Board Thread:Oblivion/@comment-9716469-20130519212835/@comment-7153552-20130708173312

Nobody ever said he kept his virginity, we're saying he didn't have kids. If he did, don't you think he would have mentioned it with the whole, "we need the Septim Bloodline" thing? And if he didn't know about the hypothetical child, then it would be lost to time. Eventually the racial preferences would win out and the mother's race would take over, and the bloodline would be diminished and lost. We're talking a pretty good span of time, and Martin was already not of the 'preferred royal lines' and all that. Martin with some lowly commoner (especially while mixed up in Deadra worship) would most likely not be blessed by Akatosh at that time. This means the child would lose some of that special stuff that makes the Septims who they were.