Bendu Olo. He is the remnant of Theodule Donatien Braque,a Breton knight who once existed solely for the absolute fulfillment of law and order. At the same time, he is the "vessel" cast onto the board of the gods by Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness. From a certain perspective, one might even call him a type of "Sharmat," much like Dagoth Ur once was.
Once a knight of a certain fief in High Rock, he was a man like a machine—the embodiment of Jyggalag’s cold order—enforcing the law with clinical perfection and devoid of all passion. However, this excessive devotion to order invited a tragedy that stripped him of his wife (whom he never loved) and his people. Subsequently captured and ordered to slit his own throat as punishment, his unwavering faith in the law led him to commit ritual suicide without a moment's hesitation. Ironically, at the very instant the blade claimed his life, he experienced a vivid, intuitive flash of the "vibrant, multicolored brilliance of life" that he had never felt before.
Fascinated by that radiance at the brink of death, he passed away laughing like a madman. Sheogorath (an aspect of Lorkhan) plucked up his soul and reconstructed it as a pawn to serve as his own double—a tool specifically designed to halt the Greymarch.
The current Bendu Olo has lost all memory of his past and true identity, burdened somehow with the "setting" of severe alcoholism. To him, alcohol serves as a muddy filter to keep the brilliance of life from searing his retinas; it is both a self-punishing impulse toward the "broken thing" he becomes when sober and a magical potion that flings open the door to those intense colors he saw that day. When sober, he is a sullen, rude man gasping through withdrawal; when intoxicated, he transforms into a defiant and cheerful outlaw, possessing the audacity to laugh in the face of Daedric life and death. Yet, beneath it all, his movements and fundamental spirituality retain glimpses of his noble knighthood.
It was before such a man that Martin Septim appeared—the Emperor’s bastard son and heir to the bloodline of Akatosh. Though Bendu Olo initially pressured Martin to accept his destiny as his liege, they eventually came to recognize each other as special existence, two sides of the same mirror. He escorted Martin to the altar of death—the decisive battle in the Imperial City where the Red Diamond would shatter. Escorted... yes, Martin’s death was but another of Sheogorath’s ploys. By staining Martin with the "madness of sacrificing one's own life," and searing the words "You must live" into Bendu Olo’s heart, the Prince ensured the completion of the Greymarch’s end (the act of Bendu Olo murdering his own persona while still alive).
Bendu Olo’s physical life, spent shielding Martin during the battle of the Imperial City, flickered out alongside their parting. Before he could even realize his own death, his soul and mind began to wander the Shivering Isles as the new vessel for Sheogorath. There, he was confronted with the memories of his days as a knight and the cold fact that he was created solely to lead Martin to his death. The "kindness" and "righteousness" now clearly etched into him by Martin's presence caused him such agony that he wished to destroy both his past and present selves.
However, Martin’s final words, "You must live," held him back—or perhaps, drove him forward. Ultimately, he banished Jyggalag, the symbol of his former knighthood, and decided to live for eternity as the new Sheogorath, forever searching for the lingering traces of Martin within the world.
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