Oblivion:Roleplaying/Ruler

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Contents 1 Variations 1.1 Ayleid King 1.2 Count 1.3 Daedric Prince 1.4 Dark Lord 1.5 Emperor 1.6 Overlord 1.7 Politician 1.8 Shogun

Become a member of Cyrodiil's ruling class.

[edit] Variations

[edit] Ayleid King

Recommended for High Elves. After you complete Secrets of the Ayleids, loot the crown and staff. Storm Cyrodiil, sending men into slavery. Lead a few slaves and companions (Followers) to an Ayleid ruin and restore it.

If you have SI use the Amber armor as it looks like the Ayleid guardians from the Ultimate heist. Collect all the Ayleid Statues and use them to restore the ancient Ayleid cities. Collect Varla Stones, Welkynd Stones and other Ayleid items.

[edit] Count

Count of Anvil

In order to use this roleplay you must have completed The Ultimate Heist for the Gray Fox. Kill Corvus Umbranox or Countess Millona Umbranox (possibly have Countess Millona Umbranox as your new wife?). Alternativley, do it BEFORE The Ultimate Heist, and be the Count in Corvus' place.

Wear expensive clothing (eg. Red Velvet Outfit,Red Finery, etc) or even wear armor to show off your war background. Sit on the count/countesses Throne all day. Join your new wife/husband in the dining hall for dinner every evening. On weekends, suit up in armor and gather your troops (either by casting a command spell on Anvil Guards or just use your current followers (eg. Knights of the Nine) from guilds and so forth) and invade Caves and forts to increase the wealth of Anvil.

Another option is civil war. Conquer all of Cyrodiil and make Anvil the superior city of all Tamriel. For advice on how to start check out the Revolutionary Roleplaying option.

Lord of Battlehorn Castle

After installing the Fighter's Stronghold official plug-in you get to own an entire castle. Fully upgrade the castle. Now you have a perfect house for a noble!

Have a schedule. Every morning go to get breakfast. Next go and spar with Shagrol gro-Uzug. After that you could tend to your errands. Make trips to the other counts/countesses. Live in the best hotel the city has and stay there for about a week. Whenever you leave, bring one of the Battlehorn Castle Men-At-Arms with you (unless you're doing private things i.e. Dark Brotherhood). Don't let your castle fall into disrepair, go into towns and stock up on supplies for you castle including food and repair hammers. Set up a laboratory in the inner sanctum of the castle, study the crystal formations in the basement.

Buy the best of everything. Get silver cutlery and the most expensive wine. Perhaps you could have a hobby, just like the countess of Bruma collects Akaviri artifacts. Perhaps you like Ayleid artifacts and like to collect Ayleid Statues, the Ayleid Crowns and collect Welkynd Stones and Varla Stones as well, decorate your castle with all of these items. You could also collect Daedric Artifacts, for this, pray to each Daedric Prince in Cyrodill, fulfill their missions and get their rewards, then decorate your castle with all of those items.

After completing Find the Heir, there is a chance that two Oblivion Gates will open near you. Try and get as many of the Daedra around the gate to follow you back to the castle and pretend you're under siege again. Use some mods and put every Goblin Totem staff in your castle and fight until you run out of everything. Use your followers and put them in correct places (I.e Dark Brotherhood Archer in a tower). Or with another mod, you can re-create the siege of Battlehorn castle with marauders except the fight never stops!

If you're an evil count of Battlehorn Castle then you should raise a private army and turn the basement into an armory. Use the permanent bound amour glitch with daedric weapons to make them look evil and then use Madness Armor and weapons (if you have SI and a good heavy armor skill) to stand out as their leader. Also use the construction set to make more than four man-at-arms and, if you're good at modding, make a new type of armor to personalize the troops. Or if you want to be a necromancer kill all the man-at-arms and command them with the staff of worms. Also purchase very few of the upgrades to keep it dark and dusty or use the construction set. You could also plot against the counts of other cities starting with Chorrol, the closest, then finally taking Imperial city using the Console to make the residents unessential.

Count of Kvatch

Become the Count of Kvatch! After getting into the castle and killing of the Daedra, get a group of followers and move into the castle.

You can sit on the throne, wear the Count's clothes, take the stuff from his quarters and put stuff in the chests and drawers. The only problem is you can't sleep in the Count's bed, but you can sleep in one of the beds in the sleeping quarters.

• You can actually become the Count of Kvatch with the Kvatch Aftermath or Kvatch Rebuilt mods. It replaces the ruined Kvatch with a proper city. They have 'rebuilt' Kvatch to what it used to look like.

[edit] Daedric Prince

After beating Shivering Isles, you essentially become the new Sheogorath. Excellent opportunity for role-players to take advantage of. Pretend to have appointed one of the people living in the houses to be the new Duke of that realm, since you have now become Sheogorath. Wear your regalia and stroll around town, but don't forget your escorts! Acquire the Flame of Agnon along with a chameleon enchantment to give your character an other-worldly, Lovecraftian appearance.

You can change things in your realm if you want, say one day you're feeling sad, change the weather (hopefully it will start raining) to make the realm better fit your melancholy mood.

• There is a mod out that gives you a weather-changing staff and another mod that gives you a spell to change the weather.

If you really want to pretend you have become a god, turn the difficulty all the way down. This helps to increase your invincibility as a god.

• If you're on the PC, turn on the God mode ( tgm on the cheats menu ).

Fight off creatures when they attack the towns and defend your realm. When there are intruders at the Gates of Madness, go there and watch the fight, as if it were a show!

Make yourself a rare sight to see. Never go to any of the settlements or Bliss or Crucible unless an important event is being held, and you are making a special guest appearance. Don't forget your bodyguards. In the palace, the duke's quarters or a Cyrodiil house, collect items that make reference to yourself. Books such as the Myths of Sheogorath and items like the Sheogorath-Shaped Amber are some examples.

If you have read the Sixteen Accords of Madness, you will learn that Sheogorath has fooled all of the other Daedric Princes, using their own knowledge and abilities against them. Use the Construction Set to create a mod that allows you to write books or notes. You can then write the other thirteen accords of madness! If you don't feel like writing that much, then choose your favourite Daedric Prince and write a book on how you fooled them. Remember Malacath isn't popular at parties.

Occasionally when you visit Cyrodiil, go to your shrine in the wilderness. Turn invisible and then suddenly appear in front of your worshipers. There is a mod that allows you to add different auras around your character. (Poison, ghost, mysticism magic effect, etc.)

To make your character have more or less the toughness and power of a Daedric Prince, try to acquire 100% Reflect Damage and Reflect Spell. On the Useful spells page there is a spell called "Odd Little Trick" which can set you on fire and would be perfect as a godly, mad trick to excite your public.

• If you don't have Shivering Isles, try downloading the Dremora Companion mod to become the ruler of a plane of Oblivion. A special hood allows the player to execute prisoners via varying methods.

[edit] Dark Lord

The forces of evil often are personified in a Dark Lord, often depicted as a diabolical force, possibly more a force than a personality. The effects of his rule often assert malign effects on the land as well as his subjects. Besides his usual magical abilities, he often controls great armies.

This is best played as either an High Elf, Breton, or Dark Elf. The face should be pale, with narrow, dark eyes and a frown in the eyebrows. Preferably no hair, but if you must have hair, make it black. Another good idea would be to use Imperial, Nord, or even an Orc. For the look (other than Orcs), have white hair, and use dark shadings for below the eyes. Have your eyes be light blue, so that it looks nearly white. If you choose to be a Orc, color the Orc black. Try to elongate the head also, giving your Orc a more human, and so, more frightening appearance. An Orc Dark Lord and a Nord Dark Lord won't need to use magic powers, but should be mighty foes.

Wear a black robe or a Black Hand robes and hood. Remember, black is the color of death and the color of the Dark Lord's soul. Another good idea, for those who want to take a different approach to the dark lord look, is to get full Daedric armor, of course your melee skills would than take some precedence over your magical skills, but the two would be better if they were balanced. You could also use the Madness Armor from the Shivering Isles expansion. It's black, and evil-looking, so it fits the bill.

• Armored Robes is a very good mod. This look of regality could be further supplemented with a cape.

Reach Master level in all magical skills. This shows you are highly dangerous and a Master of everything magical.

Creating an Army

For your evil mage/necromancer army, gather some followers. When your followers "suddenly die" put them on the altar in Benirus Manor or on a shrine to Sithis and lay a dagger next to them. Reverse-pickpocket permanent bound armor onto your followers to make them look like an army. You can also reverse-pickpocket bound weapons into their inventories.

All Dark Lords need a paramour. So, out of your followers, choose one, and have him or her wait in your bedchambers. A romantic interest will not be heavily armored, so try robes, or any dark clothing. A good idea for a decent looking lover is around the Arcane University, any of the apprentice mages. You can pretend to be taking orders from your lover, or that he or she simply lives to serve you.

Your champion should be inhuman, preferably through Conjuration. Simply pick something you truly like, but try to keep it to your motif. If you are a magical dark lord, you are left with many choices. Some good ideas for a mage would be any of the larger atronachs. For armored dark lords, your choices depend on your armor. A daedric armed dark lord wouldn't truly match with a Frost Atronach. And even the magical qualities of a Storm Atronach wouldn't match as well either. A good one would be a daedroth. For a female dark lord, Daedric Lords or other male humanoids work well. Simply create a spell summoning this creature, and extend it to as far as you can, and call it "Call of (Made up name)" or something of that sort.

An Evil Lair

Live in Benirus Manor and use the secret room in the basement as a base for your loyal servants. Just tell all of them to wait in there, ready to be called upon at your command. Pretend they are practicing their evil spells (that you taught them of course) and concocting some lethal potions and poisons. On the other hand, if you download the Vile Lair, you can live in that horrible place as well or instead of Benirus Manor. Also place your followers in coffins and other dark things like the bathtubs in Fort Farragut which would be another good place to have your Lair. You can use some of the Mage Apprentices as guards. Arm them in bound armor, or in some other evil motif, and have them wait outside your doors and inside your house. If you're decent at modding and a computer player, you can make yourself your own dark castle in the Construction Set, complete with followers armed with whatever armor you choose.

Unholy Magic

A few particular spells such as Heart Attack and Helpless suffering, which immobilize your opponents while draining their health, are very nasty spells that you wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of. One spell that can also be useful is called Kneel, which is basically Damage Fatigue 100pts 5 seconds (or for the longest duration that you can) and Drain Fatigue 100 pts for 1 second. The resulting effect will look like the target is being forced to bow down to you. For a list of useful spells including Heart Attack and Hallucination, check out the page here.

Acquire Transcendent Sigil Stones (lvl.17+) of Fortify Magicka and Resist Magic. Keep performing the "Permanent Effects from Quest Items" glitch on different pieces of clothing until you have as much magicka as you want and 100% Resist Magic. You will have a massive pool of Magicka, be able to cast powerful spells, and will be immune to magical attempts to kill you.

Weapon

Your weapons of choice should include a powerful Destruction staff, and the Staff of Worms and the Skull of Corruption. Arguably the best staff in the game is the Staff of Indarys at level 25 and over. This staff deals out a powerful shock enchantment. Alternatively you could enchant your own staff from the quest Whom Gods Annoy. Shadowrend or The Dragonsword of Lainlyn are good weapons as well. A shield and sword are not recommended, because the presence of a shield means you plan on a duel, a Dark Lord is challenged by none, and the boldness of a two handed weapon shows this.

• For those who choose the Armored Dark lord type (the Sauron type) a good weapon would be to have a two handed daedric weapon, or claymore.

Assuming the Dark Throne

If you have downloaded the Shivering Isles expansion, try to reach the point where you can choose which half of the realm you want to rule. Choose Dementia and become the Duke (or Duchess) of that land. The House of Dementia Throne Room is a dark, shady place and suits the sinister personality of a Dark Lord. Alternatively, complete the Shivering Isles questline and instead of sitting on Sheogorath's throne, sit on the throne where Syl used to sit.

In your home city, slaughter every single character in that particular city, including the Count/Countess and their stewards. If you have built up all of your magical skills and used the "Permanent Effects" glitch with Fortify Magicka, this should be no problem. You can then spread your followers out across the city, like watchmen or spies. Pretend that these actions will completely annihilate the reputation of the city and will become the dreaded city of darkness; a place where the Dark Lord rules supreme. A good idea is to use Kvatch as it is already destroyed and barren.

Work your way around Tamriel and take over each city, village, etc. Pretend that taking out certain cities will help cause the downfall of the other cities; perhaps if you take Anvil and Skingrad, the empire will slowly lose supplies, making it easier to have the other cities collapse. Eventually, work your way up to the Imperial City and take out Chancellor Ocato, then proclaim yourself Emperor and dark master.

Run up a massive bounty in your home city and lower everyone's disposition to zero, even those you can't kill, so every time you return your underlings will attempt to rebel against you. A rivalry with the Knights of the Nine would be interesting.

Set up skirmishes between your forces and the resistance against you, sack cities and defend your own. Complete the Mages Guild questline, (losing Erthor as a follower) defeating the King of Worms and becoming the new Dark Lord and Arch-Mage of the Mages Guild. Then lead the Mages Guild into darkness, giving lessons on Mysticism, Destruction, soul trapping and the Dark Arts to the members. On the other hand, you could do anything in your terrible, unholy power to kill the members of the Guild.

Again, assuming you're a computer player decent at modding, you can do almost anything you choose - you can make your followers essential and much more powerful, edit anyone inside a city to be weak and helpless in your presence, change the climate to be like an Oblivion gate - the possibilities are even more endless.

Use detect life to hunt down everyone and everything, nothing spreads fear like charging at your underlings when they think it's safe to leave their homes.

• Use the Benirus Manor or Vile Lair or another mod. Take body parts that you can get throughout Cyrodiil, like your horrible experiments went wrong.

[edit] Emperor

Be the ruler of Tamriel and make everyone love you. Be an Imperial with your last name being Septim. Helpful birthsigns are The Lady, The Atronach, The Mage, The Ritual and The Warrior. Make a Paladin or Knight class, with Combat specialization, Strength and Personality/Intelligence; Use Acrobatics, Blade/Blunt,Block/Light Armor, Heavy Armor, Illusion, Restoration and Speechcraft; as major skills.

When not in the Imperial City use Imperial Dragon armor, with the Escutcheon of Chorrol. (If you're on the PS3 or Xbox 360 there is a glitch that can make you have the Emperor's Robes and Shoes.) Arnora's True Amulet can also be easily roleplayed as the Amulet of Kings.

You'll need the Staff of Worms, the Skull of Corruption, and a Level 1 Command Humanoid spell. As a weapon, getting an enchanted weapon (probably with a Transcendent Sigil Stone) and name it "Septim's Ceremonial Blade" or similar. Or you can use the Sword or Mace of the Crusader, or even the Umbra blade.

Become the Fighters Guild Master; Arch-Mage; Knights of the Thorn; Knights of the White Stallion; Lord Crusader; Blade (roleplay that you're the Grandmaster of the Blades); Grand Champion of the Arena; Brother in the Order of the Virtuous Blood, etc.

Get as many Followers as you can and have them follow you, to protect you. Give all of your followers the same equipment. Conjure a Full Bound armor, make it permanent bound armor and duplicate it for all of your followers.

• If you're on the PC, change your followers name to something cooler. i.e: Mage Apprentice is Arcane Adviser;Battlehorn Castle Men-At-Arms is Imperial Bodyguard. You can also use the Console to get the "Emperor's Robes" and the Amulet of Kings to wear and then you're ready to start ruling Tamriel.

NOTE: You have to do this before giving Jauffre the Amulet of Kings, or the sewers will be locked. Once you have all that, go to the sewers and into the chamber where the Emperor was murdered. Resurrect him with the Staff of Worms, keep doing it until you're out of the sewers. Then go with the Emperor to Vilverin, get him inside, there hit him with the Skull of Corruption, quickly, hit the Corrupted Clone with the Command Humanoid spell, lead the Clone outside Vilverin, kill the clone. Finally save and reload, the corpse can now be looted and you can get the Emperor's Robes and Shoes, you might get 2 of each, for some reason. (This also works with other items such has the Gray Aegis).

If you can't do the suggestion above (already given the Amulet of Kings to Jauffre)just use some high class clothes. For the Amulet of Kings get "Arnora's True Amulet", then enchant and name it "Amulet of Kings ". Arnora's True Amulet is equal to the Amulet of Kings so it works well. You may also want to get the Spelldrinker Amulet while at levels 16-19, as a glitch makes it look like the Amulet of Kings while worn at those levels.

Meet regularly with your adviser, High Chancellor Ocato, and discuss with him about the common problems.

Make sure you have lots of money. Use the Dorian glitch of Infinite Money, or the Duplication Glitch; Sell and sell so you always have money. Never have less than 1 000 000 gold coins.

Have one house in each city, have all DLCs and SI. You can live:

• At White Gold Tower, with the CS, make your own home in the top of the Palace. Or, download Top of the World which lets you live on top of White Gold Tower.
• Either at Frostcrag Spire or Battlehorn Castle.
• In Sheogorath's Palace.
• At Rosethorn Hall or Arborwatch.
• At the Battlehorn but have all the nice houses as well like Rosethorn Hall, Arborwatch, and the houses in Cheydinhal and Anvil.
• You could also live in the Arch-Mages Tower in The Arcane University.

Download the Bank of Cyrodiil mod and make someone your Chancellor of the Exchequer and let him deal with the Empire's money problems. Walk around the Country and make sure that your Empire is in good shape.

You could make it that the empire is in tatters and the smaller cities have rebelled against your rule and you now need to fight for control in Cyrodiil. Maybe you hate magic and all things related so you go on a campaign to destroy the Mages Guild?

[edit] Overlord

Do you want the best for your people or need them for your own twisted desires?

First you need to assume the role of Overlord. Any race and Birthsign will do, As for class;

Specialization: Combat Attributes: Strength and Willpower Skills: Athletics, Blade, Blunt, Heavy Armor, Conjuration, Destruction and Mysticism

First you need a kingdom with a majestic home to lord over the people. If you have the Battlehorn Castle or Frostcrag Spire Plugins, They will make suitly homes for your overwealming presence to lord over Chorrol or Bruma. You could optionally kill the Count and/or Countess and steal their castle.

Do you want the best or worse for your new people? Good or evil?

Merciful Overlord

You stand with your subjects, Go to war with other kingdoms for their supplies and possibly an extension of your domain. Kill any and all criminals in your land, Go into the jails and execute all the lawless souls there. (If any evil men are essential then give them a fate worse than death, Use the permantent bound items glitch and enchant armor with Drain Fatigue properties and call them Eternal Imprisonment) Remember, You don't want the peoples fear, You want their respect and loyalty. So give them gifts of gold and jewlery. Don't buy them, Pillage them from neighboring kingdoms of course!

Evil Overlord

You're mean, You're cruel, Start acting like it! Exploit your own people for all they're worth! Walk into their homes and take their belongings. They wouldn't dare cross you! Be sure to destroy everyone and everything that isn't in your name, Expand your terrible will across the world! Release all the poor misjudged people from jail, It wasn't their fault... Make sure the wretches obey your every command. If someone trys to kill you, Use your destruction magic to blow them over the city walls. Or summon a Daedra to do it for you, Don't want to get your hands dirty do we?

Defeat all who oppose you to become the most powerful being that has ever existed! Remember, You control all, Animals, Men, Gods.

[edit] Politician

Be a part of Cyrodiil's politics. Stay in a big house (Not the Imperial city house etc) somewhere like Skingrad or Chorrol. Eat well - you are rich remember?

Meet with the Count or Countess some days to discuss the city's politics. Meet them for dinner etc. and talk to them. For example, in Chorrol talk to the Countess about the problems with the Odiil boys and their farm. Go to the Imperial City to have a meeting with the Elder Council and High Chancellor Ocato.

• You can additionally use the third-party Elder Council Plugin

Talk about problems like the Dark Brotherhood or the increasing numbers of thefts by the Thieves Guild etc. Every night go to sleep late. You have to do paperwork - Use a mod to write your own notes and books. Release a Budget for things like Horses and Food etc every year.

Be the Governor for your region of Cyrodiil and maybe even run for chancellor after Ocato retires. Sort out problems with the cities and don't let a civil war break out. You could be corrupt, Pretend you're running against a Count(ess) in an election and you can't win. The Count of Bravil is unessential and thus good for this, or, if you're on the PC use the console to make the Count(ess) of a town non-essential and have them assassinated, then sit on their throne.

[edit] Shogun

Shogun (Commander of the Forces) is a military rank and historical title for Hereditary Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces of Japan. The modern rank is equivalent to a Generalissimo. As a title, it is the short form of seii taishōgun, the governing individual at various times in the history of Japan.

The Shogun is best played as a male Imperial, Redguard, Nord, Orc, or High Elf. Name your Shogun with a Japanese name.

Create a Shogun class with the following major skills: Blade, Marksman, Hand to Hand, Heavy Armor, Alchemy, Athletics, and Acrobatics

A Shogun lives in an upper class home, like Rosethorn Hall, Cloud Ruler Temple, Frostcrag Sprie, or Battlehorn Castle. A Shogun also wears upper class clothing, armor, and use exotic weapons like a Katana or Dai-Katana.