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 now here is a shocking surprise for everyone of you, enjoy it will you.


I knew what I had to do, I had to leave at once, for this to come true. I bade Baladas goodbye after a hasty breakfast, and then walked out, walking towards the tradehouse. And sure enough there in the shadows of the temple stood the dunmer girl.

I smiled, and walked hastily towards the tradehouse, I could see her come towards me, I smiled, and looked another way as she bumped into me, flawlessly cutting my purse, but I had as you might think guess it.

I grabbed her wrist, and jerked, a sound of pain came from her as her arm was close to breaking. I looked into her eyes, they were strange almost like…like…my eyes. She had my eyes, she was though taller than me, and a bit thinner in the face, and her hair was coppery, and she had a different hairstyle than I did…still there was a scary resemblance.

I could see she had similar thoughts, so I used my advantage, and banged my head into hers, knocking her unconscious. With her out of the game, I grabbed her and teleported over to my stronghold. I sat her down in a chair, and sat down at the opposite side of the table, waiting. After a little while she woke up, there was some lunch ready at the table.

-“Who are you, and why in the name of Azura did you try to cut my purse”, I asked her a bit strictly. She looked around in panic, before she realised that any hope of escape was gone, she was…trapped.

-“M-my name is Salina Delvanni, I used to work in Cyrodiil, but then my parents got killed, and so I went over here, in search of my sister…but I couldn’t find her by my self…so I became a member of the Thieves Guild, so I saw you and was in need for some cash, and you looked like the wealthy type, so naturally I tried to get some money so I could eat”.

I looked shocked at her…was it possible that, no my parents were killed when I was young…or were they, I only had the word of the Dark Brotherhood, and surely they would prefer it that way that one of their prospective top assassins was without any knowledge of her family. So could this one actually be my sister, was it possible that I had lived about the door next to my parents all the time, it was maddening to think one, at least our names had a certain similarity.

-“There is food on the table, take whatever you want…meanwhile tell me all you know about this sister of yours”, she smiled politely, before taking some deer meat, along with certain vegetables.

-“My sister, Telina was taken from my parents, when she was young, eight or so months I think, but my father had contacts in the Legion, and well, I overheard him and mum talk about you, that you had been exiled to this…this dump. So when they died I decided to try and find her, after all there was nothing left for me in Cyrodiil”.

I beamed at her, I was sure now…that was too much personal info for someone not knowing me at all. “Well guess what, you just happens to be talking to her, I am Telina Delvanni, Arch-magister of Great House Telvanni, pleasure to meet you sis”.