I found Banus Alor's body in the Dawnstar Sanctuary while questing. Banus Alor was in Oblivion. He was a Speaker for The Dark Brotherhood from Tamriel. Something else I that I find surprising is that the events of Obliviion happened more or less than 300 years ago and that Banus Alor was killed right in front of me by Mathieu Bellamont (the traitor of TDBH). Has anyone else found his body?

I happened to stumble upon it when I fell of the bridge in the Dawnstar Sanctuary. I landed in the sparring area (with the dummies and stuff) with two sanctuary ghosts engaging in combat with something that was running away. I killed the two ghosts and went to see what they killed and it was Banus Alor.

**I found a Blade of Woe and Ebony Bow on his body.

Good find, but a reference to an older game in the series isn't really an easter egg.

It's not really a cool find either, more like a weird one

Then put it in the uesp. Also, there are two types of easter eggs, references to real life, and references to previous games. This may already be in the latter

I see a couple of possibilities here.

(1). Perhaps, in Oblivion, Banus had a "double." Someone who looked like him, who he hired on to stand in for him during high-risk situations. Perhaps the real Banus sent this double in when trouble started stirring up in the Dark Brotherhood, and it was this double who was killed. Meanwhile, Banus escaped to Skyrim. Being that he's a Dunmer, I see no reason why he couldn't have lived so many centuries.

(2). Perhaps the Banus you encountered is an ancestor of the Banus killed in Oblivion, of the same name.

or 3) he made it all up

Another Blade of Woe? Where? I want a build a sixy dw with two Blade of Woe's.

In Skyrim there is a book called "The Oblivion Crisis", which is about the Oblivion main quest. Considering it's a reference to a previous game, I take it you consider it to be an easter egg?

Or the Dark Brotherhood itself, is it's very existance in Skyrim an easter egg considering they were in Oblivion too?

Or what about Wabbajack? That weapon is both in Daggerfall, Oblivion and Skyrim. Is that also an easter egg?

Or leather armor, as generic it can be, it's available in both Oblivion and Skyrim. Is that an easter egg? Or a reference to an 80s game which also had leather armor in it?

No, they aren't. References to older games aren't easter eggs. And putting it on UESP would be a bad idea.

The Mottie(Spelling?) in the DB quest line has a refernce to Francis Mottie who was involved in OB DB questline.

You can get two Blades of Woe, I found out it's pretty easy.

You'll have to have the 'steal equipped items' perks; when you first meet Astrid in the abandoned shack, you can sneak/access her stuff from behind the shelf she's on.
I stole her whole outfit & blade. If you can't see her gear, you're not successfully sneaking yet.

When you finally enter the DB place, she has all her stuff back on. The dagger will then reappear next to her, during the part where you have to kill her...
That's how I got two of them.

It wouldnt be an easter egg, it'd be a historical reference, which just happens to have a section dedicated to it in the UESP. Dont listen to others, any information is good information. I dont see why putting something minor is bad, your still contributing to the data.

Come on Freddo. A corpse of someone from a past game is obviously an easter egg. Sinderion was one.

That depends what kind of reference to an older game it is. I think it's pretty stupid of you to compare this find with leather armor...

For what it's worth, there's no actor references whatsoever to "Banus Alor" in the creation kit, nor is there anything remotely related to him in the Dawnstar Sanctuary cell.

OP made this up, ive looked and there is nothing so much as similar to what he claims (unless it was added via a mod he installed)

http://www.picresize.com/images/rsz_tesv_2012-02-25_22-17-00-53.bmp
I'll post a screenie of him raised

**Raised Banus Alor
http://www.picresize.com/images/rsz_tesv_2012-02-25_22-36-17-32.bmp

what mods do you currently have installed?

A little too much to count lol. I don't know why no one else has discovered Banu Alor's body yet but one of the mods I've installed could be the cause. I guess it has something to do with the 'Dawnstar Sanctuary Overhaul' mod?

I am assumeing that would be the mod that is causing him to appear (not to mention he was'nt an elf in oblivion, was he?)

Maybe the Oblivion crisis would count, but I'm talking about the little things, like how the dark brotherhood ghost was one of the characters from oblivion.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Skyrim Take a look, at the bottom of the page, there is a link to easter eggs, and there is a seperate link to historical references

It's the mod. As I said, he's not in the Creation kit references, which means he's not in the vanilla game. That's why no one has "discovered" him yet.

Edit: I just looked at that mod over on Nexus, and that confirms it. The mod is what added Banus.