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33 - The Story of Oblivion: Shivering Isles, Sheogorath, and the Greymarch · Mythic Mind Games

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  Speaker 1: A strange door opens in Neebele Bay. Those who have
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  Speaker 1: entered and found the way back out have shattered minds
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  Speaker 1: and are incapable of relaying their experiences. A voice calls
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  Speaker 1: out with power and with madness, beckoning you inside. Bring
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  Speaker 1: me Xampion in the fresh of my foes of mortal changions,
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  Speaker 1: to wade through the entrails of my enemies. Through the portal,
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  Speaker 1: you find a fairly mundane man named Hasker, but you
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  Speaker 1: soon find that the seemingly ordinary footman holds the keys
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  Speaker 1: to the fantastical land of the Shivering Isles, the oblivion
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  Speaker 1: realm of the mad god Chiogorath. You soon reach the
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  Speaker 1: town of Passwal, and you meet its eccentric residents, who
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  Speaker 1: seek to go further into this realm, but are held
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  Speaker 1: back by the Gatekeeper, a fleshly apparently impenetrable abomination. After
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  Speaker 1: crafting arrows from the bones of a gatekeeper, you vanquish
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  Speaker 1: the monster and enter the aisles through the doors of
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  Speaker 1: mania or dementia. The path that you choose will shape
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  Speaker 1: how you experience this world, but it is evident that
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  Speaker 1: either option results in gross disorder. You eventually make your
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  Speaker 1: way to the court of Schiogorath in New Shio. But
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  Speaker 1: first you must pass through the manic town of Bliss
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  Speaker 1: or the demented town of Crucible. As you interact with
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  Speaker 1: the residents, you find that the manic are given over
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  Speaker 1: to wild openness and ecstasy, unable or unwilling to recognize
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  Speaker 1: the affinitude of their limitations. The demented, however, are overly
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  Speaker 1: confined within their own limitations and are given over to neurosis, hypochondria,
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  Speaker 1: and paranoia. And right in the middle since the throne
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  Speaker 1: of Chiogorath, who commissions you to walk in his footsteps,
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  Speaker 1: advancing his dominion of madness. After you terrorize a party
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  Speaker 1: of adventures, you experienced the first main enemies of Chiogorath,
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  Speaker 1: the Knights of Order. Shiogorath informs you that this is
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  Speaker 1: why you are summoned. At this time, the gray March
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  Speaker 1: is approaching. Jigilag, the dadrich lord of Order seeks to
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  Speaker 1: undo the Court of Madness and establish a domain of gray, lifeless,
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  Speaker 1: all consuming order. Following the guidance of Chiogorath, you hold
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  Speaker 1: back the forces of order for a time, and you
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  Speaker 1: even replace the current Duke of Mania or Dementia. But
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  Speaker 1: Shiogorath eventually confesses that Jigilag cannot be stalled indefinitely, for
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  Speaker 1: Shiagorath is himself Jigilag. The Shivering Ales is caught in
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  Speaker 1: an endless cycle of chaos in order as Jigilag regains
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  Speaker 1: control over his domain, but then becomes the mad god
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  Speaker 1: Chiogorath again, and eventually he will be overtaken again by
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  Speaker 1: Jigilag during the next Gray March. However, Chiogorath believes that
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  Speaker 1: he may have a way to finally break the cycle.
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  Speaker 1: Jiglag's victory has only been certain because when he arrives
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  Speaker 1: at New Chioth, the throne is empty. However, if Chiogoras Champion,
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  Speaker 1: can hold the throne while his lord is away, he
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  Speaker 1: may be able to halt the Gray March. Once Chiogorath
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  Speaker 1: does indeed turn back into Jigilag, shiogoroas Champion, must acquire
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  Speaker 1: the mad God's office in order to embrace his mantle. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: he rebuilds Chiogoras's staff and abuse it with the power
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  Speaker 1: of madness. Following the Council of daias the librarian of Jigilag,
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  Speaker 1: who is eternally imprisoned within the Shivery Niles. In the end,
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  Speaker 1: Jigilac is defeated and the cycle is broken. Jiglag explains
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  Speaker 1: that his dominion of order was ever spreading through the
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  Speaker 1: realms of oblivion, and so the other Dadrik Princess perst
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  Speaker 1: him with the cycle of madness. With the great March halted. However,
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  Speaker 1: Jigilag is now free to go where he will, and
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  Speaker 1: you reign as a new mad god, forever asserting your
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  Speaker 1: dominion over the madness of the shivering islands.