Redemption, part 2 Options

[jack cloudy]

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Alright, part 2. Still not much redeeming going on but whatever. Now instead of continuing the story, I figured I'd use this post for all the miscellaneous stuff. Things like a character list and the recap for part 1. So be warned that this post CONTAINS SPOILERS. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!


RECAP FOR PART 1 Again SPOILERS!

One night, the palace is breached by unknown assailants. Following standard protocol for such events, the Emperor is secretly transported to the prison by his Blades. The Imperial Battlemage, Ocato, declines to join him, claiming that the situation is under control and that his services aren't needed.

Despite having reached the prison safely, the Emperor soon finds that he is still in danger. It is then that Uriel receives help from an unexpected ally. Angoril Bobardi reveals that the very cell he has inhabited for decades, contains a secret escape route that was built during the simulacrum at the order of Jagar Tharn. With this passage and the considerable magical prowess of Angoril, the Emperor manages to flee the deadly trap.

Also freed from the prison by Angoril is Maorlatta Orgnum, a young (by elf-standards) and somewhat naive girl who was arrested for the crime of sleeping in the park. Once free, she quickly makes herself scarce and eventually finds herself in the shack of an old fisherman who lives on an island in Lake Rumare. The fisherman seeks the help of the thieves guild to rid her of the manacles and prison outfit that would have every Legionnaire arrest her on sight. Unfortunately, the one assigned to pick the locks on the manacles informs Vicente Valtieri instead, who takes a personal interest in the girl’s talent for camouflage. Maorlatta is saved by the Redguard Sorian, a young and rather strange lad who keeps going on and on about something he calls an Ansei. The two team up to go treasure hunting in a nearby Ayleid ruin.

Meanwhile, Angoril returns to the prison. Pretending to be from the palace, he gets a vital clue from the Argonian private investigator Grey-Tongue. The Argonian sends him to Chorrol to find the source of the assassins distinctive red robes. To get to Chorrol, he summons a shiftgate, circumventing days travelling. From Chorrol the trail leads to Kvatch, a city whose precise location he does not know. Unable to summon another shiftgate with reasonable accuracy, Angoril seeks more mundane passage to Kvatch.

While Angoril is travelling, Maorlatta and Sorian hit the Ayleid ruin. After some trouble with a zombie, they strike gold and find an abandoned office with some intact artefacts. They attempt to sell the artefacts in the Imperial city, where they are intercepted by Grey-Tongue and then Vicente Valtieri. Sorian again makes the vampire flee. The next morning Maorlatta wakes up in the Imperial palace with no recollection on how she got there or what happened during her stay at Grey-Tongue’s house. Jauffre interrogates her in the garden at the top of the tower.







Redemption's persons of questionable importance

Main characters:
Angoril Bobardi: An Altmeri sorcerer who inhabited a cell in the Imperial prison, fully aware of the secret escape route. After leaving the prison, he makes it his task to track down the leaders behind the red-robed assassins.

Maorlatta Orgnum: A Maormer from Pyandonea, sent to Tamriel at the command of king Orgnum. Circumstances land her in the same prison as the Altmer. After escaping, she returns to the pursuit of her own goals, one of which is to become filthy rich.

Side characters:
Grey-Tongue: An Argonian private investigator. He is a friend of Hieronymous Lex and has been hired by the guard-captain in the past. Grey-Tongue is hired now as well by the city-guard to investigate the events at the prison and find Uriel’s corpse.
Guard-Captain Hieronymous Lex: Hieronymous Lex is the man put in charge of investigating the massacre at the Imperial Prison. Upon finding that Uriel Septim was seen entering the prison that night, he hires Grey-Tongue to help him uncover the truth.
Sorian: A Redguard who saves Maorlatta from Vicente Valtieri. A simple wandering swordsman with a slight Ansei-obsession.
Rajn Geydar: A Wood Elf who lives in Kvatch. At one point possessed a piece of the Balac-Thurm.

Others:
Guard-Captain Argelius: A colleague of Hieronymous Lex who describes him as the man to call when you need subtlety.
Bannon: A merchant who travelled with Angoril from Chorrol to Kvatch
Baleni: Daughter of Rajn Geydar
Doruk: The Bouncer who worked at Rajn Geydar's restaurant. Deceased.
Penald Baurus: Blade and bodyguard of Uriel Septim.
Berius: Lord Protector and Head of the palaceguard in the Imperial City.
Valen Dreth: A Dunmeri prisoner. Not the most pleasant sort.
Jennifer Renault: Blade, recently promoted to captain.
Glenroy: Blade and bodyguard of Uriel Septim.

Fenasim: A member of the emperor's Palace guard.
Mankar Camoran: The father of both Raven and Ruma. He is the leader of the Mythic Dawn and its prophet.
Raven Camoran: The ‘Hand’ of the Mythic Dawn, an organization with an unknown purpose. What is certain however, is that the Dawn wants Uriel Septim dead.
Ruma Camoran: The sister of Raven, she serves the Mythic Dawn as Priestess. In the same night that the attempt on the emperor’s life is made, she infiltrates the vaults beneath the Imperial palace to steal two artefacts.
Harrow: A member of the Dawn, Harrow used to be an Armiger stationed in Vvardenfell.

Ludius Bester: Member of Bester and Bester, the Kvatch Hall of Mercantile Interests. He runs the office in lower Kvatch.
Aelwin Merowald: An old fisherman who lost most of his leg to Slaughterfish. Friend of Delmar Tunius.
Rajn Geydar: Owner of the Eight Provinces, a restaurant in Kvatch.
Ra’Jezhr: A Khajiiti lockpicker in the employ of the Thieves Guild, Ra’Jezhr is also coerced into serving the Dark Brotherhood’s interests.
Simanuel Rosendorf IV: The owner of a silk-plantation near Chorrol

Umbacano: An Altmer who lives in the capital city. A well-known collector of Ayleid artefacts.
Uriel Septim VII: The Emperor of Tamriel.
Brother Tanner: A priest who serves in the Kvatch-temple. Looks like a Septim.
Delmar Tunius: An old fisherman who lives on a small island in lake Nibenay.
Vicente Valtieri: A member of the Dark Brotherhood, he takes interest in Maorlatta’s talents at stealth, and desires to make her an assassin, with or without her cooperation.

Latta’s evergrowing list of people only she knows:
Levvelyn of Glashorn: The hero of a popular series who spends most of his books saving the world, slaying vicious monsters, duelling devious Altmeri warlords and chasing the girl.
Irrillys: A fictional princess of Pyandonea, she is Levvelyn’s love interest. Posesses an unfortunate talent for being kidnapped by devious Altmeri warlords.
Mettildi: The Maormer that taught Maorlatta how to fight, though his methods traumatized her to the point where she is mentally incapable of defending herself.
Master Zelthir: Another Maormer put in charge of educating Maorlatta. Master Zelthir is a well-known and highly respected healer.

This post has been edited by jack cloudy: Sep 22 2013, 07:36 PM

[jack cloudy]

Ah, the screenshot. That could be it.

And Cloudy, another interlude? What happened to the story, why aren't you moving on to the next chapter? The answer to that is that I know what I want to do in chapter ten, and Mankar's flashback is not in there. So I put it in the interlude.


Oh, by the way. This part is all Mankar talking. Everything is one long monologue. I left out the quotation marks but this is him rambling on, trying to shove too many details in too short a speech.



Interlude 3


We last saw each other just after we'd put down the final details on our plan to raid the Imperial vaults. You and Ruma went to the capital while I journeyed to the land of the Dunmer. First by carriage, then by boat. To the east, to Morrowind. Do you remember Morrowind, son? That slum of a province, where the Dunmer scrape a life out of the ash and cling to their false gods and saints? It has changed since those days.


The island I found to be much as Harrow and other Dunmer have told us. There is still the occasional ash-storm and a new foyada where Red Mountain drains into the sea. But the weather is much better than that time I took you and Ruma to Vivec. You can go outside without having to wear a scarf and goggles. I'd say there are days it is even pleasant. The Houses have actually begun large-scale agriculture in the ashlands, imagine that.


But enough about the weather and economics. That's not what you need to know. You want to know if I have been succesful in locating the world-piece. It rests here on my heart, beneath the armour. Finding it wasn't easy, and the labyrinth Dres built beneath the ash was as ingenious as it was frustrating. There were the traps of course, the undead guardians and hundreds of shrines holding false pieces. The real one was hidden within a random strip of wall. Quite clever, but not clever enough. Of course, if that was everything I set out to accomplish, I would have returned to you weeks ago. No, something came up.




It was politics that made me stay. Morrowind has since time immorial balanced on the brink of civil war. Redoran against the Hlaalu, Hlaalu against the Telvanni, Telvanni against Redoran. The Tribunal and their Indoril lackeys were inviolate as the cornerstone of Dunmer religion. It is the utmost irony that what kept that fire sedated was the mutual enemy of them all. House Dagoth. None of the Houses could afford to war against each other, for the victor weakened as he was would be devoured by the Sixth House. But the battle of Red Mountain changed all that. It was more than just the largest collission of military forces Vvardenfell had seen since its conquest by Tiber Septim. It was a revolution.


The battle involved all the Houses. Every single one against House Dagoth. They battered each other to pieces on the slopes. And when all was said and done, the Tribunal's power was broken which dooms them to a slow fading. The hawks of the three Houses, the warmongers, lay dead in the ash. House Dagoth is no more. They say the Nerevarine entered Dagoth's main base alone and defeated its leader, another immortal named Dagoth Ur, in single combat. With Dagoth Ur's death, all of his ash minions crumbled and the skies over Red Mountain cleared for the first time in centuries. The Nerevarine was never seen again.


You have heard of the Nerevarine, have you not? I hold some curiosity towards the man myself and took the opportunity to investigate in depth while I was there. I went to the places he had visited. The cities, the guilds, Tel Uvirith that was his home. I even dared venture into the Sixth House fort of Kogoruhn and the shrine of Azura. I talked to people who have seen him, or had their lives changed by him. I watched the equilibrium he has created between the houses by leaving the progressive tempered in control. I had to of course. For he would be our enemy.


Who is the Nerevarine? And is he still alive, still watching? That might just be the most important question of all. There are enough conflicting details that trying to uncover the absolute truth is impossible. Did the Nerevarine really go into the volcano, did he really kill a god? Dagoth Ur was the counter to the Tribunal, as mighty as the three combined. He can't be a fake either, for his influence on the Tribunal was all too real. Now all four of them were false gods, but with power like that the word 'false' becomes admittedly a case of semantics. I do know that Vivec never left his temple, and that Almalexia was losing her mind in Mournhold. Sotha-Sil, the third Tribunal deity, hadn't been seen in generations. So I do believe that the Nerevarine was the one to encounter and vanquish Dagoth. But did he make it out again? Mournhold makes mention of a stranger who came to Almalexia, and that she vanished soon after, raving about how lord Nerevar had returned to betray her.


The Nerevarine is according to Dunmer phrophecy the reincarnation of an ancient warlord, Nerevar. The Nerevarine was meant to sunder the false gods, meaning the Tribunal, which also handily explains why all the Nerevarine pretenders were hunted down and slaughtered with such zeal by the temple. With Almalexia's dissappearance and the preceding events, I believe that the prophecy is exactly what happened. So the Nerevarine lives.




Now who is he? You can ask a hundred people, Raven, and receive a hundred answers. What I do know is that he calls himself Luper Alkad and maintains the aspect of a Redguard man in his late twenties. He is the chosen champion of Azura, though the prophecies also calls him Dragonborn, which is a clear link to Akatosh. I know he is skilled in both sword and magic, posessed of inhuman strength and immune to all ills including time itself. And I know his weakness. The Nerevarine thinks himself safe and hidden in the belly of House Dwemer, but we will pry him free when he is weakest and eliminate him as a threat.


Hmm, the Dwemer? Oh yes, I forgot to mention that I suppose. I thought Harrow would have told you two by now. At the same time that Nerevar was supposedly reincarnated, there came a man who claims to be the reincarnation of Dumac Dwarf-king. A preposterous notion, but the Dwemer facilities and centurions do his bidding. House Dwemer has quarantined Red Mountain and no one is allowed near. I decided to infiltrate. Even if I were discovered, I knew I could flee with the world-piece.


I've been talking for too long and need rest so I'll keep this short. The Dwemer are building an army, more than what is needed to keep the other Houses from growing ambitious and try to claim whatever is sealed away in Red Mountain. I saw spheres and spiders by the thousands, mannequins of gold, armour-plated Netches, flying frigates of Redguard design but with Dwemer engineering. The Dwarf-king is building an entire fort deep inside the volcano. Worst of all, he has recovered Numidium. The Dwemer built that massive god of steel before they vanished, Tiber Septim used it to conquer Tamriel and the Summerset Isles. And now the dwarven king has returned with it. We can't ignore this, Raven. We can't! I saw Dumac, and I saw the Nerevarine at the fort. That's when a centurion saw me and fired its bow at me. You know the rest.


We need to break the Dwemer army before it can be completed. And we will do that in due time. But first we will take care of the Nerevarine. With three of the World-pieces, I should be able to manage.





Now let me sleep. Tomorrow we will summon lord Dagon.