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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And here it is.


I walked into Baladas chambers, only stopping to pat his daedroth pet on the head. I could see that Miles had indeed been stupid enough to try and sneak into Baladas chambers, but still, I had heard Baladas say more than once that he wanted an imbecile stupid argonian as a tapestry, I had just gotten it for him.

-“Ah Telina, what do you wish this time…and why was an argonian carrying your key”? I smiled to him, knowing what he was trying to do, I could feel his presence in my head, only I was ready for it…to stop him. I lashed out mentally towards the intrusion, and saw Baladas fly out of his chair, a look of complete awe and shock on his face.

He slowly arose, looking strangely at me. “I rather prefer it Baladas that no one is trying to enter my head now, or they’ll suffer the consequences, as for what I want and why that argonian had my key well, listen carefully”.

-“First, I want you to brew me an augmention potion, and the argonian had my key, because I gave it to him, in exchange for a glove…and precisely you always said you wanted an imbecile stupid argonian as a tapestry”. HE looked at me, still quite shocked, next moment we were both hugging laughing like two hysteric people who were being tickled by a large mob.

-“It so happens that I have a potion ready, you can take it…Arch-magister” he added with a little smirk. I took the potion from him, “oh shut up, we both know that without you I wouldn’t be here” I said rather irritated.

We spent a few hours discussing some things that he had been a bit too sloppy to tell me. I learned the simple technique to how we Telvanni postpone our lifetimes into the eternity, and luckily it included none of the things I had feared, neither the dark art or the prayings and offerings to the daedra. Unfortunately it is a Telvanni secret, so I’m afraid I can not tell you how it done.

I also taught Baladdas a few of my new spells, just for the fun of it by me teaching him for this once. I went late to bed that nioght, thinking before falling asleep.

I was walking through the streets of Gnisis, I could see a Dunmer girl, not older than nineteen at maximum, eyeing me. I made no sign of having discovered she was spying on me, instead I quickened my pace. I was walking fast towards the tradehouse, and then she bumped into me, I could feel my purse being slit…and suddenly I woke up!