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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yet another update, a bit longer this time.


The next week, I spent travelling all over Vvardenfell, searching for jars of what Jaron called truffles that would be spread around in various shipwrecks. I knew the location of only one shipwreck, that was outside Seyda Neen, the rest I had to track down myself, searching bays and such. Truffles was some sticky goo, but it tasted like heaven, too bad that I had to give the only four bottles I found to Jaron.

-“Ah excellent, hehe, truffles are indeed something, and now I promised you that I would teach you the two ultimate spells didn’t I, eh, well listen closely, and I shall teach you the spells of Frozen Hell and Armageddon”.

It took me many hours to master the spells, they after seeing what they did when you just cast them, without powering them even more, I had a good idea of the complexity of the spells.

-“Now Telina, you are finished, just one barrier is left, you must defeat a Theurgist that is more powerful than yourself. I happen to know of an Orc named Graznik Kator, his powers rivals my own, he have a powerful staff of Elemental Channelling, find him in his residence, a daedric ruin east of Molag Mar, kill him and bring his staff back to me”.

I bowed, and walked back to Sadrith Mora, time to ask Llovyn what the councils next focus was. “Ah Arch-Magister, how pleasant, the Mage Guild have now been destroyed, any letter of complaint will be sent to House Telvanni, many of the members are still alive as you may guess, but they are now a part of house Telvanni, with lots of our guards and such inside each guild hall”.

-“Now the councils current focus, well, Lady Zubadayah, wishes you to help her protégé to set up a Tel on the biggest island of the Sheogorad region, but the stronghold builder is having slight troubles of building it, seek him out, and aid him”.

I smiled, I had been planning on taking a trip up towards Dagon Fel anyway, so now I could just drop by. Dagon Fel was as always the sad remote fishing village, freezing cold, not that I felt too much about that though. No, I was not here to visit Dagon Fel, I knew that there was still room for another Master, and I knew just the person.

The trip towards Rotheran was a long one, getting attacked by cliffracers every fifth minute, but finally I found it. The Dunmer fortress which had looked old an decayed earlier, was now restored to it’s ancient glory. Telvanni banners was flowing freshly in the breeze, I was stopped by a few guards, new guards it seemed.

-“Halt there lady, what is thy meaning here”. “Shut it…guard…I am Telina Delvanni, Arch-Magister of House Telvanni, and your rightful ruler, I’m here to talk to Spellwright Elwin”.

The guard stepped aside, allowing me to enter the ancient fortress. It was also richly decorated from within I found Elwin in his chambers, at the top of the building, at first he stared, before he started laughing.

-“Well well, look at you, Arch-Magister and all now, that’s really something, so what brings you here at my humble abode”?

-“Well, I’m still in need of allies, so basically I’m offering you the post of Master, if you can find a mouth to be your protégé…also, there will be another Telvanni taking residence here on the island, I’m helping him building his stronghold, with two Telvannis, one of them being a Master the Sheogorad region will be covered. So I suggest that the two of you work closely together when his new residence is finished…that would be all”, I smiled.

He looked strangely at me for a minute. “M-me a Master, why sure yes I accept Te…Sed Delvanni, I’ll find myself a Mouth, and then I’ll wait in anticipation for the other Telvanni you spoke of”.

I smiled, before I went out again, I had an Orc constructor to speak to. After a bit of searching I finally found the Orc, who was rubbing his head, explaining the situation to me.

-“You see, we have some problems with getting the shroom to grow, ask one of the Masters to fix up an augmention potion for you, and bring it back to me, that should work nicely”.

This was turning out to be a bigger trip than I had expected, but nevertheless, I had a Theurgist to find. I asked around a bit in Molag Mar, and it turned out that one of the Kahjiits knew something about it.

-“Bad wizard many says…east of here lives he, Kahjiit go there not, no, bad place to be, name of place be Almurbalarammi, but go there not, not come out of place people do”.

I thought about it, it certainly proved that Graznik was not keen on visitors, it also told me that he was dangerous, but sadly for him I could also be dangerous. Using water walk, I ran across the bay until I came to the ruin. As always I got a really bad feeling towards the place, the tall unnatural spires, domes and spikes. Breathing slowly, I opened up the door, and walked inside.

The ruin was not big, only a big stair that led into a large chamber, which I could use to my advantage. I focused on the Armageddon spell. “Maelcrah Laadutade Dominus” I could see the spell flying towards the center of the room, without waiting, I gulped down a levitate potion, and an invisibility potion. Even from the other side of the room, I could feel the unbearable heat, and the explosion of flames licked the entire room, wreathing even me in the flames, but with my natural resistance, to fire, boosted by the gloves and the robe I was wearing, I walked on…unharmed.

I was walking up through the air, towards one of the big…torches, that was hanging from massive chains, giving light to the room, through only a thick mass of green fog. AS I stood up on it, I could see three bodies, to blackened to see what they had once been, but Graznik and his many atronach guards, was still walking around, cursing trying to spot whatever had burnt them so good.

I smiled, looking at the massive chains, I could see a form of splint was holding them together, the problem was separating it, unless…I drew the Monarch, it abilities would make a part of the chain into ice, and the second strike smashed it.

The levitate potion was still holding me up, but the big spiky light emitter, did not stay in the air, it soared down with an unnatural squeal, like it had a life of its own, and was smashed against the hard floor.

The room was now in total darkness, sake for the light of Grazniks staff, and the swirling lightning’s around the last surviving storm atronach…and myself.
I descended down to the ground, drawing the Monarch again…I knew that my magicka was now low, too low for another spell like that, so instead I charged towards the atronach. I dodged a spell sent by the atronach, and started to hack away on it. Dodging hacking, great pieces of stone was cut away each time I struck, until the atronach faded away.

-“Graznik, your life will end today” I yelled at him, slowly walking towards him.

The staff he was carrying had small lightning’s swirling up and down on it, almost like they were there only to be launched.

HE laughed at me, a cold heartless laugh, devoid of any sense of warmth, care…love. “You kill me, oh no, I will send your head back to Scorchblot, with the message of not sending women to fight me”.

He spun his staff around, and suddenly it was a wall of lightning flying towards me, so wide and tall the there was no escaping it. I managed to jump behind a massive pillar (barely), and waited till the lightning wall had passed.

Next, he sent a massive org of pure electricity towards me, I managed to dodge that one as well, but he had even more in store, the staff seemed to restore his magicka…there was only one thing to do.

I could see a crossbow, with one…only one bolt, ready to fire. Naturally I had to run across the room, putting myself into Grazniks line of fire, but it was my only chance. I ran as fast as I could, a spell flew past me, almost as by instinct, I dived forwards, rolling across the floor, barely avoiding another spell, I jumped up again. I was just in front of the crossbow, I bent down, as I was running, grabbed it, and pushed away with my hands, taking a split through the air, landing beside a pillar. I made a silent prayer to Azura, before I took the crossbow in a vice like grip. I stepped forward, took aim and fired.

I ran directly towards Graznik, drawing the Monarch again, I could see the bolt penetrate Grazniks left side, hopefully hitting his heart, or at least damaging his lung. He was thrown backwards by the bolt, but he quickly got up again.

He deftly blocked my blow with his staff, and then smashed the pointy end right into my left knee. He swung his staff around, striking at me again, I brought my sword up, blocking the blow. Another swing came, but I managed to duck under it, before the head of the staff was smashed into my face. I fell backwards, loosing grip on the Monarch, and I was now lying on my back defenceless…he brought his staff up for the final strike, a stab that would kill me…!!!