Summary
Oblivion Remasteredwas released two weeks ago, bringing forth a new generation of Oblivion players who are discovering the wonders of the fourth instalment in the Elder Scrolls, nineteen years after the game’s original release.
Oblivion’s quirky level scaling systems quickly became a hot topic among the new player base. For those unfamiliar, almost everything in Oblivion scales with the player’s level. This includes the types of enemies that spawn, the quality of enemies' equipment, the quality of loot that spawns and the stats of some unique items (which are calculated based on the player’s level when they acquire them).
The first system has been an especially relevant topic given the discussion surrounding one of the game’s first main quests, Find the Heir. When Oblivion Remastered was first released,veteran players warned newcomersto complete this quest before levelling their character.
The Massacre at Kvatch
The aforementioned Find the Heir and related quest Battle for Castle Kvatch involve repelling a daedra attack on the now-destroyed city of Kvatch. If one were to do this quest at level one, then they’d easily be able to defeat a daedric force made up exclusively of stunted scamps. However, if you do these quests at level 15 or higher, you’d be fighting a near-unstoppable horde of clannfear and flame atronachs.
The difficulty spike is immense, and players who were either unaware of the level scaling for this quest, or were told waiting to do this quest was more lore accurate, are finding out the hard way that Mehrunes Dagon doesn’t mess around with high-level characters.
“To everyone who said you should wait to do the main quest, you’re a rotten scoundrel”, writesMaximumCashew0, captioning a video that shows their character getting swarmed at Kvatch Gate by an army of high-level daedra.
“Kvatch Gate? Yeah, I heard it’s absolutely bonkers the higher level you are. At level 3, it’s just some stunted scamps,” commentsCealygosa.
According to theenemy levelling tables on UESP, a level 17 player can cause clannfears, frost atronachs, flame atronachs and daedroths to spawn. Needless to say, this is a greater challenge than a couple of scamps.
Speaking of scamps, in a separate thread, a user namedSerithrazhighlights a quote from Kathutet, a dremora found in Mankar Cameron’s Paradise. The daedra says, “Our clan sacked your city of Kvatch… a trifling task fit for scamps.”
Although he’s being boastful here, there is an implication that Dagon didn’t send a full contingent of forces to Kvatch, which somewhat debunks the insistence that doing Kvatch at a higher level is more lore-friendly.
Whether you’re slaying an army of scamps or an army of daedroths, I wish you luck in liberating Kvatch.
