Oblivion's The Forlorn Watchman - Why Was Grantham Blakeley CHOSEN? Lore, Quest, Analysis EXPLAINED
In today's video, we discuss The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion's tragic and horrific quest titled: The Forlorn Watchman. Traveling around Bravil, the player hears rumors of a ghost who wanders the shores of the Niben Bay. By talking to a local inn owner, he tells the player the specifics of the spirit sailor and marks where to find him. After some time, the ghost of the sailor tells you his name and asks you to release his spirit. Through some more information, adventuring and dialogue, the player finds the resting place of the lost soul. It is here that the player also uncovers a more sinister and dark truth. Upon completing this quest, there are 3 conversational topics to discuss. Was the crew justified in doing the coupe as they were doomed anyways? Where was the captain's body and spirit in all of this? Why did Grantham Blakelely's spirit come back to Nirn? And who is his daughter living in The Imperial City? Don't forget to like, comment and subscribe!
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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 being Oblivion. Also great when you talk to beggers and they are all "feed me kids" or "buy me shoes", you ask for rumors, and you get Wes Johnson doing his generic male imperial voice talking about the fact that Dar-Ma has dissappeared or that the someone has stolen an elder scroll
Oblivion feels like my second home. I'm so happy I found someone new making new oblivion content!
Thank you for the support! :) I’m glad you like the videos! It definitely is an awesome game to be playing after 17 years!
Glad you been covering oblivion and its many quests and quirks
Cheers! It’s been tons of fun and even I’m learning a lot about this game!
Camt wait to see this in skyblivian
It’ll be really awesome to get to see how it gets remade into it!
i found the watchman the other day also why does fists work on ghosts when normal weapons don't?
It’s a really neat thing to happen across! And I found out the other day that fists work! Likely if your a hand to hand user, there’s no enchanted weapons for it so to make it balanced they had to make bare fists work!
@@ABardsBallad i am playing a modded race that can't use magic till after lv 30 and it set up for hand to hand so that is how i found out
If i had to guess or theorize, normal weapons dont work very well due to not having any magic in them trying to interact with a magical being, the player has some migica value by default and thus there flesh would have some
@@patrickrocheleau8185 true that would explain a cannon reason but as for coding i think it was a over sight as even low hand to hand can punch ghosts
I am really enjoying your content! Keep it up. I know this channel is gonna be big 😊
I really appreciate the continued support! :) I’m glad everyone is having as much fun with it as I am! I still have a whole ton more scheduled to come out! :)
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.
I really like you theory and it’s one I’ll have to check out for myself! :) it makes sense as to why there are no bodies as well as why Grantham’s ghost was still around!
Man, watching these videos makes me want to be part of Bethesda's Quest design crew.
Your rate of upload is insane and the quality just improves. Great work!
I really appreciate the kind words and thanks for sticking around! I’m glad others are enjoying the Oblivion lore still! :)
nice to see your channel go from 68 subscribers to 1.6k so quickly
Thank you for being one of the day 1s! It’s been a crazy ride so far! Lots more to come! :)
Thank you for uploading on Thanksgiving! I will be watching this with dinner!
Thank you for watching on thanksgiving!! Hope you liked this one!
One of my personal favorites and a quest i havent seen much discussion about
It was really fun to get to be able to play through it and discover everything!
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
Thank you for the continued support! I remember seeing double digits and thinking how insane that was! And Yes! Through the right dialogue intro she says some pretty interesting things that makes you wonder! 😂
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
I wonder who the pirates elected as their new captain
It makes me happy to see how quickly your channel is growing. Keep it up man
Thank you for the kind words! It’s been a crazy first month! I’m really excited to see where it ends up!
Dang! This is my first time hearing about this ghost. Have to seek it out tonight when I fire up Oblivion
Underrated content
Damn this is a great mission. I actually forgot about it. Another fantastic job ❤
W channel. Have a sub. The algorithm succeeds again, surprisingly
The wildest part is a ship staying that well intact after 12 years
GOAT small channel. Love the content man
Cheers! :) I really appreciate the support! :)
Great community, amazing content.
It really is! Thank you for the support! :)
Every time I play this quest, the box is empty 😅
Ah yes, wait for 8pm, walk with ghosts, slap mudcrabs on the way -quest.
😂 the very same! The walk was definitely longer than I would’ve wanted it to be!
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO
Glad you liked this one! :)
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
I enjoyed this quest
Love the game. I forrget that it is so old
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.
I wanted to show that fists work too! I myself didn’t even realize they did until recently 😂 and yes it’s kind of confusing! Apparently the mother’s race dictates the child’s appearance, that might not be a concrete thing though. Also with unique dialogue options she says some things that line up with her being his daughter, but your right it’s not 100%
@@ABardsBallad Yeah, it's kinda confusing. Like Gray Prince that is an Half Orc, with very Orc appearance, but with a different skin tone. Mother was an Orc, but father was in Imperial and vampire on top of that.
Spellcasting? enchanted weapons? I CAST FIST!
@@multigamer856that might just the vampire showing through. Interesting to see that vampires on Tamriel can have children, very unusual in vampire lore.
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.
Yeah I was wondering the same 😂 the crash on shore doesn’t seem so severe to where anyone but grantham would’ve died!
Can you make a playlist with all your oblivion content plz!
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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
Nope! I meant what I said! Since they have many resistances, they can be a challenge therefore meaning they are not a force to be reckoned with!
@@ABardsBallad From all that I know (and double-checked before I wrote the comment, since english is not my native language), the term "a force to be reckoned with" means "someone not to mess with / someone to keep an eye on etc." because they are strong / powerful. If someone is described as NOT being a force to be reckoned with, that means he's weak, unimportant, not worth your attention etc. The version of "not a force to be reckoned with" in the sense of "not a force to be trifled / messed around / etc. with" seems to be exceedingly rare. Very frustrating when one expression can mean two polar opposite things. :D
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Wonder if bethesda was inspired to create this quest, because the microphone was broken. 😂
They put a black man in chains down in the hold of a ship...