Short but to the point. Rule number one, don't even try to gloat. Kill your opponent and gloat over the corpse. (Yup, and this comes from a guy whose characters love to break that rule.)

Hmm, I suppose those portals are quite draining on the Magicka? (To explain the collapse)

Ok, here I come back after a rather to long break (sometimes RL is just a Umbrella)....now, to compensate, I'll give you an update today...


I woke up in the Ordinator quarters with Uvoo standing over me, a look of complete disbelief on her face..."What something on my face" I asked smugly.

-"No I...I how in the name of Vehk did you manage to get the cleaver and get out of there without injury in such a short time"? I scrunched my face up in a look of deep consentration, before telling her rather smugly, "Why magic of course, what do you take me for...some herocomplexed Armiger"? I sneered at her, before straightening my posture, and walking out.

I had barely gotten outside before I collapsed in giggles...good god it was good to snap at people sometimes
And when I was sitting there, I noticed in front of me, there was a rather interesting piece of...glass one could not call it anything else, but at the same time, it did not look like any glass I had previously seen, this was red, red as blod, while one could clearly see an inner...fire burning like a cataclysmic maelstrom inside it.

Intrigued, I grabbed it, gasping as the magical powers in this...glass piece, made their presence know in my system. At first I just sat there on my knees with one hand grabbing the large piece, before my face turned into an (intimidating I hope) full blown smirk, this glass had some rather strong powers, and the potential was enormous...all I needed now was just to find a way to use it.

Smirking I put it safely into the confess of my pack, before strolling off towards Ald Rhuun. Of course I forgot what 'strolling' towards Ald Rhuun means. Damn those cliffracers are annoying when they follow you, and I swear, the Vvardenfell cliffracers have to reproduce at an unimaginative speed, or they would bee treatened by extinction very soon, if you have ever seen the trails of 'racers' I leave behind me.

While nursing my wounds at the Ald Rhuun Temple, I contemplated about what I should do with the piece of Glass that I had, there were so many different things I could use it for...a weapon, a staff for magical means, armour. The hours I sat there were nerve wrecking. I made a list over different materials, that was possible to obtain, minerals, metals, different fluids, herbs everything...beacuse I knew that to make a weapon, or staff I would need more than just a piece of red glass.

I spent hours...countless hours, pondering over the combinations between different ingredients, and the crystal I would want, untill finally taking a break, and once more looking at the piece of glass in my hands.

Glancing at the piece, I felt a strange...reckognition, almost as if some previous memory, but it was shady, exept for two things...a magnificent staff, and a sword...

Sure took long enough, Tellie! (jk.) Interesting artifact, no doubt that Telina's going to put it to very good use when she finally decides what to do with it. Great to see you back and active again.

Welcome back Tellie! Not to mention you have this long running fic up and running once more. Telina's character is always interesting to read. I'll be quite curious to see what Telina eventually decides to make this strange glass into. I'm sure it'll be quite advantageous for her to possess.

Here's to hoping you'll stick around a bit more!

I'll drink to that and yes...I have come to stay, so hopefully updating will become regular (and longer ) again...have a nice weekend dear fellow fanfic readers

And another welcome back. It must be nice, to trip over that sort of stuff all the time. Me, I vote for the staff because it is closest to a spear. Yup, I've recnetly decided that spears are as cool as a sword.

Haha, yea I love the Spear of Bitter Mercy. Very fun weapon to use and just getting it proves to bring some enjoyment.

Oh jeez! The nowegian heroess is BACK! Welcome sweet Tellie! I hope to see you around more often by now! We missed you.....And so great to see your story up and running again!

I woke up. Aparently I had fallen asleep during my ponderings. I tried to reckognise the...vision I had a little earlier, but other than the staff and the sword, I reckognised nothing. Ok, so I had this large piece of crystal, and a very large list of ingredients.

I pondered some more. Alchemy, it sounded like so much more than just potion making...was it even possible to infuse and mix potions and ingredients with magic? should such things even be tested out? I thought so at the time. And the more and more I pondered over the theory, the more adamant I became on trying it out.

Finally deciding, I transported back to my Tel, and locked myself in my alchemy lab. I looked down on the many ingredients I had. Rare Ebony, a broken daedric shortsword, dust of vampires, all manner of plants and metals...and that crystal. I scanned my book, for any useful tips when it came to enchanting, and mixing, and got a few wonderful theories...including a marvelous spell that allowed me to see the world in a different light.

I was astonished when I used it, everything was a haze between colours and mist. I could see the magical particles that was part of the building stones in everything that lingers in this world, smirking I started on the process.

I spent days...at the very least locked up in my room. Grinding ingredients to dust, melting them down into liquid, transforming them into strangly coloured gasses that I caught up in phials. My biggest dilemma was the decision I had to make, wether to melt the crystal, or shape it. In the end I decided to melt it, and reshape them into smaller crystals.

When I was finished with making all the potions, warious mix of ingredients and fluids, I started on shaping the crystals. First, I made a long piece of thin crystal, about 5'4 feet. It was too thin to be used as a staff, but after all a pice of crystal does not make a staff alone. I put it in a form, and started with adding the various ingredients and potions that I wanted into it, once everything was at place, I locked the form, with only a tiny hole at the top, where I would pour the mix of liquid Adamantium, Ebony, Glass and and Gold into the form and therefore blend together into a new metal of my own design...Ithilmar.

Ithilmar, is an ingenious piece of craftmanship. Shining brighter than the purest of silver, weighing next to nothing, and is extremely durable, and receptieve of magical reinforcement. I waited for three hours, before taking the staff out. It felt like a feather in my hands, and I could feel the heavy enchantement the mix of ingredients had brought onto it. It was completely straight, and at the head of the staff, there was four tendrils sticking up, almost as fingers, and it was where I would place the last crystal piece...

I had broken the daedric ebony into small pieces before melting them, and then added the last of the crystal, with a tiny blend of my own blood, and shaped it into a perfect orb of crystal, blood red as ever, with the same eyrie energy emnating from it. I placed the orb at the top, and the four hands clasped onto it, with a vicelike grip.

That being done, I started on decorations. At the middle, and at the lower end of the staff, I made handgrips, with leather, that was said to be originated from a dragon...this could very well be true, as I had yet to find something that could tear it apart, after that, I started carving in magical runes...runes of protection, mastery, offensive, elemental, and each rune shone with strange lights, green, blue, red always shifting. You see most people forget about the usefulness of runes, true they have wastly different efects than enchantements...but a mix between enchantements and runes is far more effectieve.

Now only one thing remained...infusing it with different souls to bolster its effects...one of the clever runes, was that it could capture souls to be used to enchant it, without needing soulgems, so there I started on summoning. All kinds of different daedra fell before me, and their souls was dragged screaming into the staff...pleased with the amount, I started with the enchantements, one by one I took them...poisoning, elemental damage with area effects and without area effects, draining enchantements and bolstering enchantments.

I marvelled my staff, yet now that it was finished, I was scared...it was powerful, too powerful, if it fell into the hands of another...well I'd rather not think of the consequenses, so I performed one last spell...that would bind it to me, yet it would require a sacrifice...a large sacrifice. With the spell having been performed, I grasped it for the first time, and screamed...screamed as the magical powers burst into me, everything started to blacken, I felt my own strength and powers dissapear, and then my sight was replaced by darkness, and I could faintly remember falling down a long long tunnel, before a quick pain in the head and then...nothingness....


Ok, so that was that, I hope you enjoyed the making of the staff, and trust me when I say this, it is the ultimate tool of destruction, fortunately with the thing Telina just did, the staff has restrictions, and not even Telina as the creator of it, can use it's full potential...yet

Next update you will find out what kind of sacrifice Telina made, and how she will deal with it...fear not its on its way.

Yippee, the choice fell on the staff!

It sure does sound powerful. The binding also reminds me of the pre-morrowind treatment of legendary artefacts. They would all (according to the lore) wander around and return to their original owner (whether death or not) if their current user had it too long in his posession.

And the design, I got the image of the Staff of Magnus in my head, with different colours.

Good theory Cloudy...hehe maybe it's true...maybe it isn't, only I know

But what I can tell you though is that the staff, is kinda like a mix between the staff of magnus, and the staff that sauruman have in the Lotr movies...so there you have it, if you can picture it.

Hmm, I personally never liked Saruman's staff. It looked like a toy to me.

Never mind that. It isn't the appearance that counts, it is the POWER!
(Evil smilies are better than evil laughs)

Very vivid description of the creation of the staff. It certainly seems to hold some power, and by the sounds of it, it'll look just as impressive. I wonder what the restriction will be though....

It's been a while, Tellie, since you graced us with an update. I'm ecstatic that you have, and I do hope we'll see more. I know how busy RL can get, and I'm glad that you've managed to fit us into your schedule.

This staff sounds like quite a powerful creation. I do hope that Telina hasn't sacrified too much in her pursuit of power for this weapon. I am definitely looking forward to hearing more about what this staff can do and what it cost her to make it.

I just remembered something which shows just how much Telina has changed.

Does anyone remember her temporary ownership of Umbra the sword? She threw it in a lavapit somewhere on Red Mountain all the way back in chapter 2. Back then, she considered the sword pure evil and was happy to be rid of it. Now though, she's created her own soulsucking weapon of doom and this one even has some additional tricks beyond soulsucking and clubbing in heads. Talk about changing your opinion.

Some would say you have a point there cloudy... BUT, in my story Umbra has a will of it's own, it WANTS to cause devestation and slaughter. The staff however does not have it's own mind. True it will kill anyone not worthy of using it but it does not have any ultimate wishes, nor is it a manipulative controling item (the on ring anyone )

And as for Umbra...well the idea of doing it the Lord of the ring style by throwing it in a volcano put...it was just too tempting . But dont worry, we havent seen the last of Umbra yet

The update is coming well, and should be out tomorrow.

It's not the will that can be considered evil. It's the very nature of sucking up souls that can be considered evil. (First you kill them and then you trample on their soul and use it as your latest toy.)

Not that I mind though. I'm Telvanni so swooping up some souls for experimentation is alright.

Well here he goes.


I felt, dizzy...I could feel that I was in my bed, aparently one of my trusted emplyees had found me and placed me in my bed. I tried to open my eyes, I felt my eyelids open, and was shocked at what happened. everything was just black...and then I realized what sacrifice I ahd done, at least some part of it...I was blind!

A few attempts to move later, also told me that my physical shape had hit rock bottom. I groaned, just my luck, I just had to try and become powerful, and what do I get? blindness and a physical shape that even a five year old would have been ashamed of.

On the other hand though, I felt rather good...exellent actually, no more supreme almost invinsible more like it, and I realized why. The staff itself was bound to me, and I was bound to it. And while the sacrifice I ahd done was rather...titanic, I had never felt magic so strong...complete before. Something aabout magic I'll tell you.


It exists in all of us, sort of like a balloon. In other words everyone have a magical core, or reserve if you want to put it like that. Now the thicker the baloon is the more difficult it is to squeese magic out through it. But me, I dont believe I had one more, my magic it was simply everywhere, it flowed through me like a wast ocean, filled with raging storms that could chrush mountains. You see, we humanoid races one could say, are not born intuned to magic, like the worlds magical creatures are, we have to train ourselves to become closer to it, it works almost like a muscle, but me, I was not intuned with magic...I was part of it one could say.

I could feel the swirhling energies around me, but ofcourse I would have to be careful to not use more than I could handle, otherwise my magic would become unstable and in the end explode outwards...and trust me when I say, with magical power on my scale, an uncontrolled magical explosion would become devestating.

I focused my magic, forcing it first to my eyes, altough I could not see noremally, I could still see, and after a few moments, I could see almost normally. When I say almost, it was the fact that noremal unenchanted objects were still a bit hazy for me, but I could see good enough to see the differance between the floor, the walls etc. But what I could see clearly like the bright sun, was enchanted objects, crystals, and most importantly, I could see if a person was behind a wall...quite handy this magical sight.

Now that I had mastered vision, I experimented a bit wth forcing magic to flow through my limbs, moving the muscles in stimulating manners. I held back a cry of pain, as the muscles screamed at the pressure of being put to hard work. In the end I just sighed, and just forced my magic to allow me normal movement, if though a little more cautious than before. After that I focused on my desire, forcing my staff to pop up into existance in my right hand.

I raised my arms, and magically spent my weapons belt at my waist, having done that, I moved into the dining hall, where most of my household was seated.

-"My lady, what...what happened to your eyes"? was the first thing that Raina managed to blurt out. I sat warily down in my chair, before holding a hand up for complete silence. "I dont know, is there something wrong with my eyes"? I asked in a curious tone, but just added a little bit of magic in the words, so thyat it came out as a clear comand at the same time.

-"No I- I...it's just that...that they are, I mean Dunmer eyes are blood red while yours are...swirhling silver mylady", she ended hesitantly.

I smiled at her...so that was how y eyes looked like now, interesting. "Ah es, overstimulance to magical energies I'm afraid", I added dramatically, "in order to not damage myself, I had to allow my magic to manifest itself a bit more...and, wel, magic most often show their intensity in peoples eyes, so nothing dangerous", I added with a tone that said no more questions on the matter.

Why not say what had really happened some might say? well, it's not that I didn't trust my people, well actually it might...loyal or not, If I had let it slip that I was more or less blind without straining myself with magic to see, or the fact that I was in worse shape for a physical fight than what I had been in when I first came to this island...there would always bee some upstart Telvanni, who would start getting ideas and try to...dispose of me. And while I do not nessecarily like a few *coughmostcough* of my emplyees in House Telvanni, they are needed, and mercenaries cost money, and I could think of a number of beter things to spend money on, than to constantly hire more men to the house. So there I sat, in silence, wondering what in the name of Oblivion I was going to do now...

Okay, so that was it...and while it may sound impressieve with the magical energies she now posess, she is extremely weak, since she must constantly force her magic to allow her to move almost normally, and have some means of sight, which is very tiring...so casting one of those trusted fire/frostballs would be ratherr difficult for the moment...and she ahs yet to even unlock some of the staff...since at the moment it does nothing for her, other than providing a mean to support her when she stands.

Wow, that was quite some sacrifice Tellie. Especially since she's now currently worse off than before she even made that staff. Hopefully she learn was she needs to to restrengthen herself before someone decides to take advantage of her weakened state.

Mmm, Telina's new sight sounds very similar to the Miriluka in StarWars: KOTOR 2. They're naturally born blind, and "see" with the force....... anyway, it seems this sacrifice was certainly incovenient for her. Opens up possibilities.....