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]

Ok....here we go, I have taken another liberty,and done what some of us may have wanted to do always.

I felt the normal dizzyingly sensation, that came with magical transportation. As I walked the great steps of Ald Rhuun, I noticed how soldiers stalked me, while citizens shied away from me…I drew my hood over my head again, and entered the temple. I found the Mer in charge…Tuls Valen, was only to happy to see me back, and was quite impressed that I had managed to advance so fast and far within House Telvanni…most people would had been killed long before that time.

-“So Telina, you wish to do further assignments for our gracious lord, aye”?
-“Well, certainly”, I said, ”I have found a new meaning with life…I wish to use my position, to help people”, I shall admit that at that stage, it was merely flattery, so that I could gain more power, but I did change my view after some time, in the temple.

-“Well, in that case, I wish you to follow the path of lord Vehk”. “Lord Vehk, often shoved compassion for his enemies, so I want you to travel over to the daedric shrine Maelkashishi, and cure the orc, named Bulfim gra-Shugarz from ash cancre”.

-“So I have prepared this potion that will cure her, but it would be preferable if you came back with it, as we need it for others who might have the same sickness”.

I ensured him, that I would return the day after, with the potion. I reckoned that since I actually did not know any spells, that cured diseases, I had to learn some, and I was lucky that I remembered I had set an earlier mark at Arvs-Drelen, so I recalled back there, to have a little chat with Baladas, and possibly get to know a few more spells. Baladas, was quite delighted to see me, and told me of the rough week he had been through. He had run into some troubles with the Redorans, who had gotten so bold, that they had snuck into Arvs-Drelen undercover, and tried to kill him.

It was then I realised that he had gotten himself some new carpets, it actually looked like…no, it could not be. On the floor there was two new carpets, woven into the fine fabrics, there was whole human bodies, drained from all that was inside…only the skin remained, and they even had their clothes on still…sometimes I did not understand Baladas, he was sometimes…off, but still, I forced myself not to think about those cowards, and led the conversation in on my mission instead.

And well, true enough, he could learn me a few spells, but first I had to do a little insignificant chore for him…yea, this was after my guesses something about the dwemer…he was obsessed with them.

-“You see Telina, recently in the Gnisis egg-mine, there was discovered a dwemer door, naturally the imperials have been unable to open the door yet, so I want you to beat them in the race, note your location on a map, and bring the map back tome…together we shall explore the ruin”.

I of course accepted it at once…I had never been inside a dwemer ruin before…this one would not be the last one though.

I walked up to the egg-mine, and found it blocked by a guard, he found it only to good to not open the door for such a nice lady…but only after seeing the hundred septims I held in my hand. This land was pathetic sometimes, all people seemed friendly after the susceptible amount of “extra” cash.

The egg-mine, stank of sweat and…eggs, it would be long before I would eat kwama eggs again. I walked further into the mine, and found a wooden door, somewhat to my right. At this point all the miners I had encountered, had been very friendly, the guard inside was not, however, and he gave me virtually three seconds to get the hell out of there…but what shall I say, I happened to wear the Monarch on me at that time, a quick draw, and a swing that stopped right before his throat, made him find out that he had come to the wrong conclusion…clearly it was a mistake, how could he forget that I was here to have my sleep…he was as pathetic as the other guards that existed in this town.

I walked further into the mine, and found a underground stream, and something else I noticed, was the oil pouring along with the water, so I walked my way to the right, and true enough, I found the dwemer door. The lock was a simple matter, to the might of my new ring that Baladas gave me for this mission, it opened with a large creak, and I walked in. The room was…empty, no living things, but I did see something that looked like a type I animacule.

I did however find some dwemer airship plans, and also a book named “Hanging Gardens”. I was disappointed, most of the ruin was blocked by a rockslide, that would be impossible to remove…unless you had something powerful to remove it with. I notated down my position on the map, made a mark, and, went back to Arvs-Drelen.

Me and Baladas, quickly transported ourselves to my mark, and he looked at the rockslide with first a little disappointed look, then he gave out a wide smirk.

-“Telina, step back to the entrance, while I set this up”, he took out something that laid inside a small Satchel, and then, he threw a little fireball at it, from where I stood. The Explosion, was ear crushing, and I got blasted off my feet. When I managed to raise myself up again, I saw Baladas standing, soot all over his face…he was laughing more than I have ever seen him laugh, he pointed his hand towards the rockslide….

The rocks were gone, and now the entrance down into the rest of the ruin was opned. I followed Baladas, down the ruins, we encountered a few type II animacules, and one type III animalcule, but they were easily put to “sleep”, by Baladas. Finally after what seemed like an eternity, we came to the first room there actually was something in, tonnes upon tonnes of books, on the strange metal that the dwemer used. I looked at Baladas, who looked at me, the glee in our faces must have been titanic…here we stood in a large dwemer library, of course, we got a little disappointed when we realised that the books was written in dwemeric.

Baladas, almost came close to kissing me…which he thankfully didn’t, after half an our. I shouted for him to come, as I had found a book here, that I could read, but it had only a lot of words in it. He read the book, and with a trembling voice he explained tome, that I had found the first, and possibly the only dwemer dictionary, it was translated into ancient dunmeri, but I could still understand it. I was nearly as exited as he was, as I was a fellow linguist myself. We spent quite some time, trying to read the big and heavy book, but we decided that it had to wait.

I told Baladas that I would check the last room, located behind the library. I don’t think he actually noticed that I talked to him, he was to exited to notice, so I opened the last door, and stood there paralyzed, for maybe several minutes, after seeing what I saw. I looked into a large armoury, full of weapons, armour, and other effects. There was also many hundred pounds of this satchels that Baladas had used to clear the opening with. In a corner, there was several chest’s and cog’s, that was filled up to the limit by dwemer coins, and also emerald’s diamond’s and ruby’s. Me and Baladas decided to share everything, he was even kind enough to give me a ring that would transport me to this library.

We spent countless of hours down there, and I was starting to learn the dwemer language, although I could only say a few sentences and words. But we realised that sooner rather than later the imperials would have gotten their exerts shipped over here to break in, and confiscate everything, we could not let that happen, so we blocked the path again, with more rocks, and Baladas was in such a good mood, that he put an enchantment on the entrance door, that when anyone touched it, some twenty Storm Atronachs would be summoned….those imperials were up for a rough time.

We had almost been in there for a day, when we got back to Arvs-Drelen, and I bade Baladas goodnight, before I collapsed on the bed that had used to be mine.


Well, that was it, no more Telina today...but more will come, as you all know.