Ganniwer Playthrough
| Ganniwer | |
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| Playthrough Info | |
| Game | Oblivion |
| Race | Bosmer |
| Playthrough Dates | January 2023, in progress |
| Platform | Steam Deck |
| Language | English |
This page is for my first Oblivion playthrough, begun on 1/16/2023, motivated by the Skyblivion team finally dropping a release preview trailer and a release date for their mod! I sputtered out for a while playing this character, but what with the release of Oblivion Remastered on 4/22/2025, i was delighted to wake her up again. I’ve restarted her playthrough using the new version of the game!
I decided to play a Wood Elf named Ganniwer, just to keep the same spirit of how my first Skyrim character had also been a Wood Elf.
Goals for this playthrough: real simple. This is my first official Oblivion playthrough still, and while I know the broad strokes of the plot, I don’t know the details of how to get there or much about the mechanics of the game. So I’m going in with the assumption that I’m going to try to play the same character type I like the most in Skyrim: somebody inclined to archery, stealth, and magic. We’ll see what happens!
Like my Morrowind character Tembriel, Ganniwer is named for a character in my Rebels of Adalonia books, Valor of the Healer, Vengeance of the Hunter, and Victory of the Hawk.
Ganniwer’s Backstory
The big important thing about Ganniwer’s backstory: since Oblivion takes place six years after Morrowind, Ganniwer is the younger sister of my Morrowind character Tembriel.
I figure this would work well since they’re both young blonde Bosmer girls, from no family of consequence. And as of when Tembriel was arrested and then sent to Morrowind, Ganniwer had no other family in the world. She’s taken to learning stealth tricks to survive, and she’s determined to eventually be reunited with her sister if she has to search all of Tamriel to do it.
Her problem: once she got wind of strange rumors about a Bosmer who might have turned out to be a prophesied hero in Morrowind, Ganniwer became desperate to find out more. She wasn’t nearly as stealthy as she should have been, raising questions about Tembriel’s fate, and trying to uncover the truth of whether Tembriel was sent away by the Emperor himself.
She pissed off the wrong people, who decided that imprisoning an increasingly bothersome young thief before she started publicly speaking out against the Emperor was the best course of action. And wound up, like her sister before her, in jail.
Little did she know that the Emperor himself was about to cross her path, and that her sister Tembriel wasn’t the only one of their family destined to make a name in Tamriel…
Playthrough Posts
Here are all of Ganniwer’s playthrough posts! These are listed in descending chronological order. Note the pagination controls; you can use those to page through to subsequent posts.
You can also browse Ganniwer’s posts via her playthrough category link.
- Initial impressions of Oblivion Remastered - 04/23/2025My initial impressions of the new Oblivion Remastered release, in comparison with the original. TL;DR: not as graphically awesome as I was hoping for on the Steam Deck, but otherwise still pretty awesome. Includes screenshots and some notes on things I want to investigate further.
- Waking up Ganniwer for new Remastered Oblivion! - 04/22/2025Bethesda released a shiny new remaster of Oblivion--so this means I'm absolutely going to wake up my Oblivion playthrough! Post to cover what I know about the remaster so far, and my plans for resurrecting my Ganniwer playthrough!
- In Which Ganniwer Does Battle in the Imperial City Arena - 11/27/2023In which Ganniwer defeats a string of opponents in the Arena of the Imperial City, and rises rapidly through the ranks of the Blue Team.
- In Which Ganniwer Joins the Arena - 05/23/2023In which Ganniwer helps a town lift a magic spell that made them all invisible; acquires armor for her horse; has visions of herself fighting and dying as she tries to save Kvatch and Martin Septim from Daedric attacks; and joins the Arena in the Imperial City.
- In Which Ganniwer Solves a Merchant Problem - 03/14/2023In which Ganniwer arrives in the Imperial City, and is drawn into resolving a merchant dispute that results in confrontation with a grave robber.