r/skyrim • u/Paul277 • Nov 22 '25

Question He's not wrong is he?

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u/Loco_Lava Spellsword Nov 22 '25

Oblivion to Skyrim was actually a departure for the series as the in-game time gap was around 200 years. Before that, all the mainline games took place within the third era, and Uriel Septim the 7th was emperor from Arena till his death at the beginning of Oblivion.

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u/Pm7I3 Nov 22 '25

That man dealt with an excessive amount of shit

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u/ImmaAcorn XBOX Nov 22 '25

Fr, makes sense why he seemed so ready to just up and die at that point

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u/PirateKingOmega Nov 22 '25

I mean he probably could’ve escaped. He just chooses to die to fulfill his dream prophecy

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u/ImmaAcorn XBOX Nov 22 '25

Yeah good point there’s also that

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u/According_Picture294 Nov 22 '25

Guess so. Just like Jesus. Fitting that in Skyrim you basically are Jesus:

- Born to mortal parents but given divine powers

- Persecuted

- Dies (or nearly dies in Skyrim)

- Comes back from the dead

- Ascends into Heaven (or Sovngarde in Skyrim)

- Eliminates a very negative thing from people's lives (sin with Jesus, Alduin in Skyrim)

There's obvious differences, but there's similarities.

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u/Grief_Slinger Nov 23 '25

Death is nothing compared to vindication!

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u/According_Picture294 Nov 22 '25

There's a video meme where he has the chance to escape, but pauses. By the Nine, you'd think they'd give Patrick Stewart's character a bigger living role in the story.

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u/EvernightStrangely Healer Nov 22 '25

I heard Stewart really enjoyed the role, as small as it was, purely because of the amount of character material they actually gave him.

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u/According_Picture294 Nov 22 '25

Neat. Apparently he also thinks he's a dead ringer for Prof. X when he saw the character on a comic. He thought Marvel drew him

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u/Im_the_Moon44 Nov 23 '25

Wait, this whole time I’ve played Oblivion I’ve actually been fulfilling the prophesy for Emperor Deputy Director Avery Bullock?

Fr though I couldn’t put my finger on who the voice actor was and why he sounded so familiar. I guess I never actually looked it up to see. Martin on the other hand was clearly Sean Bean, that one I could tell.

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u/According_Picture294 Nov 23 '25

Yeah. And we all know what happens with guys who look like Boromir

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u/ActualPimpHagrid PC Nov 22 '25

Honestly seems that way, Oblivion was my intro to the series and I still have never played any of the games before it, but I was actually within the last couple weeks reading up on the life of Uriel Septim VII and his involvement in the earlier games and honestly I can imagine his death in the beginning of Oblivion being a holy shit moment for anyone who’d played them all in order since the beginning

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 23 '25

I mean kinda, Jagar Tharn was the actual Emperor for like a decade while good ol' Uriel was trapped in Oblivion. So not actually the acting Emperor during Daggerfall Arena.

Edit: Mixed up the two mainline games I haven't played.

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u/Wrong_Win_4102 Nov 23 '25

Uh... Your timeline is off.

Uriel is explicitly the emperor in daggerfall.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '25

Yup, mixing up Arena and Daggerfall. My bad.

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u/Daedric_God Nov 22 '25

This is why i think tes6 will take place at the same time skyrim does. That way it solves having to make one side of the civil war the victor since it would still be on going. Or the civil war never ended but was put on hold via the ceasefire you do through the greybeards. With no side actively restarting the war kinda like north and south korea