The tale of Telina Delvanni, chapter 5., The Rise of Great House Telvanni Options

[Tellie]

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.

[Tellie]

Well here he goes.


I felt, dizzy...I could feel that I was in my bed, aparently one of my trusted emplyees had found me and placed me in my bed. I tried to open my eyes, I felt my eyelids open, and was shocked at what happened. everything was just black...and then I realized what sacrifice I ahd done, at least some part of it...I was blind!

A few attempts to move later, also told me that my physical shape had hit rock bottom. I groaned, just my luck, I just had to try and become powerful, and what do I get? blindness and a physical shape that even a five year old would have been ashamed of.

On the other hand though, I felt rather good...exellent actually, no more supreme almost invinsible more like it, and I realized why. The staff itself was bound to me, and I was bound to it. And while the sacrifice I ahd done was rather...titanic, I had never felt magic so strong...complete before. Something aabout magic I'll tell you.


It exists in all of us, sort of like a balloon. In other words everyone have a magical core, or reserve if you want to put it like that. Now the thicker the baloon is the more difficult it is to squeese magic out through it. But me, I dont believe I had one more, my magic it was simply everywhere, it flowed through me like a wast ocean, filled with raging storms that could chrush mountains. You see, we humanoid races one could say, are not born intuned to magic, like the worlds magical creatures are, we have to train ourselves to become closer to it, it works almost like a muscle, but me, I was not intuned with magic...I was part of it one could say.

I could feel the swirhling energies around me, but ofcourse I would have to be careful to not use more than I could handle, otherwise my magic would become unstable and in the end explode outwards...and trust me when I say, with magical power on my scale, an uncontrolled magical explosion would become devestating.

I focused my magic, forcing it first to my eyes, altough I could not see noremally, I could still see, and after a few moments, I could see almost normally. When I say almost, it was the fact that noremal unenchanted objects were still a bit hazy for me, but I could see good enough to see the differance between the floor, the walls etc. But what I could see clearly like the bright sun, was enchanted objects, crystals, and most importantly, I could see if a person was behind a wall...quite handy this magical sight.

Now that I had mastered vision, I experimented a bit wth forcing magic to flow through my limbs, moving the muscles in stimulating manners. I held back a cry of pain, as the muscles screamed at the pressure of being put to hard work. In the end I just sighed, and just forced my magic to allow me normal movement, if though a little more cautious than before. After that I focused on my desire, forcing my staff to pop up into existance in my right hand.

I raised my arms, and magically spent my weapons belt at my waist, having done that, I moved into the dining hall, where most of my household was seated.

-"My lady, what...what happened to your eyes"? was the first thing that Raina managed to blurt out. I sat warily down in my chair, before holding a hand up for complete silence. "I dont know, is there something wrong with my eyes"? I asked in a curious tone, but just added a little bit of magic in the words, so thyat it came out as a clear comand at the same time.

-"No I- I...it's just that...that they are, I mean Dunmer eyes are blood red while yours are...swirhling silver mylady", she ended hesitantly.

I smiled at her...so that was how y eyes looked like now, interesting. "Ah es, overstimulance to magical energies I'm afraid", I added dramatically, "in order to not damage myself, I had to allow my magic to manifest itself a bit more...and, wel, magic most often show their intensity in peoples eyes, so nothing dangerous", I added with a tone that said no more questions on the matter.

Why not say what had really happened some might say? well, it's not that I didn't trust my people, well actually it might...loyal or not, If I had let it slip that I was more or less blind without straining myself with magic to see, or the fact that I was in worse shape for a physical fight than what I had been in when I first came to this island...there would always bee some upstart Telvanni, who would start getting ideas and try to...dispose of me. And while I do not nessecarily like a few *coughmostcough* of my emplyees in House Telvanni, they are needed, and mercenaries cost money, and I could think of a number of beter things to spend money on, than to constantly hire more men to the house. So there I sat, in silence, wondering what in the name of Oblivion I was going to do now...

Okay, so that was it...and while it may sound impressieve with the magical energies she now posess, she is extremely weak, since she must constantly force her magic to allow her to move almost normally, and have some means of sight, which is very tiring...so casting one of those trusted fire/frostballs would be ratherr difficult for the moment...and she ahs yet to even unlock some of the staff...since at the moment it does nothing for her, other than providing a mean to support her when she stands.