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 woke up. Aparently I had fallen asleep during my ponderings. I tried to reckognise the...vision I had a little earlier, but other than the staff and the sword, I reckognised nothing. Ok, so I had this large piece of crystal, and a very large list of ingredients.

I pondered some more. Alchemy, it sounded like so much more than just potion making...was it even possible to infuse and mix potions and ingredients with magic? should such things even be tested out? I thought so at the time. And the more and more I pondered over the theory, the more adamant I became on trying it out.

Finally deciding, I transported back to my Tel, and locked myself in my alchemy lab. I looked down on the many ingredients I had. Rare Ebony, a broken daedric shortsword, dust of vampires, all manner of plants and metals...and that crystal. I scanned my book, for any useful tips when it came to enchanting, and mixing, and got a few wonderful theories...including a marvelous spell that allowed me to see the world in a different light.

I was astonished when I used it, everything was a haze between colours and mist. I could see the magical particles that was part of the building stones in everything that lingers in this world, smirking I started on the process.

I spent days...at the very least locked up in my room. Grinding ingredients to dust, melting them down into liquid, transforming them into strangly coloured gasses that I caught up in phials. My biggest dilemma was the decision I had to make, wether to melt the crystal, or shape it. In the end I decided to melt it, and reshape them into smaller crystals.

When I was finished with making all the potions, warious mix of ingredients and fluids, I started on shaping the crystals. First, I made a long piece of thin crystal, about 5'4 feet. It was too thin to be used as a staff, but after all a pice of crystal does not make a staff alone. I put it in a form, and started with adding the various ingredients and potions that I wanted into it, once everything was at place, I locked the form, with only a tiny hole at the top, where I would pour the mix of liquid Adamantium, Ebony, Glass and and Gold into the form and therefore blend together into a new metal of my own design...Ithilmar.

Ithilmar, is an ingenious piece of craftmanship. Shining brighter than the purest of silver, weighing next to nothing, and is extremely durable, and receptieve of magical reinforcement. I waited for three hours, before taking the staff out. It felt like a feather in my hands, and I could feel the heavy enchantement the mix of ingredients had brought onto it. It was completely straight, and at the head of the staff, there was four tendrils sticking up, almost as fingers, and it was where I would place the last crystal piece...

I had broken the daedric ebony into small pieces before melting them, and then added the last of the crystal, with a tiny blend of my own blood, and shaped it into a perfect orb of crystal, blood red as ever, with the same eyrie energy emnating from it. I placed the orb at the top, and the four hands clasped onto it, with a vicelike grip.

That being done, I started on decorations. At the middle, and at the lower end of the staff, I made handgrips, with leather, that was said to be originated from a dragon...this could very well be true, as I had yet to find something that could tear it apart, after that, I started carving in magical runes...runes of protection, mastery, offensive, elemental, and each rune shone with strange lights, green, blue, red always shifting. You see most people forget about the usefulness of runes, true they have wastly different efects than enchantements...but a mix between enchantements and runes is far more effectieve.

Now only one thing remained...infusing it with different souls to bolster its effects...one of the clever runes, was that it could capture souls to be used to enchant it, without needing soulgems, so there I started on summoning. All kinds of different daedra fell before me, and their souls was dragged screaming into the staff...pleased with the amount, I started with the enchantements, one by one I took them...poisoning, elemental damage with area effects and without area effects, draining enchantements and bolstering enchantments.

I marvelled my staff, yet now that it was finished, I was scared...it was powerful, too powerful, if it fell into the hands of another...well I'd rather not think of the consequenses, so I performed one last spell...that would bind it to me, yet it would require a sacrifice...a large sacrifice. With the spell having been performed, I grasped it for the first time, and screamed...screamed as the magical powers burst into me, everything started to blacken, I felt my own strength and powers dissapear, and then my sight was replaced by darkness, and I could faintly remember falling down a long long tunnel, before a quick pain in the head and then...nothingness....


Ok, so that was that, I hope you enjoyed the making of the staff, and trust me when I say this, it is the ultimate tool of destruction, fortunately with the thing Telina just did, the staff has restrictions, and not even Telina as the creator of it, can use it's full potential...yet

Next update you will find out what kind of sacrifice Telina made, and how she will deal with it...fear not its on its way.