The Beginning
Once upon a time or right now or maybe it will be, there was a Planet called "Nirn".
This planet holds several continents, but there is only one of our interest, Tamriel.
On that continent there are several provinces, Elsweyr, Cyrodiil, Skyrim, Morrowind and more.
At the end of the third era, a daedric prince called Mehrunes Dagon tried to invade Tamriel, wich was stopped by Martin Septim, the last emperor. Martin sacrificed himself and doing that he sacrificed the entire Septim line. But that is another tale. This tale is about a dark elf, a dunmer, called Tralin Arendu. She was born 150 years after the red mountain erupted and destroyed most of her homeland, Morrowind.
She had a hard childhood as the daughter of a hunter family, being chased and hunted down by the Argonian oppressors. She had a younger brother and a younger sister, who died during an Argonian raid. Tralin had to learn how to steal and kill pretty early in her life, and her grandpa taught her in the arcane school of destruction.
As she grew up, her mother died, drowned in a swamp where they hid from an Argonian hunting party.
At the age of 20, her father died of aging and diseases, now it was just she, her brother and her grandpa. They decided to leave Morrowind with a Khajiit trading caravan. They were headed for Cheydinhal, Cyrodiil, when an Imperial troop attacked them, killing her sister and grandpa.
Now she was on her own, she couldn't stay in Cyrodiil, or any Imperial land for that matter.
So she looked at the old map her grandpa gave her and thought, "Riften looks like a nice place, I should go there.".
But the fate didn't like her very much, she went towards the border when she was captured by the Imperials, and being a dunmer, they didn't even ask what she was doing there, they just took her and sent her to her execution.
Her
escape, Riften and more
While
being led to the block, Tralin and the others heard a loud scream.
A few minutes later, a Dragon attacks the small village Helgen, and Tralin flees.
Now, being scared to death, Tralin heads south, not knowing where she is going.
Then, after a few hours of walking, she finds a Fort. Not expecting anything bad, she walks towards the fort, when suddenly 3 bandits jump her.
She starts running, while the bandits come from behind, shooting arrows and firing lightning.
There she decides that she should just turn around, and fight.
After some blows with her iron sword and some lightning and fire, Tralin stands happily, wielding a brand new steel axe and iron armor.
Tralin now enters the keep, where she meets two bandits, who, after a few moments, lie down on the ground, their souls now in a better place.
She stands in the middle of the mead hall, looking around for nice stuff to wear. She spots a nice chest, where she finds a complete steel armor set. While dressing, two bandits appear up on the walls, shooting arrows at Tralin.
Tralin turns around and shoots some lightning at the bandits, but they are out of reach.
She runs towards one of the two side doors, hoping to find a way upstairs.
And indeed, after defeating a bandit, she finds a stair.
She runs upstairs, the bandits only have moments left to live.
After the two bandit-archers are dead, Tralin opens a door.
In the next room, there is a big orc, wielding a two handed claymore.
He seems to be the bandit chief, he immediatley attacks Tralin.
After a long and potion consuming battle, Tralin wins.
Then, after spending the night in her nice new fort, she makes her way to the nearby town of Whiterun, to catch a carriage and go to her final destination, Riften.
A few minutes later, a Dragon attacks the small village Helgen, and Tralin flees.
Now, being scared to death, Tralin heads south, not knowing where she is going.
Then, after a few hours of walking, she finds a Fort. Not expecting anything bad, she walks towards the fort, when suddenly 3 bandits jump her.
She starts running, while the bandits come from behind, shooting arrows and firing lightning.
There she decides that she should just turn around, and fight.
After some blows with her iron sword and some lightning and fire, Tralin stands happily, wielding a brand new steel axe and iron armor.
Tralin now enters the keep, where she meets two bandits, who, after a few moments, lie down on the ground, their souls now in a better place.
She stands in the middle of the mead hall, looking around for nice stuff to wear. She spots a nice chest, where she finds a complete steel armor set. While dressing, two bandits appear up on the walls, shooting arrows at Tralin.
Tralin turns around and shoots some lightning at the bandits, but they are out of reach.
She runs towards one of the two side doors, hoping to find a way upstairs.
And indeed, after defeating a bandit, she finds a stair.
She runs upstairs, the bandits only have moments left to live.
After the two bandit-archers are dead, Tralin opens a door.
In the next room, there is a big orc, wielding a two handed claymore.
He seems to be the bandit chief, he immediatley attacks Tralin.
After a long and potion consuming battle, Tralin wins.
Then, after spending the night in her nice new fort, she makes her way to the nearby town of Whiterun, to catch a carriage and go to her final destination, Riften.
Fort
Greenwall
Tralin
arrives in Riften on the first of the Last Seed, 4E 201.
She looks around the town, talks to a few people in the Bee & Bard.
In the Bee & Bard, she meets a young redguard who talks her into finding true love and buying an Amulet of Mara, wich costs about 200 Septims, all of the money she got from selling the loot.
She rents a room, spends the night and the next morning she takes a look around the town.
She sees the keep, the river and takes a small look at the ratway.
Since it doesn't seem like this is the town she thought it was, she makes herself on her way, looking for a nice place to live in.
So she walks out of the city, following the stone road, through the first morning light, walking past trees with golden leaves, past the watch towers. She sees a fort, Fort Greenwall, in the background.
Remembering her... rather unpleasant experiences with forts, she takes out her bow and approaches the fort.
Scouting around and taking a look, she sees that´the fort is filled with Bandits. So she goes up a hill and aims at the first of the bandits. She releases the arrow, it flies towards the bandit and penetrates his skull. The bandit drops to the floor. That alerts the other bandits who go outside the fort and look for Tralin. She takes them out, one by one, always the one who is lags behind. As she runs out of arrows, she runs towards the remaining bandits and kills them off, one by one with her lightning and steel axe. Then she enters the fort and kills the bandits. She takes a good look at the fort, it has a nice forge, a tanning rack, quarters to sleep, chests and everything she would ever want. So she takes the corpses and piles them up in the middle of the fort. Then she casts her fire spell and burns the corpses.
She looks around the town, talks to a few people in the Bee & Bard.
In the Bee & Bard, she meets a young redguard who talks her into finding true love and buying an Amulet of Mara, wich costs about 200 Septims, all of the money she got from selling the loot.
She rents a room, spends the night and the next morning she takes a look around the town.
She sees the keep, the river and takes a small look at the ratway.
Since it doesn't seem like this is the town she thought it was, she makes herself on her way, looking for a nice place to live in.
So she walks out of the city, following the stone road, through the first morning light, walking past trees with golden leaves, past the watch towers. She sees a fort, Fort Greenwall, in the background.
Remembering her... rather unpleasant experiences with forts, she takes out her bow and approaches the fort.
Scouting around and taking a look, she sees that´the fort is filled with Bandits. So she goes up a hill and aims at the first of the bandits. She releases the arrow, it flies towards the bandit and penetrates his skull. The bandit drops to the floor. That alerts the other bandits who go outside the fort and look for Tralin. She takes them out, one by one, always the one who is lags behind. As she runs out of arrows, she runs towards the remaining bandits and kills them off, one by one with her lightning and steel axe. Then she enters the fort and kills the bandits. She takes a good look at the fort, it has a nice forge, a tanning rack, quarters to sleep, chests and everything she would ever want. So she takes the corpses and piles them up in the middle of the fort. Then she casts her fire spell and burns the corpses.
Changes,
Falmer and Magic
After
spending a few nice months at Greenwall, Tralin decides that it's
time for some more adventuring.
So she rolls a dice and decides to head into a random direction.
After walking a few kilometres, she comes across a weird place, where some wolves attack her.
She easily defeats them, but then a weird creature, looking like a tree, glowing in green, attacks her.
The thing broke her ribs in its first attack. But she did strike back, breaking its arm in the first attack with her new steel mace. After that, the fight went easy. She killed the thing in a matter of minutes.
Then she continued her way to a cave she saw in a few kilometers distance.
After a long walk, the sun was already setting, she entered the cave. There was nothing surprising in it, just a few bandits who lived there and a saber-tooth cat. After killing the cat, she went forward and saw a weird, golden door. She kicked the door open and saw a room that was completely empty, except for an altar made of white marble and that weird golden material. On that altar, there was a giant coin purse and some healing potions.
She took the coin purse, and in that second, a door opened and some weird creatures jumped out. They were really hard to kill, it used up all her magic power. Then she looked at the altar again, to find two books: One was labelled "Falmer - Creatures or Sentient beings?" and the other "How to conjure a sword". Tralin took her time and read the first one. It contained pictures of the weird creatures and described them as Falmer. Then she read the other one, it described how she could conjure a sword made of pure magic, but she didn't have any use for that now.
She took another look at the door and saw that it was a way inside the hill. Of course she went inside, only to find more and more of these creatures, deadly like nothing else.
Whilst she was in these caves, a Falmer broke her right arm, her sword arm. Now, being unable to properly fight, she settles for only using magic. That tactic promises more success against these creatures of the night.
Having more success now, she tries the conjured sword, because her mace fell into the river.
That sword has much more effect against the Falmer. She decides to abandon her old ways, no more heavy armor, no more hard steel, no more stealing. She decides that she will now lead a better life.
After fighting the Falmer and other creatures of the night, she finally finds a way out of the damned cave.
So she rolls a dice and decides to head into a random direction.
After walking a few kilometres, she comes across a weird place, where some wolves attack her.
She easily defeats them, but then a weird creature, looking like a tree, glowing in green, attacks her.
The thing broke her ribs in its first attack. But she did strike back, breaking its arm in the first attack with her new steel mace. After that, the fight went easy. She killed the thing in a matter of minutes.
Then she continued her way to a cave she saw in a few kilometers distance.
After a long walk, the sun was already setting, she entered the cave. There was nothing surprising in it, just a few bandits who lived there and a saber-tooth cat. After killing the cat, she went forward and saw a weird, golden door. She kicked the door open and saw a room that was completely empty, except for an altar made of white marble and that weird golden material. On that altar, there was a giant coin purse and some healing potions.
She took the coin purse, and in that second, a door opened and some weird creatures jumped out. They were really hard to kill, it used up all her magic power. Then she looked at the altar again, to find two books: One was labelled "Falmer - Creatures or Sentient beings?" and the other "How to conjure a sword". Tralin took her time and read the first one. It contained pictures of the weird creatures and described them as Falmer. Then she read the other one, it described how she could conjure a sword made of pure magic, but she didn't have any use for that now.
She took another look at the door and saw that it was a way inside the hill. Of course she went inside, only to find more and more of these creatures, deadly like nothing else.
Whilst she was in these caves, a Falmer broke her right arm, her sword arm. Now, being unable to properly fight, she settles for only using magic. That tactic promises more success against these creatures of the night.
Having more success now, she tries the conjured sword, because her mace fell into the river.
That sword has much more effect against the Falmer. She decides to abandon her old ways, no more heavy armor, no more hard steel, no more stealing. She decides that she will now lead a better life.
After fighting the Falmer and other creatures of the night, she finally finds a way out of the damned cave.
New
Weaponry
One
day, Tralin decides to go out and adventure a bit. She heads
west.
While strolling through the forest, she stumbles upon an old dwemer ruin.
In the middle of the ruin, she sees a person, wielding a staff and wearing black robes. She carefully approaches the ruin, but the person discovers her, and immediately attacks her. After a short battle, Tralin now owns a Staff Of Frostbite and nice black robes.
Continuing forwards, she sees a small cave, accompanied by a camp.
She sneaks near and sees some witches talking. Not thinking about it much, she attacks. Her lightning bolt hit the first witch right in the chest, the other witch got fried. One of the witches was wielding a staff of chain lightning, which Tralin immediately grabbed. Then she entered the cave, only to find more and more witches, who mostly were unaffected by her lightning. Realizing that the witches were unaffected by her lightning, and resisted her bound sword, she decides that it's time to go back and use weapons made of real steel and other materials. So she is now fighting, one sword in her right hand and the lightning staff in her left, cutting, hitting and frying all of the witches.
After that experience she was so tired, she just wanted to go home. So she made her way back to Fort Greenwall, only to fall asleep as soon as her body hit the bed.
While strolling through the forest, she stumbles upon an old dwemer ruin.
In the middle of the ruin, she sees a person, wielding a staff and wearing black robes. She carefully approaches the ruin, but the person discovers her, and immediately attacks her. After a short battle, Tralin now owns a Staff Of Frostbite and nice black robes.
Continuing forwards, she sees a small cave, accompanied by a camp.
She sneaks near and sees some witches talking. Not thinking about it much, she attacks. Her lightning bolt hit the first witch right in the chest, the other witch got fried. One of the witches was wielding a staff of chain lightning, which Tralin immediately grabbed. Then she entered the cave, only to find more and more witches, who mostly were unaffected by her lightning. Realizing that the witches were unaffected by her lightning, and resisted her bound sword, she decides that it's time to go back and use weapons made of real steel and other materials. So she is now fighting, one sword in her right hand and the lightning staff in her left, cutting, hitting and frying all of the witches.
After that experience she was so tired, she just wanted to go home. So she made her way back to Fort Greenwall, only to fall asleep as soon as her body hit the bed.
Brand-Shei
One
day, Tralin was going to Riften to sell some armor she made.
She walked up to the dark elf where she usually sells her stuff, and greeted him.
After selling some hides and armor she asks about his name.
He said: "My name is Brand-Shei". She responded "Brand-Shei? That's an unusual name for a dark elf!"
Brand-Shei said: "I may be dark elf by birth, but I was raised argonian. Through reasons I'm still trying to discover, I am an orphan, I was discovered by a kind argonian family. I hope that I one day find out how that happened to me."
Tralin asked: "Do you have any clues about your origin?"
Brand-Shei answered: "Yes, when my argonian father found me, I was wrapped in a blanket with the signs of the Telvani house, wich was a very powerful house a long time ago. But that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm a Telvani."
"But why did you search in skyrim?"
"I learned that a matron from the house Telvani escaped from Morrowind to Skyrim in the accession war. Records show that she bought passage on a sailing ship called "The Pride Of Tel Vos", but I ended up empty handed after searching many years."
She remembered that she heard of a sunken ship just north-east of Winterhold, and decided to travel there.
She went to Greenwall first, to store the unneeded gear and get travel-ready.
After storing her gear in Greenwall, she went back to Riften, to hire a carriage that will get her to Winterhold.
Then, after arriving in Winterhold, she headed north-east.
The cold burned her feet, hands and face, it seemed that just wearing a robe some shoes just wasn't enough to keep her warm in this cold. She arrived at the shore, the ice cold water waist deep, burning her skin through the thin robe. But she had to go on, she needed to find out where Brand-Shei came from. After a long and cold swim she arrived at a ship which collided with a small Island. On that island were two bandits, the first one was hit by a lightning bolt directly in the chest, he flew about 2 meters before collapsing on the island. The second one charged towards Tralin, but he didn't last long against her sword and lightning. She advanced towards the ship, and saw a chest inside. But before she could open the chest, she was attacked by a bandit chief. Tralin fired her lightning, but it didn't affect the bandit much, the chief was just staggered. But then, after a few health potions and a few strikes of her sword, the chief lay dead on the ground. Tralin opened the chest, and found a book entitled "Lymdenn Telvanni's Journal". She read it, and it described Brand-Shei as the last heir of the Telvanni house, and it names him Brandyl.
Tralin immediately heads back to Riften and gives Brand Shey (Brandyl) the book.
He thanks her, and even gives her the key to his strongbox where he keeps some stuff.
After Tralin took some garnets from the box, she talked to Brand-Shei. He said: "An amulet of mara? You're looking for marriage, then?"
Tralin responds: "Yes, I do. And I you're interested in me, aren't you?"
Brand-Shei answers: "I won't lie, I am."
Tralin: "And I won't lie either. I am interested in you, too."
Brand-Shei: "Then it is settled. We shall marry. Talk to the priest in the temple."
Tralin went to the temple, and told the Priest, Marmal, that she wanted to have a wedding.
He told her to wait till dawn, then everyone would gather. So she waited till dawn, and Brand-Shei and all her friends came. Marmal asked them if they wanted to live together and server each other, till death do them part. They both responded with yes.
After the ceremony, Tralin asked Brand-Shei if he could move in with her, live with her at Fort Greenwall.
Now they are both home, and happy.
She walked up to the dark elf where she usually sells her stuff, and greeted him.
After selling some hides and armor she asks about his name.
He said: "My name is Brand-Shei". She responded "Brand-Shei? That's an unusual name for a dark elf!"
Brand-Shei said: "I may be dark elf by birth, but I was raised argonian. Through reasons I'm still trying to discover, I am an orphan, I was discovered by a kind argonian family. I hope that I one day find out how that happened to me."
Tralin asked: "Do you have any clues about your origin?"
Brand-Shei answered: "Yes, when my argonian father found me, I was wrapped in a blanket with the signs of the Telvani house, wich was a very powerful house a long time ago. But that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm a Telvani."
"But why did you search in skyrim?"
"I learned that a matron from the house Telvani escaped from Morrowind to Skyrim in the accession war. Records show that she bought passage on a sailing ship called "The Pride Of Tel Vos", but I ended up empty handed after searching many years."
She remembered that she heard of a sunken ship just north-east of Winterhold, and decided to travel there.
She went to Greenwall first, to store the unneeded gear and get travel-ready.
After storing her gear in Greenwall, she went back to Riften, to hire a carriage that will get her to Winterhold.
Then, after arriving in Winterhold, she headed north-east.
The cold burned her feet, hands and face, it seemed that just wearing a robe some shoes just wasn't enough to keep her warm in this cold. She arrived at the shore, the ice cold water waist deep, burning her skin through the thin robe. But she had to go on, she needed to find out where Brand-Shei came from. After a long and cold swim she arrived at a ship which collided with a small Island. On that island were two bandits, the first one was hit by a lightning bolt directly in the chest, he flew about 2 meters before collapsing on the island. The second one charged towards Tralin, but he didn't last long against her sword and lightning. She advanced towards the ship, and saw a chest inside. But before she could open the chest, she was attacked by a bandit chief. Tralin fired her lightning, but it didn't affect the bandit much, the chief was just staggered. But then, after a few health potions and a few strikes of her sword, the chief lay dead on the ground. Tralin opened the chest, and found a book entitled "Lymdenn Telvanni's Journal". She read it, and it described Brand-Shei as the last heir of the Telvanni house, and it names him Brandyl.
Tralin immediately heads back to Riften and gives Brand Shey (Brandyl) the book.
He thanks her, and even gives her the key to his strongbox where he keeps some stuff.
After Tralin took some garnets from the box, she talked to Brand-Shei. He said: "An amulet of mara? You're looking for marriage, then?"
Tralin responds: "Yes, I do. And I you're interested in me, aren't you?"
Brand-Shei answers: "I won't lie, I am."
Tralin: "And I won't lie either. I am interested in you, too."
Brand-Shei: "Then it is settled. We shall marry. Talk to the priest in the temple."
Tralin went to the temple, and told the Priest, Marmal, that she wanted to have a wedding.
He told her to wait till dawn, then everyone would gather. So she waited till dawn, and Brand-Shei and all her friends came. Marmal asked them if they wanted to live together and server each other, till death do them part. They both responded with yes.
After the ceremony, Tralin asked Brand-Shei if he could move in with her, live with her at Fort Greenwall.
Now they are both home, and happy.
And
they lived happily ever after...
THE
END
Editors
Notes
This
tale may or may not have happened the way I wrote about it. Maybe you
can find out by following the way Tralin did ;)
I
really liked writing this tale, and I'll keep writing, but probably
no more Tralin Arendu. But if you request more, I'll make up some new
stuff.
Thanks
for spending some time and reading this.
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