Dov Viing Bo

Prologue: Dark Dawn of the Fourth Era

I was inspired to write this fic since 2011 after I related my experiences with Namco's "Tales" games and felt the urge to retell Skyrim with the moving social experience of a Tales game while expanding on its plot. So, presenting Dov Viing Bo (Dragon wings fly); Skyrim retold in the style of a party-based JRPG and the anime tropes that come with the package. Your perception of the Elder Scrolls will never be the same again!

Disclaimer notice: I don't own the Elder Scrolls franchise or any related property except my OC's. If I did though, Skyrim's story would've been more awesome.

Note to readers: since "shift+enter isn't helping helping me space paragraphs, I will use "x's" to space paragraphs and horizontal lines to change locations and POV's

For your reading pleasure I'll add labels to music suggestions that I think best fits a particular situation in certain segments of the story barring Skyrim's OST and I recommend you listen. Enjoy!

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"Elder Scrolls Arena Main theme (preferably a remixed version)"

(or) Legend of Zelda Windwaker Prologue - "Legendary Hero"

"Two Centuries ago in the last year of the Third Era, Emperor Uriel Septim the Eighth and his sons were assassinated by a Daedra-worshipping cult known as the Mythic Dawn, leaving the Empire of Tamriel at the mercy of the Mehrunes Dagon; the Daedric lord of destruction.

But not all was lost. Before his death, Uriel Septim entrusted an unjustly incarcerated Argonian named Kai whom he had foreseen in his prophetic dreams with the Amulet of Kings and the task of finding his last illegitimate heir to the throne: Martin.

By crowning Martin as Emperor, the dragon fires would remain lit, and ward off the malevolent, wrath of Mehrunes Dagon and his Oblivion hordes.

Not surprisingly, this was not an easy task. The journey was fraught with peril as Oblivion gates were opening all over the continent of Tamriel. One particular Oblivion gate opened in the city- state of Kvatch where Martin Septim worked as a priest in an attempt by Mehrunes Dagon to kill him. But Kai bravely ventured into the Oblivion gate and retrieved the Sigil Stone powering the gate, effectively closing it.

Kai left Martin under the safe protection of the Emperor's loyal Samurai-like bodyguards; the Blades, but the Amulet of Kings was stolen by the Mythic Dawn.

To find it Kai cracked down and infiltrated the Mythic Dawn for solid Intel. He learned that he required certain artifacts to enter "Gaiar Alata," the dimensional, "paradise" that Mankar Camoran created for his followers when they died and became as immortal as the Daedra as a reward for their services to Dagon (at the expense of being constantly "killed" over and over again for sport by local Daedra).

Between that task Kai, Martin and allies gathered from other city states of Cyrodiil saved the city of Bruma from a Daedric invasion along with a nightmarish centipede-like siege machine coming out of the Oblivion gate in a race against the clock to close the Oblivion gate and obtain the Great Sigil stone they needed as part of the dimensional keys to "Gaiar Alata." Needless to say only half of the Oblivion Siege machine made it out of the gate before Kai closed it.

After the defense of Bruma, Kai gathered the remaining essential artifacts to open the gate to Gaiar Alata where he slew Camoran and reclaimed the Amulet of Kings.

In a last ditch effort to prevent Martin Septim's coronation and the lighting of the Dragon fires, Mehrunes Dagon opened an Oblivion gate in the Imperial City and emerged in the mortal plane in his true terrible, form of a huge, four armed, demonic giant.

Escorted to the Temple of Akatosh by Kai, Martin Septim sacrificed his mortal existence to become the Avatar of Akatosh, the dragon god of time and banished Dagon back to Oblivion, permanently keeping the dragon fires lit, but sadly ending the Septim bloodline.

Victory over the forces of Oblivion had tragically left the Empire decapitated.

From here on Kai, the Hero of Kvatch was bestowed the title of Seventh Champion of Cyrodiil and went on to accomplish other great things.

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Kai joined the Mages Guild and saved it from the return of Manimarco the King of Worms and his sect of Necromancers, with the help of Arch-Mage Traven after the latter

sacrificed himself to help him gain access to Manimarco's lair. There Kai slew Manimarco by the one cause of death his "immortality" didn't cover: drowning.

Kai became the champion of the Imperial Gladiators Arena by slaying the current reigning champion; the Grey Prince in honorable combat (not before revealing that he was the half-breed son of a vampire lord).

Kai later became Master of the Cyrodillian Fighter's Guild chapter after he sabotaged its unscrupulous rival the Blackwood Company.

There were even rumors that an Elder Scroll was stolen and of Dark Brotherhood assassinations so masterfully executed they could only be attributed to a uniquely gifted individual.

After becoming master of the Fighter's Guild, Kai married Dar-Ma, the daughter of an Argonian merchant in the city state of Chorrol whom he had rescued earlier during his travels from becoming a sacrifice in the sinister isolated town of Hackdirt.

Their married life was a happy one, until several months later the hero's way called him again.

He set out to recover artifacts belonging to the legendary Divine Crusader, helped reform the ancient order of the Knights of the Nine Divines and defeated Umaril the unfeathered; an evil Ayleid King who was freed from his imprisonment in Meridia's Plane during the Oblivion Crisis.

At the end of the year, Kai's wife Dar-Ma was expecting children. But fate once again called when Kai heard rumors of a gateway in the Niben Bay that drove all who entered it and came out insane. With a tear felt goodbye to his wife, Kai entered the portal which led to the Shivering Isles of Sheogorath, the Daedric Lord of Madness and never came out.

What happened to him remains to this day a mystery. Some say he died by hands of the denizens of the Shivering Isles or was claimed by the same madness that consumed others.

Kai, the Hero of Kvatch who had helped save Tamriel from Oblivion had been taken by it in an ironic twist of fate. Tamriel had lost both of its heroes.

The Hero of Kvatch and Martin Septim had left a lasting impact on history, but all of their achievements and sacrifice could not protect Tamriel and a leaderless Empire from the dark days to come.

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During the first century of the 4th Era immediately after the Oblivion Crisis, the Thalmor; an Altmer Fascist Party seeking to bring forth a new era of elven supremacy rose to

power by taking the credit for saving Tamriel from Oblivion, while covertly tearing the Empire apart.

The lizard-like Argonians of the swampy province of Black Marsh seceded from the Empire (thanks to a bit of "advice" from the Thalmor).

Five years later, the corrupt Temple of Vivec in the Dunmer homeland of Morrowind tried to keep their floating rock satellite, Baar Dau afloat in the absence of the God King Vivec by harvesting souls from the local populace to power its substitute flotation device, the Ingenium. But a citizen determined to save a loved one designated to be the next sacrifice destroyed the Ingenium, but at a terrible cost caused the floating rock to crash onto Vivec City.

The resulting, shockwave from the landing triggered a massive, volcanic eruption in Red Mountain, leaving most of Morrowind devastated.

The Argonians of Black Marsh itching for revenge on the Dunmer for their long history of enslaving their people, invaded and conquered what remained of Morrowind, forcing many Dunmer to become refugees or slaves. The Thalmor later took control of Summerset Isle and renamed it Alinor while in Cyrodiil, a Colovian warlord named Titus Mede took the throne of the Emperor by force after the assassination of Chancellor Ocato by the Thalmor.

At the Dawn of the Second century the Thalmor seized control of more territory, by overthrowing the Bosmer homeland of Valenwood's government via coup de 'état and once again feigned heroism to the cat-like Khajiit of Elesweyr for the return of planet Nirn's two moons, Masser and Secunda from a two year absence called the Void Nights, sowing the seeds of doubt against the Empire, and causing Elesweyr to ultimately secede as well, becoming a client state.

Around the time Titus Mede II ascended to the throne, the Second Aldmeri Dominion formed by the provinces allied by the Thalmor's schemes launched an all-out

invasion to conquer the already weakened Empire in a conflict that would be remembered as the Great War. Invading Hammerfell and later Cyrodiil from both the south and

western regions, they easily overwhelmed the local Imperial Defenses, forcing Titus Mede II and the Imperial Legion into retreat. The Aldmeri Dominion moved on to sack the

Imperial City, committing unspeakable atrocities against the people of Cyrodiil during their occupation.

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Thankfully Emperor Titus Mede II gathered reinforcements from what remained of the Imperial Legion in the provinces of Skyrim. Together they launched a successful, counter-

offensive that repelled the Aldmeri Dominion from Cyrodiil . . . but at a terrible toll.

The Empire was too weary to continue fighting and signed a treaty with the Thalmor called the White-Gold Concordant.

Reviled as an over-glorified term of surrender, the White-Gold Concordant forced the Empire to ban the worship of Talos and and relinquish a large portion of Hammmerfell. It also allowed the Thalmor enforce their laws on the provinces with an orichalcum fist, hunting down Talos worshippers and any who dared to oppose them.

The signing of the White-Gold Concordant left the Red Guards of Hammerfell and the Nords of Skyrim feeling betrayed by their Imperial Allies. Angrily, Hammerfell severed tieswith the Empire to resist Thalmor rule and civil war engulfed Skyrim to determine its independence from the Empire.

On one side of the war were the Imperial Loyalists, who felt that Skyrim should remain a part of the Empire to be ready for the next war with the Aldmeri Doiminion, the other the Stormcloaks: the self-proclaimed, "true sons" of Skyrim who fought for freedom from a perceived, decaying Empire ruled by a false emperor.

However unbeknownst to all but a few, the civil war in Skyrim and the Thalmor pulling all the strings behind the scenes was the least of Tamriel's worries, for the Elder Scrolls foretold of a much worse threat to Tamriel about to unveil, a threat as old as the Daedra if not worse.

But with it a new mortal champion whom unlike his predecessors had the power to challenge it in a battle that would make the planes of the gods tremble with reverance.

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As you may have figured Kai the Argonian is my player character from my play through of Oblivion. The first chapter will be coming up soon so don't forget to review or fave.

please, and correct me if I got the history wrong. Until next time.