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Going back into Oblivion with no mods apart from official and unofficial patches made me realize that a lot of problems that I had previously thought were caused by mods was actually in the (relatively) vanilla game, such as texture discrepancy between head and torso with certain articles of clothing, like https://en.uesp.net/wiki/File:OB-npc-Sergius_Verus.jpg

When is it practical to actually use the Truncheon of Submission? Is the Information Gathering quest based on HP or hits?

Without mods, does Oblivion share the same issue as Skyrim where the only wood elf eye colors are 50 shades of brown?

I don't think I've ever used the Truncheon of Submission, other than if it was required in a quest.

I don't remember what Information Gathering is based on.

I've never played as a Wood Elf in either Oblivion or Skyrim, so I don't know about the eye colors, but I would say that brown seems like a very "woodsy" color-- or possibly green; but not blue!

Yes, I really wanted green in Skyrim.

You're telling me that none of Uriel's 50-year-old sons had children on their own, in their 20s/30s?

No.

The Mythic Dawn assassins gave us no hint of being slackers when it comes to the stabby-stabby and could just as easily wiped out any of Uriel Septim's grandchildren that night.

True, but it wasn't mentioned.

It's also possible that any other children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc., had died or been killed long before that fateful night, and not necessarily through any actions of the Mythic Dawn (e.g., through illness, accident, battle, etc.).

For that matter, the lore page says that "On the 27th of Last Seed, 3E 433, the three heirs of Uriel VII were assassinated by the Mythic Dawn, a Daedric Cult." (Emphasis added.) If I remember correctly, these heirs are always described as "his sons" in the game, so I'm not sure why the lore page uses this more ambiguous term, unless the three heirs might have included a grandchild-- e.g., two sons, plus the child of one of those sons?

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Uriel_Septim_VII

EDIT -- Actually, I guess the Black Horse Courier specifically said they were his sons, and named them: "At the same time, in separate locations, the late emperor's three sons and heirs (Crown Prince Geldall, 56; Prince Enman, 55; Prince Ebel, 53] were slain by other assassins."

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Assassination!

I know that in Skyrim, Astrid called the Black Sacrament on herself, but in general, are DB members allowed to perform the Black Sacrament? Obviously, higher ranking members can just delegate work to lower members, but can lower members employ the services of their own organization to help with any personal "projects" or grudges? Like, is there a discount system for DB members, similar to how restaurants allow their employees free or reduced price meals?

The gold fee is a filter to give the Brotherhood a healthy mix of the rich and the very desperate as a client pool. The Black Sacrament is a lie-detector test on the Night Mother's part, ensuring those who beseech her aid truly want to hire and are not some do-gooders trying to lure the Brotherhood into a trap.

An assassin in the position you describe would surely get the family discount.

I think the family discount is probably more along the lines of "Just kill them yourself", personally.

Before the Hist Tree plot was revealed, the Blackwood Company was technically a legally sanctioned organization with a guild hall in town and everything. Given that, the capture and possible torture of Ajum-Kajin wasn't quite legal, was it?

IIRC, no, it wasn't.

How many years are between Battlespire and Oblivion? In other words, how long did it take for Mehrunes Dagon to manifest again? They were both within Uriel VII's lifetime, but don't Daedra usually take a lot of longer to resurrect, especially if they were blown up, like with what happened to Dagon at the end of Battlespire?

35 years, although he was present in Daggerfall which took place only seven years after Battlespire.

That resurrection speed is kinda overpowered. That being said, if you're referring to Daggerfall's Daedric quests, I meant in terms of full resurrections, not just summoning to give relatively menial tasks to heroes.

ESO would put the timescale at a few minutes tops, where after killing Molag Bal he had regenerated in time to bother you in another Daedric Plane.

I don't play ESO, but do you mean wholly? Like not just a ghost head, like with Jyggalag?

In ESO everything and everyone respawns pretty quickly. Sometimes you'll see a dozen corpses of the same NPC where someone killed him/her repeatedly without looting the corpse. (Looted corpses disappear pretty quickly, but if there's still anything left to loot then they'll stick around for a longer time.) Or you'll go into a delve and kill the boss, only to have him/her/it respawn before you can leave the room because some other player just showed up. There's usually a cooldown period of several minutes before a boss respawns, but I've seen them respawn in under a minute, so I don't know if it's based on the clock rather than a timer.

This can go in the Skyrim thread, too, but in Oblivion, the Crusader's Mace has a turn undead effect, while Auriel's Bow in Skyrim does bonus damage to undead. However, given their lore, shouldn't the Crusader's Mace do bonus damage to elves, as it was wielded by Pelinal the Ayleid Slayer? In that same vein, shouldn't Auriel's Bow do bonus damage to humans as it was used by Auriel to fight the new "spawn of the doom drum" that which later on became known as humans?

The gods did not entirely approve of his methods, and they're the ones who made the artifacts. As for the bow, its enchantment seems to have changed in every appearance. I think it just goes for what is most useful at the time.

I have a question and I don’t know if it warrants a new thread:

What race was Lord Berich Vlindrel?

Imperial? Based on my vague recollection of in game dialogue, so don't quote me.

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Shivering:Hunger_vs._Shambles Just to confirm, is "flowering" the old-timey way of saying puberty?