The tale of Telina Delvanni, chapter 5., The Rise of Great House Telvanni Options

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The Tale of Telina Delvanni, Chapter 5.

The Rise of Great House Telvanni

-“My name is Llovyn Salvu, Wizard of the house, and I have been assigned to you as your advisor…so would you like to hear the councils current focus”? I answered him with a promptly yes, so he smiled and continued. “The council is complaining about the gap Gothrens death made, so I suggest that you instate a new Master, to take residence in his former tower. These are the candidates.

-“Mallam Ryon Gothrens old mouth, I’ve heard that he is drowning his sorrows in Fara’s Hole in the Wall”.

-“The second one is Lady Zubadayah, daughter of Lady Zafirbel…a rare beauty that one is, she is half Chimer, half Dunmer. You will find her on the docks of Tel Mora”. Hmm, strange half Dunmer half Chimer, that was one I would have to meet personally, so I walked down towards the docks, ready for a boat trip. The same as with my stronghold I was given an item to get back to my chambers here in Sadrith Mora, only this time it was an amulet with a powerful drain health as well, which I could unleash on my enemies.

The trip was a comfortable one, and I was soon over in Tel Mora. Finding Zubadayah was not difficult, I only needed to find the first person who had her right side golden skin, and her left side the ashly grey that was normal amongst us Dunmer. Her face was striking, and she had a kind of divine upheaval beauty around her, almost as she was from a different world than the rest of us.

-“Exuse me sera, but you must be Lady Zubadayah”?
“Who asks”? she said. “Telina Delvanni, Arch-Magister of Great House Telvanni…I’m offering you a job as Master, if you wish it, as soon as you accept you can find a Mouth, and take up residence in the tower of Tel Arhun”.

She looked at me for a bit, pondering on her decision. “Deal, I’ll find a Mouth and take up residence in Tel Arhun”. She turned and walked towards the tower of Dratha…”Wait a moment, I have a question for you”, I yelled.

She stopped, and turned again. “Why is it that your skin is half golden half ashly”? I said to her. “Because I’m the daughter of Lady Zafirbel one of the original founders of Great House Telvanni, and Lord Vehk, Azura granted every daughter of my line to be born with the split skin of Chimer and Dunmer, to show that there is still hope for our race”, then she walked away, leaving me standing there.

After a few moments, I gathered myself, and went for a piece of fried fish at the local inn, before I went back to Sadrith Mora. “I’ve convienced Lady Zabadayah to join the council as a Master”, I told Llovlyn.

-“Exellent”, he smiled, “the councils current focus is now to bring the Mages guild down, would you like to destroy the guild here on Vvardenfell”? he asked nervously.

This required some thinking. Ok, The Mages Guild had never been actually good to me, the had called me several things, taken unnecessary high payment for me being Telvanni, I had more than once been threatned on my life when I had been in a guildhall lately…and back when I lived in Cyrodiil, they had tried to get me arrested for being a necromancer (I had refused point blank to join their guild )…and not to mention they made many people who offered magical training have “unexpected accidents”, and the last thing was that they currently had a monopoly on magical training here on the island, and they would destroy the house, if they had the chance to it…”I’ll make sure the guild is destroyed personally”, I told Llovyn after a few minutes thinking.

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Well poor Banden Indarys and his family .......at Bal Isra, didn´t she just put them to sleep? Soo she needs Redorans? Interesting! I´m looking forward to hear more about that!

Maybe there will be a Serene-update soon.......just have to make some installations...

Well, ah yes...now that is actually a Telvanni quest, so I included it, since it is actually an illegally built stronghold. And yes please a new Serene update soon, long time since I got such good news.

And Lord Revan, she have never taken any real pride in a kill before, sure she have enjoyed a few of them, since it was people she actually hated...but the reason she was proud of that last kill there, is since she was actually inferior to that one....how would you feel if you had once been popular and good in about everything, then get kicked down into the mud(just a way of saying this), and lost about all of your skills and knowledge. Then you get back on track, and you actually manage to beat that big bully who have beat up anyone else who have tried on him...but you manage it, someone who is immensly stronger than yourself....I think you would have felt a bit proud dont you think?

But only a short one today.


Edwinna took the coherer, packed her stuff, and followed me to the bank. There I took out the 10.000 septims she wanted, plus another 15.000 for Skink. “I think you better get away fast…I have no idea when the strike on the guild will be there, so you go up to the Telvanni council hall, and head on up to the Arch-Magister’ chambers, knock and wait for my advisor to come, he will assign an area for you”.

She bowed, and went back to the guild, I meanwhile took a translocation spell to Sadrith Mora. Skink was also quite happy when he got his amulet and money, and took a few seconds to pack, before he stormed out in a hurry. I smiled evilly to the mages around me, oh yeah soon you’ll be in more trouble than you can possibly imagine.

I walked back to my chambers, and then just sat down in my big throne, just to sit and have some rest. I awoke after something that seemed to be a minute. I felt freshly re-invigorated, and my pack seemed miraculously lighter than it had been yestere, and I had little or no trouble performing my more powerful spells. I had a bite of fried fish at Fara’s Hole in the wall, before talking to Llovyn again.

-“Yes Arch-Magister, both Edwinna and Skink are now a part of our house, so now over to step two…you must kill Arch-Mage Trebonius, I don’t care how you do it, just kill him…that will give control over to our spy who will for the moment remain anonymous…he will then make a few “problems”, and entrust House Telvanni with the Mages Guild, in order to stop all the rioting and rebellious mages that will undoubtly try to take control of the guild. This will weaken the guild so much, that Telvanni will be the sole trainers within magic and such here on the island”.

Ok, this was getting scary, kill the Arch-Mage, hmm, undoubtly a criminal act, so I just needed to make him try to kill me…or maybe, no that could not be. I pondered back and forth, before I came to my conclusion, quite simple, yet the same time much more subtle than the “storm in, crossbows blazing and make a hole in everything you see tactic”. My only problem was that my plan required me to walk into their main guild hall, which was filled up with the Mages Guilds finest, probably from my luck they were armed to the teeth in scrolls and destructive spells…so here I was walking into this enemy territory, to try and come with enough insults to make that fat greasy, not to mention arrogant pig that was Trebonius, to attack me…I don’t know if it was my usual Telvanni paranoia, or not…I just had a bad feeling about that idea.

I was almost shaking here as I walked into the Vivec Mages Guild. All the mages around me was gritting their teeth, and most likely making ready a nasty spell, or grabbing for the closest weapon. There at the bottom of the stairs sat Trebonius, in a chair, which was groaning under the weight.

-“Oi Trebonius, you fat pig, I’ve heard that you have been banned from all the bars and such here….you eat so much that there is nothing left for the customers…come over to my place, and you’ll be thinner than a needle when you get back”, I laughed loudly, and could see many of the mages trying their best to suppress a grin, if it was a good or bad thing I didn’t know.

Trebonius, had stopped up, before he arose, and stood before me…even now I could smell the stench of booze and food, but he was an imposing figure, wide of girth, and over a head taller than me.

-“Shut up…child of a mother of mine”, he said back. I admit I was greatly insulted by that comment, but I shook it off me, and so began a game of the tongue. My insults is something best not told here, but a great deal of the mages left, wiping their tears. But in the end it ended with Trebonius saying…”I could kill any Telvanni who is up against me, it’s like slaying a child”.

I grinned at him…”ok, today at noon, the Arena, use any spells of weapons you want”, then I turned and translocated back to my stronghold to change my attire.

I was standing in one of the rooms that led into the arena pit, I looked quite unarmoured, but underneath, I had the flexible Dark Brotherhood armour, and the Black Hand set over it. The black Hand set(for those who don’t know it’s a robe with gloves shoes and a hood, that enhances several skills), was just big enough for me to have the armour underneath, but that did not matter…all that mattered now was the match.