I love the idea that Christian is just an immortal, inter-dimensional, time traveler who is absolutely livid about the most petty of sins

Resting for 24hrs on a tuesday instead of Saturday or Sunday so that way no one is happy is the most based thing you could've done

I'm glad we have another video about Christian. I laughed really hard at the "I decided to please none of you and decided to rest 24hrs on a Tuesday."

The fact that you did this run as a joke and just by chance happened to come up with a way to actually complete Oblivion as a pacifist where others had painstakingly tried and failed is just incredible.

British people be like "nobodies made an attempt to collect the item, not stealing" while going through somebodies tomb

As undead are literally corpses being reanimated by magic or some other non-holy force, I think you were perfectly justified in attacking the skeleton warriors with the Blades as it specifically states that they are cursed and are bound against their own mortal will. And all undead in general fly in the face of the order of creation where all things must have their appointed time to die. Ecclesiastes Ch. 3 is a great way to put some more context in the application of the Godly wisdom that is the Ten Commandments.

13:23 ok but imagine the situation through the eyes of Vonius. He does all the work, but every time one enemy is killed, you go "hold on, let me rest".

Fun fact: The difficulty slider in Oblivion only affects damage calculations that involve the player. Regardless of what your game's difficulty is set to, NPCs and monsters all do the same damage to each other Given this fact, a pure summoner run with permanent 100% Chameleon would be entirely unaffected by the difficulty slider

That opening song was unironically, a banger

important point to make for potential future attempts at elder scrolls games: All Daedra are immortal, they can not be killed, destroying their physical bodies merely disables them for a time until they reform in oblivion, thus fighting the daedra should not be considered under this rule.

Wait, wait, if you use the save exploitation, does that mean you are benefiting from the Almighty Todd? Doesn't that break the rules? I'm joking, 😂 love this series. This video was especially entertaining. That Tuesday is Sabbath day? Magic, *chef's kiss*

32:11 I'm impressed, he even avoided getting to save 666!

I would like to see a run like this but using every technicality possible. Things like taking a quest item off of a corpse because he attempted to murder you, so you killed him in self defense, and now you are taking the item to investigate the crime of attempted murder.

"Uh, it's *God* singular! Not any of that plural crap." 😂 as a Christian myself too, it's fun watching this. I could never do this kinda challenge

A good bit for the elder scrolls games is that Daedra and Dreemora are immortal. If you "kill them" all your doing is disabling their physical form for some time. Eventually they will regain their physical form.

Fun video. I’d argue that “killing” undead isn’t just permitted, but obligated.

For the theft aspect, would it count if you looted the body to unlock a door, but immediately put the key (or other objects) back? - Not stealing; borrowing ;)

Oh god. he actually leveled up all the way to 10 with MINIMUM ATTRIBUTE GAINS

Elder Scrolls: rest on Saturday Fallout: rest on Sunday

A formality, but I think that most Christians would agree that if you HAD to kill a violent enemy to prevent the death of a righteous person, then it is okay. I would think in this case that inaction might technically be more of a sin, though, not against the 10 commandments.

My name is Christian, and the first game I ever played was Oblivion so the opening for this was suuuuper weird.

The peak has come back

This has been amazing to watch to the end, seeing all the previous youtubers pacifist tries on Mankar only for you to manage it was so good. Congrats!!

Total lore nerd moment, but you can avoid breaking bonus rule number one at the birthsign screen by choosing the Serpent. The other star signs are constellations linked to one of the various false gods of the setting and are also collections of portals into Aetherius, the realm of gods and magic, and each one gives certain benefits and drawbacks and influences a person's life. Not so with the Serpent; the Serpent is a rogue star, theorized to be a physical wandering planet or comet rather than an actual star, and is linked to no divine forces and in lore terms has no divine importance. Those born under the Serpent are supposedly fated to either live in unremarkable obscurity, or to create calamitous changes in the established order of things. The most that can be said about the serpent is that it is an omen, and omens can be from anyone. It does give you a benefit, but depending on how technical you want to be the benefit isn't coming from a false god.

The Mysterium Zarpuzatovtuweduwe is the most powerful book indeed. But also this video was very funny and well made, and conveys the pain that you surely went through to do the run.

Man really relied on god's divine miracles here, some real divinely given Chim.

In Acts, Peter gets a vision from God about being able to eat every animal, not just those deemed "clean" by the laws of Moses. I can appreciate your willingness to stick to not killing animals, but God gave man dominion over the earth and its creatures. Also, yay I'm glad to see another of these videos.

See, I think mispronouncing names in Oblivion is the perfect choice of game to do so as most of the voice actors didn't know how to pronounce names themselves 😂 like Chorrol for example. Characters say a mix between how it's spelled, and pronouncing it as "Coral." That's just one example of many though. Honestly, you might as well make up your own pronunciations of the names in this game

Intro is peak music!

Main reason I love this challenge is that it's revealing of a lot of annoying tropes in video games disallowing particular playstyles (in games where the premise is you being a character you're supposed to have decisions over the actions of; e.g. not a linear game with a set personality to play as). I've very often wondered about looting especially; how strange it is that something that'd be so instantly recognised as vile behaviour in real life is so casually represented as defaultly-fine in so many games. I reckon it's simply something not thought about very much by developers. I think if I made a game, I'd want you to have no big problem completing it with as varied a set of personality types as I could possibly allow for. True pacifists that even step in to stop allies enemies killing each other. People who won't break any law whatsoever... the real-life version or the in-game version. Someone who must put themselves in all the danger instead of others. Stuff like that. Anti-magic-users (no default spells if magic exists). People who won't weild a weapon (or a certain type of weapon). Is it wrong to hunt? Can you be vegan? Can you conversely, only eat meat? Can you use magic to never have to eat anything? And there's a big one so many games fail so easily - do you have the choice to disagree with every course of action the plot 'wants' you to take? Always alternatives, and always enough of them. A short game with a lot of pathing and replay value, avoiding having much cinematic scripting in favor of in-game engine use for increased variability. Complete it without getting seen by anyone even once, complete it by saving everyone, or saving nobody. Stop someone from making a needless sacrifice out of an inflated sense of heroics. Convince the rulers to not have taxes, or armies. Or convince ones that don't to have them! Even pass through the world with a purpose of complete noninterference with the course it would've taken were you not there (complete observer type). Do any and all of these without having to resort to glitches or even just exploits. A lot may need to be curbed along the way just for things to work - but to write the game from the very getgo with that goal at the forefront and as a priority, at the very least. And sure lots of those are terrible ideas but terrible ideas that ought to be explorable. I'm not a christian myself but the ten commandments are a very definite set of things that clash a lot of video game convention and reveal the copy-work underneath and I love it. Very cool and very fun! And very fond memories of this quirky game that came with my 360 console that I got because it was released before the PS3 was, lol.

I am not a religious person but this was an amazing video, very interesting to see someone actually complete it. good work

Wait, wouldn't taking the Sigil Stone technically count as stealing from Dagon?

I don't usually watch Oblivion videos, but the intro was 10/10 so I had to give it a watch. Well done. I admire your dedication and effort.

Well that song in the beginning is amazing.

I wouldn't call "weakness to fire" a positive effect, but if the Sabbath can be a Tuesday then anything goes

it doesn't count as murder when its a demon

The whole premise around trying to beat games without breaking the 10 commandments is just so damn funny to me

Really enjoyed the creative problem solving in this one. Great video!

"Can you beat The Binding of Issac -without breaking the ten commandments- while breaking as few commandments as possible?"

I have never seen your channel before, and I'm barely at the 4 minute mark, but I have to stop to applaud the amount of effort you put into even just the beginning of the video; it does not go unacknowledged.

You deserve a sub. Your video challenge is amazing! I like your videos content it makes my day. I wish you the best of luck for your channel and your future content as well. :)

Are you a lawyer? This sounds like a challenge a lawyer would come up with.

This is fun. I really enjoyed this concept and video!

41:30 "I believe it was good that I did not recruited any allies because all but Martin would be dead and less allies would mean less people that would need to die" When you recruit allies the amount of soldiers that fight in the battle is unchanged. Recruited soldiers do not add up to the Bruma militia, they replace militia soldiers. The amount of human fighters is the same, recruiting allies only makes it so that the human soldiers are stronger because they are guards as opposed to militias. 49:30 "Raven sometimes dies for no reason" Mankars robe has reflect spell enchant. So sometimes when Raven casts lightning on his father the damage is reflected back from Mankar to Raven.

I’ve been waiting for a new video, this is going to be amazing.

Why is this so funny? I’m watching it for a third or fourth time now

First time finding your content, I really enjoyed the challenge conditions and I'll definitely be checking out your other ones!

Best video game series I have ever seen. Keep up the good work, my brother in Christ!

Really love your style of video! Hopefully more are on the way? Either way, cheers!

I think the bonus rule 2 is a bit too harsh. I just think with all the animal sacrifics and slaying enemies of the "god's will", it's more than fine. But then again, more challenging makes better entertainment. x3

You even improved the pacifist runs thats very impressive !

I am so happy to have found a chill gaming channel that is open about Christianity. It's such a pleasant repose from other channels who are often against religion.

Dude, the title you have... is AMAZING! I subbed, I liked, and everything. I wish you great success!

I can't wait for the eventual morrowind run and such on. These keep getting more and more fun.

God bless you mate love the work

Bless you for blessing us like that.

You can deal with having too higher personality by drinking stuff like beer to lower it

Subbed because of the Mankar trick. Good job.

Great video Jacob

Getting the stone was the most Oblivion thing I've ever seen. I love this game.

I just absolutely adore that you use the correct possessive apostrophe placement for a word that ends with an "s" Very rarely do you see that these days

Hey explanation for the sabbath being on Sunday is because that’s when the lord rose so it’s to celebrate him Also good job by pleasing no one by having it on Tuesday

Insane that i went looking for fallout new vegas challenge runs today, saw that the title of yours was first up in the search bar, and then immediately noticed that this video had been uploaded so recently LOL

Great as always! Now I just gotta figure out how to do this in real life…

4:28 I'd argue that most undead were risen against their will. Therefore, killing them is a mercy so the dead might go back to their eternal rest that clearly some deranged individual or other malicious force had disrupted. (Though there's some very murky waters when it comes to Vampires, who are typically regarded as undead but still have the same needs as the living... and Liches, who are necromancers who opted to return to life from death.)

If the Bands of the Chosen give you weakness to fire, why are you considering that to be a positive effect?

Finally, about time someone recognized that Tuesday is truly the most holy day.

On the undead thing, in elderscrolls lore undead are technically animated by souls and that's why they're visible via the detect life spell, so actually destroying undead is canonically a form of killing in elderscrolls, even like ghosts which are just animated ectoplasm

The song in the beginning is honestly the best thing I've ever listened to ever

That intro song is truly a masterpiece 🙏

This is so creative!

I love these challenge runs

The resting on Tuesday had me rolling 😂

15:03 But before that they first came to Tamriel, no? 30:20 But actually you are not killing/murdering them, but saving from being entrapped by some curse. 45:23 Weakness to fire. Positive effect. OK. PS. Intro was awesome.

Bro 😂 the second you died here on 12:10 I instantly got an ad got cut of perfectly

I would argue that the Bands of the Chosen aren't a positive effect, and therefore you don't break the rule. But I did enjoy seeing the workaround.

Nice work on saving Martin and the gang. Want to request: Morrowind Fallout 3 Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines Deus Ex Mass Effect Dragon Age Jade Empire Alpha Protocol KOTOR Jedi Academy? 🤔 X-Men Legends? 🤔 Fable I don't think you can beat VTMB and Human Revolution without killing anybody.

Love these videos brother . Would love to see fallout 3 and maybe some games like kingdom come, dragon age, outer worlds

8:42 Silly emperor, it isn’t a Tuesday!

I appreciate the use of Lupin music. A true man of culture.

Alchemy should 100% be an okay thing to do in a challenge like this. It's basically the same kind of herbal medicine monks and other religious leaders would practice in the middle ages. The benefits are reaped from the organic materials, not a deity, as exemplified in how normal food like an apple also has "alchemical" properties.

8:45 POV you’re my alarm clock trying to get me out of bed in the morning

Happy to have seen this. :)

Happy Tuesday everybody!

The opening hymn is a banger.

I feel like killing enemies in the Oblivion Gates is fine because the enemies are basically demons.

The intro is so good xD

I would have picked the serpent birth sign and then resisted using it as it sounds more biblical and wouldnt breach the bonus rule if un used

The intro is 💯 💯

I hope he adds the music soon, I liked the one that played during the Mankar fight

BY THE 1 DIVINE! ASSAULT ASSAULT!

Using virtuous pope for the background music is very fitting.

That song was absolutely amazing

Killing the sigil keeper in Kvatch should be fine according to the 10 commandments. Or at least by christian standards, since dremora are effectively demons from hell

Can you beat Skyrim's Civil war questline without breaking the Geneva convention.

Fun video thanks :)

If I remember correctly, with only official patches, no. Some quest items needs to be stealed, for whatever reason. Mancar has spell reflect from his robes, so that probly killed his son.

I am pleased by you resting on Tuesday

These vids are such a breath of fresh air compared to single rule challenge runs, great work my friend Also, does anyone know the music playing at 11:52? Shazam turns up nothing :(

The Return of the King 🙏🏻