This video presents a dramatic reading of Mankar Camoran's speech from the video game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The speech reveals Camoran's plans for the dominion of Tamriel and his views on the nature of gods and the Daedra.
[Music] so the cat's ppor of the septims arrives at last You didn't think you could take me unawares here of all places in the paradise that I created Look now upon my paradise Gia alert in the old tongue A vision of the past and the future Behold the savage garden where my disciples are tempered for a higher destiny to rule over Tamreel reborn If you are truly the hero of destiny as I hope the garden will not hold you for long Lift your eyes to Krek Agial my seat at the pinnacle of paradise I shall await you [Music] there How little you understand You cannot stop Lord Deon The principalities have sparkled as gems in the black reaches of Oblivion since the first morning Many are their names and the names of their masters The cold harbor of Meridia Perites Quagmire the 10 moon shadows of Mfala and and Dawn's beauty the Princeton of Loron misnamed Tamreel by deluded mortals Yes you understand now Tamreel is just one more Drich realm of oblivion long since lost to its prince When he was betrayed by those that served him Lord Deeon cannot invade Tamriel his birthright He comes to liberate the occupied lands Ask yourself how is it that mighty gods die yet the dra stand incorruptible How is it that the dra forthrightly proclaim themselves to man while the gods cower behind statues and the faithless words of traitor priests It is simple They are not gods at all The truth has been in front of you since you first were born The Dra are the true gods of this universe Julianos Debbella and Scondar are all Loran's betrayers posing as divinities in the principality that has lost its guiding light What are scholarship love and mercy when compared to fate night and destruction The gods you worship are trifling shadows of first causes They have tricked you for ages Why do you think your world has always been contested ground The arena of powers and immortals It is Tamri the realm of change brother to madness sister to deceit Your false gods could not entirely rewrite history Thus you remember tales of Lan vilified a dead trickster whose heart came to Tandria But if a god can die how does his heart survive He is droi dro This heart is the heart of the world For one was made to satisfy the other You all remember this It is in every legend Dra cannot die So your so-called gods cannot erase him from your minds completely Well done champion Your progress is swift and sure Perhaps you will reach me after all You think I mock you Not at all In your coming I hear the footsteps of fate You are the last defender of decadent Tamreel I am the midwife of the mythic dawn Tamreel Reborn I welcome you if you truly are the agent of fate I tire of the selfstyled heroes who set themselves in my path only to prove unworthy in the event I have waited a long time for you champion of old Tamreel You were the last gasp of a dying age You breathe the stale air of false hope How little you understand You cannot stop Lord Deeon The walls between our worlds are crumbling The mythic dawn grows nearer with every rift in the firmament Soon very soon the lines now blurred will be erased Tamreel and Oblivion rejoined The mythic age reborn Lord Dean shall walk Tamreel again The world shall be remade The new age shall rise from the ashes of the old My vision shall be realized Weakness will be purged from the world And mortal and immortal alike purified in the refiner's fire My long duel with the Septims is over And I have the mastery The emperor is dead The amulet of kings is mine and the last defender of the last ragged septim stands before me in the heart of my power Let us see who at last has proved the strongest