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I want to make a list of every character to appear in more than one TES game.

What I have so far:
Daedric princes
The Divines (All of them?)
Big Head
Uriel Septim VII
M'aiq the Liar
Hero of Kvatch
Barenziah
Helseth
Mannimarco
The Night Mother (kinda)
Lucien Lachance
Sinderion (As a corpse)
Dervenin
Umbacano
Jiub
Barbas
Shadowmere
Elante

Dragonborn spoilers:

well you could say Sinderion, since you find his corpse in skyrim

Dervenin (Shivering Isles, Skyrim)
Umbacano (Morrowind, Oblivion)

If you're gonna count the Princes, might as well count the Divines. They're not mentioned in Arena, but some of their names are associated with Artifacts in those games. That's close enough to appearing in person IMO.

The Hero of Kvatch? As in the playable character from Oblivion? Where is he/she multi game?

The PC in Oblivion becomes Sheogorath, who is encountered to be doing his classical ramblings about whatever (in this case, his adventures in Oblivion), with Emperor Pelagius the Third. You can find information about this at Skyrim:Sheogorath.

Baldren wrote:The Hero of Kvatch? As in the playable character from Oblivion? Where is he/she multi game?

Sheogorath from Skyrim is a cross between the Font of Madness and the soul of the pc from Oblivion and Shivering Isles. This is strongly hinted at in-game and in comments by Wes Johnson, supposedly lore notes Bethesda gave him during his line reading in Skyrim. According to him, whoever holds Sheogorath's charged staff over a few decades eventually becomes him, replacing the previous. We can assume this means the Artifact is actually the Prince and their avatar is replaceable. IF the information he is sharing is canon. It may just be his opinion. Either way, Sheogorath's dialogue in both SI and Skyrim supports this.

The only person I can think of at the moment is Helseth.

Avron the S'wit wrote:I do not feel this is a lore discussion, so I have moved it to TES General. List away!

It could be a lore discussion if you consider the discussions of Sheogorath or the implications of lifespans of certain NPCs has for the fantasy setting of Tamriel. I guess those things have their own threads somewhere though.

The multi-game characters have always personally been an interest of mine. Mainly because there aren't any that you can pretty much count on being there besides the gods. That's one of the things that I've always liked about Elder Scrolls, it's not so much a series as it is a setting. The recurring characters that aren't gods or close to it (looking at Mannimarco, here), are essentially just shout outs to the old games.

I'd like to point out that M'aiq might not actually be a recurring character. He implies in Skyrim that there have been many with his name over the centuries. Also, he might be a figment of your character's imagination of a living Elder Scroll.

Pilaf The Defiler wrote:I'd like to point out that M'aiq might not actually be a recurring character. He implies in Skyrim that there have been many with his name over the centuries. Also, he might be a figment of your character's imagination of a living Elder Scroll.

That ... thats genius ...

Updated OP.

If we are counting non-human NPCs, Shadowmere (Oblivion, Skyrim), and Barbas (Oblivion, Skyrim, possibly Morrowind).

Mr.Argonian wrote:If we are counting non-human NPCs, Shadowmere (Oblivion, Skyrim), and Barbas (Oblivion, Skyrim, possibly Morrowind).

Yeah, that works. Especially Barbas.

Also, I just remembered Jiub.

There's a random High Elf named Elante who appears in both Morrowind and Oblivion. I found it on the wiki a while back.

Updated again.

There was a guy named Din in Morrowind, and his ashes appear in the Shivering Isles. Does that count?

There's a Nelacar in Morrowind who might be the same guy who hangs out at the Frozen Hearth.

Boderi Farano gave up on running an inn in Morrowind and decided to become an instructor at the Arcane University in Oblivion.

Neloth appeared as a wizard in Morrowind, and he reappears in the Dragonborn plug-in.
Edit:Just saw that Neloth was already there. I'm an idiot.

Another one:
Staada (high ranking Golden Saint) is in both Morrowind and Shivering Isles

What about Karstaag?