This is made even worse by the fact that this was done by your allies. What makes this so unsettling is that you actually knew the deceased. Granted, you've seen rotting corpses in the game plenty of times. However, by the time you return to him, your bosses (including the traitor) have killed him, skinned him, and hung him from the ceiling. Once he's found, you're told to return to the quest-giver, Lucien Lachance. First of all, you'll find that the traitor, in what seems to be a homage to Friday the 13th Part 2, keeps the severed head of his mother in his basement. You are told to hunt down a traitor to the Brotherhood.The penultimate quest for the Dark Brotherhood, "Following a Lead," is by all means disturbing:.Imagine if Bethesda actually decided to show the imagery being described. Thanks to engine limitations however, those are just a small wall of text. eating at a normal banquet that turns out to be filled with larvae, which eat through your stomach necromancers dissecting your body with scalpels, being buried alive, death by sneezing, and having your mouth sewn shut as you try to drink from a pool of blood.
let's see, a normal looking woman with a child turns out to be a corpse mother and a plague bloated child, or your flesh bubbling and falling from you.
And keep in mind you'd have to deal with this music on top of other Nightmare Fuel points listed further. Even when facing no enemies at the time, the ambient sounds and tones can be enough to unsettle you or have you jumping at shadows trying to make your way through any dungeon you come across. The music for dungeons in general for Oblivion has a much darker and sinister tone to them compared to either Morrowind or Skyrim.