DISCLAIMER: all publicly recognizable characters are owned by their respective authors and I do not take credit for their creation and I make no $$$ off of the story.
All characters recognized from Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, JRR Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" books, Peter Jackson's filmography, TURN: Washington's Spies (Akinbode), The Underworld Series, Blizzard's Warcraft III and Warcraft III: Frozen Throne, Dracula: Untold (Mirena, and certain quotes), The Count of Monte Cristo (Za'Tara name and joke only.) and Dragonheart.
Interlude: Flashback/Caligula
3000 Years Ago...
A vampire lord walked the wilds of Skyrim, searching for worthy men and women to bestow the gift of Immortality. The vampire's name was Caligula. His brothers Brutus and Nero along with him formed a Coven of Vampires over 600 strong.
Nearly a millennium ago, Caligula and his brothers lived in Cyrodiil as sons of the Emporer. Long ago there was a power struggle and early on as adolescents the Emporer died and Caligula was to succeed him, his brothers and he were supposedly assassinated in the nearby forests of the capital city.
As the brothers were hunting, their own Royal Bodyguard stabbed, and left them to die. On the brink of death they made a pact of vengeance, to destroy all the traitors in the empire, if they lived. Then out of nowhere a figure appeared, and a voice was heard in all of their heads. "Are certain that you would leave everything behind? Your titles, status, life even? For Revenge?" asked the voice.
"Yes!" they all shouted simultaneously. The figure then approached them and bit its wrist, blood began to seep from the wound and into a chalice the figure held.
"Then drink," said the voice, "And become what you were destined to be; Lords among men, wolves amongst sheep. Undying creatures. You will be stronger than anything, fear nothing but the day, and given dominion of the night and all of its creatures."
Caligula, Nero, and Brutus all drank the blood and immediately felt stronger than ever, their fatal wounds healed, and their thirst grew immensely. They all walked side by side towards the capital with hate and hunger. As they arrived they felt that they needed to exact their revenge quietly, before growing. They ironically assassinated their previous bodyguards in their homes. The men were found dead with not a drop of blood left in them the next morning.
Caligula and his brothers knew exactly who was in charge of the Empire and who was behind the coup; General Tiberius. After hearing word of his assassins mysterious deaths, the General sealed himself inside the palace and increased the guard detail tenfold. The brothers had not only anticipated the move, but hoped for it as well. That night they charged the gates of the palace. The brothers drained every last guard dry of there blood, down to Tiberius himself.
"Caligula, you were next in line to rule, then this bastard took it all away. He's YOURS!" said Nero with hate.
"Pay him back in blood Caligula!" shouted Brutus with disdain.
"Now, now. Revenge is a plate best served... COLD!" shouted Caligula. As the word cold left his mouth, his body became colder than ice and he grabbed Tiberius by his neck and slowly squeezed the life out of him. However, before Tiberius died he cursed the Three, Brothers to be killed by monsters similar to their own selves. Outraged, Caligula sank his teeth into the man's neck and drank his warm blood.
After the events of the palace the brothers destroyed their entire lineage and legacy, it was as if they'd never existed.
The brothers went into hiding and searched for worthy people to bestow the gift. They amassed a coven of over 600 Vampires. The brothers' respective sweethearts in life, became their mates/wives in Vampirism. Caligula and Merienna, Nero and Verona, and Brutus and Venus. The heads of the first and one of the largest Vampire Covens. They soon became known as monsters, people lived in fear of them, and later chased them out of Cyrodiil. They attacked the coven in at High Noon when the sun was brightest in the sky. These people, peasants and soldiers suffered heavy casualties. The Coven of the Blood Pact fled from Cyrodiil, into the Northern Continent of Skyrim... [End Flashback].
Present Day: In The Shadow's Pass.
The once great Ancient Master Vampire; Caligula was impaled on a pike, opened his blood red eyes. Caligula wondered; "How is it, that mortal got the better of me? I've lost the rest of my branch in the Coven! My arm! My wife! They will all pay for this!"
Caligula was furious, his pride was gone replaced by hatred. "Wait, NO IT CANNOT BE! The CURSE OF TIBERIUS, THE PROPHECY OF THE HAGRAVENS!" Thought Caligula in fear.
[Flashback] Three Centuries ago...
Caligula was searching the caverns of Skyrim for safe havens for the Coven. Then one day he came across three very ugly looking Hagravens. They beckoned to him he reluctantly, acquiesced to their request. They predicted that his Coven's legacy would remain safe and unite bloodlines in later centuries with another powerful Coven through his own son. Caligula smiled in pride but then they said gravely, "But be warned great Caligula! One day you will meet with but a mortal man... However his injured body is no match for his indomitable spirit! He will be your equal and your adversary, as your Heart is riddled with hate and vengeance, his will be filled with love an compassion. You're downfall will he be... His friends will destroy your Coven... He will take your arm... You will survive the first second and third encounter with him... But the Fourth...No longer mortal, just like you in power he shall be, but stronger and more powerful... You and your brothers shall be no more."
"No, this, this cannot be true! What of my son? What of Thraculas!?" shouted a fearful Caligula.
"He will live... He will fight! But not with you... Thraculas' fate is not written, but he will decide for himself... He will marry a daughter of Coldharbour... Their children will be among the strongest Vampires ever to walk the earth! But you will not live to see it!"
"LIARS!" Roared Caligula. He was about to sever all of their heads when they joined hands.
"Begun by blood,
By Blood undone!
The future is revealed,
Now your fate is sealed!
For what we see
Will always be
No longer sit on a throne,
For your destiny is set in stone!"
Chanted the Hagravens. And in a flash of light they were gone. [End Flashback]
"All those years ago, how I should have never forgotten, never have cast out my son!" thought Caligula frantically.
"But I was not killed this was the first encounter, there will be more. Yes! I will find a way to win! I will decide who lives and who dies! I must go now. I have work to do." The Ancient Vampire released himself from the pike and was about to head off when he thought of an idea. "I will put them off my trail and trick the fools!" he thought.
Caligula picked up his severed arm and placed it directly next to the pike, he then burned it to ash.
As he walked away, he told himself, "I will rule again, this isn't the first time I've cheated death."
Characters
Charles Dance as Caligula
Luke Evans as Bard the Dragon-Slayer
Orlando Bloom as Legolas Greenleaf
Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield
SurvivorofLake-Town as Thraculas
The_Queen_Kastle as Arianna Shade-Seer
NightmareMaker21 as Dilir Ironheart
Alexander SantaCruz as Xander Eagle-Talons
Vincent Andrew as Za'Tara Shadow's-Bane
Billy Connolly as Dain Ironfoot
Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel
Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins
Sarah Gadon as Mirena
Ian McKellen as Gandalf
Christopher Lee as Saruman
John Hurt as Alatar
Richard Harris as Pallando
Sylvester McCoy as Radagast
Lee Pace as Thranduil
Hugo Weaving as Elrond
Manu Bennet as Azog
John Tui as Bolg
Lawrence Makoare as Lurtz/ The Witch-King/ Gothmog
Cate Blanchett as Galadriel
James Nesbitt as Bofur
Ian Holm as (Elderly) Bilbo Baggins
Ken Stott as Balin
Aidan Turner as Kili
Dean O'Gorman as Fili
Mikael Persbrandt as Beorn
Peter Lurie as War-Claw (Voice)
Gaham McTavish as Dwalin
Mark Hadlow as Dori
Ryan Gage as Alfrid
John Callen as Oin
William Kircher as Bifur
Peter Hambleton as Gloin
Adam Brown as Ori
Stephen Hunter as Bombur
John Bell as Bain
Nick Blake as Percy
Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins
Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn/Strider
Sean Astin as Samwise Gamgee
Sean Bean as Boromir
David Wenham as Faramir
John Noble as Denethor II
Liv Tyler as Arwen
Andy Serkis as Gollum
Dominic Monaghan as Merry/ Merriadoc Brandybuck
Billy Boyd as Pippin/ Peregrin Took
Marton Csokas as Celeborn
Craig Parker as Haldir
Karl Urban as Eomer
Miranda Otto as Eowyn
Bernard Hill as Theoden
Brad Dourif as Grima Wormtongue
Bruce Spence as The Mouth of Sauron
Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug (Voice)/ Necromancer Sauron (Voice)
Sala Baker as Sauron (Voice)
John Rhys-Davies as Gimli/Treebeard (Voice)
Jed Brophy as Nori/ Sharku
Nathaniel Lees as Ugluk
John Leigh as Hama
Bruce Hopkins as Gamling
John Bach as Madril
Bill Nighy as Viktor
Tony Curan as Markus
Zita Görög as Amelia
Jean-Claude Van Damme as Brutus
Holly Twitchell as Selena Star-Gazer
Richard Roxburgh as Nero
Helena Bonham Carter as Merienna
Silvia Colloca as Verona
Elena Anaya as Venus
SurvivorofLake-Town as Sarthinias a.k.a. The Impaler, Sarthinias Mooncatcher (later Lord Sarthinas Nightmaster)
staceymarie6483 as Lady Luna Nightmistress/ previously Luna Moondancer
Pete Postlethwaite as Brother Gilbert
Dennis Quaid as Bowen
Sean Connery as Draco
Mark Banderas as Sanathos Blood-Scale
Holly Twitchell as Selenia Star-Gazer
John Raymond Meza as Arkaras the Savage
Survivor of Lake-Town as Elanordir
The_Queen_Kastle as Ayane
Samuel Roukin as Captian Bregon
Eric Vale as Major Goeolon the Cold
J. Michael Tatum as Arradon
J.J. Field as Colfinnor
Gary Oldman as Alain the Sentinel
David Bradley as Domitorem de Strigoi
Richard Sammel as Commander Eichhorst
Johnny Depp as Captain Sparrow
Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa
Ian McShane as Captain Blackbeard
Kevin McNally as First Mate Gibbs
Charlie Hunnam as Captain Killsverth
Omar Sy as Captain Adéwalé
Idris Elba as First Mate Moreau
Kevin Durand as Sergis Duranis Robor
Alan Rickman as Severus Titus
Jason Issacs as Lucius Balventius
Stephen McHattie as Vaun
Rupert Penry Jones as Quinlan the Born
JohnRaymondMeza as Dogmir
JohnRaymondMeza as Servus Ignis
Allison Sandoval as Duvaineth Green-Fyre
Megan Sandoval as Ayisha Kitani
