#mathieu bellamont

[peony-plum]

Have you heard the tale of Mathieu Bellamont

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[dirty-bosmer]

Have you heard the tale of Mathieu Bellamont?

aka my poor little meow meow. And yes that is Lucien’s blood on the wall :)

#hes just repainting applewatch #Such a handy fellow #mathieu bellamont #dark brotherhood #tes oblivion #tesblr #elder scrolls fanart #oblivion fanart #my art???? #Sonny draws #queue

[duckytree]

i believe lucien had no clue who mathieu was but WHAT IF

#tes #oblivion #lucien lachance #mathieu bellamont #art #fanart #comic #duckytree

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Lucien Lachance, after little Mathieu Bellamont swears revenge for the death of his mother: This means nothing. He's just a little boy, I’m sure the vengefulness will fade.

30 years and a Purification later

Lucien: Any day now.

#and then it didn't #and lucien died #lucien lachance #mathieu bellamont #dark brotherhood #cheydinhall #following a lead #nerevar queue and star #incorrect quotes #incorrect elder scrolls #incorrect oblivion quotes #tes #the elder scrolls #the elder scrolls iv: oblivion #oblivion #source: tumblr

[themildlyanxiousmage]

You're probably safest with one of the Morag Tong members, but idk

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[mukuuji]

#the elder scrolls #fanart #skyrim #oblivion #cicero #dark brotherhood #mathieu bellamont

[ulanxxxs]

#mathieu bellamont #oblivion #the elder scrolls #dark brotherhood #halloween

[nightingaletrash]

Trying to figure out the designations of Oblivion's Black Hand prior to the deaddrop switch and I just realised something strange...

Ungolim

Lucien Lachance

Arquen

Belisarius Arius

J'Ghasta

Alval Ulvani

Mathieu Bellamont

Shaleez

Havilstein Hoarblood

Banus Alor

These are all the members of the Black Hand that appear in Oblivion, excluding the PC. Four Speakers, a Listener, and their five talons, the Silencers. Ten people in all. But when the PC is named Silencer, all of these people are still alive, and if all of them were members at that time, then the Black Hand would suddenly have eleven people instead of ten. And that doesn't work with the way Lucien tells us that it works. So chances are that someone got an abrupt promotion once the killings started, and the only person who makes sense to me is Banus Alor.

We know that Bellamont was promoted to the Black Hand as a Silencer about a year or more prior to the Player's arrival in the Brotherhood. Shaleez and Havilstein Hoarblood are also Silencers, as they tend to live in remote places or on the move so they can carry out their duties without being tied to a single place.

As for the others, Ungolim is the Listener, we know that for a fact. Lucien is obviously a Speaker, and we can presume that Arquen has been one for some time, given her role as the player's guide post-questline. Belisarius mentions that he's been responsible for administrative duties for years and hasn't gotten to spill blood in a long time, which is much more in line with a Speaker than a Silencer, so we can presume he's been a Speaker for a long time.

J'Ghasta and Alval HAVE to have been members of the Black Hand prior to the deaddrop switch because they're the ones named in those fake contracts. Their roles aren't super clear because according to UESP they're both Speakers... but that doesn't really work as we already have three confirmed Speakers and three confirmed Silencers, so they have to be one or the other. Speakers seem to have an established residence while the Silencers tend to move around a bunch (with Bellamont being an exception) so I lean towards Speaker J'Ghasta and Silencer Ulvani, but it really could go either way. There's definitely a compelling case for Speaker Ulvani, so it's up to preference really

Whatever the case, that still leaves Banus Alor as our odd one out as having no mention of prior experience and history with the Black Hand, whether in dialogue or from contracts. If he was a member of the Black Hand at the time of the Purification, then the Player being named Silencer makes no sense because going by the numbers, Lucien should have a Silencer still. So what gives with his being here? The doylist reason is pretty clear - the Black Hand has five members, so Bethesda wanted you to have five people going into the Night Mother's crypt for this election ritual. It represents a hand without talons, but a whole hand nonetheless, and someone has to be elected as the thumb.

But in-universe, the only way it works is if there were some very hurried promotions, and what we have in game backs that up. The Player is promoted to Speaker pretty much immediately upon their arrival at Applewatch because Arquen and the others know that they're innocent. Bellamont, a confirmed Silencer, is also a Speaker now. Along with Arquen and Belisarius, that makes four. But they need five if they're going to be four fingers and a thumb when they invoke the Night Mother. So at some point, the Black Hand decided to pick a family member to become a Speaker, and that family member was Banus Alor. Maybe he was a potential Silencer candidate they were keeping tabs on in case a position opened up. Maybe he oversaw a Sanctuary. Or maybe he was chosen for his ability to kill, as that would aid them best against Lucien.

So yeah. Can you tell I didn't sleep at all last night?

#nightingale rambles #oblivion #the dark brotherhood #lucien lachance #mathieu bellamont #arquen #banus alor #fuck it im not tagging them all #todd gave me a square shape and a circle hole and fuck you imma make it fit

[insanostyle1231]

sorry to stuff a chart in your face but i put the cheydinhal sanctuary members (and mathieu) in it

#mathieu was in cheydinhal once its kind of integral to the quest plot so it counts #sorry for the shitass quality i made it on my phone #tes #tes iv #the elder scrolls #oblivion #lucien lachance #ocheeva #teinaava #antoinetta marie #m'raaj-dar #gogron gro-bolmog #telaendril #vicente valtieri #mathieu bellamont #dark brotherhood #sory for not putting schemer in i think hed just go meepmeep because hes a rat

[nooklingposting]

I've been playing Oblivion for a pretty long time now, and I still keep finding things that surprise me

(Dark Brotherhood Spoilers under the cut)

This was in J'Ghasta's house, aka our first Black Hand contract sent by Mathieu instead of Lucien. If you happen to pick the very hard lock on this keg, you'll find this inside

All of his Black Hand gear!!

Bethesda really gave us every clue available and still didn't let us warn Lucien, huh 😅

#oblivion #dark brotherhood #Lucien Lachance #J'Ghasta #Black Hand #Night Mother #Silencer #Elder scrolls oblivion #the dark brotherhood #vicente oblivion #vicente valtieri #arquen #The black hand #The night mother #Sithis #mathieu bellamont

[shik-modern]

some Mathieu content cause why not

#tes oblivion #oblivion #dark brotherhood #mathieu bellamont #my art

[els-moonleaf]

You know when Lucien drops this iconic line

What if instead of the dead drop orders, he’d hide little notes absolutely slandering the population of Cyrodiil everywhere

#yep that’s a headband #the blair waldorfification of lucien lachance #lucien lachance #tes #oblivion #dark brotherhood #my art #gossip girl #i guess #i blame this entirely on mike’s mic‘s gossip girl recap #it was funnier in my head #mathieu bellamont #the black hand

[dirty-bosmer]

Fandom: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Relationship: Mathieu Bellamont/Lucien Lachance but in the "haha, I want to kill you so bad that I'll cut you open and crawl inside your skin" sort of way. content warning: dissolution of the self, murder and the grief that accompanies it.

I just really love Mathieu Bellamont, okay? He gives me more excuses to write angst. Here I wanted to write a series of microfics that explore the tragic relationships he has with the people in his life, past and present

Preview:

Because at nine you saw his sickness in the flesh, an evil so mindless, so monstrous that your little voice couldn’t yet find the words to name it anything but death. Because death’s fist clenches much further than its arm can reach, and only in her absence did you learn her passing had killed the both of you, that beyond the artifice, beneath the skin, it was all blood and bone and borrowed time.

Remember the breeze? Remember its salt tang? Remember the snap of the sails in the harbor, the rolling rhythm of Wayrest’s waters, how sharp the first breath hit the back of our throats when we rose from the white-wash, hand in hand?

When we were together— alone together— we were perfect, could have stayed like that forever. Weren’t you happier too when it was just the two of us, you and I away from Father? If only you knew what I knew, that nothing else really mattered. Together, we were whole, Mother. Why did you have to bring us back to that house we knew was never a home?

— from the diary of Mathieu Bellamont

—

Because at nine you saw his sickness in the flesh, an evil so mindless, so monstrous that your little voice couldn’t yet find the words to name it anything but death. Because death’s fist clenches much further than its arm can reach, and only in her absence did you learn her passing had killed the both of you, that beyond the artifice, beneath the skin, it was all blood and bone and borrowed time. Ten thousand suns and ten thousand more to come— they rise, each one, like the weals left by biting gnats. As a boy, all your wounds too were circles, and sometimes you wonder, were there anything left of him, what shape would he have become?

The shadows pulse along the sanctuary wall— yours, a gnarl of limbs bent by the weight of accruing grief that as a boy frightened you so much you fell asleep with your eyes open. Hours you’d spend watching your silhouette warp in the receding light, convinced even your own body could betray you. And why shouldn’t it? Flesh deceived you once before, and your father’s blood beats within you still, a traitor’s poison. Hear it sloshing. Hear it straining, slow and viscous, stirred by some feat of necromantic magic keeping your corpse tethered to Nirn. Yes, though these eyes blink and this mouth moves, you hang beneath the surface of the skin. The hand in the puppet, the echo of an old command, yet there is no more man here than there is in a persistent haunting. Vellum thin, an islet of bruise in a blue spider web of veins. On your tongue, a ferrous taste. Were you a curse or were you never more than an afterthought of Arkay’s to begin with? See, it’s not so much death you’ve cheated as it’s life you’ve managed to escape, but men as small as you can do that when made up of empty space.

Your existence has been no more than an exercise in breathing as little as possible, taking only from Nirn what is needed to carry onward one more day. Consume too much of life, and you risk dissolving the formlessness you’ve cultured. Someone might notice, reach out and touch you, pull you off your liminal stage. Pray tell, what happens then? Do you precipitate? A deposition— can you turn the vapor back to crystal, form the memory of what was into the man who should have been? If someone called your name, could you answer sure and without wincing? Could you level a stare, gaze back into the eyes of the damned and living and see reflected there the shape of you, the quake of you? Could you risk it?

To go on knowing that maybe you weren’t drowned completely, that all this time you could have saved yourself if only you had reached, that when Arkay turned his back and let the dead wash up, blue and bloated, maybe your mother’s life wasn’t the one you’d been brought back to retrieve.

And are you both or are you neither when all that’s left of her is your face? No, no. Tell yourself she is not gone, merely going, and keep your grip tight even if it demands all of your strength, because wherever she is, there you are too. Remember that her heart beat once for the both of you, and though what you share now is not life, it is sacred, a bond more binding than your father’s blood. How could anyone else comprehend it? The others sleeping in the sanctuary, their body heat like a low grade fever, will never know you’re not their brother, already someone else’s son. And you’re a son as long as you remember that you are a part of her, the heart of her, that even before you came into this world, you were wanted, you were loved.

And if the boy you were was still here, would you recognize him? Would he, you, lying awake as you are now, dry eyes turned to the horizon’s beginning light? Imagine him somewhere on the water, trawled up and imploded, body misshapen, his smile split like an open coffin. Imagine him shadowless and shapeless, lying still and blistering with hope as he waits for the next of ten thousand suns for the day he’s made back into one.

Take comfort then in having been born again a ghost, for you do not look to the future. There is none.

#heeheehooo I have no shame. I am unstoppable #sonny writes #mathieu bellamont #tesblr #the elder scrolls oblivion #tes fic #the elder scrolls #the dark brotherhood

[terendelev]

nightmare blunt rotation

#mannimarco #mathieu bellamont #jauffre #farwil indarys #tes oblivion

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Mathieu Bellamont, to Lucien Lachance: I have feelings for you.

Mathieu Bellamont: Not telling you which ones.

#they are feelings of hate and murder #Mathieu Bellamont #Lucien Lachance #dark brotherhood #cheydinhal #nerevar queue and star #incorrect quotes #incorrect elder scrolls #incorrect oblivion quotes #tes #the elder scrolls #Oblivion #the elder scrolls iv: oblivion #source: tumblr

[skyrim-forever]

*with heart eyes* ou he kinda fucked up

#tesblr #mathieu bellamont #thinking about him #dirty-bosmer I blame you :P