After the Blight died, Hlaalu businessman Dram Bero took hold of Panabanit-Nimawia Egg Mine just inside of the Ghostfence. The incoming miners found little in the way of Kwama, and took to drinking. During one sujamma-swigging night, the rowdy miners knocked down an entire cavern wall and revealed expansive tunnels within. Etched onto a red slate wall in the largest chamber was the following message.


Queenmanyeyesandheavingbottom lends Workerweakerbeakthanmost her slimesong and windywords in the dankcorner. Borrowed from manymothers by littledaughters and little-er-sisters down to Queenmanyeyesandheavingbottom through royalbirthfilth.

It squelches:

Chymaneverfar and Chymedaggerearth sewed silkaccords
to splash a Lock-ed-Heart's blood in order to pax-afford
Queenfacesmanybastard's unruly egg-ilk
it was sewn from and with Her own royalsilk
And in return, She gave chitin Kwambeaks
to part the Hill and see the God-Leaks

Wordwinder Chymevikk came through dark of cave
Queen wanted silkwords, which he then gave
His silkwords were verse, in which truth did wade
For Her help to take God-Leaks, he'd give Her aid
Queen under-cracked-earth and above-egg-beds She would be
Wife of Chymevikk for all Chyme to see

She showed them the way and then Dwymedume
Who the soon-dusty Chyme which then slew
and sewed silkaccords with each other too
Lock-ed-Heart God-Leaks shan't imbue

But Kwam scuttled and tore Chymaneverfar's thorax in twain
Chymevikk then spake the betrayed a Chymesaint
His sweetened windwords with Queen, he did abstain
Her lovers' silkaccords were, afterall, in vain


One of the workers had been scholarly in a previous life, and even through his drunken stupor, he thought ill of the scrawled verse; its abhorrent adherence to rhyme and rhythmn, its poorly constructed stature, and worst of all, its insufferably incoherence. He scribbled a copy down on a scrap of parchment to show his friends in Sadrith Mora, and then the group happily defaced the slate wall, erasing the verse with the sujamma they had just imbibed.

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It was the dead of night. Masser and Secunda peeked through the holes in the erratically-woven cloud blanket. A lonely piece of fabric whirled in the wind through the empty streets beneath the floating Ministry of Truth in Vivec City. A gruff Ordinator stopped its dance with a heavy boot, and retrieved it, examining it. It was constructed of a fine, silky substance that the Ordinator could not quite identify, and words were written on it. It simply said:

I should have been a pair of ragged Kwama claws, scuttling across the floors of silent egg mines ~V

Beneath the golden mask, the Dunmer frowned and tossed the thing into the canol.

Adderall: It can help.

But, really, I like it.

The slimesong. Both, I mean.

Thank you!

=( How is it that MK-esque mumbo jumbo can be posted in the Lore forum, but this goes in Artwork and Fan Fiction?

It all depends on whether someone presses the report button

B-b-but it's entirely possible that what really occurred at Red Mountain that day was Vehk's seduction of a Kwama queen...No different than the other nonsense/pseudo-lore/ultra-speculative-lore posts that pop up in the Lore section....

Roll with it, man. We need stuff like this in Fanfic. Up the traffic.

Cause yeah, this is cool. And well done. And weird. I thought you were talking about Almalexia at first, though, and I kept wondering where Sotha Sil was in all this. I do have to wonder why you used silk, too. Is there any indication that kwama produce silk?
Anyway, I like it. I can see Vehk with a hot kwama-mama.

No, no indication of Kwama producing silk, I just worked it in because they're wormy and whatnot, I thought it plausible. No important mention of Almalexia or Sotha Sil in this slimesong. It's not exactly hidden in riddles, but I don't wanna spell out exactly what's going on. Everyone's got a version of what happened at Red Mountain that day, and this is the local Kwama colony's version. I will also say that Vehk shamelessly plagiarized that line of his.

I got away with something far less lorey than this in the Lore Forums. Seems a bit harsh tbh.

I love this thing btw. Really great stuff, absolutely adore the ending.

Thank you!

I don't know why this was sent out of the Lore forum. This is really good and a wonderful read, but kind of wasted in the fan fiction section.

Definitely one of the better monkey truth posts I've seen in the past couple of months.

So, this is one heck of a debut! Hope to see more from you.

These forums really need a 'thank' option.

It's cool stuff. I agree with Allie; looking forward to more from you.

Loranna

Thanks! =D

I will bump this in the somewhat vain attempt at more criticism/comments.

What are you looking for, Mindmaligner? Poetry's not the most susceptible to critique.

I'm not sure, anything lol.

This, I enjoyed rather thoroughly.

Beauteriffic, broski. I love me some weird-Vivec-doing-weird-stuff fic.