Suddenly came to me that I didn't give a description of the story (facepalm) so I'll do that after this chapter but I'm really excited where this is going and have tons of ideas, might reveal a little/lot of Skordir's backstory. Anyway hope you enjoy and please give me any helpful criticism. Thanks.

Chapter 4

Realisation

As soon as Ralof got over his shock at seeing the imperial man's mangled leg and when we were indoors I told him who it belonged to, he fell to his knees and started crying. In between gasps of breath and sobbing, he would occasionally mutter, "oh Gods Hadvar, why?" I start to feel sorry for this man who has done me no harm but then he turns to me with a look of pure hate and rage on his face, similar to mine before I killed Hadvar.

"Why? Why are you carrying this with you? He asked, his voice shaking with the effort of not cleaving my head open with his axe.

I have always been taught to tell the truth but was never good at that, but I thought what the hell, and told him, "This bastard belonged to the group that brought me here. You want to know why I killed him. I remembered why I was attacked and brought here. I was out hunting with my son and daughter and got robbed by bandits, I had only just came to Skyrim a few weeks before and I was adjusting to the harshness of this barren place. The bandits took my armour and weapons and took my daughter as a prize. Made me watch while they took her, one bandit after another. After maybe a week with the bandits, my daughter Ajofla killed the second in command after he was done with her. She ran while I screamed at her to stop. A lucky shot took her from behind right in her leg, she screamed but hobbled on, and then she turned around to see how far she was from that damned archer. He got off an arrow which pierced her eye."

"What does this have to do with the Imperials?" asks Ralof.

"Shut your mouth and let me finish." I snarled. "What I didn't tell you was that, my son, Fenrik, wasn't caught and had been nearby for the week and had seen everything that happened. My son is just shy of being a man so naturally I taught him the ways of Nordic battle. Fenrik always was a good archer. His first arrow caught the man holding me in the knee, crippling him, I elbowed him in the face, broke his neck and helped Fenrik kill the rest. By the end there were only 3 left of the original 12. Then those damned Imperials showed up talking about you bloody Stormcloaks and some ambush near a place called Darkwater crossing which they would take part in later on. The bandits screamed for help and told the imperials that we were the bandits and had killed them all. Dressed like we were, they believed them. Before we could protest our innocence, a burly legate came up and caved in my son's head like a walnut."

Ralof stood there open-mouthed listening to my tale.

I did the only thing I could, I killed the legate in cold fury with a fallen bandits sword as the remaining bandits fled for the hills. Then I ran like a coward, praying for Talos to have mercy on me for my cowardice. I didn't get far. About 3 hours later they all showed up with you lot. Half went away for the ambush while half came after me. I killed three of their men before that craven clubbed me from behind with a mace. In essence I was sentenced to death for my children's deaths."

Ralof looks at me uncertainly as I sink to the floor and begin to weep uncontrollably.

"From this day I vow on my life that I will stop this civil war and cut down every single Imperial soldier I can find and when I find General Tullius, believe me, his death will be slow. The same goes for the Thalmor and any other damned faction that gets in my way." I hiss my voice wracked with emotion.

"Then join us kinsman, join the Stormcloaks!" Ralof almost shouts, "You don't have to do this yourself."

"Thanks for the offer but I think it's time that a new player entered this game." I smile grimly. "You Stormcloaks aren't the only ones allowed to have fun. Tell me, what do you think about the name, the Ice-Hearts?"

Oh shnap! Will Skordir be a new contender in the civil war and will any support him, that's for me to know and for you to find out (that is if you decide to stick around for the later chapters…) Hope you enjoyed that obviously original chapter and Skordir's backstory. Stay tuned folks!