City Crests in Oblivion - An Overview & Lore 

I had some audio issues again - before rendering it actually sounded good but after I processed it, had some of the same issues. Will try fix it for next time 🥺♥️

The anvil crest is actually patterned with ermine. That design is used in European heraldry quite often, it’s a symbol of royalty. The shape is actually meant to represent stoats, I think it’s supposed to represent the tail not foot tracks. Good video all around though

Great video! I am amazed at how you are taking a totally new approach to Oblivion

Welcome to my regular rotation of Elder Scrolls RU-vidrs. Great vids so far! This is the kinda attention to detail TES deserves.

Oblivion was such a great game and it had so many small details that i think we all just took for granted at the time, like how even each town/county had its own unique architecture.

The pattern in the Anvil one is called "ermine" in heraldry. it's present on Anne of Brittany's coat of arms for example. It represents the winter coat of a stoat

I love that you focus on these type of details. There’s not a lot of elder scrolls content that goes this in depth on those types of things.

Your content is such a breath of fresh air compared to the other Oblivion videos I’ve seen recently. Not that they’re bad, but your perspective, and topics thus far have been so interesting, and unique. I’m glad RU-vid recommended your channel to me. Keep up the great work 🥰

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Friendship ended with Skyrim, now Oblivion is my best friend

Cool video! Crests and banners are fantastic for world building and often overlooked.

The white stallion is quite reminiscent of Rohan and given the similarity in colour palette I would surmise it was a strong influence too.

I love how you explore the cultural aspects of the Elder Scrolls setting and how it's shown in the games ! Thank you for your work on that amazing universe

I’ve watched a lot of Elder Scrolls content on the lore, quests, etc, but I appreciate that you’ve started up by showcasing some of the aesthetic choices of the games. Really goes to show how all of those little details made them so memorable

It’s great when my interests converge

Personally I really liked getting a better look at Kvatch in ESO. I think by now most people have settled down and accepted ESO and its contributions to the Elder Scrolls world. Looking forward to the announcement for the next chapter tomorrow!

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My favorite town? Anvil. Lovely old stone buildings, and the harbor at sunset is beautiful.

I have been very stressed lately and have been loving your videos to just revisit my childhood from a different angle. You also have a nice voice to listen to!

I am loving your videos! You are focusing on such interesting aspects of the game that don’t get much coverage.

Your thought of the "significant in the insignificant" is exactly what I love so much about the Elder Scrolls and I am loving your videos! No idea how I stumbled upon your channel but I must say I think I'm in love. Can't wait to see what you've got planned next! Also I just gotta throw in I love Chorrol's heraldry and color scheme. I'm running an Elder Scrolls tabletop roleplaying (set in the Second Era) and my players have become minor lords of County Chorrol so they've been having lots of soldiers wearing the Chorrol blue and Oak and it just comes across as so noble and strong, great for a gaggle of weirdos that accidentally became heroes. Keep up the great work!

Another banger, love the fact you're covering details typically not discussed.

Found your videos last night and was delighted to find another one today! I'm so happy to watch someone talking about (the often overshadowed) Oblivion and diving into the little details. It's my favorite game in the series and also the first one I played. 😊

Really loved this little dive, haven't played through oblivion (yet) but I'm such a sucker for lore it was still super interesting! 😍

These Elder Scrolls analysis videos are very interesting, keep up the good work!

An imminent video about Morrowind? This does honour the Sixth House and the Tribe Unmourned

Loving these videos. So many details I would never have given much thought to but the moment you point them out it brings light to the little things and makes me think about them more. The video about clothing was wonderful and this video has so many insights. Chorrol is my favorite, even if it is simply a tree. Well done, subscribed!

Every city having a unique crest added alot of personality to it. I love that even kvatch has it's own crest.

9:55 that’s just what the Khajiit want us to think

Talking about heraldry, something I like? Going over heraldry in a famtasy game I still play today? Yup, Already a favorite channel now

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These are just the kind of random niche things I love and am often disappointed by the lack of videos on, this channel is really a hidden gem

Somehow I never realised that Skingrad's crest is so blatant with its references to vampirism, but now I can't unsee it. The red representing blood, the black representing night, and the twin moons Masser and Secunda. Awesome video as always!

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The symbol in the Anvil Crest is an Ermine, frequently used in Heraldry. They are the blavk designs you typically associate with white fur royal robes/capes. White field with black ermine appear in some versions of my family crest.

This is honestly such a unique idea for a TES video and i thank you sm. Vids like this can really inspire other creators to think outside the box as well

I was today years old when I learned that Anvils sigil is a bunch of seagull footsteps… Great video! Very excited for Morrowind clothing, robes and the colovian fur hat especially!! 😎

I want to mention Escutcheon of Chorrol. A very good shield the steward of Chorrol grants you if you decide to return the Honorblade of Chorrol to him. The Shield is an ebony shield emblazoned with the Great Oak. It is the coolest City-crest item in the game imo. The irony is that in the video you accept that the Oak is probably non-magical, but it might even go deeper than that. The Oak seems to really hate magic as the Escutcheon of Chorrol actually reflects magic!

Oh look, 1 day after I said I'd like a green velvet dress best, Angelika uploads a video wearing... 😃

A good video-analysis! Just found your channel randomly, by the blessing of the algorythm. Just one note: Lorkhan wasn't exluded entirely - that would've been dangerous to do since Alessia's strongest allies were Nords. He was known to them as Shor, so was implemented as Shezarr - the Man God or "spirit behind all human undertaking".

Thank you for making this channel- oblivion is my favorite game ever and I can never get enough content. And yours is excellent!

Loved the videos so far. Focusing on other aspects than the typical challenge or Lore videos is bringing a great breath of fresh air :)

grats on your success, i swear you gained 2k subs from that clothing video. particularly looking forward to morrowind content in the future

I like the Rohirrim banner of Leyawiin, for obvious reasons, and find it hard to decide if it or Bruma's takes second or third place. No 1 is the Wolf banner of Kvatch. It is close to the Wolf emblem my family has been using for 34ish years and was the first town armour and shield I obtained in Oblivion. Having gone through everything with the guards and citizens of Kvatch I also feel more connected to them than any other town. I have a mod in Skyrim that gives me the shield of Kvatch. Not really counting the Imperial City's crest here, because it is the crest of the entire empire. But even with it being a dragon, I'd still choose the wolf over it...

I wonder if the devs actually researched Heraldry when making these, Heraldry is a specific language and each part of it has a specific meaning down to the color and material. I would be interested in seeing them broken down and analyzed from that perspective.

Anvil crest analysis is spot on. I assumed those three pointed prints resembled a birds foot and if you put into context of the city being on the coast it makes sense. Love the edits, please make more Oblivion videos!

There is an abundance of stags in County Bravil, but there's more symbolism to the crest than that. The stag on the crest is regardant meaning it is looking over its shoulder, facing sinister (wearer's left side). Looking over the shoulder in heraldry is the sign for being wary or on guard and facing sinister doesn't have an outright negative connotation, but in many places it was associated with suspected illegitimate births. Because the crest is so narrow it's hard to say if the stag is meant to be leaping (because the hooves point down) or just standing. If it is leaping, making it trippant, then the stag is effectively watching its back while running away. If just standing then it is on guard. Either way, it paints the Terentius family in a negative light as being cowardly and possibly guarded because they may not really have proper claim for their position. Other nobles look down on Bravil for how obviously run down it is, but still the Terentius family lives very well and leisurely compared to their citizenry so both upper and lower classes of society have reason to dislike the family. I always saw it as either the rule of the county had fallen to a lesser branch of the Terentius family that was just quick to rest on the laurels of previous generations while letting everything around them fall into decline, or that the current generation was just very poor at properly using their position. Count Terentius is a former tournament champion and his son is an open skooma addict. The Count sits on his throne but is very dismissive of you when you first meet him and seems put off that he might have to do any actual work. I think he also avoids risking sending out his guards not because he cares for their lives, but because he needs them to protect his position and sense of authority. One last thing to note is that throughout the medieval period, stags were something only nobles could hunt in many places, and for a noble hunting was more for sport than survival, so a stag could also represent the frivolous activities the Count and his son pursue for entertainment rather than ruling (one example being they both feast for four hours every night at dinner).

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These videos are making me wanna try oblivion again

So glad I found you early on so I can watch this channel take off! Thanks for revitalizing my interest in Oblivion, it was also my first and favorite entry to the Elder Scrolls.

About the coat of arms of Anvil. Those are not the tracks of a stoat, but supposed to represend the pelt (Ermine). This pattern would normally be composed of black shapes with a white background. Bretagne used it as its coat of arms.

Brilliant vid! Absolutely adore Oblivion & Elder Scrolls, so it's fab to find a new content creator covering it from such fresh angles. Crest wise, the Kvatch crest is my favourite. Rescuing the city from the siege was one of my favourite quests. Looking forward to seeing what you cover going forward!

The anvil crest is ermine, or maybe ermines (silver (or white)on black) or pean (gold (or yellow) on black) I couldn’t tell, but both are kinds of ermine, which is derived from fur made out of the tips of ermine tails, it often lines ceremonial royal stuff

I am very elated to see Oblivion's publicity coming back up yet again with Skyblivion and a possible official Oblivion remake on the horizon. Good work!

I've always appreciated the crests in TES, they're such nice little details, I just wish that we had expanded lore about all of the cities, holds and states. I always try collecting the hold shields in Skyrim to hang around the player houses What confused me here is that I had thought that Anvil's crest represented arrowheads or harpoons before seeing the other comments about the ermine reference. Oh well Anyways nice video, it's nice to see a new creator in the TES space!

If you keep up the “I’m a big fan of the scrolls themselves, really good read” joke (which I definitely think you should) it’d be hilarious to one day do that bit with a cloth wrapped around your eyes as if you’re blind. Maybe don’t go full-on dark glasses and a white cane, but a slow transformation into a moth priest would be pretty funny.

A Khajit with dilated pupils would make a dope crest.

Omg you're absolutely on my list for Elder Scrolls RU-vidrs! This is the kind of stuff i love

Twenty years!!, so sad, but happy because it is still alive

Skingrad is still my favorite. the big banners around the city really stand out when you first enter the city

Anvil and Skingrad definitely look the most interesting. They actually have original designs, instead of being just or something like that. Also something that just came into my mind by chance about the anvil crest is how the "arrows" (seagull feet?) and jagged edges are pointing in different directions, as if they were... hammering against each other? But no, surely that is just Henry Westons speaking :). Great video, such an original topic!

I can tell you actually care about the content of your videos considering the amount of research you put into your videos and knowledge you have on the subject. Awesome vid, keep up the good work.

This needs more views, it's so good!

Good on you for exploring the more monotone stuff in TES. People seem to just focus on the more fantasy stuff so I always appreciate this

For the Anvil Flag, the symbol is similar to the one on the Brittany flag, Brittany is kind of the same location as Anvil when you look at a map of France (extreme west) and is coastal. However, Anvil is in a Mediterranean style wich Britanny is obviously not, so maybe i'm completely wrong but the symbols are the same (the only difference is they have only 1 thing under it and on the Brittany flag, it has 2) Sorry if this comment doesnt make sense, i'm french speaking and my english isnt perfect at all

These videos are great, what an awesome lore channel.

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First the fashion and now city crests. You're really covering the important parts of elder scrolls here 😊

As the Hero of Kvatch I wear the Kvatch armor almost exclusively, as the people of Cyrodil need to be able to recognize their hero.

When I was in middle school my favorite house was the skingrad house. I put Everything in there, decorations, armor, I decorated the desk. It was bomb. But that was the Xbox 360 😅. Keep making content 😊

Oh wow, didn't realise you lived in my homeland, Ireland! Another great video!

I'm really enjoying these detail analysis videos. Looking forward to the next one. Great job!

I know almost nothing about the Elder Scrolls series, so half of the jokes probably flew over my head, but I still had fun watching your (still few) videos. Honestly I like these analysis videos about seemingly unimportant things, even though I'm quite familiar with what clothes are, I still enjoyed this video slightly more, it just seemed more educating/interesting to me. I think you also seem to be getting deserved attention pretty quickly, and I hope It doesn't stop anytime soon.

Pretty sure that one commenter was spot on with the stout. Those are actually ermine spots and you can find it on real life heraldry or even in more recent stuff like Arsenal's (the football club) badge before the current one.

Would love to see more videos like this, maybe for other games as well. Like I always thought it was neat how in Skyrim the crest of Whiterun was a horse because its vast open plains are the ideal terrain for horses, even though we didn't originally see wild horses in the game. (also its a big Edoras reference but shhhh)

A beautiful start to your channel and a love for the world of The elder scrolls

Was introduced to TES with Skyrim about a year back. The crests seem so much cooler than the ones in that game. Really enjoyed this video and the two others! Making me consider playing the original Oblivion instead of waiting for Skyblivion to get finished some time between now and the death of the universe.

Huh I never thought about the lore behind something like the city crests. Nice, glad to see more people keeling the lore alive!

Bruma's crest always went so incredibly hard imo

Dude I love that you’re doing a channel making videos they aren’t just “are you aware that RIGHT HANDED swords can be used as DECORATIONS in Skyrim???” Your subjects rule and so do your awesome rocking….eyes

This is the type of content I've wanted to see for years. Subscribed. :)

This channel slaps! Always happy to find new Elder Scrolls content!

I love your green velvet outfit ❤. Both stylish and oblivionish. Hope to see a video on oblivion guard uniforms, as they not only carry different crests, but also have different textures and materials.

I love details like these, and I think you're really onto something with this channel. The worlds are the best part of the games, and there's so much more than armor and houses!

Ok, I am def glad I subbed! This is great content! A very different approach to lore. Most of the time, it's just locations, weapons, storylines, etc. Which are not bad whatsoever, but they do get kinda samey after a while. Side note, your outfits are on point! love em. :)

I LOVE the Leyawiin Knights of the White Stallion side quest. I played a modded run once where enemies were a bit harder and I couldn't fast travel off the bat, and it was a really fun and roleplay heavy way to make some money to begin the next leg of my journey. Plus, running into Mazoga in the house was always cute.

I just love videos over analyzing smaller details like this. keep it up!

I love how I commented on the Colovian Fur helm on the previous fashion video and now I see that it was always in the works. Hell yeah.

This is brilliant 🤣Can't wait for your channel to take off.

I must've put thousands of hours into Oblivion and never once thought about the significance of these crests, other than the Chorrol tree being an obvious one. Great analysis of these crests!

The pattern on Anvil's crest is heraldic ermine.

Great video! Never thought about how the cities got their sigils and heraldry before.

1:50, I always thought it was arrowheads made on an anvil

You are the only other person I've heard of who likes Mazoga. I really enjoy the quest and never had a problem with Mazoga herself.

For the anvil one, look up the coat of arms of Britany.

Love the vids going over stuff that isn’t talked about as much in these games!!

Oblivion was the first game I ever fell in love with as a kid, it's great to see it getting appreciation and lore analysis in 2024!

You're growing fast! 200 subscribers when I first saw you, now already 3,36K! Good job! Really like your content, keep it going.