Secondary Video Game Characters Cooler Than The Main Characters

Sure, your player-character might have become a leader of different guilds, fought countless demons, and conquered every foe that came your way in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, but honestly? You were really just a glorified sidekick to the real star of the story: Martin Septim.

Brother Martin — which is who he was when you found him — was the chosen one who would fight back against the demonic Mehrunes Dagon. And just as you were a lowly prisoner who had a great destiny thrust upon you, Martin was just a priest from Kvatch who happened to be the illegitimate son of Uriel Septim VII and the last of the Septim bloodline, fated to do battle with Dagon as the avatar of the god Akatosh.

Septim's destiny meant his demise, as well as that of his bloodline, but it also meant that he would seal the gates to Oblivion forever, protecting the realm. While you had a good amount of adventures yourself, you can hardly match up to being a realm-saving bastard of an emperor!