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