Last Seed 5th, 582
I suppose given how I ended up here, I shouldn't be too terribly surprised at strange things happening.
Still, there is something about a projection of a man you rescued from a daedric realm appearing almost first thing when you step off a boat into port, to tell you that he has found a safe place from which you can plan to defeat a daedric prince. Let us add this to the list of things I would not believe had I not experienced them myself.
At any rate, as though this was all somehow planned, the place he sought to share with me was on Auridon - an otherwise uninhabited cave that faces out to the sea, to the very southeast of this place (though blessedly not far from Vuhkehl Guard). I decided to go there first, see what this was all about, before I get properly tangled up in anything else going on here.
Well, it is a lot. First and foremost, there is something strangely cozy about the cave (the Prophet calls it 'The Harborage') - but obviously, as it is a cave, it does not have much. I will respect this man's want to stay away from the city; as someone so interesting as he would attract a fair bit more attention than someone who apparently wants to take down Molag Bal would want; but I will not submit this place to be unaccommodating - so one of my first tasks is to make that place more livable for myself and the Prophet. It is the least I can do after all.
Secondarily - I was show visions. Of the past, specifically.
Firstly, the Prophet claims he awoke on the steps of the Abbey of the Moth Priest's (they dedicate themselves to studying the Elder Scrolls; fascinating truly! The texts we had in our library were not extensive though), with no memory of his former life. Weak and near death, they took pity on him and brought him into the fold. He dedicated his life to the study of the Elder Scrolls - though with time, this study would blind him permanently.
He claims my fate is tied with that of the Five Companions, a group who sought the Amulet of Kings so that their leader, Emperor Varen Aquilarios could become Dragonborn. Which appeared to be a deception of Mannimarco's - one of the five, and the piece of shit rat bastard that killed me. (The other companions were Lyris, the woman who helped me escape Coldharbour, and two people named Abnur Tharn and Sai Sahan. Names unfamiliar to me.)
Well, obviously, the ritual did not work - it was a ruse that Mannimarco employed to - from what I could tell, kill Varen and tear the veil between Tamriel and Oblivion. Molag Bal now employs the use of massive anchors to attempt to pull Nirn into his realm - something the Prophet called a planemeld. It would apparently be a devastating event few would survive. Something I am not inclined to doubt.
And apparently, we are going to be the ones to stop this somehow - but we need the other companions, so says the Prophet. Starting first with freeing Lyris from Coldharbour.
Perhaps it is just the strangeness of this all - but I feel I am being pulled into something I don't quite belong in. Certainly I was a piece in the story; I helped the Prophet escape Coldharbour just as much as he helped me escape; but to think I could have a part in ending such a monumental threat to all of Nirn is - well I am strong, I am capable, but I am not a legend. I am not that sort of hero. Or even a hero at all, truly.
I think it may be prudent to to at the least, make this Harborage a nicer place to be, and at the least stick around long enough to help him rescue Lyris - after all, without her neither of us would be here. It is the very least that can be done. But I do not know about this larger effort against the Lord of Schemes. That seems like the best idea, I think.
My fate is supposedly tied with theirs, but he did not say how intricately.