Oblivion:Roleplaying/Imperial Legionnaire

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Here are some ideas for roleplay involving being part of the Imperial Legion.

To get Imperial Legion armor, you can use the console or CS on the PC. On the X360/PS3, use the Imperial Dragon Armor if you've finished the main quest. If you haven't you can cap off some poor, unsuspecting legionnaire. If this isn't your type, one of the three legionaries is likely to die the in the recapture of Kvatch quest, also there's two Foresters between Bruma and Capstone Cave (west). So far every time I've been there these two guys have been fighting, so eventually the other will die and you can freely loot his belongings (approx. half of the set). Alternatively, the iron and steel armors are probably the closest match. Maybe you're a mercenary! There is also a complete set of legion armor on the third floor in a chest of Summitmist Manor in Skingrad.

A good and easy way to get full Legion armor without any penalty, is to go to Fort Sutch which is located far north-northeast of Anvil. After the random Oblivion gates open there will be about 5-10 Legion soldiers holding position at a wall watching a gate. After you arrive they start to engage the daedra that start coming out. Once the battle is over there is for sure to be at least one casuality of the Legion, which allows you to loot all of his Legion armor.

A fellow Legionaire

Be a forester, dress in standard Legion armor, excluding the greaves and gauntlets and replace them with Fur or Leather. Carry a Bow and plenty of arrows, and a dagger, axe or shortsword for close combat. Now that you're kitted up, find a nice forest to settle down for hunting with, if possible, close to a camp or bandit cave for you to take up residence, hunt the local beast surrounding the area and keep some of the meat for yourself, and sell the rest to the nearest town or inn. A really good roleplay would be to head to capstone cave near Bruma, there should be two fellow foresters hanging around, the first time you see them they are fighting the bandits so help them out and try to keep them alive. Clear out the cave and use that as your new home, again hunting the deer and selling some meat to the Bruma general item shop. There is also a forester living at the Inn of the Ill Omen, do the same! Rent a room, go out in the morning and kill the wildlife, selling the meat and pelts to the inn keeper (but pretend you're using the pelts and meat as your tab). Also you could wander around every forest until you find your perfect place!

Be an Imperial Legion horseman on patrol around the city. Wear the standard Legion armor but with the horseman helmet (Unfortunately you will have to take the life of an Imperial Watch to get a hold of this awesome helmet) and every night go round the city clearing out all the trouble, then in the morning tell of what you found to you fellow legionnaires and to the watch captain. Also, try being a 'kind policeman', use police brutality on lawbreakers using the truncheon of submission on them. then they get taken to 'jail' a.k.a the other guards kill them.

Be an Imperial Battlemage (for this you will have to have access of the arcane university) Wear the legion armor but no shield and no helmet which is replaced by a hood of any kind you want (try to make up soldier rank colors e.g Blue : Imperial Mage, Green : Imperial Battlemage, Red : Imperial Conjurer, etc) and patrol the university, making sure all the novices are in bed, and nothing is out of place.

Be an Imperial knight. Wear legion armor with the horseman helmet and carry a magical weapon, go out and adventure the world, going into caves and ruins, slaying the evil. Do quests in towns as great deeds and return to the Imperial City and protect your domain whilst on border patrol. Use Roland Jenseric's Cabin on the road to Cheydinhal as your patrolling home!

Be a roadside legionnaire! Buy a horse and then set off to patrol the roads. Stay in taverns and camps when night falls, and make sure to have a little food. Get some for your horse! Don't run on patrol! Walk all the way, horseback or not. Make friends with your colleagues on the road. Kill highwaymen and bandits you encounter, and if a dungeon of some kind is particularly close to the road, make sure to clear it out. Get your pay in from the console or by stealing. Are you paid per deed or do you have tenure? You don't have to brave the world alone; accompany one of the other legionnaires. The horse armor plugin gives a great effect to this!

Be a standard legionnaire. Go around the city on patrol, check out the Waterfront for Gray Fox, then return to the tavern for a late night drink. You can expand this by capturing "suspects" using Command Humanoid spells, then leading them to jail. Pretend that "Visit a prisoner" is actually "Escort the suspect to a jail cell."

Be a palace watch captain, (for this you need to have the imperial armor you get for completing the main quest), patrol inside and out of the palace, making sure your palace guard are in order, and that there are no thieves sneaking around.

Be a member of the Imperial Watch. Use the construction set to import some wear-able Imperial watch armor. Remember that there are actually two types of cuirass, one for the City Watch and a slightly more extravagant one for the Palace Watch. You could even take over from Adamus Phillida! After all, he is retiring!

You could also be an Imperial Soldier stationed in Cyrodiil to help with the Oblivion crisis and perhaps other conflicts in Cyrodiil can be resolved along the way, Perhaps Followers could be Members of your group that you might command? When your done with an assignment think of another "mission" for the imperial army and head to the imperial prison and get a mission there! (Perhaps you can enter the offices without being aressted?)Some ideas are to perhaps take your "squad" and attack a fort in which the undead are planning an army to raid a city or settlement nearby and lower their forces, maybe this could become the main task of the imperial army after the Oblivion War is over. On Your Travels you might encounter a hint towards your next adventure? perhaps a letter to the drothmeri army or a Artifact of the ayleids with an odd riddle in ayleidic toungue which you must take to a researcher to discover the meaning. The Adventures of a Imperial Soldier is as great as any other role in the Imperial Legion. Heck, you might start as a rookie and go up the ranks to High Commander of the Imperial Legion in Cyrodiil!

After completing the main quest you can pretend Chancellor Ocato asks you to go to a place where another Septim is believed to live. It can be a follower or just a random Imperial male that you used command humanoid on. Either way you can bring them to Ocato, and pretend to make that person the new Emperor of Tamriel.