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

[Tellie]

Just a short one today.


The staff descended, to kill me. Almost as by instinct, I jumped upwards, twisting to my left, I barely managed to avoid the staff, but it gave me time. I brought the lower palm of my hand up into his ugly face. I felt bone crack, and teeth break. Using my momentum, I darted past Graznik, driving two of my poisoned darts (compliments of the Black Dart gang), into his neck. He fell limp to the floor within a few seconds, threshing around, white foam gathering around his mouth…and then he was…dead.

-“It is finished then…rest in peace Theurgist Graznik Katorr”. I bowed in respect of the mighty individual, and turned towards his staff. Strangely, I could have swore that there had been lightning’s streaming up and down with it…but now it looked like a normal staff. The staff itself was beautiful, it was made of some darker form of steel, with silver running in delicate designs along its side. At the bottom, I could see a sort of glass tip, kind of like a stabbing point, but the strange was that it was not the normal green colour…it was a dark blue, like the sea. The head, was formed like the face of a roaring beast, with the large horn, pointing out from the staff, made of the same strange glassy substance.

When I picked it up, I could feel the powers of the staff pouring into me, the renewing power, as my magicka was returning, and my skill with the arcane forces of magic increased even more. Strangely, I could now see a white cold mist start to flow along the staff, soon followed by dancing flames as well, it seemed that the staff gave me increased powers in the speciality of my elemental choice, in this case, my two things.

Taking a firm grip on the staff, I translocated back to Jaron, handing the staff to him. “Oh no dear…that is yours, my time here in Vvardenfell have come to an end, so I’m moving to Tear, and thanks to you Neela is going with me…so now it’s time for you to forge your own destiny…Theurgist Delvanni”.

I understood this as a sign to leave, so I said my goodbyes, and opened up a portal to Gnisis, I had some discussions to make with Baladas.

[The Metal Mallet]

Whew, she survived, and is rewarded with an awesome staff to boot. Sweet! I wonder what her next move is going to be....

[mplantinga]

I'm glad to see the black darts put to good use. The staff, as you describe it, sounds like a truly impressive piece of weaponry. I suspect Telina will have a hard time putting it down for quite some time.

[Lord Revan]

This is great Tellie, I always wished there would be different colored glass than green.


PS: when will you update Selina??

[Tellie]

I think the enxt update is close at hand (most likely tomorrow), and to asnwer your question Revan, I will not update Salina again(its not Selina;)) before I have finished Telina....i just gave it to give you guys a little teaser of what is to come.

[Tellie]

And here it is.


I walked into Baladas chambers, only stopping to pat his daedroth pet on the head. I could see that Miles had indeed been stupid enough to try and sneak into Baladas chambers, but still, I had heard Baladas say more than once that he wanted an imbecile stupid argonian as a tapestry, I had just gotten it for him.

-“Ah Telina, what do you wish this time…and why was an argonian carrying your key”? I smiled to him, knowing what he was trying to do, I could feel his presence in my head, only I was ready for it…to stop him. I lashed out mentally towards the intrusion, and saw Baladas fly out of his chair, a look of complete awe and shock on his face.

He slowly arose, looking strangely at me. “I rather prefer it Baladas that no one is trying to enter my head now, or they’ll suffer the consequences, as for what I want and why that argonian had my key well, listen carefully”.

-“First, I want you to brew me an augmention potion, and the argonian had my key, because I gave it to him, in exchange for a glove…and precisely you always said you wanted an imbecile stupid argonian as a tapestry”. HE looked at me, still quite shocked, next moment we were both hugging laughing like two hysteric people who were being tickled by a large mob.

-“It so happens that I have a potion ready, you can take it…Arch-magister” he added with a little smirk. I took the potion from him, “oh shut up, we both know that without you I wouldn’t be here” I said rather irritated.

We spent a few hours discussing some things that he had been a bit too sloppy to tell me. I learned the simple technique to how we Telvanni postpone our lifetimes into the eternity, and luckily it included none of the things I had feared, neither the dark art or the prayings and offerings to the daedra. Unfortunately it is a Telvanni secret, so I’m afraid I can not tell you how it done.

I also taught Baladdas a few of my new spells, just for the fun of it by me teaching him for this once. I went late to bed that nioght, thinking before falling asleep.

I was walking through the streets of Gnisis, I could see a Dunmer girl, not older than nineteen at maximum, eyeing me. I made no sign of having discovered she was spying on me, instead I quickened my pace. I was walking fast towards the tradehouse, and then she bumped into me, I could feel my purse being slit…and suddenly I woke up!

[The Metal Mallet]

Hmmm a strange dream indeed, I wonder what it means...

Could it be a premonition? Or just too much magic for one day?

[Tellie]

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”.

[The Metal Mallet]

What an unusual reunion! But it seemed to worked out after all, hopefully she doesn't bruise from the headbutt...

So my guess about the premonition was correct, damn I'm good! It'll be interesting to see how these two will interact with each other. Maybe they'll be some bickering!

[jack cloudy]

Hi sis, nice to see you.

Boy, that must be one hell of a (painful) surprise, meeting your sister through a headbutt. I am really surprised that Salina didn't know about Telina being Arch-Magister and general behindzapper. I mean, she has to be famous after all the public slaughters she's done.

[mplantinga]

An interesting meeting, to be sure. Telina only seemed somewhat surprised; I would have expected much greater shock on her part.

[minque]

AHHHRGGHH.....Tel, you simply update too often! I stand no chance of commenting after every update...sheeesh

Anyway the development of this story is amazing......so incredibly enjoyable! And I really liked the reunion of the sisters.....haha....oh that´s really my thing....wohooo......

Now I´m trying to really keep track on this one! Oh without annoying Telina of course....I do have the deepest respect for her!

[Tellie]

Thank you everyone for your support. I know I havent updated in a while now, so in case some of you might start to wonder, I inform you now instead.

I have been incredibly busy lately, but you will be happy to know that spare time is now on the way, and you should expect an update in the weekend (I sincerely hope).

And to answer planty and cloudys ponderings.

Telina got surprised about finding her sister..but not THAT surprised, gifted as she is with incredible mindpower and intellect (dont tell ser I said that...she`ll kill me , and also knowing the nature of the ones who ahd raised her, did not think it was all too impossible that the brotherhood had been lying to her, and that she had a family all along.

So for now, goodbye...but we will see eachother again in the near future...

*dissapears in a puff of chocholate powder*

[The Metal Mallet]

That sounds like excellent news Tellie, I'll look forward to seeing the update. It will certainly kill some boredom when I'm at work.

That is if you update on Saturday.

[Lord Revan]

I understand being busy, I've already had THREE major projects in these first few weeks of school. Yesterday I had to finish making a travel brochure of Texas for Tex. History class (I already loathe the subject) and turn it in today, and have a test on geography in the same class.

I will also surely find time tommarow or Saturday to update Revan.

[Tellie]

Update time...enjoy.



She looked shocked at me for a moment…”you…you are my…my sister”? “I must dare to say that I am, you knew just a bit too much about me not to be…and, well I must say there are certain similarities between us, not just physically, but also in our minds, and hearts…not too mention our strange sense of humour”, I smiled, as she tried to get a grip on the situation.

-“How…why…can…how do you know about that, can you see through a person”? she said, clearly afraid of the answer.

-“It’s called telepathy dear, and under the right circumstances, I can tell what a person is, if a person is lying to me, I can tell…or I may move beyond that, and take directly control of their minds…having unlimited resources to anything magic related, is one of the perks of being Arch-Magister” I said smiling.

She sat there, dumbfounded, as of how I could sit and talk about something like that, just as easily talking about what kind of tea I wanted. I knew how she felt, I had reacted about the same way when Baladas teached it all to me, but now I had changed…I was sure of myself, perhaps a bit too sure, but still, I had grown, and was more mature to the strange and impossible theories of magic and such now, than I had been.

-“But it’s late, so I’ll guess we should go to bed, if you go back through that door” I said pointing over my shoulder, “you take a turn to the right, and will find a bedroom ready for you”. She took the hint, realizing that the conversation was finished, she got up, gave me a quick hug, before she went to her bedroom.

Ok, I admit, I was still shocked by the idea…after all, my entire background had suddenly changed, I had a family, but was ripped away from it when I was young, never learning how it was to be loved by your parents…quite a loss indeed, but I still had my sister, and together I was sure we could manage, learning from each others.

I woke Salina up early in the morning, telling her to get dressed quickly, as we had some things to discuss. Five minutes she appeared in the kitchen, still morning groggy.

-“Ok sis, you want to go with me on my adventures I assume” she simply nodded. “Well then we have to get you trained a bit, I have some boring duties the coming weeks, which should give you some time to get trained…you will be studying under my former mentor Baladas Demnevanni, and when he deems you worthy, he’ll send you back here, where Manilius will teach you in the fine arts of making as much of a bloody mess with your opponent with your weapon as possible”, I laughed at her expression, she looked as though she had just gotten a potato stuck in her throat.

We shared a quiet breakfast, before I sent her back to Baladas, and now it was time for me to start getting my duties. Truth to be told, I had no boring paperwork thing, but the bunch of things that I was going to have to wade through soon, was simply too dangerous for someone who was just a thief, so telling her a little white lie didn’t make me feel guilty at all.

First on my list, was getting a few more goods done in the name of the “holy Tribunal”, yeah holy in my dreams…not. Tharer, seemed to be pleased to see me.

-“Ah welcome Adept, or should I say Arch-Magister”, he said with a smug grin. “Telina would be sufficient”, I replied answering his grin with one of my own.

-“Well Telina, I guess you have come here for more chores…I do so happen to have one, most likely fitting your skills” he gave me a knowing look. “A necromancer have taken up residence in a Velothi building south east of here, make him…repent...his…ah sins, and purge the place from it’s dark taint”.

I knew what he meant by repent, was to kill him slowly and painfully, and purge…well most likely I think he meant putting the place to the torch. Seeing no reason not to get on with it, I quickly paced out of the temple, walking straight southeast.

It took me only a few minutes, before I felt a tugging sensation, something…dark was close. I knew that I must be close, and was still pondering on why I was suddenly feeling like that sensation of power…until I remembered, the staff gave me an ability to ‘feel’ magic, and I also knew with my extensive training, I would start to get used to feel magic.

I entered the Velothi building, dispatching the necromantic creatures that stood in my way. After a few minutes of playing stab the dremora, I found myself facing the necromancer.

-“Your time is at an end…heretic” I said with a voice, dripping with venom. “Well”, he said sadly, “I guess I have a new subject”, with that he summoned forth a Golden saint. I closed my eyes, feeling the connection between the caster and the summoning., and then I severed it.

The eyes of the necromancer turned wide in shock as the creature now free from it’s casters will, turned at him. The Saint, outraged by having been summoned, tore into it’s former master, cutting him to ribbons, before it turned it’s deathly metallic stare to me.


-“What do I owe you for this…mortal” it spoke with a hollow metallic voice…I realized I had done it a favour by freeing it, so I took the natural answer…”begone from this place…return to the fires of Oblivion”.

It nodded, before disappearing in a glimmer of golden dust. I put the place to the torch, before heading out, back to Molag Mar.

[mplantinga]

Thanks for the long-awaited update. I was particularly amused by the golden saint incident. I guess I had never thought that the daedra might be unhappy about having been summoned; Telina certainly made good use of that here. I do hope we'll see more of Salina; we've barely gotten to know her.

[The Metal Mallet]

Yay! Updates!

Glad to see this one starting up again, Telina just before the weekend is always nice.

Yet again, a nice bit of humour with the Golden Saint and the sassy dialogue.

Hopefully a regular schedual will return for this. Otherwise, I'll eagerly wait for the next update.

[Tellie]

Just want to inform you my dear readers (well those I have left anyway hehe) that I'm working on a rather long update now, as a consolation price for not have updated for over a month.

Sometimes I just hate RL and the way it seems to gang up on you all at the same time.

Expect it finished by tomorrow or thursday

[The Metal Mallet]

Yay! Update soon!

I look forward to reading it. I will likely use the reading time to kill work time, which is always nice during the boring periods.

Let's hope RL gives you a bit of a break now