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

[Tellie]

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.

[Tellie]

True Planty, thats why I've decided not to have it in my Tale, but here is another update, and now I'll go and see if I cant write another update for my prolouge.


At the top of a big island, I saw a rickety old shack, outside it sat a man patting on a skooma pipe, and three Atronachs standing around him, but they did not look like normal Atronachs, there was something different with them. When I got close he rose up, and had a good look at me. The Mer was…strange, the same powerful eyes that Baladas had, speaking of raw power, his hair was short and burning red…but not even that was strange compared to what he stood for. The Mer was almost humming with natural powers, and if I used my inner vision he sent ripples of disruptive magic outwards, how such a frail body could hold so much power is beyond understanding, it was probably why the space around him was disrupted by magic, it was leaking out of him.

-“Ah here she comes, the great Telina Delvanni, come sit sit, I’ve been expecting you, what is it I may help you with”?

-“I heard you were quite feared some eight hundred years ago…I want to learn how you became so powerful, and I wish to study whatever you can learn me…or in other words, you’ve got power, I have none, so I wish for you to learn away some stuff to me”. I was worried if I had been too rude here, but he just smiled.

-“Hehe, Telina, do you know what a Theurgist is, he…it’s a wizard who have a great deal of control with the elements, hehe…if you wish me to teach you Theurgy hehe, I need some cash five thousand of ‘em hehe…need to help myself survive you know”.

I dropped a money pouch in his hands. “Its around five thousand there, keep the rest…now teach me”.

-“Ok hehe, first of all, I need you to collect some reagents hehe, need to have something to spice my food up…so here,bring me three portions of fire fern, tramaroots, fire petals, vampire dust, frost salts pearls…and I’ll teach you four spells, each will be a nasty handshake to your enemies...hehe, normally I’d only teach you one of the four elemental powers of Fire Frost Lightning or Earth…but my time here is closing to an end, and I need to teach it all away”.

Ok, I wrote down everything and went collecting, fortunately I had everything but the fire fern in my alchemy lab, and fire fern, was just to pick some grass of the ground around my stronghold. “Oh great, you really have an aptitude for this don’t you”, Jaron laughed. “As promised I will learn you four different spells, the names of them are simple enough, shocking touch, burning touch, frozen touch, and grasping touch…the spells are more intricate so here let me teach you”.

The next hours we practised the spells together, even for a basic Theurgist spell, it almost drained me to cast all four, but good training it was. After I got some rest, I talked to Jaron, for more training. “ok, one of my couriers was in Suran to delivered a letter, but he haven’t returned yet, find him an tell him that he is fired, and make sure to bring the shoes he borrowed from me back will you”+

Finding Suran was easy, it was just a simple spell and I stood at the middle of the square, accidentally I bumped into the false incarnate Vidron, that I had handled for a time ago. Now he seemed happy to see me, true I had cut off his hand, but I had saved him from becoming a target of the Ordinators, and now he was smiling at me, standing in a brown Temple robe.

-“Ah yes, old Jarons Mer”, he said when I brought the term up. “The guards said he stumbled out into the river and drowned, but I saw some Mer’s drag him upwards towards Bal Ur, I think he is dead”.

So it had come to killing now had it, and kidnapping, well it was not my case, all I was supposed to do was to get the shoes to Jaron. I rented a skiff, to take me along the river up to Bal Ur. While we were going silently upwards in the river, I was looking as hard as I could into the water…”STOP”!!!!! I yelled. There was something in the water, a half rotten body was entangled in the grass underneath the surface. Taking a deep breath, I jumped in, swimming down.

It was a Telvanni for sure, I could see the robe, and even more it had the marks of hat you get after a dozen of blades stab you. I picked the shining shoes off him, they sang with a pure tone of magicka, which I reckoned as several constant effect spells, was on these shoes. I thanked the Mer who had paddled me up the river, before I recalled back to Jarons shack.

-“AH, don’t worry, keep the shoes, I don’t need them…but killed you say, hmm I’ll go and check it myself. Meanwhile I need you to track up an old…friend of mine, a woman who is named Neela Angletoe, she have an amulet of mine that I want returned, she and I used to be together, but we went our separate ways, I’ve heard she is a dancer at Desele’s, you should start there”.

Desele, that was in Suran, and even worse it was the kind of house I hated. Desele was the topless woman standing behind the desk, and she seemed quite oblivious of the man looking at her like some dog who have spotted a piece of fine steak.

-“Wha’ can I ‘elp ye wi’ lass”, she said. “I’m looking for Neela Angletoe, she works here I’ve been told”.

-“Oh, I’m sorry lass, she left for ‘bout a month ago, poor child, never knew wha’ was best for ‘erself, always fellin love wi’ these ol’ men who came by, but if ye still need tae find ‘er, ye will find her in Caldera, at the clothier.