History Characters / TheElderscrollsIVOblivion

Jearl is a Redguard citizen of Bruma who owns a house there, and Saveri is her Dunmer roommate/possible lover. Jearl is out of town on a trip for a portion of the game but will return after sufficient quest progression.

* OpiumDen: The town has a skooma den which the counts son frequents.

* NoRespectGuy: Nobody takes him seriously. He can't get anyone else to join his watch, can't get into the Fighters Guild (who are happy to accept you if you just walk in and ask), [[spoiler:and it's implied that even the ''Mythic Dawn'' don't respect him, as he doesn't know their signature spells.]]

!!Citizens of Cheydinhal

A north-eastern city in Cyrodiil located at the foot of the Jerall Mountains. Cheydinhal is the embark point for many players scouring the north-east and far eastern portions of the map.

[[folder:Cheydinhal in General]]
* TokenNonHuman: It's the one city whose Count is a Dunmer, instead of an Imperial.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Beneath the town is the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary where they conduct their operations.

[[folder:Count Andel Indarys]]

The Count of Cheydinhal and the only non-Imperial among them. His son is something of a MilesGloriosus who tries to close an Oblivion Gate and goes missing. He's also rumored to have had his wife killed twenty years ago.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: His wife was discovered dead at the foot of some stairs, and it's rumored that Andel murdered her, but this might just be because of anti-Dunmer racism.
* {{Nepotism}}: Accused by Countess Caro of having gotten his appointment due to his connections to King Helseth and Queen Mother Barenziah of Morrowind. Not exactly a reliable source, though, considering her racism.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Maybe, the game makes it ambiguous if he's this or a coward. It's up to interpretation, but he refuses to rush his guards into the portal as it deprives them of his walls' defenses and he has no intel of the other side. When his son rushes in taking many of the young men and local rookies with him, he still refuses to waste his guards in a portal rush despite his personal feelings.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Played with. [[spoiler:The loading screens indicate that he's taking bribes from the Dark Brotherhood to keep quiet about their presence in his town, but knowing them, they didn't give him much choice in the matter.]]
* TwoferTokenMinority[=/=]TokenNonhuman: The sole non-Imperial among the Counts of Cyrodiil, and a Dunmer rather than a human.

[[folder:Farwil Indarys]]

Son of Andel and the leader of the Knights of the Thorne. The Hero of Kvatch has to rescue him and his companions from an Oblivion Gate that opens up outside the city.
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* GlorySeeker: Always eager to face threats, which usually puts him in danger since he is woefully ill-equipped for them.
* LeeroyJenkins: Charges into an Oblivion gate and promptly gets most of his friends killed.
** Indeed, he has very little concern for his own life if he comes with you into the tower and will almost certainly die. The least frustrating method for getting him home alive is to completely avoid him by using a water walking enchantment to cross the lava and avoid the bridge he's on. That way he stays safely on the bridge outside while you close the gate yourself. And the reward for keeping him alive is definitely worth it.
* LordErrorProne: Likes to make boasts about the great accomplishments he and the Knights of the Thorne have done, but they are all very silly or exaggerated. The townspeople note that he is never around when something big is actually going on, and that he and the other knights spend most of their time drinking.

[[folder:Ulrich Leland]]
A corrupt Captain of the Cheydinhal Guards who imposes "fines" on people of Cheydinal. The Hero has to find a way to expose his corruption, and take him down.

* DirtyCop: He imposes illegal fines on people of Cheydinhal, and pockets the money for himself.
* FantasticRacism: He seems to target the Dunmer citizens quite often. One part of the quest has him face a Dunmer woman, and the Hero can arrange for him to be killed by her.

A gathering place for Skooma addicts. Four live there full time: J'zin Dar, Reistr the Rotted, Roxanne Bridgette, and R'vanni. They spend all their time either sleeping or guzzling Skooma, and are occasionally joined by others, most notably Gellius Terentius.

* OpiumDen: A house where people go to drink Skooma all day.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy

* TheFundementalist: The Zealot enemy faction in Dementia is defined by strict beliefs that Sheogorath is a living god (which he is), Arden-Sul is his mortal aspect (which is undetermined), and that everyone ''not'' a Zealot is an unbeliever who they should kill (hilariously enough, this will include you ''as'' Sheogorath, even though the rest of the Isles' residents will recognize you on sight).

* ProperlyParanoid: There is a conspiracy to get rid of her like she claims. [[spoiler:It involves her handmaiden, her bodyguard, and several townspeople.]]

[[folder:Hans Black-Nail]]

Bravil's local blacksmith. Knew Count Terentius when he was younger.

* TheBlacksmith: For Bravil. He'll offer the Hero of Kvatch his services, should they need their armor or weapons repaired.
* HiddenDepths: He knew Count Terentius before he became a useless drunkard. [[spoiler:And he's a Mythic Dawn sleeper agent; apparently, he was frustrated by his old friend's failures and decided to change things by force..]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He used to be friends with Count Terentius, back when he was still a rising star in the arena. Now, he just wishes Regulus would straighten out his son.

[[folder:Ranaline]]

The cook at the Lonely Suitor Lodge. A blunt woman who keeps her own company.

* CreepyLonerGirl: She fits most of the criteria, though she doesn't really creep people out.[[spoiler: She ''is'' a member of Mythic Dawn, which is plenty creepy.]]
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:She's a Mythic Dawn [[DeepCoverAgent agent]].]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She notes that she's "always found the wrong sort of friends," which is why she currently doesn't bother.[[spoiler: And she's a member of the Mythic Dawn cult, which is another bad choice in friends for her.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: It's implied that she really ''does'' want friends, but she's been burned so many times she's given up.
* NoSocialSkills: If you try to talk to her beyond her terse introduction, she'll quickly rebuff you and that will be that.

[[folder:Kurdan gro-Dragol]]
An orc money lender who secretly lures people into what he calls "the Hunters run."

* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: He tricks people into participating in his game, which they are hunted by other killers on an island.
* LoanShark: He lends money to people, and picks desperate saps into becoming targets in his Hunters run, where they are hunted by other people.
* MuggingTheMonster: Luring you in for his hunt was not a smart move.
* SnipeHunt: He tricks the player into finding his family axe in Fort Grief. But there never was one, and he simply fooled them into becoming his latest victims in his killer game.

[[folder: The Skooma Den]]

A gathering place for Skooma addicts. Four live there full time: J'zin Dar, Reistr the Rotted, Roxanne Bridgette, and R'vanni. They spend all their time either sleeping or guzzling Skooma, and are occasionally joined by others, most notably Gellius Terentius.

* ApatheticCitizens: All of the residents save Roxanne just do not care if you break the law. At all. You can steal from or even murder them, and only Roxanne (and any guests) will potentially report you. This can be useful, as you can loot the massive amounts of skooma present and murder someone to start the Dark Brotherhood quest without incurring a bounty.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Roxanne's dialogue suggested she first came to the Skooma Den to help the others get past their addictions. Now, she's an addict just like the rest.
* OpiumDen: A house where people go to drink Skooma all day.

%%* SupportingProtagonist: To Martin.

* HannibalLecture: As you travel through his Paradise near the end of the main quest, you hear his voice in your head remarking on the futility of your actions and the true nature of the Daedra Lords and the Nine Divines. [[spoiler:Apparently, Tamriel is just another plane of Oblivion, and the Nine are traitors to the Daedra Lords, the true gods of the universe.]] Though considering the amount of mistakes in the speech and holes in his backstory, he might just be a liar or badly informed.

* TheSociopath: Mankar Camoran is an [[LackOfEmpathy empathy-lacking]], megalomanical lunatic who has no issues selling out Nirn in exchange for power and is completely dedicated to the teachings of one of the series' most evil beings. He is also a liar and [[ManipulativeBastard a manipulator]] who would say anything to sway gullible, desperate or dumb people into following them. Seemingly idyllic on the surface, Mankar's "paradise" is really a hell where his followers are constantly killed by monsters, only to be resurrected and killed over and over again. His promise to allow any follower who loses faith to leave his paradise also proves false, as the grotto, which is said to be an exit from the afterlife, really leads to a torture chamber where the unfaithful are made immortal, locked into gibbets, and then dumped into lava. On top of that, the lore implies that even his love for his children is conditional and downplayed.
* UnreliableExpositor: His speech claiming that [[spoiler:Lorkhan is a Daedric Prince, the Aedric gods are usurpers, and Nirn is a plane of Oblivion]] sounds quite plausible. It's also full of errors and inconsistencies with every other piece of lore in the Elder Scrolls universe, as well as possibly the player's own experiences, suggesting he is either lying or sorely misinformed.

* SuicidalOverconfidence: The Mythic Dawn agents that attack you in broad daylight invoke this. Since the Oblivion Crisis is in full swing with Oblivion Gates opening everywhere the moment they become hostile, they don't care if they die fighting in public since they're gonna end up in Paradise doing so.

* WeAreEverywhere: Several seemingly normal citizens are in fact agents of the Mythic Dawn, and will summon the cult's signature InstantArmor to attack you after you've progressed enough in the main quest.

%%* TheLancer: Uniquely enough for an Elder Scrolls Protagonist, they play this role to Martin.

* ConspiracyTheorist: The details are fuzzy from what he says, but [[spoiler:it's very obvious that he believes himself the centre of it all, and it drives him mad.]]

* SuicidalOverconfidence: Telling him that none of his targets are following him [[spoiler:causes him to snap and attack you with his fists, whereas otherwise he will attack his targets with his axe. Supposedly he didn't want to tip you off by carrying a weapon when he suspects you are lying to him about his targets following him. However, instead of acting like he believes you and going to get his axe, he simply attacks you.]]

* PsychoSerum: [[spoiler:The source of their power, the Hist Sap, turns those that drink it into raging berserkers. This affects even the Argonian Blackwood mercenaries (and the player if they are also an Argonian) because the process used to transplant the Blackwood Company's Hist Tree from Black Marsh to Cyrodiil has corrupted and perverted the tree and its Sap.]]

* GuestStarPartyMember: During the quest 'Den of Thieves', where you take Maglir along to defeat a group of thieves.
* IHaveAFamily: One of his excuses for defaulting on contracts.

* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:He definitely has grand villainous aspirations, what with his plot to resurrect the Ayleid empire and take over Tamriel. Unfortunately, he fails to come off as a credible threat due to dying by your hand the moment he starts to his plans into action.]]

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He is not exactly supposed to be collecting all of his Ayleid artifacts, and even hires the player to steal some of them, but justifies it with the large amount of money he is paying.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She readily accepts that a large Oblivion Gate has opened at her city's doorstep. She asks for help from you to gather more guards from the countryside, but is understanding if you choose to siege the Gate without additional help. Moreover, when you agree to travel the Serpent's Tail to discover the Pale Pass, she reveals that she has already sent troops ahead to scout the land for you. A little redundant given that the game uses a quest marker to direct players, but the sentiment is appreciated nonetheless.