I Was WRONG About The Arena Fights. They're BRUTAL 

The male redguard voice actor did such a good job as Owyn

Two and a half hours discussing a relatively minor aspect of a near 20 year old game that has been analysed more deeply than any other game? I. AM. IN.

“Blue team” and “yellow team” has always felt like placeholder names to me. Lightens the mood of fights to the death. My son kindergarten gym class was divided blue, yellow, red teams while they were playing. While he was telling me about it I couldn’t help but think of the gym teacher speaking in Owyn’s voice.

If they intended to have arenas in every city in Oblivion, I wonder why they didn't consider other kind of classical structures such as a great mountainside theater or an Oracle, or bathhouses

You + oblivion is one of the greatest duos of all time. It’s genuinely like watching a work of art get painted right in front of me

A new Dark Lore!!! Yessssss! Another Dark Lore Oblivion video to fall asleep to... I'm not the only one who does that right?

Last time I was this early, I spent 5 days in NICU.

Anyone else use his oblivion videos as sleep aid ? Idk i sleep like a baby everytime I listen to these in the background

DAD'S COMING BACK! Thank you so much for everything you've done so far. I've listened (you are a more than a mere audiobook, rather a narrator himself) to almost all your Oblivion's videos and I am so grateful that you are not to abandon this part of TES. You've made a great deal of progress, I am thanking you from the bottom of my soul!

Why do I have the feeling the Grey Prince's voice actor was thinking he was voicing some awkward Masochist arc while doing the lines for the depressed fight.

Defeating the Gray Prince after you give him the journal gives you a murder and can be a way in the Dark Brotherhood- your immoral act to win the champion title.

👏 When one of your videos gets released, I get a small taste of that "being a child on Christmas morning" sensation.

This video reminded me of how Owyn is literally one of the funniest NPCs in all of Oblivion lol

2:29 For a moment I thought I was watching mans1ay3r

Damn, The Gray Prince is a very chill guy. It's a pity that we can't interact with him more. Also, the Lord's journal ai voicing is so damn great!

Dang, I forgot how sad fighting Agronak is after finding the journal 😥

Always a pleasure to hear your voice. With a coffee in the morning to wake me up, between two tasks in the afternoon to clear my mind or in the evening to calm my nerves after a long day, your narration always hits the right spot. Thank you, Dark LORE Dash. Thank you so much for being here on youtube, giving us your knowledge, voice and expertise of some of the most interesting gaming franchises ever created. Your thorough playthroughs and subsequent videos will always be part of my everyday content playlist.

1:38:54 After all the killing, this one was considered murder?!

LONG FORM CONTENT FROM DASH LET'S GOOOOOOO It's a blessed day

2:17:15 is hilarious. “HELLO MY FRIEND!” Right after killing you lol

Love the background/cut info on the other arenas, great video, keep it up Dash.

I love the way the combatants move....

I remember enjoying this quest line, I played through the game twice. On my second playthrough I avoided getting Agronak the journal so I could face him in a real fight, I almost died a few times in the fight but definitely was a worthy battle against the grand champion.

PFFFFTTT that Altmer fireball was epic.

Thanks for this, Dash. First time I've seen anyone get disqualified from the arena guild. The mod was cheesy but added well to the story and loved that you didn't stick to the same weapon or fighting style. I used to interact with 1-2 Imperial City spectators each time I climbed in rank to make it seem like more people came to see the new combatant in action. Looking forward to a new Oblivion series!

This is a loooooong overdue thank you for all your great content!

What a nice little movie about Oblivion's Arena questline! Very nice job Mr. Dash. I also really like the fighting mod you are showcasing as well as voice lines I have never heard before. Great stuff!

17:55 funny thing about that girl is, Ted Peterson actually talked about it in his interview with Camelworks. Apparently she was directly modelled after an actual girl that came into the studio, and according to him the real girl had a body way more sexual than the one from the cover art. So they actually had to tone it down for the cover. He also laughed about how the IRL was something of a butterface lol

I've been watching this series while I fall asleep for some time now and I've been running low so its good to see a two and a half hour banger come out

I always loved grabbing the free arrows and causing the hanging lantern to go nuts with the flare ability

32:53 *commits a murder in the stands* "We have a WINNER!!!" 😂😂😂😂 The timing is amazing

Hell yeah! Thanks dash. Something great to listen to at work today. Love your content mate.

Very cool video Dash! Enjoyed it. Thanks for all the effort you put in these videos, they're very entertaining after coming home each day!

I've been missing your storytelling! Welcome back!

I have never done an arena quest, so it will be interesting to see this (Though I know where the bodies end up..) Thank you for doing this :)

This was awesome, way better than my own playthrough! Keep up the great work man, can’t wait for the next one 😙👌🏻

Absolutely Love Your Content, Your videos are wonderful and I hope you have fun making them :)

Thanks for the video and all the hard work for making this video, Dash. Fun to see the progress of the hero, throughout the arena fights. This reminds of Kotor and the fights in the cantina, especially with the announcer getting excited. I feel bad for Agronak, with learning his vampire lineage, and being so depressed about it. Poor noble and good orc. I felt bad fighting in the Nice ending, lol. Have a good day and one, Dash and everyone.

ohoho, ive been waiting for this one

Love these man, always well done and explore every option.

Keep it up, dash! Love the videos.

That pickpocket part at 16:20 made me spray my tea… and I was sitting in a cafe

Shivering isles gotta be next man, keep up the good work!

Man is there an oblivion mod collection with this combat overhaul? this looks great! That weapon throw is SICK!

I'm pretty sure Winson is the Blades guy undercover which is why he keeps telling you to bugger off cause your blowing his cover pursuant of the Mythic Dawn

Dark Lore Dash is my favorite Oblivion channel, of which I have watched for years, I'm 16 but I started the Oblivion vids at 13,

Hell yeah, my new lullaby is here

First time I ever did the arena I was a wood elf archer and I was able to jump up onto the edge of the arena and cheese everything lmao

One of your best yet, Dash!

Love your expositions..... Thank You.

A noble being a literal vampire is just one step beyond a noble being a figurative vampire. Agronak was still noble, he just misunderstood the importance of it. Also, I'm pretty sure being a vampire doesn't stop the individual from being a noble.

Im mad that youtube didn't save my place in this video. 👹👺☠️ Time to watch it all over again

These make my work day soo much better

first one here, and just in time to watch this as i fall off to sleep

2.5 hours?!?! Oh Dash you spoil me too much

I could watch this all night, thank you dash!

This is awesome, once again I got to heard voice lines I’ve never triggered before. I absolutely love Oblivion. I’ve been playing it every so often for the better part of 14 years now and I don’t think I’ll ever stop. Thank you so much for making this content and keeping the love for this game alive!

THIS IS A BLESSED DAY

Love the videos bro

Hell yee just the long video i needed for a lazy day off 🙌

So awesome to see another fine in-depth playthrough! Luv yer stylzy Vids ❤ I've been playing "Weaponless/No damage spells" mode. I think i can beat the game this way. Way fun trying anyways. 😎 *Not including the Arena. Just saying. 😏

Amazing job 🎉

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!! Youre blessing us dash tysm :3

By azura! by azura! by azura! It's YOU!! ❤️

arena commentator: behold, the *IRON MAIDEN!!!!!!* in my head: The Trooper by Iron Maiden starts playing

The arena is my favorite questline to do frst in Oblivion!

IM SO EXCITED, THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK

"The Grand champion probably training on a mountain somewhere" mostly likely with his Adoring Fan LOL

After watching your videos I've decided to play oblivion a bit and I've seen some wild jank already. Like the ahdarjis ring thieves guild quest, when you gotta talk to the queens attendant about the ring. I walked into the castle to her being chased down and executed by a guard for some unseen crime.

That ending was perfect. The whole process of how the Arena works is not feasible in real life, and incredibly brutal.

Nice! I loved this vid!

Thank you for all that you do dash!

1:45:27 "Wait a minute, let me do that one again." type moment.

2:12:35 A Dark LORE Dash video? I like it.

Great videos!

Anyone else notice how after learning his father is a vampire, Agronak's voice actor starts giving him a slight Transylvanian-Dracula lilt to pronunciations?

Lmao i love how u just jumped to dunk that lizard for no reason

Between watching the first couple times and the obscene amount of time me and my girlfriend spend listening to your videos when we're going to sleep i reckon dark lore dash gets at least 25% of my youtube premium subscription. I just pray you have a dark lore excuse to do the mages guild questline at some point 🙏🙏

1:38:57 "Your killing has been observed by forces unknown..." What yellow team trickery is this again??

Thanks, now I have to do another Oblivion playthrough

I’m gonna watch this every night at bedtime for like a year

Haysus kreesto, this woman likes everything Also, Sir Slaughter is just the best title ever

*Duel of the Fates begins to play* Get the high ground!

One thing always have a love/hate relationship with is learning about cut content in games I enjoy. Fills me with a sense of wonder, of what could have been. To know that the game is amazing but it could have been amazing+1. To know that no dev is working away tirelessly to finish off that content that they couldn't finish all those years ago. Imagine hopping onto steam and seeing oblivion has an update.

I'm also sad that the dark elf gladiator who was so nice to us this whole time is now upset with us for killing Agronak.

Being honest when I learned the truth behind the Orc’s Past, since I was Heavy RPing a former Imperial Guard and that was pretty somber, it made things hit the Sad Card quite hard! Actually Oblivion is perhaps the only TES game thus far I used to Heavy RP In!

Something to note right out the gate, despite ES1: Arena being called, well, Arena... The arena-fighting aspect was actually cut from ES1. It instead is about taking down Jagar Tharn, a wizard who overthrew and impersonated the emperor, Uriel Septim VII. It then proceeds to be a largely dungeon-crawling focused game. I just think that it's funny that the Elder Scrolls series has a history of cutting arena-related content.

You know, the dumbest thing is when I get the big fan. The biggest fan character after doing the assassins quest in the house where you have to make sure no one witnesses. You commit crimes and you know what city I'm talking about. I put him in the house. That's more or less that house across from my house. I think it's an in Skingrad It also happens to be the house that I keep some of the books on decoration because it has more shells than the actual halls.You can buy you end up kicking somebody else out from

It took me 5 days but I was finally able to finish this epic lore drop 🙌🎉

I think i would've rather played all the arenas in the different cities rather than the fighters guild. The fighters guild questline is a drag, and totally uninteresting except for like, the very last quest. This, but in every functioning city, wouldve been epic, and incredibly satisfying once you reached the end

I could have sworn you could find out about his family from a book you find in a crashed boat under water in a chest

You’re a heroic man 🫡

When I finally did the arena questline, and finally met the adoring fan, I decided to see just how annoying he was. I had seen so many people talk about how awful he was and all the different ways they've killed him or left him somewhere or even trapped him in the Deadlands. But when I saw how small he was with his Jimmy Neutron ass hair, and he said "golly" at me for allowing him to follow me, I came to a realization. This is a child. The adoring fan will always be a child in my mind now. Who the hell says golly unironically like that except a 1950s paperboy being rewarded a popsicle for a job well done? "Golly, mister! Thank you!" Edit: And he says "aww gee"?? And we call him kid to get this option? Yeah, this is definitely a child.

I always go to the arena in every oblivion playthrough, easy money and easy way to level up

Has the blue team always had an Orc Warrior? This is the first time I've ever seen them, and I have completed the arena quest line many times .

For Someone who played on PS3, Can you do the other Plug ins? (Other than Nights of the Nine & Shivering Isles) for example the Razor?

I wish there was a way to tell Agro-Nak of his lineage and that I could encourage him to still fight me with all his might. He deserved to know and I deserved to become grand champion the right way. I always felt bad for him. We are not the foul deeds of our parents.

Baaaabe? Dash just dropped a new video!

Im so excited :)

FROM THE BLUE TEAM