{"podcast":{"title":"Mythic Mind Games","slug":"mythic-mind-games-7349259","podcast_index_feed_id":7349259,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6633890/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind-games--6633890","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3588227e4cbf4812925340010110d1e7.jpg","author":"Andrew Snyder","episode_count":55,"summary":"Pursuing wisdom through primary and secondary worlds. Mythic Mind Games is a conversation about video games as secondary worlds. We look at story, design, and the moral imagination of play: what games train us to love, fear, hope for, and become. This is not a review show and not a strategy guide. Episodes sit with particular games and ask what they are doing to the soul. Grief, home, identity, freedom, and wonder show up here as often as bosses and endings. Hosted by Andrew Snyder, Ph.D., alongside friends from the Fellowship. Listen on your own, then continue the discussion at mythicmindfellowship.com.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-28T20:20:56.896254+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mythic-mind-games-7349259"},"episode":{"title":"30 - Oblivion and the Knight of Faith","slug":"30-oblivion-and-the-knight-of-faith","published_at":"2026-01-09T02:37:34+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mythic-mind-games-7349259/30-oblivion-and-the-knight-of-faith","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mythic-mind-games-7349259","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/30-oblivion-and-the-knight-of-faith--69364815","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69364815/mux_media_audio_extraction_c52f7b5a_dc4b_443e_88ec_aae721b01fd0.mp3","summary":"In this lecture, originally made for the Elder Scrolls & Philosophy study, I read The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion alongside Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling. We look at: • Why Oblivion breaks the “chosen one” pattern of Morrowind and Skyrim — and centers Martin Septim instead • True heroism that is not concerned with being seen as heroic • The knight of infinite resignation vs the knight of faith • Sacrifice, Abraham and Isaac, and what it means to enter Oblivion willingly Watch the video for this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/9XUuJ7vLw1E Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: • Mythic Mind • Mythic Mind Games • Mythic Mind Movies & Shows","meta_description":"In this lecture, originally made for the Elder Scrolls & Philosophy study, I read The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion alongside Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":893,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mythic-mind-games-7349259/episodes/30-oblivion-and-the-knight-of-faith/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mythic-mind-games-7349259/30-oblivion-and-the-knight-of-faith.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}