The Tale Of Telina Delvanni: Chapter Two., Of Mad Wizard's, duty and faith. Options

[Kiln]

It would seem that Telina has an even greater power than even she knew, I really like the way you've managed to tie Minque's story into yours, it's probably hard to cooperate well with another writer but I think you two have pulled it off and I'll be looking forward to seeing this from Serene's perspective as well.

Waiting4updates, soon I hope.

[Tellie]

-"Telina...Telina". "You must wake up NOW, or you'll die, your body is failing you, you must wake up...NOW"!!!!


As promised.

I gasped, and woke up suddenly, and then I looked around and found Baladas standing over me, with a sigh of relief he started talking to me.

-"Ah Telina, the telepathy you performed nearly killed you...your mind wasnt redy for it", he was still looking a little worried on me, although he had to be very relieved after I woke up.

-"But why, why did I know manage to perform it, just like that, and what happened to Serene"?

-"First, the reason you managed to do perform telepathy, is as I have told you, you are an immensly powerfull individual who by some mean is destined to greatness". "if you didnt know it, the day when you threatned Gothren, ha nearly pissed himself, so scared was he, several of the mouths told me that they became sick when they was close to you, those mouts happened to be the ones of Gothren and Neloth, since you hate those two, their moutths would become affected by your anger".

-"That clearly show that the power you radiate is very powerfull, but I do not know why you learn these things, without anyone teaching them to you...it's nearly like some higher force implants them into your mind...but since you are still just an elf, your mind gets troubles with handling it, but now as you have performed it, I shall teach you about telepathy".

-"Oh, yes Serene is perfectly safe, and if you want, you can visit her later this week", he smiled at me, and I understood that he was highly surprised with me.

We alked up towards his study, and while we walked I pondered with myself. Again Azura had told me something...saved me, why, why did she have any interest in me, I was an ex-prisoner, convicted for trespassing on royal grounds, and I had also killed several guards, in that episode, I just didnt get it.

We got up, and had a little breakfast, before Baladas started to explan about telepathy.

-"Telina, telepathy is a difficoult thing to perform, it requires strong mind-power, and a will to be able to hurt yourself, or your victim". "To perform it on an enemy, is not so difficoult, as you have to want to hurt him...want to break into his mind..read his inner thoughts, his biggest secrets, his feelings, and do him....pain".

-"When you do it on a friend, it requires the most strongest of mind and will, as you have to be willing to risk and hurt yourself, with the facts you might discover, and you can hurt your frien, as the friend trusted you, to keep his or her memories and feelings alone".

-"You have seen that you can control people, to do that against someone like, Gothren for example, would be nearly impossible for even the best, but you can still mess up his mind, by telling him things, saying things and so, that is the whole principle and point of telepathy, now all I can do, is to watch you do it, I cant help you more with that matter, it's all up to you, to become good at it", he smiled, and I realised that it would be difficoult, but the first step of getting even with Gothren, was well within my reach now.

-"Over to other things, the time for your promotion, is close, but before I can make you a wizard, you'll need to build a stronghold, so I recomend you to meet up with Llunela Hleran, she is the stronghold builder of the house, she lives at the telvanni hermitage, in the council hall, untill then, good luck".

I smiled, and bade him goodbye, before I translocated me to Sadrith-Mora, when I was there, I decided that I would like to try a little telepathy, when I entered the council hall. After walking for a few minutes, I finally stood before the huge mushroom building again, and with a huge smirk on my face, I entered.


Ok thats all for today, I'm afraid that I wont be able to update before friday again, but meanwhile you can have fun with the other fic's...right...heh heh. Well hope you liked it, ps planty welcome back.

This post has been edited by Telendil Delvanni: Feb 28 2006, 08:32 PM

[jack cloudy]

Well, I know that I liked it. You explained telepathy quite far while still keeping that mysterious supernatural feel to it.

[mplantinga]

Just got caught up with all the posts I missed. The continued interplay between Telina, Serene, and Baladas brings a new depth to the story that is both unexpected and quite enjoyable. I've particularly enjoyed Telina's use of telepathy; I will continue to look forward to seeing how she uses it against Gothren (I think Telina has the skill to surprise even Baladas with the strength of her telepathy). Keep up the amazing work.

[Tellie]

Here it comes, the update on your favourite story


When I stood there, inside the room, I noticed that the mouths of Gothren and Neloth, shrinked away from me, while their faces was contorting in sick spasms. I walked a little around the room, and started to break into the mind of Mallam Ryon, the mouth of master Gothren.

He was an...interesting subject, clearly he was...strange. He had secret plans about killing Gothren and taking controll himself, on the other hand, he was afraid of me coming to kill him later. I nearly started to laugh out loud, as I thought about that worthless individual commanding the house, if I became Arch-Magister, he was gonna go head first out of the house

-"Jump up and down...jump up and down, NOW" I told him with an angry tune.

After some seconds of commanding him to do it, he started to jump up and down, shaking his head, as to trying to get rid of something invisible, then he collapsed on his little platform, and started to vomit up whatever lunch he had eaten earlier. Then I decided that I had have enough fun for the day, so I walked out of the hall again, and ventured down to the hermitage. It took me five minutes before I found Llunela Hleran, and I could see why some people had called her crazy on my way down to her.'

She had a necklace of argonian teeth around her nack, and a carpet made of kahjiit fur, and it was with no small measurement of worryness that I adressed her. After some twenty minutes, we had come to an agreement, so I tried out the woid-walk spell to Ebonheart, to meet the duke and get an construction contract.

I arrived in a courtyard, with various imperial soldiers walking around. A little questioning and I was directed to a large castle, standing on the end of a little bridge. I walked out on it, and was stopped before the large oak door by a guard, in the same golden armour, as that one I had seen on the imperial who had given me my mission to visit Caius.

-"You there, what is your mission here...filth", he smiled at me, clearly happy with his insult.

-"I am here on official Telvanni buisness, I am a spellwright in the house, now get out of my way...guard", I snapped back with such furiousness that he grasped his sword, and mumbled something like "I didnt mean it like that", and then I walked into the great hall.

I was stunned by the largness of the room, the high arched roof, with highly decorated pillars around, showed that the duke lived in a highly luxurious state. The telvanni representant in the grand council, told me that the duke was in the second floor, and propably playing "who is the richest person here" type of game, so I understood he had a big attitude as well.

I found him, at the top of the stairs, with some other high standing persons around him, playing important.

-"Duke Dren, I'm Telina Delvanni, spellwright of house telvanni, I have come to request a construction contract to be issued, so that I may build a stronghold, will you issue one"? I crossed my fingers, just hoping that I had played humble enough.

But to my surprise he suddenly started to shake, he turned nearly ice white in his face, and swet started to run down his face, as though I had scared him.

-"W-W-What wa-was you-your n-n-name again"?, he asked with a weak and trembling voice.

-"Telina Delvanni, now will I get a construction contract or not"? I asked again, slightly more angry now.

He looked even more afraid, and as to confirm his fears, he looked over on an Imperial, who was nearly trembling more than himself, I really didnt understand what I had done to them.

-"NO, you will never have your house, scum, now leave me", he said with such an icy tone as possible, or so I thought.

I walked away, I realised that something was going on, but I just didnt know what, so after rummaging my sack, I finally found the bottle that was full of invisibility potion, then I drained it, and walked back into the room, where the duke stood.

I thought of him, inside my head I again and again watched the scene where he denied me the contract, then I felt ready to plunge into his toughts. I was looking in his mind, started to command his mind to show me any scenes that included me. After a little searching, I found something strange, I saw that back of a mer in ebony armour, talking to...assassins...Dark Brotherhood assassins. He commanded them to kill a person...me, he wanted my head on a plate, the assassins, bowed deep and left him, then he started to walk away, suddenly he turned around, and I saw the face of my enemy, the one who had told those assassins to attack me, was...Dren.

I vomited, and so the duke saw me, he dared to look me in my eyes, he said something, and two guards grabbed me, and threw me out of the castle, and I stood outside with that rude guard again.

-"So, had problems with the duke did we"? he smiled after his new insult.

-"Hey", I leaned over the battlements and looked down into the cliffs below, "do you see that, that man"?.

-"What"? he said, leaning over as well. "what man"?

-"That man I said", then I grabbed him by the neck, and flung him over the walls, he fell screaming down, and hist the water with an almighty splash. After a little time, I saw several slaughterfishes swim towards the spot, and then the sea was coloured red.

-"Twit", I said laughing. I couldnt believe that trick still worked, and then I translocated me back to Baladas.

Ok, thats all for today, but I advice you to check in both tomorrow and on sunday, as I have propably have updated again.

[minque]

Serene:

"Holy crap...luckily she´s a friend of mine, I wouldn´t want to end up as cat-food on the cliffs somewhere!"


you relly has an urge for violent solutions Tellie! This was thrilling, but I wonder for how long she´s gonna get away with it!

Excellent as usual......excellent....

[Tellie]

Thanks minkey...that was a rare example of Telina losing controll, it wont happen to many times though.

[Kiln]

Ah, sorry I didn't comment on your last update I didn't notice that you had written more. Very nice Tellie, the character seems to have further developed her powers and I'm looking forward to the next update.

[mplantinga]

I believe the appropriate quote is: "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." I can understand someone losing their cool every now and then, but Telina seems to have developed a sort of love for it. While this does make her fit very well into House Telvanni, where it seems everyone is always at someone else's throat in search of ever greater power, it does make her a somewhat less pleasant person to be around. I've always thought that it is probably a good thing the Telvanni are somewhat reclusive, because such flippant uses of power tend to act counter to the best interests of a population. Please don't take any of this as a critique of your writing; if anything, you've done such a good job that I can't help but violently react against the person Telina seems to be becoming. I do hope that she learns to control her urges and use her power for good. She is definitely a very skilled individual, and Morrowind could benefit from her using those abilities to aid, rather than terrorize, the population.

[Elidor]

Hehe that was an er interesting solution. 'some people are so irritating'

[jack cloudy]

Ah, more mind control. I love it.

Hmm, telling her name had an interesting result. I'll be waiting to find out the details.

[Tellie]

Oh I'm not at all offended planty...i know Telina was evil there, but it will become les and less evil things from Telina. I have edited a little on the name of a place, instead of Uviriths grave, it's Salendils grave, as Telina's grandfather is buried there. Enjoy.

-"Ah Telina, something on your mind is it"? Baladas asked me in a friendly tune.

-"Well, it's a little problem, the duke wont give me a contract, so I dont know what to do".

-"Oh no, I forgot about that", he gave me one of those mysterious smiles, " your grandfather, was given a construction contract a few months before he died, so hid will instructs me to give it to you". "so all that remains is for you to find some strong souls, to construct your stronghold from", he handed me a contract that was signed by the duke, and it had been issued to a place called "Salendils grave", that was laying far out in the Molag-Amur region.

-"Now Telina, I have heard of an orc that lives in the mountains around Suran, that wields a sword with great soul-capturing abilities, I suggest you find him, kill him and take the sword".

-"But first", he said just as I was about to walk away," how good are you in conjuration, I'm just wondering, as you will have to be able to summon creatures and use their souls".

-"oh my skills in conjuration, is nearly as good as my diplomacy skills, if that tells you anything", i smiled at him, and he quickly took the point that I couldnt even conjure up the pitiest of scamps.

For the next six hours, we trained and studied on all aspects of conjuration, and i started to get the hang of it. Six more hours, and I had managed to summon up a storm atronach that was so powerfull that baladas started to clap form me, and I realised that I had learned more in half a day, than I would be able to learn in half a year with any other trainer. Dead tired I went to sleep.

When I woke up, I found muself at a far better shape than I had been in years, I was faster stronger, and i found out that all of the spells that had seemed ratherdifficoult at first was quite easy, not to mention nearly not draining my magicka at all. Extremely happy with myself, i walked up to have some breakfast, and then I bade Baladas goodbye.

I realised that since I had no spells that would take me to Suran, I would take the silt-strider again. I quickly realised that riding in large giant fleas was not my thing, and the bucket beside me, was used on more than one ocation. Finally after a sickly five hours, we stopped at Suran, and i stumbled my way down to the closest bar to have a little stiffer.

After i entered and had a little look around, i realised why this was called "house of earthly delights", it was a place filled up with strippers, prostitutes and drunken male swines. I walked over to the bar, and after three glasses of flin, I felt in shape again. After a little questioning, i found out that a crazy orc resided in the eastern hills, just outside the town, I then took my leave, and vowed that I never was to enter that place again...so wrong could I be.

When i had walked a little, I decided that I wanted to climb the mountain, instead of spending hours, of searching for a path. So i took out my rope, and tied one of the hooks onto it, and threw it up. it took me quite som time to scale that montain, but it was an enjoyable trip, filled with angry cliffracers and painfull falls. Finally, I found him...he stood there all by himself, and was holding a VERY nasty looking sword.

-"Ah greetings mortal", he spoke with a strange voice...nearly as though he was possessed by some creature. "My name is...Umbra, for years I have battled in hope of finding someone stronger than me...in hope of dying, will you fight me, so that I may have a noble death"?

Ok, he wanted me to kill him, beacuse he had been looking for someone to kill him for a long time...he was crazy, he had definately lost it many years ago.

-"No, I will not kill you, I do net even wish to fight you", I told him, I mean if he had been killing people for years, I did not want to be the next in line.

So therefore, I turned my back on him, and walked away....OK mistake number two, do not turn your back on some crazy big orc with a huge sword. I lost my breath, as something heavy hit my back, and i felt my armour break.

I instinctly rolled to my left, when I hit the ground,and lucky was that as the heavy bled was stabbed deep into the ground where I had just been. With the speed of the wind, I whippd the Ice blade out of its scabbard, and slowly started to circle the big orc, who was having problems with getting his sword out of the ground. I made my move, and swung the ice blade down with all of my force. A huge bang, and I was lying on the ground again, my hands was shaking after the force of the impact, my sword was lying several feet away from me. umbra rose up, and now he was holding that nasty sword in his hands again, but his cuirass was laying all over the place, in tiny ice pieces.

-"Time to die coward", he yelled to me.

-"oghwastyrr ghwytrring", I extended my hand, and out from the rocky ground, came not one...but..but three storm atronachs. I did not understand, how could I summon up three of them, well well, its buisness time.

-"Take him..him him", I shouted, and after a few seconds, I think they got the point, beacuse the atronachs turned around, and started to summon up some large shockballs in their hands.

I ran away a little, and decided to be well away from shock-ball area. Good was that as the whole area was suddenly full of sparkling bolts of lightning, but I could also hear fighting from inside the clouds of lightnings. After what seemed like a minute, it stopped, and the atronachs withered away, left stood Umbra...

He looked at me for a while, before he managed to utter "cheater", then he fell face first onto the ground. I walked over to where his body lay, and nearly vomited again, the stench of burned flesh was searing through the air, and even worse, i had to touch the burnt and quite crispy hand to open it, and take the blade.

I screamed in pain when I touched the sword, it filled my head of visions of eternal battle and bloodshed, of victorious slaughters of any enemy who stood in my way.

-"Ahh so you are the mighty Telina, the orc was weak, but you, you have the powers that I'm looking for". "i am Umbra, bringer of death, join me, do my bidding and i shall award you with immortality, you will get all you ever wished for, join me".

-"NOOOO", I screamed, and then i threw the sword with all of my force away. When i found it again, I took a piece of cloth, so that i wouldnt have to touch it. Then i summoned forth only one storm atronach this time...strange. i pointed my hand towards the river, and the atronach turned away dumbly, I then drove the sword right through the neck of the creature, and after a few seconds, it shrivveled to dust. i felt a warmth emit in my pocket, and i looked into it, there was one of the soul-gems that I had been given, but now it was glowing with barely contained power. I repeated this process, and then i translocated me back to Sadirth-Mora.

So hope you like this one, next one up is on tuesday as normal. All that I'm worried about now is that you will stop reading my story,as Oblivion is about to hit the shelves, and sooner or later the Oblivion fanfics will get out, and propably kick us Morrowind fan ficers out. Nut if you continue, you will se that Telina will end up in cyrodiil, and do the quest in Oblivion...or so I hope

This post has been edited by Telendil Delvanni: Mar 5 2006, 05:12 PM

[jack cloudy]

As far as I'm concerned, there's always room for Morrowind.
The Umbra fight was interesting. That guy sure could take a beating. More nice surprises along the way as well. I'll keep reading this till the very end.

[Tellie]

Thanks jack...I wont forget your kindness. here have a

[treydog]

So I have finally gotten caught up on this amazing story (school is on spring break, so I have access to a computer and not much work).

Imaginative, vivid, great characters with motivations that make sense- all that and more.

I even love Telina's psychotic streak- particularly where obnoxious Imperial guards are concerned. Trey certainly WANTED to throw Percius from the battlements- he just didn't know if he could get away with it....

Fascinating interplay between Telina, Baladas, and Dren.

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing your imagination with us.

[Tellie]

Sorry, but I got access to the computer later than I thought, so this one is gonna be short.


When I arrived at Sadrith-Mora I walked down to Llunela. I delivered the items and and was told that my stronghold would be finished in a matter of time, therefore I decided to do some other things, and I headed to Balmora. When I was walking around, I noticed that the guards was stalking me...propably trying to trap me in an alley and kill me, but that was just my telvanni paranoia talking to me.

After a little walking, I joined up at trhe temple, where I was told that if I was to join, I first had to do the pilgrimages of the seven graces, after a little questioning, I was given a book that would explain everything. I translocated back to Gnisis to read my book in private. I found the book rather pathetic, and I did not believe that lord Vekh had done all those things, but still I wanted to have something to do, so I started on the quests that had to be done here at Gnisis.

I talked to Baladas if he happened to have a cure common disease potion, which he truly did. The situation in the Gnisis temple was the same as in Ald-Rhuun, filled up with people in need of help. After a long search, I finally found the room with the mask in it, and after reading the intricate inscriptions on one of the pillars in the middle of the room, I took out the potion, and touched the pillar with it. It came a long sucking sound, and the potion wanished, I looked on the pillar for a while, and finally I pushed what seemed like a button. The pillar suddenly opned itself, and the true mask of lord Vekh was floating in the air.

Since there was no persons in the room, I took it to examine it, then I felt a sittering sensation in my back, and suddenly two new spells was imprinted in me, the mask itself, was impervious to damage, so naturally I took it, as I reasoned Baladas would like to study it more. Since the first part was done, I walked to one of the temple members who was selling ingredients, I bought a portion of dreugh wax from him, and wentured outside again. After looking a little on the map, I found out that the shrine of valour, was inside the koal cave, just south of Gnisis. I had been walking for more that two hours when I found the cave, so I dropped of the wax and recieved another blessing, and felt...suddenly better with armour, like the shrine had learned me something.

When I came outside again, it was suddenly a full storm going on, and a gigantic wave came and thundered down on me, and all got black....


So I hope I can get a little more replies on this, but well you are free to choose to reply yourself. Hope you liked it.

[Taillus]

No don't go all black! I wanna know what happens! Hurry with an update

[Tellie]

OK, I'll try to write one as soon as possible, but i dont think I can manage it before friday.

[jack cloudy]

Yes, please write soon. And it appears that Morrowind is experiencing some bad weather today. Hate those ash storms.

[mplantinga]

Excellent updates. I particularly enjoyed Telina's adventures with conjuration. It was interesting that she managed to summon three atronachs at once; I hope you'll come back to that and explain how she did that.