Has Anyone Thought..., about the assasan? Options

[Zelda_Zealot]

We all know that the king-guy gets killed at the begining of Oblivion, but why is what I want to know? Probably to open the gates, but that also brings up the questions, Who? And Why? Who wants the emperer dead, and why do they want the gates opened? Anyone have any thoughts? At least if we see an assasan in black chain armor killing the emperer we can guess Helseth, for good reason.

[RobRendell]

It's Terence Stamp's character.  He wants Oblivion to open so he can take over the world.

Thats not the answer since we dont know which character he will play

Actually, the "The British are coming..." press release has a bit of a spoiler which lends a lot of weight to DoomedOne's suggestion. Not sure if people want to read this, since it is a spoiler (I was annoyed when I read it), so I'll colour it white on white. Select it (just hitting control-A will probably do) to read.

"Having never done voice work for a video game before, I really had no notion of what to expect," said Stamp. "Bethesda did a great job in providing the tone and theme for the character and it was fun to give life to the villain in the story, who is a very thoughtful man from a different line of kings who seeks to realize his own vision for the empire."