With the release of Oblivion Remastered last month, players are discovering that Oblivion has quite a dark tone, full of difficult themes and sinister narratives.
A recent thread from Yukirae on Reddit poses the question, "Was Skyim this dark, too?" accompanied by a picture of the Dark Brotherhood assassin Gogron gro-Bolmog speaking about murdering a child.
Gogron is known for being an assassin completely without subtlety, preferring to alert his targets to his presence before their inevitable death, allowing him to relish in their fear before he cleaves them in two. He's intended to be some comic relief, but the orc is one of the most sadistic characters in the game beneath his jolly demeanour.
Gogron is far from the only maniac (and child killer) in Oblivion — the character Ortis, driven mad by Sheogorath, is quoted as saying, "I wish there were children here. Scrumptious, darling children. I haven't eaten in so long. Ravel will tell me what to do. You, too."
The player's first target in the Dark Brotherhood quest line, the old man Rufio, is heavily implied to have murdered a woman connected to Claudius Arcadia after she refused to stay still during a sexual assault.
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