A/n: Beeg chap because I felt like yammering!
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(Reyvin's POV)
Groans of the wounded surround me on all sides, the constant noise of new casualties being brought in barely cutting through the constant wailing. The mixed smell of blood piss and shit did not help either, gett...
2025-01-15 11:31:15 +0000 UTC View PostAlmeril Faren felt oddly at peace as his kinsfolk followed him through the sea of tents and shacks that was the Argonian encampment.
His heart beat with a purpose he did not know in his lifetime, his shield protected his comrades who advanced on the enemy with the same vigor as they did whe...
2025-01-14 20:20:33 +0000 UTC View PostA/n: Planned on fitting the whole battle into one chap but that would have been waaay too rushed.
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The humidity in the air split around me as I patiently tapped my foot on the forest floor, it was odd how certain biological tendencies remained even when I theoretically sh...
2025-01-13 23:09:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe war tent grows silent as the scout, a Morag Tong agent quite plainly, finishes recounting the second wave of reports she had just been directed with, the tension around me growing with each word that left her mouth.
"Well" Davos breaks the silence dryly "That is unfortunate."
The ...
2025-01-10 22:17:12 +0000 UTC View Post(General POV)
Two days after the first meeting of the newly elected Hortator's council, a quartet of figures found themselves walking through the heavily guarded gates of Old Ebonheart, all of them drawing salutes and nods from the guards as they passed.
"This place feels like a death...
2025-01-09 16:50:57 +0000 UTC View PostA/n: The winner of this month's side story poll is (cue distinctly unskilled drumroll) The political waves made by Reyvin's ascension!
Probably going to place it just after last chapter but I am not sure when exactly I will be writing it all.
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I hold back a groan as ...
2025-01-08 22:22:04 +0000 UTC View PostA/n: A cheeky super early chap, enjoy!
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(General POV)
Vasilor of the Erabenimsun, the Ashkhan of that selfsame tribe of proud warriors and protectors, found himself standing at the edge of Ald'ruhn for the third morning in a row, his eyes still unused to the sight of lands...
2025-01-05 05:34:09 +0000 UTC View PostMy steps were as childish skips as I stepped out of the Heart Chamber, or was it Tree Chamber now?
Not important.
As I was saying, I was feeling both literally and metaphorically reborn as I left the core of the mountain, that ephemeral childish glee we all lost upon growing old and c...
2025-01-04 19:29:20 +0000 UTC View Post(Reyvin's POV, earlier)
For what felt like the millionth time I found myself cursing my childish arrogance as the far too violent energies of a gods damned death mountain attempted to turn me into soul slush and use me as a snack.
'Oh yeah Reyvin, just piggyback an ascension off a rit...
2025-01-03 19:37:15 +0000 UTC View PostA/n: An early happy new year to all of you!
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(General POV)
Dagoth Ulthis felt his eyes and skull throb in dull pain for probably the one hundredth time that day as he caught the slightest hint of the thing being constructed within the chamber.
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2024-12-31 13:08:41 +0000 UTC View PostIn an instant, everyone except for Junior and myself are shoved outside the protective bubble, the very air within slowing down to a crawl before time itself seemed to stop.
No, it did not stop I realized as I used my third eye to look behind me and noticed Savos' expression ever so slowly ...
2024-12-30 15:17:06 +0000 UTC View PostA/n: The time is nigh!
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(Reyvin's POV)
"My lord" Dagoth Ulthis shuffles after me with hesitance in both step and voice, his eyes focused to the south-west and up above us "Are you... Are you certain that it will be fine?"
His question was obviously referring to the ma...
2024-12-29 19:27:22 +0000 UTC View PostA/n: Do note that this side story is meant to happen right after chapter 46. Timing them to fit in perfectly with the current pace is pretty much impossible so some finagling is sadly a must.
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(General POV, A day before the army of Dagoth set out to Morrowind)
Davos sighed ...
2024-12-26 22:47:52 +0000 UTC View PostA/n: I was so bored today I went and did this. Do enjoy a double double chapter! (previus one is 3k words and this one is 3.5k)
But wait, there is more!
Tomorrow awaits the dreaded side story! Am I not a generous god?
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The large wooden boat rocked almost rhythmically ...
2024-12-25 22:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostA merry christmas to all of you that celebrate it!
Previous chapter has been edited, mostly for flow and a slight improvement to the little slap battle Reyvin indulged the poor orc lad in.
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"These winds grow more insidious by the hour." Savos comments on the second day of o...
2024-12-25 10:56:50 +0000 UTC View Post(General POV)
Dagoth Ulthis was not having a good day today, in fact he would go so far as to say he was having the worst day in his life. First they enter a Daedric temple without a care, then the very Daedra drags all of them into a vision, and now... this.
"<...
2024-12-24 15:40:37 +0000 UTC View Post(Reyvin's POV)
The four Dunmer look stricken as I pose my question, understandably shaken by having their entire being scrambled by dear old grandfather's bullshit. And yet I still found myself annoyed with how long they were taking to compose themselves "Too embarrassed to answer a si...
2024-12-21 18:25:57 +0000 UTC View Post(General POV)
He observed them as they approached the encampment, only ever moving his actual eyes from his current customer as the Mer herself turned to see what the commotion was about.
'So that is what he wanted...' He was unsure if he wanted to curse the one who sent him here or t...
2024-12-20 21:20:52 +0000 UTC View Post(General POV)
Vayrin Indoril had been having a rather stressful time of it for a few days now, ever since the head of his house got himself strangled to death under a fully valid Honorable Writ of Execution.
And in most cases that would have been that, corrupt and incompetent nobles w...
2024-12-19 20:28:57 +0000 UTC View PostA/n: Writing this felt like pushing my brain through mud but I think it still turned out aight. Hopefully.
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(General POV)
The Rootspire of Blacklight was an ancient edifice towering over the rest of the city by a wide margin, once the home of a powerful mage, now the nominal ...
2024-12-16 20:37:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing that clued me in we were near our destination was the distant smell of the sea cutting through the constant ashy taste of the air, an hour later it was joined by the sound of waves endlessly flowing across the rocky coast, and finally the long mountain road was replaced by a vast ...
2024-12-15 18:31:14 +0000 UTC View PostMy mount's assured trot did not slow down even as my entourage tensed, the nobles and their guards that accompanied me as we sped ahead of the rest of the returning army all understanding the sudden and almost tangible gravity of the situation.
Admittedly, one does not need a great politica...
2024-12-14 22:56:48 +0000 UTC View PostA/n: Me vs the unending urge to create dozens of characters in every new area I write about...
My attempts at a joke aside, do enjoy yet another beeg chapter. I may have rushed the ending slightly but at this point I have to either double and triple down with this minor battle or bite the b...
2024-12-11 11:55:34 +0000 UTC View PostA/n: Finally about to finish up with Kragenmoor. When I first started the Morrowind arc I fully expected this bit to take like four chapters tops but my dumb ass can't follow a plan to save my life. God do I love my tangents.
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(General POV)
Merin Zadir of House Dres cursed ...
2024-12-10 21:32:35 +0000 UTC View PostA/n: Felt like going into detail would be dragging it out too much but also didn't feel like handwaving things away.
In short, do enjoy the double chapter.
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(Reyvin's POV)
I could practically taste the big lizard's hateful glare as he understood I invalidated his init...
2024-12-09 21:04:58 +0000 UTC View PostSavos and I kept chatting throughout the night, him talking about the new batch of students, now including numerous Nords due to the rising reputation of magi within Skyrim and Winterhold specifically. He was sad he had to give up his position to Phineas but one did not simply leave their sole re...
2024-12-06 21:26:31 +0000 UTC View Post(Reyvin's POV)
'I am really going to need to set some boundaries with Mephala if this shit keeps happening' I grumble internally as I keep patting and cooing at the surprisingly cute spider...
Now there was a sentence I never expected to even think.
Still, as annoyed as I was wi...
2024-12-05 21:06:43 +0000 UTC View Post(General POV)
'One foot before the other, one foot before the other...' Was all his mind could focus on as he kept himself moving forward, barely managing not to disturb the others marching beside him as he forced air into his lungs.
His hands still shook from the feeling of an Argoni...
2024-12-04 21:08:33 +0000 UTC View Post(Reyvin's POV)
Scorch lands on my extended hand and a series of images blasts into my mind "Whoever is leading the central detachment seems smarter than we expected." Scouting with the dreaded bird man was something I was starting to do consciously instead of just scrying about, got my sigh...
2024-12-01 20:43:26 +0000 UTC View PostA/n: A bit earlier today since I will be away in the evening, hope y'all enjoy!
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"They were said to be extinct." Vayrin Indoril mutters as he shuffles after me, his reserves were trained well enough that he didn't end half-comatose after my lesson "To think a Shadowscale would...
2024-11-30 17:14:29 +0000 UTC View Post