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All characters recognized from Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, JRR Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" books, Peter Jackson's filmography, TURN: Washington's Spies (Akinbode), The Underworld Saga, Blizzard's Warcraft III and Warcraft III: Frozen Throne, Dracula: Untold (Mirena, and certain quotes), The Count of Monte Cristo (Za'Tara name and joke only.) and Dragonheart.
Chapter 1: The Past is in the Past.
Sarthinias was a young Nord who was raised by Wood Elves. Why was a Son of Skyrim raised by Elves you ask, because his parents were killed by Frost Trolls when he was but 3 years old. A traveling party of Wood Elves just happened to be crossing the cave where Sarthinias' parents met their end, they killed the Trolls and they saved the young boy. Seeing as he couldn't fend for himself the kindly people took him in. A man by the name of Tak-Galborn gave the boy a home, a name, and treated him as his son. The boy was raised as any Wood Elven child who lived in Skyrim and Southeast of Dawnstar Capital would be, to keep warm, to be kind, love the trees, and survive.
As a Nord, Sarthinias was taller and far stronger than the Bosmer or Wood-Elf children. Sarthinias unwittingly scared a great many of the children, they knew Nords harbored very little love for any Elvenkind and thus, were distant and some even cold to the poor boy. In his younger years he was very lonely only with Tak-Galborn and some of the kinder elderly folk to hold conversations with. Many of the younger adults were wary of him as well, many of the children that feared him began to spread rumors of him being a thief, it only got worse when Tak-Galborn's wife, Annúngileth, died. She was always so caring and kind to her Sarthinias, being a barren woman she loved him as any mother could love her son. When Sarthinias was seven, she was struck by a disease, Black Heart Blight. She was far too weak to carry on once the sickness had passed. The frail woman passed on to the next world, as the winter's chill set in. On her grave it reads:
Beautiful Wife,
Loving Mother,
Caring Woman,
Her Love is Like Her Name
And Shines on Us from the West
Farewell Annúngileth
Never Fading Western Star
After her death, rumors began to spread among the adults that he was a cursed child, a plight on the village, that killed own mother through sorcery. Sarthinias felt unwanted except by his grief-stricken pseudo father. However, Tak-Galborn became distant as he was appointed to the village leader and had to spend more time a away from home instead of with his son. Often Sarthinias found himself wandering in the forest or hiding in the tree tops. He was devoid of anything, but himself, without any friends, an outcast in his small colony in the Forest at age ten.
One day he was wandering and he encountered a boy and his, sister up a tree shouting for help. A great Snow Bear thought to have these children as an easy snack.
"Hey you! HERE!" Sarthinias shouted at the bear.
The bear turned at him and growled, then it almost smirked and charged at the boy. Sarthinias backed up against a tree and waited for the precise moment. As soon as the bear was close enough Sarthinias jumped and grabbed a branch. SNAP! The branch snapped, and Sarthinias fell atop the bear. Startled he jumped off of it and held tight to the broken branch. The bear lunged and his claws struck Sarthinias in the chest, forever scarring his chest. The boy was pushed back by this blow, when the bear was about to finish the boy, an arrow grazed it's cheek. It looked around to find a Bosmer girl of no more than 15 years. She had rather pale skin, much more like the Snow Elves of old , pure white hair tied in a braid, and piercing blue eyes that slanted down lightly. In her hands she held a Bosmer Bow and a drawn arrow. She loosed an arrow that struck the Bear's shoulder, but the bear was un phased and charged toward her. He knocked her down and raised his mighty paw to crush her. Sarthinias cried "STOP!" and looked into the bear's brown eyes. It stopped and then a strange thing happened; it bowed to Sarthinias. Suddenly he heard a voice in his head,
"Hello, Master." Said the voice, .
"Who's there!?" Sarthinias called out loud, highly startled by the new voice.
"You're looking at me, Master."
"You. You're the bear? How are you speaking to me? How am I able to understand you?" Thought a wary Sarthinias.
"Yes, I am the bear. Once just a ravenous savage now you've bonded me to you using ancient magic of the Bosmer. I am yours to command, Master." replied the Bear somewhat reluctantly.
"Do you have a name mighty bear, and why do you call me master?" a respectful Sarthinias asked.
"My name is War-Claw, as for the bond you established between us, it is known as the Comrade Bond. It allows us to converse as we are now and it makes you able to summon me on a whim, Master." answered War-Claw with burden and almost pain in his voice.
"War-Claw, I only wish you to be my friend and leave my friends alone. I don't want to be your master."
"Well, well it seems I have found myself a worthy companion. Not many of us bonded beasts meet a soul as pure as yours to bind us. I would be proud to accompany you, and you need not worry about your friends. Even a bear has some manners." thanked War-Claw the weight completely levied from his voice, Sarthinias unknowingly gained an immense amount of respect from the bear. War-Claw knew that he would not be a slave to this boy,
For some odd reason Sarthinias felt that he could trust the bear. He felt the truth from the words in his mind.
"I'm glad to have met you my friend, now allow me inform the others of what had transpired today."
Sarthinias looked around to see the pale Wood-Elven girl flabbergasted with her mouth wide open and the other two children looking on in a mesmerized state. "Hello friends, my name is Sarthinias adopted son of Tak-Galborn. This," he gestured to War-Claw, "is my new friend and companion War-Claw. Know that no harm will come to you from us."
"My name is Talim, I'm a huntress in training but I'm glad that you were here or I fear I'd have been lunch for your friend. Thank you." spoke the pale girl, still visibly wary of the great beast.
"My name is Shaylar and this is my twin brother Shaylan." said the small smiling Bosmer girl in the trees now climbing down with her twin. She had entrancing green eyes, light brown skin that was very unlike Bosmer females, raven-black hair that hung down past her shoulders, and a very cute smile.
"We're both ten years of age." Shaylan said. Shaylan stood fairly tall for a Bosmer and was only a bit smaller than Sarthinias. He had light brown skin like his sister but more masculine looking, dark brown hair in a ponytail, and fiery yellow eyes.
"As fate would have it so am I." Replied Sarthinias.
"I for one have fifteen years in my own life, two of which I have spent training with my bow." Said Talim.
Just then War-Claw sniffed the air and looked at all of the young ones and smiled to them.
"Sarthinias all of these people are as pure and trustworthy as you. I believe this is the start of a wonderful friendship." War-Claw spoke aloud and the others merely looked to him in amazement.
"Well my new friends let us return home, we need to go before it really gets cold and we shall need to inform the village of War-Claw being a tame bear." said Sarthinias already walking back to the village. For the first time in his life he felt joy, not only did he make friends, but a life-long companion. He smiled a very rare genuine smile, as he knew never again would he be alone.
As the years progressed, Sarthinias and his new friends began to form their own bond, friendship. They would get into the worst sort of mischief from messing around in the village kitchens, to actually setting loose a cow that ran right into Elder Helchon's home. The old grouch lived up to his name of "Bitter-Cold" and yet, they'd always be there to get each other out of trouble, wild stories and playful excuses. The old Wood-Elf often left them with a warning, when of course he could remember their real names.
The twins' mother died after the two were born, their father's heart filled with grief and his belly with ale. The man became a drunk by every definition of the word, once they were seven years old. During that same winter he fell into the sea after being sent home from the Windpeak Inn at Dawnstar, his addled mind allowed the poor sod to freeze to death and the twins lived on their own, just wandering and wondering. They were never cold to Sarthinias as children, but Shaylar was always shy and Shaylan very protective, though he was only older by three minutes.
The quartet often visited War-Claw in the forest and when they came of teenage years, War-Claw lead them into his den and gave them permission to visit his Snow-Bear Clan, whenever their hearts desired. War-Claw's cubs loved playing with the Human teenagers and they loved the cubs. As the cubs matured so did the teens.
Talim always kept a close eye on the three, with the age difference she definitely was like an older sister to the three. Talim began instructing them on how to hunt with the traditional Bosmer bows. They had a natural talent for archery, just like Talim herself. In fact Talim was so good at hunting the title of Huntress was bestowed upon her. Tak-Galborn had also asked the lone guard of the village, Agarwaenor, to teach the youngsters how to wield and properly use the Bosmer Short-Blade once they turned fifteen. Agarwaenor happily agreed as he could use more people to aid him should bandits come raiding, rarely would bandits dare, but they would attempt to loot the village in the winter.
Though there were still many people of the Dawnstar Colony that were wary of and cold to Sarthinias, many decided to see what a good young lad he could be, some even began to doubt the previous accusations against him. Tak-Galborn could not have been more proud of his adopted son and his friends, the four were not only providing for the village with food, but they also had taken oaths to defend the colony from hostile outsiders as well. The village began to appreciate them more and more every day. Sarthinias always stuck with his friends rain, blizzard, hunt, thick, and thin, nothing could separate them with the exception of sleep. Regrettably only the more wise adults seemed to truly trust the four, their peers often fled if they were in the shadow of just one of them, they were ignorant and unyielding in their childish beliefs of the quartet being cursed.
Sarthinias was saddened by that recurring rumor, not just for him, but his friends as well. Rarely did Sarthinias ever shed his mask and show his sensitive side, unless there was a tragedy in the village. Regardless he had convinced himself to be strong for himself and his friends, they would come first no matter what. He decided that he would always put their needs before his own. As his friendship grew and they all knew that they were no longer friends, no they were family, brothers and sisters, never to betray each other and to always be there for each other. Nothing short of death would part Sarthinias from his new family or his father.
Cast/Characters
Charles Dance as Caligula
Luke Evans as Bard the Dragon-Slayer
Orlando Bloom as Legolas Greenleaf
Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield
SurvivorofLake-Town as Thraculas
The_Queen_Kastle as Arianna Shade-Seer
NightmareMaker21 as Dilir Ironheart
Alexander SantaCruz as Xander Eagle-Talons
Vincent Andrew as Za'Tara Shadow's-Bane
Billy Connolly as Dain Ironfoot
Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel
Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins
Sarah Gadon as Mirena
Ian McKellen as Gandalf
Christopher Lee as Saruman
John Hurt as Alatar
Richard Harris as Pallando
Sylvester McCoy as Radagast
Lee Pace as Thranduil
Hugo Weaving as Elrond
Manu Bennet as Azog
John Tui as Bolg
Lawrence Makoare as Lurtz/ The Witch-King/ Gothmog
Cate Blanchett as Galadriel
James Nesbitt as Bofur
Ian Holm as (Elderly) Bilbo Baggins
Ken Stott as Balin
Aidan Turner as Kili
Dean O'Gorman as Fili
Mikael Persbrandt as Beorn
Peter Lurie as War-Claw (Voice)
Gaham McTavish as Dwalin
Mark Hadlow as Dori
Ryan Gage as Alfrid
John Callen as Oin
William Kircher as Bifur
Peter Hambleton as Gloin
Adam Brown as Ori
Stephen Hunter as Bombur
John Bell as Bain
Nick Blake as Percy
Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins
Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn/Strider
Sean Astin as Samwise Gamgee
Sean Bean as Boromir
David Wenham as Faramir
John Noble as Denethor II
Liv Tyler as Arwen
Andy Serkis as Gollum
Dominic Monaghan as Merry/ Merriadoc Brandybuck
Billy Boyd as Pippin/ Peregrin Took
Marton Csokas as Celeborn
Craig Parker as Haldir
Karl Urban as Eomer
Miranda Otto as Eowyn
Bernard Hill as Theoden
Brad Dourif as Grima Wormtongue
Bruce Spence as The Mouth of Sauron
Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug (Voice)/ Necromancer Sauron (Voice)
Sala Baker as Sauron (Voice)
John Rhys-Davies as Gimli/Treebeard (Voice)
Jed Brophy as Nori/ Sharku
Nathaniel Lees as Ugluk
John Leigh as Hama
Bruce Hopkins as Gamling
John Bach as Madril
Bill Nighy as Viktor
Tony Curan as Markus
Zita Görög as Amelia
Jean-Claude Van Damme as Brutus
Holly Twitchell as Selena Star-Gazer
Richard Roxburgh as Nero
Helena Bonham Carter as Merienna
Silvia Colloca as Verona
Elena Anaya as Venus
SurvivorofLake-Town as Sarthinias a.k.a. The Impaler, Sarthinias Mooncatcher (later Lord Sarthinas Nightmaster)
staceymarie6483 as Lady Luna Nightmistress/ previously Luna Moondancer
Pete Postlethwaite as Brother Gilbert
Dennis Quaid as Bowen
Sean Connery as Draco
Mark Banderas as Sanathos Blood-Scale
Holly Twitchell as Selenia Star-Gazer
John Raymond Meza as Arkaras the Savage
Survivor of Lake-Town as Elanordir
The_Queen_Kastle as Ayane
Samuel Roukin as Captian Bregon
Eric Vale as Major Goeolon the Cold
J. Michael Tatum as Arradon
J.J. Field as Colfinnor
Gary Oldman as Alain the Sentinel
David Bradley as Domitorem de Strigoi
Richard Sammel as Commander Eichhorst
Johnny Depp as Captain Sparrow
Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa
Ian McShane as Captain Blackbeard
Kevin McNally as First Mate Gibbs
Charlie Hunnam as Captain Killsverth
Omar Sy as Captain Adéwalé
Idris Elba as First Mate Moreau
Kevin Durand as Sergis Duranis Robor
Alan Rickman as Severus Titus
Jason Issacs as Lucius Balventius
Stephen McHattie as Vaun
Rupert Penry Jones as Quinlan the Born
JohnRaymondMeza as Dogmir
JohnRaymondMeza as Servus Ignis
Allison Sandoval as Duvaineth Green-Fyre
Megan Sandoval as Ayisha Kitani