FOREWORD

Please read this part of the foreword/author's note as I am going to give you information that might make you not want to read the story. The main character in this story will be male and bisexual/pansexual. Even though he might hook up with girls, I do plan to ultimately make him end up with a guy so if you're not into that, that's cool. But, romance won't be the focus of the story so you can probably ignore it if you'd like.

Anyway, I would also like to inform you that there will be sexual scenes later on in the story and vivid descriptions of gore and stuff. I also don't plan on putting warnings in the middle of the story when something disturbing or traumatizing is about to happen but they probably won't be that bad.

(Next part is not necessary to read but I would recommend doing so anyway)

Now with that out of the way, I want to say welcome and thank you for checking out my story. If you are reading this, you probably you probably found this story somewhere, it doesn't really matter. But if you are one of the few that got recommended this story after following me for some reason, I would like to apologise for deleting some of my previous story and for not updating my other story for like a year now. I don't know if I plan on ever continuing it.

Now, the reason I am writing this story is not only because the concept of it was stuck in my head but also because I wanted to finish a story for the first time. I have a bad habit of abandoning stories after a few chapters and I really want to let go of that habit. So I decided to start this story along with another one (I don't know which one will come out first) that I plan to complete with over 100k words in a year or less.

Now while I think that there is a large chance of me not being able to do that, I will still try my best.

Now, with all that out of the way, I am proud to present to you-

Take This Life

Ashamed as I am to admit it, I wasn't exactly a good person. Even though I used to be a hero, seeking glory and wanting nothing more than to make the world better when I left it than it was as I first entered it, the power I gained over the years went to my head.

I was born only a few months after the White-Gold Concordat was signed, signifying the end of the Great War. I was lucky enough to be born into nobility, even if we were only a minor family in the city of Windhelm.

Our family was fiercely loyal to the Empire and Talos. When the White-Gold Concordat was signed, making the worship of Talos illegal, our family, along with almost every man, woman and child in Skyrim felt betrayed by the Empire. And so when I came of age, I inherited my father's lands and full of control of family's estate was given over to me from my mother who was my regent.

I did my best to administrate my lands and I kept up with my martial training as best as I could. When the Stormcloak Rebellion finally started when Ulfric Stormcloak shouted the High-King to death, I dedicated all of my family's resources to the war effort against the advice of my mother.

Even though I had little experience in leading armies, I was promoted to a high position as soon as I joined the rebellion due to my status as a noble and my donation to the cause.

After we were captured and sent to Helgen to die, we were saved from the executioner's axe by a dragon of all things. After escaping and a series of adventures, I learned that I was the Dragonborn.

I think it was when I learned of this that I started to change for the worst. It felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders as I had to balance between learning the Thu'um, slaying dragons and doing my part as one of the leaders of the rebellion.

Even though I was constantly under pressure, I grew leaps and bounds in power as I kept learning more words of power and absorbing the souls of dragons.

The fact that I was a Dovahkiin made me not quite human. Even though my body was that of a mortal human, my soul was that of a dragon, of Akatosh and me finding that out fundamentally changed my demeanor. I became more prideful and quicker to anger. I felt an overwhelming need to dominate everyone around me to show them who was superior.

My behavior led to a lot of conflict with evryone around me and ultimately started my downfall.

After a few months, of slaying dragons and seeking out how to slay Alduin, I stumbled upon a cave that would give me a little light in my bleak world.

I was chasing a dragon and unfortunately, I was unable to fell and I found my self on the side of a mountain. Even though I may have technically been a demigod, my body was still that if a mortal and I needed rest too.

After a few hours of rest, I was woken up by the sound of the clattering cups as something made them fall to the ground as they were sneaking up to me. It was a vampire and I immediately got into action and slayed it.

I decided to explore the cave and after a few hours, I found a large chamber where after solving some puzzles, a large stone coffin came out of the middle of the floor.

Inside that coffin was a woman who I would grow to dearly love and who I probably couldn't have completed my quest without. Her name was Serana Volkihar, a powerful pure-blooded vampire.

I, as had become the norm over the past few months tried to mess with her but she turned out to be quite powerful. And physically speaking, significantly more powerful than I was.

But as we traveled together, we started growing fond of each other and after slaying her father, I finally confessed my love to her. Luckily for me, she felt the same for me as I did but did not wish to enter a sexual relationship with me due to her past trauma and even though my dragon soul told me take her against her will, my love for her won out and I respected her decision.

We traveled together, trying to find the Elder Scroll necessary to find a way to learn the shout, Dragonrend. But after we found the scroll and on our way to the Throat Of The World to use it, we were ambushed by worshippers of Miraak. We made quick work of them and continued on our way.

And after almost two years since that faithful day in Helgen, I made my way to Sovngarde to slay Alduin.

It was a long and difficult battle that felt like it lasted days. But fortunately for me, I wasn't alone as the hundreds of the souls of heroes of the past helped me in the battle against the first born of Akatosh and we were finally able to slay him.

Strangely enough, I didn't absorb the soul of Alduin, instead, his body along with his soul turn to light and faded away and I was sent back to Skuldafn.

I was celebrated as a hero all across Skyrim but my work was not done. I decided to head to Solstheim with Serana to deal with the threat of Miraak before helping with the rebellion.

But on my quest to slay the first Dragonborn, I lost my closest friend and the person who I loved the most, Serana in my final battle against Miraak.

Even though I won, the victory tasted like ash in my mouth as I had no one to share it with.

I became crueler after that day. I let my emotions and my desires dictate my actions more often than rational thought and that ultimately led to my downfall.

In the final battle of the rebellion where we stormed the capital city of Solitude, I died after my shout managed to destroy the arch upon which the city rested. I fell to my death along with thousands of others including my own soldiers and the imperials.

I didn't know what happened after I died. I don't know if we won or if we lost and after all these years, I couldn't care less.

After all, eleven years is a long time to cope.

I was pulled out of my reminiscing of the past as the whistling of the large, scarlet steam-powered train in front of me made me realise I should probably enter the train now if I wanted to find a good seat.

I hefted the trunk from the ground to enter the Hogwarts Express. This was the true start of my second chance at life, and I would do my best to live it to the fullest and to avoid the mistakes I made in my past life.

Author's Notes

I know this was a really short but it was only the prologue and its main purpose was to give a summary of our MC's life. The next chapter will come out soon. Before the story, really started, I wanted to establish our main character. While I wanted to make an SI, I decided against it as I felt it was too common and also because my other story is going to be an SI. Please keep in mind that the version of Harry Potter he is in is not the exact same as it was in the books. Read the next chapter (which will come out in a day or two) to find out how it is different. Also, the story will contain elements and characters from other series as I have a special plan for the story. I hoped you enjoyed it so far.

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