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 sighed, always on the move, I took a strider that was on the way to Ald Rhuun, but jumped off when we passed Caldera. Although the slowfall spell I used worked, I still activated it too late, so the air got knocked out of my lungs. I looked hazily around myself, trying to catch my breath, and there, just by the Mages Guild was a clothier, taking my chances, I went for that one. Inside, I saw two Mer’s, one female and a male. I walked directly up to the female, she had her hair tied up in a topknot, and slightly coppery eyes. “Neela Angletoe”, I asked, she simply nodded. “I come on behalf of Jaron, he wishes his amulet back”.

To my surprise she suddenly collapsed in tears, crying. “No, i-it is t-t-t-the only thing I ha-have to r-remember him by, I wi-will not g-g-give you the amulet back”, it was hopeless to get another word out of her, so I decided to get back to Jaron instead.

-“She still remembers me, she actually still loves me….wow, I had no idea”, he said softly. “Wait here, I have to do something”. Then he vanished into his shack. I heard some loud bangs, and a big bright light, and then Jaron came back. He handed me an ice figure, looked like it was aresign of the statue of Azura or something, but I was shocked after seeing what it was…it was nevermelting ice, I knew that it was rare to find such things here on Vvardenfell. “Take this to Neela, tell her I still care for her”.

I bowed, and took the trip back to Caldera. On my way from Balmora to Caldera, I realised just how many damned cliffracers there had to be on this bleeding island, and when I got there, I was not in the mood for arguments. A guard managed to get on the wrong side of me, by telling me that I could not enter the city, due to the inn being full.

When I was done yelling, threatening and basically making him as uncomfortable as possible, I left him there ,now he was more like a nerve wreck. Neela was in the seventh heaven after I delivered her the statue, and she kept blabbering on about she and Jaron had fallen in love, and how big an affection for him she had and bla bla bla…at least I got the amulet though, so it was worth the ten minutes I had to wait.

Jaron was most pleased with me, so he walked into his house (again) to find an item of “interest” he said. “Curses, I must have given that glove to Miles” I heard him swear.

-“Ok Telina, you see here you must make a choice, I shall continue to teach you two of the elements, as I have gotten another student, but since you came first, you’ll get to pick. What do you want”?

-“Ice…aaaaand….Fire”, I said after a bit pondering. “Hehe, cold as ice you are, and you have a taste for the cleansing powers of fire as well…I mostly prefer fire, slowly burning my victims hehe, ok, well here I have forged this glove here, it will aid your magical abilities by far, and add greater resistance to frost and fire, but will weaken your resistance to mundane weapons and lightning”.

I took the glove, it was ever-changing between different shades of blue and red, and when I put it one, I gasped. It was cold as ice, and warm as fire, but then it just, got normal, like it was an extension of my body, nothing more, I didn’t even feel it was there…and then it was the boost to my magic….from what I was told by Jaron, my intelligence willpower, and skills within destruction and illusion was greater…not that I had gotten smarter or better, my spells just got greater power.

-“Now, it seems that an Argonian named Miles Durango have taken the other glove with him when he left…find him and get the glove back for me to enchant it. From what I know there is an Argonian up in Gnisis boasting about how he fooled this great elemental wizard, maybe it’s Miles, always worth checking”.

So an Argonian, eh, that should be easy. It was true that he was in Gnisis, he was telling everyone who wanted to listen about how he had fooled Jaron.But everyone sleeps sometimes, and this one was not an exception, I followed him through the street of Gnisis, making sure we were alone, I tried to make him give me the glove…

-“Me give glove to Dark Elf, if key to Arvs-Drelen me get…or eight thousand septims”. Ok, that was just simple, knowing what Baladas would do to any intruder, I handed him the key, and got the glove.