Authors note: This Chapter is probably going to be quite boring, but bear with me, next one will have 'all the gore and more'. (Not as boring as 1)

Chapter 3: Advocate

Before the brutish orc's blade struck, as if Advocate new of my danger, glowed red, sprouting a strange red ward. The blow came closer until it hit Advocate, instead of a 'ting', a whooshing sound occurred followed by a loud bang. A wasn't touched by the red blast but fell back in shock, the orc, however, was rather unlucky. He was launched into the air and crashed into the list, a huge splinter hitting his bare elbow. He let out a blood curdling cry and fell into a blood rage.

He charged again this time even more carelessly. I got up in time to slash at his stomach, Advocate collided and instead of an explosion it burned hotter than dragon's breath. The Orc screamed again, no blood came out of his second wound however. It had burnt anything oozing its way out. The beast stopped in his tracks and after a few seconds of staring, he fell on top of me.

It hurt having half a giant orc on you, why I didn't move was beyond me. A few seconds passed before my Egg-Brother lifted the beast. I heard one of the squire's talk "So the legends are true, that sword is one of the first of the snow elves weapons. The enchanted blades?"

Another said "By the Eig- er Nine, that blade can break anything with that amount of power!" his lord quickly shut him up though.

"Vorus, you now possess a blade from before even the Forsworn, this is a Snow Elf blade. We all thought it to be lies but it seems not." I looked at the blade, it looked no different, but it felt like a living being.

I laughed awkwardly before speaking, "This oddly feels like when I killed that dragon in Whiterun."

"Right, anyway, I need to talk to you, in private. Come with me." I complied, following Therisca out into his room. After tacking his helm off, revealing brown scales, he said "This you must keep to yourself, no telling anyone. Right. The Snow elf blade you have there isn't the only one, The Altmer and Dunmer have one each, the original Falmer had that one."

"Aren't the Falmer those bloody ugly things from Dwemer ruins?" I interrupted.

"Yes, the Dwemer, killed, tortured and mutilated the Falmer. Those of us here… well privileged ones, refer to Snow Elves, those of old, by their real name, Falmer. Also we revere dragons as you know. Now back to that subject. These swords are linked. We know as a fact that, the Aldermeri Dominions leader possesses one, and will take it to combat if need be. The Dunmer have somewhat a leader but as far as we can tell he is more likely to join us rather than the Altmer if it comes to war."

"And it will, for two reasons; one, those thugs probably had a Justicar with them and secondly, Advocate is now 'alive', if the elves scry with theirs, they will know. Now we need to train you in the use of that, you need to control it, and considering your work with Phantom, should be easy."

With that he replaced his helm and led me toward the main training room. "Now, try whacking this with Advocate." Said Therisca, pointing to one of the practice dummies. I did so, causing it to burn, luckily it was only me and him in here. "This time think about not burning it, make your sword listen."

I struck again, when Advocate hit this time, nothing happened. "Great, now if you can keep it like that you can spar with the Lord-Knight, then you get the choice of staying or leaving."

We continued practicing until a bell was rung. Therisca and I walked out towards the great hall to assemble in front of the Knights Council. Apparently this only happened when something incredibly important was happening.

We walked in, nearly a thousand knights were assembled, more flooding in by the second. Even people without official knighthood were there. The council consisted of Lord-Knight Heralthic, High Magician Esther, Quarter Master Feashal and many other important looking people.

After about ten minutes the room was packed, about three thousand knights in full armour. The leaders all took off their helmets, showing their faces for what seemed the first time. A close look, as close as I could get, showed very pale faces. I think it's only because of being underground.

"Knights of Tamriel, we have received disturbing news, the Thalmor move in force. It seems they have two courses of action, to destroy the Stormcloak Rebellion, or a worse course, to destroy us. Our castle is not impenetrable. They know how to fight us effectively. We must take the fight to them either way. If the Stormcloak are destroyed, our agreement with the Jarl of Winterhold, Korir, will be dissolved."

"This, we cannot allow. We must destroy the Thalmor. It shall take them at least three months to cross the Summerset Isles. To either Solitude, Dawnstar or here in Winterhold. We have many paths to take. We will vote on this, as is our way. The first path to take is we hold Winterhold, informing the Stormcloaks that we join them. This will cause the Empire to send many more troops here. We are all sworn to defend all of Tamriel. If that happens and the Aldermeri Dominion chooses to attack Cyrodil, we shall have to wage offensive war."

"Our second path is, we broker an agreement with the Empire to create forts along the border, primarily to repel the Altmer then we hand them to the Imperials, this might cause confusion with the Dominion, causing them to attack Cyrodil also."

"Our third option is to help the Stormcloaks to take their homeland, this will cause a major weakening to the Empire. If they choose to foolishly attack, they will fail to the entrenched Stormcloaks. Thus the Thalmor attack Cyrodil."

"Our final option is to unite the Sons of Skyrim and the Imperials. This is incredibly unlikely, but most effective if successful. But one course is definite, we need dragons. Dovahkiin, come forth." I stood, dumbfounded for what felt like ages. Therisca gave me a light push and I stumbled forward and slowly made my way up the stairs.

What I saw surprised me, those pale faces from before were like nothing I had ever seen before. There were no distinctive features apart from long ears and pale skin. "Take this papers, you shall be knighted ahead of schedule, you shall go to High Hrothgar, with two people of your choosing. The way is dangerous. What say you?"

I stood thinking of what they could be, someone bumped me to get me talking, "Oh, yes. I shall go tomorrow morning." Heralthic nodded.

"You are dismissed, you must vote for your opinion on which path we should take." He quieted his voice, "Vorus, I must speak with you." We waited for all but me and Esther to leave.

She began to speak in a voice nearly as beautiful as Elspeth's. "Vorus, I sense you wonder as to what we are, yes?" I nodded, "We are Snow Elves or Falmer. You are surprised, yes?" seemingly out of words I nodded again. "If you could be so kind, take my daughter, Elspeth, on your journey. She longs to see the outside and it will be a great honour to be the first true Falmer out to the world."

"Alright, will taking Therisca be a problem?"

"No, he is a grand soldier. Resilient." Replied Heralthic.

"By the way, how are you aware of the Greybeards?"

"They were originally our own, when the Nords, Dwarves and Forsworn attacked we were scattered, the Blades, were part of a Civil War between us. It was somewhat after the Avatar of Akatosh was summoned. They disagreed with our beliefs. At the time we knew of the prophecy of the Dragonborn. We began dragon worship when the Empire invaded."

"The Greybeards agreed, and the blades only know of them, not us. Anyway, we are in a small amount of contact with them. They will know to retrieve their armour and lead you to their leader. Therisca will kill you if you even threaten the Greybeards. Once knighted, they will be your brothers in arms. If you attack them you shall be sentenced to die. The Greybeards are old; they won't be able to survive a blade. Especially yours."

"Now, you best rest for a few hours, Therisca shall lead you to the dorms. Your knighting will be less public considering the times upon us." Ordered Esther. I complied and went out of the hall to meet with Therisca.

Authors note: Yes, not true to Canon, but come on, I feel it is interesting. I will probably have a short travel to High Hrothgar; there are too many FanFics with a full travel. You can probably guess what's going down. Also please review, it would be truly awesome if you do, I will even give you free space chocolate! One Time Offer!