Child Among Daedra
Chapter 1: Mother of Flame
One day on a cold night, a family of Nord hermits,
The Fire-Eye family, was celebrating there daughter's third
birthday. There daughter was very sweet and loving, as
were her parents. On the same night, a tragedy occured.
A group of ashlanders went to murder the family and
raid the house. The mother was slain immediatly, and
the father was too after an attempt to hold them off with
his prized Daedric Dagger that he'd found off a dead
Dremora while searching for food. The daughter, who
was named Eydis, was able to run down a hill for escape,
but not without losing an eye when she hit a sharp rock at the
bottom. She didnt even feel it, for she was knocked out.
When she recovered, she was on a random pathway in
the ashlands (that's where they lived because they were
outcasts). She took five steps back before bumping into
something hot. She turned around to see a Flame Atronatch.
The Atronatch was about to crush Eydis when she hugged
it's leg and cried "Mommy!" The Atronatch did not move, a
confused and rather appreciative look on it's flaming eyes.
The girl followed the Atronatch to it's home, a group of rocks
that form a circle next to a lava pool, still not feeling her lack of
one eye.
The Atronatch slew a Nix-Hound and cooked it's meat. It
sprinkled fire salts onto it and handed it to Eydis. The child
was surprised at the spicy taste caused by the salts, but loved
it. She ate another piece of firesalt-spiced meat and then cried.
The Atronatch guessed it was because of her eye, so it replaced
it with the eye of a Flame Atronatch (it has supposedly been done
before to an Altmer and the flame wared out in three days). She was
still crying; the Atronatch assumed she wanted something to drink, and
swore in Daedric when it remembered that Humanoid's can't drink lava,
and the fact that it cant hold water without its flame going out.
The Atronatch, who will be known from now on as Atro, set off to find
something to drink, carrying Eydis on it's flaming sholders. It ran into
two dead scribs, and let Eydis eat their jelly. She stopped crying since.
Atro headed back. After they reached home, they both went to sleep.
A group of Ordinators was sent to clense a cave from Dagoth-worshipping
creatures. One Ordinator got lost, so he walked in the supposed direction
of the cave. "What in the Tribunal's name!" he cried as he saw a child resting
next to a Flame Atronatch. He decided to slay the Atronatch and take the child
to the temple. As he raised his Indoril Mace to crush it, Atro awoke, flinged his
mace away, and grabbed its hand, watching the shock in the Ordinator's eyes
as his gauntlet slowly melted. Atro grabbed the Ordinator by its neck and swung
it into the lava pool, listening to the cries of the Dunmer.
Then it turned to the child, who was awake with a smile upon her face.
Atro managed a minor smile of its own.