» Sat Dec 06, 2014 7:30 pm This began as a character concept and backstory that was thrown to the cutting room floor. Mind you, it may challenge lore but that's the line walked with lore inspired fiction. I have an unorthodox spin in mind, yet I'm uncertain how far/if his story will evolve. It's difficult for me to get ideas translated into text. Nonetheless, there seems to be enough tender to fuel a small amount of inspiration and I thought I would share.
Chapter One
Natality Fatality
Spoiler
Echelle was born under the name Alabard Larocque unto a Breton merchant family. His father, Perard Larocque, is brother to Master Chef Gilbard Larocque the renowned author of Cheeses of Tamriel.
His mother, Lucrezia Monet, was born 2E 542, by her single mother Elara DuBlanc. Lucrezia's father was believed to be an unknown Reachman during the invasion of High Rock in 2E 541. However, his true identity was that of a Morag Tong splinter agent that had fallen in love with a Dark Brotherhood Assassin.
Elara was targeted by the Dark Brotherhood for fraternizing with the nemesis organization and changed her name to escape their wrath and slip into hiding, where she would carry the term of her unborn child. Knowing she would forever be hunted down by the Dark Brotherhood of High Rock, Elara gave her newborn daughter to the unsuspecting Monet family, the owners of a small farm in the province of Northmoor. An early morning knock at the front door revealed an infant swaddled in a black shroud with a note that simply read... "Take care of my dear Lucrezia."
The Monet's would trade their crops and stock in the city of Northmoor. There, the coming of age Lucrezia would fall for a young merchant named Perard Larocque. Following a brief courtship, they would marry and on the eve of the Fire Festival would bear a son, Alabard. In the coming months, Perard makes an endeavor to take his beloved and child to seek their family fortune in the Market District of the Imperial City.
The Dark brotherhood has had insurgents working diligently over the years to root out the whereabouts of the illusive Elara DuBlanc. Their intelligence agents reported that the child lived and was abandoned to a farmhouse in the Northmoor province of High Rock.
Torturing the innocent family revealed the newlyweds intent and the Dark Brotherhood set out to intercept them, with explicit instructions to eradicate the decedent bloodline of Elara Moniel. The family was not spared and their bodies were hung from the gable of the small estate, naked and fleshed.
With family in tow, Perard crosses the border of Hammerfell and into the rolling hills of NW Cyrodiil. They hope to make it to the City of Coral by nightfall.
.. a hope that would not see it's desired end.
As the family descended the Colovian Highlands, so would the Dark Brotherhood descend upon them. Perard was removed from the wagon's helm by an arrow through the neck, that was launched from a distance so great, the wagon itself could be hidden behind a grain of salt. Fearing for her life, the young mother leaps form the carriage with the child in her arms and flees into the wood and seeks refuge behind a fallen tree.
Her restless newborn is threatening their location. Attentive to her surroundings, she picks the soft underbelly from a Mora Tapinella growing on the weathered stump. Her knowledge of Alchemy, taught to her by her only known mother, gave her son his only hope of survival.
She quickly grinds the fungus in the palm of her hand with some of her own saliva and rubs it upon the lips of the infant boy. He settles and drifts into a deep sleep. She's somewhat confident that it's a small enough dose as to not take the child's life. It is a risk she must endure. She conceals the child in the cover of fallen debris among the hollowed tree and the birthsign of the Shadow blankets the child.
With a heroic and unselfish leap of faith, she attempts to draw any attention from her dear baby boy. She screams out as she flees further into the forest.
A moment passes and the screams abruptly subside.
His mother, Lucrezia Monet, was born 2E 542, by her single mother Elara DuBlanc. Lucrezia's father was believed to be an unknown Reachman during the invasion of High Rock in 2E 541. However, his true identity was that of a Morag Tong splinter agent that had fallen in love with a Dark Brotherhood Assassin.
Elara was targeted by the Dark Brotherhood for fraternizing with the nemesis organization and changed her name to escape their wrath and slip into hiding, where she would carry the term of her unborn child. Knowing she would forever be hunted down by the Dark Brotherhood of High Rock, Elara gave her newborn daughter to the unsuspecting Monet family, the owners of a small farm in the province of Northmoor. An early morning knock at the front door revealed an infant swaddled in a black shroud with a note that simply read... "Take care of my dear Lucrezia."
The Monet's would trade their crops and stock in the city of Northmoor. There, the coming of age Lucrezia would fall for a young merchant named Perard Larocque. Following a brief courtship, they would marry and on the eve of the Fire Festival would bear a son, Alabard. In the coming months, Perard makes an endeavor to take his beloved and child to seek their family fortune in the Market District of the Imperial City.
The Dark brotherhood has had insurgents working diligently over the years to root out the whereabouts of the illusive Elara DuBlanc. Their intelligence agents reported that the child lived and was abandoned to a farmhouse in the Northmoor province of High Rock.
Torturing the innocent family revealed the newlyweds intent and the Dark Brotherhood set out to intercept them, with explicit instructions to eradicate the decedent bloodline of Elara Moniel. The family was not spared and their bodies were hung from the gable of the small estate, naked and fleshed.
With family in tow, Perard crosses the border of Hammerfell and into the rolling hills of NW Cyrodiil. They hope to make it to the City of Coral by nightfall.
.. a hope that would not see it's desired end.
As the family descended the Colovian Highlands, so would the Dark Brotherhood descend upon them. Perard was removed from the wagon's helm by an arrow through the neck, that was launched from a distance so great, the wagon itself could be hidden behind a grain of salt. Fearing for her life, the young mother leaps form the carriage with the child in her arms and flees into the wood and seeks refuge behind a fallen tree.
Her restless newborn is threatening their location. Attentive to her surroundings, she picks the soft underbelly from a Mora Tapinella growing on the weathered stump. Her knowledge of Alchemy, taught to her by her only known mother, gave her son his only hope of survival.
She quickly grinds the fungus in the palm of her hand with some of her own saliva and rubs it upon the lips of the infant boy. He settles and drifts into a deep sleep. She's somewhat confident that it's a small enough dose as to not take the child's life. It is a risk she must endure. She conceals the child in the cover of fallen debris among the hollowed tree and the birthsign of the Shadow blankets the child.
With a heroic and unselfish leap of faith, she attempts to draw any attention from her dear baby boy. She screams out as she flees further into the forest.
A moment passes and the screams abruptly subside.
... chapter two - Abrupt Eternity
