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Chapter 1
A dark hooded figure rode through the night. Her horse's red eyes seemed to glow in the darkness. They went swift and almost seemed to be one with their surrounding. They stopped at a ruined fort, not far from the road. Slowly, the hooded figure walked towards an altar. The red tapestry which decorated it and the strange purple beam revealed it's purpose.
Several months ago, the Dark Brotherhood had recieved a new Listener. Isa, a promising young woman, had become one of the most infamous assassins of their time. Now, she was the Night Mother's messenger. Her time of killing had ended. No longer was she allowed to go on a mission. No longer could she use her dagger and bow. Her nights were cold and lonely, without the warm blood of her targets to please her.
Isa took a couple of soul gems out of her pocket and layed them on the altar. She closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them again and casted the spell. She waited patiently and watched how the soul gems started to change. Their color became darker untill they were completely black. When the magic had ended, she took the black soul gems and put them away.
She had found a new toy to fill the nights. Isa had discovered the ruines a few weeks ago. She had entered the fort with exitement, ready to kill again. It seemed that it was the hide-out of Necromancers. Isa did not know much about them. People experimenting on corpses just didn't sound very interesting. The bodies were no longer alive, their blood had stopped a long time ago. There was no silent fear in their eyes, no resistance... The Necromancers were weak and she had killed them easily. One had been persisting. He had tried to trap her soul. It had opened a new door for her. Was it possible to trap people's soul? Eventually, she had used his power against him. She had obtained her first black soul gem... and her first human soul. Later, she learned how to create the gems by using normal soul gems. And she could do it every eight days. Oh, how much fun it had been to drag someone's soul out of his body! She mostly had trapped outlaws and bandits, with now and then a wandering guard. But now it became rather boring. Isa wanted more! She wanted to know more about Necromancy, more about their mysterious, but fascinating power... But it was hard to learn more about it. Necromancers had to be careful, cautious, because the Mages guild was hunting them.
In that night, while she was thinking about it, she came up with an idea. It was a wonderful idea. She almost started to tremble of exitement when she thought it through. The Mages guild was the only thing between her and her power. Why not destroy it then? It had to be done silently... They should not know what was happening before it was too late. She had to infiltrate them and destroy them from the inside...
She made her way to Cheydinhal. There she would go to the Mages guild and join them!