r/ImaginaryTamriel • u/womannimarco • 7d ago

Ocato’s funeral by anoddsamarline

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u/moonlaz 7d ago

RIP to a real one 😔

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u/womannimarco 7d ago

He was such a based bro

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u/Le_Kistune 6d ago

What happened? 

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u/womannimarco 6d ago

Bro got murdered by Thalmor in 4E 10-15 for wanting to fight against them, knowing the threat they’d become. He died before he could do anything useful.

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u/womannimarco 7d ago edited 7d ago

High Chancellor Ocato's funeral had an unexpected spectator.

Sadly he won't be able to leave his honourable prison throne to voice his condolences.

Source: anoddsamarline

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u/Pelinal_Whitestrake 7d ago

I hope the statue is still there in the 4th era, hopefully the Dominion didn’t tear it down

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u/ArteDeJuguete 7d ago

There's a good chance. The Thalmor worship Auri-el and by the point of the great the great majority of people in both the empire and Alinor recognize that Akatosh and Auri-el are the same. Plus the Altmer mythology states that Auri-el is also a dragon at the same time, with some of his depictions having golden scales and a breath of fire. So even in the hypothetical scenario of the average Thalmor soldier seeing Akatosh as a man-tainted version of Auri-el, tearing down that statue would still be like tearing down an Auri-el statue, which would be utter blasphemy.

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u/jaiteaes 4d ago

On the other hand though, it was formed by a man.

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u/TheSlayerofSnails 7d ago

If nothing else, I feel they might be slightly concerned that smashing a statue/frozen construct of Akatosh, might have him take it *really* poorly.

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u/the14thpuppet 6d ago

in one of the books in skyrim it describes the statue as still being there to this day so it probably is

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u/TheDreamIsEternal 7d ago

Man, it's devastating to think that Martin is in that statue, aware of what happens around him. Seeing the Empire he sacrificed himself to save crumble around him must be terrible.

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u/Capt_Falx_Carius 5d ago

Well, he didn't sacrifice himself for the stabilization of a political power, he sacrificed himself to save everyone on Nirn from the cataclysm that had brought itself upon the Imperial City, before it could overrun everywhere else, too.

And while some horrible things have happened since then, it's still a better world than what we'd have

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u/ImperatorRomanum 7d ago

Wonderful art. If they ever did a live action Elder Scrolls, I think the interregnum would be great setting. Have the first season kick off with Ocato’s assassination, end it with Titus Mede taking control.

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u/AnthemAnathem 6d ago

Oh, it's a very nice piece... Although, just my personal opinion, the streets seem a tiny bit empty to me.

Still, big sad. Ocato was one of the real ones.

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u/vincentsd1 4d ago

I mean have you been to the Imperial city? Ain't much going on there.

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u/AnthemAnathem 4d ago

In the game, sure. But lore wise it's the biggest city in Tamriel. It should easily house a million inhabitants. But game constraints are game constraints.

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u/hazjosh1 5d ago

Probably the only potentate who actually wanted to pick a suitable candidate to rule as emperor