Understanding the where Ashma is from is the work of Emerald Ryuu Feather.
This is Ashma's Father and the two or so years before the fall of Helgen. I do have the right and blessing from Emerald to set the stage for Ashma's Story.
So to set the stage I give to you…
Song Of the Lonely Siren
Mission Zero- Tying the Knot in Poison
My Uncle told me once to write down the history of my past so those who wish to know my chosen path will know where to start to follow in my steps.
Night-walker, Nightshades, Shadows, and Hidden Nymphs are four clans that make up the small villages of assassin and thieves. They each have their own coloring in hair, eyes, skin tone, and their own way of life.
For years the four clans lived in four points on the Summerset Isles, but the Thalmar, the Dominion have taken over most of the Inland that is home of the clans.
My people are the Night-walkers; we have black hair, eyes that glow like candle light and pale gold skin. We are not flawed. We have always been this way. We can blend into the shadows around us, and bend the shadows to our will, this helps us to kill and steal without being caught. But the Thalmar don't care; we are a flaw to them, and we only live to die for the war with everyone else.
The Nightshades are a breed of their own; pale skin, nightshades purple or deep amethyst eyes, and white hair. It is said that if they are assigned to kill someone they never fail. It also rumored that they raise their children to start killing and stealing at a young age.
I just turned twenty years and am to be bound to a Nightshade she-elf. Lily Nightshade, the only daughter to the chief of the Nightshade Village.
She is the youngest of three, Amethyst, Belladonna, and then her. But she would be the first to wed.
My name is Siren Night-walker, we do not earn the title Night-walker until we are bound to a spirit of a dead assassin or thief, and the family is not picky. This is the way to tell witch area of the family to put you. But there are those who end up bound to a spirit with both aspects, killer and thief.
I was just under eight years when my bound spirit was called to me. Morgana was a witch assassin and one hell of a thief. She would kill assassins also, so she was an assassin killer. I was never to be bound to a spirit until I was twenty-five. But I got lost and was babbly hurt, which was when she found and bound herself to me just so I was saved.
When you are bound to a spirit there is no going back.
My father put me into the danger I had faced at eight years in the first place and now he is mad that I am bound to a spirit that is an assassin Killer from the Morag Tong. But, hey, an assassin is an assassin no matter what the colors are.
So here I am to be bound to a Nightshade, the beautiful Lily my bride, the union of two clans, the joy.
The plan after the wedding was to have me move into the Nightshade Village, and have one kid before our first year together was up. So on the wedding night we lay together for the first time, and I felt more than Morgana. We did conceive our first child two months later and every time we were together I felt this other spirit with us. Not Morgana, but something different.
Ivy is a year old when his sister was born. After that was another boy. Two years after that we had Therein. Lily named him after a member of her family.
So with four lovely pests… children, we lived happily for five years… I wish it was always like that.
The kids mostly have their mother's colors but show signs of the Night-walkers and Nightshades both.
Mommy is five-six, long white hair, violet eyes, and a wild temper. Daddy stands at six-nine, fiery yellow eyes and deep black hair.
My two brother-in-laws Belladonna and Amethyst laugh at me all the time when they see the kids running around the village naked or they do something Lily and I catch.
"Better you then me," they sing to me all the time.
Well fuck them!
Two year after my youngest was born, Amethyst was married. I just laugh and smiled at him.
"You were saying Ame?" Now I can't wait for him to breed and learn the hard life of children.
The young mer that married Amethyst did so to protect himself from his own people. They joined the Dominion and the young mer did not like the new rules they laid down.
The young mer's name was Mango.
Belladonna stays weirdly unwedded.
The year Mango turned up, my daughter was killed by Ivy. When I got to the river she was gone. The second youngest said that Ivy did it because she held Therin under the water too long.
As it turns out she was trying to drown him. Then it was going to be blamed on the young Nord who was staying with us learning our ways.
Ivy and Therin were always close after that more so then before.
No one told the Nord what happened.
Ulfric Stormcloak happened to be the name of the young Nord, but to Therin he was perfect. The two, well just Therin wanted to marry the Nord. The village would see Ulfric running from the two year old and laugh at the sight, but one morning the young man was gone and my son was pissed off to all Oblivion.
Guess it was not meant to be, so the three boys played and learned during the next few years when it all came down and went to hell.
Therin was five when the Dominion started to harass the town. Belladonna and Lily told me to take the three boys and go to my mom, then again they were sending all the kids to safety.
Therin is gone!
They took Ivy and Voraen!
I have failed them all!
A/N: Ok I hope this catches your hunger! Lol!