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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Here we go.


-"Ah Telina, welcome back...I was almost beginning to think you had run into trouble", he said with a mock worried expression. I grinned smugly at him. "Tharer dear, I NEVER look for trouble, trouble just always seem to know where I am for most of the time...I like a quiet life you know".

He snorted, but managed to hide his laugh behind a large cough. "True, but still your ability to make it out of trouble earns you the rank of Curate, and this sword here" he handed me a sword with some rather nasty lightning spel on it. The sword itself was just a regular steel one, with enchantments, a fitting gift to Salina I guess, after all she ahd to earn her weapons and armour if she were to borrow any from me.

-"Now, I have one last mission to you...a bit south from your stronghold, there is a Dwemer ruin called Galom Daeus, that is a vampire lair, and I want you to kill the leader Raxle Berne, I have a few gifts for you as well, take these, and may Vehk bless you".

I accepted the (massive) hammer, THE Veloths judgement actually, a rather nice ring, and a handy healing belt. I bade him goodbye, and activated my stronghold ring. I quickly explained the situation to Manilius, and he just nodded, and left. A few moments later he was back in full equipment, dwemer claymore in his hands...I just smiled, the vampires would never know what hit them.

Finding the ruin wasn't so hard, considering I ahd seen it earlier from the top of my Tel. finding Berne proved more difficult however. In the first room, a female vampire ran at me and Manilius, but by some twist of fate (or the fireball I sent9, she stumbled on the edge of a lava pit, and was burned to death by the molten rock.

I and Manilius continued to sneak through the ruin, I looked around the corner, and my face stood a few inches from a vampire.

-"Er...I dont think you are allowed to be here", the vampire said shyly. "Oh really, well if I can say so, this ruin happens to be on my land, so therefore it is perfectly my buisness to be here", I snapped.

-"Fine fine...I hate being a vampire, I thought it would give me advantages, but no, I cant even get laid, and everyone shuns me", he continued complaining, and everyone who knew me would have run away fast after seeing the evil smirk on my face.

-"You know, I have a solution to your problem" I said seductively. He turned around looking hopefuly at my face, I smirked again, and then, whiped the concealed dagger I held in my hand across his throat. He treshed around a bit, before he turned to ashes.

Soon we came to a crossroad, with two sets of dors, I pointed at the door n front of us, and Manilius nodded, slowly opening the door and entering, closing it fast again. I turned around to the other door to my right, and began inspecting it.

I could feel it was traped, quite heavily too, I ran my hands over the rough surface. I felt my magic inside my, and tried commanding it, willing it to pour into the door, disarming the trap. Imagine ,my shock when it worked, a quick 'click' told me the dor had been unlocked, and the trap was gone as well, no magic remained.

I downed an invisibility potion, and snuck carefully through the corridors, until I found a door that was laden with protectieve wards...a thiefs true challenge. But I am not called who I am for no reason am I, so after again willing my magic to break the wards, and lock the door opened, with me feeling a bit drained.

[b]-"What do you want"[/i] said an ice cold voice, which I realised ahd to belong to Berne.

-"I want you dead Berne, so...lets dance", I yelled at him, while I sent a fireball, and fired two bolts at him. He dodged the fireball, along with the first bolt, but the second one hit him squarily in his chest.

And so began a game of cat and mouse...where I certainly was the mouse. berne had lunged towards me with unnatural speed and agility, his bare fist with claws three inches long, hitting and cutting towards me. I dodged and blocked all I could, but the strength and speed of the vampire was too great, and soon I was lying on my back, hile he stood over me with a superior grin.

Somehow the book of Forgotten Magic, which Zurin had given to me long time ago was lying in front of me, and it had...opened. I could only see one spell, the description was rather nice though.

Lumos Solarum. A spell which generates a light as intensieve as the sun, exellent use against Vampires, and for quick escapes, or blinding oponent.

Berne suddenly realised what the spell did, and he gulped. "Eh n-n-now l-lets be reasonable, there is no need to use that". Ther rest was cut off, as I had whiped my hand up, yelling 'LUMOS SOLARUM' at the top of my lungs. The light was blindingwhite, and a humming sound permated the air. Once the spell was finished, I was toatally bereft of any magic, and Berne was lying in a pile of dust on the floor.

As I was about to leave, I saw an interesting book on the table. 'Secrets of the Dwemer Anumulculi', shrugging I picked it up, and put it in my bag, and then I sat down supporting myself on the wall, the Book of Forgotten Magic in my lap...