Karloh was not a common Khajiit, already in and of itself being an Ohmes-raht makes him uncommon, as that type of Khajiit is less common to see outside of Elsweyr.
There is also the fact that while his mother is a Khajiit his father is not, his father was a Nordic so Nordic that probably when people picture a Nordic they picture his father, tall, muscular, blue eyes, blond hair, long strong features.
Of course, as is well known, Karloh was born of his mother's race, yet he had inheritances from his father, among them a greater height, other than that he looks like the rest of Ohmes-raht.
His older brother, on the other hand, he was Nordic from head to toe, because his father was not exactly a man who stayed long with one woman, the thing is that Karloh was born in Skyrim, grew up and lived most of his life in Skyrim which makes him not possess the typical Khajiit accent and their curious way of speaking.
In fact, Karloh only learned to speak Ta'agra, the language of the Khajiit when he was already 24 years old.
But the bottom line is that Karloh is used to people looking at him oddly because of how rare he is, the Nords looked at him oddly, as many had never even heard of his variant, and the other Khajiit looked at him oddly because of his father's inheritances and his almost zero knowledge of Khajiit culture.
So now, as he walked to town accompanied by Liluth and the men who had come to try to help him, Karloh was not too disturbed by the looks they were giving him.
He continued what he was doing with Liluth before being interrupted by the creature, thus learning a bit of the language of these people, she continued the game with a big smile on her face, now much calmer and more in confidence with him.
As they move forward, Karloh analyzed the people around him and Liluth herself.
The group is composed only of men, with the exception of Liluth who probably followed them to guide them to where Karloh was, they vary in age, but most seem to be between 18 to 30 years old, they all have a white skin similar to that of the Nords.
But contrary to the latter they are not as tall, Karloh is 198 cm tall, something that puts him slightly above the average Nordic, while these people seem to barely exceed 170 cm.
He also noticed that they don't possess much muscle mass, some of them have marked muscles, but they are lighter a bit like the Bosmer's.
Most of them are also blond or brown haired with light eyes ranging from blue to green, but what stands out the most are their ears, they all have long pointed ears that point sideways.
Their ears are even longer than the Mer's, and the Mer's ears point upwards, instead of sideways
That made the Khajiit come to the conclusion that he is dealing with an unknown race, although very similar to humans, their facial features are closer to humans than the Mer, although they are very slight, most men around him do not possess forts and some are even androgynous, as for Liluth she follows the same looking more like a pretty Breton.
Liluth is short in stature, standing at least 164 cm tall. Her appearance is elegant, with delicate features.
Her skin is fair and smooth. The softness of her skin gives the impression that light glides over it, bringing a natural glow to her complexion.
Liluth's eyes are remarkable, with a beautiful shade of light brown that seems to capture the warmth of the sun. Her eyes are expressive and lively, reflecting a spark of intelligence and curiosity.
Her hair is a soft brown and worn short, framing her features in a charming way. The cut gives her a youthful and fresh look. On the left side of her head, she wears a thick braided lock of hair, which adds a touch of style and originality to her appearance.
Despite her modest stature, Liluth possesses an attractive and well-proportioned body. Her figure is slender and graceful, with subtle curves that complement her overall beauty. Despite her youthful appearance, she looks to be around 18 or so.
As for the clothes, the men wear garments that Karloh has seen on any other man in many other places, nothing out of the ordinary, the odd thing comes with Liluth, she replaced her torn dress and the new dress is... Well, it's modest if one ignores how it hugs her body to the point of leaving nothing to the imagination, especially on the girl's butt and chest.
What's more, you can even notice her nipples through the dress because she's not wearing any kind of bra.
He preferred to ignore that and leave it about the urgency, the girl surely took some old dress that no longer fits her quickly so she can guide the men and come help him.
Although he's not sure how much help it would have been, they have no weapons, only various tools, and none of them look like someone who could fight.
One of the men accompanying them approached Liluth and spoke to her, Karloh decided to ignore them and focus more on the village that could be seen now that they were coming to it.
He was surprised because like some villages in Valenwood, this one has no structures per se, but rather the people live inside the trunks of large trees that are still alive.
And Karloh noticed that it did not seem to be the fruit of the use of tools, the doors, windows and stairs seem to be natural holes in the trees, he had already seen something similar in Valenwood, but it is definitely an impressive sight.
Quickly, his small group was surrounded by various people who began to talk with some concern, Karloh could not understand their words.
But he noticed something... All the women follow the same dress custom as Liluth, dresses very tight to their bodies that frame their breasts or buttocks, none of them pose bra and all the dresses have a cleavage, and when they don't wear dresses their pants are very short and very tight and their blouses pose cleavage in the same way.
What probably disturbed Karloh the most was noticing that the children follow the exact same custom, frankly he felt queasy and disgusted.
In contrast, all the men dress... Normal.
Liluth and the man he was talking to seemed to lead the conversation, quickly a woman and a girl approached them.
Karloh could notice the similarity between the woman and the girl to Liluth, but he had to make a superhuman effort not to stare more than socially acceptable at her gigantic breasts that are larger than her head, and it's not exactly easy to ignore them when she has such a plunging neckline and a dress that hugs them to the point of making her nipples stand out.
The woman looks like Liluth, although you can easily see she is older, maybe 35 years old, she is also slightly taller measuring 167 cm, the biggest differences come with her long blonde hair, although she has a lock combed into a braid like Liluth, her eyes are light green almost blue and while Liluth has a slim body this woman is the opposite, huge breasts and wide hips.
The girl accompanying her, also looks like Liluth, much younger, Karloh was never good with the age of children, but she is certainly petite measuring perhaps 137 cm tall, her hair is blonde and her eyes are also light green almost blue, her hair is styled in twin pigtails and Karloh couldn't help but notice to his utter embarrassment, that the girl's hips are abnormally wide.
The rest of her body is as one would expect for someone who looks young, but her hips are... Wide not as wide as the older woman or Liluth herself, but there was something odd, as a mage who studied restoration school, Karloh has good knowledge in biology and it is common knowledge that in the animal kingdom females develop wide hips when their bodies are ready to receive infants.
Karloh swallowed saliva and I hope he is wrong that this species can have offspring looking so young.
Everyone continued to talk, many looked at him curiously, but in particular Liluth approached him with the man speaking to her, the woman and the girl.
Getting a better look at the man, Karloh noticed that he is blond, though his hair is darker than the woman's, his eyes are light brown and his hair reaches his chin, he is as tall as the blond woman and has fine features though not enough to be called androgynous, he looks to be in his 30's as well.
The man is muscled, not prominently, he looks like the fine musculature of a man who bases his style on speed and stamina rather than power. Considering that he doesn't seem to know how to fight because of how he stands and that in the rest of the village no one seems to be very muscular, it's likely that his musculature like this is typical of his species.
Liluth pointed to the man "Ahren" then pointed to the woman "Elui" and then to the girl "Shauna".
Karloh looked at everyone before repeating their names, they keep their gaze on them, each nodded with a slight smile.
Then Liluth pointed at them all and clasped her hands together "Family" Karloh had to flex a bit before he understood what she meant, he repeated the word in Cyrodiil before saying it in the girl's tongue, the girl nodded with a smile.
Then it wasn't hard to guess that the adults are her parents and the little girl, her younger sister, Liluth seemed in colors to have favored her father's side, while Shauna to her mother, though the three women look very much alike.
Ahren watched with no little interest as his daughter converses with that beastman, if what he does can be called conversing.
They just point at something random, he says something in his strange language, Liluth repeats it and in turn she says the name of the object he pointed out for him to repeat in turn, according to his daughter it is an attempt to learn each other's language and be able to communicate well.
Ahren is not too sure about whether that will work or not, but he supposes it is better than doing nothing, besides Shauna joined them at one point, they are all now inside their family's home.
As a blacksmith, Ahren possesses a larger than average fortune in his village, but that doesn't make him have a bigger house, after all contrary to humans who buy or rent their homes, most high elves in Alfheim ask the spirits of the forest to create a home for them.
At least it was like that before, nowadays it is a practice that is lost, which forced the high elves to build houses of wood and stone, Ahren can live in a tree house thanks to the fact that he inherited it from his family, the tree from which his house is made is already thousands of years old.
The thing is that his dwelling is not made to receive many people, it has only two rooms, one for him and his wife and one for his daughters, they had kindly invited the beastman to dinner, but they can't do more for him.
"What are you thinking about?" Elui asked, approaching him.
"On many things, about our guest, mainly, but also about the presence of those monsters so close to the village" Ahren replied, frowning as he remembered the subject of the monsters almost raping his daughter.
The Goddess knows he could never thank Karloh enough for saving her, not once but twice, first with the goblins then from the orc, he also thanks him for killing such monsters that were so close to the village.
"When Elunia returns, she will take care of these monsters" Se assured him with a smile.
Seeing his beloved's smile always helped Ahren to calm down, and he thought she was right.
Elunia is the priestess and elder of the village, a 721 year old elf, wise and powerful who can wield the spirits of the forest to defend them.
But right now she was not in the village, something that is common, there are other villages nearby, smaller ones, which may sometimes need Elunia's presence, either to defend them, treat their sick and wounded or to solve problems that need her wisdom, she also makes sure to keep a good relationship with those villages.
"As for our guest, so far I have nothing to reproach him for, he has been kind, he has kept his gaze out of any compromising places and seems to please Liluth and Shauna alike" Enumerated his wife, she positioned herself at his back and pressed her huge breasts into his back as she wrapped her arms around his torso and deposited her chin on his left shoulder.
Ahren watched the three still going on with that game, he has to admit he had rarely seen Liluth so... Focused on someone, the same was for Shauna, he can't blame them, it's the first time they both saw a sentient race other than an elf or a monster in Liluth's case.
"I was actually wondering where he would spend the night, he seems lost, considering he doesn't speak our language, in fact I assume he is very lost, I don't wish to throw the man who saved our daughter out on the street, but we don't have room for him" Ahren explained.
"True... We can arrange something for him in the living room, but it will be somewhat complicated to explain to him considering he doesn't understand what we say" Ahren nodded at his wife's words "By the way, where do you think he comes from?"
Ahren was about to answer, but remained silent... He didn't manage to think of a good answer, evidently he must come from far away considering he doesn't speak Alfspråk or any of its derivatives like the bastard Eostian or the language of the kingdom of Baristein.
Also, his appearance is unusual, beastmen exist and some even live in Alfheim, but these tend to be beastmen, wolf, boar, deer, rabbit, none similar to him which by all accounts seems to be related to the lion, an animal Ahren knows only exists in the lands much further south beyond the desert.
"He may have come from the far southern lands, it would be in keeping with his appearance, I hear tell that it is normal for people from the south to have darker skin" Ahren replied.
"Then how did he get here?" asked Elui again "Alfheim is in the center of the continent, it's unlikely he could have traveled such a distance without knowing how to speak even a little of the local languages."
"I have no idea... In fact I don't know how he managed to leave the orc's bones alone either, when we arrived only his bones were left smoking and blackened, the ground around him was burnt, Liluth says he used, strange magic, I guess he's a wizard" Said the patriarch of the family not very convinced.
"A beastman wizard?" said Elui, it is well known that the magical potential of beastmen borders on null.
"Maybe in the south they are different, anyway let's go to dinner, maybe the night will bring us some answers" Elui separated from Ahren, willing to follow her husband's lead, she called her daughters and invited them to sit all for dinner.
Shauna was absolutely in awe of Karloh.
She had never met someone so tall and burly, she had read and heard that humans and beastmen could be taller and more muscular than elves, but she could never see it for herself.
Karloh has many things more interesting than just his appearance, he wears a strange black tunic and on top of it he wears a poncho, because Shauna is learning the trade of dressmaker and she can see the quality of the clothes, she could even touch it, the tunic is made of an incredible quality fabric and was made by expert hands.
The poncho of the tunic apparently has a hood, but Karloh keeps it down, not that she blames him because of his hair, it seems to be impossible for him to put that hood on and not look ridiculous.
The interesting thing about the tunic is that it's all a set, the pants and boots alike, as they look great together and seem to be made of similar materials, the only thing that gets a little out of place is the bag on his belt, which Shauna thought is just a coin pouch, though she never hears it jingle when Karloh moved.
Karloh also wears a total of ten rings on his fingers, each one a different shape and made of a different material, he even has a wooden ring among them all, they don't look bad on his hand, though Shauna thinks ten rings is too much.
He also wears a beautiful golden crown with a total of five magnificent blue gems in which the lights fluctuate like ripples in the water, Shauna admits that she was mesmerized the first time she saw the crown and put in her head the idea that Karloh is maybe some prince, it wouldn't be strange seeing his rings and tunic of quality besides the obvious crown.
The last thing on his outfit that caught her attention was a diamond shaped amulet made of gold with a small red gem in the center that simulates an eye with a pupil similar to that of a snake. The amulet is wonderful, whoever made it is a master jeweler, same for the rings and crown actually.
"Do you think it's some prince?" asked Shauna with some illusion, despite her appearance, Shauna is 25 years old, not that that means much being an elf, she would only be considered an adult when she reaches 50.
"Maybe" Liluth replied, both of them getting ready to sleep "A prince appeared out of nowhere and saved me" Said the girl to herself blushing at such words.
Shauna had heard, but preferred not to say anything, although neither of them understand Karloh and apparently he doesn't understand them either, to them they could notice that he doesn't seem to be a bad person, he was kind always with a nice smile on his face and his eyes were always kept on theirs, which Shauna admits intimidates her a little and many times she lowered her head.
"Maybe lady Elunia can understand him, she knows many things, if she can understand him we can better talk to him and know where he comes from" Liluth nodded at Shauna's words.
"Hopefully he will be back soon... I must go to the bathroom" Shauna said, leaving the room quickly.
On her way to the bathroom Shauna could see the arrangement her parents had made for Karloh in the living room, they left on the floor some sheets and furs creating a makeshift bed, Karloh didn't seem upset when he finally managed to understand what they wanted to tell him.
Shauna let herself be carried away by her curiosity and approached him noticing that he was asleep, he seemed to take off his rings, crown and amulet, although Shauna can't see where he left them, also the poncho, but he left the rest of the tunic on.
With slow measured steps Shauna managed to get close enough to be near him and bent down a little to get a closer look at his face, she couldn't help but notice how peaceful he looks sleeping, she also thought he looks kind of cute, a thought that made her blush as soon as she realized it.
"Shauna" Karloh uttered, opening one eye and looking at her, he looked slightly amused, even more so when Shauna surprised, jumped back and held back a surprised yelp.
"I-I'm sorry, Mr. Karloh, I didn't mean to upset you" She said, to which Karloh just lifted his torso and raised an eyebrow.
Then she remembered that he didn't understand anything she said.
Shauna just gave a slight bow and ran off to the bathroom, completely embarrassed by what she had done.
She stayed a few minutes longer than necessary, and when she came out she realized that Karloh had gone back to sleep, she ran back to her room and quickly got into her bed, Liluth had fallen asleep.
And Shauna tried to follow suit, but by the Goddess she could do nothing but think of the smile Karloh had given her when he caught her looking at him, and what would he think of her now.
Osman observed the town with a smile on his face, the sun was just rising and the activity was slowly starting in the town, with all its inhabitants ignorant about what will befall them.
Osman is a slave trader originally from Baristein, one of the few kingdoms on the continent that still maintains slavery as legal, he more than anyone else has benefited greatly from Baristein's current expansionist policy.
The kingdom started conquering all its neighboring, smaller and poorer kingdoms, taking their lands and enslaving their people, only Alfheim has been saved from that treatment thanks to the future wedding between the high elf princess and the king of Baristein.
Though of course that is just a ploy, one that will give Baristein full access to Alfheim, since after all being a gigantic forest invading it would be a long and costly thing, right now the princess of Alfheim is on her way to Baristein and soon the king's plan will come true.
Meanwhile, slavers like Osman are supposed to keep quiet and wait for the plan to be finished, but Osman managed to pay an incredible amount of money to the king to allow him to make this small attack.
They would attack a small border town, capture everything useful and kill everything useless, leaving no one behind so that they can report the news to the capital of Alfheim, anyway, even if there was anyone left, the time they reach the capital to warn would already be too late.
To be sure his plan would work, Osman waited patiently for Elunia, the town priestess and most dangerous person in town, not to be present.
So it is time, the slave trader hired some capable mercenaries, with a minimum pay, promising them that they will be able to enjoy the future slaves before anyone else, he only gave them one indication, try not to kill the women and not to touch the children, the children are sold very expensive and they are his favorites.