Oblivion's REMOVED and LOST City: Sutch - Lore, History and Ruins EXPLAINED

In today's video, we discuss the long thought about and curiously removed tenth city in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Sutch. Sutch was supposed to be an extra playable main city along with the other that are already in the game. It was located North of Anvil and Northeast of Kvatch, fairly close to the border of Hammerfell. It even had its own county called County Sutch that saw it governing over much land to the Northeast. In this lore and historical video, we discuss little bits of evidenced left in the game from Bethesda, proving Sutch's existence. We also discuss how during the E3 Demo in 2005 for Oblivion, Sutch can be seen on the map and on the title screen. We discuss what's left of the main city, Fort Sutch. Then we go in depth about its history and we end off with speculation as to what NPCs, shops, guild factions and quests could have been involved in the city of Sutch.
Massive thank you to the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Wiki for the source material of all of the evidence and lore involved with Sutch.

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[christianalexandermarion]

the fact this was made 4 days ago in 2023 brings a tear to the eye 🥲 a happy tear. The legacy of a masterpiece. Thank you for sharing your findings.

[DarkLOREDash]

Sutch a disappointment it is gone. Great vid!

[HansWurst]

I think when Todd mentioned the 9 mayor cities they didnt count Kvatch, as it was always going to be destroyed. And there was no or never has been found any cut content around Kvatch. But maybe I’m missing something.

[emeraldkoala]

It's always interesting to me how developers of these game worlds explain pieces of cut content in-universe through lore in later entries.

[JGCO]

Not too long ago I found out Skyrim had a cut town in the Falkreath Hold called "Granite Hill" it was cut but it's still mentioned between Jarl Sinding and his stewardess Nenya. It must have been cut late in development cause the area where it was supposed to be is now a dragon burial mound, but the ingame local map still calls it granite hill.

[ImperialKnowledge]

Cool I had no idea about Sutch’s backstory. Very good work! Subbed!

[ImperialKnowledge]

You are going to love this, I recently had the opportunity to play an early build of the ESO chapter (Gold Road) and I tried to make my way to fort Sutch. And guess what. There is a town there! I immediately thought of this video as I found it hah!

[Slop_Dogg]

Oblivion was such a magical game. Still is. The soundtrack is so serene.

[pandorasbox]

Sutch was a big city that started as a fort. It was bigger than Leyawin, if I recall correctly, or similar in size.

[saalok]

Sutch's changing hands from Hammerfell to Cyrodiil is not terribly surprising, the same thing happened to Falkreath, but it went from Cyrodiil to Skyrim.

[colinanderson]

So thankful for your oblivion content, this game is one of the few things my older brother were able to bond with. This game, its lore and soundtrack keep me at peace. Keep going my friend!

[eraylott]

I’ve thought for a while it’d have been cool to have had a ruined temple of Kynareth being reclaimed by the wild, what with her being associated with nature

[buhbuhjaychampagne]

Sutch was to have the second Fighter’s Guild questline, not Anvil. In one line of text it talks about meeting Azzan in Sutch or gro-Khash in Cheydinhal for contracts.

[Sleeepy]

Hey, this might sound weird. But, I appreciate your clear voice and pronunciation! A lot of videos about gaming and games that I like are made by people with an annoying sounding voice, or they mispronounce all the names. You are doing a really good job here!

[anauthenticapple]

Oblivion doesn't have enough cool lore and cut content videos. Another great video

[DiocletianLarius]

A shame we didn't get to see the city at it's glory, being so close to Hammerfell it probably had a heavy Redguard influence (kinda like Cheydinhal with Morrowind) and I personally really like Redguard culture and architecture. I was marveled the first time I entered Sentinel in TES: Daggerfall, with its huge palace and golden domes.
It may seem weird to have that desert-like architecture on a more "greener" biome, but we had real life examples of that (as in, for example, Umayyad Spain) and those were beautiful

Also great vid! I'm gonna sub just for the Oblivion content :p

[multigamer]

Oh! I never knew about this. But I kinda understand. Fort Sutch always has an Oblivion gate appearing nearby after Dagon shrine quest and it's one of those fixed gates that always appears there. I was wondering why, but now it makes perfect sense! I like your Oblivion content and I love Oblivion, got my sub!

[ImperialKnowledge]

Tommorow I am uploading a video on what happened to Sutch in the second era (I got through some of ESO Gold Road). Im going to link this video to viewers if you are okay with that, going like "if you want to know more about the background of Sutch and its removal from oblivion, watch this excellent video by Bards Ballad". Is that okay?

[shiny]

Really cool video. I found out about Sutch via the Beyond Skyrim progress report videos and it was interesting to hear about. Didn’t know there was so much detail tied to it, especially well after Oblivion released.

Your Boethiah pronunciation threw me for a loop though haha

[HALPCat]

This is a really well made video, definitely didn't expect this when I clicked on it. You deserve more subscribers