You do have some points, but Martin's fate was sealed the moment he was voiced by Sean Bean.

It's weird to hear Sean Bean put his faith in someone called Jauffre.

To be fair, I leave tons of valuable world ending artifacts in my characters bedroom chest in every Elder Scrolls game.

The Mythic Dawn: Where is the amulet that could doom the world to an eternity of death and destruction if found Jaffre: I’ve stored it somewhere so safe, so hidden, that you will NEVER be able to find it in a thousand years! The mythic dawn: It’s in the wardrobe isn’t it Jauffre: ...

No one is safe from the wrath of Avarti

Looking at the issues you've shown here, it's easy to see how the Thalmor butchered the blades with ease..

4:44 I love how Captain Burd just shows up in his fancy green suit to fight the last battle for Tamriel. If you have to go, you gotta go in style.

1:06 “I don’t mean to say that he accidentally dropped it down a well...” *It would have probably been safer dropped down a well, tho.*

0:55 *Sees the horse* Ah, I see you're a man of wealth.

In my eyes Jauffre should've just gone straight to Cloud Ruler Temple,told the player character to go find Martin in Kvatch and have told the Blade's to be on High Alert. That's at least what I just came up with.

Jauffre: oh my inventory is full *301/300* oh well this amulet has 1 weight lets drop it somwhere here

Everyone in Oblivion is an Idiot... "I fought mudcrabs more fearsome than y--" *Punch* "RrrrrUN AWAYYYY!"

I just realized looking at the building from the outside there is no way for that secret room behind the Wardrobe to even exist.

Jauffre would be the one to know he lives quietly as a monk at Weynon Priory

I knew he was an idiot when there was a hoard of trained blades, & he sends the hero (a person he just met) alone to get Martin AND retrieve the amulet of kings. & by the way, I travelled around cyrodill for months with the amulet of kings, & it was perfectly safe. The moment you gave it to him he lost it. It was safer with someone who was punching slaughter fish for several weeks, than with someone who claimed to be an intelligent person. Don't get me wrong though, I did like joffreys character overall & was quite sad when he died during the battle for Burma.

I've always thought Jauffre was idiotic, but honestly I can't think of any strategy that would have made sense given what he knew at the time. The emperor and his sons were presumably well guarded in fortified strongholds, didn't matter. The emperor was escaping through a super-secret tunnel; didn't matter, the mythic dawn knew the secret tunnels within the secret tunnel better than the Blades. Only Jauffre knew both that Martin was Uriel's son, and where Martin currently lived. Again, didn't matter. At that point, strategy is pointless. The mythic dawn were successful at every turn (except the last, arguably), because the plot wanted them to be.

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In my playthrough I found jauffre with a dremora arrow in his back and his weapon sheathed and his back to the battlefield 😞

In Jauffres defence: The Hero is not supposed to deliver the Amulet of Kings to the Weynon Priory. All he had to do was to: #1: Take Amulet of Kings from Emperors Corpse #2: Leave the Sewers #3: Go to the Temple of the One #4: Phase through the Mainentrance by magical power #5: Open the half burried door to summon Mehrunes Dagon #6: Reenter the Temple and meditate for one Day and Night to summon Martin Septim #7: Give him the Amulet of Kings Shouldn't take more than 5 Minutes. After Character creation. So you can beat the game in 1h05m

Tow points one: he´s old tow: maybe he has Dementia? this explain evrything

so is everyone in this comment section forgetting he's an old man tasked to defend something against a cult who killed the emperor in his own secret tunnels and his sons who were heavily guarded?

Maybe Delphine is a descendant of Jauffre

Actually what the mythic dawn could have done. Just completely sieged Cloud Ruler Temple. People have to eat, and if they prevented any shipments of food from reaching it, they easily could have starved everyone there out. That is what actually happened more often than not in history.

according to jauffre its pronounced "amhulet of khins", so his incompetence was clear from the start

Jaufree: "Don't worry guy I hid it were they'll never find it." Monk: "Oh good, I thought you were gonna put it under your bed or something stupid like that." Jaufree: *Sweats* That must have been a one in a million guess... I guess I'll have to move it to the my dresser,

He's the grandmaster of my order, he lives quitelly as a monk in Weynon Priory. Near the city of Chorol, near the city of Chorol.

If I were Jauffre, I'd have kept the amulet on me at all times. To protect Martin, i'd have used the fortress as a last ditch effort to make a stand and protect Martin if other good hiding spots are inaccessible. -Don't hunker down in one place too long. -Don't travel in large groups. You'll leave too big of a footprint. -Send small bands out to supply, changing destinations and routes every time to make it harder to track you. It Probably would have been easiest to meet up with Martin in a location in the Imperial City and light the fires then and there. Once Dagon was taken care of, then head after the Mythic Dawn. Or split in teams, one to hunt the Mythic Dawn and the other to re light the fires.

If Jauffre were to hide the amulet in a different/more secret location, would the Mythic Dawn not be able to find it? They had no way of knowing it was at Weynon Priory in the first place unless they get their information psychically or through super sneaky spies or something, which they obviously do hence the attack on Weynon Priory. If Jauffre were to keep the amulet on his person then the Mythic Dawn could easily kill him and take the amulet, if they can kill the emperor, they can kill Jauffre.

Silverblood family next please! This series is too funny.

I agree he kept the amulet of kings in a chest unguarded which is why it got stolen I mean how dumb is that

Why Mehrunes Dagon is a GENIUS: every time he's shoved his hideous face into the affairs of TES games, he's ultimately fulfilled his sphere of destruction, of revolution, of violent overthrow of the established order, of change, of hope. He may seem like a giant mindless monster but he is one of the greatest of long-term schemers in the universe of TES.

Nah, that's not Jauffre's carelessness.. that's Bethesda's poor story writing. Boom. Headshot :P

*Why would you post something so controversial yet so brave?*

Hero of Kvatch: "I'll hold on to the amulet." Roll the credits.

Ive spent at least 100 hours watching elder scrolls videos (yes, I'm a massive nerd) and this series is by far the best and most enrtertaining I have ever seen. Thanks so much for making these videos, Avarti!!

Super excited to see you uploading new content regularly, my dude!

Love the idiot series.

I love pulling off the sequence break to beat the game early and become hero of cyrodiil and then talk to Jauffre like I'm was told to bring you this amulet thing.

End the Mythic Dawn!? **Laughs sadistically in Mods** Ohh dude.. I love slaughtering those peasants in the imperial city with the Mythic Dawn!

It's very cool to see new videos of oblivion ! I feel like this game, because it is now pretty old is quite underrated

They should have had daedras attack Cloud Ruler Temple time to time.

Avarti, does whether or not someone clicks skip ad after the 5 seconds effect the money you make from it?

Here’s what he could have done: 1. Hide the amulet in Cloud Ruler Temple. On horseback Jauffre can outspeed any potential threats, and he’d have the aid of Prior Maberel if he needed it. 2. Hide the Amulet in Castle Chorrol. Most Mythic Dawn agents are lower-class citizens, so it’s unlikely that it would be infiltrated by spies, and there’d be tons of guards to help defend it. 3. Deliver it to the Imperial City. It’s a long ride, but surely it would be possible to deliver it there, or even have the Hero of Kvatch deliver it. Speaking of which... 4. LET THE PLAYER KEEP IT WITH THEM. I can get his hesitation with having the player go into Oblivion with it, but he also could’ve just instructed them to deliver it to Chancellor Ocato, where it would be kept completely safe. Literally any of these are better than what he did, the lazy ass!

0:51 I did not ask to be attacked by this sudden beauty 😭

I'm adding these videos to a playlist where I can listen to these in the background. Best playlist ever

I don’t think the Hero of Kvatch would be strong enough at such an early point in their journey to defend the Amulet of Kings on their own. That’s why Jauffre takes it at the beginning of the game, where it could be protected more reliably. This is implying that the first thing your character would do as soon as they left prison. It’s not a secret you were in prison, The Emperor basically gave you a pardon, which was verified by Baurus, and he knows you have the amulet. If you didn’t go to Weynon Prior he’d probably know and come after you, as well as putting a ridiculous bounty for stealing the most important relic in the Empire that pretty much every citizen knows about. Also when you’re escaping the Imperial Prison with Uriel Septim, the Mythic Dawn are wayyy stronger than you at normal difficulty. Without the Blades (who can also cut you down in seconds), the tutorial and prologue of Oblivion would be much more difficult. Sure you can argue your specific custom made character would be super strong and awesome and could totally protect the Amulet of Kings on their own! Plus, the Mythic Dawn don’t even know who I am, I’m just some random person. The Mythic Dawn found literally all their targets, because they were very good at infiltrating and stealing information secretly, while maintaining a vast network of agents across Cyrodil. All they’d have to do is look at the Imperial Prison’s records and know your name, race, what you look like, past crimes, etc. Imperials kept good records y’all. TL;DR So the Mythic Dawn would immediately target you, a character weakened from being in prison instead of Weynon Prior. In the context of the story you immediately go there after escaping Prison (maybe get a few supplies in the City, whatever), so it’s not safe with you. Yet. Jauffre probably regrets not just leaving the Amulet of Kings with you after the main quest is over. At the time he took it from you, it was the smarter, safer decision. He had no way of knowing you’d play such a large role in the Oblivion Crisis. That early in the game’s story, you were basically a nobody with no real power to fight the Mythic Dawn on your own.

Please do more oblivion. I love it.

I don't understand why Jauffre doesn't accompany the player to find Martin at Kvatch, he just sends a stranger he just met to find the last living heir to the Septim Empire while he buggers off back to reading his books. Look I know they got some interesting in game books to read Jauffre but we got bigger priorities here.

“Meet us at our S e C R e T t E M p L e” *temple is fucking advertised on a hill above a bustling city*

i'm loving this "...is an idiot" series of videos, keep going dude

i kinda liked jauffre......

Jauffre literally got the most important amulet and even knowing the mythic dawn was after it and they were able to locate Martin, which was almost impossible went like "Oh yes let me put it in this drawer"

"What is the meaning of this? Explain yourself!"

Love this series! Please do more of the Oblivion characters, there’s a lot more depth to the stories within that game and more interesting characters than in Skyrim. Would like to see Lucien Lachance, Mankar Camoron, Sheogorath, The Gray Fox, Modryn Oreyn, Janus Hassildor, Heironymous Lex etc

Avarti says weeks, literally takes three in game days tops when you know what your doing

*casually leaves the same Aedric artifact that was used to chop Molag Bal in half by the Vestige in his laundry hamper* Jauffre: Yeah it’s over there somewhere you’ll find it just gotta look a little harder.

Hero of kvach: “hey count would you like to help save civilization from annihilation? No... okay.”

I love these pls don't stop lol

Ahh yes, carrying the amulet with you is such a good idea, considering that once you're killed, is gone. He was doing an undercover mission by staying in Weynon Priory, who would suspect it? The first place they would look for is Cloud Ruler Temple, it didn't play right, but this is isn't "stupidity" by any means. Leaving the amulet with random, unsuspected items in a secret room, would be considered a smart move.

The ancestor moths are idiots, literally leaving blind men in charge of guarding important artifacts

you crossed the line there bud , no one may insult my boi joffers

First time I played Oblivion and went back to Weylon Priory and saw he lost the amulet I was just like “bruhhhhhhh this would’ve been safer with me and I just went into hell”

He order the blades to “Pay homage to Martin’s champion”. He is not a fool.

I mean it is strange that if you ignore the main quest you can have the Amulet with you on any number of crazy adventures in different guilds, and even in the Shivering Isles. You can even go into Dagon's realm of oblivion by closing the Kvatch gate and liberating Kvatch before being sent there (but can't do anything with Martin) and across all of this craziness, the Amulet is in no danger of being lost. It doesn't even get removed from you if you are thrown into prison. And yet the very moment you hand it off to Jauffre it is doomed.

I remember my first playthrough as a kid, and he commands you to find a peice of enchanted armor in a creepy ghost dungeon and I'm wondering why, just why he couldn't send at least one blade to help men. Throughout the game they just kind of want you to do everything as the blades just sit in their temple sipping tea

Jauffre should have done like that guy Christopher Walken talks about at the end of Pulp Fiction and hid the Amulet of Kings in the one place he knew they wouldn't find it - up his ass.

"Kept it on his person at all times"? That would've been stupid. Considering Weynon Priory got attacked, the Mythic Dawn would've just killed him and searched his body. Hiding something so important in such a dumb place as with one's clothes, could be smart. Who would look there?

He have two Blades members at Weynon Priory as I remember, but yet he sent a complete stranger he know as an ex-convict, to search for the emperor's next heir which he knew where...and the ex-convict just roam around towns, caves, ruins...doing guild quests...

I don't think he was a idiot but rather he was trying to be very cautious. When the player find him at Weynon Priory and say to the player that he must find Martin he probably would want to wait for the player there so the player can return and then they would make the next movie. Where he would hide the amulet would be a fast decision because i don't think he would be able to go up to Cloud Ruler Temple hide the amulet and be able to go back to Weynon Priory because of his age. The desk would probably be the only real safe place in his mind because he wanted to be there when the player returns. When you do get to Cloud Ruler Temple and he barely does anything i think it is out of the fact that he would want himself to be there if Martin ever gets endangered. He got more combat experince then you (in theory) and therefor felt the need to be cautious and stay at Martin side and let you do the errands. A much better idea would make you and Brother Piner aid Baurus in the Imperial City. Brother Piner is a experinced warrior compared to you (based on the story). Atleast he could recall most of the blades that were not on Undercover missions in Cyrodill to come and defend Martin. Therefor he would release himself of the pressure and would be able to go to work. To recap, i don't think Jauffre is a idiot but he is very cautious and being under pressure at the same time. He needs to make fast decisions and still help Martin and the player to defeat Mehrunes Dagon which is not easy. Imagine being him in the desperate times.

When Cloud Ruler Temple was first described in game, i pictured a truly hidden fortress, nestled in a secret valley, or perhaps built into the mountainside itself. I was a bit perlexed to find an exposed fortress sitting pretty on an open mountaintop right near Bruma.

Another great episode on the uselessness of the Blades.

Honestly the hero of kvatch should have just kept the amulet, once it is in their hands it ain't leaving knowing my hording problem

Jauffre became dear to me and i would always protect him. I didn't know you could purchase a house so i called Weynon prairie *Home* . I do not regret my decision.

His idiocy becomes apparent in the first lines of dialogue already, when he repeatedly asks about information you have already given him. Like 'scue me ol' fart are you daft?

Jauffre is another Caius Cosades in ES4, he just tells the character what to do.

Jauffre would be the one to know. He lives quietly as a monk, at Weynon Priory. Near the city of Chorrol.... Near the city of Chorrol

leaving the amulet of kings like that is just like why...

To Weynon Priory, then.

He's not an idiot. He's just too busy thinking about sweetrolls to focus on his job. He could eat them all his life.

Poor old Joffers

He should have gone to cloud ruler right after the emperor was killed

The pirates cove, frostcraig spyre, and that vampire den coulda been super helpful for hiding the amulet.

Well he was definitely made as a supporting character. It's an elder scrolls games. If had come back from one mission that Jauffre sent you on and he shows that he has done 2/3rds of the work, it would feel like you didn't get to have hours of gameplay and rather inferior. I agree that the amulet was definitely safer in moving hands then idles one but being the grandmaster of the Blades he would want such a thing close by, as I imagine a lot of people would in his shoes. Jauffre is old as well and playing the defensive is the best he can do, he does have a high chance of dying during the Bruma gate quest.

Jauffre might be an idiot but I still love him. He's a badass old man. If anyone dares compare him to Delphine, I will obliterate you.

I don' think the Cloud Ruler Temple was a good hiding spot. But it was a highly fortified bastion of blades, manned by some of the best warriors in the Empire. It wasn't the best hiding spot, it was the best defensible position for them to go to in case their location was discovered.

that losing amulet of kings/relocating to cloud ruler temple bit is kinda unfair, because jauffre's decisionmaking has logic in it. "well, apparently hiding plot relevant stuff in inconspicuous locations doesn't work against mythic dawn, so lets change strategy, and hide plot relevant stuff in heavily fortified yet isolated place, that is so specific that anyone approaching it who is not hero of kvatch is instantly outed as mythic dawn agent. And it works, the main quest had that section where mythic dawn sleeper agents got caught because they were hanging out suspiciously close to cloud ruler. every town had sleeper agents, but only they got caught because of tactical choice

lol, Thanks for the playlist.

I carried the Amulett for ingame Months if not a Year before contuining the Main Quest...and the Safest Place to keep the Amulett of Kings would be the Player afterall ,as the Player you are on the Move non stop and going from Place to Place,from Quest to Quest,from Guild to Guild and its so randomly that its looking like Madness to the Mystic Dawns Leaders to predict where you go next.

not gonna lie i love these videos

I remember eventually getting around to the main quest, and jauffre was scowling at me as though he despised me. I then spent the battle of bruma putting him on his ass. He just wouldn't let up. Totally an idiot.

The Mythic Dawn had a man inside the Blades (obviously). So he could have been an absolute genius and the next coming of Sun Tzu and it wouldn’t matter, that amulet was going to fall into the hands of the MD.

Hey, Sean Bean voiced Martin. If anything, his death was preordained.

I mean he maybe very old, but true it does not excuse a lot of the mistakes that he made. Personally, I'd say that he could've made up for his mistakes by sending some blades to help you during the main quest line.

Being an drooling idiot is a professional requirement to join the blades.

0:39 the guy to the left killed me xDDD classic

Avarti will spare no one

My thoughts exactly.. should have just left the amulet with us

Jauffre is the ancestor of Delphine confirmed.

how could jauffre have known that the the mythic dawn ALWAYS checks the sock drawers first

Wonder if someday we''ll get a genius in the Blades.