Oblivion's The Forlorn Watchman - Why Was Grantham Blakeley CHOSEN? Lore, Quest, Analysis EXPLAINED 

My favorite part of this quest was being beseeched by a ghost talking all eerily and then asking him about the preacher in Anvil and causing him to switch to a normal NPC voice The jokes write themselves in this game

Oblivion feels like my second home. I'm so happy I found someone new making new oblivion content!

Man, watching these videos makes me want to be part of Bethesda's Quest design crew.

Camt wait to see this in skyblivian

Glad you been covering oblivion and its many quests and quirks

i found the watchman the other day also why does fists work on ghosts when normal weapons don't?

There are no real "heroes" in this quest. Gable's no hero for obvious reasons, but the Captain was an incompetent moron who deliberately sailed out in bad weather, _over the objections of his crew,_ when he easily could've stayed at harbor for a while. I've always had a similar thought process; even if Gable and his cronies hadn't betrayed the Captain and taken over the ship, the Captain's stupidity would've gotten everyone killed, anyway. There really wasn't a winning option here (especially as Gable went on to make the exact same mistake). Blakely is the closest thing to a hero we have in this story, but even then, he seemed to be just as short-sighted and inept as the Captain. As for why we don't see the Captain's ghost in the Emma May itself? I've always assumed the Captain survived the initial wreck, only to be killed by the Cadlew Chapel necromancers. See, Cadlew Chapel is just North of the Mouth of the Panther, and from the outside, it looks like an ordinary church. So, it stands to reason that the Captain, having barely survived a shipwreck, would leave to go look for help, see a church off in the distance, and head inside, only to run afoul of the necromancers holed up within. If you go into Cadlew Chapel in-game, there's the body of a freshly-killed treasure hunter, along with a number of decaying bodies strewn about. My theory's always been that one of those decaying corpses is the unfortunate Captain; especially as these events took place at least 12 years ago, according to the Emma May's logbook.

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i'd say possibly the captains remains are not there, because he wasn't kept on the ship, probably he was thrown over board or even keelhauled right after the mutiny (as pirates would often do to set an example) the captain and blakely were good people, but at least blakely was an innocent victim, in fact, i do believe they both are the very reason the crew is bound to the ship in death, as they were in life.. cursed by the very deed which cost them everything .. hint: the irony... fort irony.. ;) after all it would explain a lot even if the captain isn't on the ship, he did sorta... "go down with his ship" as is tradition. a captain always goes down with his ship. in this case it would be in a very... literal sense ..seing as the ship kinda did go down too.. you understand im sure

Another fantastic video, proud of your continued growth I remember being a double digit subscriber! I never put two and two together about that lady in The Imperial City being his daughter, makes a tonne of sense

It makes me happy to see how quickly your channel is growing. Keep it up man

The wildest part is a ship staying that well intact after 12 years

Damn this is a great mission. I actually forgot about it. Another fantastic job ❤

Dang! This is my first time hearing about this ghost. Have to seek it out tonight when I fire up Oblivion

GOAT small channel. Love the content man

ngl, i always thought the tavern owner was the captain, which is why hes so quick to dismiss the name out of guilt.

One of my personal favorites and a quest i havent seen much discussion about

Underrated content

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Ah yes, wait for 8pm, walk with ghosts, slap mudcrabs on the way -quest.

Great community, amazing content.

Every time I play this quest, the box is empty 😅

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

how did anyone die in this? the ship is resting on the shore and wasnt ripped to shreds and Cyrodiil is not that Hostile to live. i think the mayority of the crew survived forgot about Grantham and left mostlikly Hanging the Munitneer and his Leutnants and Grantham Still alive but slowly dieing cursed the Munitneers.

Can you do a video on the goblin wars mechanic 👉👈

Hope i'm not the only one who noticed that this is an homage to mutiny on the bounty

Would of been nice, if you could tell her what happened to her father. After completing this fun little quest. But sadly that was overlooked. (if she really is his daughter that is. I like to think she is though.)

Damn, mine got bug, the ghost got under the floor and can't retrieve the key

I enjoyed this quest

12:35 'with some spellcasting and enchanted weapon use' *uses fists* :P The thing with Angelie might mean something, but no clues, really. I still don't understand how races work, when both parents of a child aren't the same race, as Blakeley was Breton and Angelie is a Redguard. Still, Angelie might not really be his daughter, but like I said, there just aren't enough clues, what makes it an open book for the player to theorize.

Love the game. I forrget that it is so old

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00:32 "Either way, they are certainly not a force to be reckoned with, especially since a lot of these revenants are resistent to normal-type weapons." Uhm... I'm pretty sure you mean the opposite. These dangerous creatures ARE a force to be reckoned with. :-X

Wonder if bethesda was inspired to create this quest, because the microphone was broken. 😂

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They put a black man in chains down in the hold of a ship...

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