Civil War Aftermath Chapter 2: War of the Sundered Dragon
(Don’t complain about the new colors, Balrog. Blue is amazing)
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"You call yourself Nords?! You let these Thalmor bastards order you around, polish their boots for them? I suppose you warm their bedrolls at night, too. KILL THEM! You can blame it on the Stormcloaks later. This might be your one chance to do something worthy of Sovngarde, you miserable cowards!"
High Admiral Red-Eye
"Maybe. But not today. Today I get retribution for the families who will no longer have their fathers, brothers and husbands. Today, I make the Empire pay dearly for not accepting our independence, and today I do my country proud. Today I show you how foolish a leader you've been, and this time, the men I slay won't be illusions."
-General Baldur Red-Snow
"You're a Nord. Are you really suprised to see these men up in arms to defend their homeland from tyranny?"
-Captain Boldir Iron-Brow
"If I recall those soldiers where the ones who stood between you and the torture chambers of the dominion, admiral, Your "beloved" would still be in those chambers as we speak if me and Tullius hadn't intervened. Say all you want about me, but if you ever say anything about my unit like that, ever again, i'll take my knife and carve you into little pieces...”
-Praefect Lorgar Grim-maw
“The eye-patch is just for show. I actually have two eyes.”
-General Tullius
Remnants of the Fourth Legion continue to be a painful thorn in the side of High King Ulfric Stormcloak, and High Queen Elisif Stormcloak. However with the help of Captain Baldur Red-Snow, now General Baldur Red-Snow, most resistance in Falkreath hold has been crushed. The IX Cohort of the Sixth Legion was utterly annihilated during the Battle of Camp Rommulas. The only thing standing in the way of a complete Stormcloak victory was a single mysterious legionary, who waged a brutal guerrilla campaign against General Red-Snow's forces on his lonesome for several months, before vanishing without a trace. On another front, the blockade by the Imperial Navy around Skyrim has faced heavy attack from the new and fresh Stormcloak fleet, led by the new High-Admiral Rebec . Various improvements have been issued to the new fleet. However upgrading the navy has cost a great deal, along with arming the young country’s army, as such the High King's treasurer is dangerously close to debt. In other news, a brutal string of attacks on military targets have sprung up in the Whiterun hold, the soldiers responsible have called themselves, “The Sons of Whiterun” and are rumored to be lead by the exiled Jarl Balgruuf of Whiterun, and the Imperial General Tullius, though none of these rumors can be proven. To add further problems, the Fourth Legion, under General Marius Imperius, are on the verge of reaching Skyrim. Needing more help, High-King Ulfric Stormcloak has requested for General Red-Snow to head back to Solitude and join him on his High Council along with the likes of the legendary Galmar Stone-Fist, and Siltus Fury-Slash, the general left his second, Captain Boldir Iron-Brow, to take charge of the Stormcloak garrison in Falkreath. In Cyrodiil, the Dominion continues to exert its shadowy influence over the Empire's politics, and rumors are starting to spread that Emperor Amaund is being “influenced” by the High Over-Seer, along with the three members of his High Council, High General Titus (Representing the Legion), High Councillor Dixious (Representing the Elder Council) and Spymaster Leoindias. (Representing the Penitus Oculatus). Even worse, the Emperor is expected to announce his intentions to sanction an Imperial lead “Talos” hunting force, codenamed the “Imperial Inquisition”, which will be lead by his young daughter, Princess Dales Motierre.
Me,BigbossBalrog, and The Good Doctor are the GM’S.
Reaction’s to the new and hot Civil War Aftermath RP (Quotes are not exact, but they all said these in slightly different words) :
“Amazing so far, I wouldn’t thought that I was one of the founding fathers to this amazing RP…Yuri is still better though”
-Bigbossbalrog, GM and founding member. Imperial Milk-drinker.
“I'm very pleased with the progress we've made. This was my first RP participation, and it rocks."
-ColonelKillaBee, Vice-GM and founding member. Stormcloak Scum-bag
-“I don’t know what’s funnier, you guys in or out of character.” and
"Remember the Nether Regions."
-UnrivalledAssualt, Member. Imperial Milk-Drinker
-“Very good, and non-biased”
-Celan, Member. Stormcloak Scum-bag.
-“Varied, Wild, and filled with Great Characters.”
-The Good Doctor, Vice-GM and member. Stormcloak Scum-Bag.
WE'RE HERE!!!! CHAPTER 2 BOY'S (And Girl).
BigBossBalrog
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Name: Lorgar Grim-maw (Also Known as the “Darkened Archer” or “The Grimm Archer” among the stormcloak army )
Gender: Male
Age: 55 (Looks like he’s in his late 30’s or early 40’s)
Race: Nord (Skaal) (Is also described to have “un-human” strength and speed, also he has advanced regeneration and very accurate eye sight)
Faction: Imperial Legion (Sixth Legion, V Cohort)
Rank: Prefect
Sub Rank: Specialist
Appearance: Tall, Medium Build (Grew thinner when he was in Falkreath by himself) , very pale skin , dark brown hair, finely trimmed dark-brown beard, right face heavily scarred, eye patch covers right eye. He has distinctive “fang-like” teeth.
Equipment (Weapons, armor, etc) : Wears a custom made long-coat made from high quality fabric, along with a pitch-black cloak and hood, that bears a symbol of a purple wolf with broken fangs. He wears dark-leather gloves and leather boots. Whenever he puts up his hood, an unnatural darkness cloaks his face. He bears a large ebony great bow, along with custom-made ebony tipped arrows. He also carries two large ebony knives that he keeps strapped to his legs. Always carries two vials of sand-scorpion venom with him (Imported from Hammerfell). Wears a unique silver ring, that has a wolf carved on it with two amethyst eyes.
Personality: Lorgar is an enigma among the imperial legion. Ever since he returned from Falkreath several months ago, he’s been quite different. He rarely, if ever, speaks. And when he does, it’s in a cold and dark tone, a far cry from the cheerful and talkative officer that was deployed to Skyrim in the first place. He’s also gotten more and more vicious and pragmatic, willingly to use any method able to complete the mission. He has no more qualms with hurting civilians or expending soldiers. When he speaks to nobles and politicians, while remaining courtesy, always uses a voice dripping with absolute venom.
Background/History: Lorgar’s months spent in Falkreath alone, facing against the entire stormcloak force, are virtually unknown to everyone, except Lorgar and General Marius, whom he confided in. After returning to Cyrdoli, Lorgar was court marshalled by High General Titus for “cowardice” and the destruction of his cohort. After a few weeks of debate, Lorgar was found guilty of all charges. He was publicly stripped of his rank of Legate, and the IX Cohort was officially disbanded and left in dishonour. He was given the rank of Prefect and specialist, and then re-assigned to the V Cohort of the Sixth Legion, under General Marius’s command. As afforded by his rank of specialist, he usually operates alone for weeks or even months at a time, doing operations that require stealth, such as scouting enemy territory or assassination. His most notable operations were the uncovering and complete destruction of a stormcloak sympathetic cell in Bruma, and the assassination of a bandit chief, under orders from High-King Ulfric to cause as much chaos as possible in Cydodili. When the legion finally reached the mountain line separating Cyrdoili from Skyrim, Lorgar was deployed as a messenger to King Ulfric, in an attempt to give him one last chance to surrender Skyrim back to the empire.
Motives: Virtually unknown to everyone.
Skills: Archery: Is un-matched with the great-bow, able to snipe a target from 200 yards. Likes to coat his ebony tipped arrows in scorpion poison.
One-handed: Is deadly with his two ebony knives.
Sneak: Can remain completely un-detected in darkness, while able to move around un-noticed in the day light.
Light Armour: Utilizes a custom-made long coat made from high quality fabric, and dark leather under-guard
Miscellaneous: Doesn’t really spend anytime off, and is considered a work-alcoholic by his comrades. Rarely smile’s, and when does, it’s always in a mocking style. Enjoys reading a good deal, while only a rumour, a legionary claimed to see him reading an “romantic” novel labelled “The general and her maid”, (YURI YURI YURI) when questioned by a few soldiers, he claimed it to be “none of there business to what he reads, and hypothetical if he was reading a novel like that, he would be reading it for the story, not for any other reasons”. An attempt to sneak into his tent to confirm this ended with a broken leg and arm. Doesn’t enjoy ale, and when he drinks alcoholic beverages (Which is rare) he drinks mead and wine.
Spoiler Name: Dales Moitre
Race: Breton
Gender: Female
Rank: Imperial Princess, High Inquisitor
Age: 20 (Looks like she's 16 or 17 )
Physical appearance: Blue eyes, Blonde Hair, small build and small height.
Clothing: Almost always wears a frilly dress of various colors. During the night, or AHEM "Cuddle hour" as she calls it, she wears a purple or pink nightgown.
Equipment: Bear's a dark steel dagger.
Personality: Very outgoing and very sweet. She's the type of person who's laugh and smile could cheer up an infirmary. Despite her age, she has the personality of a child, constantly hugging and wanting to "cuddle up" with things. Doesn't care about social class, and usually socializes with servants and common soldiers , when pressed however, she can be hateful, wrathful, and cynical.
Powers and abilities: Skilled in Alteration, Destruction and illusion magics. Regularly, she's adept in these magics, as well as physically fit due to Witchie's augmentation. However, when manifesting her inner rage and hatred, her power is magnified by large Margin, gaining super human speed and strength, as well as her magical power being increased.
Background/History: Was born to the very rich Elder councilor, Amaund Moitre and his wife, Mithra Moitre. She grew up in the family mansion in anvil along with her two older brothers, Amaund and Brull. They would often bully her, often times physically, which her father encouraged saying it "showed her, her place", despite this, she grew into a cheerful, happy girl. She studied with the Synod for several years, and she became adept in the fields of Illusion and Allteration. She maintained a long-term "snuggle-buddy" relationship with her Maid, Elan, for eight years. During her years in the imperial palace, she would often cry herself to sleep in Elan's arms. When her father "requested" her to become the High inquistor, she didn't really care, all she did was sign documents and all that. With the Murder of Elan, she's grown to absolutely hate the dominion.
Spoiler Name: Elen Damaund
Also known as: "Snuggle Buddy"
Rank: Royal Maid.
Age: 23
Physical appearance: Blue eyes, Brown hair, medium height, small build.
History and Background: Was born to a poor Bteton family in the Imperial City, became the personal maid to the royal princess Dale's Moitre at the age of 15. Despite there difference in caste, they became very good friends, and Charlie would be the one to comfort Dales after receiving a beating from her father, usually by cuddling up with her. When she went to study at Synod, Charlie went with her, and was used by Dales as, as she said, "A living cute cuddle teddy bear". She's also recently gone with her to Pale pass.
Personality: Sweet, happy, idealistic, and very loving
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Name: Tullius Gaius
Rank: General (Sons of Whiterun)
Also known as: "The One Eyed-General" and "The One eyed-Soldier"
Age: 60
Appearance: Medium Height, Medium Build, Grey Hair, Brown eyes, Large Scar on Left eye, Black Eye patch covering left Eye socket.
Equipment: Wears a dark cloak with hood. Underneath pitch-black Pentilus Occulatus Armor. Utilizes a Nordic War axe along with a ebony-imperial short sword.
Background/History: General Tullius was born in Cyrdoili to a wealthy merchant family. He fought in the Great war along with Ulfric Stormcloak, now High-King of Skyrim and Marius Imperius, now General Marius. After that, he served as captain in the Emperor spies and Bodyguard, the Pentiulas Ocultus, for 7 years. He requested transfer to the Imperial Legion, and gained a position as Legate. He soon afterwards became General of the Sixth Legion. During the Skyrim Civil War, he was captured and set to be executed, but he disappeared from his cell with Jarl Balgruaf of Whiterun. Unknown to Ulfric, Tullius and the exiled Jarl started building up an elite Mercenary unit, the Sons Of Whiterun, made up of Legionaries and ex-Whiterun Guard's.
Skills:
One handed: Wields a nordic war-axe, and an ebony imperial short-sword. He is utterly deadly with them.
Sneak: Being a former member of the elite espionage unit of the empire, Tullius is a master of stealth and death.
Light armor: Tullius wears Pentilus Occulatus armor.
Personality: As a professional soldier, Tullius rarely, if ever loses his cool. He is calm, defensive, yet caring to the people he respects. He is slightly arrogant, and ignorant of Nordic culture, but his time spent with Jarl Balguraf and his now dead Second, Legate Rikke, has eased this. He is a master tactician, and has pulled some of the most lucridous plans. In short, if anyone can do it, it's Tullius.
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Name: Homunal Akeny
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Race: Breton (Raised in “Skyshade” a small mountain village in High rock with akavari influence)
Rank: Daughter of a noble
Physical appearance: Medium height, slender frame, Long silky black hair, purple eyes.
Clothing: Wears high quality dresses of purple and black, but usually sticks with a purple Akavari style “ Kimono".
Weapons: Wields a longbow made from a cherry blossom trees. Also carries a Akavari Short sword.
Skills:
Archery: Is a master with the bow, matching every marksman in the Empire, save for Lorgar and Edaurd.
One Handed: Is very skilled in the “Fallen Blade” style, using her Akavari Blade to great effect..
Personality: Cold is the only way to describe her.
History: Was born in the settlement of “Skyshade” which is a mountain settlement in High rock, very unique in that its culture and archeiture is based on Akavir. Her father was the noble who owned the town, and despite the town’s small size, it’s considered a very wealthy town. She was taught archery and swordsmanship by a Khajit monk, whom was a master in the “Fallen blade” style. She’s recently moved from the her town to the imperial city to be taught proper etiquette and learn history and philosophy.
ColonelKillaBee
Spoiler Name: Baldur Red-Snow
Gender: Male
Age: 39
Race: Nord
Faction: Stormcloaks and Necro Nords or "Grim Ones".
Rank: General
Theme Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrBoA1yltSA%5DLove
Appearance: I have long dark dirty blonde hair, blue eyes and blue war paint on right cheek. It's a swirl like in the game. I got a new scar from a dual with one of the wolf men of the imperial army in the last chapter. My beard is now trimmed. I'm 6 feet three inches tall, good muscle build. Basically I look like Colonel's avatar picture. https://plus.google.com/photos/110774846673430165356/albums/5788331408178267697
Equipment: I Nordic carved armor and use two nordic carved axes enchanted with lightning and a nordic carved shield on my back. I also wear a black cape attached over my shoulder pauldrons under the ring of fur on my neck. It has a silver lined bear head, looks like the Windhelm bear symbol. Enchanted with fire resistance. I wear a bear helmet in battle.
Personality: I am calm and cool headed in battle usually. I often like to joke and taunt. Sometimes I will make up songs either before battle to get my men excited, or at inns or while relaxing. Out of battle, I show anger in certain situations, mainly when people underestimate my intelligence. Otherwise, I keep my head. For a nord, I have good self control. Around my men I am boastful and show bravado. Around Rebec, I am more gentle. I tend to be stubborn.
Background/History (Details are relevant to Chapter 1. Certain things have now changed, such as weapons used) : My father Ulrin Red-Snow was a Legionnaire, his mother Ysana Home-Wrecker is a Dibella priestess…yea. And pa was her....student, so to speak in one of their lessons. Ysana did not want to leave for the life of a wife, so we left her and moved to Bruma. My father stayed in the Legion, and he joined the Stormcloaks, feeling betrayed by the Legion, and not understanding my father’s explanation of why he stayed loyal, especially since my father taught me about Talos and said he would rather die than forsake Talos. My father says loyalty to the Legion is loyalty to Talos. I made the mistake of letting this be known about myself, so I didn’t get the chance to fight often with the Stormcloaks due to my loyalty being questioned. Not until I proved myself by agreeing to infiltrate an Imperial fort and kill their Captain. Little did I know the Captain was my father. My Stormcloak Captain knew.
I dressed up as a legion recruit and said I had urgent news for the Captain of the fort. My father, wearing his full legion heavy armor with his helmet spotted me immediately and signaled with his hands to come in the fort, not wanting to give away who he was with his voice. When we were alone in the fort tower, my father removed his helmet and let me know who he was, and I, while taken aback did not hesitate to strike at him. Most of my attacks were brushed off easily, my father's armor being made of Skyforge steel, as was his axe and shield. I was using standard recruit gear, and the sword was one recovered from a skirmish my squad was in, and was battle damaged. My father taunted me during the fight, calling me names, making jokes, trying to get me angry and screw up. The last thing my father said to me was it was fitting that I be a traitor since I was the son of a [censored].
That angered me and almost led to my downfall. My father sidestepped my charge and in one movement swiped at my back. I pivoted to block the blow, and the skyforge axe shattered my battle damaged sword, and sliced across my sword arm. Desperate and angered by the fresh wound and the sting of blood in my eye that splattered in my face from it tackled him and beat him to death with the pommel of the sword. I dressed up in my father's outfit, took his axe and shield, and used a rope and a great sword my father had in his office to scale down the fort walls from my father's window, by sticking the sword through his desk, and using the desk as an anchor for the base of the rope, and tying the rope to the sword's hilt.. There were many Imperial patrols nearby, so the outfit came in handy.
I was made Captain for assisting Ulfric in his escape at Helgen. I was about to be roasted alive by Alduin while being attacked by legionaries and I pushed Ulfric out the way and used two dead legion soldiers for cover. Ulfric had to pull their seared flesh off of me to get me free. For this reason, my nickname is “The Unkindled”. My weapon of choice is my family skyforge steel war axe and a skyforge steel shield of fire resistance. They are the weapons that I took from my father. Ulfric had his court wizard enchant the shield as a reward. My combat prowess is decent, but I do not feel it was significant enough to be captain. I am brave and loyal to the cause, and beat my own father in combat. Ulfric thinks this is good enough. I will have a lot to live up to, as people expect me to be as good a leader and fighter like my father. Inever expected the position of leader to be thrust upon me so soon, but it has, and I will lead to the best of his ability, mirroring my father's teachings, whether his ghost likes it or not. I look forward to killing more Imperial Legionnaires.
Updated History:
I was promoted to General by Ulfric Stormcloak for my success in Falkreath. I was given the same authority as Galmar, and I'm personally responsible for the actions of the Necro Nords. I changed his appearance slightly after my promotion, changing my war paint to a blue swirl on my right cheek, and trimmed my beard down. I allowed the Dunmer people to join if they proved to have the skill. This was how I chose to honor Reval. Some people suggested that we change the name since it was no longer all Nord, but I at first couldn't think of a better name, so it stayed for a while. Eventually I started referring to the new Dunmer soldiers as "Draugr Dunmer". Because of this, when people spoke of the force as a whole, they would refer to them as the "Grim Ones" which became their unofficial title. I was donned with a black cape with the Windhelm bear symbol on it in silver. It was attached under my shoulder pauldrons. My cape was enchanted with fire resistance, and my two axes were enchanted with lightning damage.
I encountered Lorgar, occasionally playing games of cat and mouse in the woods. He had grown to be a troublesome figure, often sniping stormcloak men, ambushing supply lines, and even sniping at me a few times. Some of the greener members of the Stormcloaks started calling him the Darkened Archer out of fear, and the name stuck ever since. I tried taunting the man by pretending to be alone, and bringing up his men who were killed, but Lorgar showed that he learned from his mistakes, and I was not able to lure him in a trap. I never got a chance to speak to him in person, only catching glimpses of him from time to time. The attacks eventually ceased, and I was then sent to Whiterun to investigate the rumors of Tullius and Balgruuf organizing attacks on the men there. I could not find anything behind the random attacks however, which seemed to be mainly random bandit and mercenary attacks, but after my "Grim Ones" killed enough of them, the attacks eventually halted. I trained with the Companions during that time after persuading them with much coin since they normally did not assist non Companion members. During that time, I became a lot better with my axes and became much more nimble in my heavy armor.
Miscellaneous: I never did get involved with tavern wenches like I originally planned partly due to my new rank, and partly due to Rebec, who I got to know better during our trip to Solitude. I started realizing I was getting too old to be sleeping around without developing feelings, and I began to develop some for Rebec, although I never told her about them at the time, as she was a free spirit.
Motives: I am deeply loyal to the Stormcloaks, Nord and Dunmer alike. I still hate the legion for the Talos ban and for trying to take my land's new freedom, as well as for causing me to kill my father. I no longer distrust Dunmer at all due to Reval's death. I am in love with High Admiral Rebec Red-Eye, now Rebec Red-Snow, my wife. My best friend is Boldir Iron-Brow.
Skills: My skills are Block, One handed, light armor, heavy armor, and two handed. Primarily I use one handed, but I was trained in two handed combat by my father as well.
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Name: Jodun Hunding
Gender: Male
Race: Redguard
Faction: Hammerfell Soldiers
Rank: Commander
Age: 45
Appearance: Brown light skin, almost Imperial looking. His grandma was a Nord, and his grandpa was a Redguard. His father because of this was light in appearance, and looked more Nord than Redguard. Jodun's mom however was full Redguard. This is why Jodun looks so light for a Redguard. Hair is low cut, very short. Has green eyes, and a goatee. Has a long horizontal scar across his face on his nose and under his eyes. From a scimitar strike. 6 foot 2 inches tall. Very athletic and muscular.
Equipment: Leather armor like the thieves guild. Arms showing.
Two ebony scimitars sheathed on his back. Ebony dagger strapped to his boot.
Personality: Polite always, level headed, cunning and calculating.
Motives: Doesn't hate the Legion, but he does dislike them for abandoning Hammerfell. He sees the Nords as the enemy of his enemy, and that's it. He will die helping them fight only because them being around keeps the legion out of Hammerfell for now. And the Thalmor.
History: Father was an Alik'r mercenary. Mother was a stay at home mom. Jodun's father taught him the way of the sword the way the Redguard knew it, and taught him a little magic as well in alteration. Jodun then joined the Hammerfell resistance at 19 years of age and fought against the Thalmor for the whole five years until they left. His brother at the age of 17 was killed during that time. Jodun blames himself for allowing it to happen. He was captured by the Thalmor and forced to give up information, but he had nothing of value, so they killed him. Jodun never saw him after his capture, but he assumes his brother is dead, which he is. His father is now retired and living peacefully with his mother in Stros M'Kai.
Skills: Expert swordsman, decent in alteration magic, enough to know advanced armor spells and telekinesis. Only able to lift small objects like his swords.
UnrivaledAssault
Spoiler Name: Velan Quintus
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Height: 6 ft. 4 in.
Weight: 275 lbs.
Race: Imperial
Faction: Legion
Rank: Quaestor
Appearance: Velan is a very large, muscular guy. He can look intimidating to say the least. He has short dark hair, which is kept well. He has a few small scars littered across his body, including one on his left cheek.
Equipment:
Standard Imperial Sword & Shield
Standard Imperial Armor (Heavy)
A healing potion
Personality: Velan is a friendly guy who loves to converse with his fellow soldier. In battle, he is a fierce fighter who will gladly die for his fellow Legionnaire. He is of average intelligence. He understands strategies, but isn’t likely to come up with one on his own, other than kill everything that is attacking. He works extremely well in a group, and is good at keeping morale up. As for morals, you could say his are a little above average. He himself wouldn’t use torture or other ruthless tactics, but he understands that his superiors may, and he doesn’t complain.
Motives: His father was a soldier in the Legion. His father’s father was in the Legion. So he joined the Legion. He has been raised seeing the love his father had for the legion, and now he too understands the love. He fights for the Empire, and all of its citizens.
Thoughts on the Thalmor: He doesn’t really care for them. He is a soldier of the Imperial Legion, and nothing more. He doesn’t like to be ordered around by anyone except other, higher ranking, members of the Legion. He won’t openly defy a Thalmor though, unless his superiors told him to of course.
Skills: One Handed, Blocking, Hand to Hand, Heavy Armor, and is a decent smith. Well, decent enough to sharpen his sword and repair his armor anyways.
Background: Velan has been groomed for the Legion his whole life. He was born an only child to two good parents. His father has been heavily training him for the Legion since he was about 7 years old. At about 15, he was already bigger than his father. He was a lot stronger too.
At about 20 years old, Velan joined the Legion. He was noted for being an excellent soldier, and within months, was promoted. He was promoted up to Quaestor. However, after he had performed excellent at that rank, he was offered a promotion. He promptly turned them down, saying he would never leave his brothers on the front line. He also said that he wasn’t good at leading people anyways.
So for the past 14 years, he has been a stellar soldier on the front lines in many battles for the Imperial Legion, and is well respected for it. And Velan wouldn’t have it any other way.
Spoiler Name: Eduard Laenius
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Height: 5 ft. 10 in.
Weight: 190 lbs.
Race: Imperial
Faction: Legion
Rank: Specialist
Appearance: Appears very lean, and very fit. He has a couple scars on his back, but he wouldn’t tell you why. He has medium length, dark hair. It comes down just above his eyes in the front. He is very fast on his feet.
Equipment (Weapons, armor, etc) : This is completely dependent on the mission. This is all the equipment he owns though:
2 Orcish Daggers. One has a paralyze enchantment, the other is unenchanted.
An Elven Bow with a Paralyze Enchantment
2 Ebony Scimitars
Standard set of Imperial Armor (Light Armor to be specific)
Custom set of Hooded Leather Armor (It is a very dark blue, almost black)
A couple of already prepared poisons, and a few ingredients to create more.
Personality: On the outside, he appears to be very charming and sociable. He is not shy about sharing his opinion or his emotions, for the most part. On the inside, he is machine-like. What I mean by this is that he is perpetually thinking. He will go over his own strategy numerous times before it is finalized, and he is very critical of himself. He loathes making mistakes, and sometimes doesn’t deal with it well. That is why he prefers to works alone, or at the least with a small group. So he can basically only blame himself. On the topic of morals, you would say his are pretty low. He has no problem with torture, assassination, framing others, or other ruthless behaviors. However, this is only if he sees it absolutely necessary. As for how selfish he is, he is about in the middle. He likes to think of himself first, but if it comes down to it, he may lay down his life for the Legion.
Motives: His original motives for joining the Legion was to get gold and women. He was under the impression that’s why everyone joins. After joining, he found new motivation. He began to love the Legion. As of now, he is in the Legion to protect himself and others, by any means necessary. However, that doesn’t mean a good amount of gold or a pretty lady won’t motivate him. A deeper motivation that he would never admit to himself is that he hopes to use the gold he makes to give his sister a great life.
Thoughts on the Thalmor: Eduard envies the Thalmor for the most part. He sees there methods as brilliant, and there tactics interesting. However, he doesn’t care for their goals. He also isn’t one to take many orders from them. He is a member of the Legion first, the Empire second.
Skills: Archery, One-Handed, Sneak, Speech, Lockpicking, Pickpocket, Light Armor, and a little bit of Alchemy (only has knowledge of poisons though).
Background: He was born into an alright home. He has a younger sister, who is about 8 years younger than him. He cares for her more than he does himself. His father, a hunter, raised him to be an excellent archer. He surpassed his dad in skill by the age of 15. His mother was very smart, and he often studied history and other subjects with her. His favorite subjects have always been war and the strategies used in them. He is very well read as a result.
He led a pretty normal life until he was 20 years of age. One day, he came to find out that his father had been killed by a bear during a hunting trip. Then about six months later, his mother was killed by a passing bandit while he was out on a hunting trip, trying to take the place of his father. After that, it was just him and his sister. After performing odd jobs, some of them legal, some of them not so, he managed to get himself a home and someone to care for his sister while he was away. He did this for about 5 years.
At 25, Eduard joined the Imperial Legion so that he would have a steady source of income. He is noted to have the following traits by the Legion: an extraordinary shot, very stealthy, and intelligent. Another thing that was once noted about him is that while he loves to be with groups, he usually performs better alone, or in a small group.
Soduh2
Spoiler Name: Titus Al-Nazzir
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Race: Redguard
Faction: Legion
Rank: Tribune
Appearance: 6' 1", 190 lbs, youngish face. trimmed hair.
Equipment (Weapons, armor, etc) : Legion heavy armor, scimitar (inherited from his father) health and stamina absorb enchantments, Long Bow
Backstory/History: His maternal grandfather was the Imperial General Titus Philippi, a major force in the great war against the Aldmeri Dominion. He was among the imperial forces in Hammerfell until the secession. Titus' family moved from Hammerfell after they seceded from the empire, as a result he was born and raised in Cyrodiil. On both sides of his family he comes from a long line of Legionnaires. His father was a Legate and his Mother is/was a healer for the Legion army.
Titus was trained in swordmanship by his father since he was a child, becoming fairly adept in skill prior to his enlistment at the age of 17 and effectively mastering one-handed weapons by age 21. He was also trained in the restorative arts briefly by his mother; he lacked the patience for some of the more powerful spells but he's capable of healing himself, others, and producing wards. He was able to ascend to the Tribune rank through his family's wealth and education rather than his actual combat experience. Despite the appearance of nepotism, he has proven capable in combat by leading the defenses around the Imperial City.
Personality: Somewhat pretentious, thinks that his family's connections to the legion warrents him some special treatment. Extremely loyal to the legion and his fellow legionnaires; he is actually more loyal to the legion than he is to the Empire itself. He is critical of the white gold concordat and is an enemy of the Thalmor.
Motives: To become a general like his grandfather (an Imperial) before him.
Skills: One handed, Heavy armor, Archery, and some minor restoration skills.
Backstory leading up to war in Skyrim:
He was actually prepared to deploy to Skyrim during the civil war, but after the death of the Emperor Titus Mede he was stationed in the imperial city to provide defense for the New Emperor Amanund Morteierre. Al-Nazzir leads a squadron of specialized Legionnaires which he handpicked called the Cloaked Daggers. These legionnaires specialize in sneak, illusion, athletics and archery; reportedly consisting of former members of the Dark Brotherhood. One on one, he can take these legionnaires on with his Mastery of One-handed weapons and imposing size, but together they can turn on him easily. What’s worse, their services also don’t come cheap. While he organized this squadron he could only afford to bring eight soldiers along with him to Skyrim, less than 10% of everyone he hired. In order to not go completely bankrupt he’s hoping that his success in Skyrim will reimburse him for his efforts, and of course elevate him to Legate rank. The squadron hopes he will be reimbursed also, or else they might have to consider “job hunting”.
With the fall of the IX legion, he was among the Legionnaires sent to reinforce the presence of Legionnaires in Skyrim.
I plan on role playing for the cloaked dagger characters as well, but their allegiance to Al-Nazzir isn’t really strong. If someone decides to motivate them to change sides go ahead and take control of them.
Tdroid
Spoiler Name: Samuel
Race: Male Imperial, Colovian
Appearance: Tall, dark brown hair, pale skin
Trade: Very wealthy trader from Cyrodiil, have less public ties to the East Empire Company among others.
Product: Information
Skills: Trained in light armor usage and with a sword and shield, but his primary ability is his business sense.
Always travels with a few mercenaries: A Nord warrior(nordic steel equipment, heavy armor and a warhammer), an Orc warrior(orcish battleaxe and armor) and a Breton mage(robed)
Personality: Tries to stay as neutral as possible in business, with few loyalties. Arrogant. Vague description, but I prefer show to tell.
Belongings: An ebony sword, this armor without the helmet. A ring that slowly heals him(not something that will have any particular effect in combat, but if you leave him to die he might just get back up later).
Spoiler Name: Alef(not her real name)
Race: Female Dunmer
Appearance: 5,6", black hair, slight build. Often wearing a frown.
Skills: Trained in some basic stealth and archery, but, like Samuel, her best ability is trading and speech.
She is a bit blunt at times, but tries to not offend anyone, considering her risky line of work. Always accompanied by mercenaries to further her safety.
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Name: Honmund
Race: Male Nord
Home: Solstheim
Backstory: Born to a pair in Thirsk, but ran away at the age of 15. He was picked up by a band of Reavers and raised to be one of them, before he took charge of the band 5 years later. Has his pendant from his family. Has dealt with Samuel and his contracts before, mostly common trading of money and resources.
Age: 30
Personality: Brutal, but surprisingly sophisticated for his background. "Show, don't tell".
Skills: A very skilled wielder of his trusty Bloodaxe and heavy armor. A stronger, faster and more enduring warrior than most, with a knack for crippling enemies while fighting.
Equipment: Nordic Carved armor, Bloodaxe(nordic battleaxe with a damage enchantment), Thirsk Pendant(increased resistance to magic).
Appearance: Tall and bulky, like many Nords, with long dark blond hair that has a few braids. Thich, but not overly long beard.
EmperorCharles
Spoiler Name: Lord Osgumund Kitaneth of Alinor
Gender: Male
Age: 231
Race: High Elf
Faction: Thalmor/Imperial Inquisition
Rank: Officially: Colonel-Inquisitor
Appearance: Yes, I know this is Ondolemar, but they look pretty much the same, because they are cousins. Although, Osgumund doesn't have a white beard because Ondolemar is about 30 years older than him. Also, Osgumund is a few inches taller than Ondolemar (Osgumund is 6"5')
Equipment (Weapons, armor, etc): Conjure Dremora, Conjure Flame Thrall/Atronach, all fire destruction spells. Also, as high as fast close wounds, and he occasionally uses Fury and Calm.
Personality: Nationalism for the Dominion runs like fire through his blood, and he will stand up for his beliefs and his country at any cost. He likes spending time discussing politics with fellow Altmer, but if he has to, he will talk about it with Imperials. Also, he is EXTREMELY religious. He is very respectful to his betters, and knows his place.
Loves to read and write and take long walks. Very adventurous and very intelligent.
Background/History: Born in 3E 403, he was the 8th and youngest child of Lord and Lady Kitaneth of Alinor (the city). He had a wonderful childhood full of opportunities for education, and studied the schools of conjuration and destruction. However, his parents were extremely busy with helping establish their new fledgling nation, and he was merely a lowly Thalmor Mage. He has always had a great relationship with his cousin, Ondolemar, until Ondolemar's death in 4E 202. Osgumund has vowed to avenge his closest relative's death and to kill as many Stormcloaks as posible.
During the Great Anguish, he enlisted in the ranks of the Thalmor, and fought the invading Daedric Hordes. He helped with the defense of the Crystal Tower, and almost lost his life for his country on that day, if it were not for the wisdom of his great teacher, Esgaron the Wise, who taught him almost everything he knows about Conjuration. His life was spared that day. He continued his learning at 7 of Alinor's (the country) best universities. After serving the Thalmor faithfully for 181 years, he was sent to Skyrim as a high-ranking member of the Imperial Inquisition. He works closely with his closest friend, Lieutenant-Colonel Justiciar Valandil Ramani. He has also been working with Ambassador Elenwen and High-Inquisitor Indoril on a very high profile and top secret project.
He was stationed in the quiet town of Morthal when the civil war ended, and when Morthal was captured, he and his group of about 8 people disappeared and moved into a cave outside of town. They are currently (as in, before part 2 starts) planning a daring escape into Falkreath Hold to wait for the legion of Imperial reinforcements of which Osgumund has been attached to.
His title explained: You may be thinking, "I thought he was the youngest of 8, how could he possibly have achieved the title of Lord?" Well my answer to you is this: when he moved up the ranks in the Thalmor Party to Inquisitor, he was granted the title of nobility, and was given a sizable plot of land outside of the city of Alinor, near his parents' estate. Due to the fact that he has been busy in Skyrim for the last 21 years, he has not found the time to build his estate yet, but in five years, when he is permitted by the High-Inquisitor to return home, he will begin building. Until then, the property is not legal for anyone to build any structure of any kind on the property without Lord Kitaneth's consent.
His Group: People under his command consist of 8 people in all, they are: 3 Thalmor Guardians (people who are sent with high ranking Thalmor officials, kind of like bodyguards) 3 Thalmor Archers (who do exactly what their name implies, but if ordered to, they can switch close range melee combat) 2 Thalmor Scouts (they scout for places to set up camp, nearby Stormcloak camps or patrols to be aware of, finding food for the group when it is on the road, etc.). Along with his group, his close friend and long time colleague, Lord Valandil Ramani, who has a group of 7 people under his command, including: 3 Thalmor Guardians, 3 Thalmor Scouts, and 2 Thalmor Archers. Lord Ramani's group is not technically subject to Lord Kitaneth's orders, but they are so casual that no one really cares.
Motives: He is a fierce nationalist and is sent to Skyrim to watch the Imperials and the Nords.
Skills: Illusion, Conjuration, Destruction, Restoration
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Name: Lord Valindil Ramani of Sunhold
Gender: Male
Age: 230
Race: High-Elf
Faction: Imperal Inqusiton
Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Justiciar
Appearance: http://i.imgur.com/a6krTiB.jpg?1
Equipment (Weapons, armor, etc): Full Thalmor uniform
Weapons: Elven dagger
Spells: all storm spells except lightning storm, conjure storm atronach. (If you want to see a whole list of his and Osgumund's spells, PM me)
Personality: very tolerant, bookworm, he's not as adventurous as his friend Osgumund, but he does love an adventure every once in a while.
Background/History: a year younger than Osgumund, they both met in 3E 418, when the two were both attending classes in Conjuration at the Crystal Tower.
Motives: sent by the Imperial Inquisition to aid Colonel-Inquisitor Osgumund in his work in Skyrim.
Skills: Destruction, Illusion, Restoration
Spoiler Name: Ra'Jahirr
Gender: Male
Age: 39
Race: Khajiit
Faction: Thalmor
Rank: Undecover Thalmor Agent
Appearance: He is the "http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/images/5941-1-1326367631.jpg" photo
Equipment (Weapons, armor, etc) : Glass dagger hidden in his boot. He wears http://images.uesp.net/1/18/SR-icon-clothing-BrownRobes.png most of the time, but he possesses a set of Elven armor that he keeps hidden in his house
Personality: Likes to dress flamboyantly when in public, and often wears elegant robes to show off his status. He loves to attend galas and balls of the elite and the rich. He is very intelligent and always has a book on him. He is very good at winning people over through persuasion and flattery.
Background/History: He comes from a very powerful and rich family in Pelletine, near the city of Senchal, that advocated for an alliance with the Dominion. When Osgumund was sent to Skyrim and was building up his huge web of informants, he contacted Ra'Jahirr's family because they are well known for being very influential in politics. Ra'Jahirr volunteered to become a Thalmor spy and report to Osgumund what was happening in Cyrodiil. He became Osgumund's number one source of information from Cyrodiil.
Motives: His motives are to help the kingdoms of Elsweyr and the Dominion to become better allies, so he helps the Thalmor in whatever way he can. He does this by helping a member of the Imperial Inquisition, Lord Osgumund Kitaneth.
Skills: Speech, One-handed, illusion
Witchking of Angmar
Spoiler Name: Witch-king
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown (before recorded history)
Race: Nord (Nede)
Faction: Stormcloak Fort Amol Garrison
Rank: Lieutenant
Appearance: Long black hair, grey eyes, medium thick beard, scar on the right cheek, tall and heavy built.
Equipment: Steel plate gauntlets and boots and a thick timeworn black hooded robe and a stalhrim sword with frost enchantment.
Personality: Likes magical power. Shows little to no emotions and speaks concisely. Has a cold calculating mind and can be very patient. But can also be quick to anger if asked too much about his past. Hates all elves except orcs and will nearly always refuse to talk to them if he doesn't kill them on sight.
Background/History: Born in the northern parts of Skyrim in an era long forgotten. His family and friends got slaughtered by elves and thus turned to magic and dark arts to take vengeance on elven-kind. It was also during this time he forsaked his old name and started to call himself the Witch-king. With this magical power he killed all mer he came upon, trapping their souls and consuming them through dark magic to prolong his own life. During this time he managed to gather an army and later run a whole kingdom. After killing mer for a few hundreds of years, he grew tired of the world used his magic to put himself in a dreamless sleep. He awoke after the oblivion crisis and now tries to find a new path in life but is still haunted by memories of the dead and his hatred for elves. But the long sleep has also taken its toll as he has lost most of his power and is in a weakened state and now seek to regain his former might.
The recent battles with the Stormcloaks hasn't changed him much, he sees it just as another war. Though he does feel a bit uncomfortable with not being the king who leads everyone. He did make a raven he captured into his companion, whom he named Karsh. Using magic to train the raven so it became smarter and able to understand humans to a much larger degree and altering the ravens body so it became stronger and more agile. So far the process have proven succesful and are now doing delicate experiments trying to make so the raven can rely more detailed information, he does this by utilizing his knowledge of Mephala. Thus giving Karsh the ability to whisper to him. But so far the experiments haven't been fruitful.
Motives: As he hates elves, he especially hates the Dominion. He thinks the Empire is too incompetent and too slow to attack the Dominion. So he supports the Stormcloaks for their stance on fighting the Dominion now and to not let them recuperate. Also have a slight addiction to magical power and is not afraid of doing horrible things to reach this power.
Skills: Master in conjuration, good with destruction and illusion and the other schools. Also decent with heavy armor and one-handed weapons.
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Spoiler Name: Gracchus Quintus Ceno
Gender: Male
Race: Imperial
Age: 51
Born: 4E 150
Height: 6'1"
Rank: Legate
Appearance: Gruff looking, with a salt and pepper colored goatee, short white and gray hair in a military style cut, piercing green eyes, medium muscularity, and several small scars on his face and hands.
Personality: A no nonsense soldier, who takes orders and follows them. Rule follower to the letter, he executes his orders with extreme precision. He despises failure and is an extreme perfectionist. He has his own ideas about how thing should be, but keeps these thoughts separated for his soldier thoughts. Extremely proud of his service, and is very patriotic.
Skills: Destruction, One-Handed, Heavy Armor
Armor/Clothes: Traditional set of heavy imperial armor, with a brown hood.
Weapons: Destruction spells, Steel War-Axe
Misc Items: His families ring, passed on from father to son; gold with an emerald set in the middle, the same color as his eyes.
History: Born to a pair of poor farmers near the Imperial City, he left to join the legion as soon as he turned 18. Before he left his father gave him the family ring, the only real thing of value ever owned by his family. He cherished it deeply, and continues to think of his family even after they passed away several years ago. Gracchus was always skilled in destruction magic, ever since he was little and learned his first spell from a book that fell off of a passing caravan cart, so he joined a Battlemage unit. Unfortunately for him, the Great War broke out soon after he joined, and was whisked away to fight the invading Aldmeri forces. He fought hard and brave in his unit, and by the time the Battle of Red Ring ended, he had established himself as a premier Battlemage. He continued to serve in the Legion for years, before being deployed to fight the Stormcloaks in Skyrim.
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Name: Pilus Rato
Gender: Male
Race: Imperial
Age: 39
Height: 6'0"
Rank: Quaestor
Appearance: Looks young, but his laugh lines are visible around his mouth, and the onset of wrinkles is a tale-tell sign of his aging. Has medium length brown hair, brown eyes, and is overall a handsome man. Pilus has a clean shaven face, and prefers to keep it that way.
Personality: All smiles is the best way to describe Pilus. Even when the situation is dire, and most have lost hope, Pilus continues to keep on smiling, usually joking, to try and keep spirits up. Very friendly, and loves to joke around with his fellow battlemages.
Skills: Destruction, Restoration, Alteration, One-handed, Sneak
Armor/Clothes: Studded Leather Imperial Armor
Weapons: Imperial steel sword
History: Born to well off parents, they sent him early to train and hone in his magical ability. He joined the legion early, and fit in well with his fellow battlemages. He operates differently than most of his fellow battlemages, sacrificing protection for maneuverability. He is skilled at staying hidden, and prefers attacking from the shadows. He is great friends with Legate Gracchus, with whom he had shared many adventures. Gracchus has sent him to oversee the guerrilla effort in Falkreath hold, hoping to drive the Imperials back.
The Good Doctor
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Name: Boldir Iron-Brow
Gender: Male
Age: 41
Race: Nord
Faction: Stormcloaks, Necro Nord
Rank: Captain
Appearance: Roughly 6'6, has shoulder length black hair and a thick mid-length beard. Has blue eyes and no war paint. Built well and very heavily muscled. He also has a long sscar along his left cheek, the result of an arrow barely missing him.
Equipment (Weapons, armor, etc) : Weilds a Carved-Nordic Battle Axe and carries a Carved-Nordic war axe and shield on his back for backup. Like all Necro-Nords, he wears full Carved Nordic armor with his own custom full-faced Quicksilver and Iron Helm. He wears a traditional Blue Stormcloak sash over his armor.
Personality: Boldir is a very reserved Nord. He rarely speaks to people who aren't his comrades. To most civilians, he appears to be somewhat scary. Even though he's actually a fairly polite man to people he knows. But social interaction isn't really his strong suit. The truth is that he has little in his life outside of his Stormcloak brethren, and so, the only times he is happy are the times he spends with them, even in battle. He's not usually a source of jokes and merriment, but he can play the flute, and so he does occasionally play some tunes for his Stormcloak brothers and sisters, who, unlike most people, welcome him as a loved brother. Boldir isn't generally racist, and he looks at people based on their beliefs and affiliations rather than their race. He would trust a Stormcloak Elf over a neutral Nord any day. He has a secret fear of the undead, which he finds completly unnatural, but that doesn't stop him from fighting them if called to. He doesn't mind magic as long as it is only destruction, restoration, or alteration. He hates those who rely on undead or trickery to win battles. Since Falkreath, Boldir has become more of a leader than before. He is angry because of a love he couldn't experience, and is now somewhat depressed. He doesn't show it though. All he outwardly shows is an increasingly impressive ability to manage and lead, a quality he never knew he had until a recent series of promotions.
Background/History: Boldir's father, Ymir, was a Nord who served as a Captain in the Imperial Army. He never got to know his mother, Moira, as she disappeared when he was only two. He likes to believe that her reasons for leaving were justified. Anyway, he was born in Shor's Stone. His father raised him as a single parent until he was called to action to fight in the Great War. He never returned. Boldir's uncle, Filnjar raised him in his father's stead. Young Boldir knew very little of the events related to the Great War, and Filnjar did little to assist in this area. In fact, other than put a roof over his head, Filnjar did very little for Boldir (although watching Filnjar did teach Boldir how to smith). As years passed, Boldir's memory of his father grew faint. And eventually, all that he really rembered was his father's appearance, and his position in the Legion. There were no heirlooms to remember him by, and no known will was ever found. Filnjar legally owned most of their assets anyway.
When Boldir was 18, he joined the Legion. He wanted to believe it was so that he could be like his father, or so that he could help fight tyranny, but in truth, he was bored out of his mind in Shor's Stone. During training, he learned to fight with a sword and shield, but he rarely saw combat outside of occasionally being called upon from his garrison at Riften to fight bandits. He was only in the Legion for several months when a fellow Legionare spotted him openly praying to Talos and quickly stopped him. You see, Boldir had never actually learned of the terms of the White Gold Concordat, and his father had instilled in him the belief in Talos. When he learned of the Legion's cowardice, and the fact that his father had died for nothing, Boldir was outraged, but he didn't want to return to Shor's Stone. He remained in the Legion for some time until he heard of a political and military faction of like-minded people known as the Stormcloaks, who were based in Eastmarch. He headed north straight away and proudly signed up. Ulfric, their leader, was accepting of the open worship of Talos, and also felt that accepting the Concordat's terms was a cowardly and even blasphemous thing to do. Boldir never spoke to Ulfric directly, but in his younger years he took in everything that the man said in his speeches.
During his time among the Stormcloaks, he made quite a few friends. One, a Nord named Beirlan would end up becoming his best friend. Beirlan fought with a battle axe, "the choice weapon of Ysgramor" he'd call it. The two would remain close as kin. It was Beirlan who taught Boldir how to play the flute. Life in the Stormcloaks was good for Boldir. He had friends and he had a cause. Eventually, conflicts would emerge between the Stormcloaks and Imperials. He and Beirlan were both part of a company of 20. That company was sent to the Eastmarch/Whiterun border to ambush an Imperial caravan. It was found camped out around a broken carriage and so the mission was accomplished easily enough with only two soldiers wounded. The Captain had only just opened his mouth to say that it was too easy when a volley of arrows came from a nearby ledge, killing 11 Stormcloaks, including Beirlan as well as the Captain. Boldir was fortunate enough to be missed. A robed High Elf and six armored archers emerged. Before any of the Cloaks could move, 6 more were shot, including the wounded. Boldir and the remaining 2 charged the Elves, the leader just smiled and used a recall spell, vanishing on the spot. The remaining 6 barely had time to move before the Cloaks were on them. None were spared. This was Boldir's first encounter with the Thalmor. Boldir took up Beirlan's fighting-style, in memory of his fallen friend. He found it better suited to him anyway, and his skill with a battle axe progressed quickly.
When Ulfric was captured, and the executions in Helgen commenced, Boldir was there beside them. By this point, he hated the Legion almost as much as the Thalmor, and he was honored to die alongside Ulfric. When Alduin intervened, Boldir was the first to break loose, and quickly unbound Ulfric along with two other prisoners before a meteor knocked him to the ground. When he got up, he saw his kinsmen slam the door to a tower shut. He ran for the nearest Imperial corpse and took his sword. In the confusion, he managed to reach the main gate, which was locked, but that wasn't his issue. He was looking for Ulfric. As he searched desperately, the Dragon continued to wreck havoc on soldiers from both sides. It took the Dragon send a ball of flame straight for Ulfric for Boldir to spot him. Fortunately, a fellow Cloak pushed Ulfric out of the way and used dead Legionairs as shields from the flames. Ulfric blasted open the main gate and along with the few remaining Stormcloaks. A band of 4 Imperial archers pursued. Boldir quickly set upon them, killing two immediately befor a third just missed a killing shot by sending an arrow just past his cheek, brushing it and cutting him open (this would lead to him forging a full-face helmet in the future). Boldir killed the remaining two and quickly followed the remaining Stormcloaks.
During the war, Boldir would participate in the Battles of Whiterun, Markarth, and Solitude. It was during the battle of Whiterun that he got the name Iron-Brow; by headbutting an Imperial Commander so hard that he fell on his own sword, dying instantly. He would also travel to Korvanjuund, where he had the third-highest undead kill count, after Galmar, and someone Galmar called Unblooded. During several conflicts, he would be assigned to follow Captain Baldur Red-Snow, whom he recognized as the hero in Helgen. Serving under Baldur lead him to respect the man deeply, and he would gladly lay down his life not only for his cause, but for the Captain himself, who he sees as a good friend and counselor.
Since the recent events in Falkreath, Boldir has met a woman in Whiterun who he thought he could settle down with some day. When she turned him down, he took it hard. Boldir never showed it though. Since then, he's been promoted to Captain. Over the months, he's traveled all over Skyrim to gather the forces to garrison Orphan Rock in preparation for the upcoming Legion invasion. He's overseen the rebuilding of Helgen and Skybound Watch. Neugrad's repairs were also completed under his supervision.
Motives: Boldir cares little for his own personal gain, but the idea of people not being allowed to worship the greatest of their gods angers him. In fact, lots of the things the Empire have done angers him. The fact that he grew up without his father thanks to his service (which Boldir sees as useless) motivated Boldir to hate the Legion even more. He also serves out of strict loyalty to Baldur, whom he sees as not only an ideal leader, but a brother.
Skills: Prefers two-handed weapons, but is equally skilled with one-handed, both styles he compliments with skill in blocking. Boldir learned the art of blacksmithing from his uncle, but the only items he uses that he crafted himself are his helmet and his battleaxe. He is comfortable in both heavy and light armor, but tends to use heavy. While his size and equipment tends to make sneaking difficult, he can be surprisingly stealthy for his size when not encumbered.
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Name: Jonus Rato
Gender: Male
Race: Imperial
Age: 33
Faction: Falkreath Civilians
Appearance: 5'11", light skin for an Imperial, but not as light as a typical Nord's. he has brown hair that hangs just over his ears. He has dark green eyes and a neatly trimmed beard. His most noteworthy feature is a nose that was obviously broken at some point in the past.
Personality: Untrusting, but it's often justified. He is prone to anger easily, and this sometimes leads to brash and unthought out decisions. He is clever though, and when he keeps a calm head he accomplishes a lot.
Skills: Sneak and speech
Equipment: A steel dagger and regular clothes.
Background: Jonus was born to a typical farming family in Cyrodil. His parents split up when he was 14, with his father leaving him and his mother for his native country of Skyrim. At age 24, he left his mother and her farm to go to Skyrim, hoping to find his father. Instead, he ended up falling in love with a Nord woman named Jytia. Who he met in Falkreath. He married her and they started a farm of their own in southern Skyrim. Unfortunately, Jytia died from blood poisoning two years later, leaving Jonus alone with nothing but his farm. When the Stormcloaks burned it down and moved him to Falkreath, he was distraught. He hasn't been happy with the Falkreath situation, and has little patience for the Stormcloaks. He never cared for the Imperials one way or another before the war. But now, with them at the Stormcloaks' front door, he's beginning to wonder if they aren't a worthy alternative to his current leadership.
Celan
Spoiler Gender: Female
Age: 32
Race: Nord
Birthsign: Thief
Faction: Stormcloak
Rank: High Admiral
Appearance: Brown hair, medium height, warrior build, ruddy skin, blue eyes; visual reference http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01291/rebecca_hall_1291486i.jpg
Equipment: Worn leathers with corundum buckles and trim (similar to Thieves Guild armor), ebony dagger strapped to her thigh, ebony war axe with frost enchantment; a whalebone magic resist amulet inscribed with the Atmoran hawk totem, a redguard ring with Serpent lesser power (gift from Jodun), and a silver ring enchanted for health. In battle she wears a chainmail tunic and Stormcloak surcoat, adds a Skyforge steel war axe, and carries a crossbow lashed to her back. Sometimes carries a lasso for scaling rigging or in combat uses. She can also be seen wearing a grey-blue seacloak, embroidered with Ulfric's bear insignia and trimmed in snowy-sabrecat fur.
Personality: mostly cheerful, rough-shod, opportunistic, skeptical of authority
Background/History:
Named for the famed Boat-Thane of Ysgramor and recently appointed High Admiral of Skyrim’s royal navy, Rebec still feels she is living down early failures that doomed her first ship and disappointed her family, who have been sailors and independent traders as long as anyone can remember.
She’s not the brooding type, however, and her new career as fighting sailor is a perfect evolution of her experience, except for the fact that she thinks rules are made to be broken. The removal of Thane Erikur from Skyrim’s smuggling network had also left her fingers tingling. But with the blockade and her appointment to admiral, she threw herself into the task of reducing the Imperial Navy blockade ships to toothpicks. “Nobody comes to my puddle and tells me I can’t cross.”
Shortly before her appointment to admiral, her ship was destroyed. High King Ulfric promised her a new one, but for the time being she is grounded. Her brother, Vilnur Salt-Beard, came out of his retirement in Sentinel and joined his ship to the merchant auxiliaries of the royal navy. Along with him come redguard volunteers who've agreed to fight in Skyrim in order to get the chance to kill Thalmor. One of these is Rebec’s young niece Suri. True to her promise to help the Grim Ones, and with news of an invasion at Pale Pass, Rebec asked permission to go with the redguard to aid in the defense of Falkreath.
Rebec’s husband Toki was missing for nearly three years, and recently Rebec got the news that he had been killed in the Reach by men loyal to Jarl Igmund. He was a traveling tinker in Hjaalmarch and the Reach, and after noticing a pattern of dead bodies in remote areas, began to suspect that the jarl was poisoning wells in Forsworn territory. After he spoke out about it in Markarth, the jarl sent men to ambush him in the wilds near Dushnikh Yal.
In the meantime, war had brought Rebec together with Baldur Red-Snow, and as Dominion forces bore down upon them in Falkreath, the admiral found companionship and love again with him. The two married before the priest of Arkay, and after a fierce duel, Rebec agreed to make a new start and take his name as her own.
Motives: money, drink, independence, loyalty to her crew, hatred of the blockade, battle kinship with the Grim Ones
Skills: one-handed, speech (barter), block, some archery (crossbow)
Spoiler Nord moniker:Snake-Blade
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Birthsign: Serpent
Race: Redguard with Nord father
Faction: Hammerfell
Rank: Apprentice swordsman
Appearance: slim, medium height, light brown skin, long brown hair with a reddish cast, blue eyes
Equipment (Weapons, armor, etc) : Lamellar armor in Hammerfell style with a bronzed (steel + corundum) helmet covered by a jeweled cowl, a gold amulet in the shape of a snake, enchanted for health and luck.; wields a cutlass and round shield of bronzed steel with ornate markings (http://p2.la-img.com/130/17235/5778089_1_l.jpg)
Backstory/History: Suri's mother was a prosperous gem merchant of the Crowns who wed the Nord sea captain Vilnur Salt-Beard- marrying far beneath her, as her family saw it. They disowned her for it, but have come to accept Suri as true redguard. She grew up in Sentinel and has never known a Hammerfell that was not independent. The idea that Cyrods should think themselves fit to rule Ra Gada is inconceivable to her. No family was untouched by the terrible war with the Thalmor, and the scars of the war are still evident everywhere, which has left a deep impression.
She is a serious, solemn young woman. Her highest goal is to train in the ancient arts of redguard swordsmanship, using wits and precision more than brute force. Even though she is proud, her desire to learn makes her willing to accept the authority of proven warriors. She is studious and reads often. Her interest in poisons is an eccentricity, but she can make basic potions as well.
When her aunt Rebec comes asking Suri's father to join Skyrim's resistance and to recruit others, the young redguard sees an opportunity. She wishes to travel and to test her skills in battle against the hated Thalmor. What she previously knew of her father's homeland has only come from stories. So far, the reality is rather less impressive.
Motives: travel, learning, hatred of the Thalmor
Skills: one handed, block, alchemy
Spoiler
Name: Magdela Bathory
Race: Imperial (Colovian)
Age: Appearance mid twenties
Birthsign: Lover
Rank: Daughter of the Count of Skingrad, novelist, courtesan
Physical appearance: 5'9", curvy figure, pale skin; wheat blonde hair cut medium length with large curls; light brown eyes
Clothing: Typically the elegant, tailored clothing of Colovian country nobility, but in society she also wears more exotic, revealing cuts from tailors mimicking Nibenese and southern designs
Background:
The Hassildor family in Skingrad weathered the chaos after the Oblivion Crisis remarkably well, but as the Mede star began to rise, Janus Hassildor voluntarily gave up his seat to an obscure nephew from the Estates. The Bathory family has reigned in County Skingrad every since. The latest Count, Darius Bathory, took over shortly after the signing of the White Gold Concordat. He has an elder son, his heir, and an elder daughter who married a wealthy financier in the Imperial City. It was his youngest daughter Magdela, however, who really took the Imperial City by storm, with the rapid success of her tawdry and controversial novels full of intrigue, romance and danger. Everyone in imperial society imagined themselves a character in a Bathory novel, for good or ill.
The notoriety did not impress old Darius. Magdela was shipped off to High Rock for training in magic and court life, and in latter years she was rumored to be living in the south. Some came back to Cyrodiil claiming she had led them on adventure tours of the wilds of Orcrest, Rimmen and Falinesti, and that she was among those courted by the Thalmor for special supervised visits to Alinor. The occasional novel still appeared, sometimes under pseudonyms, and the obscure whereabouts of the author only increased their popularity.
The murder of Titus Mede II presented a crisis for the Bathory family. The Medes were slow to trust and the family had worked very hard to penetrate their inner circle. With alliances shifting, the prodigal daughter's Dominion connections suddenly became more important. Magdela was summoned back to Cyrodiil and re-entered imperial society. Soon it became an open secret that she was the favored mistress of Emperor Motierre himself. Always, the public clamored for more novels, and imagined that the Colovian beauty's gaze on them meant that they could have her themselves, that she was studying them for write-up, or both. If that gaze was also unsettling for reasons no one could explain, so much the better.
Personality: Aloof and more intelligent than she lets on; to others she appears affectionate, empathetic, sensual, mysterious
Motivations: Loyalty to her extended family and their political network, the game of politics, power
The Pompous Altmer
Spoiler Name: Dalk Real Name: Almon Valtieri
Race: Breton/Bosmer
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Height: 5'10
Weight: 160 lbs
Hair Color: Dark brown
Physical Appearance: Due to a lifetime of training to become a Nightblade, Dalk's body is in peak physical condition, though unlike other warriors he is lean and cut, not huge and bulky. His facial features features are normal for a Breton, though some of the Mer physical traits are little more pronounced than normal. One of his unique facial traits is his almond shaped eyes, which is more common in Mer and very rare in Humans, even for Bretons. The second unique characteristic about his eyes is their color. His eyes are jet black, which is a common eye color for Bosmer, which suggests that one of his parents was a Bosmer. Finally, Dalk has a tattoo of a crescent moon with a dagger next to it and under the symbol is the Ayleid symbol for #1.
Faction: The Order
Skills:
One-Handed
Light Armor
Sneak
Illusion
Alteration
Destruction
Alchemy
Archery
Clothing/Armor: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc5xpk9dPm1r5c64eo1_500.jpg
Weapons: 1) Exquisite Steel Longsword, 2) Exquisite Steel Dagger, 3) 10 Throwing Daggers, and 4) Orcish Bow and 10 Steel arrows, 10 Silver arrows, 10 Light Enchanted Arrows (used like flares to alert and/or call for backup), 5 Fire Enchanted arrows, and 5 Frost Enchanted arrows
Misc Items: Pendant of a crescent moon and a dagger, pouch of 1000 gold, and a flask of a mysterious elixir, (the elixir, once drunk gives the drinker extraordinary abilities like, increased strength, speed, reaction time, and endurance. Its effects wear off after a few minutes and once it does, the drinker slips into unconsciousness).
Personality: When it comes to his personality, it seems that on the outside Dalk doesn't have one. Since his early childhood, Dalk was trained to hide normal emotions like, fear, hate, anger, love, sadness, anxiety, happiness, humor, and other emotions; but on the inside, he is sad and lonely. When he speaks, there is no sense of emotion behind his words. When it comes to the political, social, and economical state of Tamriel, Dalk views it as just another cycle in the waxing and waning of powers.
History: Dalk or Almon Valtieri, was born in some remote mountain valley in High Rock. In the depths of that valley, was the location and headquarters of The Order. A mysterious organization, who's motives are known only to its most high ranking members. One thing it was known for was breeding the ultimate arcane shadow warriors or Nightblades. It was here that Almon learned the ways of magic, stealth, and killing.
During a span of 18 years, Almon did nothing but train, train, and train some more. It seemed that at first that was all his life made for, but once he turned 18, he graduated training and was given his tattoo, armor, weapons and a flask of a mysterious elixir. From then on, he was an official Nightblade, in service to the organization.
For 6 years, Almon gained a reputation as the most deadly Nightblade within The Order. In honor of that reputation, the Ayleid symbol for #1 was tattooed under the initial one. From then on, he only was given assignments of the greatest difficulty and importance. It was within those six years that he met Do'jhul during a mission to assassinate a Legion general. Do'jhul saved Almon from falling over a cliff face and it was at that moment that Almon finally found someone who genuinely befriended him.
For 6 more years, Almon and Do'jhul kept in touch with one another through letters. Also during that time, Almon earned the named Dalk, which in the ancient tongue means “Dagger”, for his deadly and sinister reputation.
For 12 years Almon has been a loyal Nightblade to The Order. Though recently assignments and missions have become increasingly rare due to the unrest in Tamriel. Almon finally caught a break when he received a letter from his best friend Do'jhul asking him to come to Skyrim and help him out......
Spoiler Name: Do'jhul
Gender: Male
Race: Khajiit - Sub-species: Cathay-raht
Age: 33
Faction: Wolf Pack
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Appearance: Do'jhul stands at 7 feet and 4 inches tall. Due to him being a Cathay-raht, Do'jhul's musculature is heavy and compact. He has your typical feline facial features. His fur is thick and is light brown with black spots. The color of his eyes are violet. Do'jhul also has a gold earring on each of his ears and has long scar that starts at the top of his left eye and goes all the way to his jaw line.
Equipment: Do'jhul wears the Wolf Pack's signature Imperial armor with a full wolf pelt, that adds protection and a intimidation factor. For defense, Do'jhul uses a custom sized steel shield. For offensive capabilities, Do'jhul's primary weapon is a Nordic steel/quicksilver longsword. For secondary weapons, Do'jhul also has a steel dagger and finally, he has his claws; which he can use with deadly efficiency.
Personality: Do'jhul for a big guy, is pretty soft spoken, though his voice has a deep guttural tone. Not many things surprise him all that much either. As a Legionnaire, Do'jhul feels a sense of responsibility to protect his fellow comrades-in-arms. He is very calculating and tactical, and never rushes into combat out of fury or bloodlust. He is very helpful to anybody who needs it and is thoughtful towards his fellow Legionnaires. At all times, he has a cool demeanor and relaxed gaze, which makes him seems he never takes anything too seriously.
History: Born in Riverhold, Elsweyr a couple of years before the Great War, Do'jhul didn't have to experience the horror of that time. Do'jhul was born to a fairly well off family in the nicer side of the city. During his most of his childhood, Do'jhul trained and practiced the Khajiiti martial art, Whispering Fang under the tutelage of his grandfather; who was a master in that particular Khajiit fighting style.
At the age of 20, Do'jhul decided to move to Cyrodiil and get away from the comfort of Elsweyr. He eventually settled down in Chorrol and at the age of 21, enlisted in the Imperial Legion. Over the years he was stationed in numerous outposts in the Empire's remaining provinces. He also took part in many skirmishes, but nothing too big. By the time he was 30, Do'jhul had been in the Legion for 9 years and counting.
In 4E 199, Jo'dhul was stationed in Skyrim; in the Hold of Falkreath. During that time, he fought in many skirmishes against the Stormcloaks. Caravan raids, fort battles, you name it.
In months of the Stormcloak's victory against the Empire, Do'jhul joined the counter offensive of the Legion's remaining forces, the Wolf Pack.
Motives: Even though Do'jhul is apart of the Legion, he doesn't necessarily hate the Stormcloaks. To him, he is just doing his duty.
Skills:
One-Handed
Block
Light Armor
Unarmed
Sneak (Due to him being a Khajiit)
Athletics
Acrobatics
Prologue
General Baldur Red-Snow
Solitude Palace
Noon
General Baldur Red-Snow sat bored at the right side of his liege lord and king, Ulfric Stormcloak in the Solitude Throne room. To the left of Ulfric, sat High-Queen Elisif, along with Galmer Stone-Fist at her left. A farmer was claiming that "bandits' where harassing him and his family, and that he demanded protection.
"My Lord, I can easily dispatch a handful of my Necro Nords or Draugr Dunmer. The bandits would likely stop attacking at the mere sight of them."
"Baldur, the Imperials will be marching their Red Legions through our borders with the Thalmor very soon. We'll need every one of your Grim Ones over in Falkreath. I can't-"
Elisif spoke out and interrupted Ulfric.
"Love, surely you could spare five men? The number of Grim Ones has increased greatly since Baldur has become General. We can spare five men for patrol duty on a farm, and when the war begins, they'll be recalled. Does that work?"
Ulfric looked slightly annoyed that Elisif interrupted him, but he decided to listen to her for Baldur, since he grew to favor him.
"Hmm, fine. Baldur you can dispatch your men to the farm."
The farmer walked to Ulfric and Elisif and kissed their rings in gratitude, then he went to do the same to Baldur, but Baldur stood the man up and shook his hand.
"Thank you my King and Queen! And thank you General Red-Snow! Talos guide you."
Ulfric turned his head towards his left-hand man, but before speaking the doors to the throne room barged open. A stormcloak soldier, while remaining composed, was sweating and obviously in fear.
"Sir-Ummmm Imperial messenger from the sixth Legion..."
Ulfric leaned out of his chair at soldier's words.
"Send the dog in."
The soldier saluted, and left the room. He returned a few minutes later, with a figure that was hooded and cloaked in pitch black, except for the purple fang-less wolf sigil on the back of his cloak. The legionary's face was clouded in a unnatural darkness, that seemed like something from the void. He had a quiver of blackened arrows, and hung on his back was a massive Ebony greatbow. It seemed like he emitted a presence of dread where he walked.
Baldur as he stood waiting to hear the man's words, and was quite confused at the sight.
Is this Witchie? No, it's obviously not. Who is this?
Baldur pulled his shield off of his back and kept his hand on his axe just in case the strange figure tried something.
"What, are you in grieving or something? Ha!" said Baldur referring to the man's dark appearance.
Seemingly ignoring Baldur's words, the dark figure addressed the High-King, with a cold and emotionless tone,
"High King Stormcloak, General Marius Imperius of the sixth legion, implores you to surrender Skyrim back to the empire before this gets bloody and out of hand...".
"Sir, please. If I may? You do not need to speak to one so lowly as a grieving widow."
"By all means, Red-Snow. Proceed."
Baldur stepped forward in front of the throne, blocking the messenger's view of the royal couple.
Galmar chuckled at the sight.
"Hehehe, tell that dog what we think of his message, Baldur!"
Baldur smirked at the comment and addressed the dark figure before him.
"In the Palace of Skyrim's true sons and daughters,
Let me tell you what I think of your offer."
Baldur spat in the direction of the messenger's boots.
"If blood's what you want then blood there shall be,
We won't stop this war until Skyrim is free!"
The darkened figure seemingly starred at the assembled court, whom were now laughing at him. With a single swift move, he threw off his cloak and hood. The figure that awaited them was clad in a dark coat, which had dark leather guards under it. He wore dark leather boots and gloves. The right side of his face was heavily scarred, and his face was very pale. His right eye was covered in a dark eye-patch He had a cleanly shaven dark brown beard, along with dark brown hair. The figure's face looked...almost sad but at the same time filled with a darkly serious expression. In his dark tone he spoke,
"It's been a long time Baldur..."
Baldur was surprised at seeing his rival, but he did not let it show.
"Ah, I see it's the "Darkened Archer! or the "Grim Archer" as some call you. You kinda stole that name you know, from my Grim Ones. Why don't I get in on the fun and call myself the "Grim General"? Ha! So what do you want? I'm not accepting legion pups under my command."
Lorgar merely turned away From Baldur and addressed the High king.
"Tell me Ulfric Stormcloak? I could understand why you keep [censored]s around" He glanced at the High-Queen and then turned backed to Baldur "But why A Kin-slayer?"
"Kin slayer? You walk into our country with those cheese faced curs at your back, and you call me a kin slayer? I spoke to High Admiral Red-Eye, the stormcloak at your attendance. She told me how you broke your promise and allowed those [censored]s to torture her. And now we have word that the Imperials are helping them hunt down Talos worshipers in their own land! So you tell me? Who's the real Kin slayer here?"
Lorgar, now giving his full attention to Baldur spoke up,
"I took great personal risk trying to protect your High Admiral, Baldur, she would have suffered much worse if I hadn't." Lorgar smiled, revealing his fang-like teeth to the court "Why did you bring her up? Getting close eh Baldur? Maybe, you want to be closer for some...baser reasons..."
"What? Is that so strange in the Empire? For a man to long for a woman? Hahaha, that explains a lot, let me tell you! Now, I'd love to continue this pissing contest we have going here, but you're beginning to stink up Ulfric's Palace, dog. We have nothing left to say, Legate."
Lorgar laughed, a spine chilling and cold laugh, that made everyone in the room feel colder. Lorgar slowly approached Baldur, ignoring the stormcloak's drawing there swords and axes. As Lorgar walked across the rooms, Baldur could have sworn he saw the shadows dancing around Lorgar. Lorgar was now right infront of Baldur's face, before speaking to him,
"I'm no longer a Legate Baldur...I was court marshaled for cowardice and stripped of it. It's...Preafect now."
"Tell me Baldur, did your men really have to cut off my soldiers gentiles, did you have to behead them even if they were dead? Tell me, did you have to leave them after you and your soldiers had there fun? Did you get excited at the prospect of the crows picking there corpses clean? You couldn't even put them in a mass pit? You just left there bodies there.."
"First of all, nice demotion. Second of all, don't blame my men for the actions of one man, namely myself. We don't bury our vermin. And you can expect worse to the next group of soldiers you bring across our borders. And since you seem to like it in here so much, perhaps you'd rather stay? I think the palace could use a dog for a pet."
Baldur signaled his men to surround Lorgar and trap him off.
"It seems you didn't learn your lesson from the last time we spoke, Lorgar."
As Lorgar started to back away, he could notice the stormcloaks closing in to surround him. Lorgar sprung into action. he grabbed the first one, and broke his neck with his hands, before kicking the second one in the ribs and then snapping his spine by bring him down upon his knee's. He quickly grabbed his discarded hood. Before Baldur, who had drawn his axe, could reach him, Lorgar had already drawn his bow, and fired two arrows simultaneously at the two guard blocking the entrance to the throne room. He started to sprint, and run at un-human speeds out of the throne room. Baldur could hear one last thing from Lorgar.
"I'll be seeing you Baldur... but you wont be seeing me..."
Baldur could notice that the High-Queen was screaming, and that Ulfric was trying to calm her down.
Baldur stood as he watched the man dash for the door with a smirk on his face.
Yes, that's it. Run little wolf. I'll be looking to put you down. Like the rabid beast you are.
"Carry your brothers away and prepare their bodies for resting. And tell the Grim Ones to be ready to march. My lord, shall I leave for Falkreath?"
"Yes, immediately. It's time to show Cyrodiil why Skyrim's never been taken from us."
"Yes sir. I'll show them what the Grim Ones can do."
With that, Baldur grabbed his horse which was outfitted in Nordic Carved horse armor, and had him and his men make their way to the new command center in Falkreath hold. The war was finally about to begin. And the fate of Skyrim and her children would finally be decided.