The city of Windhelm has been on the emergency after all the dark elves suddenly rebelled and killed a few Nords and guards in the process, they stole a ship and fled to the west there they ditched the ship and moved to the south, the Stormcloaks have been tracking their movement and have been securing the statue of Azura just in case they appear there but they haven't and not just this city that rebelled, some dark elves in Whiterun and Solitude have rebelled and fled the cities, people believe they are working with the Thalmar but they have not been in contact with the high elves in Skyrim so they are somewhere in a fort with other people willing to help them against the Stormcloaks, the orcs are also causing trouble in Windhelm but they were taken care of thanks to a dragon sighting nearby, causing the orcs to retreat to the fortress and challenge the dragon there.

While the war in north is going the forces of Arnor breaks in half, a quarter is defending the borders with the guards, the other force is attacking both west and north Orc strongholds and the rest follows Talion to the west, going to Helgen first before moving to the town of Falkreath where they think it could be attack by this unknown enemy that people believe they call themselves the Dark Covenant. Talion would have to take his forces of Arnor to the west then to Whiterun to report there but they should be careful because the Stormcloaks still controls the southern lands so they would have to fight them if they encounter them on the roads or towns.

Talion and his men just made it to Helgen, it was restored after the dragons were taken care of and the guards of Falkreath wanted the fort once it was repaired, they would notice a few dead guards on the ground here and there, on the walls and grounds, they didn't stand a chance against the Forsworn because they didn't lose anyone in the fight, no dead Forsworn here. Talion and the others walks through with their swords ready walking around the area, they would just had to ignore the dead and continues walking to Falkreath as no one survived the battle here.

Elsewhere the orcs stronghold in the Rift just started to get attack by the forces of Arnor since their chief is dead and all they had to do is survive against them but they didn't stand a chance against them but they did put up a good fight against Arnor but in the end they were all killed.

Talion and his men made it to Falkreath, there they saw the deaths of all the innocents, they were all dead, every last one of them "I don't believe this..." he lowered his sword as he looks through the town of Falkreath, seeing the dead Stormcloaks and the dead citizens, no one survived but there is no way the Forsworn would take out this place.

"There all dead... there dead.." said one of the soldiers then he rushes through to see if they can find anyone.

The others runs through while Talion just walks through the town looking at the dead soldiers and citizens, he would notice a few Ebony arrows impaled to some of the people, Forsworn don't use Ebony so someone else slaughtered them all, there was no dead attackers so if the attackers did lose a few they probably dragged them out of there so no one will know who killed the people of Falkreath. Talion runs to the Jarls house and notices the door was broken down, he saw the Jarl dead on his throne with an Ebony dagger to his heart, his men were dead and one of them was just lying on the fire in front of Talion. He looks back to his men and asks them to fall in lines and think about the next plan of action.

"The Jarl is dead... Falkreath is the second place to be destroyed by the enemy, first Markarth and now this..." he said while looking at his men "Whoever killed them all was not the Forsworn, someone else killed them and i am going to find out who did it, right now we go to Whiterun and tell the Jarl what has happen here, then he can call forth some guards to bury the dead here. Then we go to return to the forces of Arnor and wait for further instructions."

"But sir... who could have done such a thing?" one of them said to him

"I don't know... whoever did this probably is the Covenant, we need to get out of here, to Riverwood and prey to the divines that they didn't get attack also."

They were about to move out but then one of the soldiers looks back as he can hear someone coming. He called for Talion and then they would all scatter through the place and wait and see who comes to this town. A group of soldiers with Ebony armour walks to town, holds Ebony shields and spears as they walk through with someone, ten of them stands behind this large man with a strange armour, it looks like Ebony Mail but different and holds a large mace, they walk through the town but stops as they could have sworn they heard something, it went quiet for the moment as the soldiers of Arnor do not attack. He looks forward and looks around the place.

"Wait... he saw us..." Talion whispered "Attack!" he yelled out and sprung the attack, some were ontop of the buildings and would jump down to attack the soldiers, they get speared by the Ebony soldiers and then they started to fight back.

The ambush was perfect but the Ebony soldiers fights back with their spears, speared a few of them and then draws their swords and clashes against them and the leader just takes a few steps back then notices someone runs towards him from behind, he turns back and hits his chin so hard he went flying through a building, Talion saw this and walks towards him with one hand to his long sword then charges towards him, the man would swing his mace a few times at him while Talion evades and rolls side to the side trying to swing his sword but he couldn't get a perfect hit, another soldier of Arnor helps out Talion but didn't last long as he got hit but against his shield but it broke in pieces, he would fall to the ground and his arm was broken due to that hit, Talion used this opportunity to strike at the man but it didn't go deep enough and noticed his hand started to sting as the armour the man possessed lighted in darkness. He continues attacking him but then he notices his men lies dead on the ground, he looks back to Talion then takes a few steps back away from him.

"We will have our fight again... soon." He raise his hand to him then raises his hand up, he conjures himself to teleport himself out of there.

"That man..." he said to himself then looks to the others and to the dead soldiers they lost in the fight.

"It was him who killed these people, the Dark Covenant?" one of them said to him

"Yes it was... we were lucky we were here on the right time, they were marching to Riverwood to attack that town, good thing we stopped them."

"Then we go to Riverwood then?"

He looks to the others "We go to Riverwood..."

They move out of there, Talion takes an Ebony helmet off a dead soldier and notices it's a Dark Elf; he started to think the elves are behind this but he took off a few more helmets seeing Nords also with the elves, something wasn't right but he had to return to his soldiers as they drag their dead Arnor soldiers out of the town so they can bury them elsewhere before moving to the north. They all move together once they bury their dead soldiers to the town of Riverwood still being controlled by the Stormcloaks but lucky for them they do not know who the soldiers of Arnor are but they should work together if they wish to survive against this unknown force they kept calling themselves the Dark Covenant.

The town of Riverwood was more defended as a while ago a bandit raided this place and killed three guards and two citizens, they were all killed but thanks to the Graymanes they called for help along with a Companion to help the peace in these lands. The guards would notice the group of Arnor coming from the south, the companion member and a few guards walks over to the entrance and stands in front of Talion and his men, they had their hands to their swords just in case they came here for a fight but Talion would signal his men to stand down as they walk closer towards them.

"That's close enough!" the male companion said to them "You men are well armed of coming to a town like this... state your business to us now or we will draw blood."

Talion walks forward towards them while his men stay where they are "We are here to warn the people of Riverwood and to warn the Jarl. "

"About what?" He said to Talion

Talion takes out an Ebony helmet and throws it towards him, it lies on the ground in front of him "A group soldiers called the Dark Covenant with Ebony armour attacked Falkreath and Helgen, they killed everyone."

He takes a step back and looks at the Ebony as it was bloodied inside of it then looks back to Talion "How do i know you killed the people of Falkreath?"

"The dead are there as we speak, you should see for yourself before they collect their dead, the Jarl of Falkreath is dead and we saved this town from the attack. I need to see the Jarl immediately about this problem before it's too late."

"Just who are you warrior, i never seen you before in this part of Skyrim or those men behind you, they are wearing old Nord armour, you apart of Ulfric?"

"Something like that, we are allies so you have to trust us."

He looks to the guards then back to Talion "I will go and see for myself, i will ask a guard to report to the people of Whiterun before you go there... do not try any business, the way you men are it looks like you came for battle."

"So we can go through?"

"You can pass, just go through, nothing more." He walks to the others and tells them what to do, two will follow him to Falkreath while another one gets a horse and rides to Whiterun before they get there.

Talion would be allowed to walk through with his soldiers of Arnor to the other side; they look at the people as they walk through but don't say a word to them all. They continue walking until they get to the bridge, Talion looks back but they keep moving towards Whiterun, they can see the city by the cliffs and looks out at the view, the place where the true battle against the Stormcloaks and the Imperials took place, they lose and with that they lost half the land to the rebels.

"Listen up men." Talion looks to the others "Go to the north and report to the others. I will go and see the Jarl myself."

"But sir we were ordered to-"

"New plan, you go tell the others what has happen to Falkreath, also call for reinforcements here just in case this enemy returns to siege Whiterun, understand?"

"Yes sir."

He looks back to Whiterun as they walk down the road to move to the north east. Talion looks at them then he starts to walk down the path and move towards the city, he spots a band of Stormcloaks all in formation of eight, they stood ready outside the city and soon they started to march back inside as something is going on out here that hasn't revealed itself yet. He walks over to the guards and reports that Falkreath is destroyed; they thought he was fall of it but they saw his eyes were serious and they couldn't believe it themselves, Markarth still belongs to the Forsworn and now Falkreath is now destroyed by this Covenant, the Stormcloaks can't control Skyrim if this keeps up. The guards would escort him inside the city, noticing guards everywhere as they look like they are preparing for battle soon, either they are waiting for the High Elves or Dark Elves or they are preparing to move to the west to fight the Forsworn as the forces of Solitude has already battle against them and the Orcs decided to side with the Stormcloaks as they made a deal with them a while ago that they will leave them be if they help fight the Forsworn so they do but they stay away from the Stormcloaks as they wish to fight their own battles in the Reach.

Inside the Jarls place called Dragonsreach the Jarl Vignar-Graymane sits on the throne talking to one of the daughters of Graymane, Olfina was there wearing Steel armour as she was ready to do battle. The two looks over to Talion as he walks up to the two, they heard from a guard that they said this man told them about Falkreath and soon another guard will come to Whiterun to tell them the news of that town to see if they are true or not.

"So you're the man who told my guards that the people of Falkreath are all dead?" Vignar said as he looks over to Talion

Talion stood there looking at the two "Yes."

"There is something else you're not telling me, speak now ranger."

"They were preparing an attack on Riverwood but we stopped them... the Forsworn was there but they came to the Rift, war is coming here, the Covenant is coming to attack Whiterun, the Legion needs to-"

"Do not speak of the Legion here in Whiterun!" Vignar stands up off the throne "This city belongs to the Stormcloaks and we will defend this city against this Covenant."

"Ulfric is losing power... the elves are attacking the Rift, the Forsworn controls the Reach and the south has fallen to darkness... how long until the north gets taken over by someone else."

"Ulfric will restore the peace, once the Forsworn are defeated and once we take back the Reach from the wild men we will finally take back the south and the Rift. The Stormcloaks will defeat them without the Legions help."

"You cannot win this fight, you may have the Dragonborn by your side but it won't be long before he turns against you, the Legion will come to Skyrim and they will restore the peace once and for all-"

"Guards!" Vignar signals his men to walk up to Talion behind him "You are not the Jarl of Whiterun, i am and you will not talk about the Legion here, Ulfric will protect this land against people like you and he will destroy the covenant."

Talion looks back as he got grabbed, he fights back by elbowing one of them back, one grabs his sword out while the third one punches his chest and the fourth one grabs his arms, they all hold him and started to drag him out of there, taking him to the jail room where he will stay there for the time being. They drag him outside and takes him at the back, one of the Arnor guards spots him and then he would turn back and walks out of Whiterun, the rest of the soldiers that came to Talion was outside near a farm and would report to them that Talion has been taken by the Stormcloaks, if they act now they will have to fight an army of Stormcloaks inside, the only thing they can do is report to the others and free him in the night.

The battle will soon come to Whiterun, the man who faced Talion in Falkreath was standing on the cliffs looking out to Whiterun "Whiterun... the next stage of the plan, the war is coming to Skyrim, this will be the end for the Stormcloaks..." he looks back seeing his army of Covenant marching from the side, almost a thousand of them were marching out of a cave, this cave was through the mountain that is close to Falkreath and gives them a short cup through the mountain to reach to Whiterun.

"It begins here..."