History Headscratchers / TheElderscrollsIVOblivion

* Ok this is kinda gross but why can't female characters smuggle in more than one lockpick when they go to jail (you can probably figure out why)?

*** Even if [[spoiler: you aren't a Daedric Lord]] or [[spoiler: you couldn't tell Martin about it]], a cup filled from the Font of Madness should have done fine.

* Why is Umaril the Unfeathered called that? Was it supposed to be "Unfettered" and someone made a mistake? What do feathers have to do with anything?

** Force of habit. The Emperor wasn't dead for too long, and usually people will continue referring to folk they knew as if they were still alive for a while after their passing.

*** But, believe it or not, Cyrodiil ''is'' a '''Temperate''' Rain Forest outside of Colovia (Long-established as plains anyway). While there is some deforestation around the cities, most of the landmass is rather heavily forested, and it rains extremely frequently. What it isn't, though, is a '''tropical''' rainforest. What JustBugsMe is people don't know the difference between temperate and tropical rainforests.

*** Don't forget Cyrodiil originally only had the Imperial City. So it'll also be "nature walk simulator 2006". Besides, Bethesda already tried to explain it instead of just going "we [[RetCon retconned]] it, deal with it", do people have a weird jungle fetish or something?

* Help me with this. When you do the "Breaking the Seige of Kvatch", it's either made clear or implied that the Kvatch guards you see are the only ones remaining after the initial attack. So...where does Mattius manage to get two extra guards to send to Bruma later in the game when you're gathering up troops for its defense? They don't look like the civilians in the camp or the ones you rescued from the chapel. Where did these two extra guards come from?

* At the end of the Thieve's Guild questline, Countess Carona of Anvil yells out to [[spoiler: The Grey Fox, who is actually her husband]] that: ‘I'll deny it to the Emperor if I have to!’ [[spoiler: with regards to the Grey Fox's true identity.]] Um...she ''is'' aware the Emperor's dead, right?

** From Skyrim, [[spoiler: a book explaining the Scrolls claims that there are different types of Elder Scroll readers depending on how well the reader understands the Scrolls' nature. The character doesn't understand what they are, so only sees meaningless symbols. The priests have some understanding, which is why they get driven blind.]]\

** Nah, a couple years after the events of ''Oblivion'', you [[FinalFantasyTactics killed a religious figure who turned into a demon and was declared a heretic and likewise was erased from history.]]

** Basically, yes. Martin is literally the only person who can relight the Dragonfires and stop the invasion permanently, but to get the Amulet of Kings to allow him to do so requires that you let the Great Gate open (to get the Great Sigil Stone). The Mythic Dawn/daedra picked Bruma to attack because it's closest to where Martin is, same as Kvatch. It's not that destroying a random city in Cyrodiil is going to bring about the downfall of the Empire, it's that allowing the Mythic Dawn to kill Martin would.

** Let's not forget that eventually [[TheElderscrollsVSkyrim Elves practically write you out of the history books]] Not that it matters because you're Sheogorath now and have better things to do.

** Prior to Martin's Sacrifice Daedra could cross into Nirn whenever summoned or even on their own at times, however Daedra are not as powerful in Nirn as they are in their own realms. Azura could not take on the Tribunal and she knew it, it would have been one out of her element Daedric Prince vs Three Living Gods. Further Dagon invaded Nirn a couple of times, during the war between Morrowind and the Empire back in Tiber Septim's day, Dagon was summoned by a sorcerer in Mournhould and ended up destroying the city in one of the worst Daedric attacks in Tamrielic histoy, but Amsivi were able to banish him back to oblivion. Dagon was trying to not just invade and destroy Nirn in Oblivion but take it over entirely, in essence merging his sphere with Nirn, which was far more ambitious and required the barriers between realms to be weakened. Plus by the time of Oblivion Red Mountain was gone, as was the Numidium and the Tribunal, as Dagon wanted all of Nirn these are things he would have had to deal with and may have been too much to overcome.