"I great you lady.....what brings you here? Please have a seat...I´ll prepare some comberry-juice for you, you must be very thirsty....!"


"oh no.....I´ll have to speak to that young Zallit again..he´ll never learn! He always treat female outlanders like that, maybe he´s afraid of them....."


Serene would be as nice as that I promise! Tell Telina she has nothing to fear from Serene.....

Hehe, nice to see Serene in another story! And you deserve a as well

Oki,here it is at last, a new update on your favourite story ( or so I hope ). Hope you like it.


When I entered the tent, I saw an imperial woman, just a few years older than myself, she had some astonishing dark blue, nearly amethyst coloured eyes, that was looking on me with a slight surprise, of me entering her tent. She brushed her auborn hair away from her face, and asked me.

-"Hail Stranger, who might you be and what brings you to the Ahemmusa Camp?"

-"Oh, my name is Telina Delvanni, mouth of house telvanni, I was sent here by Baladas, to give you a late birthday presant, and to live and help the tribe for some time". "I come from Cyrodiil, but I dont want to tell about my background beacuse of earlier events.....not now at least, maby later".

-"You come from Baladas Demnevanni, in Gnisis? Oh I do hope he´s ok!!"

-"Oh yes, he's doing just fine, he actually wanted me to bring you this, it's a late birthday presant".

She unwrapped her presant, and out from it, fell two books.
-"Oh thanks", she gave me a big hug, and thanked me over and over again, so she clearly liked the gift very much.

"Now let me see to those wounds of yours, so there won´t be any scars in your sweet face" With those words Serene gently put her hands on my face, I then felt the healing energy flow, closing the wounds.

-"Thanks", I said, and when I touched my face, the large bruise was gone.

We spent a few happy hours together, discussing several things about the tribe, the different houses and guilds. We drank some comberry juice, and we started a discussion about the kindness of Baladas. We discussed hair styles, and the Serene, directed me to go to a hairdresser in Balmora, who had done her hair.

I was sad when I had to leave her, since it had become late, and since I didnt have a tent, I would have to go to a place so that I could get somewhere to sleep. I marked my location, and translocated me to Arvs-Drelen, to get a little nap in my room.

From downstairs, I hard the creaking sound of the door getting opened, and being quickly closed again. Now I regretted that I had not taken a dark brotherhood helmet, along with the rest of the armour. But I hid behind my closet, and two assassins entered my room, walked over to the bed, and almost as commanded by a higher power, the stabbed down in perfect unison.

I ran out from my hiding spot, closed the door, and said the password, that would activate the trap set upon the door, next time someone would open it, the would find themselves in tiny pieces.

I moved on, and saw that maby as many as five, entered the room of Lawhati, and without thinking, I threw a small key at one of them, while screaming on them.

They turned around, and now headed towards me....oh no I hadnt thought on that. Two large screams sounded behind me, followed by the sound of something large and icy, shatter on the floor. My smile quickly vanished though, as more assassins, had started to walk towards me, and I had six crossbows, aimed straight towards me.

It was in this moment, Baladas chose to appear, and all the kindness in his eyes, was replaced by century old hatred. Sparks was swirhling around him, and the wery walls, was humming by electrofying statics. And with a single extension of his hand, fierce lightnings, poured out from his fingertips, and the assassins, was incinerated within seconds.

I was breathing heavily, as I understod how close to death I had been, but again the god's had spared me...why. Baladas, looked on my, and then inside my room. The floor was littered by small pieces of half frozen flesh, and the blood was slowly running out over the floor, and with a single hand motion, the mess on the floor was gone.

-"Telina, I did not expect you back right now, but it was a welcome visit, I ensure you, would you be so kind to acompany me up to my study"? We walked up, and sat down by the table, while he poured some flin into a glass for me, I poundered how he had been able to use those spells.

-"Sorry Baladas, I did not mean to interrupt you in your studies", I said blushing, as I realised if I had just used a little tactic, I might have managed to stop those myself.

-"Ah dont worry my child, but I was believe it or not, actually sleeping, so tomorrow, I'd rather you wake me up in a more peacefull way" he was smiling widely, as he said it, and I understood right away that it was one of his usual jokes.

-"But, you wonder how I manage to use spell without even saying the incantations"? "Well, it's called non-verbal spells, it can be used at all spells, and it gives you an advantage as your enemy dont know that you're going to cast a spell, before it is cast". "But, it is far more difficoult, and you have to be a very skilled magician, to do it, but in time I shall teach you that as well".

He then told me to get back to bed, as I needed my sleep, if I was to go out on a shopping trip tomorrow, before returning to the ashlanders. And after thinking of how to best get rid of the brotherhood, I fell asleep.

Hope this satisfied you a bit, you'll propably get some more on sunday.

Thanks to Minkey for helping me out with this one.

Hehe cool. Interesting that serenes in it too, Ive been following that story too, it'll be interesting to see how minque percieves telina in serenes story.

This part was very well done and I loved to see Baladas' true power in your story, simply astonishing description of the event. I liked the bit with Serene as well, it seems that Serene has appeared in several stories over the course of Minque's writing and this adds one to it. Very good writing as always and I'll be patiently Waiting4Updates.

It would huh??? Well I do have a plan....


Anyways Tellie´s made it again, a very interesting update....and mind you, I´m not saying this because Serene´s in this one too!!! This story is really a very well written one, so Norway is apparently a country full of good writers still!

Hmm strange, Serene appears in a couple of stories here....I wonder why, could it be her personality? Her looks? Anyway I´m very flattered that you guys want to include her. It makes me feel special!

Yikes, I've got to remember to stay away from Baladas when I'm on Redoran bussiness. That guy is though. Now where did all those assasins come from? I never saw anything close to an assasin.
Nice update. I'll be waiting for the next one.

Yeah you better do that!
The assassins are the Dark Brotherhood....if you have Tribunal installed they appear...quite randomly IMO.

Hi, today comes a long one, and you'll also get to see a bit more of Telina's cleverness. Enjoy

It was still early on the morning when I left Arvs-Drelen. I was stroding in the streets of gnisis, when I saw a nice dress. It reached nearly down to my shoes. The hem, had words written in ancient Dunmeri, and it was written with gold. The colour itself was dark blue, and it had some wery intricate patterns, woven with the finest of silver silk. The patter, shoved a picture of the ancient heraldry of lord Nerevar, and the three tribunal god's Ayem, Vekh and Seth. The byttons consisted of small diamonds, and a little pattern of diamonds, shoved the sun, it was made up with emeralds. And a large ruby necklace followed with it.

Naturally I bought it straight away, and some six-hundred septims poorer, I walked on with a beautifull dress made of sateng and a dashing ruby necklace.

When I arrived in Ald-Rhuun, I was walking down the street, intent of finding a shop that sold wilderness equipment. Several men, even the redoran guards that had called me scum or telvanni, turned their heads when I walked past, someone even wolf-whistled, and I knew then that I was propably a very atractive woman, when not covered in blood; gore or messed up clothes. I smiled, at the thought of only my looks having that effect on men, after a little training, imagine what I could do with my voice.

After two hours, I found the shop, and the shopkeeper Melinin, an aged Altmer, was more than happy to have a fellow mer visit his shop. He invited me to have a little lunch, and I did'nt turn him down. He turned out to be an exellent cook, and he served us some delicately guar steak, with mashed ash-jam and fried kwama eggs on a very good tasting bread. Along to drink, he had some good tasting corkbulb wine, that was bottled some sixty years before.

He was a nice mer, one that was to become a good friend of mine. He taught me much about Ald.Rhuun and the areas around, the redorans, and their principles, and told me that if I ever was to visit Ald-Rhuun again, I had to stop by. When I left him some five hours later, I had aquired a large tent, some hundred feet's of ropes, a big and a small shovel and a pick. All, which I had gotten immensly cheap. I arrived the ashlander camp at nightfall, and after a little chatting with Sinnamu, of where I could set up My tent, I fell into a heavy sleep, in my warm and cosy tent.

Next morning, I paid Serene a little visit, and we sheared a small breakfast, consisting of some kind of...stew. It was actually good, and even more, I was full of renued vigour. The rest of the day, I spent with the ashlanders, learning of how to make new clothes, and similar things. I had just finished the stitching on my pants made of kagouti skin, reinforced with chitin greaves, when i was told that the Wise-Woman wanted me. I laid my pants down in Nammu's tent, the one who had tought me of how to make clothing and other things. And then I walked into the tent of Sinnamu.

-"Ah Telina, here you are again, I wish to make you a clan-fried of the ashlanders, but in order to do so, you must go through the rite of initiation". "Far to the north of here, there is an island named Dagon-Fel." "On that island, there is and old dunmer fortress called Rotheran".

-"Two days ago, some of our hunters was captured by the inhabitants of Rotheran, so I want you to rescue them".

I stared at her for a minute. She wanted me to go into an old fortress filled up with kidnappers, and get out the captured ashlanders, she was mad.

-"Is it any reason, why I have to do this and not someone else better that me in fighting"? I asked, with a slight harshness in my voice.

-"Telina, we need someone who can talk for themselves, and we ashlanders are not always so good at that, as you might recall". "And precisely the leader there is a former high-ranking telvanni, so your position in the house might help a bit".

What she said made sense, I could talk to someone from house telvanni, if I just usedmy head, in the proper way, so I translocated me to Ald-Rhuun, and I bought a new woid-walk spell, set upon Rotheran, and with that I transported me to the ancient fortress. When I arrived there, I saw a group of imperials, moving hastily towards me, weapons swhirling from their scabbards.

-"Wait, I come here on the behalf of house telvanni", I shouted, and the imperials, scheated their weapons. A quick chat with them, told me that they were witch-hunters, sent to root out the fortress. We discussed the matter a bit, and we decided, that if I failed to persuade them from attacking the villages and pilgrims around here, they was to attack them. It was with no little amount of nerves, I knocked on the door.

-"Who are you"? said a voice from inside, and it was clearly running with intimidation.

-"I'm Telina Delvanni, mouth of house telvanni, I wish audience with your telvanni master, imedietly".

After telling me to wait, he vanished from sight, and a few minutes later, he emerged outside the door, with the mer, who aparently was the telvanni, and another one...a dunmer carrying a huge sword that was glittering of barely contained frost enchantment, and a beautifull robe, with a lot of yellow and blue stripes, and red as tha main colour, it was shimmering in a clear green colour that indicated that a wery powerfull enchantement was put upon it.

-"Hello, mouth Delvanni", he embraced me, and when he let go, he allowed a huge grin slip over his face.

-"I'm a spellwright of the house, I was about to be advance to a wizard, when the duke refused to give me a construction contract, and I was forced to save up money to buy one, as he requested me to pay him a-hundred-thousand septims for it".

-"The only way I could think of, was to gather my lifelong friends, and take residence here, and start to rob people, kidnap them and demand ransom, and those things". "Over the years, more and more people joined us, all of them had, had a tough life and had been done wrong upon, so I took them in, and allowed them a place to stay". He was clearly regretting his deeds, beacuse he couldnt even meet my eyes, when he talked to me.

-"Well, I'm sent here by the ashlanders, to get back two ashlanders who was taken prisoners, but now as I think on it, stop the whole operation, or these
witch hunters will attack you", I did not command him or anything, it was nothing but a friendly advice, and I saw him smile to me, and he finally desided.

-"My name is Elwin", he shook my hand, and then started talking again. "The ashlanders shall be free no matter what, but if you want me to stop completely with my other operations, you will have to face my champion Llaren Terano, in a single duel, inside the arena".

We walked into the arena, the mer's was booing on me, and cheering on Llaren, but I guessed that it was normal. We entered the pit, and I saw a large dish, filled with powdered chalk, and I literally covered my hands in it. I then walked into the middle, and shook hands with Llaren, I was surprised, that the fact we was supposed to kill eachother, he was friendly towards me.

-"Nothing personal mouth", he said, "may the best one win", I could do nothing but nod to him, as I steeled myself for the fight.

We stepped away from eachother, and in perfect unison, our weapons, slashed out frow our scabbards. I wielded the staff of magnus, the the Skullchrusher, and the silver staff of peace, was leaning agains the wall, in case i dropped the staff of Magnus.

He came towards me, and his huge blade, descended, from an over-head chop. I barely managed to get away from the heavy blade, and before the chop was even finished, he had swung around and the blade came swashing towards my waist. I blocked it with the staff, but the force of the impact, made me stagger backwards, and seeing my weakness, he pressed on.

Hit after hit, came my way, and all I could do was to dodge, duck or block. I never got a single chance of making an attack at him, it seemed as his speed was immensly boosted. But after five minutes of a never ending series of attacks, his green robe, suddenly stopped glowing, and he became much slower, the robe aparently increased his speed, but now it was exausted, now it was my turn....

I suddenely struck out towards his head, he deflected the hit with his sword, but I had been ready for it, and with a furious backhanded slash, the staff hit him in his back. He fell headlong onto the ground, and as I tried to smash the staff into his head, he turned around, and with all of his strenght, he hit the staff, I lost my grip, and it flew through the air.

He got up, and started to swing, slash and thrust his mighty blade towards me,and all I could do, was to roll, duck, sidestep and jump, hoping he would not hit me.
Suddenly, I felt the blade,give me some large cuts in my back, left arm, and the left side of by torso. I screamed as the ribbs cracked, and I fell screaming to the floor...

I lay upon my back, I held my left hand on my side. He placed his foot upon my chest, and took the mighty blade into a downwards facing position. I held my hand outstretched towards the Skullchrusher, but there was no way I could reach it, as it was on the opposite side of the room. I was thinking " come on, come on, come to me".

Suddenly, I felt it...I felt the ancient hammer, and I did not even have to shout at it. It flew straight into my hand, and just as my enemy stabbed the huge sword down towards my chest, I swung the powerfull hammer with all my force, into the knee of the mer standing above me. He screamed as the hammer reduced the bones in his knee to nothing more than dust, and ripped of muscles, as he flew almost fourteen feet away by the force of the impact.

I rose up, and picked up the shiny blade. I gasped as I felt the magnificent power of this blade, and I realised that if I had gotten a direct hit on me with this blade, my torso would have laid in a mass of broken ice pieces on the floor. I limped over to where the wounded mer was laying, and placed the tip of the sword upon his throat.

-"Kill me Delvanni", he gasped, "I always knew that i would once be felled by a powerfull individual, like yourself".

I removed the sword, and said to the crowd.

-"This mer accepted defeat, but this does not have to end with death of another individual, I have won, but I will not kill him, this fight is over".

It was silent for almost a minute,before the crowd screamed out in applause for me, and soon the name "Delvanni" was roaming through the huge stonehall. I walked over to Llaren, and with all of my greatest effort, I managed to heal all of his wounds then mine. After that I handed him back the sword-hilt first.

-"No", he said. "This is The Ice Blade Of The Monarch, you beated me in a fair fight, I'm in debt to you, and the first step along the way to repay my debt is this, you keep the blade". With that, he unlocked all the prison cells, and allowed the prisoners to walk away.

Elwin came back down, a look of total surprise was over his face.

-"I've never seen anything like that, you spared the life of an enemy, so that he stood in debt to you". "When someone owes you their life, you have and advantage, and that gives you power". "To think like that, you must have lots knowledge and wisdom, through knowledge and wisdom you get power, I shall stop these raids, if there is anything I can do for you, mention it, and I shall gladly do it".

I thinked upon it for a while, before I came up with an idea.

-"The land of which this fortress stands upon, is owed by the Ahemmusa tribe, buy the land that the fortress stands upon, and the land around, and make this your stronghold, with that, you can advance even further in the house, and also I need every ally I can get in the house, let's become allies", the look of surprise left him, and was replaced by a huge smirk, that stretched from one side to the other of his face.

-"Good idea, I promise that i shall make this my stronghold,and I shall support you in the house, and I shall help the Ahemmusa tribe from the best of my efforts".

With that we parted, and I found the ashlanders, one of them was the one who had punched me the first time i came to the camp, he stepped out, a look of fright was over his face.....

-"Delvanni, forgive me for my earlier attitude agains you, from now on, i shall be Zallit, forever your friend, and if I, in life or death can protect you, I shall. I shall give life to you, i shall never forget you my friend",he said, and his voice told me that he was really sorry for what he had done.

-"Zallit, I forgive you, and i accept your friendship, now lets get out of here".

I grasped the hand's of Zallit, and the other ashlander, whose name was Nammannumin, and transported ourself back to the camp. When we arrived, we enterd the tent of Sinnamu, and explained everything that had happened.

-"Well, I'm glad that you returned safely, and I'm also glad that you two", she indicated at me and Zallit, " have squeared up, and fianally have become friends".

She then told everyone in the camp to assemble for a feast outside, and after many hours, she explained my adventure to Rotheran and that she had sold that land around Rotheran to the telvanni there. And finally, she told me to kneel, and she said a prayer to Azura, and then the words came, but in another voice, in Azura's voice.... "Rise Telina Delvanni, clan-fried of the ashlanders. I shall never leave you, but instead I shall be with you...always."


Hope you ejoyed yourself.

This post has been edited by Telendil Delvanni: Feb 19 2006, 01:55 PM

Very good, I liked the way the character spared the life of her enemy rather than killing him like most would have done. Nicely written and very well described, thanks for another wonderful update.

I have now fixed most of, if not all of the spelling/grammar mistakes in the above post.

A nice bit again. And yeah, I admit I'm one of those fellows who is all "don't start a fight but always finish one with the opponent in little pieces." Only in Morrowind though, in real life I would run like hell.

An alliance, huh? That will be interesting.

Hi, sorry for my absence, but I have been on a honeymoon the last week, so I haven't had time to update, but I promise you an update tomorrow or on sunday.

Meanwhile, you can see a picture of Telina, that Neela made for me, all credit goes Neela. Thanks Neela. *hug*


Telina.

Honeymoon eh? Congratulations ma'am. Hope you have the time to update soon though. Oh and in case Neela happens to wander across this...some nice work on that picture there, much better than I could do.

Anyways I guess I'll have to wait for the update so I'll be waiting.

Ahhh she is so sweet! But by all means I do hope she´s got more clothes on running around in the Ashlands! Serene had to manufacture a lot of warm clothes when she came to Ahemmusa....

The update, will be edited into this post, later this night....

Thanks Kiln, we went to Hawaii.

As requested posting the pic of Telina here:

Telina - Fixed shadow

Hope you like how it turned out... I fixed the shadow on her face/neck

Enjoy

This post has been edited by Neela: Feb 27 2006, 12:29 AM

It's...it's...it's...great. I love it, she looks just like I had her pictured, but yes, a little more light would have been nice....

I really like the effect of the frost spell, about to be unleashed...thanks alot for this..*hugs*

Hi...sorry for the long absence of postin, but I've been very busy lately, so I hadnt got much time to post at the forum, but now here it is.

PS: Mr.Oven...thanks for waiting4updates..hehe.

I woke up, the sound of birds singing, guars grunting and men screaming..."what's happening now", I murmured, as I got into my dress.

When I came out, one of the ashlanders, I think his name was something like Mabbalel, or something like that. At least, he was standing, and panting heavily, while talking about having seen someone taking Serene as a prisoner.

I grew angry, so I walked into the tent of Sinammu, to persuade her to letting me talk to the kidnappers.

-"Yes", she said, "go right away, they headed into the east".

With that, I went into my tent, and took with me my newly aquired blade, and my trusty old Skullchrusher. I ran out from the camp, following the directions given by Sinammu, but after two hours of running in the grazelands, I realized, that I had been running south, and not east. "DAMN IT", I shouted out with the full force of my lungs, and I then kicked a stone, in hope of getting out some of my anger on that one. All I got was a large broken toe, which I was nearly uncapable of standing on.

After some few minutes, I realized that I needed some rest, so I took up residence in a nearby tomb. Five munutes later, the tomb was quite empty of stupid ghosts and angry skeletons, so I laid myself down against the shrine.

I woke up, as I heard the sound of a dart flying towards me, I rolled to my side, and dodged the dart with some millimetres of clearence. I stood up, the Ice Blade of the Monarch, hissing from my scabbard. Out from the darkness came not one...but twelve Dark Brotherhood assassins, all was pointing some unpleasantly sharp looking daedric shortswords at me.

-"Give up Delvanni, and we shall give you and easy death", said the leader, in a veryoverestimated voice, clearly he didnt know who he was dealing with.

-"Oh yeah, well point that thing somewhere else", and with that, I jumped forward, and struck the heavy blade into his helmet.

He fell to the floor, and his entire body was thrashing back and forth, and before the other ones had started to react, I had swung the sword left, and after that, stabbed backwards. The sound of two bodies falling to the floor, screaming in pain, was wery stimulating, but my joy was soon replaced by...fear. I still had nine assassins to take care of, and I could only hold them of for so long, so I backstepped to a place where they could only fight me in pairs, but I was trapped.

I had despatched another one, when I suddenly saw some of them draw crossbows, but out from the door where they had come from, ran out another one in their armour, and he had thrown darts all over the place, and soon only three assassins was left. I fell upon them again, the Ice Blade, heaving and falling, and soon the assassins were dead. I looked down on my sword, the blood was still running down, against it's length, and I then looked at the assassin, who had saved me. He had removed his mask, and I nearly fell over with shock, it was Haldin.

-"Haldin, what are you doing here"?, I said as I flung myself around his neck, and kissed him.

-"I knew about the mission that was given to the other assassins, and I could not let you die, so I followed them", he managed to tell me, before we were tightly embraced and kissing again.

-"But now, I must leave you again", he said after a few wonderfull minutes, of kissing, "The leader, will get suspicious, if he find out that I'm gone". And before I had even managed to protest, he had teleported away.

I cried again, as I realised we would not get to be much together, like normal...couples, and with that I fell asleep again. When I woke up again, I walked further into the tomb, to do a little exploring, some ten minutes later, I was standing and looking totally swept away. I had found the bow of shadows, the real Bow of shadowas was mine...I could not understand why I was getting so...many items of interest, but well, finders keepers, so with that, I walked out with a brand new bow, two new daedric shortswords, and a whole bunch of enchanted arrows.

I had been out looking for about an hour, before I found Serene. She was tied up to a tree, with an arrow standing in her back, and I was glad that she had been blindfolded as well, as she would not have liked to see what I saw. Three meanlooking pricks, standing around her, beating her up and calling her...things!!!

Then, Something...strange...happened, I could feel one of the ashlanders, feel his mind..his thoughts, and I liked it....

-GET AWAY FROM HER, YOU FILTHY SACK OF GUAR DROPPINGS-, i yelled, but the strange thing, was that only one turned away, and was looking dumbfounded around the area, and then I knew what I had done...I had performed telepathy!!!!!!

Then, I knew what to do. If I could feel him, maby I could...torment him. So I began to instruct his mind, into doing things, and after what seemed almost a minute, I had...controll of him..of his thoughts, and actions, so I used my advantage over him.

-"Kill your comrades", I told him forcefully, "KILL THEM NOW".

And then, he had stabbed his spear into the gut of one of them, and plunged a dagger into the neck of another, then, after he had done that, my magicka had clearly run out, and he was running up towards me. I unscheated my bow and took aim, and fired...and fired again...and again, after having used up thirty of my forty arrows, I hit him in the eye, and he was dead before he hit the ground.

I ran down to Serene, who was mumbling about things that I couldnt catch.

-"It's ok Serene, I've got you, I've got you". I managed to unstrap her from the tree, and remove the blindfold, but she was clearly more that less still unconsious, so I instead got out the arrow.

I looked at the wound, and realised that it far beyond my skills to heal, and I only knew of one healer...Baladas. I drank some restore magicka potion, and translocated myself into Baladas study.

-"Baladas, Its Serene, she have been wounded", I yelled, and he quickly reacted.

-"Telina, tell me where she is, I do not want you to see what I'm gonna do with her, it might look kinda...grose".

I told him where to find her, and then I left him and returned to my bedroom down the hall, and fell into the soft pillows, and fell asleep instantely.


Ok thats all for today. Hope you liked, and as always, I would love to get replies. The next update will propably be on tuesday.

This post has been edited by Telendil Delvanni: Feb 28 2006, 06:37 PM

Hope the weather was nice in Hawai.

Now about the update. Hope you can handle the usual compliments. I really liked it.

I love Mind Control. It reminds me of X-com. ,,Take out your comrades." MWAHAHA!

Nice twist in the tomb. Too bad he ran of so soon again. Busy guy. Oh well, I'm sure he'll pop up every now and then.

I fixed the shadow on her face/neck..

Here's the new link.


Telina Delvanni

I edit the old post too with the new link