Lore:Geldall Septim

Prince Geldall Septim
Race	Imperial	Gender	Male
Born		3E 377
Died		3E 433
Resided in		Imperial City

Geldall Septim was the eldest son of Uriel Septim VII and Caula Voria and crown prince of the Empire. An able heir to his long-ruling father, he had taken over many administrative responsibilities in the years leading up to the Oblivion Crisis. Following the Restoration in the late Third Era, rumors circulated that Geldall and his two brothers were actually doppelgangers placed in the household during the Imperial Simulacrum, leading to riots in the Imperial City. For decades, Geldall and his brothers had not taken wives, which is attributed to fear of showing favoritism to the province their spouse would be from, thereby alienating the others, and marrying someone from Cyrodiil would be a missed opportunity for a good alliance. He eventually became engaged to a Breton woman named Tamrialle, and they held an engagement ball with many royal guests in attendance, including Queen Elysana. It would turn out that Tamrialle was secretly a Mythic Dawn agent, and Geldall was assassinated by her at the age of 56, in a coordinated strike against the Emperor's family.

Notes

• During the development of Morrowind, a horror plotline was set up for later games relating to what happened to Septim's heirs and if they were truly doppelgangers. There was an invasion from another faction from within, and the player could hold a torch near important members of the court to see if they cast a human shadow or a horrible, hunched over clawed figure.

References

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