NPCpedia: Adoring Fan 

Howdy! Thanks for the shout-out. Loved the vid. Never thought of calling Bosmers "goobers" before, but geeze that's such a great insult. I'm stealing it. Also, I blame Fargoth.

I decided to take the fan with me the first time I met him to see how things go. He disappears shortly after and I have no idea where he went. Then he randomly spawns in front of me many hours later as I go through a door in a ship out in the middle of the sea only for me to accidentally kill him from attacking what I thought was a pirate enemy as soon as I went through the door; and that's how I ended up starting the dark brotherhood quest ahead of my planned time.

And now he's in Starfield. We're all fucking doomed.

He has been reincarnated. The afterlife couldn't stand him anymore and sent him back.

I find it absolutely hilarious that the only way to get rid of the adoring fan without editing the game files is to straight up trap him in the equivalent of Hell to be tortured for all of eternity

Note to self trap the Adoring Fan in Oblivion let him annoy Dagon forever.

He lived long enough to see the death of every other character in TES and make it to space. Strongest TES character confirmed.

I love him. He's just a silly little guy, an absolute gremlin creature of a person, a complete joke of a character. Adds a nice bit of light-heartedness to the game, even if it didn't need it. He's the equivalent of a nice glass of water in the middle of the night, loved, but you could have just waited until morning and not experienced it and you'd be perfectly fine.

That classic video of hitting the Adoring Fan from the highest mountain will always remain close to our hearts. It’s like a right of passage for any Oblivion fan to at least try it once.

The Adoring Fan is like the Morshu of TES: - Very little effect on the plot - Few lines of dialogue - Extremely meme-worthy - Green pants - Memes as far back as the 2000s

I've always loved the Adoring Fan. I used to try and pickpocket all of my most powerful daggers onto him, in hopes that he'd use them. He'd just lose them all though

You trapped my soul, You broke my law- I think you're a thief 'cause you stole my heart

You know him as the Adoring Fan I know him as Wilburgur's SS Boy

He's back in Starfield too, and can actually be set to do tasks. My gut tells me he abandons any task assigned within 3 days to come back and annoy the player, begging them to let him join them again.

I figure the Cisero note about him luring a champion into the forest to off him, is a reference to how players lure The Adoring Fan out into nowhere so they can do the same thing.

Lost my first adoring fan during the orc plantation mission. He got crushed in the crossfire between an ogre and an ebony clad guard. Flew 25 feet in the air than landed in a horse stall. Dead on impact

You're the perfect person for a Guy like me and your eyes are Shi-ny like the Topal sea~

i left the adoring fan in my house, and then stockpiled a ton of junk in the house. the items were piled up to his waist

The second time you meet The Adoring Admirer he's actually been turned into a vampire and is also blind (as a cosmetic option it's called "Prophet Eyes"). Kid goes through some shit, it's hard not to feel bad for him. Yeah, it's technically his fault but still.

I never killed him i always healed him and made sure no one would hurt my precious fan

The Adoring Fan is like the Tom Bombadil of the elder scrolls universe. Completely inexplicable, seemingly immortal, always cheerful.

He is returning in Starfield

Todd, PLEASE let The Adoring Fan have more dialog in Starfield.

And thus, he now intergrated into Starfield... Azura help us.

This character just appear on the starfield direct xD

Welp it’s 2023 as I type this, and you’re gonna have to update this to mention him being a dimension hopper now.

I remember I was in a cave and he had apparently spawned back in and he came running at me in the dark without his torch and I instantly casted a shock spell and killed him by accident. Still remember that to this day :)

"Super sayan Jimmy Neutron" is my new favorite descriptor for this malignant growth.

And now he has returned in Starfield

I'm so fucking happy I found this channel. I wasn't even the hugest elder scrolls fan but this shit is incredible and I've gotten back into Morrowind and will play oblivion next.

And now he's back in Starfield. Dear lord lmao

Honestly, Amalur has the best writing I’ve seen in an RPG to really reflect the state of the world, factions, and your achievements. Superbly done.

Real quick who else is back here after the announcement of the Adoring Fan cameo in Starfield

a suggestion in much the same vein as the Adoring Fan: Mud from the game Gothic. he's this guy you meet in the old camp while just walking around, who ,immediately when he spots you, traps you in a conversation trying to get a chance to help you out by following you around. But much like the Adoring fan, he's incredibly weak and constantly runs away from everything. personality wise, he's this pathetic dude, that is just really desparate for a friend, so he seeks out the player for that very purpose. Although it's not very surprising many people either avoid him outright, or get him killed somehow later (unlike the Fan, Mud doesn't resurrect, except for one time I'll get to later) as he's also a heavily implied zoophile and generally just incredibly annoying to deal with. He obviously achieved meme status almost immediately. look up any piece of Gothic content, be it a video, fan comic, fan fic, anything and you'll see Mud in one way or another. Most often as a companion for the main character. There are also the mods. the one that comes to mind first for me is Mud-ball, where you're dropped in a sort of golf course and Mud is your golf ball. Now, about the resurrection. When the work on Gothic's sequel began, it was actually supposed to be a simple expansion for the first game. taking place a couple weeks after and showing the aftermath of your actions. The intro for Gothic 2 is actually a holdover from this expansion, where there are many things shown that do not exactly align with what actually happens in game. For example, you appear in Xardas' old tower with a different room layout, your starting outfit is new, as it retains the harnesses from your endgame armor and, Mud is crushed by falling debris in the Old Camp. None of this happens in the final game. You first appear in Xardas' new tower, your outfit is basically the same as your old, and, while Mud is nowhere to be seen, the tower itself is still intact. But! In the expansion, he was supposed to come back as a zombie. Presumably appearing somewhere around the rubble of the Old camp's tower.

No matter what I play, whether it's a fisticuffs master with heavy armor or a fisticuffs master with light armor, my journey always starts at the same place. In the prison like everybody else. But after I escape I go right to the arena.

Never felt so bad for a couple of Pixels. Abandoned by his Idol inside hell itself.

He's back! He achieved CHIM and left the Aurbis. Now 17 later he found his way into Bethesda's latest game, Starfield. Not even multiple generation gaps can stop him from adoring you!

By Azura, by Azura, by Azura! I have awaited this for days! It's you! The arena champion, standing here, next to me!

I want more TES npcs 😭😭 especially from before Skyrim They're so fascinating

HES BACK

Got to love that they’ve bought the adoring fan back for starfield

He returns!!

HES BACK IN STARFIELD MY GOAT 😤😤😤😤

A heropedia on the Doomslayer would be cool.

I would use a courage spell on The Adoring Fan to get to fight for me & killed all the pirates on the boat quest.

Weird personal headcanon/theory, but it feels to me as though the Adoring Fan might be one of Sheogorath's shenanigans. Ol' Sheo has a tendency of basically shitposting when he gets bored, and the idea of cursing the Arena Champion with an adoring fan that they can't entirely get rid of or even kill and showers them with toxic positivity is exactly the kind of thing one might expect of him. Sometimes I wonder how the Adoring Fan canonically ended up years later. Not hundreds of years, obviously he'd be dead by then. More like anywhere between 2-10 years, maybe even a few more decades. Did he grow disillusioned after spending time with his hero? Did he become a Syndrome type character and go full supervillain? Or did he continue to remain a super fan for his whole life?

I can’t be the only one watching this video after the Starfield direct. 😂

He's coming back!

i’m so glad you put star as the ending song i was hoping to hear it the whole time

Hopefully Starfield keeps his respawning abilities

I remember thinking that owning that shack in the outskirts of the imperial city was the best thing ever

Starfield Adoring Fan video when?

The adoring fan always reminds me of that one guy in gothic Only that the adoring fan is actually kinda funny and that guy in gothic is straight up annoying you until you're kinda forced to hit him

Nice putting in "star" at the end there haha

The Adoring Fan will return in Starfield

I wish he could follow the Champion of Cyrodiil into the Shivering Isles...

I'm loving these npc videos because of how thorough they are. Good job keep it up

4:33 absolutely losing it over Agronak's training regimen

Canonically, in my playthroughs? He ends up walled up in the ghost house in Anvil. After donning the mantle of "the Mad God" the Hero of Kvatch never got around to mortal matters again, having touched the insanity. The fan was left locked in that cellar. Also for the record, I wholly believe there is no Jygallag. It's entirely a fiction created by Sheogorath merely from boredom and wants to see if the person who can take on Mehrunes Dagon is infallible. His realm is a fiction designed to embody madness and loss of self idenity. You aren't Sheogorath. There was no battle. You exit that plane with no power except calling a daedra. Which any novice can do... You only have that god power when you retreat into the Isles. Like a fantasy... So essentially the Hero of Kvatch went mad. When I see the lore videos on the Shivering Isles, I chuckle that ol' uncle Sheogorath pulled a fast one.

I discovered your channel a few days ago and man, I'm obsessed with your videos. I've been doing whole marathons of them. I also made a little altar at my bedroom where I put pieces of paper with quotes from your videos written on them. I'm working on getting your address so I can offer my fervient suppor on anything you want. Maybe I can do all your chores, clean your house, cook for you, so you can focus all your time on your videos. Anyways, I love this channel. That's the main message

hell yeah, thanks for bringing up the old youtube videos. i was obsessed with those as a kid

This dude was a really good friend to me with his six lines. I wasnt as scared in the dungeons, I wasnt as lonely. Once he died and i dragged his corpse into the yard of my castle, took some flowers and made him a funeral. His body soon disappeared and I was mad, only to see him respawned and running down the hill to follow me once again :D You say he ALMOST never engages a fight...WHEN does he actually fight? Never seen that!

These videos definitely deserve more love, absolute masterpieces.

I used to think you were a hero, a holy knight and all that. I guess I should have known better.

Starfield is going to have a trait where an "annoying fan" will show up randomly to bug you at any point in time. Just imagine you're on some desolate moon in the far flung reaches of outer space and hear "BY AZURA, BY AZURA, BY AZURA!!"

Can't wait for Starfield to continue the blood sport.

the idea of the adoring fan irritating the champion of cyrodil to the point where the champion decides to leave him in the deadlands is god damned hilarious to me.

Worlds greatest fan spending 1000 years in oblivion to be the next main antagonist in Skyrim six

12:46 I think you can reverse it by pressing ~ to open the console, typing "prid aed41" and after pressing enter typing "moveto player" and hitting enter.

In the earliest days of RU-vid there are two videos I remember seeing before I knew anything about Bethesda games. Adoring fan at dive rock, and a video about the explosion collars going off in the Sierra Madre in new Vegas. Not even knowing I was watching videos from what would someday become two of my favorite/most played game series.

Waking up and seeing a ghostcharm video? Hell yeah Ok, I have to know, WHY IS CANDEROUS WITHOUT A SHIRT IN THE KOTOR SHOT? That hit me like a steel chair lol

That orc kicked my ass the first time i tried to fight him without breaking hopes and dreams

It makes me really happy that you included sending the Adoring Fan to Oblivion forever. It's cruel for sure, but also kind of hilarious.

I love how the only way to get rid of him without mods or console commands is to litterally, in game and in lore, damn him to Oblivion

He is actually the strongest for the simple fact that he is immortal and just comes back for more. Good to know I'm not alone at shooting an arrow in the Adoring Fans' face sending him off the tallest cliff while playing "Chariots of Fire" in the background. 🤣

I must say, I'm amazed that I've never heard anyone ever describe anything as "an absolute tumor." Best believe I'm working that into my lexicon.

Less than a second of footage, 10 years later,and I still know an Eve ship when I see it.

Fun fact: The VA for the Adoring Fan and a lot of male elf voicelines in Oblivion acknowledged the cult of killing the Adoring Fan and the Young Scrolls song STAR (which plays at the end of this video) in an interview here on YT

Now he's infiltrated Starfield

I remember somewhere seeing that you can disappoint the adoring fan so he stops following you willingly and it's the most heartbreaking thing I've seen. I was hoping it would've been this video, but no...

I always liked the guy. I'd leave him in one of my houses to keep the place tended to while I was out, or I'd take him on adventures as a challenge, to try and keep him alive. But I always theorized that maybe he was Sheogorath in disguise, or was sent by him to drive you mad. That would explain how the same crazy-looking Bosmer shows up again and again, even if he dies.

I would love a Villainpedia on Lavos from Chrono Trigger.

I just left mine outside my house so every time I visited my house I felt appreciated :)

I remember swearing to God he was named annoying fan so funny now realizing I was wrong after all these years

Wow! You're Ghostcharm! I saw your other videos on video game characters! You're the best! Can I... Can I watch your video seconds after they upload? I'll like, comment, and subscribe!

He's still not as annoying as Nazeem. At least the Adoring Fan is a happy little shit and doesn't spend his 6 lines of dialogue telling you he climbs the city's stairs more times a day than you do.

I grew to like him and would have him wait outside dungeons to stay safe

If you use a courage spell on him he will actually fight. And he’s pretty good with hand to hand combat, doesn’t even pull out the dagger. He even beat a dremora to death before a deadroth eviscerated him the last time I had him in my party (I would collect npcs for a small party)

_"After all, I am your biggest fan."_

1:03 "how on earth could a character with only 6 lines of dialogue..." Morshu: hold my rupees

He’ll be back soon in Starfield

6:16 damn, that actually hurt since I can relate

Anna from Fire Emblem might be interesting. St. Jiub deserves an entry. Johnny "Akiba" Sasaki from Metal Gear might be a good one. Cid from Final Fantasy bridges the gap between Hero and NPC (yes, I know they're all different), but would give plenty of material.

I've been binge watching these skyrim videos. Though I've never played any of the games.

6:14 Cannonically, bosmer can't eat plants, which includes potatoes

Thanks again starfield for bring him back into my life......I'm so thrilled 😮

We all know deep down the Adoring Fan is the true reward of completing the Arena.

I’ve left him in the basement of my character’s house since 2011.

Elder Scrolls 6 should have a mutated hellish creature they find in Oblivion or in a shine dedicated to Oblivion, who you end up finding out is the Adoring Fan who got left in Oblivion by the player.

Top 5 Oblivion NPCs: 1. Lucien Lachance 2. Emperor Uriel Septim VII 3. Imperial Watch 4. Haskill 5. Adoring Fan