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Conquering Remnant
Chapter I
Awakening the Dragon
His name was Reziik, a hero to the mortals of Nirn, the man with the soul of the dragon. He could slay three of them at the same time, whilst entire countries praised his name.
But the absorption of Alduin transformed him.
The people of Nirn kept on calling him a demon, for his overwhelming power. He was Alduin, using the body of the Dragonborn for himself, according to the mortals.
But that was only partially true. He was Alduin, yet not. For the Dragonborn had gained a superior understanding of the universe, and the dragon had been absorbed in him, causing him to become more powerful then ever before.
So, he became the World-Eater. But he didn't realize that, until he had already killed Miraak, and Alduin appeared teaching him the way of the World-Eater.
He ascended for a lack of a better word. The already divine souls that he had absorbed over his lifetime, had made him already age slower, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that he slowly became immortal.
But he remained on Nirn. It could be called his plane, for it was true, since he could control it, to a lesser extent then the Daedric Princes of their planes.
One of the endings of Nirn, was Numidium awakening and destroying Nirn. Another ending was that the Aldmeri Dominion would end it, through the conflict of Skyrim, and the division of Nirn. The real ending was that the Last Dragonborn, now the World-Eater would do so.
The next kalpa called Remnant by the reincarnated Men, with no trace of Mer on the plane. It is a conflict ridden world, with Men forcefully becoming Huntsman to protect themselves from the monsters called Grimm.
Grimm are the creations of Namira, the last trace of Daedric presence during the Dawn Era of that plane. She wanted the plane of the World-Eater to be invaded by her creations, which were led by her lieutenant.
But, he would awaken before her creations could do so, by a fire elemental.
As told from the perspective of Akatosh, Aedra of Time.
It had been a strange day for Cinder Fall. Roman had told her of a scoop, that a tomb with ancient artefacts dating from the age before Dust, had been discovered.
It contained swords that if they touched someone, would immediately either make them go on fire, electrocuted, or frozen. It contained armour, that could take every type of hit, bows that could sap the living energy.
So, she went to this tomb, which had just been taken over by the White Fang, just as she had ordered. Adam was so easy to manipulate - just mention that his apprentice had run off, and he immediately obeyed.
But, even she felt that the Bull Faunus was creepy in his reasons to do so. Not that she ever wanted to hear about them, but it was obvious that the games that she occasionally let Mercury play, were very similar to Adam's want for that girl.
"Cinder?" called out the aforementioned boy. "What are we doing here?"
"We're here on the search for whatever artefacts that those archaeologists, didn't find. And before you ask, they are immensely powerful." The woman answered, her usual red outfit traded out for her stealth outfit.
"Okay. Just wondering when Emerald is going to wake up, for she is taking a long time, yo." Mercury said, as he stretched out.
"She'll come." Cinder replied, easily. "Emerald isn't stupid, even if you think that she is."
"I don't think she's stupid... Just over emotional." The assassin muttered.
"Maybe." She acknowledged. It was true, Emerald was emotional but that was why she had paired her, with Mercury, for they balanced each over.
"So, you've finally woken up, sleeping beauty." He called, as the aforementioned girl emerged from her tent.
"I'll pay you to shut up, Merc." offered Emerald.
"Calm down," the fire elemental interrupted, their banter. "We've got a tomb to explore."
"Okay." stated the girl.
"So, we're finally going?"
She ignored her two subordinates, and entered the tomb through a massive black door. As soon as Cinder entered, she noted that the structure was very old, which was obvious from the drawings on the walls.
The drawings were of a man absorbing a dragon, after killing it. Then there was a drawing, of the same man fighting another man, but the other man had two dragons on his side.
The next drawing though fascinated her. It was the same man, but he was smiling. It didn't seem like a particularly nice smile, and he was killing a woman with a sword, a house burning behind him.
"The third one is really creepy." offered Mercury.
"I find it fascinating." The woman replied, easily.
They continued onwards, and then suddenly, four electric blue eyed skeletons, with armour on their shoulders, and black weapons appeared, charging towards the trio.
Cinder immediately backed up, and fired a few fireballs towards the group. She was surprised to find that they barely seemed damaged, and pulled out her bow and fired.
That certainly killed them, and she continued firing, whilst Mercury relatively easily killed off a skeleton.
Emerald however seemed to be having a bad time, so the fire elemental fired a fireball towards the monster that she was fighting.
"Who enters my tomb?" demanded a voice, which immediately made them jump. "I see a weak girl, a elemental, and a boy who kicks."
"My name is Cinder Fall." The fire elemental offered.
"You know that the lieutenant of Namira is manipulating you?" He immediately stated, and she was startled by the fact that he knew about her.
"She wouldn't." The elemental declared.
"So, you don't know. Continue onwards, Cinder Fall." The being ordered, and then it's voice disappeared.
"What was that about?" Mercury questioned, confusedly.
"It was nothing." She said.
The trio continued through the tomb, and were met with another group of skeletons, this time with a leader wearing a horned black helmet, and with a menacingly frost covered sword.
She immediately fired a fireball at the sword, which knocked it out of the horned leader's hand, and fired her bow at the skeleton.
"FUS RO DAH!" shouted the skeleton, which sent Cinder flying into a wall, and she felt her eyes see the stars, before she got up.
The elemental immediately jumped towards the sword, and picked it up, awkwardly slashing the leader in the stomach. It merely took the hit, and took her arm, and threw her into the wall.
This time, however she was prepared, and the woman pulled out her bow, firing at the leader, whilst Mercury and Emerald dealt with it's minions.
The trio of arrows, struck the skeleton in the chest, and head. As it fell forward, and she unleashed a fireball on it's back, causing it to die.
Mercury dealt with the last of the things, with a devastating kick to the head, which knocked it towards a wall, head first.
"Those guys were tough." He remarked. "That horned one gave you a challenge, didn't it?"
"It did." She admitted, as she wiped a bead of sweat on her forehead away.
What actually caused her to have trouble, was that strange... Chant, she called it for a lack of a better word. It had immediately sent her flying, like a massive force had thrown her.
It was certainly curious, and she wanted to know if this voice/being also knew these chants, for they certainly seemed powerful.
She forged onwards, and eventually found a chamber with a ritualistic stone which was covered in patterns in the middle. Cinder strolled towards it, and lent over it.
"You might want to pour your blood over the stone." The voice commented.
"Why would I?" The woman immediately replied, cautiously.
"The same reason you went to Namira's lieutenant in the first place." He stated, "I could gift you power that you dream of, even more powerful then your supposed Maiden powers."
"How can I be sure of that statement?" She continued to question.
"I was the one who created those Draugr. The Draugr are those skeletons that you fought." The being claimed. "And I can use those 'chants' as you call them."
Cinder saw no reason to disbelieve him honestly. Those Draugrs were certainly powerful, and she had seen relatively bizarre stuff around here, like those drawings.
The woman pulled an arrow from her bow, and cut her hand as blood poured out of her wound, onto the stone and she suddenly felt her Aura drop, and her recently absorbed Maiden powers.
It made her fall over, the strain from the summoning. Mercury immediately grabbed hold of her, and supplied her with his own supply of Aura, with Emerald doing the same as her partner.
They all fell over, at some point - but Cinder forced herself to look up, and saw that a massive black portal had opened up and a figure stepped out, dressed in a poncho-like robe, with a black mask underneath the hood of his robe.
She heard him walk over, and he lifted her head up, looking at her. The first thing that she noted that he had piercing extremely light brown eyes that struck you, and black hair that flowed out of the helmet.
"So you're the one who summoned me from my sleep." He mentioned, giving her an appraising look. "What is your subordinates names, Miss Fall?"
"The boy is Mercury Black, and the girl is Emerald Sustrai." The elemental answered.
The man let out an amused sound. "Cute. I'm called Reziik. Since your all incapacitated from lack of this Aura, I'll make my minions carry you."
Immediately as he said that, a purple ball appeared in his hands, and he threw the balls towards the ground as three Draugrs appeared, in whirl of purple.
She felt one of them pick her up with a wave of the man's hand, as he walked out of his tomb. The woman felt that she shouldn't call it a tomb any more, more of a summoning room for this mysterious being.
As Cinder saw the light of day, she attempted to stand up but felt the mysterious man place a hand on her back, and force her down. "Calm down, Miss Fall. I won't kill any subordinates of yours."
"What happened..." started Roman, before trailing off at the sight of the armoured man, with his new boss on the shoulder of a skeleton.
"Hello... Who's this, Cinder?" Reziik asked the woman, carelessly.
"He's Roman Torchwick, a thief." She answered, gritting her teeth together. She felt utterly humiliated, at the moment in the position she was in.
"Curious. So you have your own criminal empire?" The being continued to question.
"Yes." Cinder replied.
He apparently noticed her discomfort, as he held out his hands, and yellow light appeared from it, covering her whole body, healing her strained body.
The Draugr set her on her feet, and she immediately stood up. It felt actually incredible, like she had a new body that wasn't fatigued, from the regular fighting that you had to do on Remnant.
"You should pack up," Reziik said. "Those supposed artefacts as those previous tomb dwellers called them, have next to no value."
"Why do you think so?" demanded Roman.
"Because they barely do any actual damage to the body of either an animal, or a human." The man stated, without a care in the world. "The fire barely lasts five seconds, the electricity doesn't kill, and being frozen lasts three seconds."
"Do what the man says," Cinder ordered, deciding to listen to this mysterious man. He did seem like he wanted to help, and this campaign of hers needed a lot of fire power.
The thief seemed to want to protest, but the woman merely summoned a fireball in her hand, which motivated him. As orders were given from the mouth of the orange-haired man.
She mused that this was all going well, considering.
Ozpin looked over the tomb, that had now been burned to the ground, and he immediately knew who done it.
"It's this 'Queen' isn't it?" asked Qrow, as he crossed his arms in anger.
"You guessed correct." The silver-haired man answered. "But I feel like there's something or someone else helping her."
"How do you know that? It might simply be a streak of sadism." The scythe-wielding man questioned.
"No. This mysterious Queen has never shown off before, so why start now?" The headmaster refuted, "it has to be someone else. To send us a message."
"What kind of message?"
"I don't know." admitted the man. "But it might be in the temple."
Qrow quickly transformed himself into a crow, and looked around the temple, and came back five minutes later, extremely angry. "They fucking killed all of the archaeologists and set them out as a message saying, 'Beware of the dragon'. That makes no fucking sense. Fuck, fuck, fuck!"
"Calm down." commanded Ozpin, calmly. "We first have to figure out, who this 'dragon' is."
Surprisingly, the transforming man calmed down. It seemed as if training Ruby had caused him to settle down from anger, far quickly then when Raven disappeared.
The headmaster still kept checks on Raven, and found out that she had trained the new leader of the White Fang, which was extremely concerning.
For the aforementioned woman was extremely powerful, and if her apprentice had managed to survive, then he had to be powerful as well. Actually that was next to a certainty.
But, then he had completely lost track of her. Which was even more concerning then the fact that she had trained the leader of the White Fang.
Which meant that she had either died, or was doing something nefarious.
But, the silver-haired man forcefully pulled himself from his thoughts, as he looked over the former scene of discovery for the Kingdoms, now turned massacre.
Whoever was this 'dragon' character, he'd have to die for the safety of the Kingdoms.
Reziik looked around Cinder's base, in mild fascination. He was the World-Eater, so whilst he was forced to explore the various Daedric Lands, his position as Nirn's... Keeper, made him aware of near extreme revolution on technology - but however it seemed to all be based around this energy called Dust.
Which was really inefficient - what if Dust ran out? Then this world would be invaded by Namira's spawns, which was not going to happen under his watch.
But if he decided to stay with Cinder, he'd have to either negotiate or simply kill that lieutenant that's probably been controlling this plane's outcome from the shadows.
Actually he doubted that. Lieutenants of the Daedric Princes barely had a fraction of their power, and were normally barely above mortal intelligence, which meant against himself, they wouldn't amount to much.
But they were still dangerous simply for the Daedric Prince, that sponsored them. Despite the fact that they have barely a fraction of their power, a Daedric Prince could continuously give them power, which was dangerous.
"Reziik? What are you doing?" His summoner questioned.
"Wondering of things about the universe, as vast as it is." He replied, and it was truthful... In a way.
The 'universe', was actually an amalgamation of the planes of Aurbis, which were Oblivion, Mundus, Aetherius, and the Void. The stars are merely the many gateways towards Oblivion, and Aetherius, with the Void only being of access to Sithis, and his followers.
"Hmm." The woman acknowledged. "I've occasionally wondered that. Can I ask you a question?"
"Go on, ask ahead." He answered.
"How do you know of Salem?" Was what she asked, crossing her arms in an attempt to be threatening.
"Ah. Is that what she's called? Interesting." He said, before answering, "I know of many things, Cinder Fall - that even this Salem doesn't know of. Did you know that she's serviced to a Daedric Prince?"
"A Daedric Prince?" Cinder interrogated.
"A Daedric Prince is to put it simply, a god in a separate... How should I say it?" The World-Eater explained, "oh yes. Planet. They can control that planet on a whim - if they wanted to, there would be no day/night cycle. They have control over many things, depending on their spheres."
"Control over what, exactly?"
"The best way to explain that, is to give an example," he started. "The Daedric Prince that Salem is serving under, is called Namira. She has power over things that we find disgusting - insects, slugs, and spiders, and controls diseases. She is also the patron of cannibals."
Safe to say, Cinder didn't believe him. "That's a lie."
"Want me to prove it to you, Miss Fall?" Reziik asked, before summoning into his own realm of Oblivion and got out a book on the Daedric Princes. "Here."
The woman snatched it out of his hand, and quickly flipped over to the Namira page. "No, Salem can't be serving such a... Disgusting being..."
"Believe me, Miss Fall." He stated, coldly but politely.
He had been talking to her, through out any conversation that they had, she noted absently. "I... Do."
"Then, let's meet Salem, shall we?" The World-Eater asked, holding out a hand.
Cinder Fall didn't know how much this would change the very path, that she was about to walk, when she shook his hand.
But she did, and Aurbis was set to change for ever.
AN: So... You got a perspective of the Elder Scrolls lore, didn't you? It's very elaborate, and I reckon that I made a few mistakes, so if you would, please tell me them.
But, anyway... Does anybody like this premise? I liked it (obviously).
Reziik is essentially a typical all-rounder type of build, who slowly morphed into a sneaky mage build around about level 30. I actually did build this character in Skyrim, and let me tell you that a mage build (with options) is extremely satisfying to play, for I could electrocute someone to death, but if I was in a tight spot (which didn't happen much), I could whip out a Shout.
This story is going to be told from many perspectives, as you've seen - Cinder, Ozpin, and then finally Reziik.
This isn't a redemption story. Reziik, and Cinder are 'villains' in terms of attitude, and all-round villainy stuff. Just wanted to clear that up.
Well, hope you enjoyed. I'll see you in another chapter!