» Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:47 pm
BEWARE! My next posts WILL contain spoilers from a questmod (concretely "The Sundered Keep"). If you're a PC user, and you haven't played it, read the next posts at your own risk. Console-exclusive players are safe to read.
After putting everything in order in Castle Wolfspike, Cayo decided to end his holidays. "Makes no sense to return again to Elsweyr....besides, I'm tired of doing nothing", he thought. So he put back his Legion uniform, and returned to Fort Akatosh.
Vilja was there, of course (since her first visit to the Fort, and after befriending General Esdrecus, she decided to stay there permanently, becoming kind of "the Lady of the Fort", which all the legionnaires loved, alongside with Cayo, although he felt a bit...jealous), and Cayo spent some time talking with her about his time in Elsweys, rumors and some other chit-chat. After some time, and seeing that the General didn't summon him, he decided to go to his quarters and rest for a while...
...until some strange noises awake him.
Cayo went out to the passageway and saw two Legion soldiers fighting....a Xivilai. And not a normal one, but one glowing with a strange red pattern. He joined the fight and the three of them managed to slay it quickly enough, but during the combat Cayo couldn't stop noticing that the beast was strangely centered at attacking him. After the fight, one of the guards noticed that the daedra had some note attached to his arm. He picked it up, and inmediately gave it to Cayo. "It seems that it's for you, my captain". It seemed that the note came from someone called "Myria", and that she invited him to pay a visit to her tower, situated deep in the Blackwood forest. "Odd" -Cayo thought-, "I better inform the General by the morning, at least so he knows where I am". He ordered the soldiers to go back to their posts, and prepared himself for a meeting with the General. It was nearly dawn after all.
General Esdrecus became silent for a few moments, after Cayo explained what happened just a few hours ago. He seemed sad, and even a bit melancholic when he talked again. "Myria, you said...yes, I know who she is. One of the most talented battlemages I've ever met. I don't find it odd that she managed to summon such a beast, and that she managed to point to it the exact target. Her intentions are...otherwise. She mysteriously left the Legion years ago -she was never too much disciplined herself, you know-, and her whereabouts are completely unknown since then. The last thing we know about her is that she burnt to ashes the study she had just outside the Fort. When men were sent to investigate -once the flames were suffocated-, they found some tunnels inside...alongside many horrible beasts. We lost a lot of good men there, and the few survivors that managed to come out from that Oblivion hole were frightened to the death. So we sealed the entrance and still today all guards that have their current watch at the Fort's East door are always told to keep an eye on those ruins"
The General stopped talking for a brief moment, and then looked to Cayo: "That makes no sense, Captain. Myria wasn't by far a model soldier, but I knew her. Her heart was always with justice and protection for the weak, and always in the right place. This summoning and this attack makes no sense to me, as it makes no sense the creatures in her study's basemant. My own heart feels that there's something odd happening. So here are my orders: go to her meeting, do her bidding if you must, and in the meanwhile you must investigate her: her whereabouts, the reason for those creatures in her study's ruins, the real reason why she left the Legion. Uncover it all, then report it to me"
"At your command, my General", Cayo replied.
So Cayo left the Fort and went south, towards a meeting with a *possibly mad battlemage*. Or so he thought (not without a certain pessimism) at those moments.