Eric Mercer is a 29-year-old former marine and gamer he was in the military for 5 years and loved all the knowledge he gained from it. But what he loved just as much was playing video games with his 17-year-old brother James especially after his brain tumor turned to a cancer diagnosis and was given 4 months to live.
James's only request was that he and his brother play his favorite game Skyrim one last time together with Eric playing and James watching. Eric loved the thieves guild and laughed with his brother at the fact that someone in the game had their last name as his first name. They named part of the character they made together after Reinhardt from overwatch.
Naming the Dragonborn Wilhelm Iron-Guard and enjoying every moment playing together they had decided to make this Dragonborn a maxed out Blacksmith/Armorsmith with enchanting abilities and of course, James had said that a Dragonborn should be the most jack of trade character as possible without becoming ridiculous.
By the time it was time to fight aldwin James was already on death's door and couldn't even stay up more than 5 hours at a time and then it became 3 hours at a time and then they needed to move James to an ICU when James was in the ICU all he wanted to talk about was how he wasn't going to be able to see the end to their own story and that he wished they could be real heroes.
"together saving the world from some disaster was better than dying like a bump on a log right eric," James said. "I wouldn't put it like that I mean think of it all like at least you used the last of your time having as much fun as possible with your older brother," Eric said
'Hey Eric Promise me something if I die you finish our journey as heroes together' James said I promise Brother I will slay that dragon a be that hero in another world. It wasn't long after Eric went home for the day that he got the phone call saying that his brother has coded in his sleep and that they were sorry for my loss.
After a week all the sad arrangements were made and James's ashes were delivered for scattering, but Eric was going to complete his promise before scattering his brother's ashes
Eric put the urn with his brother's ashes on the chair his brother use to sit in as he booted up the game.
It took some coaxing of eric's mental state to finally put this final character together of him and his brother to rest. All the memories of the game came flooding together joining the thieves guild and his brother laughing at him for not seeing the mercer betrayal and us killing him for putting the name mercer to shame.
Joining the nightingales and his brother praying to the goddess of luck and darkness at night eric thought it was a fun thing praying to a Skyrim god cause who didn't need luck. The number of memories made in this play of the game with his brother was going to help him alot later when he needed a smile.
He finally rushed into the fight with Aldwin with his nightingale armor maxed out and his best weapon and all the random other things like the ten thousand gold that weighed nothing and the blacksmithing materials wasn't even weighing his character down thanks to the modded nature of the game realistic graphics and weightless materials among other things.
The shouts left the in-game character and his friends before hitting the dragon and before long the dragon hit the ground and started taking major damage and after a while, the dragon was filled with golden light and exploded after the fight tsun approached the character and spoke young Dragonborn it seems all was not as it seemed before you can return it seems that the nocturnal wants to speak to you and then tsun shouted.
And as soon as the shout left tsun's lips my whole computer and room was surrounded by a blinding light and then when my eyes were opened again my vision was surrounded by a purple fog before I heard a godly voice "greeting earthling and controller of the Dragonborn I am the nocturnal the one you mortals have been praying to in the other realm in what you fools call a game but what us gods call a chessboard.
We were simply waiting for the one who made all the right decisions and that person was you and your brother unfortunately your brother has already passed on so he cannot experience the reward he requested upon completion of his quest but I did allow his wish to transfer to you as per his request so that means his last wish with you will be granted.
And what that means is I will send you to another world that is in serious danger that needs a hero and I will give you access to all the abilities you accessed as the Dragonborn including his memory and the way he held all his gear and his shouts I hope you enjoy your new life as your brother and you promised.
And before I could fall out of my shocked stupor all the memories of the Dragonborn entered me and the pain of my body changing before I fell unconscious and heard a voice in my head 'should you ever need any advice or wonder why such a crazy wish was granted just pray to me before you rest for the night also Tsun says enjoy the new shout, you will a similar interface as you did while controlling the Dragonborn good luck and my blessing upon you.