Chapter 4: Settling in.
The journey to Winterhold was a long trip that lasted a week. Haraldor was glad that the cart ride was over. It was long, cold, and boring. Now Haraldor was surprised at how dilapidated the town is and how it wasn't much of a hold. He gets off the cart and thanks the driver and makes his way towards the bridge that leads to the college.
When he reached the first arch way when a female high elf stopped him in his tracks. "You are about to enter the college of Winterhold. To let you have entry to this place of knowledge you must perform a simple test to see if you have mystical talents." The high elf informed Haraldor. "So all I have to do is prove that I have some knowledge of the mystic arts?" Haraldor asked and the female high elf nodded. With the confirmation Haraldor summoned a storm atronach and cast the storm breath spell he created. "Well that was certainly flashy and it seems that you are magically powerful but have room to grow. If you would follow me across the bridge so I can open the gate."
Both Haraldor and the high elf made their way across the bridge. "My name is Faralda and I give lectures about destruction magic here at the college. I am impressed by the spell you casted on the bridge. I have never seen anything like it." Faralda told Haraldor as they walked. "Well Faralda I crafted it myself for my namesake. Apparently when I was a wee babe I sneezed and sparks came out my mouth and caught my father figure's robes on fire and I was named Haraldor Stormbreath by Jarl Balgruuf." Haraldor explained and Faralda nodded. Once she unlocked the gate she left Haraldor in deputy arch-mage Mirabelle.
Mirabelle leads Haraldor to the hall of attainment. "Well Haraldor this is where you are going to stay with your fellow students. A few other new students came here earlier this week and are still settling in." Haraldor nodded and opened the door to the dorm he will be staying at. Mirabelle made her way back to whatever she was doing before he came.
Haraldor's POV.
I opened the door and had to immediately dodge a fireball and as I got back up and looked in he say what he could say was chaos. A khajiit and a nord were having a magical duel over a room, a female dark elf settling into one of the rooms, and a male dark elf trying to sell a black soul gem to an imperial male who was refusing. 'What did I get into with this?' I thought as I made my way inside and found an empty room that no one seemed to want and started to unpack. The khajiit won the duel and was putting his stuff into the room he won.
After I unpacked my stuff I walked out my room and cleared my throat and it got my classmates attention. "Are you always like that or was the event I saw a one time thing?" Referring to the duel I witnessed earlier. "My name is Haraldor Stormbreath if you want to know." The first to speak up after a bit was the khajiit. "J'zargo was just proving his skills. J'zargo wonders if Haraldor would like to show his skill." J'zargo says as he finishes putting his things in his room that he won from the nord. "Ah well I will wait till we have class to show my skills my good J'zargo." I responded in turn to J'zargo.
The next person to speak was the nord who lost. "Ah good to see a fellow nord here. My name is Onmund." I turned to Onmund. "Well met Onmund but I am sorry to disappoint you but I am not a nord by blood but I am one in everything else." I responded to his disappointment. "If you are no nord by blood then what blood flows through your veins?" The dark elf woman asks me. " I am a bretton by blood. Can I know your name?" I ask the dark elf. "My name is Brelyna Maryon of house Telvanni." Brelyna curtly responded. At this point the imperial left to go to the library leaving the male dark elf last to introduce himself.
"Oh leave me for last. My name is Enthir and if you need anything and I mean anything just ask though it will cost ya." The now known Enthir tells me. "Well met and if I do need anything you will be the first person I will ask." I told Enthir. With a tole of a bell everyone made their way to the first lecture of their time here at the college.
Hogwarts 1992 Headmaster's office.
'It has been a full fucking year and there is no trace of the brat.' Dumbledore thought as he was looking over his research. He had to wipe Charlous potter's memory of tom revealing that Harry was the actual boy who lived. This is going to be a huge nightmare for him. 'I need a way to bring this child under my control which will be difficult depending on how he was raised.' Dumbledore was thinking as Charlous and the two older potters were sitting in his office. Charlous was energetically retelling how he and Voldemort had an epic duel to his parents. "Albus, where is harry?" Lily asks the headmaster. "Well my dear I haven't located him yet but I am still trying to find your wayward son." Dumbledore replied and at that moment Charlous began to whine. "Mom forget about that stupid loser. He is not worth your time to worry about because you already have an all powerful son who can beat the biggest dark lord with his pinky toe!" 'Well at least I have a puppet that supports me despite him being the wrong child.' Albus thought as the two Potters were trying to silence they younger's mouth so they could speak.
Back on Nirn
It has been two years since Haraldor arrived at the college and at the moment he was in lecture about the many creatures in the land of skyrim. He was sitting next to Brelyna because she wanted to be close to her betrothed. Yes, about a month ago she cornered Haraldor and basically forced him into a betrothal to her. She had a silver tongue and he ended up being betrothed to her.
Right now the Tolfdir called on Haraldor. "How can you tell if someone is a werebear or werewolf?" Haraldor thought about his answer and said. "If the person is a werewolf then they would show signs of wolfish behavior, they would smell like wet dogs, and in some cases they would have fur growing out of their ears. For a werebear they tend to be more aggressive and they tent to be in solitude away from others because they can change unpredictably making them more dangerous than werewolves who are forced to change every full moon unless they are one with the beast." Haraldor finished. "Well done Haraldor" Tolfdir exclaimed.
The Tolfdir then looked to Brelyna and asked "Now how does one identify a vampire?" Brelyna answered in a bored tone "The way to identify a vampire are thus. Their eyes hold a unholy hunger to them, they have skin as pale as freshly fallen snow, they have sharper teeth, and they try to avoid the sunlight if possible and are uncomfortable in it." Tolfdir clapped "Nicely done Brelyna! Well with that our lecture is done. Make sure to study trolls for next we meet again next week." With that we made our way to our dorms.
Haraldor was stopped on the way out by Tolfdir "Haraldor a moment please?" Haraldor turned to his teacher as he spoke. "I asked you to stop because it was in regards to your request to do some field study on vampires. Well I think that you have a chance to do so because an old orc came by the college to see if any mages were able to help them in protecting people from an apparent vampire threat." Tolfdir tells Haraldor. "Well Tolfdir I know that I have mastered the schools of destruction, conjuration, illusion, enchantment, and I am decent enough in the other schools so I think I can help them and do my research." Haraldor says logically. "Well I believe you Haraldor and I will let you get yourself ready for your journey. Also best tell your betrothed what you are planning to do." Tolfdir said with a knowing look and Haraldor was just a little scared because Brelyna was a force to be reckoned with. Haraldor remembered a week ago when he got a letter from someone named Neloth who wanted him as an apprentice and he was thoroughly cowed by the woman for writing back saying that he would like to after his time at the college.
With that being said Haraldor went to Brelyna and told her his request for field study on vampires. Of course she went off on him about his stupidity and began to pack herself a bag. "Brelyna, why are you packing your bags?" Haraldor asked carefully. "Haraldor Stormbreath I will not let you go by yourself to die out there because of your stupidity. I am coming to make sure that you don't do anything stupid." With that they began to pack together and in the next week they were ready to head to the rift.
An: Hey there I am back with another chapter. I hope that you like it because I had fun writing it. If you liked it please let me know and If you see anything that I made a mistake on also let me know. Well toodles!