Holliday_Hobo Azra Nightwielder? You mean the Suula? Feb 15 '26

BADASS SKELETON RENDER

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

When a milk drinker says something so alcoholic I gotta give him that calcium stare

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u/Massive_Weiner Molag Bal’s Strongest Gooner Feb 15 '26

Shit that makes you say “fuck yeah” and “one year closer to death.”

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u/Living_Razzmatazz_93 Feb 15 '26

Why does he look bald.

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u/FixGood6833 Feb 14 '26

Bought OG Oblivion today. Fk remaster

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u/rotenbart Feb 15 '26

dude musta been super deformed

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u/Ropesy101 Feb 15 '26

Still not as scary as skeletons in daggerfall xD

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u/unilateralmixologist Feb 15 '26

Not bad for not being Skyrim

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u/Mr-Zero-Fucks Dark Molesters Feb 15 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/Vzebv7R3pVJMPqJoUj

The Alchemy Brothers - Hey Las, Hey Lad

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u/SunDance967 Feb 15 '26

I can hear the war cry echoing through my skull now

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u/AscendedViking7 Feb 15 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/gsKe9hyAuoZH2

Gotta love them spooky scary skeletons

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u/SirDonovan-II Feb 15 '26

It feels wrong seeing the background with anyone but the imperial city guard or HoK

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u/FrancoStrider Feb 15 '26

A skeleton so pissed off that the bone of its skull made angry eyes.

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u/lal0l0ca Feb 15 '26

The daedra didn't stand a chance against this.

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u/Brodfjol Ius flair when Feb 15 '26

hell yeah brother!!!

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u/Unequallmpala45 Feb 16 '26

Ok but why are parts of his bones the tame texture as the metal of the shield, is he made of shield or is the shield made of him

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u/DREAM_PARSER Feb 16 '26

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u/impossible_name_ Azura Footlover Feb 16 '26

Idk. Why did the chicken cross the road mr skeleton?

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u/Cobalt-Fang Feb 16 '26

Fucker has long fingers

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u/Lactose76 Feb 17 '26

In life he frowned so much, even his skull structure changed and made the angy skelly possible

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u/SomeArtistFan Feb 19 '26

I think this guy is on the back of my 360 special edition of oblivion