Oblivion Crisis

§l The§r §l Oblivion Crisis§r §o by§r Praxis Sarcorum Imperial Historian

"At the turn of the Fourth Age, in the year 3E 433, the Emperor Uriel Septim VII was assassinated and the Amulet of Kings was destroyed. This set in motion a chain of events that would bring down an empire and change forever the relationship between

man and the gods The assassins first attacked the Emperor in the White Gold Tower. While the blades held them back, the Emperor made his way down into the dungeons to a secret escape route built into one of the prison cells. Some say the prisoner

reminded him of a childhood friend. Others say it was a moment of prophecy. Whatever the case, the prisoner came to play a fateful role in the history of the Empire and Tamriel -surely a sign that the Gods themselves were at work. The pursuing assassins

killed the Blades bodygaurds in a relentless series of sneak attacks. Eventually, they struck down the Emperor himself. Before he fell, Uriel Septim VII gave the Amulet of Kings to the prisoner, who somehow made it out of the Imperial Sewers and

into the light of day. The assassination is now known to have been the work of a group of daedric cultists known as the Mythic Dawn. (Those who still suspect the Dark Brotherhood should consider two facts: first, they would have needed a single assassin,

not a small army of them; second, the Dark Brotherhood would never be so foolish as to effectively declare war on the Empire and thus ensure their complete destruction. Witness to the eventual fate of the Mythic Dawn.) The Amulet of Kings next

surfaced at Weynon Priory near Chorrol. Jauffre, secret Grandmaster of the Blades and head of the prior, took possesion of the Amulet. The messenger was sent to off to Kvatch to find a lowly priest named Martin Septim. Unbeknowst even to himself, Martin

was the bastard son of Uriel Septim VII, and the last heir to the Ruby throne. He alone could use the Amulet of Kings to light the Dragonfires that wards the barrier between Tamriel and Oblivion. and save the world from the Mythic Dawn plot. The prisoner

arrived at Kvatch to find it overrun by Daedra that had poured in from a neewly-opened Oblivion Gate, the start of the Empire-spanning devastation of the Oblivion Crisis. How the prisoner closed the gate is not recorded. Once closed, Martin

and the surviving Kvatch gaurdsmen drove back the daedra. Now known as the Hero of Kvatch, the prisoner and Martin returned to Weynon Priory, only to find the priory sacked and the Amulet taken. Jauffre survived the attack, however, and the three of them

made their way to Cloud Ruler Temple , Bastion of the Blades. This secrret fortress in the mountains outside Bruma is where Martin was held safe while the Hero of Kvatch searched for the lost Amulet. Knowing only that a mysterious group called the Mythic

Dawn was behind the assassination and thief of the Amulet, the Hero of Kvatch was sent to locate the cult. With the help of Baurus, a Blade in service of the Emperor, they somehow used the Commentaries on the Mysterium Xarxes, esoteric

works by the madman Mankar Cameron, to direct them to the Mythic Dawn's secret lair. Scholars familiar with the Commentaries claim the location is not directly mentioned in them. How they did this remains a mystery. No official records exist of how the

Hero of Kvatch pnetraded the Mythic Dawn's lair near Lake Arrius. There is a bardic tale that claims the Hero used trickery and disquise, but that is just speculation. What was discovered there is that Mankar Camoran was behind the Mythic Dawn, and

that the group worshiped the daedric prince Mehrunes Dagon. Mankar Camoran believed himself to be a direct descendant of the Camoran Usurper, the infamous pretender to the throne of Valenwood. Somehow the hero escaped with the mysterium Xarxes

itself, the holy book of the Mythic Dawn cult. Mankar Camoran fled to Oblivion with the Amulet of Kings wit some effort and great risk to his sanity, Martin deciphered the Mysterium Xarxes and intended to use it to open a gateway to Mankar Camoran in

order to recover the Amulet of Kings. Before Martin could preform the ritual to open the gateway, Mehrunes Dagon opened an Oblivion Gate outside Bruma. The Hero of Kvatch saved the city and Martin by entering the gate and closing it before a daedric

siege could destroy Bruma and Cloud Ruler Temple. Many songs and stories have been told of this battle and I will not retell them here. The Hero of Kvatch was now known as the Savior of Bruma. With the city and Cloud Ruler Temple safe, Martin opened the

portal to Mankar Camoran's "Paradise". The detail of what transpired in this place has not been recorded. All that is known is that the Savior of Bruma traveled to this Paradise, killed Mankar Camoran, and returned with the Amulet of Kings. With the

Amulet in hand, Martin Septim presented himself to the Elder Council to be crowned Emperor of all Tamriel. Once crowned he planned to relight the Dragonfires and seal Tamriel from Oblivion. In a last-ditch attempt to stop him,Mehrunes Dagon launched an

assault on the Imperial City, opening several Oblivion Gates within the capital itself. Uncrowned, Martin joined the battle in the city streets. Mehrunes Dagon himself left Oblivion and entered Tamriel, breaking the covenant. Only the unlit Dragonfires

allowed this to be possible. Now that the barrier was ripped asunder, it was too late to relight the fires. Martin Septim chose to make the ultimate sacrifice- he shattered the Amulet of Kings to become the avatar of the god Akatosh and do battle with

Mehrunes Dagon. Records of this battle vary widly. What we do know is that Mehrunes Dagon was defeated and sent back into Oblivion. The avatar of Akatosh was turned to stone and can be seen to this day in the Temple of the ONe in the imperial city. With

the Amulet gone, the Dragonfires quenched, and the last Dragonblood Emperor dead, the barrier to Oblivion is sealed forever." The End.

§o Transcribed by§r §l Maester Flaminius§r §o of the§r §l Tenpo Assembly§r §o on§r July 4th 2014

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