Mission One / Solitude / Fort Hraggstad

I got Ivy back after joining the fuckers who took my kids.

Though Therin is still missing and the Domain say they did not take him.

LIES!

Therin would be fourteen now.

Ivy nineteen and Voraen would be seventeen.

Lily in the end gave me just one more son Oak, he is twelve.

They did something to Ivy when they had him, he does not talk about it, and he's a little crazy now.

The –what Ifs- float in and out of my head, but to dwell on those would get me nowhere.

"Commander Siren, Sir!" that voice I have heard a lot of the last few days floats in again, "The ship has reached port…" the owner of said voice is moving around me. Breathing in deep I could smell sea salt, than the rocking motion I realized is not me moving back and forth, "Where going to get your stuff moved up on deck, sir!"

The smell of citrus hits me hard and Ivy telling these mer not to talk about boats or the ocean around me, I hate the ocean and boats. I mean why would I put myself on or in a floating coffin.

"Okay, can you kindly… GET ME OFF THIS COFFIN, NOW!"

And I start to panic. My bound spirit takes over.

~TWO HOURS LATER~

I'm told the history of the city I'm in. The young Jarl got himself killed and or was murder by this Ulfric… why is it name reminds me of someone I know?

This Ulfric is Jarl of Windhelm.

I am shown to the wagons filled with contraband. They are filled and moved with a guard of six legion officers back out of Skyrim.

There is a whole book on what is not okay to be in Skyrim, as they have no trade system yet, because Nord are too stupid to get the system set up by themselves.

Hell! Talos must be in that book.

I was told to get to know the people of town. Looked around the Bard's College, got to know Elsif, Falk Firebeard, Avdus, and _.

The people in the market area love me. A handsome, young elf, which they can't have, but only in their dreams.

Evette San, sells Spice Wine to the people of Solitude. But has a bit of bad luck. It turns out she has not got the next shipment in and is running low on stock, she asked if I could go down to the docks to see what is going on.

At the port I talk to Vittoria Vici, she is now engaged, or so she tells me… I have yet to say a word and she is going on about how she and her boyfriend of two months… I loose interests in what she says.

"My Lady Vittoria, do you know of any shipments of spice that has come in?" I raise my voice to be heard over her talking.

"Yes, but Evette has yet to pay the tax on the shipment. If she wants her spice then she can pay the taxes."

Wow! I tell Vittoria if Evette has no wine to sell then there is no wine for the wedding she is planning. The women looks insulted and says she'll send up the shipment without the taxes this time and to tell Evette she needs to pay taxes for the next shipment witch is two thousand coins. I tell to half the taxes and Evette and she could learn to be friends, she might get the wine half off for her wedding.

Back in town I tell Evette the agreement that was made but I leave out the wedding plans. I feel sorry for whom Vittoria is dating the man has no clue.

Too bad I am a Chocolate Whiskey fan, that's on the no no list.

I meet the farmers at Katl's farm. That is where I buy my horse Spore. He is a coward unlike most of Skyrim steeds.

The Boss wants me to go to the Fort Hraggstad to clear out the bandits that took over during a snow storm a week back.

So the boys and I set out to clean house.

With us is a Wood Elf, named Copper, he has lived in Skyrim for ten years so knows the land well.

He takes us west on the road, then north toward a statue The Lady Meridia stands tall and strong in the harsh weather. The history that stands out here is amazing. He points out Wolfskull cave to the right of the road. Head continue west on the road again.

Copper leads us up the road to the path on the right towards the fort. I ask him to wait with the horses.

"Sera," Copper smiles, happy to stay back.

The three of us fuck over the bandits standing outside the fort. I leave Oak at watch outside and move into the prison to purge the filth with Ivy.

Back outside Oak and Copper have the horse tethered and are collecting the loot. The weapons and amour put into a pile for the soldiers.

Ivy and I move to the main part of the fort. The Bandit Chief is somewhere within dead, the soldiers can move back in. Ivy starts pulling together the weapons and amour, then pocketing our share.

When we are done, Copper asked us to follow him, just to the right of the fort is a carved stone, there is the sign of the steed on it.

"They call them the standing stones, there are thirteen, but only eleven areas here in Skyrim that host them. As you can tell this one in the Steed." Copper turns and looks at us. "My sign is the Lover, but my chosen stone is the Shadow."

That day my boys and I became close friends with Copper.

Now the Dominion wants to control all of Skyrim. Destroy the Nords to the point they all submit to the Dominion and all of Nirin bow too.

They say Talos is not a god and banned him from worship.

"No Man May Become a God!"

Or so the Thalmor say.

Lily told me "a man can be a god if and only if they are drop dead gorgeous."