<link>https://www.loverslab.com/blogs/blog/1257-mysterious-figures-of-tamriel/</link><description/><language>en</language><item><title>The End Times - Chapter 1https://www.loverslab.com/blogs/entry/11651-the-end-times-chapter-1/  

4th Era 491. Nirn is in ruin. The End Times are here. One champion prepares to embark on their journey to open the Heart of the World. Another hero begins her journey into a land broken apart by one of the New Daedric Lords, Kladrich. Venturing into the lands of eternal winter, a Sentinely seeks out the darkness that his order couldn't drown out at the height of their power and with no fellow knights, has to become a one-man vanguard. The final, reluctant champion seeks answers about his own purpose, which question the very nature of why he was awoken from his grave.

 

 

Saoirse the Ashborn

Spoiler

E7axa2dd o

 

Saoirse: What is this place? It's like -

 

D4wuwm4e o

 

Gravetender: It's a sanctuary for your kind.

 

Hzxm27n9 o

 

Gravetender: A place where the arisen can rest and take refuge before their great journey.

 

Ffm59atz o

 

Saoirse: So this is that purpose they were talking about. Who are you?

 

Jzya4jcp o

 

Gravetender: I am the one who ensures the arisen truly have a heart that is destined for duty.

 

Fdkymj7s o

 

Saoirse: Okay ground rule. Can you not talk in my head?

 

Ja2uskql o

 

Gravetender: As you wish. For you are arisen and I live to aid and advise you.

 

Mbbpif8l o

 

Gravetender: If that is what you wish, or feel you require.

 

Saoirse: I understand.

 

Gravetender: Is something wrong?

 

Yu1pjuwk o

 

Saoirse: Wrong? No. I'm skeptical is all.

 

A4chdhpt o

 

Gravetender: Can I provide the answers you seek?

 

Saoirse: Maybe.

 

Gravetender: Then I will try.

 

Ch3espo7 o

 

Saoirse: Why have we all been risen? What are a bunch of dead - correction undead - people going to do? 

 

Gravetender: Every one of you was a champion in your previous life. You were heroes, the strongest. I suppose the Divines thought you all worthy.

 

Saoirse: Still, there are swathes of warriors they could've called upon, why us?

 

F2xvdqyg o

 

Gravetender: That's an answer, I do not know..

 

Vyegop4r o

 

Saoirse: Yeah, me neither.

 

Xiimjaf3 o

 

Gravetender: Perhaps we're not meant to know why we were awoken from our slumber.

 

Saoirse: Or they don't want us to know. Maybe what we'll do only serves them.

 

Gravetender: Do you know what you're going to do?

 

Veuxvsfk o

 

Gravetender: A great many souls guard the Heart of the World. Where the Flame of Akatosh resides. It's flickering, dying.

 

Saoirse: Why does the God of Time have a flame?

 

Gravetender: Without light there is no change in time. Everything flows into one without it.

 

Vq2s8ugc o

 

Gravetender: You must defeat the guardians and open that door in the mountains. If Nirn is to survive, the fire must survive.

 

 

Eyris the Emboldened

Spoiler

1olz1gde o

 

Priest Henryk: So are you just going to sit there while this place is ruined.

 

Eyris: No, I'm having a moment of prayer.

 

Jacls8cx o

 

Priest Henryk: The Divines have long abandoned this place, they're not gonna answer your prayer as they haven't even answered hundreds of the same. 

 

Wsh9wtla o

 

Eyris: It's a habit and not a bad one to pray. It's not about getting a solution sometimes. 

 

Priest Henryk: Yeah the only solutions we've ever gotten is you. We begged for someone to bring our land back to normalcy and all we get is you and your suicidal quest.

 

Ribtgd3n o

 

Eyris: Killing Kladrich is hardly suicide if I know what to do.

 

Priest Henryk: But do you know how to kill 'im little duck? You don't and you'll get yourself killed.

 

Eyris: Death isn't a problem for me.

 

U5ni8ifz o

 

Priest Henryk: Oh right, you're one of those. There are fates worse than death you know? If he gets you, you'll suffer for eternity. Then your "death isn't a problem" attitude 'll go straight down the drain.

 

M4ow5d6t o

 

Priest Henryk: You understand that, right?

 

Eyris: If I'm trapped it's only my own fault. A pain I'm willing to endure for justice...and for the greater purpose of ending the final New Daedric Lord.

 

V9ajcndr o

 

Eyris: This place can surely be turned back too. If Kladrich rules over, then he'll give it up once he dies. Simple transfer of power.

 

Cyy6qztb o

 

Priest Henryk: Yous still haven't seen this place have you? That Gravetender of yours 'as fed you wild stories of this place. I don't know if it can be saved anymore.

 

E7nrboae o

 

Eyris: Henryk wasn't kidding. This place is...dying and being torn apart by vultures

 

9hsfq4hb o

 

Eyris: What did the Gravetender say? "Light all the fires in the towers and the path shall open."

 

D7aterkn o

 

Eyris: It's hard to believe what this place used to be. An oasis and pearl of the desert.

 

Ksixwphs o

 

Eyris: Now it's all just a mess of broken people and monstrosities.

 

4abmipfh o

 

Eyris: The towers. I must get to the towers.

 

M174hv70 o

 

Gwyni558 o

 

Eyris: Or I'll have to deal with you first.

 

I1d6y510 o

 

P8x2294g o

 

Jmfhscif o

 

Oguq8mpw o

 

L1rlx2y6 o

 

Eyris: And so you've earned your rest. Seems like peace isn't going to be an option here.

 

Ifelrr1s o

 

???: Another one come to set the towers alight?

 

Xlego2w6 o

 

Eyris: Yes. I hope to light them.

 

Wo3utuvn o

 

Eyris: I hope to kill Kladrich too, you'll have your home back.

 

M8zsvnvc o

 

Tsoren: I'm Knight Tsoren. And you're not going to kill Kladrich.

 

Mibp5vx4 o

 

Eyris: And why's that?

 

Tsoren: This place isn't my home and I'm taking a guess that you're newly risen. 

 

Eyris: Yes-

 

Tsoren: Then listen. I've been trying to kill Kladrich and light these fires for years but they always burn out.

 

Anxjdpl4 o

 

Eyris: I've worked with fire my entire life, I might be different.

 

Hkkkfcz4 o

 

Tsoren: Hmph! No you're not. I thought I was different too. You'll just be more of the same.

 

Sknugezi o

 

Tsoren: Maybe this world isn't for saving, y'know. Maybe it's time we let it go.

 

Qxktqyg6 o

 

Eyris: Sounds like you're giving up.

 

Ezbvncqx o

 

Eyris: I'm sure you're a fantastic warrior, so return to your duty. Let us begin it together. You get the world back to safety and prove your doubts wrong. I get my revenge.

 

5dynrdks o

 

Tsoren: No. I've accepted my fate now. The best I can do is sway others away from the flame that Gravetender loves to talk about. Stand too close to fire and it'll lap you up, burn you and it doesn't matter if you grew up your entire life handling fire. You'll just become kindling.

 

Jh2didon o

 

Tsoren: Still continuing?

 

Eyris: I'm lighting the flame, you aren't going to stop that.

 

O9zl4zk8 o

 

Tsoren: Then you're making the biggest mistake of your life.

 

Eyris: No, you're going to make the biggest mistake by not helping me.

 

Tsoren: You seem to have these grand delusions that you're different, don't you? You aren't different. You might kill Kladrich since revenge is such a powerful motivator, but you're not going to reignite the flame and save this world. You'll try and try before you accept your failure. By then it'll be too late.

 

 

Naren the Wanderer

Spoiler

Qe5nzaim o

 

Naren: Fitting that such creatures of dark would settle here...

 

7j2mcs0g o

 

Naren: ...Out of sight, away from light and where it's cold.

 

Rsqec2fq o

 

Naren: Gods I wish it was just a little warmer. Destroying darkness might be my duty but they could make it a little nicer for me.

 

Szowgpvx o

 

Naren: How long has it been since I was last in the snow? Must've been before I awoke again.

 

Hqh35eha o

 

Naren: I'll never understand why people ever wanted to live in the lands of eternal winter. The weather's bad and everything wants to kill you, or could easily kill you.

 

Ugbv23yr o

 

Naren: The Dark here is what matters. Not my worldly problems.

 

Cbrzjhla o

 

Naren: There are others who've already suffered a worse fate. Ice Leviathans did this, nothing else could've.

 

4k6ekbb0 o

 

Naren: Speaking of them...

 

Mcru5drh o

 

4vcwl9xt o

 

Quite some time later...

 

8ym0wdl6 o

 

Naren: More of these? Ice Leviathans usually take one or two and then leave. This has to be something else.

 

Lg59ubnw o

 

Naren: Maybe these ruins aren't as uninhabited as I'd thought.

 

6dq4vahw o

 

Naren: I should keep my guard up for a while, at least until I'm not in the open.

 

Jof4sdus o

 

Naren: What could this place have been before? A city? Temple? Not that it matters now. It's home to the Dark.

 

Ucwdi3lr o

 

Naren: Only a shadow remains of itself.

 

Hnsi1zre o

 

Naren: This place seems so calm though.

 

0zoraytp o

 

Ice Beast: Hiss!

 

Vaotnkvy o

 

Naren: Oh shi-

 

C9v6skqt o

 

Lr7uoqkr o

 

Naren: (How many have fallen here?)

 

Aoeyidr5 o

 

Naren:  (These aren't Sentinels of the Dark though. Why'd they come here)

 

Cim8ej74 o

 

Vvmanxch o

 

3gbacdh6 o

 

Naren: Oof!

 

D0hkkgyh o

 

Eifjicrv o

 

Js5u1ile o

 

Smvckcnu o

 

Tzage49f o

 

Zmwadvx8 o

 

Beylxdy7 o

 

Ibk4hdaw o

 

3yoeuqss o

 

Naren: Well the Darkness starts here. No ordinary ice beast bleeds. 

 

Tb3rwu6l o

 

Naren: Now who are these who fell?

 

Ngl0prht o

 

Naren: None of them seem to be knights. Or at least not good ones.

 

Hx0yorcn o

 

Naren: A mystery for another time.

 

7lzvl1yd o

 

Naren: I must press on. Darkness doesn't care to wait.

 

Mqbbyaph o

 

Vfvgnbyz o

 

Naren: So this is where this all leads?

 

Kyei0r48 o

 

Naren: Great...

 

7bljwnom o

 

Naren: ...

 

Pzwskehy o

 

Srzihrj4 o

 

Smtsr2ca o

 

Naren: (What are these? Wraiths? I haven't seen one of those since...)

 

Ild34fyk o

 

0qko8mo4 o

 

Wraith: Dark is but nature. There is no use hiding from it.

 

Dlf03lyb o

 

Naren: There's no use in hiding. But there is in fighting.

 

Km71dcdk o

 

Tdplaqor o

 

Gwemvwa2 o

 

Jlv3ov8s o

 

Naren: And now you...

 

4enyvfxa o

 

Greater Wraith: Your legion fought valiantly. But all their might couldn't stop us. What hope do you have? You're not a one-man vanguard.

 

Ybujnmmf o

 

Greater Wraith: You are but flesh. We belong to a calling greater than any others.

 

Naren: Maybe but-

 

Zamigr90 o

 

Zqqsopvu o

 

Naren: Damn, that...hurts.

 

5s8rinyt o

 

Greater Wraith: Resistance is useless. We are inevitable. We are humanity's evolution.

 

Naren: (Keep going. The other Sentinels did)

 

Ryijffbm o

 

Yqnadghr o

 

Edhuiyf6 o

 

Vdky5tqo o

 

Naren: How's that for "resistance is useless?"

 

Ldmt4abt o

 

Iz3plbfa o

 

Naren: The Dark is strong here and no flame can be lit if Darkness shall simply consume it. But what was that Wraith was saying about evolution? That can't be us.

 

9tebsvef o

 

 

Alexander the Quiet

Spoiler

8ur12rw9 o

 

Alexander: Why do these things always insist on summoning themselves at night?

 

Hb4vku9b o

 

Alexander: And why at such far out places? This fort is abandoned but they want me to go further.

 

Ehj06snj o

 

Alexander: Maybe it's to kill me. It wouldn't be surprising. Many a person has killed for less, never-mind something inhuman.

 

Qqjmtd6i o

 

Alexander: Can't be long until the sun sets now.

 

Hzzeglhg o

 

Alexander: Funny. Things don't look as though they're falling apart. Things don't look like The End Times. Perhaps it's the calm before the storm.

 

9jf7d6tz o

 

Alexander: But I'll take the peace and quiet now, while I can. All before the Gravetender hunts me down. Four New Daedric Lords? She makes it sound so easy.

 

Hsr7zljd o

 

Alexander: It was Ayleid ruin they wanted to meet at.

 

Cej2gkhx o

 

Alexander: I wonder which Lich will summon. Non are particularly fond of me.

 

Kul5nyl3 o

 

Alexander: I suppose they could all summon themselves and kill me...again.

 

57xdmcgd o

 

Alexander: But I need answers soon.

 

Ywrzvmas o

 

Alexander: ...by the power of blood and the first Lich, I'd summon thee and ask you to heed thy calling.

 

Ahpet0nj o

 

Alexander: This had better work.

 

Noon18by o

 

Qtg2gsy2 o

 

Uy0b9l6x o

 

Lich: You summoned me...brother?

 

Mgvpfcem o

 

Alexander: You're not going to kill me?

 

Ftjacqwg o

 

Lich: I tried to kill you once, it hasn't seemed to work.

 

Y49gey3p o

 

Lich: Would you wait for the sun to subside?

 

Alexander: Fine.

 

A few hours later...

 

6kcgimmu o

 

Lich: Thank you for waiting, now what is it you desire.

 

Alexander: Answers.

 

Rrdxreui o

 

Lich: You could be far more specific.

 

Alexander: What will happen to this world?

 

Lich: If you give up your duty?

 

Alexander: Yes.

 

Fzdulv0d o

 

Lich: Ten years ago? Nothing. Now. Without the Heart of the World, darkness will run rampant.

 

Alexander: What about this flame, what if it's reignited?

 

Lich: You trap Nirn in a cycle where the flame must be reignited over and over again until the world eventually becomes the fuel.

 

Alexander: Will darkness destroy Nirn?

 

Cbk50kgl o

 

Lich: It won't destroy. It will usher in a new age.

 

Alexander: What's in that new age?

 

Lich: I can't say.

 

Alexander: You don't know. Okay.

 

Gdfsstxp o

 

Lich: No matter what, this world might not be saved, ever.

 

Alexander: What makes you say so?

 

Lich: Look how close the moons are.

 

Rh6y8gpw o

 

Lich: There's even a planet with a burning land of volcanoes and water. There's another world being made by the Divines and there won't be enough space in Mundus for both Nirn and this new world.

 

Alexander: So, this dying flame might just be a symptom of that?

 

Lich: Yes. Though...no that would be stupid...

 

Etmlms7i o

 

Alexander: What?

 

Lich: Perhaps if the worlds aligned, we could escape. My people don't wish to die, neither do yours.

 

Alexander: They aren't my people.

 

Lich: But you could become their herald or shepherd.

 

Eiv1kemz o

 

Alexander: No. 

 

Uxesgbwx o

 

Lich: You could be a great leader.

 

Alexander: I won't stop you leaving but most would not follow to a new world, if that's even possible

 

7rw6gxc3 o

 

Alexander: But I didn't summon you just for this talk.

 

Lich: Then what did you summon me for?

 

Alexander: The New Daedra. Where can I find them?

 

Bzmd5tdd o

 

Lich: You think I know where they are?

 

6rfisafx o

 

Alexander: You people are always so close to the Daedra, it makes sense that you'd know.

 

Og7reijq o

 

Lich: We're loyal to the Old Daedra, not the new.

 

Jk85ywyw o

 

Lich: But we know where the Usurpers are.

 

B0psx8j5 o

 

Alexander: Then tell me, if time is waning, I must hunt them quickly.

 

Mastdk50 o

 

Alexander: You're loyal to the old, I can get them their thrones back.

 

Xsmwjv6x o

 

Lich: Vaeriks, Lord of Misfortune sits beneath the mountains. Kylixa, Lord of Parasites is in her nest in the far reaches of Oblivion. Pueniixa, the Forlorn Sister awaits some great prophecy at the End of the World.

 

Alexander: End of the World? The place or the literal end?

 

Lich: The place.

 

C5fhxjtk o

 

Alexander: If you would leave me be, I would be very grateful. I have much to think about now.

 

Dymqovea o

 

Lich: I understand. But do not think on this too long. There isn't time for hesitation.

 

Alexander: I know.

 

Wpnv4u9u o

 

Alexander: Goodness, we're so close to the end.

 

0xauydup o

 

Alexander: And my Pueniixa. What have you gotten yourself into?

 

 

 

]]>11651Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:53:09 +0000The End Times - Prologuehttps://www.loverslab.com/blogs/entry/11647-the-end-times-prologue/  

4th Era 491. Nirn is in ruin. The End Times are here. Darkness clutches at it with its sharpened claws. Daedra have taken their chance, only to be usurped by those stronger. Any heroes of that era have come and gone. Those few who are mighty rule what's left while champions of generations lost are risen one by one until one can bring an end to it. The champions must bring light back to Nirn. All the champions are cursed by undeath and one must link the cycle, trapping the dark in a circle of flame. The journey is perilous, suicidal but, as long as they don't give up, it will continue.

 

Saoirse the Ashborn

Spoiler

Vdovhuxl o

 

Saoirse: What is this place?

 

Mcsli0zg o

 

Saoirse: Oblivion? No...can't be.

 

Pmxmtmsj o

 

Saoirse: But where else would this be?

 

Mgz0fbsi o

 

Saoisre: Wherever it is, I don't want to be here, I've been dead? Haven't I?

 

Quaaj49k o

 

Saoirse: Answers have to be up there, nothing more than death is down here.

 

52ni00l0 o

 

Saoirse: It can't be Oblivion, it mustn't be.

 

Sbzoc6io o

 

Saoirse: What I was promised, it was a lie? This isn't Sovngarde, this can't be it

 

Djd2zp35 o

 

Unknown Entity: There's a head on this one isn't there? Before one carries on, they must understand what they've done.

 

Hcfoy5xs o

 

Saoirse: And who are you to judge that?

 

Unknown Entity: Someone with far more authority than yourself

 

0soymxtm o

 

Unknown Entity: Just look at what you've done. Those fields of ash you've made, burned homes, children, fathers and mothers. What haven't you done?

 

Xmevnttw o

 

Unknown Entity: Was it all worth it? I'd assume not. Funny how you mortals have morals that you seem to break so often.

 

Saoirse: Is this Coldharbor? Tell me before I send you back to where you came from!

 

Unknown Entity: Oh I think I've gotten you right. A Vigilant of Stendarr, or at least someone of that ilk

 

W3kycwa4 o

 

Saoirse: A Watcher of the Dark, and there would've been a time we'd have rooted you out.

 

Unknown Entity: But that time is not now. The tables have turned, as you mortals would say.

 

Saoirse: ...

 

Lmaozywk o

 

Saoirse: This thing you seem to accuse me of-

 

Unknown Entity: The suffering you created and perpetrated?

 

Saoirse: That very suffering. How do I know you haven't caused far beyond what I have?

 

Unknown Entity: Is that going to be your shield? What about me? What have I done?

 

Xepsnc2a o

 

Saoirse: That's absolutely my shield. You've existed far longer than I have, and this Plane of Oblivion holds more anguish than I've ever created

 

Unknown Entity: And you believe this notion that I've existed longer than you? What if for every death another one of myself exists? What if we're merely the judge of those who would pass onto their paradise or promised land?

 

Ewsee6ve o

 

Saoirse: The Divines are merciful and, while they have their wrath, they wouldn't do this.

 

Unknown Entity: Have you ever known the Divines to be merciful or good? They'd accept a ninth that didn't become a divine because he was good but because he was mighty.

 

60dpyunz o

 

Saoirse: You'd seek to manipulate me. This is Coldharbor isn't it? You're Molag Bal, aren't you?

 

Unknown Entity: Creative mind, but you know nothing of Coldharbor until you're in it. 

 

Saoirse: Then where am I?

 

Unknown Entity: It matters not, but you'll find answers across the fields of ash.

 

Mimxehyk o

 

Saoirse: You seek my suffering, do you not?

 

Unknown Entity: I do not.

 

Saoirse: Then what?

 

P9rntald o

 

Saoirse: Is that your answer? A ghostly horseman?

 

Unknown Entity: Follow

 

Yrsute3q o

 

Saoirse: Do you believe I'd follow that to my inevitable death?

 

Unknown Entity: I offer answers and, if you die, what difference does it make? You said your death would be inevitable.

 

0mqxeaa2 o

 

Unknown Entity: There are only answers here, your death would serve me not.

 

Saoirse: Then what would serve you? Do you want me indebted to you? As all the Daedric Princes?

 

Nwazjltf o

 

Saoirse: If so, I don't want it and I'd rather perish

 

Unknown Entity: Then do nothing, I only ask you follow it.

 

Qsf9ksnx o

 

Unknown Entity: What is it you have left to lose? 

 

8zstuxa9 o

 

Saoirse: Fine...

 

Unknown Entity: Good instinct, you might be needing those swords soon.

 

Mpnhny3v o

 

Saoirse: So what's over there that you're so keen to show me? Couldn't you bring it to me? You seem to be lord of this place.

 

Unknown Entity: A journey is required, that is all

 

Bpwuvvym o

 

Saoirse: Of course, what Daedric dealing would be complete without a walk through a red mist

 

Pgmueec5 o

 

Unknown Entity: It's the red mist so keen on clouding the judgement of mortals. Much of what you've done relied on that mist. It's what led you here.

 

Saoirse: I don't know what you're talking about, but leave out the metaphors and the quaint and pretty words. They do little to tell me anything.

 

Zbrw7qev o

 

Unknown Entity: No but every action you make tells me everything. Your grip tightening and your eyes focusing, your gaze...deathly.

 

Saoirse: And?

 

Unknown Entity: This isn't survival, you just have a killer instinct that you can't let go.

 

Vynvesap o

 

Saoirse: I'd hardly call it killer instinct when I could be surrounded by anything you conjure up. Imps, scamps maybe worse.

 

Unknown Entity: Yet you have no proof of it and choose to be ready to kill. 

 

Texjk0kd o

 

Saoirse: Perhaps, but that instinct has kept me alive.

 

Unknown Entity: It wasn't an insult, you'll serve your purpose quite well.

 

1dwoehod o

 

Saoirse: And what is that purpose? What do you want?

 

Unknown Entity: You'll know, but it isn't fate or destiny, for you've already fulfilled that.

 

Acgksmol o

 

Saoirse: So you'd push against the natural order? Give purpose to someone who has already completed all?

 

Unknown Entity: I wouldn't call it pushing against the natural order. In fact you'd be...no you needn't know yet

 

T4nlfpcq o

 

Unknown Entity: Look at all of these.

 

Saoirse: What are they?

 

Unknown Entity: Unanswered prayers to the Divines.

 

Saoirse: Do they all end up here?

 

Unknown Entity: Only the unanswered ones.

 

Dckgzyhv o

 

Saoirse: How many have I seen?

 

Unknown Entity: Countless. You passed them in the fog, you've been passing them with every step you've taken.

 

Saoirse: Do no prayers get answered?

 

Unknown Entity: Some do, if they link with a greater purpose.

 

Ufhlktjl o

 

Saoirse: So where am I? Where would have thousands of unanswered prayers?

 

Unknown Entity: Everywhere and nowhere

 

Saoirse: That's unhelpful

 

Unknown Entity: So are the Divines, so are the Daedra.

 

Saoirse: So you're neither?

 

Wt4qpacl o

 

Saoirse: No answer?

 

Unknown Entity: To know who I am would kill whoever you were before. You'd lose faith in your humanity and lose it, leaving you empty, hollow. 

 

Saoirse: And that's a terrible fate?

 

Unknown Entity: Worse than death.

 

 

75p2clsp o

 

Saoirse: Have I seen what you wanted me to see, or is there more?

 

Unknown Entity: There is always more

 

44lwruih o

 

Saoirse: So what's this place?

 

Unknown Entity: I can't tell you.

 

Saoirse: I mean in front of me.

 

Unknown Entity: A home for those who know what I am.

 

D5ks2ra6 o

 

Unknown Entity: They're violent, insane, you must put an end to them

 

Saoirse: But they-

 

Unknown Entity: Use your killer nature, end their pain.

 

10nziydo o

 

Saoirse: Fine. Let the light of the Divines shine upon these lost souls.

 

Unknown Entity: ...good.

 

1gwp5lss o

 

Kgtuwyhr o

 

Bhrhkxqq o

 

Pr94nilw o

 

Saoirse: Only two have ever known?

 

Unknown Entity: Yes.

 

Saoirse: Will only two ever know?

 

Unknown Entity: Yes, only two, past, present and future.

 

Rnav1xav o

 

Saoirse: How have I killed someone from the future?

 

Unknown Entity: Time doesn't flow here, it's convoluted and time bashes into itself. As will soon happen to Nirn.

 

Saoirse: Is it the End Times?

 

Unknown Entity: It doesn't matter whether it is or isn't, for you will soon learn what it is. When you turn in your grave and rise from a pile of ash. 

 

Saoirse: How long have I been dead for? 

 

Unknown Entity: It doesn't matter, for your journey isn't one of friendship. It isn't another chance at life. It won't matter whether you've been dead for a day or for an era. You'll fulfil your duty and return to ash once it's complete.

 

Naren the Wanderer

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Naren: Brothers, fear not, for I am here and we are legion once again.

 

1mnafvkx o

 

Naren: We might not have been strong enough to push back the dark but I haven't forgotten our duty.

 

Tfuic5ym o

 

Naren: I hope you're all resting well, you all deserve it. We looked upon the worst that Nirn had and we stood firm to the last, except...me.

 

Owkuensk o

 

Naren: I would understand if you despise me, my desertion was unfair on you. I should've stayed where I was and stood strong. Though I suppose this curse I'm afflicted with is due punishment.

 

Jbltunr5 o

 

Naren: I miss you all dearly. Even if some of you were a little extreme. 

 

Bvfvswt5 o

 

Naren: And I'm immensely proud that you all threw yourselves into the fire to try and protect the people here from horrors they shouldn't know exist.

 

B7xyn5sj o

 

Naren: It's fitting now that some horror would come to claim me. I've lived on borrowed time for long enough. 

 

Cfspucm4 o

 

Abomination: Kill...the...watch...er

 

Unlts6qp o

 

Naren: I, Naren of Dragon Bridge, sworn knight of the Sentinels shall fulfil my oath and destroy the creatures of the abyss, of the dark, or die protecting the world of men.

 

8tzf1hje o

 

Naren: Divines, bless this blade with might to vanquish this beast...

 

Gai63mar o

 

Naren: And let this man complete his duty.

 

Leyzgm0s o

 

Naren: I shall not run away again.

 

U1jizcxh o

 

Snqedu9o o

 

Jzypegly o

 

Ppkrurox o

 

S5igrwma o

 

Iv9t0oso o

 

Jtvhl2q7 o

 

Owhbwrzr o

 

Naren: ...Let this creature be cast out forever more.

 

Diz05twp o

 

Naren: I fear I must leave; there are more to be vanquished.

 

Hzwcw4j9 o

 

Naren: And I fear we have not yet seen our darkest day.

 

Tox6slcp o

Eyris the Emboldened

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Wiupdw7j o

 

Eyris: How much further could this altar be?

 

Akkqiti3 o

 

Eyris: They have to be there. Justice has to be served.

 

Tis7yuww o

 

Eyris: It cannot be ignored any longer. I shall not ignore it any longer. They all need justice. Fenris, Esberth, Elizabeth, Horatio. I've been given the gift of undeath, it's time I used it.

 

Aa6rdv7y o

 

Eyris: Justicia, you'll have your revenge, like I promised. 

 

D8qq9duy o

 

Eyris: He must be here. He has to be.

 

Dypibgee o

 

Eyris: Kladrich! Show yourself

 

Kladrich: Is that truly what you wish for?

 

Eyris: Yes!

 

Eyris: Kladrich?

 

Nlg0oabe o

 

Eyris: I won't be afraid of you, I have my own flame now.

 

Kladrich: Yet it shall wither, die and turn to dark.

 

Zcgefknu o

 

Eyris: Maybe, but they'll always be a fire somewhere, it'll never fade!

 

Kladrich: And I will devour it as I have the other flickering flames.

 

Ymh756yi o

 

Eyris: You can't scare me away with illusions of dark, for light will always break the dark!

 

Eyris: Kladrich!

 

Vhbl08c0 o

 

Eyris: Come on out!

 

Cuzy3mfj o

 

Eyris: I know you're here! Now stop being a coward and face me!

 

Dgyslmyx o

 

Eyris: Kladrich? Maybe he isn't here...

 

Nimpjqrh o

 

Eyris: I'm sorry, everyone. I- I can't seem to get to him. Everytime I'm close he just gets further away.

 

Ruspbiqe o

 

Eyris: I've tried everything, I have, really.

 

Foaxoxbs o

 

Eyris: He always seems to just get away.

 

B5e6z1bp o

 

Eyris: I will give you all justice but it may be quite some time. For the light of fire seems to have left him and as the world darkens he seems to strengthen.

 

Gpuxltwb o

 

Eyris: Soon. Soon he'll fall.

 

M2hkunas o

 

Eyris: Whether it be by my blade or another.

 

9x49vpv0 o

 

Eyris: For the flame may be fading but it's still strong.

 

Nxfowrvx o

 

Eyris: I shall continue my prayers. I hope they make their way to you. I miss you all very much.

 

Dbvb0jix o

 

Eyris: ...

 

Uwntcllk o

 

???: (Thud!)

 

Jrjvvqwz o

 

Eyris: What was that?

 

Excmthq0 o

 

Eyris: What the fuck is that?

 

???: Sn-uff-out-the-f-fire

 

Xxv283aj o

 

Eyris: You're not snuffing out anyone's fire!

 

1jls1np3 o

 

Eyris: What? Why didn't that-

 

Ksgjtnzy o

 

???: Fi-fire must-go!

 

Qqenxvy8 o

 

Rzruutwo o

 

Iziqzmum o

 

Eyris: What? How-

 

Svt6uloo o

 

Eyris: Oof!

 

Xiil9vy6 o

 

Eyris: What the-

 

Cdidwqva o

 

Alexander the Quiet

Spoiler

 

Cjs9kopj o

 

Alexander: You think any of them can do it?

 

Miraihst o

 

Gravetender: One will. Whether that be you, the Wanderer, the Emboldened or the Ashborn. It matters not which.

 

Opeytni6 o

 

Alexander: I meant whether they'll give up or not. No doubt they've been risen for a reason but plenty have given up.

 

Zlacgqz0 o

 

Gravetender: Have you given up?

 

Alexander: Excuse me?

 

Gravetender: You're so concerned with the others that you seem to have forgotten your own duties.

 

Yb7xff01 o

 

Alexander: Hmm.

 

Gravetender: The world shall not heal until all your duties are complete. Stay silent or speak, it doesn't change the fact.

 

O3ib94yv o

 

Alexander: Then I leave tonight.

 

Nbksyd3d o

 

Gravetender: So you finally begin as the newly awoken will soon begin their own journeys? Almost as though you were waiting for something. Are you?

 

Alexander: Hmph

 

Gravetender: What is it? You remember your old life? They will too.

 

Tqfllecx o

 

Alexander: They'll be shackled by it, like I've been.

 

Tvjfefu6 o

 

Gravetender: To complete their journey they must overcome obstacles. As must you. The past is only a haunting reminder of what once was.

 

Alexander: Easy to say that.

 

Gravetender: Indeed it is. But that'll be the easiest of you obstacles.

 

Vsocndde o

 

Alexander: Hmm.

 

Tnmrdjwi o

 

Gravetender: Quiet again. Cyrodiil awaits Alexander. Best not leave it any longer 'lest you lose your purpose.

 

Rfynfxlh o

 

Alexander: What'd be in Cyrodiil? Not another Oblivion crisis, surely.

 

Gravetender: In the mountains or in the valleys, there'll be great lords to destroy. The sooner the better for the New Daedric Lords grow in strength every passing moment.

 

Alexander: So which am I burdened with?

 

Gravetender: All but one.

 

]]>11647Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:51:53 +0000Storms of Change - Section 1, Forsworn Conspiracy - Part 1https://www.loverslab.com/blogs/entry/11086-storms-of-change-section-1-forsworn-conspiracy-part-1/
Spoiler

Oyv2tvsx o

 

Markarth Fourth Era, Year 202

 

7fmr1goe o

 

Kleppr: Welcome! What can I get you?

Ny3nyiou o

 

Storm: A drink and I'll need a room for the night, got something free?

Bto89dcg o

 

Miner: Don't giver 'er nothing Kleppr, she's a Forsworn bitch!

1k8rwivu o


Storm: That was some time ago, sir, so keep your trap shut!

3amaqgzh o
 

Miner: What're ya gonna do? Tell your shaman and put a curse on me?

2c4g6jyq o

 

Kleppr: It's not worth it! And I don't want to clean more blood off the floor!

5effo5ph o


Storm: Take my advice Klep, don't get involved, we can sort this out like people. Not animals.

Nyebms3q o

Storm: And you? Whatever you call yourself? I could put a curse on you. What do you want? Pain, instant death-

Oziumrdt o

Hunter: Mind your words. We don't kindly to those who want to take our home in the Reach

Storm: Oh for the sake of all the gods...

Xeuqdabg o

Storm: Just. Piss. Off. I don't 'ave time for this.

Qv3bx59o o

Miner: No. You piss off. And if you come back, make sure you bring your husband since he'll actually do something-

Storm: I don't-

Jhvgubgn o

Miner: Oh right! I forgot, you forsworn don't do that. You'll fuck a beast over a man!

Hcr2ysro o

Miner: In fact how many things do you lot fuck?

74rbvvzm o

Miner: I'm sure it's too many to count! Wolves, bears, trolls and - 

Storm: Shut up.

6hjepjcd o
 

Miner: What's wrong? Hit a sore spot? 

Ccl2gqq2 o

Storm: Say that again, I dare you

Tq0vxwsq o

Kleppr: Don't be getting hasty, now. Don't do something stupid, or I'll call the guards

Cuw46o9g o

Storm: Fine, but I'll leave rather than stay here with that meat-head

Tjv0bwee o


Storm: And I guarantee that he'll be first.
 




 

Spoiler

Zkg0fwgv o

Storm: Why do I even stay in this city? It ain't a great place. Vlindrel Hall is a mess and I've gotta live at an inn owned by people who'd gladly see me hung drawn and quartered.

Oi8rkono o

Storm: I thought I'd get used to it. What a fool I was. I never should've run for Markarth, I should've gone the other way to Whiterun or...anywhere that wasn't here.

We2r31la o

Storm: And the people here won't ever get used to me, not while they have the King in Rags in Cidnha Mine. It can't be for much longer.

Tdfekfde o

Storm: Just a couple more jobs and I'll be free of this place. Or maybe the old King in Rags will do me a favour and drop dead soon enough.

Dhpw1efe o

Storm: But it's still a lot of time. I'm lucky if I even get a job dealing with skeevers, never-mind something that actually pays well.

Xs81hgkn o

Storm: Maybe the priestess here can help. I'm sure the divines wouldn't look down on me like anyone else.

Omdkikt8 o

Storm: Or maybe it'll turn out that the divines look down on everyone. Equal amounts of prejudice for everyone.

 



 

Spoiler

Sometime later...

Ofbyclcr o

Guard: Hey you! Stop!

Isr0kdhy o

Storm: What is it now?

Hzssaufb o

Guard: There've been some nasty rumours about you. Some say there's some truth to them. 

Fcxid15h o

Guard: There had better not be any truth to them. We don't want your kind here, we already have our own problems with the imperials nearing our gates.

Fiq2pscc o

Storm: Oh and what would my kind be? Huh? Foreign? Unwanted? Forsworn? 

0vlot41y o

Guard: The criminal kind. If there's truth to the Forsworn rumours though, it'll be off to Cidnha Mine with you, along with the rest of your kind.

Storm: I haven't done anything criminal and I don't want to spend time with the Forsworn as much as you do. So I've gotten your message, can you leave?

9jxxpdbl o

Guard: I can leave but from now on, assume your every move is being watched. 

Prfdko7h o

Storm: So no different from before then...



 

Spoiler

In the Temple of Dibella...

Hxqcbo0s o

Senna: Anything I can help with daughter?

Wpg752si o

Storm: Not your daughter.

Jgdtxdtg o

Senna: We're all the daughters of Dibella and what am I but her mouthpiece? I ask again though, what do you need help with?

Reon2v9e o

Storm: I just need to get something off my chest.

Gswlhc8j o

Senna: Then say it. The lady and I will listen.

H5ytickd o

Storm: Why does the past need to be so important? Why is it that I can barely ever get any escape from it?

Rnlaiyw1 o

Senna: I'm afraid I don't have answer for that, daughter.

Hbvwotpq o

Storm: Nobody ever seems to...

Senna: Maybe it's not something we're meant to know.

Zfon2hh6 o

Storm: So even the Divines like to avoid questions?

Senna: Maybe there's another way to tell you.

Wbkgoxgf o

Senna: Think about when you were a child. You played with someone, you were happy. Think about that time.

Cey2vtwd o

Storm: That life seems so far away...

Senna: It does, but think about it.

Storm: Fine. I must've been ten summers old. My...friend was eight. We were playing hide and seek. Turns out we were quite good at it, well she was. I couldn't find her from midday to dusk, even my parents who were...experienced hunters couldn't find her.

41nye4hc o

Storm: By the Gods our mother was ready wring our necks when we got back. I might've got told off and scalded for being 'so irresponsible with her.' But I remembered never being so happy looking for her, it was all one big game to us. And that's all it needed to be, no worries about attacks, beasts or worse.

F5txpcom o

Senna: The past isn't all bad, is it?

6lqeb5jy o

Storm: I suppose not.

Senna: So what happened to your friend?

N20qxckc o

Storm: That doesn't have such a happy ending...

Au3loymm o

Senna: I see.

Pbgscevs o

Senna: Feel free to use the shrine here, I'll be nearby if you want some more help.

Jxmjmrxs o

Storm: Thank you, but I'd quite like to be alone now.

E0y4smpn o

Storm: Oh my sweet sister...

C9dzejfg o

Storm: How did we fall so far apart?


Some time later...

28p7i5ou o

Storm: Better get back to the inn before Klepp sells my room to someone else.



 

Spoiler

Vcbyqjgr o

Storm: Only a few more days now...

Axsskvrl o

Storm: Hopefully, I'll feel a little better after some rest.

Fkqillrl o

The next day...

Rfc47ryk o

Storm: There's your coin, in full.

Kleppr: Lovely...might even keep my wife quiet for a while

Prhjgwmr o

Storm: Good luck with that Kleppr. And thank you.

Ee5pvlah o

Kleppr: Wait! Someone from the Warrens came up and said they want some help. Something about a rat problem.

Ctpggzen o

Storm: I'll check it out, thanks.

Kleppr: No problem.

1xvqlcbv o

Storm: Still nearly a miracle though.

Ziihaleo o

Storm: Nobody ever wants to give me a job.

85mtegpk o

Kleppr: Maybe your luck's turning?

Storm: I hope so.
 


 

Spoiler

That night...

Nk50qm2t o

Storm: Huh, it's quieter than normal, I thought the smelter would still be going. Can't complain though.

Tgvu20yp o

Storm: Hey I came about a rat-...oh. Great.

Il7abb8r o

Guard 1: You were told you weren't wanted here,

Tiwltkbz o

Guard 2: Your kind killed my mother.

Ax24nekc o

Guard 3: Our sister too and one your witch bitches took Olvar's tongue.

Pz7bvtvt o

Guard 1: You'll get out of here, if you know what's good for you.

Wasfh6mu o

Storm: This is great but what's good for me is to stay here and work. I'll pay you.

Qee8t1gy o

Guard 3: The only thing you'll pay in is blood.

Guard 2: Blood for blood.

Uuwul0nf o

Storm: At least you didn't suggest something degrading...

8pkd0wws o

Guard 1: Get out, or we'll kill you here. And bodies don't get found in the Warrens

Hxtz6g0l o

Storm: At least let me stay a day longer.

Guards: No!

Vllng6a6 o

Storm: Fine, I'll come quietly. But keep your hands to yourselves. 



{End of story content}

 

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I can't believe it has been nearly a year since I last posted here. Doesn't life just fly by? So what happened before? Honestly, I burnt out. I made too many things too quickly and lost it. So I took  break, a year long break. I hope to be more consistent and I hope I can pace myself too, so that we don't get another year long hiatus. Either way, I know my story-telling isn't up to scratch considering its been a year, but I hope you enjoy it.

As always, feel free to give me feedback on anything and I hope you're all doing as well as you can in these trying times.

 

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