This is the beginning to The Legend Of Kotera, a Skyrim and Legend Of Zelda story which the core was created by Myself and the mod creators for Relics of Hyrule by JKalenad and the Temple of Time mod by Ozzydarkfmw. This story being edited depends on you folks if you wish for more from the story of Kotera Kilyerd who travels north to Skyrim after finding out about her heritage as a Hylian and her family tree linked to a Royal Guard who escaped before Hyrule met its doom by Alduin (According to the ROH mod).
Story Told In First Person
I was raised just outside of Skyrim in a sizeable house, it was three floors all together and a cellar I was never allowed in as a child, or even now I was told to keep out from my father Duris Kilyerd. My name is Kotera Kilyerd now in my early twenties I longed to see the world, and I would as I was about to leave the house for good and journey beyond Skyrims boarder, We mostly stayed out of the Empires affairs but I didn't shy away from guards or anything I just did what they asked if soldiers came to our house which every once in a blue moon some would camp just outside.
Apparently some rebellion was going on in Skyrim, I could see the wounded hearts of the soldiers knowing they were forced to fight old friends and possibly family themselves. With my medical skills I patched up any that were badly hurt if the wildlife was not as kind on their journey back. Then one day I woke up in a cold sweat after a dream of a jet black dragon swooping over the house had turned into a kingdom on fire, as I walked in the dream everything felt so slow, I thought I was somewhere in Tamriel possibly the capitol, but I saw an insignia on the castle that was ablaze with hot fire. It was the same one on my fathers bible and etched into the door of the cellar in the house three triangles one standing atop the other two peaks and it was as gold as the sun and shone bright, it began to glow and it was as if it pierced my mind with a certain location: Skyrim, as if it were telling me that's where I needed to go, and then the dream ended and there I sat in a cold sweat even though my body felt like it was burning in the same flames as that kingdom.
I looked at my hands and they shook, I couldn't control it so I screamed which prompted my father to nearly pull my door from its hinges and ask what was wrong. I told him about my strange dream and it was as if he'd seen a ghost, he held both of my hands until I slowly calmed down and began to breathe normally, once calm he only said "Kotera please follow me, It's time you learned who and what you are. My only hope is that you'll forgive me for being afraid of telling you this when you were younger." My father had said as his voice trailed off into sadness, I had gotten up and stumbled to follow him down to our cellar door. I felt like everything just began looming over my shoulders as if nothing else mattered but my choice at that time, we descended deep into the cellar and what I did not know is that it led down what felt like thousands of feet underground it was a lot of steps to go down with just my father and his torch to guide me. my hands ran across the wall to keep my balance, I hated closed in spaces and the dark, I would cry as a child unless someone was near with a candle before I would sleep, I was afraid something was watching me or waiting to devour me. As we reached the door at the bottom of the long stairway my father muttered something I couldn't even make out and suddenly I felt a burst of energy I couldn't see slam into my chest and it nearly knocked me over causing me to hold my shirt and breathe hard.
We walked in to a dark room and it looked like a mannequin adorning armor was at the end near a coffin, "Illuminate!" my father had yelled and suddenly the entire room began to glow and I could see everything, it was my Great Grandfathers tomb Ilgrad Kilyerd, I was always told stories about him being a royal guard that our name was held among the highest ranking between the many families that guarded 'Her' is all my father would say. "This is our legacy Kotera...We were not royal guards to anyone in Tamriel, or even Nirn itself we did not serve an emperor, We Served Princess Zelda of the Hylian Royal Family, her father long passed she ruled over the land we originated from called Hyrule." My father had just revealed something that my brain could not even comprehend, as I walked down toward my Great Grandfathers stone coffin there were many Murals lining the walls, telling of several generations of Hyrule, its Princess, and the Hero chosen by the goddess Hylia, they were only images but for some reason I could understand them, three individuals in a constant resurrection time over centuries to meet one another two destined to battle against each other whilst the third was meant to seal away the evil one. "Father...this is a little overwhelming, Why would you have hidden this from-" Before i could finish my father interjected "Your grandfather had Fled Hyrule to live before it was completely destroyed by the black demon Alduin, the dragon you saw in your dream, he wanted our existence to be a secret incase any would be loyal to Alduin that would seek us out to kill us, and put Hyrule completely into extinction." He pointed at another image of the dragon I saw in my dream with a legion of the dead and cloaked men in jet black with the symbol of the dragons head on their cloaks.
"You've come at an age and size that you'll fit his Armor...What i want you to do, is go to Skyrim and seek out your destiny, and I pray to the goddess that in the name of the Kilyerd family you Avenge Hyrule and our lost Princess." He sounded like it was a command as I stood in front of an old set of armor adorning that same symbol in my dream, called the Triforce, with wings and a set of talons underneath as well as our families symbol a rose etched sword laying underneath as if to gift itself to the Triforce. I went to turn to say something but my father stepped out, I must have stood there for half an hour before I took the armor down and dressed myself in the Hylian royal guards regalia I stepped to the glass in the room and saw my reflection, the armor fit as if it were made to be worn by me which left me open jawed in surprise. My father entered the room after I was dressed carrying a sword covered in cloth. "Father I...I hope I will make you and our family proud, I will go to the land of the sons of the north and seek out a means to end Alduin." I had vowed even my life if it meant putting an end to the dragon that caused my family such grief, tears streaming down my face as my father uncovered the sword with a blue sapphire in the center with a rose etched inside just before the hand guard at the end of the blade was the Triforce in its glory etched into the blade, the handle rimmed with gold and the pommel bright gold as well. "I made this for you after you first awakened your strength as a Hylian, you don't remember but when a bear attacked us while we were out camping...You...Changed and took up my sword and shield as if someone had taken you over, your eyes blazed gold and blue as you attacked the bear with such ferocity that a well trained soldier would scream in fear, just before the bears head was lopped off in one last swing, and then as if it were a passing wind the feeling around you faded and you passed out still clutching my sword in your hand." My father had told me, it was all a blur that day I could only remember screaming as the bear ran at us before I blacked out, i had thought I just closed my eyes and was killed but I woke up with several scars two weeks later, bandages being the only thing covering my chest and arms.
I sheathed the sword my father had handed me and looked him in the eyes my tears still yet falling. "I have faith in you Kotera, you may just be what brings our forgotten land to rest and end our struggle of staying hidden from the world." My father said before pulling me into a hug. we walked back up to the house in silence as I contemplated my next move: Crossing the boarder into Skyrim. I stepped out of our front door into the morning sun and looked north, where Skyrim awaited me my parents seeing me off, as I turned with a bag of supplies, my shield on my back and my sword on my hip. I was about half a mile from the boarder of Skyrim when a group of folks was making their way the same direction, I nodded to them and just followed a little behind but not too far. One of them said they were called Storm Cloaks and they were on their way back into their homeland with their leader Ulfric. I didn't think anything of it and followed behind, we were just at the boarder when Imperial soldiers jumped from the cover of the forest and attacked the storm cloaks, I hesitated to draw my sword against them because I had nothing to do with the fight ensuing, but before I could slip away from the fight, I felt a knock to the back of my head and I faded off into a dream, one much like the dream I had the night prior to my journey. Except there was something peaceful about the land I stood on in the dream, a door pulled me into a temple where I saw the visage of a sword with a blue handle and a gold gem at its center, it glowed with a holy light. I awoke and here I am now in the back of a carriage being led by Imperials, my equipment gone I looked around trying to see the surroundings but my head was spinning. "Hey you, You're finally awake? You were trying to cross the boarder right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush same as us. and that thief over there." A man in front of me had explained and gestured to the man next to him he began rambling on, but my head started ringing. I didn't want to tell them there was something wrong so I kept quiet and pretended to listen until we got to our stop.
I'll call that An Introduction, Continuation of chapters on this site will again be in the decision of the people themselves I do not own Nintendo and Bethesda's game rights Nor do I own the rights to the two mods, This was just a story I created when I created my character in Skyrim that I made for the purpose of playing the Hyrule Mod in a way it was meant to be played. When I play Skyrim I don't just play the game, I'm making the story along with the character so I can always enjoy playing.