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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I walked in to the arena pit, and was met by roaring cheers from the audience, and smiled…this was my hour, I would prevail. In my hand was the staff of Magnus, slung at my back was two adamantium shortswords, ready to be used. I chalked my hands, before I walked up to Trebonius, to shake hands. I could see now that the fat pig, was clearly regretting, it was more than reputation here…it was his life at the line.

We shook hands, and stepped backwards, Trebonius was undoubtly readying a spell, I on the contrary, had managed to find out the true potential of the staff of Magnus, it had the ability if the user was strong enough, to stop spells, and feed the power into the user, granting him or her stronger power to his or her spells.

The bell struck noon, and the fight began, my plan was as simple as to make Trebonius tire and spend his magicka, while making me more powerful, as I was still only slightly better than your average mage, I just had the arsenal of right items, and the ability to think out of the box.

A fireball zoomed towards me, and so I fed power into the staff, and Trebonius was shocked to see the fireball stop in the air a few inches from me, and then suddenly it turned into purple mist, and was drained into the staff. I gasped as the staff gave me power, the unusual feeling of having so much power within you that is barely possible to contain. Another spell flew in, and was absorbed, Trebonius was getting increasing desperate, trying all kinds of different tricks.

I had to launch a spell soon, all this extra power made my head feel like it was on the way to split, I was barely in control of myself any longer, and I hated it. I fed all of my power into the staff, a massive ball of electricity formed above it, before it flew away and towards Trebonius in raging arcs of lightning. He screamed as the lightnings tore into him, and he collapsed to the ground. I formed up another spell, and sent it forwards.

This time, the room turned dark, the temperature plummeted and the very walls themselves was getting particles of ice on them. I could see people cuddling together, trying to keep the warmth in them. I formed up one last spell, a psychic shockwave that was normally only to be used to knock people off their feet, but with the staffs power, it would be…different. I unleashed the spell, all around me the sand at the pit whipped up into the air, almost blinding me, but I could hear the sickening thud of a body hitting the rock.

I threw the staff away, drawing both swords, running towards where Trebonius was. As by a miracle he had survived, although he looked like he had gotten the beating of his life, he was still alive, even worse he had a sick grin around his face…and the orb of incandescent fire making its way towards me explained why. The ball hit me, but I had not the time to scream, I just continued stumbling forwards, as the fire burnt its way into my flesh, I fell forwards, planting a sword in each of his lungs, then everything just turned black.

I woke up again, with a smiling Edd Theman standing above me, as well as Baladas. “W-what happened”? I said weak. “Trebonius died, and you fainted shortly afterwards, but still you won, so now the last part of the plan have started to form out…Tiram Gadar have now taken control of the guild, and is holding a long speech in the memory of Trebonius, and will afterwards discuss the plans for the …ah…survival of the guild”, he smiled trickly to me, and I could catch a hint of amusement in his eyes, so he definitely had something against the mages as well.