Joliik the dunmers parents killed a noble in Morrowind when he was 16 and as they fled the province into Cyrodiil they were caught. His parents were killed for treason and he was put into a Morrowind jail. He spent another three years waiting to be put on trial but the establishment forgot about him. He spent the three years training his speech craft until he could finally speak to the guards without them telling him to move along. After thorough research he spotted a weakness in the guard. He spoke to a dunmer racist guard who he convinced that a redguard (head of a prison gang) was smuggling skooma to his inmates. The guard reacted as expected and attacked the redguard who was of course protected by his gang, which then caused the rest of the guard to attack them. He ran to the prison entrance and shouted at the head of the guard to tell him what was happening. He ran to show them where it was happening and as he went around a corner hid behind a pillar then using his advanced alteration skills opened the gate and ran. He almost got away with it except he was stopped by a guard at the border in between Cyrodiil and Morrowind. Seeing as the IC was closer than any Morrowind prison he rode with him across the back of his horse. The Imperial guard were busy trying to hunt down the killer of Uriel Septim the 7th’s sons. They told the guard to put him in any cell (which is why he was in the wrong cell and why he didn’t know why he was there as he hadn’t done anything) he did and departed. Joliik sat in his cell and the whole experience had scarred him leaving him with a diminished personality. He had barely been there for 10 minutes when the blades came in with Emperor Uriel.
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