The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion/Trivia

• Hey, It's That Voice!: Jean-Luc Picard is Emperor Uriel Septim.
  • Boromir is Martin Septim.
  • General Zod is Mankar Camoran.
• What Could Have Been: Books in Skyrim about the events of Oblivion (dubbed the Oblivion Crisis) describe the events of it much different (and arguably, better) terms, making it a lot more appealing. Bethesda's writing has always been in the Lore. The game itself? Not so much.
  • In the other direction, the initial descriptions of Cyrodiil in Redguard/Morrowind were much stranger and more fanciful than what ended up in the game, featuring river dragons, singing priests covered in robes made of moths, and living topiaries of the dead emperors that could speak and move their bodies with the help of birds. The retcon was only vaguely alluded to within the byzantine Mythic Dawn Commentaries, though it's more explicit in the more lore-savvy Skyrim, incorporating an extracanonical explanation written by the writer who had described much of the original Cyrodiil to begin with.