The Tale Of Telina Delvanni: Chapter Two., Of Mad Wizard's, duty and faith. Options

[Tellie]

Here is the previous one.
The story of Telina Delvanni.Chapter one

Hi, a new chapter is now here, and before we start, I'd like to thank Starge, and the other, who created this site, and made it possible for me to write my tale here.


Chapter 2. Of mad Wizards, duty and faith.

We stood in the center of Baladas study room, at the top of Arvs-Drelen. He looked me sharply in my eyes.

-"Telina, know this, I took you as my mouth, beacuse you need a friend and mentor, an I'm propably the best friend you'll ever have here the next month's, but also beacuse you're an extremely powerfull individual, and after a little training, I believe you'll surpass even the ancient and powerfull Divyath Fyr, and that says quite a bit".

I just stared into his friendly, and knowledegable eyes, totally bereft of words.

-"Now, I have a small chore for you, I am in need of someone to deliver this message to Berel Sala, at Vivec, it explains what happened at the hall-of-justice yesterday".

I stared at him with no small feeling of guilt and confusion.

-"You see, I said that I could find out what caused the big catrastrophe, at the teple, now naturally it is just a big lie as I knew what you did, but I could not let you get caught with it, as that would have cost you you're life". "Now, go and deliever this to Berel Sala, he is currently resided in the Vivec High-Fane".

With that I took my leave, and I deposited most of my personal effects in Baladas studyroom, so that he could study them and maby improve some of it, while I went to Vivec, the only thing I took with me, was my Silver-staff-of-peace; in case the guards in the temple required some sort of identification for entrancance, after such a serious accident had occured.

I walked outside Arvs-Drelen, and accidentlu pushed the into the face of an orc.

-"Watch where you're going" I snapped at her, and then I continued to the silt strider.

-"Under sun and sky mutshera, we greet you warmly, do you want to travel somewhere"? The silt-strider operator, proved to be quite friendly, he even gave a discount for being a telvanni. "Oh, my daugther is in that house, it's quite facinating that house, so what position did you hold in the house, again"?

-"Why me, I'm the mouth of Master Baladas, but I intend to go even further in the house, so right now, I'm on official house buisness, to the Vivec High-Fane".

After some cosy seven hours, we was at Vivec, but he did not land, instead he stopped over the temple.

-"Here, go down by this rope, as I have to hurry up with a shipment to Vos".

I slid down the rope, and my suspicions were soon proved, the temple square was heavyly befested with the guards, whom I'd come to know as Ordinators. I stopped before the netrance to the Vivec High-Fane, and presented me to one of the Ordinators.

-"Telina Delvanni, mouth of Master Baladas in house telvanni, are here to give the investigation report to Berel Sala, and I seek entrance to the High-Fane".

I waited for a minute, while the Ordinator was in the High-Fane Talking. Finally he came out with Berel Sala, who looked on me with suspicion, in his eyes.

-"Ser Delvanni, we cant take anyone into the high fane at the moment, before we have read the report, so hand it over, and take this letter of confirmation back to Master Baladas, as a sign of me have recieved the report".

With that he walked back in again, while reading the report, and since I was in a hurry, I quickly made my way back to Arvs-Drelen, and up to Baladas.

-"Hello Telina, may I have the letter you were given "?

"How in the name of oblivion, does he know things like that, are he telepathic of something", I thought inside me.

-"Yes, Telina, I'm actually quite good in telepathy, and in time I shall teach it to ou, but now, I have prepared you're room, it is the room on your right hand side, when you go into the side corridor, in the first floor, I also strongly advice you to go and rest now, and come back here later, as you need some sleep now".

This post has been edited by Telendil Delvanni: Feb 12 2006, 01:18 AM

[Tellie]

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