Apotheosis of Mortals

by T-Biggz

What is a man, but an ambition that hasn't been achieved yet? Here are the tales of a few who took to the chaos of the Fourth Era and restored order to it in their own ways. Inspired by The Legend of Archon by J. B. Royals.

1. The Shadow of Akatosh

AN: Hello Everyone! Yes, I do in-fact have a new story for you all! I took inspiration for this story from another story called the Legend of Archon by J. B. Royals. In his story he told the tale of how his Dragonborn became a Daedric Prince. In MY story, I intend to tell the same story with a bit of a twist. You see in J.B.'s story he told of the methods his Dragonborn use to achieve his Apotheosis using what was available to him in the Skyrim game. In my story I used what methods I felt were available to me across the Elder Scrolls timeline. Incidentally, my story is Much, longer than his. I have gone over this version of the story many times since I've started writing it in July. I plan on making this a 4 parter and the second chapter is in the works as we speak. However, due to how long it took me to write this chapter that might take me a long while to get out. For example, this "Chapter" is 30 pages long, at a minimum! The number of pages I've completed by now only consist of 6. So, you guys are in a bit of a wait. I will say that the characters those parts will be focused on are in this "chapter" and I will do my best to give them the credit and screen time they deserve in other parts when I don't, or can't, properly address them here.

Now onto what you're here for!

Disclaimer: I don't own the Elder Scrolls franchise! If I did, I wouldn't have bought Skyrim three times while waiting for Elder Scrolls 6. Nor would I have sold Bethesda to Microsoft so that Playstation wouldn't have access to Starfield! Damn You TODD!

I also do not own the original idea for this fic. That, as I've stated before, belongs to J. B. Royals (to the best of my knowledge).

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6th of Second Seed, 113th Year of the 9th Era;

I, Galmne, High Abbot of the Spoken Flame have been tasked with writing the Manifesto of my Lord Styjuvus. Lord of the Plane of Oblivion known as the Titan Fields. He is the Daedric Prince of Dragons. His other known monikers are: Archon of Defiance, Judge of Truth and Honored Glory and the Shadow of Akatosh. His history is known only to the denizens of Oblivion for five ages, and he has deemed it acceptable for his worshipers to finally know. As I sit here and record the history of our Lord, I know I have received the highest reward any follower may achieve, hearing the unfiltered word of our master. Now let us begin.

To start, Lord Styjuvus, from which whom we who worship him, is the Daedric Prince of Dragons, Defiance and Glory is the lord of the plane of Oblivion known as the Titan's Fields. It from here the Priest and Acolytes, in exchange of our eternal service, receive his blessing to understand and study the power behind the language of Dragons and arrange pacts between ourselves and his Daedric, or Draconic, servants. But I am getting ahead of myself. We shall start where my master started his rise to power, in province of Skyrim.

Our Lord was once a Nord whose mortal name is only to be spoken aloud when read from his chronicles. Tovit, as he was known in his time, was the Last Dragonborn, and originally a mortal tasked with the defeat of the World Eater Alduin after he reappeared in Skyrim during the 201st year of the Fourth Era. My lord was set to be executed by the headsman's axe at the site of what used to be Helgen when he appeared. His escape from Helgen prompted him to forewarn the then Jarl Bulgruff of Whiterun of the return of the Dragons. To combat the threat the Dragon's return symbolized, he was tasked with retrieving the Dragonstone from Bleakfalls Barrow and in the process, he absorbed the knowledge from an ancient word wall where, once he brought down the Dragon Mirmulnir at the Western watchtower, was revealed to be a Dragonborn of Legend.

It was at this point that Tovit began to understand the burden he was under. In-spite of the help he had in defeating the Dragon, and the power it gave him afterwards, he realized that he was severely outmatched and out muscled by the growing force under Alduin's control and sought out training from the Greybeards to further his understanding of his gift. He was on the path to enlightenment with their training in the use of the Thu'um and was tasked with retrieving the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller as the first part of his many trials. The retrieval of the Horn was met with a roadblock in the form of a former Blade in hiding known as Delphine. Despite what she told him of the Blades history and original purpose she treated my lord as if he was a recruit who didn't deserve her attention. Annoyed, he still claimed the horn but found that his current "allies" to not be entirely forthcoming and decided to expand his horizons a bit further to better prepare himself to face his destiny.

To that end he sought out the assistance and wisdom of Jarl Balgruff and was pointed in the direction of the Companions, a faction of Mercenary Warriors that have operated in Skyim since the Merethic Era; and the College of Winterhold, the center of magical education in Skyrim since the First Era.

Starting with the Companions, Tovit entered their ranks as a recruit and through a consistent show of bravery and valor, was elevated to the rank of Harbinger when he freed the soul of the slain Harbinger Kodlak Whitemane from the grip of the Daedric Prince Hircine. Throughout the many months he spent with the companions Tovit learned of many combat techniques for dealing with almost any opponent. His preference for wielding two weapons at once earned him the title of Bladestorm. The price, however, was binding him to the Hunting Grounds as a Werewolf under Hircine's domain.

Before leaving the Hold to continue with his preparations, the Jarl granted him the title of Thane and presented to him a Housecarl who now stands beside him as one of his three Wives as the Lady of Shields, Lydia. He now sought training from the mages of the college and entered as a Novice learner. With his knack for problem solving and means of learning at an astounding rate, it wasn't long before he thwarted the plot of a Thalmor agent in acquiring power beyond his control and was granted the tile of Arch-Mage. In accomplishing the many feats that warranted granting him the title; excavating the secrets of Saarthal, conversing with the Augur of Dunlain, granted honorary membership to the Synod, defeating the Dragon Priest Morokei, claiming the Staff of Magnus and mastering the six branches of understood magic; Tovit was given clearance to study under the monks of the Psijic Order and to learn more about the magic the order taught that he would later go on to study and master in his later years.

It was at this point, as he was seeking to conclude his test the Greybeards had him undertake, that he met a trio of unique individuals seeking to carve out their own futures in the snowy tundra. Their original names, like my Lord's, have long since been forgotten by history. But now I have permission to reveal them.

The first is a Redguard who once went by Karek. A scholar on the Dwemer like the many across Tamriel who seeks to uncover the mystery of their disappearance. He sought out the truth behind the mystery of his father's assassination and explored the provinces many Dwemer ruins for inspiration to create his ideal laboratory and build his own constructs as a means of self-enlightenment.

The second was an Orsimer, Ragim Lazath, who departed from the Wrothgarian Mountains to escape the self-destructive nature of the code of Malacath. To that end she sought to establish her own clan and prove the idea of the current incarnation of the code to be a dead end and that there was a better way.

The final individual was a Khajiit by the name of Talnita Saani, who found incriminating evidence of the Aldemeri Dominion being responsible for the Void Nights, a two-year event where the Khajiit lost the influence of the moons Masser and Secunda on their birth cycles resulting in two years' worth of still-borns in Elsweyr and across Tamriel. When she brought this information to her superiors she failed to identify as Dominion supporters and was branded a heretic and traitor to the Dominion.

During his mortal years my lord relied upon and supported these three in their endeavors until they achieved their own form of ascension. But they will be explained in due time.

When he made his way back to High Hrothgar, Tovit had the history and purpose of the Blades explained to him from the point of view of the Greybeards. Knowing how important they would be to dealing with Alduin he accepted Delphine's assistance and encountered Alduin for the second time speaking with him on his goals and what it meant to be his adversary before slaying the Dragon Shaloknir seemingly solidifying Delphine's loyalty. With this they began preparations to resurrect the Blades but sought to first identify who was responsible for the return of the Dragons. To this end Tovit recruited Karek and Talnita for their unique skills and backgrounds to infiltrate the Thalmor Embassy and gather information from the one group with the most to gain.

Disappointingly, the Thalmor's hands were clean in regard to Alduin's return. But they were guilty in a number of crimes pertaining to Tovit's allies and Skyrim itself. Taking the evidence with them as they left the Embassy, they tracked down another of the Blades in-hiding by going to Riften and rescuing Esbern from the Dominion soldiers sent to capture him. It was thru him that they were able to find Sky Haven Temple and recover the complete story of Alduin's Wall and what the return of the Dragons meant for the world. It is also when Tovit was informed of the Shout that was instrumental in defeating Alduin the first time. It was here that the Blades would begin rebuilding and where Tovit would learn better smithing techniques than what Eorland Gray-Mane could teach him at Whiterun's Skyforge. It was here Tovit began planning on the creation of artifacts that would help him in his endeavor to thrive after he survives the World-Eater's wrath.

From here my lord Tovit goes to the Greybeards for answers and when he is rejected by them Paarthurnax, the leader of the monks, called him to the throat of the world to explain what the shout is and where he needs to go to reclaim the tools necessary to learn it. To this end he is directed to the College of Winterhold where he is informed of one of the former scholars of the college one Septimus Signus and where to find him.

Following the directions granted to him, our lord once again encountered Karek who led him to the ancient Dwemer underground of Blackreach where he found the first of several artifacts responsible for reshaping the history of Tamriel over the many millennia: an Elder Scroll (Dragon). Bidding Karek farewell as he sought out secrets of the Dwemer, Tovit made his way back to Septimus and had a formal encounter with the Daedric Prince of Knowledge; Hermaeus Mora where he accepted the gift of the Oghma Infinium, which he didn't use for many years. To that end he returned to the Throat of the World for his third encounter with the World Eater where he brought the rage of Akatosh to his knees but was incapable of defeating on his own. He acquired the cooperation of the Greybeards to host a peace conference between the warring children of the sky to gain the final ally needed to bring down the 1st son of Akatosh's ambitions.

He knew this would likely be his only chance to secure the aid of the province, but, utilizing the full scope of his influence, contacted his rather unique allies to assist him with an idea to make this conference end with several benefits. Utilizing Talnita, he had her investigate the validity of the dossier they recovered from the Dominion. Specifically what Emissary Elenwen had on Ulfric Stormcloak as their hidden asset in Skyrim. Then with Karek he gave him college resources, as the Arch-mage, to build many devices of Dwemer design to broadcast spoken words over great distances where others could hear them. And with Ragim's knowledge of the best courier's had these devices delivered across every major city across Tamriel.

In the intervening time it took for the devices to reach their destinations, my lord elevated his standing with every Jarl who would hear him out and achieved the title of Thane in all Holds that welcomed him. It was in this time that he also encountered many of the other Daedric Princes and their followers: Azura, Malacath, Mephala, Meridia, Peryite, Sanguine and Sheogorath he worked with either willingly or begrudgingly and collected their Daedric Artifacts in-turn. However, Boethiah, Clavicus Vile, Mehrunes Dagon, Molag Bal, Namira and Vaermina were spurned and became a focus of their ire.

Nocturnal was the one who remained elusive and outside of either circle, albeit directly, and he was already claimed as champion of both Hircine and Hermaeus Mora.

By the time the peace negotiations were set to take place, every major city in all Nine Provinces had these devices up and in use. And my lord was ready to put on quite the show. Before any meaningful discussion could begin, Tovit had Esbern and Arngeir explain the reason behind the peace talks and what the return of Alduin meant then my lord began reading the dossier of Ulfric Stormcloak, verbatim, in front of the entire assembly. When the Emissary claimed the document to be fabricated, he had both the then Imperial General Tulius and Jarl of Solitude Elisif confirm that it was written in the emissary's own hand.

There are records in the Imperial Library that are signed by thousands to testify that they heard Sanguine & Sheogorath laughing at the face she made from all over Tamriel.

With the Dominion's schemes involving Skyrim confirmed Tovit went the extra mile for his ally Talnita and read out the journal of one Lady Arannelya and how she boasted the successful execution of the Dominion's plan to enact the "Void Nights" to ensure the loyalty of the Khajiit of Elsweyr under the directive of Lord Naarifin. And how the allies of Dremora they made during the Great War were still ready and waiting to finish the job. By this point voices from across the continent were exclaiming to be heard in denouncing the Dominion. In the end, the Thalmor were banished from Skyrim's borders and Jarl Ulfric peacefully surrendered himself, and his allies, to the Imperial Legion for trial. At the end of it all, the Blades were announced to be alive and well and Tovit was given full sanction to thwart the World Eater's goal by traveling to Sovengarde where he and three ancient foes of the monster fought him for the last time.

From here, my lord's path to ascension was started for he came across an artifact in the possession of one of the World Eater's victims as a snow fragment. After the defeat of the World Eater there was an event among the remaining Dragons known as the Muthir or the Splinter. Here the remaining Dragons made off with their own goals in-mind. Paarthurnax took on all who decided to remain isolated from the world with the intent of continuing to expand the 'Way of the Voice'. The next group decided to wander off on their own and attempt to gain stations or stores of wealth that rivaled Alduin. This next group migrated off in one direction, with the intent of following a Dragon whose Thu'um called to them the same as Alduin's did ages ago. The last group swore allegiance to my master in the same manner as Odahviing when he was captured to bring my lord to Alduin to kill him. This final group became the starting point as the cornerstone for his rise to power.

But, in all that training to combat the World Eater and Skyrim's other dangers, my lord wasn't well versed in matters of eloquence and leadership. To fix that deficiency, and to ensure he could lead the Dragons on the path he set for them, he enrolled into the Bards College to learn of the finer arts of spokesman ship. I do believe it was after many weeks of training and learning from the Bards as well as Odahviing the delegate of his people's needs, that he went back to Labarynthian and discovered a barrow trapped in time where he was able to recover the ancient Dragon Priest mask Konahrik.

As he was making his way to Whiterun to converse with Jarl Bulgruff that he was informed of the growing threat of the Vampire presence in Skyrim. To this end he enlisted with the Dawnguard to prevent Molag Bal's minions from enacting whatever scheme they were concocting.

The first of many surprises, was finding out that the Vigilants Headquarters was destroyed and that the leader, Keeper Carcette, was presumed dead. The next was in Dimhollow Crypt where my lord found who would become the second of his wives: the Vampiress Serana, as well as the second of the Elder Scrolls my lord has collected (Blood).

Through her my lord would gain an audience with the Lord of Skyrim's Volkihar Clan of vampires Harkon and the offer to join him. But my lord knew of his slight against Molag Bal earlier would not go unpunished and rejects the offer. In an attempt to bolster the Dawnguard's forces Tovit was sent out to recruit former members of the Vigilants but took on his own initiative to enlist the assistance of the Blades as well. However, he had a falling out with the, at then, current leaders Delphine and Esbern when it was revealed that they were still hunting Dragons when my lord had not granted them free reign to do so. This culminated in Tovit disbanding the Blades and establishing a new faction called the Laat Thaarn with Dragon Overseers to further guide and lead them composed of the members of the Blades that still wished to serve. (1)

Knowing he didn't have the manpower to bolster the Dawguard on his own Tovit enlisted with the still present forces of the Imperial Legion to gain the numbers needed to combat the Volkihar clan. After a grueling training phase, he was presented with the rank of Legate and his own substantial force to lead. He sent his forces to Castle Dawnguard as well as his now significant Company of Laat Thaarn members led by the Dragons Paarbahlot and Lostbokfaas.

These forces were gathered and were set to train together to maintain cohesion when he was approached by Serana herself and who beseeched him to assist her with seeking out her mother Velerica at Castle Volkihar. They succeeded by saving a Moth Priest who, after the use of reading the Elder Scrolls in their possession, refreshes Serana's memory and they end up traveling to the Plane of Oblivion known as the Soul Cairn where, with the defeat and subsequent acquired allegiance of the Dragon Durnehviir, they were able to obtain a third Elder Scroll (Sun) and learn of the full context and location to the key to Vampire plan. From there the two of them head to the last standing bastion of the faith of the Falmer in the Forgotten Vale and retrieve Auriel's Bow while slaying the Falmer Vampire Arch-Curate Vyrthur.

With the power of the Divine in-hand, my lord and his allies in the Dawnguard, Imperial Legion and Laat Thaarn lay siege to the castle and route all of their opposition. With the power of the Sun in his hand my Lord shot Harkon in the chest and rendered his shadow from Nirn. With the consent of the Jarl of Solitude my Lord laid claim to the Island Castle as the primary keep of his faction.

With the threat of Vampires no longer a concern my lord was encouraged to to leave the position of leadership for a time as he sought to center himself once again. This resulted in him assisting with the matter of the Forsworn in the Reach, specifically, removing their presence from the city of Markarth and putting a Hagraven loyal to him, Melka, in-charge of the clan of the King in Rags. This was the second key event that prompted the furthering of his goals as Melka turned the clan of Reachmen into a cult dedicated to him. He accepted them as his under their new clan's name of the Wayward Guardians. (2)

Addendum: The Wayward Guardians used to operate in separate holdouts as far east as the border of Hjallmarch, now they live as a small city-state inside Karthwasten under the Ternion Agreement of the 6th Era. It was through placing the clan under the dictatorial command of Ainethach that the Forsworn were viewed as more than a group of savage Daedric worshipers and, in time, they took over as the primary source of worship of the restored Nordic Pantheon. This new Divine Covenant included: Dibella, Jhunal, Kyne, Mara, Stuhn, Shor, Tsun, Alduin and Tovit as the replacement of Talos. As a consequence, the Forsworn clan dissolved and in their place the Ternion Monks were reborn.

With his initial power-base operational he sought out the allies who helped him oust the Dominion from Skyrim starting with the Dwemer Scholar. Karek's delve into Blackreach resulted in the uncovering of a few hidden sites. With Lydia and Serana at his side, they were able to, through the use of a combination of modern, ancient and Dwemer inspired wards, secure the Dwemer ruin of Arkathzand which Karek claimed as his new University of Study, as well as the ruins of two former Vampire Keeps, Nighthollow and Greymoor.

It was at this point that Tovit realized he didn't have the proper means of funding the restoration of the sites despite his influence and was looking for a way to start such an endeavor that the answer came to him. His ally Talnita came to him as a member of the Thieves Guild and was seeking a new patron to restore the organization and get them from out of the thumb of the head of criminal activity in Skyrim and the Black-Briar family: Maven Black-Briar.

Her scheme revolved around usurping control of the guild from Mercer Frey and restore the dedication the guild was founded on back into the arms of Nocturnal. Through the acquiring the recipe of several different brews as well as Honningbrew, he was able to set up his own businesses. These places of enterprise were founded across Skyrim and served as fronts for Thieves Guild operations. They later spread across Tamriel under the leadership of his many children, grandchildren and generations beyond. This served to remove the sole, direct influence the Black-Briar's had over the guild and elevated their standing in the eyes of their goddess of night.

With the Thieves Guild helping he was able to pour funds into the restoration of the three sites he began proper allocation of his resources. It was as he was doing this that he came across his ally Ragim Lazath with her pet Gogh, a goblin favored by Hircine. She was seeking a site to establish her new clan. She was able to convince him in helping her wrangle a few mammoth herds to present to the Giants of the Whiterun Plains where she was able to coherence them into a pact where they would serve as the guardians of her Clan at the agreement of settling a deal with the Jarl of Whitrun.

After this several month-long expanses of time, my lord was approached by cultists accusing him of being the false Dragonborn and their attempt on his life resulted in him traveling to Dunmer controlled island of Solsteim. Here it was discovered that not only was there another Dragonborn, beyond the heroes of the past the Greybeards told him of, but one who was responsible for the Dragon Civil War that resulted in Alduin getting sent to the future at all. And he was still alive. With assistance from the Skaal, Nords who sought a path of reverence of the Nordic Pantheon outside of Imperial influence ages ago, and the Telvani Wizard Neloth he was able to uncover the truth of how this Dragonborn, this Miraak, escaped death but also how he planned to escape the clutches of his master Hermaeus Mora and wreak havoc across Tamriel as its tyrant ruler.

My lord found the idea of submitting to such a being abhorrent but was far less powerful than the Dragonborn in question to properly face him. To that end he scoured the island of Solsteim for the knowledge Miraak used to incite the war ages ago. In his investigation he was able to recover a number of Black Books, artifacts of Hermaeus Mora dedicated to teaching the user whatever they wished to know for the price of their sanity, which he used to travel to the lord of Knowledge and Fate's realm of Apocrypha and speak with the prince and gain the knowledge on one of the two shouts Miraak used to assert his dominance: Bend Will. Having already learned two parts of the shout Dragon Aspect the Prince of Fate wanted my lord to cut a deal with him to gain power the way the first Dragonborn did and become his servant in the process.

Not wishing to make such a deal but having no choice in the matter my lord was prepared to sacrifice the Skaal Shaman when another option was presented to him, that would see him make a permanent enemy of the Gardener of Man. You see, during the time my lord was hunting down ways to stop Alduin he delved into many ruins. Some of them turned out to be burial tombs of the ancient Priests who served the Dragons ages ago. When my lord faced them, he took their masks as trophies and as a sign that he surpassed them in ability and power. Well, there were five tombs to the Dragon Priests on Solsteim. Three were dedicated to the priests who sided with Miraak in times long past: Ahzidal, Dukaan and Zhakriisos as well as the temple dedicated to the Traitor in question. But the fifth priest: Vahlok the Jailor, was buried with a different intention.

You see Miraak, and those who sided with him, were entombed not out of respect but of hatred of what they did in life. Vahlok, on the other hand, was buried with the full respect of the Dragons that he served and of the mortals that he led due to his strength, wisdom, power and the achievement of defeating Miraak long ago.

When my lord sought his tomb and awoke the priest he was immediately attacked, like he was at every other instance of waking a priest and was forced to fight him. During the fight my lord actually pleaded with the lich Vahlok had become to help him finally defeat Miraak only to hear nothing definitive from the undead. Knowing he had no other choice he struck the priest down. But, after it was all said and done, Vahlok must have had a final moment of clarity for his spirit formed out of the void and latched onto my lord and imparted the bit knowledge of the Bend Will shout Hermaeus Mora held onto and departed for the afterlife at last.

With his gift my lord opposed the deal to the Lord of Knowledge and went on to challenge Miraak without the Princes help. Due to being spurned out of his desires, Hermaeus Mora planned to ensure no Dragonborn left his realm alive and proceeded to interfere in the battle as much as he was able through the use of his servants and his control over the realm. Despite all of this, Tovit was able to slay the First Dragonborn but wasn't able to escape the domain of the Scryer on his own. To that end he called upon the Dragon of the dead Durnehviir from the Soul Cairn and attempted to use his tether to the realm to escape. Hermaeus Mora vowed not to be denied and disrupted the tether pulling them out of his realm but couldn't stop them from leaving. With a roar of anger, they were able to escape Apocrypha and, in-turn, be hurled through Oblivion as a consequence. Not knowing how long they traveled they ended up in a desolate realm without a scrap of life on it.

Here they were accosted by the sole denizen of the Realm who thought them pawns of some being or cult seeking to use the power hidden there for their own purposes. Over the course of a lengthy battle, they were able to explain that they were not intentional intruders and wished to return to Tamriel. Their attacker apologized and introduced himself as Verandis Ravenwatch and helped them out of the realm through the use of a portal key that would take them to a realm of Oblivion that served as a crossroads between Nirn and the other Planes.

My lord considers the Plane of Fargrave to be a place where one travels cautiously. The rulers of the realm have several decrees that welcome both daedric and mortal so longs as the law is obeyed. They care not for who the traveler or denizen may be, but woe be onto anyone who desecrates the stricture that keeps the peace. A, at the time, mortal and a dragon reeking of necromatic energy yet fully coherent unlike many undead gathered attentions, but not any that would warrant a negative reaction.

They were eventually pointed to Madame Whim, one of the movers and shakers of the city, to find a way back to the Soul Cairn where he could then get back to Tamriel without alerting Hermaeus Mora. Her intrigue was obvious, and they worked out a deal that allowed him to take on the role of a... benefactor. It has been many ages since commerce flower through Fargrave from Nirn and she wanted the flow of trade to pick up once more. To that end he was given Ossa Accentium to serve as the primary domicile of his operation, and a portal key that linked it to the Stronghold that would establish a portal link from Tamriel.

From here my lord was passed on to an ally he hasn't seen since he was released: the Pirate King of the Abecean Velehk Sain. The Dremora in question was rebuilding his crew and owed Madam Whim a favor for getting him as far as he did. My lord secured safe passage through the realms on the Dremora's ship, and they were back in the Soul Cairn with a word of favor from the Dread Pirate: if he found all of the Mutinous members of his former crew, he would sail his flag under my lord's banner for the rest of his life. Needless to say, he took the deal and left the Plane of Oblivion with several new goals in-mind.

Making his way through the portal back into the private laboratory of an Elder Vampire would not go unnoticed, however, and he explained himself to Lady Valerica who proposed a simple answer to one of his dilemmas: make his own realm of Oblivion. With this idea in-mind he traveled back to the College of Winterhold where, after dealing with a few issues that arose since his departure from the guild as its Arch-Mage, was able to recover notes on the many attempt's mortals sought out to carve out a piece of Oblivion for themselves.

His research led him to find that there are many tools created by mortals over the years, as well as many planes created by the Daedra or the unstable nature of Oblivion itself, that were never claimed or forgotten about. Never-mind those outright destroyed over the last several millennia. And, using what he was able to learn from studying his Sigil Stone taken from the Deadlands, was able to conjure a small, malleable portion of unrefined Oblivion in the form of an Unstable Morpholith untied to any plane of Oblivion. (3)

This was revolutionary in his studies and served as the cornerstone for his grand plan. Before he began his planning, he was summoned by the Jarls of Skyrim to settle a dispute they have not been able to resolve since Ulfric's departure from Skyrim. You see when Ulfric Stormclaok left Skyrim as a prisoner to the Empire, he left with the Stormclaoks and the other Jarls that supported him. That left four of the nine holds without leadership. As Thane of these Holds it was decided that he would look into finding the proper replacements for the seat of the Jarls.

For Riften it was decided that Mjoll the Lioness would take over as Jarl, cementing the declaration of the Black-Briars never gaining a high enough position of authority to be a threat ever again. For Dawnstar it was decided that Brina Merilis would take over as Jarl. This would go on with her declaring Dawnstar as the official Shipyard city of Skyrim. For Windhelm, my lord made a truly underhanded decision and named a bandit leader he allied with, Fjola, as Jarl. She went on to turn Eastmarch into a military state where all who wished to become proper defenders of Skyrim were sent for training. It was the policies she put into place that remain as the foundations for training hardy Nord men and women till this day.

Lastly my lord had to place a leader for Winterhold. The choice wasn't an easy one but he, again, went with an unconventional choice in the elderly Froki Whetted-Blade. You see Froki was a devout follower of Kyne and knowledgeable of the Old Ways of worship for the Nordic Pantheon. It was under his leadership that the College of Winterhold became more involved in the social understanding of the place they occupied in Skyrim's cultural landscape. Under Froki, and later his grandson Haming Bridge-Shaper, the College was forced to change many of its mandates on oversight when experimenting with magic of any-kind. And these mandates were able to prevent many disasters to Skyrim the College would have been responsible for otherwise.

It was at this point that he was encouraged to sit on the panel of the Moot to decide Skyrim's next High king. The halls of High Hrothgar would once again serve as the embassy of politics, but for a more peaceful purpose. Before the Jarls were to arrive, he was tasked with locating the Jagged Crown from Korvanjund so that the province would condone the decision being accepted via the old ways.

In the time it took him to recover the crown and make it back to High Hrothgar Urag gro-Shub sent him a message via courier that the last bastion of Shalidor was in Skyrim but didn't know how to find or open it. But my lord did. Making a detour to Labarynthian my master was able to use his unstable Morpholith as a scrying tool to find the entrance to Shalidor's Shrouded Realm and, after merging the Morpholith with a Dragon soul, a transcribed copy of Shalidor's Insights, a Coldflame Brazier and an unenchanted staff to turn the Morpholith into a key which he used to access the realm. (4)

Knowing he could now enter the Realm at will Tovit decided to... move-in. He contacted his two mistresses and had them each corral his allies and artifacts into the realm. He had also found out he could create Sigil Stones from the realm itself, but that came at the cost of weakening the wards that kept it shielded from outside observers. With that in-mind he had three Sigil Stones and five Morpholiths made from the realm to start with. Using the one of the Sigil Stones he fashioned an Oblivion Gate to the realm and had Serana and Lydia use a Morpholith tied to it to move specific areas of importance to the realm for safe keeping while he concluded his business with the Jarls.

Once he brought the Jagged Crown to High Hrothgar the debates began. And for three days the candidates put forth their reasoning to be Skyrim's new High King until only three were left to choose from: Jarl Elisif of Solitude, Jarl Mjoll of Riften and Jarl Bulgruuf of Whiterun. With the debates going on for far longer than he was planning for Tovit put forth the idea of letting the divines decide who should lead the children of the north into the future. In agreement the Jarls put forth their ideas on what method to be used. The first was to use the Jagged Crown, the first crown, as the tool to intise the Divines favor. The second was to conduct a ritual in the old ways at the peak of the mountain to determine the next High King.

My lord decided to merge the two methods together and used a ritual in conjunction with the Jagged Crown at the peak of the Throat of the world to call upon the light of the nine and have them bless Skyrim with the leader it needed. And it was decided that Jarl Bulgruuf was to sit upon the throne of the North with Whiterun as the new capital of the Province.

With his last duty to the Jarls completed Tovit made his way to Whitrun to congratulate the new High King on his ascension only to be accosted by both Lydia and Vilkas. With Lydia she informed him that the Blades aren't as dissolved as he assumed they would be and with Vilkas he was told that as Harbinger there was a growing issue with the remaining Silver Hand members in Skyrim and how they were asking the Companions for help.

Taking the issues, the Companions were facing as the larger priority, he went on to find that the Silver Hand were being hunted down by a growing coven of Necromancers and then being raised to do their bidding after infecting them with lycanthropy. With the assistance of a Dunmer deserter, Selveni Nethri, he was able to find out that the coven was composed of several "Officers" who oversaw the others. They were composed of the several scattered coven individuals and were holding out at the site of the ruins of Castle Thorn.

It was at this time that he was approached by a Bosmer Vampire, Gwendis, about the coven of Necromancers and their leader Voailde Madate. She goes on to explain as they make their way to the site of the ruins that she was a member of Castle Ravenwatch who sent word to the Dawnguard about the actions of Castle Volkihar. She also explained how the faction of Vampires were under the directive of their leader Verandis until the second era and how they have been trying to fulfill his life's work ever-since. (5)

When they made it to the site the ruins, they found the Castle mostly rebuilt and under heavy wards being besieged by the remaining members of the Silver Hand. With my lord's help he was able to bring down the wards and forced the Coven of Twin Fangs to battle. While avoiding the many battles taking place my lord and his entourage made their way to the central antechamber only to witness the leader of the coven completing a ritual and disappearing with three of the Silver Hand's last circle of leadership through a portal.

When the cleanup of the Castle was finished my lord was able to gather that the Witch who enthralled the three lead officers was a Breton: Voailde Madate, who came to them with an offer of power to wipe out the Companions once and for all only to ensnare them and return them as undead slaves. But with Castle Thorn having served its purpose she simply took the men she needed and left the rest of them to their fate. Tovit, knowing how dangerous Necromancy could be, simply couldn't let her go but knew of the positions he held prevented him from leaving Skyrim for too long.

So, he sealed Castle Thorn behind wards as he brought the Silver Hand remnants back to Whiterun and had them clear the air with the Companions. With that done he made Vilkas the Harbinger with the promise that Daedric worship wouldn't darken the guild again. Knowing that searching for and putting down Voailde's plans could take longer with her unknown resources, he decided to hand over the title of Arch-mage as well. But his choice had more than a few brows raised when Valerica and the Dawnguard showed on the campus grounds to enact safer, and more aware, practices.

Addendum: She still serves as Arch-Mage to this day. It was later revealed in an interview she had with High King Bursen in the 6th Era that she, and the Dawnguard, agreed to the post to keep the people aware that measures were being taken to ensure nothing like what happened in the age's past would happen again. And that there was always someone prepared to take her out in the event she was showing to devolve to her baser instincts without provocation.

After locking away castle Volkihar behind powerful wards Tovit went with Lydia to see what the issue was with the supposedly non-dissolved Blades. When they made their way to Sky Haven Temple it was to find a small army being outfitted and trained by Delphine and Esbern. When my lord called to them for their dishonor for building a faction that went against his orders he stood there and allowed Delphine and Esbern lambaste his decision of dissolution and what the Blades stood for. They denounced him as their rightful superior and decreed that the Blades would not serve him. Looking at the crowd that watched the declaration in apathy my lord made his proclamation known as he used one of his few Morpholiths on the pair. "Delphine Grandmaster of the Blades and Esbern Loremaster of the Blades, I find you are both guilty of treachery to the oath the Akaviri Dragonguard made when they swore allegiance to Reman Cyrodiil to always follow the Dragonborn! You have been deemed unworthy to hold your heads high in-service to one possessing the Voice granted by Kyne. By Shor and Auri-El I cast you both from the order! May your successors be found more Worthy! Ruth Vahrukt Gahrot!" (6)

And so, it was said, that Delphine and Esbern were cast out of the Blades and returned to the life of Skyrim civilians, with no memory of their time as agents of the Blades. When his declaration of the dissolving of the Blades enforced by the power of his Voice the members of the, now defunct, New Blades swore their service to him as Laat Thaarn members. With how much they have now grown in number, Tovit sanctioned Lydia as the acting Grandmaster to oversee all Laat Thaarn operations and unrestricted access to the many bases they've accumulated: Castle Thorn, Castle Volkihar, Greymoor Keep, Nighthollow Keep and now Sky Haven Temple to oversee as he sought out any information on other temples the Blades had under their purview or the likely goal Voailde was hoping to achieve.

He found the names and locations of other likely holdouts and decided to start with them. In the meantime, he had Serana work with her mother to properly fortify Shalidor's realm when he was contacted by Melka of the Wayward Guardians and how the cult has grown in absence of his involvement. She advises him that for the cult to remain under his control he'll need to do something that renders any idea of deserting the cult a serious mistake. And in a feat of inspiration, he gave Serana complete control and authority over the realm and asks her to make it prosperous as an ideal afterlife. He then tells Melka that in two days' time his emissary would tout to them his word and law and following their departure from this mortal coil any and all disciples would have a place so long as their faith remained unshaken.

It was as he was closing this deal that he was contacted by Quarinir of the Psijic Order. He was there to offer Tovit the chance to study with the Psijic's in the hopes of his outside perspective being the key needed to stop Voailde. With no other leads Tovit made his way to the portal the Psijic's made in Saarthal. When he arrived in Artaeum he was brought before Ritemaster Ranuen and she told him that Voailde was the last of the Sisters of the Wyrd untouched by Daedric Influence.

She had come to Artaeum as a survivor of the Beldama when the Glenmoril attacked with their Daedric allies. Ever since she has been trying to return her clan to providence but had been hounded by the Glenmoril's allies at every turn. When she finished recuperating at Artaeum she sought out their knowledge to be able to better protect herself and her clan against the Daedra. Throu some unknown means she had been corrupted and forced her will onto the Silver Hand to aid her in waging a war against the Glenmoril Wyrd.

With this knowledge he began to plan an excursion into High Rock to confront Voailde, or whatever was controlling her, and end the madness they were responsible for. To that end be began his studies under the Psijic's with a concerned, but focused, haste. He reminded Loremaster Celerus of another adventurer that didn't take long to pick up some of their unique skills. After a solid month of learning and research he set out through a portal to High-Rock.

He met up with who would eventually become his third wife: the Altemer Lich Vastarie, in Shornhelm. Vastarie used to reside within her tower in Laeloria, an Ayleid Ruin in the Grahtwood region of Valenwood. When the third Aldemeri Dominion rose to power, she was noted as a figure of significance with the potential of destroying the alliance before it could be fully formed and was ran out under the crime of heresy for Necromantic practices before she became a problem for them. She was looking for a new place to start over in High-Rock when the Psijic's talked to her asking for her help. She then became his contact and premier fountain of knowledge in what could have been the cause of Voailde's dark change. (7)

While traveling through Rivenspire where they were able to track down Ravenwatch Castle and seal it behind powerful wards at the behest of Gwendis, Stormhaven where he used the Morpholith of Knowledge to find the entrance to Storm Talon Temple, the Wrothgarian Mountains and finally Bankorai they were, in-time, able to defeat the enthralled knights and figure out that Voailde was being controlled by the hidden Sload Shaman J'Liltes into using her knowledge of the Old Ways to perform a ritual in conjunction with the Mask of the ancient Dragon Priest Wahl(Create) and an Elder Scroll(Star) to unleashing a plague on the Breton Hierarchy that would make the Thrassian Plague look like a small case of the flu by comparison. They were quick enough to release Voailde from J'Lites before the ritual could be completed in its entirety, but that only caused the Silver Knights to spread the plague by themselves causing havoc to reign across the province unchecked.

To combat this, they relied on Voailde, Necromatic and Psijic scrying rites to give them insight on where J'Lites was hiding as they tried several avenues to combat her risen followers. As thanks for freeing her Voailde performed a ritual to free Tovit of Hircine's clutches and cured him of his Lycanthropy. Incidentally, he used one of his Morpholiths to steal the knowledge of how the transformation from man to beast took place. Afterwards they followed Vastarie to the Dwemer ruin of Arkngthamz-Phng where Vastarie had recovered the skeleton of a Dragon and wished for my liege to assist her in resurrecting him to help them.

My liege used the four Elder Scrolls in his possession: Dragon, Blood, Sun & Star; to look for a way to bring the Dragon back to life and was able to learn Alduin's Resurrection Shout as a result. And while they couldn't bring the Dragon back, for his bones were far too fragile to hold his soul, the dragon's soul came back willingly to assist once they explained why they needed his help. And while Thurvokun didn't want his soul devoured, he was willing to offer what help he could. To that end my lord explained to him the Dragon Aspect Shout he learned to combat and defeat Miraak and asked if there was a way to help him complete his understanding of the words to truly become a dragon. As the spirit of the Dragon explained the nature behind the words of power, his bones, resonated with the Morpholith that contained the knowledge of Hircine's curse upon Nirn. When Tovit fully understood what it meant to finally be a dragon explained to him, everything seemed to click into place for him, and the light that shined from the three aspects was powerful enough to destroy the cavern the ruin was held in as his Roar shook the world!

To this day, my liege doesn't remember the first transformation he underwent. The only truth was that J'Lites was eliminated and his plague carriers with him. He was later found at the site of the Glenmoril Wyrd coven with the site, and all of the witches, dead with the crater he was lying in the only evidence of where they used to be. The real danger that lied ahead for him and others was that he was still transformed. They were respectful and cautious when they approached him and was able to coax my liege back into his mortal form. And for his part played in stopping J'Lites from unleashing his plague across Tamriel he was given the title by the High King Garndre of Savior of High-Rock and was granted the epitaph of Windwalker.

As thanks for helping free her mind from J'Lites, Voailde swore herself to him under the promise of a new Wyrd Tree for her coven to worship. He promised to bring her to the Eldergleam Sanctuary in Eastmarch of Skyrim where a new Wyrd could inhabit the cave. Vastaire would tag along so she could help him research why his Dragon blood prevented him from coherent thought when transformed. To that end they traveled back to Artaeum to thank the Psijic's for their help in teaching him what he needed to learn to stop the threat of the Sload and their plans for the future. Their humility in his efforts to thwart the threat was not without reason. But my lord learned much from them and in return gave them the four Elder Scrolls he's held onto. For such a generous gift the Conclave of the Eleven Forces imprinted a grimoires' worth of knowledge on his second to last Morpholith detailing the nature behind the Eleven Forces turning it into one of the most valuable codex in the world.

With this last gift my liege and his entourage returned to Skyrim where Voailde was taken to the Eldergleam sanctuary to return the Beldana Wyrd to providence. He would then take Vastaire to Deepwood Redoubt, where she was given his blessing as Thane of Hjallmarch convert the ruin into her new Citadel. Over the weeks they've spent together my lord and Lady Vastaire have grown close, but she held him at bay with the commitments she made to Lady Azura. Despite her lady's silence in the past centuries. Promising to visit whenever possible, my lord departed for the city of Solitude in an attempt to gain control over the now vacant former Thalmor Embassy.

After pleading his case for the requisition, my Lord was able to finalize the purchase of the Embassy which goes by Fangdoor Manor to this day. In conjunction to establishing it as a front for his public relations with the people of Skyrim, which was bolstered by his "marriage" to Ingun Black-Briar, who was the first outlet he used to sire his mortal heirs, he was also using it as a place of planning and study of the many things he's learned and experienced so far. By traveling through Skyrim, Morrowind, High-Rock, Artaeum, the Soul Cairn, Fargrave and Apocrypha he's encountered many resources and many tools to assist him with every adventure he's gone on. He also experienced the many ways the dead are venerated and the many ways the dead could interact with the world long after they've passed on. After allocating all of his research he started to plan.

He needed to find a way to permanently put him out of the influence of Hermaeus Mora and the other Daedric Princes while maintaining his power and freedom. When he realized he had a few branches of a working cult he decided on a course of action. He needed proper tools to enable him to act against the rulers of Oblivion without any significant drawbacks and a place where he could make said tools in relative safety until they were ready to be used. He had a man-made realm of Oblivion, 4 castles, 2 temples and 2 keeps to work with. They weren't all truly defensible and needed to be readily available to him and his followers to use so his plan could come to fruition.

To that end, utilizing his collection of documents, was able to find a location that would work best for him. One of those documents was a recount of a battle that took place in the second era, speaking of an island he's never heard of before closer to the island of Vvardenfell than even Solsteim known as Bleakrock Isle. It was also home to a Dragon Priest, Haldriin, who was buried there. Not wasting any time, my lord set off with an expedition to find this island and possibly claim it away from those who still wish to witness his fall. To that end he set off for Solsteim first to check in with his friends in the Skaal, and the Noble Houses of Morrowind. (8)

With house Redoran he was able to piece together that, like Miraak before, no one had ever heard of the island. As if it was wiped off the map. With the Skaal, he found them to be in good spirits, yet watchful and scared of the Lord of Knowledge's retaliation for not giving him what he wanted. There hadn't been any repercussions yet, but they knew they were coming. To that end, he told them about what he was doing and what he intends to do. He offered them a chance to go with him and get away from Hermaeus Mora and Hircine's followers and actions. When they told him they couldn't make that decision at the time he understood. So, he went to his final ally on the island, the Telvanni Wizard Neloth.

The aged wizard told my lord that the island did exist, but due to the eruption of Red Mountain nearly two centuries prior no one wanted to visit or inspect the island because of other worries. With that in mind, my lord set out from Solsteim to find the island lost to time. But, before he could leave, he was approached by an agent of house Redoran to take an ally with him to investigate a rumor. That ally was Talnita and the rumor was of a cult operating under the leaders of Morrowind's noses and attempting to usurp worship of the Reclamations.

They were able to travel to the island and confirm the rumors after Talnita took out the branch leaders on Solsteim. After they both raided their Vault and library, they were able to find a correspondence between this arm of the cult and the branch operating out of Bleakrock Isle. But this was only a smokescreen operation, for the New Tribunal Temple found allies to help spread fear as they went about enacting their plans in the form of a fleet composed of Sea Giants and Half-Giants ready to invade Vvardenfell at a moment's notice.

They were able to determine how the artifacts they were gathering would be instrumental to returning the Tribunal path of worship back to prominence. Wasting no time, the two took a boat to the island to hunt down the heretics. Once on the island they were able to, over the course of a few days, find all of those of House Hlaalu, House Dagoth and several minor houses attempting to take over for the Great Houses should they succeed.

Talnita and my lord took steps to ruin the New Tribunal's plans by consulting with Talnita's patron Mephala and receiving guidance on what to do to thwart their plans. The New Tribunal had found a way to utilize magics from the 1st Era to bind and command the Brothers of Strife. Twin Bone Colossi created in the 1st Era made from the souls of Brother Chimer to combat the growing threat of the Nede's that later went mad after their transformations and had to be sealed away. They were planning to use the Sea Giants to sew panic and distrust in the Dunmer that the Daedric Princes were worshiped by only to unleash the brothers as a series of "Miracles" on the behalf of the Tribunal. Knowing that they had both brothers was a clear signal that Tribunal Temple wanted their revolution to be violent. They had to find a way to keep the brothers sealed away.

Unknowingly, to them, the island was also being scouted out as a place to settle by the newly formed Trinimac Heralds, a clan of Orsimer founded by his ally Ragim who had to leave mainland Skyrim when the other clans were told of her Heresy by Malacath. With their aid they were able to rout the heretics from all fortified positions. Using his last Morpholith he was able to utilize it as a soul gem and seal the brothers inside it once he found them. Finding the cultist huddled in Skyshroud Barrow in an attempt to kill them both with numbers, Tovit instead sealed them inside and awoke the Dragon Priest Haldriin so he could take care of them. With the cultist's dead, my lord utilized the undead under Haldriin's command to raid the fleet of waiting Giants and drive them back to the Sea of Ghosts. With the island once more uninhabited, Mephala thanked the pair, giving my lord a geode of Voidstone the size of a large boulder for his experiments and took Talnita away.

Once she was gone, my lord used magic he gained from studying the Codex of the Eleven Forces, his second Sigil Stone and his Thu'um to hide the Island away in a more refined manner of Artaeum's method from outside observers, by placing the new Drakon Ward Stone in the center of the island and folding the space around it to hide it in the fold between worlds. It was at this time that my master came across another key to his ascension that he wouldn't use for many years in the form of a crystal fragment the size of a sword handle among the giant's booty.

When he explained to Ragim what he intended to use the Island for, she respectfully withdrew her people back to the mainland and said that their home would be where Trinimac's light would shine on them. With the island sealed away he took the bodies of the cultists and had them all converted into thralls which he then transported to Deepwood Redoubt to assist with the restoration and rebuilding of Vastaire's new Tower. He then traveled back to Solsteim to inform the Skaal that there was now a protected land for them away from the Daedric Princes if they so wished and they agreed to relocate. He then used his Thu'um in conjunction with his connection to the All-Makes stones to transport them and the entire village to the Island where they've resided ever since.

Addendum: Following the Ternion Agreement of the 6th Era, the Skaal reestablished the path for worship of the Nordic Pantheon which is still practiced in Skyrim to this day.

The gift of their new home was rewarded with the secret to creating Stalhrim as well as the many uses for it. With that he also taught Frea the secrete to coming in and leaving the island if they should ever choose to. This gift was rewarded with Frea becoming the second mortal woman to be a sire for which a bloodline of his now descends from. With that, he departed back to Skyrim with his Geode to break it open and find out its secrets.

To that end he transported the Geode, and his claimed deposits of Stalhrim, to Vastarie in the Deepwood Vale to find out what she knew and what could be done with it. She told him that it was a priceless gift he was given and that they had to be careful when using it since there was only so much. She informed my lord that she would conduct her research on what was found out about its capabilities before they made any rash decisions on its use.

He thanked her for the help and went home to Fangdoor Manor to start planning on the tools he would create in the near future. In this intervening time, my master received warnings and prophetic dreams from the spirit of the Dragon Thurvonkun. He was informed that he couldn't attempt to do what he did in High-Rock again until he learned his full name. With a high degree of confusion, my lord took his musings on the matter to Paarthurnax at the Throat of the World to see if he could help him. The ancient wyrm informed my lord that his name "Tovit" was a word in the Dragon language, but all dragons had names composed of three words of power. The spirit of Thurvokun was correct in saying it would be unwise to attempt the transformation again since his full name hasn't been revealed to him yet.

To grant a boon of cooperation between his faction and my lords, Paarthurnax instructed my lord in the ratifying of a Dragon Priest's identity, from their weapons to their robes and their Masks. He told my lord of the ancient forge used in the constructing of these artifacts and how it was destroyed in the Dragon War to prevent more Dragon Priests form being elevated to ensure that Alduin and his Rage wouldn't win. But Paarthurnax knew how the forge was made and taught the method to my lord as a show of good faith. Ensuring that this debt would be repaid, my lord called a counsel of his lovers and Vastarie to get an update on the status of their goals and explained what he learned and what he was intending to do.

Vastarie and his lovers persuaded him into using his followers in gathering the resources and conducting the research for him while he looked into other things. Agreeing he had Serana utilize the Wayward Guardians to conduct the research needed to craft the forge while he had Lydia utilize the Laat Thaarn to recover the resources. Vastarie would be assisting him with building the structure and conducting the rituals needed to utilize it when it was ready. Until then, he wished to get a start on a few projects he left unattended until then.

To that end he decided to rig up that portal key to Fargrave in the dungeon of his Manor. With it now up and functioning he established a smuggling business in conjunction with the Thieves Guild to utilize the portal and set up shop for a small fee. As a down payment, he was gifted a green sap fragment handle. With that taken care of he stepped through and was back in the plane of Oblivion. He sought out Madame Whim and requested any leads on Vehlek Sain's mutinous crew mates. She pointed him in the direction of Pedigree, a Daedroth living out of the sewers of Skein Row. When my lord presented himself, the Daedra demanded an offering or a battle to get what he wanted. To be generous, my lord offered the beast a place at his domicile in Ossa Accentium instead of this sewer so long as his information was good, and he didn't eat the patrons who worked there.

Pedigree found this deal to be most agreeable and informed him of the locations that Velehk Sain's three mutinous crew mates were hiding out on Mundus. A Skaafin named Aessivus hiding out in the Alik'r Desert, A Shrike named Phusedea hiding in Cyrodiil and a Huntsman named Triaus was hiding out in Elsweyr. My lord thanked Pedigree by anointing him the position of Bouncer to his domicile in Fargrave. With that in-mind, my lord traveled back to Nirn as his enterprise began operating under the guidance of Ingun to great effect.

With his targets in-mind my lord decided to start with hunting down Aessivus in Hammerfell. He made his way into Bangkorai through the Reach and started listening out for any signs of Daedric encounters in recent years. In time he heard rumors of activity in ruins of HoonDing's Watch in the Alik'r Desert and how the area has stirred up the native inhabitants of the regions around the desert. Taking notes on this he used his connections with the Psijic Order to glean more information and was able to visit the Halcyon Lake and converse with ancient Nereid Lorelia and learn of how her Lamia guardians raged across the desert from a call she couldn't protect them from. He made a promise to bring them back if he could as he traveled into the desert from Hallin's Stand.

After several days, my lord was able to traverse through the desert and arrived at the city of Tava's Watch. It is here that he finds the city deserted except for the ghosts who took up residence when the townsfolk were herded into the desert. It was here he spoke to the spirit of King Azah who tells him of a Daedra that ensnared the Lamia and forced them to conduct rituals to weaken the wards along the coast. My lord helped restore the wards and return the inhabitants back to the city as he was then guided to the HoonDing's Watch ruins.

There he finds Aessivus lording over the Lamia and remaining inhabitants as well as the royal family. With the ghost of King Azah and his warriors at his side they were able to defeat the Lamia and drive Aessivus away. With their minds restored the Lamia surrender where Tovit transported them back to Halcyon Lake. For his deed he was given clearance to loot whatever he wished from the ruin and was able to find the entrance to Wind Scour Temple. Leaving the Ansei of Sai Sahan with the royals he claimed the red fragment piece and sealed the temple away from the outside. He then had Lydia devote all available Laat Thaarn to raid it of any useful information.

He left the temple and continued to track Aessivus across the desert to Pirate Haven of Abah's Landing where he was able to track his path of chaos. He was able to secure passage from Captain Niolnia a Bosmer who was sexually harassed by the Skaafin who also destroyed her ship and slaughtered her crew who wanted him punished. She took him to Stros M'kai where he found the blight causing havoc from the Palace under the directive of Prince Jelergel. Together with Princess Safna they were able to sneak into the palace vault and come across the bones of Nahfahlaar and an adamantine fragment piece.

Using the shout that he learned from Alduin in the Elder Scrolls he brought the great wyrm back from the dead and demanded his help. With it they were able to confront Aessivus and the Prince who used a ritual to summon a powerful Mournful Aegis to fight on his behalf. The battle was a true struggle for them until Princess Safna summoned her Shehai and struck her brother down. He had one last trick up his sleeve and bound his soul to the Mournful Aegis who Aessivus took control of with an Abyssal Pearl. They defeated the pair and the Pearl sucked in the Aeon Fear and caught Aessivus in a trap before he could escape and seal him away for the time being.

With Princess Safna's blessing Tovit was named a hero of Hammerfell. Captain Nolnia also swore an oath of servitude to my lord for helping her get revenge. And with Nahfahlaar and the captain at his side he created a portal back to Skyrim to outfit the captain with a new ship and a crew. Leaving her in Solitude to have her ship built to her needs he took Nahfahlaar with him to help him discover how to tap into his full Dragon name. To start with this Tovit took Nahfahlaar to the Deepwood Vale and studied and learned under the Dragon how they were given their names.

Over the course of three years my lord entered deep meditations when he found chances to take time away from his mortal duties and discovered that his draconic name was unstable. It was almost as if his name was fluctuating between what it was, and what it could be, with the number of words of power that took up a Dragon's name increasing and decreasing at different intervals in time.

Outside of those frames of time he took it upon himself to address concerns popping up around the province in the form cultists and ghosts who were repeatedly attempting to use the time to sow chaos for their own amusement or that of their Daedric Patron. They were all thwarted and in return he was able to claim a number of artifacts. Most notably: Goldbrand, Umbra, Shadowrend, Dawnfang and Duskfang, Blood Drinker, the Fists of Randdagulf, the Frostblade of the Monarch, the Staff of Hasedoki and the Arms of Chaos. He was also able to lay claim to a number of sites he used to further extend the range of his influence in Skyrim and beyond such as with the Nord Longhouse Hendraheim.

It was as he was attempting to find his equilibrium; he was informed by one of his better trained agents in the Wayward Guardians that the general location of the Shrike, Phusedea, was located. Or at least those who were working with her. Additionally, Vastarie informed him that the restoration and refurbishment of the renamed Deepwood Tower barrow and temple were completed. All that was left to do was to build the alters and forges and align them in ritual rooms to conduct the spells needed to begin enacting his plans.

He decided to perform a tour of the Tower to ensure that it would meet his needs. Despite having never been there myself, I am told by all converts who enter my lord's domain when claimed by him express the same degree of admiration for the architecture. The temple was designed around layering the Motifs of the ancient Nords, Ayelids and Native Reachmen into one another. And the pillars that serve to hold up the arched ceiling is depicted in fresco's made from the Daedric and Dragon languages that act as wards to protect the site and keep nonbelievers out.

It was beautiful, and everything he could have hoped for. Before he could express his thanks in turning the site into the work of art it became, he was interrupted by the projection of his acquaintance Verandis Ravenwatch who told him that the realm he guarded was being besieged and that he didn't have the power to thwart the invaders. He requested aid and my lord answered.

To start he went to Fargrave and upon tracking down Velehk Sain returned to him the sealed traitor of Aessivus. As a reward the Pirate King of the Abecean traded the mutineer for the service of Xauduyite Bishop of Skulls. He was a Havocrel who came into his service as part of an agreement. He took the Havocrel with him to the Realm of Grayhaven to find Verandis under attack by cultists of the reforming Mythic Dawn who sought to use the realm for their own means.

With my lord's permission Xuaduyite was allowed to enjoy his time wiping out the intruders while he learned of the Dark Heart and why the Mythic Dawn would want it. Lord Verandis, while grateful, didn't know of what else to do to keep the Dark Heart out of the hands of those who wished to use it for the destruction of Nirn. And it was after explaining where it was found and how it came to be that Tovit remembered his ally Karek. So, departing back to Skyrim, Tovit went to Blackreach to inform Karek of where he's been and what he needed help with. Thankfully the Redguard Scholar was ready to help for with Sunder and Wraithguard, along with my lord's donation of Keening, was the first to hold all of Kagrenac's Tools since the Tribunal of Morrowind.

He was looking towards recreating the container which held the heart when they were assaulted by Mecinar and his allies, the one who was responsible for the death of the Forgotten Hero who was Karek's father. While not able to claim the tools he was able to make off with something just as dangerous, Berilzar's Mazed Band. Using his Psijic Magics, Tovit and Karek were able to translocate to Mecinar's location in the fabled Clockwork City. Through a grueling gauntlet they were able to catch up to Mecinar and take him down. In the process Karek was able to use Mecinar's soul to re-empower the Mechanical Heart and claim the seat of God of the Clockwork City. Over the course of several days, he was able to create a new container for the Dark Heart and seal it away under the city itself. In doing so however, he alerted the forces of Oblivion of the City's longevity and needed to find a way to keep the princes from breaching the city and taking what they wished. As thanks for his efforts my lord was given the walk-brass fragment and the location of a still working Animoculotory that was his, if he could get it under control.

Having no answers for the time being, my lord used his power and knowledge to lay claim to the realm of Grayhaven and form a bridge between it and Shalidor's Shrouded Realm with Xuaduyite as its sole guardian, for the moment. Before he left my lord created five new Morpholiths and three Sigil Stones from the realm and departed back to Tamriel. With the Mithic Dawn proving to be a growing problem, my lord backtracked to the Mythic Dawn Museum in Dawnstar to investigate and see if there was anything that could be used to route them out. He found the building half burnt down in the townsfolk's paranoia but was able to pillage from the husk of the site the last page of the Mysterium Xarxes. With it in tow Tovit retreated to his home of Fangdoor Manor and use every possible method at his disposal to restore the cursed tome back to its original form.

It was in a feat of inspiration, he traveled to the Atronach Forge beneath the College of Winterhold and using the page, a ruined book, a sigil stone made from Grayhaven and a daedra heart was able to restore and claim the tome under his influence. When he traveled to the Deepwood Tower he had Vastarie and Serana study the tome with him to see how it could be used. They discovered that the tome held secrets on how to construct realms in Oblivion and find portals that connected to others. They were able to discover tomes, written by Shalidor himself in his own realm, that detailed how to do the same thing in a different method.

Knowing that he had the followers but not the manpower, or moral disposition to forcing innocents to do it for him, Tovit gave a directive to both of them and to Lydia if they saw her before he did to turn all hostile bandits in the province into thralls or controlled Draugr and have them carry out the construction of the Oblivion Gates needed to forge or access these realms. With them occupied my Lord went to the Heartland to seek out Phusedea.

As soon as he made it to Bruma from the Falkreath hold my lord was accosted by Narivia Endeus of the Cult of the Ancestor Moth. She warned him that the order was under the threat of attack by agents of the Synod and the College of Whispers. The Synod and College at the time were having their faith tested by the Elder Counsel and sought to reclaim some of their lost favor with the emperor by raiding the Moth Priest compound. Going with her to the Temple of the Ancestor Moth in Cheydinhal he was informed of the forces and methods the two warring ladder climbing schools of mysticism.

It turns out that both factions were being led by insurgents from other factions that wanted to wage war against other factions and just wanted to use the resources of the Moth Priests to do so. Let me explain...

Firstly, the Synod were infiltrated by the Scattered Eye. A cult to Hermaeus Mora born out of the city of Naris at the conclusion of the Oblivion Crisis of the third Era. They wished to use the resources of the Cult of the Ancestor Moth to combat the Abjourned Path. A Cult dedicated to Mephala who wished to take the place of the Morag Tong and Dark Brotherhood as an international league of Assassins. The Scattered Eye were using Seekers donated to them by Hermaeus Mora and Minotaurs they were able to enthrall by placing unique traps at Ayleid ruins across the province.

Secondly the College of Whispers was being converted into a branch of the long defunct Order of the Black Worm on the surface. Hidden away on the island of Stirk was an Ayleid Ruin where the Lich known as Demadian awoke and was using the name of the cult as a smokescreen to resurrect his army to take over the Heartland as his kind did in ages past. While at the same time the College itself was using the confusion to raid the long-abandoned Cloud Ruler Temple for the Blades secrets.

The fighting really had no definitive means of being calmed down before all-out war broke out and spilled into the other provinces. But with Narivia's help they were able to succeed. First, she told him of a clan of Orcs that settled in Chorrol that were helping out the civilians as best as they could with the remnants of the clan that followed the Bloodfall Queen, and how they could be of help. Turns out that this clan was the Trinimac Heralds and Ragim agreed that the madness wasn't what Trinimac would want. Together they sought out the Order of the Black Worm and discovered the real secret behind its leadership. With Narivia's assistance they were able to de-power Demadion by removing the Great Welkynd Stone, and all other Welkynd Stones in the ruin, from the heart of his city and using the Varla stones there was able to make a key that they were able to use after a long battle to seal him away again.

Next, they went to the Abjourned path and broke a deal with them, as he was an associate of Mephala's champion at the time and was able to have a member, Haywing, to infiltrate the Scattered Eye and using the Ebony Blade, that was gifted to them for their compliance, was able to assassinate the leaders of the cult and present the evidence of the Synod's corruption to the truly devoted leaders. While that was going on he, Ragim and Narivia were freeing the Minotaurs from the enthrallment of the cultists and tearing down the traps that were being used to ensnare more. As thanks the leader of the Minotaur clan that formed among the captives, Rastara, gifted him a white-gold fragment.

The College of Whispers were then raided for all information and artifacts they stole from the corpse of the Blades and had them returned to the Temple which he had displaced to Shalidor's Shrouded Realm in Oblivion. He then had all of their dirty laundry exposed to the Elder Counsel with the threat of going to General Tulius and then the emperor should they not sort out the issue themselves. The Elder Council had no choice but to adhere to their mandates against necromancy and punish the College heavily. The part they dreaded was to promote, or elevate, the standing of any group or cause that was instrumental in protecting the honor and security of the Imperial heartland. To that end, Ragim was given the territory of Chorrol for her clan to settle and rule over with all of the beast-men clans that have integrated with it as their vassals.

Addendum: The region of the Heartland known as "Beast Territory" is still ruled by the descendants of Ragim's clan and have defended the Heartland from raids of Wrothgarians, the Fourth Aldemeri Dominion and even the Wild Hunt of Hircine. This has earned them such respect and renown that a mer sat on the Imperial Throne. And to the disgust of the elves of the south, that mer was an Orc.

Narivia thanked my lord on the behalf of the Moth Priests and revealed herself to be Phusedea. She explained she knew why my lord had originally come to the Heartland and willingly surrendered to his custody. She only asked one thing, when my lord was to present her to Velehk Sain he was to attempt to ensure her servitude to him as the punishment the Pirate King would deliver to her. Agreeing to her terms my lord and his captive departed through a portal back to Skyrim.

Feeling exhausted from the years of constant battle my lord began to look into the tools he had at his disposal that fit within his great plan. Having the key tools, he needed my lord got to work and, using one of his Unstable Morpholith's, the Skull of a rival Dovah, a Welkynd Stone he recovered from Cyrodiil and a Daedric Heart he was able to recreate his own Dragon Priest Alter. He took the Alter to the Sky Haven Temple and began working on which pieces he would craft with what he had.

It was as he was finally beginning to start crafting his artifacts that he was informed by one of his agents that Keeper Carcette of the Vigiliants of Stendarr was spotted, alive, in the Whiterun Plains. Knowing when to not let an opportunity like this get away, my lord departed for the location where his agents said she was headed only to find Cultists of the newly reformed Mythic Dawn kill a man and open a portal taking Carcette away. He was able to learn from the slain individual that the Mythic Dawn were attempting to accomplish what they failed to do during the Oblivion Crisis and open the way for Mehrunes Dagon to claim Mundus.

Not wasting any time, my lord took the information on the body of the individual and took off for the Ayleid ruin in Skyrim in the Varlais Cavern. It was here that he was able to locate The Great Welkynd Stone at the heart of the ruin that the cultists were attempting to steal to fuel their Oblivion Gate and the forced cooperation of the Caller, under the directive of the Ayelid Lich Norion the Undying, who was slowing down their progress despite helping them. From here my lord sent a message to the Vigiliants of Stendarr on where he was going and the Keeper needing their help before he was able to infiltrate the cult and make his way to Red Scar Cavern.

Once at the cavern he was able to find many of the Necromancers that followed Voailde. They were using a rather nasty ritual to use Keeper Carcette's connection to Stendarr to control many others and leave her mind rather malleable in the process. Before her mind could be completely broken my lord unleashed the power of his many Thralls and Atronachs on the cult but not before the Oblivion Gate was forcefully opened and he, the Caller and Carcette headed inside to remove Dagon's tether to the mortal world. The small group were forced to fight Dagon's top enforcers and break the Great Sigil Stone keeping the portal open. But before they could leave the realm, they were betrayed by the Vigiliants themselves and were trapped within the Deadlands.

Now this wrong turn of fortune would have broken any man on Nirn. However, my lord wasn't born to be like most men. He, and his consorts, encountered the master of the Eleventh Force Rrvnek Sage soon after the portal was sealed. He was able to guide my lord through his understanding from the perspective of a Psijic and a Daedra. From there my lord guided his pair of tag-alongs to a sealed gate to a plane connected to the Deadlands but wasn't claimed by them. Thru their combined efforts they were able to bypass the gate and my lord's group entered a dead realm known as Deadlight. And in a feat of raw intuition was able to draw upon the realm and make a morpholith and uniting it with a Welkynd stone was able to sever the realm and hide it from Mehrunes Dagon.

Despite his success in excising the realm from the influence of the Prince of Change, my lord was initially in a bind. When he was trapped in the Deadlands with his two cohorts, Lord Dagon sealed the path out through other means they could have used. And so when they tried to leave through a portal back to Nirn, there was no way to determine where they would end up. But, by trusting the teachings of Rrvnek Sage, my lord was able to forge a portal back to Mundus, wherever that would take them. He forged a sigil stone from the realm before he left using one of his Welkynd Stones as a base to return at a later date. When Tovit and his two allies emerged, they found themselves outside the Star Haven Adeptorium in Northern Elsweyr. It was here a sizable resistance movement was forming against the false Mane and his Thalmor enforcers.

They were informed of the help they were getting from Nords from the North, who was led by a Bear of a man whose roar shook the earth. They were also informed of the Dominion Inquisitor who was single-handedly responsible for nearly wiping out the rebellion before it could gain any real traction. Traveling to the Tenmar Temple Tovit's group was able to assist rebels against the Dominion oppressors whenever they could, gaining quite the reputation in the process. When they made it to the Temple, they were greeted by none other than Ulfric Stormcloak himself, acting as the default strategist with his Khajiit ally Talnita.

From here my lord was able to find out that the Dominion were capturing rebels and forcing them into slave labor, or risk being hunted like an animal by the Inquisitor. Finding him to be the first real threat, my lord traveled to the city, now prison, of Orcrest to free the city back to the control of the native inhabitants. It was here that he encountered the Magnate of the Imperial Rim-men, Cavicus Prevades. His people were the first to be imprisoned in the city when the Thalmor claimed Elsweyr under the Dominion flag 94 years prior. He offered the service of the Rim-men in exchange for defeating the Dominion Inquisitor. My lord was able to sneak through the city until he was able to arrive at the palace and confront the Inquisitor, only to discover it was the Daedric Huntsman Triaus acting as a Dominion enforcer due to a deal he made with the leader of the Garrison stationed there.

Despite the severity of the wrath my lord brought down on the Daedra Triaus was able to escape and leave the Thalmor forces without aid. This resulted in neutering the largest obstacle to breaking the Dominion's hold on Anequina. With room to breathe the rebels went about securing the northern region while Tovit sought out Ulfirc to get a grasp on their current options and obstacles. The former Jarl of Windhelm told my lord of the fortune the Stormcloaks had in escaping Imperial custody in Cyrodiil and fleeing to Elsweyr to fully push the influence of the Elves back to the Summerset Islands. He went on to say that the primary reason why the province didn't outright abandon the elves was due to the fleet anchored on the surrounding isles. to the south, but also the guerrilla war the Bosmer conducted to support their Altmer cousins in the North.

As the last living remnants of the Akaviri Dragonguard still, known, to be alive Cavicus Prevades volunteered his people to fortify and defend the northern flank while the rest of the rebels ventured on south to find the source of the Dominion's power in Elsweyr and dethrone the Mane that served them.

While passing through Torval they were able to find the trail of Triaus and using a scrying spell was able to conjure an illusion that showed the Mane with his Thalmor allies conducting their deal with Triaus in exchange for being given free rein to hunt down the rebels in whatever manner he pleased. With this damming evidence of Daedra worship in-tow, they continued south to Senechal where they found the city playing host to an armada of Dominion flags.

With the direct approach impossible they retreated and regrouped at the Halls of Colossus ruins. As they were planning their next move, my lord was informed by the leader of his Rage Odahviing that the halls served as a vault and prison for Dragons ages ago and could be used as a gateway to flood the skies of Elsweyr with Dragons once again. He was also informed by Nahfahlaar that two allies sworn into his service, Sharotnax and Yogrondu died in Elsweyr in the second era and would be of tremendous help in laying siege to the city and armada. With that he had a miniature Oblivion gate connected to Shalidor's Shrouded Realm built at the site.

In under two weeks the preparations were complete, and my lord decided to start the liberation of Elsweyr, with a Roar! With his Thu'um as the signal the armada was burned and sent to a watery grave or fleeing back to Summerst under the might of over 100 Dragons led by Naahfahlaar, Sharotnax and Yogrondu leaving the city to fend for itself. With nowhere to run Triaus invoked the name of the lord of the hunt and had the Mane and his Thalmor allies infected with the curse of beasts to turn the tide as Werelions. Despite the assistance of his Rage on his side, those 'Blessed' with the gift of Hircine was able to push them back as far east as the ruin of Marzuk's Tower. It was here that my lord and his allies found what would be the key to turning the tide in their favor at long last and end the threat in the form of Aeonstone Geode.

Using the limited tools at his disposal my lord was able to craft a crude amulet form the stone that amplified the power of his voice for but a moment before it was destroyed. That was all he needed as he had his Rage herd the pack of werebeasts to his location and unleashed an over amplified shout that decimated the entire opposing force until it shattered. Marking them as the victors. When they reached the palace, it was to find Triaus being mocked by the Lord of the Hunt and denying him shelter for the hunt must go on. It was here that Tovit was able to capture the Huntsman at long last. As a reward for helping to free the kingdom of Pellitine from Dominion rule, Elsweyr rejoined the Empire and named Tovit a Hero of Elsweyr.

Jarl Ulfric and his Stormcloaks decided to remain in Elsweyr to help rebuild and shore up against any offense the dwindling alliance the Altmer and Bosmer were capable of. The surviving Rim-men likewise joined the Stormcloaks at Tovit's behest and served as the symbol of mankind's valor to the Kajiit people. It was also when the fighting finished that my lord was visited by a projection of his first bride Lydia of the rumor of a Dragonguard fortress hidden from the people of Elsweyr on the Island of Tideholm.

It was here that the Dragonguard Sanctum was found, hidden by overgrowth and disuse. Here he was able to find a hidden conclave of deserters of the Dominion who refused to enact their barbarous mandates. With the reveal that Elsweyr was free from Dominion control the conclave, while relieved that they wouldn't be easily hunted by Thalmor Inquisitors, were rightfully afraid what the resident men and ruling beastsmen in the province might do to them for being elves.

My lord offered to relocate the island and make their home much safer for them in the process. Eradaen Elmrun, a Vicar of Jephre and leader of the conclave agreed and sealed the deal under a ritual and pact where, as a Namespinner, revealed Tovit's Protonymic and allowed him to bear witness to what it entailed and how to change it. Under the guidance of Eradaen and the Dragon Nahfahlaar Tovit was able to solidify the size and meaning behind his Nymic to the point he was able to confuse those that didn't know him into thinking he wasn't mortal. He sent his Rage of Dragons' back to the realm and with the rest of the Aeonstone Geode stored on the Island, my lord used a Morpholith and his Thu'um to transport the Island of Tideholm to Shalidor's Shrouded Realm. Him finding the Orichalc fragment was just a bonus.

He left the conclave in the hands of the Wayward Guardians and used his portal key to head back to Fargrave where he left the Caller and Carcette to run the operation on this end and close out the contract he had with Velehk Sain. When he delivered both Phusedea and Triaus to the Dremora the reward he was granted turned out to be a boon of his choice. He honored Phusedea's request and decided to take her as a servant for as long as his clan lives. Velehk Sain thought the terms hilarious and demeaning enough for her treachery that his request was granted. He left the Pirate King of the Abecean behind him as he made his way back to the Ossa Accentium that he was halted by a rather interesting curio in the market square known as a Heart of Order.

Finding out that there existed more Daedric beings than what Nirn was aware of convinced him into making a series of purchases relating to lore and accurate information on the Daedra that he was allowed to know. After making it back to Ossa Accentium, Pedigree confronted my lord and witnessed the new servant in Phuseda. Getting territorial, Pedigree sought to convince my liege that he was the only servant he needed. Phuseda, not to be outdone, claimed that a clan under her authority would bring him glory like he's never seen. Cutting them off before they could get too riled up he gave them both a task, find and claim a wellspring of their kind and dominate all those who reconstitute themselves through it until they all swear to serve him. They were to bring the wellspring to the Realm of Deadlight where he would put whichever clan impressed him the least into subservience to the other.

With them both distracted he headed back to Nirn where he went straight to Fangdoor Manor to acclimatize to his new sense of self and potentially unlock the full scope of power he now had at his disposal. With the expansion of his Nymic my lord undertook a year to meditate and come to terms with what his full name was. His Egonymic isn't recorded anywhere on Mundus or anywhere in Oblivion. What is known is his full name as a Dragon: Tovitjunmoroqahnaarinkonahrik. A name composed of five words of power is unheard of. But my lord is a being beyond the understanding of others, and it shows in his actions.

When the year was complete, he began working on the tools to enable him to go even further as he made a few... requests. Serana turned Lydia into a Vampire as well so they could have the time to assist him with crafting and enchanting of the tools he needed. He went to Sky Haven Temple and took the Dragon Priest Alter to Shalidor's Shrouded Realm where he began to work on crafting his Artifacts.

First, he used the Voidstone given to him earlier by Mephala, Dragonbone, Stalhrim and Bullnetch leather to craft his new Dragon Priest Regalia. A Set of armored robes, boots and gauntlets that allowed him to to be as swift as the wind he was nicknamed earlier. This ensemble effectively made him a ghost on the battlefield.

Secondly, he then used some of the remaining Voidstone combined with some of the Aeonstone and the Abyssal Pearl containing the Fallen Heir to craft a staff known as the Aeon Fear. This staff worked as a symbol of his authority and allowed him to grant whoever had it the ability to freely travel among the realms of Oblivion he's claimed. When utilized as a weapon it granted whoever wielded it the power to pull the essence of Oblivion to wherever they were and shape it to their will. It was made in a style reminiscent of other ebony staffs but had a motif featuring a Ra Gada style helmet flanked by three pairs of wings. Inlaid with gold lettering in the Dragon language.

Utilizing the Brothers of Strife, he was able to craft a pair of swords known as the Lorkan's Blood Hunters. These swords were blessed to strike with fear and flame and made the area around the user stiflingly hot and unbearable when facing them in combat. The swords were crafted in the Akaviri style and were made from the horns of a Dovah that sought to carve out his own kingdom by force. The blades were also inlaid with the Dragon language composed of Meteoric Iron. To this day, they have never lost their edge.

With the cooperation of the Skaal clan he was able to forge a shield composed of Stalhrim, Ebony and a Welkynd Stone named the Dead Ringer. This shield was forged to work in conjunction with the Aeon Fear to defend when being attacked. This Shield enabled those who defended with it to conjure a phantom of the enemy attacking them, to fight on their behalf. This shield was forged to take on the Bloodspawn style and was inlaid with teeth from a Dovah that sought to carve out his own kingdom by force.

Using up the last of the Aeonstone Tovit was able to craft a pair of rings and an amulet using Stalhrim and Quicksilver as a base. My lord was an adventurer at heart. And in his time, he came across many ancient secrets that remain forgotten to this day. Two of these secrets composed of spells no longer known by mages the world over and being able to store the use of these spells into objects. For the first ring known as Tovit's Ambliviance, the spells: Soul Strike and Negate Magic, were placed in the ring. For the second ring known as Tovit's Annoyance, the spells: Time Stop and Warp. Finally for the amulet he imbued the spell: Unstoppable. These three pieces of jewelry enabled those with access to them a verity of useful spells that made any who earned his favor near unmatched combat potential.

Using a portal to take him back to High-Rock, Tovit reentered the Dwemer ruin of Arkngthamz-Phng to find the still working portion of the Dwemer Ruin that operated as a Animoculotory per Karek's instructions. With the use of his skills as a Psijic, as well as the experience he's accumulated in delving into Dwemer ruins before, he was able to deactivate the ruins defenses and claim the factory as his own. He then trans-located the entire usable part of the factory where, using the last of the Voidstone, the Heart of Order, a Dragon soul, a pair of Centurion Dynamo Cores and my Lord's very blood to craft from it a Daedric Wellspring.

Using his authority over the planes of Oblivion he's claimed my lord was able to call to the wellspring a Vestige to take on the form the wellspring enabled. But not in the guise of a Knight of Order, this wellspring was instead for a breed of Daedra unique to my lord alone. The being that emerged from the Wellspring was composed of a living suit of silver armor reminiscent of the armor worn by the knights in High-Rock. The armor didn't have any means of removing the pieces that made it up and made the being seems more like a Dwemer Animunculi than a Daedra. The few things that made the being stand out as a Daedra was the clawed feet and gauntlets the armor was shaped into. The helm, so to speak, is fashioned in the form of a Dragon's closed mouth. And the armor and sword the being carried was inscribed with Daedric lettering that glowed with the light of the realm flowing through it.

When the being spoke, it had a voice devoid of emotion, yet carried a tone of utter devotion to my lord despite sounding as though it was, and wasn't, there all at once. "You have called for me, my master?" "Yes. You are the first of the Lahvirn. You will answer to the name Jotehala and lead all those who come after you to follow my will." "Yes. My Master."

It was after this that he was informed of the two Daedra Pedigree and Phuseda wishing to enact the pledge he promised them and judge which clan would reign over the other. And while he did agree to that he had stated that the clan that impressed him the least would serve the other. When he brought the Lahvirn Wellspring to Deadlight over 200 of the Lahvrin had spawned from it to serve him. With Jotehala as the last contender he pits the three clans against each other where the Lahvirn defeated the others without effort. Knowing they were under oath; Pedigree swore in the Dezvel to the cause and Phuseda swore in the Voidsisters to my lord under the Lahvirn's leadership.

Under the leadership of the Lahvirn the Voidsisters were posted to Shalidor's Shrouded Realm. They are bolstered by the Crow daedra they bargained with who merge into Wraiths-of-Crows when under duress as well as Winged Twilights to give them a tactical advantage thru ariel combat. With the cooperation of the Wayward Guardians and Tideholm Conclave they became the greatest source of magical exploration and study in my lord's domain.

Under the leadership of the Lahvirn the Dezvel were posted to Grayhaven to serve as a deterrent to any outside forces seeking to claim its secrets. Bolstered by Clanfear and Banekin the Dezvel became the most dangerous pack in his domain. And with the best reputation of keeping my lord's treasures safe. With Xuaduyite at their side they became one of his most formidable clan of defenders.

That wasn't to say that the Lahvirn weren't averse to the idea of expansion, they just had their own ideas on how to do so. My lord gifted the leader, Jothala, the skull of Karstaag and the Frostblade of the Monarch. They expanded the factory used in the creation of their wellspring to create a laboratory. It was here that they used the essence of Karstaag's soul as well as the sword to open the way to a plane of oblivion housing Frost Atronachs. Claiming the realm, they were able to make use of Karstaag's skull to alter the wellspring they spawned from to transform the Atronachs into beings more reminiscent of actual Giants with much more destructive frost power and intelligence, but utterly obedient to the Lahvirn. They are what's known as the Ulalbil and they are utterly devoted to my master. With this success in vestigial alteration the Lahvirn were given clearance to expand my lord's influence on other realms so long as they possessed the forces needed to hold onto those realms and protect his own.

Addendum: By the time of my master's Apotheosis the Lahvirn had accumulated over 50 smaller planes under their control before they were all merged into one. Twelve of these planes were occupied by clans of Daedra who, after their defeat, swore their services to my master.

With the completion of the foundation of his Daedric Legions, Tovit went to study the fragments he collected over the years and was able to determine that they were the individual pieces of the Staff of Towers. Knowing how dangerous this could be should anyone find out, he locked them away in a special vault underneath the Tideholm Sanctum until he knew what to do with them.

By this point he was informed by Lydia, Serana and Vastarie of several small but significant events that could become something major if left alone for too much longer.

First, Lydia informed him that three of the groups of Dragons who didn't wish to bow to his Thu'um have since become more distinct. The first group wished to live openly as missionaries to their father Akatosh heralded by Paarthurnax of the Greybeards. The second group was being rallied by a Dovah by the name of Vulthuryol who wished to reform the Dragon Empire Alduin ruled from so long ago by reawakening the tormentor of Elswyer: Kaalgrontiid. The third group was more of a scattered kingdom with no real leadership who saw mortals as vital to staying out of the business of more dangerous elements, and made deals with promises of protection, power or even knowledge to stave off rivals.

Second, Serana informed him that the wards and paths out of the realms of Oblivion he was in control of, while powerful, weren't strong enough to prevent a Daedric Prince from shattering those wards outright and claiming the realm for themselves if they really wanted to. She also tells him that she felt the presence of a few of the princes ghost past the wards that kept his realms hidden and if something wasn't done soon they would be discovered and possibly enslaved as a result.

Lastly Vastarie informed him that the Vigiliants of Stendarr had done their best to besmirch his reputation. They were also looking into raiding all known locations belonging to him for secrets and feared it would result in the loss of priceless artifacts or tools needed to complete his goals.

Thinking quickly, my lord trans-located Sky Haven Temple, Tideholm, Castle Thorn, Ravenwatch Castle, Nighthollow Keep, Greymoor Keep and the Deepwood Tower to either Grayhaven, Deadlight or Shalidor's Shrouded Realm.

Knowing that he was nearly out of time but, wanting to make things as difficult as possible for his enemies, my lord petitioned Durnehviir into speaking with and convincing Vulthuryol and his rage that the secrete to gaining enough power to reawaken Kaalgrontiid and challenge Tovit was to harvest souls. With the Soul Cairn being the largest, and easily the most accessible location to do so, he was able to convince them into waging war and feasting on the Souls bound to the Ideal Masters, as well as the Masters themselves. He also sent emissaries in the form of Sharotnax and Yogrondu to Paarthurnax and the Vomir stating that so long as neither side aided Vulthuryol he would leave them be. (9)

Second, he was able to utilize the Dawnguard into convincing the Vigiliants to recreate the Staff of Towers to thwart his plans once and for all. They were able to explain how to do so and provide them with the fragments in Tovit's possession one at a time so that it would take time for them to finish. He then could turn his attention to the Princes of Oblivion.

Finally he utilized his Thu'um to make attacking him a bad idea in the worst way for the princes as possible. You see the artifacts of the Princes of Oblivion are, more often than not, filled with the essence of the prince in question when they were crafted. This made them living extensions of their will on Nirn. My Lord used his Bend Will shout on several of these artifacts to force the Princes tied to them to grant him an audience. In exchange for NOT destroying the artifacts and taking their power, my lord convinced Boethiah and Clavicus Vile to waging war against Hermaeus Mora and Molag Bal. In exchange he would give them their artifacts back undamaged.

He was also able to get an audience with Hircine, Sanguine and Sheogorath and was able to convince them that his soul was at risk of falling into the hands of either Mehrunes Dagon, Namira or Vaermina for how he became a target of their cultists. And convince them to wage war against one another for the price of his soul.

Mephala, the one he wasn't worried about from the start, thought that his plans were amusing and granted him a small insight on how to achieve an apotheosis like Mannimarco did over 200 years ago. To that end, he began the construction of a temple to him in the heart of the Craglorn called the Vault of Honor to fulfill his goal while the chaos raged around him. Waiting for that one moment to claim everything as his.

That moment came five years later, when both the last of the Ideal Masters were devoured and when the Vigiliants finished reconstructing the Staff of Towers. When the Staff was completed my lord had it stolen from right under the Vigiliants noses and went to Castle Volkihar to enter the Soul Cairn While his women started a ritual at his temple. There he found the realm nearly empty except for a few rather hidden souls who informed him of the location of Vulthuryol's citadel. Traveling to the location my lord was able to slay and devour the souls of the few Dragons who noticed him and issue out a challenge to the leader of the Mausoleum Rage.

As the Last Dragonborn, Tovit's soul was worth quite a bit to any Dovah who could devour it and he used that to encourage a show out of the general where his entire rage would watch as his soul was devoured. Taking the bait Vulthuryol had his rage of over 300 Dragons in the sky over the citadel as the battle begun. Or so he thought. Springing his trap my Lord had his women utilize their ritual to ensnare all of the Dragons behind a barrier of the Realm's energy while he got to work on a ritual to invoke the power of the Staff. The leader of the potential conquerors could do nothing but watch as the staff empowered Tovit to a step above whatever scope he was able to achieve having devoured the Ideal Masters. With the Aeonstone Amulet and Rings amplifying his power even more Tovit used the energy he invoked from the staff to use HIS Shout to steal all of their souls at once!

This influx of power almost Shattered the wards keeping his realms from the eyes of the other Daedric Princes. To finalize his plans, and place him in a position the Princes of Oblivion would never be able to touch him from, he went back to Tamriel on the night of the Shade of the Revanant and used half of the remaining power in the staff to change the Necromancer's Moon into a Dragon. At the same time his women went to the three major realms under his control and began siphoning the power he gave to them to form a bridge between them and the other realms claimed in his name by the Lahvrin.

With Mannimarco falling out of the sky for not knowing how to use his new body, my lord took on his new True form, without using a single word of power, and raced after the falling god before anyone else got to him. With the king of Necromancy not in full control of himself Tovit turned back into his mortal form and allowed the King of Worms to do something that caught men, mer, his wives, Et'Ada and Daedra off guard. He allowed Mannimarco to EAT him!

While everyone was stunned at Tovit's actions, it allowed him to act before anyone else could stop him. In the guise of a mortal my lord used the last of the power of the Staff to amplify the power he gained from all of the Soul Cairn and forcefully EAT Mannimarco's Soul! This influx of raw divinity shattered the wards around his realms and propelled him into taking full control of the Revanant as he fell into a portal back to the planes of Oblivion. It was as he fell that all the realms under his domain followed him and began merging. The Soul Cairn, Grayhaven, Deadlight, Shalidor's Shrouded Realm and the many 50 plus other minor realms claimed in his name since.

When he stopped falling, he began to fly about the realm that took shape as he gained control of his new self. Circling it many times and approving how it met his needs. My lord named this new realm the Titan Fields. With the claiming of the realm my Lord announced himself as the new lord of Oblivion Styjuvus. Daedric Prince of Dragons and Archon of Defiance.

When my master achieved his apotheosis, several things happened at once. The first was the merging of the realms under his claim as you well know. But the second was that a fraction of his power merged into the vestiges of his consorts Lydia, Serana and Vastarie elevating them to the position of Demi-Prince and making each of them the Triumvirate of his rule. Finally, was the Vault of Honor being sealed away from all outside intrusion. This was later revealed to be a ruse, as only those devoted to my master could enter the site and converse with his servants or wives.

His first act as a new Prince of Oblivion was to offer the Titan Fields as a Haven for all Dovah who wished to no longer adhere to the mockery of dealing with unworthy mortals. This offer was later extended to all members of the Laat Thaarn who chose to serve his needs on Mundus and all others who chose my master's sphere of personal Glory over any other offered by either the rulers of Aetherius or Oblivion. The Dovah who served under Paarthurnax and his Way of the Voice declined his offer and have since spread their cult across Morrowind, Cyrodil and Elsweyr. The Vomir declined as well, for the most part. But others have taken up his offer and decided to continue their practice by making deals with the Daedra and other mortals of worth to them or my master.

His second was to place an embargo on the other Princes when it came to interfering in mortal affairs. He goal was to revitalize the Coldharbour Compact with ALL of the Daedric Princes in attendance signing the accord. The few who refused, Boethiah, Hermaeus Mora, Mehrunes Dagon & Molag Bal attempted to confront my lord as they described him "a wet behind the ears whelp on a power trip, who needed to be taught his place" and were mercilessly beaten down until they agreed to sign the accord. With Styjuvus at the helm the Daedric Princes swore to never attempt to merge the Mundus with any of their Planes ever again.

With the declaration of the Compact of the Void, my master's original memory on the mortal world gradually faded from the minds of the people that knew him. The last of his legacy merged the two clans formed from his mortal bloodlines into one Tribe as the Skaal late in the 8th Era.

Over the years the other Princes would test my master and the boundaries he set in place to keep Nirn safe from them. In these moments, my master would either deal with them himself or grant a champion to his cause access to one of his many artifacts to help thwart their plans for Tamriel. Whenever a mortal upstart would attempt to use my lord for their own means of control, they were punished accordingly. By either the might of the Daedra, Dovah or cults that serve him, Styjuvus's ire would be known.

To this day, my master's affiliation with the other princes of Oblivion is on uneven terms, at best. From a position of utter hatred and loathing the princes of obvious natural evils: Hermaeus Mora, Mehrunes Dagon, Molag Bal, Namira and Vaermina he tends to keep an especially close watch. To a more cordial relationship with Azura, Malacath and surprisingly Hircine my master will often spend days or weeks in debates in whether or not the heavy-handed interference of the Princes are a good thing for mortals.

With both Sanguine and Sheogorath, unsurprisingly he gets along quite well with. Except when he's forced to rein in their darker tendencies. An… understanding, has been reached between Boethiah, Clavicus Vile and Peryite when he was capable of destroying their artifacts as a mortal. As a God, that understanding took on new meaning for them. With Mephala, Meridia and Noctournal... my lord tells me that his wives have a way of punishing him should any of them be caught in his realm without them knowing about it.

This, rather unorthodox, relationship that keeps the status quo has been upheld, whether they liked it or not for the last four eras. And doesn't look to be going anywhere anytime soon.

It is here that this recounting of my master's tale slowly comes to a close. Tovit the Windwalker, Styjuvus, the Daedric Prince of the Titan Fields, the Lord of Dragons, the Archon of Defiance or Judge of Truth and Honored Glory. No matter how you may address him, my lord became a master of his own fate and ascended to a position many can only dream of. He has been the bane of plots that sought to destroy Tamriel as we know it for over 3,000 years. He is our shield and sword against those who would take advantage of those who couldn't defend themselves.

My master is a God. And one of the greatest heroes of all time.

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There we go! Done! It's finished! This took FAR too Damn Long to get out of my head! For those of you who have made it to the end, Congrats! I did NOT think this story would run for as long as it did simply because I wanted to include elements form the entire franchise but whoops! There goes my sanity!

For those of you who have thought that this would have been easier if I had broken it up into parts... you are probably right, but FUCK THAT! I'm already here and I'm not rewriting it! I know for a fact that I need to do the same thing for three other characters so I'm not going to stress over this anymore! I've already proofread, added, deleted and added more to this story in the final revisions than I likely needed to and I'm still NOT sure if I'm satisfied with it! But hey, I'm not a perfectionist I just try to do the best that I can. If there are any spelling errors, I'm sorry. I might go and touch them up when I go to upload the next chapter but that's not something I'm worried about right now.

Anyway, like and review. I really do appreciate those who try to give proper criticism and I'm sure a plot point was developed somewhere. Those will likely be addressed with the other charactes I plan to add to this stoy. If you believe it's something I need to address here than please do let me know. I hate leaving a story with holes in it.

(1) For those of you without knowledge of the Dragon language Translator I chose the translation to be: Last Obedience since I felt I sounded a bit more final.

(2) The Wayward Guardians were a clan of Reachfolk that operated in the second era. The elder scrolls wiki could tell you more about them. I just thought their name and stance made a bit more sense as his followers.

(3) A Morpholith is a piece of Oblivion that is used by the Daedra of all power level for many uses. An Unstable Morpholith can even be used to alter Oblivion in a way if directed by a user if they had the proper ingredients.

(4) A Coldflame Brazier is a House item that is craftable in ESO. I just thought that the look if it and who used them, the Daedra, fit thematically for what it was eventually used for.

(5) Verandis Ravenwatch was a central figure during the Dark Heart of Skyrim story in ESO.

(6) This could be translated as Curse, Memory, Theft as a shout meant to steal memories from an individual. It is the first and only shout I came up with.

(7) Vastaire is a reoccurring character in ESO who can be encountered during the Planemeld storyline against Molag Bal and again in Southern Elsweyr during the plot of the Zone Story.

(8) Before any of the expansions, Bleakrock Isle. served as the starting point for anyone playing the game as a part of the Ebonheart Pact in ESO.

(9) This roughly translates to Independent since none of the Dragons that have gone on to rule do so as a united front.