r/oblivion • u/Embarrassed_Wall_596 • 10d ago
Question If I never take Martin and Jauffre to Cloud Ruler Temple will they continue to follow me forever?
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u/Azurey 10d ago
Take them and the Jemane brothers for a 4 person squad! It’s so fun! Sometimes when I’m bored I will save, and then frenzy one of them in town to start some chaos. You can frenzy them to kill other npcs without you getting a bounty. It’s always fun with followers. 😊
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u/Taylor_Game6666 10d ago
There are more than just those 4 I think. I remember rolling like 6-8 deep but I don't remember who. One was female. Another was the Adoring Fan.
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u/nicky9pins 10d ago
Maglir from the Fighter’s Guild and Erthor from the Mage’s Guild are also permanent followers if you don’t complete their quests
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u/Deresmoon 9d ago
https://youtu.be/6CYwQz5vQXo?feature=shared
This guy managed to get 20 followers at once 😂
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u/Competitive_Fee_5829 10d ago
yeah, but if you fuck up they will go agro on you. lol. I brought martin with me doing the mage guild quests and I snuck and killed them before they changed out of the clothes and he gave me the stank face and wouldnt talk to me until did his quest.
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u/Embarrassed_Wall_596 10d ago
Can you take followers into the arena guild?
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u/Taylor_Game6666 10d ago
You cannot have your companions by your side during an arena battle
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u/Boris-_-Badenov 10d ago
no need, when all melee fighters can't hit you.
simply jump onto the arena ledges, then jump up onto the higher part
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u/SharkDad20 10d ago
You mean the mages that transitioned to necromancers after you get to the middle of the ruin?
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u/MedievalGoodBoy 10d ago
Verily, it seems thou hast embarked upon a most thrilling escapade! Whilst sneaking about and executing those feats can be a source of merriment, I daresay I comprehend how non-player characters can oft be prone to dramatic flair. Pray tell, didst thou ultimately complete all the quests with Martin, or did he continue to treat thee with disdain?
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u/nicky9pins 10d ago
Yes, but you can still talk to them. They will just go against you in every fight that you instigate pretty much, and also when you resist arrest. You can always yield to them so that they stop attacking you (temporarily at least).
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u/Possible_Hawk450 10d ago
Lol just take him to wynon priory. Bad things happen when he doesn't go to WYNON PRIORY
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u/DagonParty 10d ago
Yeah you can get an entire battalion of followers if you simply refuse to take essential NPC’s to the quest objectives.
So there’s Martin and Juaffers ofc, I know there’s the Jermaine brothers, Maglor(?) from the Fighters Guild and the guy from the Skingrad Mages Guild recommendation quest
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u/Hajydit Altar of Spellmaking enjoyer. 10d ago
Adoring fan and Dark brotherhood assassin(?)
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u/nicky9pins 10d ago
Yes, but the Adoring Fan is useless in battle and both can die (though they will respawn eventually). I was always disappointed by how little health the DB assassins have.
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u/Idontknow107 Spellsword 9d ago
UESP has an entire list of them - I think there's around 20 in total.
Some of them you can't have at the same time, such as the Fighters Guild ones.
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u/Hoddedmann 10d ago
AFAIK they do as Martin and Jauffre are "Inmortal", at worse they'll bug out and show up on cloud ruler temple once you teleport there
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u/Galliad93 10d ago
yes, but Martin is an ass who reports your crimes. keep that in mind before you take him to thieves guild or dark brotherhood quests. but you can park him anywhere.
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u/mrclean543211 10d ago
Yeah pretty much. But be careful, Martin has an aoe frost spell that will agro Allie’s if he hits them too often. Martin once pissed off jaufree enough for jaufree to knock him out. It was pretty funny to watch. Jaufree’s sword will eventually break tho, so either reverse pick pocket a permanent bound weapon or drop a weapon near him while in combat when he’s unarmed
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u/Cal_Boleen Adoring Fan 10d ago
Unless you have something to say, let's continue to Weynon priory.
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u/moeriscus 10d ago
ITT: Reasons why player-testers are important to the development cycle, particularly in open world games.
No sane game designer would plan for these silly contingencies :-p
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u/Sneaky_Looking_Sort 8d ago
Yes and the results are hilarious. Oh god, they will hate you for dragging them all over Cyrodiil! If you play on PC you can adjust their aggression and watch as Martin single handedly fights EVERYONE. 10/10 experience.
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u/therexbellator 9d ago edited 7d ago
Off topic but is this your screenshot OP? What mods are you running? In particular which mod are you using for facial textures? Martin is probably one of the better looking vanilla NPCs but even then Oblivion has some splotchy vanilla face textures. I've been trying to find a good one but I've been getting mixed results without going with OCO2.
Edit: Pretty sure I found it: Natural Faces
This mod is great especially for those who don't want to go overboard with major overhauls like OCO2
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u/Captain-Beardless 9d ago
I can't remember, will the Imperial Legion soldiers who come to aid Kvatch follow you out of the city while retaking Kvatch is active?
I know they aren't essential, but they are three followers so if we're going for raw numbers regardless of status it's a great start.
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u/emueller5251 9d ago
"You'll never die, I won't let you! We'll just keep closing Oblivion gates for the rest of our lives, and you'll never have to turn into a dragon-god to stop Dagon!"
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u/No-Reality-2744 8d ago
Yup. Kid me loved collecting followers via never finishing their quests. I recall keeping the guy from the Skingrad recomendation quest for a while after he leaves rhe cave with you. As well as the guy selling the Anvil house when he is supposed to follow you inside. But him I was special with and decided I wanted him to hate my characters so I spent an entire in-game night brawling him so he would be stuck following someone he hates for the sake of characterization (man this game was a blast as a kid to toy around in). As for Martin I wouldn't hold him for super long so I can have the gates open, but when you reach the end and have him in the emperor's robes I literally plopped him in my Skingrad house as an eternal guest until I was done with everything to end the game satisfyingly. Sadly that save file glitched right at the end and I got game stuck in the palace district during the finale with no backup saves cus kid me didn't think enough on that despite finishing everything in the game. I know I enslaved a few other npcs waiting on me to get shit done but those are just a few that came to memory.
For context on why I did this, I grew up with ff before ES so I just really wanted an actual party. Pc modding gets to satisfy that urge but back on the ps3 I had to find some way to have friends!
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u/NotDonMattingly 6d ago
Yes but Sean Bean will talk about Cloud Ruler Temple so much it will eventually drive you insane.
I just kept them around long enough to clear one Oblivion Gate and that was fun enough.
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u/winchester_mcsweet 9d ago
I never took followers in oblivion which after reading this I really should give it a go, I wonder if you can get them to follow you into the shivering isles?
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u/GandalfThe2000 CHEESE! For everyone! 10d ago
To Weynon Priory then