The tale of Telina Delvanni, chapter 4., Mournhold, City of light City of magic. Options

[Tellie]

Ok, so just a small one today, as this is all I managed to write at this time...



The Tale of Telina Delvanni. Chapter 4. Mournhold, city of light city of magic.



I was surprised by how much longer the teleportation was, compared to the other one’s I had made…I guess travelling over longer distances took longer time. When I had managed to get a look at the room I stood in, I was dumbfounded…sure I had heard of the beauty of Mournhold Almalexia, the city of Lady Ayem…but nothing could prepare me for the sight.

The floor was made up of huge brass and black coloured tiles. The recesses filled with silver, and the walls was of some dark green stone. Gold metal bandings spread along the wall in mid height, and they was crested with rubies and emeralds…Never have I seen such a beautiful room as the throne room though…large round, blood red coloured pillars stretched themselves up to the roof, which had a painting of the battle at Red Mountain…the King was not here, but a Man that seemed to be slightly more significant than the other guards there…I figured that out with all the gold and silver bandings that decorated his armour.

Have I mentioned how much I hate the Royal Guard armour…it have an unsettling colour of…dried blood, the helmets are so tight that you cant see the face of the guard either, and I always get a shock when I suddenly stand nose to nose with one…but enough of that. The imperial seemed reluctant to speak tome, although I could see his eye flickering around the room…as if he was looking for escape routes…hmm, strange. I opened my mouth, but he cut me off…”Excuse me, I have much to do…get out of the throne room”.

Fine, he did not want to talk to me…well, no need for irritating him, as the enchanted Daedric Dai-Katana at his back, was clearly vibrating by all the power contained. As I was in the courtyard, I suddenly realised there was two doors, and with me hating to guess at things like this, I asked the old Imperial sitting on the flowerbed, where to go.

Plitinius Maro, was his name…and I suddenly realised that I stood and talked to the famous writer of the Real Barenzia novels…I may have mentioned before my love for books…it is a hobby of mine that have helped me much with decreasing the number of money in my bank account…but to actually talk to the writer of a book series that I loved was thrilling. We had talked a long time, before I mentioned the subject of the brotherhood being after me…since he could not do anything else than to tell me that they was supposedly in the Great Bazaar sewers, I should contact the temple, as maybe they could help me out. I had just started to walk towards the entrance to the temple courtyard, when a Cyrodiilic voice came tome.

-“Excuse me ma’am, but do I understand you correctly that you’re going down to the sewers”?…”As a matter of fact you did, how’s that”, I asked back, trying to keep the bitterness in my voice to the minimum.

-“Well, I wondered if you would like a companion, I am a good fighter, can carry heavy loads, and I know the sewers well enough, for your needs”. “Now before you answer, there are some rules, I don’t work for free, so I’ll need 250 septims a month…you’re free to give me new equipment anytime you want, and also take equipment…as long I have my gold, and at least 500 septims worth of equipment…so what do you say…we got a deal”.

Ok…he wanted to be my personal bodyguard for an entire month…for only 250 septims…best deal I’ve ever made…I shook his hand, and gave him the gold…after that I gave him some 2000septims, to get equipped and ready for action…Then we parted, and I entered the temple courtyard.

This post has been edited by Telendil Delvanni: Apr 26 2006, 10:48 AM

[Tellie]

Update time.

-“Insolent bastards”, I heard Tienus mutter, after he read through the paper. “Ok, Delvanni, I’ll handle this one, as for now, I have a new mission for you…you see, the temple is greatly against His Royal Majesty, so we wishes you to find out what the Temple thinks of him, and what they will do if he actually takes the throne…report any suspicious matters to me”.

I bowed and turned back, I met up with Calvius in the courtyard, and there he stood in a shiny set of Templar armour, how he had gotten his fingers in that one, I did not ask. “So, boss, where are we going”, he asked.

-“First of all, don’t call me boss, call me Sed Delvanni, or Inquisitor Delvanni, and as for where we are going, we have to take a little trip to the temple, and ask a bunch of questions”, he smiled, and silently followed me out.

Halfway, towards the temple, a high pitched voice came to me. “Excuse me miss, can you lend a ten septim to a poor fellow like myself”?

I looked around me, but saw no one, and then I looked down, and there stood a short Bosmer, with a kind of smashed up face, so he looked more like a guar on two legs than a Bosmer, and his height, well lets say his head was about a feet taller than my wais, so he was damned short, and as all Bosmers do, he had a highly irritating voice.

-“Sure, here you go”, I tossed him a coin, saying “keep it”.

-“So, I see you must be wealthy, so how about a further hundred, and I pay you back first Loredas morning, eh”?...ok now he was bugging me.

-“If you wanted a hundred more than what I just borrowed you, why didn’t you tell me, now get out of my sight”.

-“Maybe you didn’t understand me, you lend me a hundred septims, and I’ll pay you back first hand on Loredas, a simple loan”.

-“YOU GET AWAY FROM ME”!!! I yelled, and suddenly two High Ordinators was standing right beside him, asking “What’s the problem here, Ser Inquisitor”?

-“This mer is bugging me down, he wants me to loan him money, and cant take NO for an answer, so get him out of my sight” I was firm on this, when he would not listen, then other methods was needed.

-“YOU’LL REGRET THIS YOU BASTARDE”, he Yelled to me as he was dragged away…”NO ONE SAYS NO TO GAENOR”!!!

With that settled, I could go and do my task.

The temple, was as always filled up with High Ordinators, and such, but then again, I was not here to talk to the High Ordinators. I was just on my way to the temple Infirmary, when Fedris Hler, the steward of Lady Ayem, called me over.

-“Yes, what is it you want Ser Hler”?...”I want your help on a matter, very nasty business indeed”, he smiled at me, although with that big scar he had over his left side of the face, had the opposite effect of looking happy.

-”You, see, the law here in Morrowind, claims the King to have a standing army, and well Helseth is bound by the same laws…but we have gotten rumours of a…different army!!! A goblin army”. “Altmer have gotten fame with their use of goblins in their army, so we know that the army must have at least one, possibly two Altmer trainers, and two warchiefs…so I want you to find the goblins, and kill the trainers, and warchiefs”.

On any other occasion I would have said NO, right on the spot, but then the problem was…I was bound by an oath, an oath that required me to do the tribunals wishes, so I walked away from Hler, fuming. In the Infirmary , I found what I was looking for, a person all by herself, so I walked over.

-“Hey, I’m Inquisitor Sed Delvanni, could I ask you a couple of questions”?, I gave her a genuine smile (or so I hope), and just hoped she wouldn’t be scared off.

-“Well, Sed Delvanni, what do you want to know”?

-“I want to know, what the temple would do, if Helseth is crowned King…the Inquisition wishes to know more about the subject”, I lied.

-“Oh…err…the temple would respond badly to that, I think we would have done everything we could to stop him from claiming the throne…but then again we are not too sure, the Tribunal, have stopped walking amongst us, the last time, one of them was in public was over fifty years ago, and I have started to question their divinity, I mean if they are so divine, why do they stop walking amongst us, why is there rumours all over the place that their powers a dwindling and….Oh I shouldn’t have said that”, and then she turned tail and ran as fast she could away from me.

I smiled, I had now gotten the info I needed, so I just paused to pick up my Indoril armour, which I now wore under my robe, and then I started the walk back towards the palace. In the courtyard, I suddenly saw a short person, clad up with Ebony all over him, and he turned towards me, and then a high pitched voice…”I told you, NO ONE SAYS NO TO GEANOR”!!!!!!!!!!