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[CBR JGWRR]

Which do you guys think would make a better story - the two of them working together to defeat Miraak, or the two of them just doing stuff together on Solstheim, with Miraak once again a footnote in history?

[Derp53]

Miraak really isn't that hard to beat. I'm sure you can take him alone. In fact I've already had two of my best characters kill him on master difficulty without using potions

[CBR JGWRR]

Oh I know that - I've fought Draugr deathlords harder than him. In fact, most were harder than him, particularly for the second character relying on fine grade Blades equipment...

[Derp53]

I never actually used blades equipment, ebony mail FTW

[CBR JGWRR]

Well, the depiction on Alduin's Wall displayed a guy in blades armour, so I thought I'd get it half right...

[Derp53]

that's because that's Reman Cyrodiil, the founder of the second empire. Even then he wasn't too special, his heir's arrogance caused his empire's downfall

[CBR JGWRR]

No, the one right at the end fighting Alduin. Either way, it doesn't matter that much.

[Derp53]

Yeah, Alduin's Wall was constructed early in the second era hundreds of years of years before Tiber Septim reigned as emperor. Back then Reman Cyrodiil had brought the Dragonguard(Blades) into his service and most likely, he wore their armor as to match his entourage. Also the one on the right is Reman, who also happened to be an important Dragonborn emperor like Alessia and Tiber Septim

[CBR JGWRR]

But didn't fight Alduin at the end of time. Or at least, that's how Esbern inteprets it.

I'm well aware of who Reman is, BTW.

[Derp53]

The Blades pictured Reman fighting Alduin because the Elder Scroll specifically mentions only a dragonborn can defeat Alduin. And since the Blades loved Reman fanatically they gave his carving the honor of fighting Alduin.

[CBR JGWRR]

Hmm. Maybe. Both could be correct. Maybe both are correct.

None of this answers the question though...

[Derp53]

Was the question about fighting Alduin at the end of time? In that case I can say the three tongues banished Alduin from the world and he returned where out character finally defeats him. But like Alduin says himself, he is immortal and no matter how long the end of the world is pushed back Alduin will eventually do what he was assigned and bring about the destruction of the world. The Elder Scrolls said it too, if you don't believe me PM OblivionDuruza

[CBR JGWRR]

No, the question about whether them defeating Miraak together, or whether the two of them just doing stuff around Solstheim together would make a better story...

It's listed at the top of the page, we went off topic after i mentioned Blades equipment.

[Derp53]

Oh right. Sorry about that, well imo I think you'd be better off by yourself, Solstheim will either kill off your follower or something will most likely go wrong. Also it's much more fun to travel alone

[CBR JGWRR]

She's already defeated Miraak, this is for the story for the thread...

[Derp53]

forget I said anything, I'm going to hide behind my username. Do what you want.

[CBR JGWRR]

Nevermind, I've decided they'll work together to defeat Miraak.

[Dohva.]

CBR, sorry but I don't have the dlc yet so I don't have any suggestions. But I look forward to reading your story.

So because I am having to do everything over again, I'm just having a ball doing certain things the wrong way. Like for example, I wanted Felina to have her crossbow, so I did just enough of the Dawnguard questline to get it. Unfortunately, it means that Serana currently won't leave her as a follower. So she's been tagging along on all the Dark Brotherhood business. At least her sneak skill is high and she hasn't gotten in Felina's way yet. But...its a bit awkward to have a bff totally unaffiliated with the Brotherhood along for the kills.

Anyway, here is my sharing tidbit for the day. A little shady, but hey, this is the assassin's thread:

Spoiler:

Felina's necromancy is getting a bit out of hand.

[CBR JGWRR]

I've decided to, entwine their fates a little bit.

A bit of a tease in spoiler - about Jennifere rather than Ancaron, and how she escaped from Summerset Isles to get to Skyrim. His bit comes later once I've wrote it down...

Spoiler:

4E 201, Sundas, 3rd of Last Seed

Firsthold, Summerset Isles


Jennifere looked out over the balcony, watching the glistening deep blue sea, knowing this was the last time she could be here, in her homeland. 10 years before, she fled here after escaping from her planned execution by the Thalmor, however they had finally found her. A redguard fishing ship appears on the horizon, her way out. If the Thalmor didn't get to her first.


She said goodbye to the few friends she had, Sinyail, an ex Psijic monk, and the only altmer man she trusted, Ri'Dato, an old and wise Khajiit Dagi-Raht from Elsweyr, and Throngir, a mixed parentage nord/Skaal warrior she hired to protect her 6 years ago the last time she was found, who had been exploring the world only to find a teenage Altmer woman needing his help.

"This will probably be the last time we see each other." She spoke softly, with tears of sadness.

"May darkness never touch you, Jennifere. Something about you says that you are destined for greatness." Throngir tried to comfort her, to reassure her. "We'll be fine, we always are. I've slain many of these Altmer b******ds protecting you. No offence, Sinyail."

"None taken. Jennifere, just go, we will be fine."

"I... I don't know..."

She leans against a wall, crying to herself.

"Ri'Dato sees redguards approach."

"I hope I see you again Ri'Dato."

"Maybe, maybe not. May you walk upon warm sands."

A redguard male calls out.

"Jennifere, we're here, come quickly, Thalmor warships have been sighted."

"Bye my friends."

She runs down the stairs, just as shouting and the sound of swords being drawn. The Thalmor have arrived.

"Ri'Dato senses impending doom."

"Then lets take these elven bar stewards with us. No offence again..."

"Every time you apologise for that... No need for it." sinyail said, mildly annoyed.

"You could have said earli... What are you..." Jennifere runs back into the room, to jump out the balcony, 2 Thalmor wizards just behind.

"By the All Maker..." Throngir runs towards the stairs after her, drawing his Stahlrim greatsword, charging at the Thalmor, Ri'Dato just behind him.

Those soldiers dealt with, they run down the stairs, and straight into the attack force.

"Sovngarde or freedom!" Throngir yells, plunging his sword into an Elven assault soldier, holding the Thalmor back as best as he could. He had to give the redguards time to escape. Sinyail casts his magics, raining fire and lightning upon the enemy, before being struck down by firebolts by the Altmer wizards, who then turn on Ri'Dato and Throngir, who makes use of what little thu'um he knew from his days spent studying with the Greybeards as a child, a voice of defiance in his breath.

"Ri'Dato, you run, I'll hold them off."

Ri'Dato runs to the sea, thanking his friend, and dives in, swimming away as best he could.

What do ye think?

[DikaSmausha]

CBR JGWRR and Derp, that discussion about blades equipment should have been PM'ed to each other as it just takes up space on the thread.

[Assassin540]

Ok guys I have been thinking and I finally came up with something check it out.

Updated for a 2nd time.

Name:Draven Deth
Race:Dark Elf
Place of Birth:Island of Blackhold


Backstory:Ok guys I have been thinking and I finally came up with something check it out.

Updated for a 3rd time.

Name:Draven Deth
Age:28 in elf years
Race:Dark Elf
Place of Birth:Island of Blackhold


Backstory:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Draven was born in the Island of Blackhold which is a little known island about 100 miles off south eastern coast of Morrowind so before we can tell Dravens story we have to tell the story of Blackhold island. It was discovered in the beginning of the 3rd era by a Dunmer adventurer who set out to discover new land the Dunmer adventurer found a large ebony mine on the island and so he decided to colonize it and by the mid 3rd era a large walled village had been built around the mine and was inhabited entirely by Dunmer the Dunmer adventurer known as Vesoth Seth who had settled the island had now named it Blackhold island and began forming his own house without permission calling it house Seth a few years after that the main houses caught wind and House Redoran sent a fleet of Redoran guards to Blackhold island and asked Seth to surrender the island over to House Redoran but he refused and thus began the massacre of Blackhold 100 Redoran guards stormed the walled city killing most of the inhabitants the Blackhold Dunmer used Guerilla tactics to kill some guards and then the remaining ones fled into the mountains east of the colony.

By the end of the 3rd era House Redoran had a councillor in Blackhold and had turned the once small village around the Ebony mine into a small city with a stone wall but when the Red mountain erupted it cover the entire city in ash and the entire western part of the island which was once a lush rainforest became ashlands but the eastern side was untouched and still lush rainforest covered mountains. So a year after the Red mountain erupted the Empire re settled the land around the mine and built a prison around it where the most notourious criminals in the Empire where put to work in the mines it was a brutal prison where prisoners where sent down into the mines in the day and at night herded back up into there prison cells. But when the Great War started in 4E 171 most of the Imperial guards who guarded the large prison where sent off to fight in the war this is when the prisoners saw a chance for an uprising they where to tired of being beaten down and told what to do all it took was the beating to death of one well liked prisoner and it set off the entire prison they started an uprising the prisoners fought the guards down in the depths of the mines they waited until they where all sent down to work and then they used there pickaxes and shovels to attack the guards and get there weapons the remaining guards ran up out of the mines and locked the prisoners in the depths of the mine but the prisoners beat down the door after a day and massacred the remaining guards and what was left retreated to the docks and hopped a ship back to Cyrodil. Then for a few days after the seige the prisoners drank and celebrated with one another but it wasn't long before they started fighting again when an Argonian prisoner got into a fight with a Dunmer prisoner and ended in a stabbing with a Dunmer laying dead when the other Dunmer caught wind the declared war on the Argonians and so the Dunmer fought the Argonians and it ended with the Argonians winning and the Dunmer retreating to the Northern wall and began to build a settlement in the Northern part and the rest of the prisoners where allowed to live amongst the Argonians in the prison building until a disagreement happened between the leader of the Human gang and the Argonian gang so the Argonians cast them out into the west side of the wall and cast the Khajiits out into the southern territory and nobody set foot in the eastern part because that was where the giant mine was and the Argonians claimed that as there own to and began mining and building weapons and armor. But after a couple of years each race had built their own small towns within the walls each with there own distinct architecture with the dunmer having built wooden slum shacks one ontop of another in rows and built a small wooden wall around their district the humans built small shack houses in no particular order scattered all throughout the western side and the Khajiit had built houses in their own unique architecture and the Argonians continued to live inside of the prison making a town inside of it and the commonly known rule of the land was stay in your territory if you step in someone elses territory your fair game.

Through the years every once and awhile someone would do the wrong thing and it would spark up a little war but for the most part these diffrent groups stayed within there own territory and just fought for survival going into the wilderness getting food and water bringing it back it was a hard life for these people food and water was always scarce but through the years they developed systems to help them and by 4E 200 each territory is completely self sustaining and has there own walled towns right inside the walls of the old prison it is all they know they have nowhere else to go they have families and children there it is there home they are outcasts to society put on that island because of the horrible things they had done even if they wanted to return to Tamriel they have no means to. This is where Draven is born into a poor criminal family in a shack on an island the rest of Nirn has forgot about to a father who was a Dark Brotherhood assassin and a mother who was a bandit.

Draven and his family lived in the dark dank basement of the dilapidated shack known as the Dark Hole Corner Club up stairs above them was a small shack housing a family and above that shack was another all toppled on top of each other like a bunch of dirty cups. Draven grew up washing dishes and making drinks for customers and his mother was the bartender and his father sat at the bar most of the time and drank up the merchandise and smoked herbs out of his long wooden pipe and dealt with anyone who was making too much trouble. His mother would always yell at him for drinking up all the alchohol and he would just sit there seeming not to be bothered by it she would hit him and scream and he wouldn't move an inch. Draven would try to talk to his father but he always gave short answers that seemed to be riddles and his mother could never be bothered with him she was always to busy. But as Draven grew older his fathers odd riddles came to make more sense.

By the time Draven was 14 he was out in the streets like most kids his age his mother would yell as he went out the door "Come back here Draven you need to be here helpin out at the bar!" But Draven never listened he would go out with his friends and cause mischief you see during the time Draven lived in Blackhold the Dunmers where at war with the humans so he and his Dunmer friends would sneak under the walls into the human turf through a hole and they would find some unsespecting human man walking alone and knock him down and stop him until he was senseless then they would take his coin and anything of value and then go back. By the time Draven was 15 he and his friends began to drink because of such easy access because Draven lived in the corner club he would sneak into the stash and take jugs of liquor and drink them with his friends then they would get into trouble after getting drunk. Draven was 15 when he first killed a man he and his friends where drinking on a warm night around midnight when they saw a handful of humans walking down there street walking back to the human territory so one of them yelled "What's your lot doin here!" and another yelled "Looks like yous made a wrong turn ahahaha!" then threw a bottle and it broke on ones head so they begand running but the Dunmers quickly ran after them chasing them through alleys and canals until they ran the humans into a dead end and the leader of the pack of Dunmers named Ralyn said "Look what we have here boys fair game aint that the rules eh?" then he pulled a hatchet out and threw a rusty knife to Draven and another one of the Dunmer boys had a club then Ralyn said "You boys might wanna make peace wit them nice gods of yours" then he swung the hatchet at the boy in front the boy threw up his arms to cover his face and the hatchet hacked right through his forearm and severed all the way through the arm then the boy began screaming and Ralyn swung the hatchet back and then forward right into the boys skull making a sick sound then the screaming stopped only to be followed by the other boys screaming they all dropped to their knees and held there hand up covering their faces pleading for mercy then Ralyn pushed his foot against the boys face pulled the hatchet out and said "Who's next?" then looked at Draven and said handle the redhead and pointed to the boy directly in front of Draven on his knees whimpering "No,no,no" then Ralyn looked at the boy to the left of the boy he just killed crying over his dead friends body and pointed his bony finger and said "You" and began franticly swinging his hatchet at the boy and then the rest of the Dunmer started to beat the other boys with clubs then Draven grabbed the redhead by his collar and threw him up against the wall and threw his left forearm up against his throat and gripped his rusty knife tightly and brought it back then looked into the boys eyes seeing fear and then he plunged the knife into the boys stomach and watched the boy gasp and then blood ran out of his mouth down his chin onto Dravens arm and then Draven ripped the knife out and let the boy drop to the ground. He looked to his left and right and saw that all his friends where still beating the rest of them and Ralyn was still hacking at the boy who was clearly dead then after the chaos was over each of them walked home not saying a word covered in blood and all of them having the look of a murderer in their eyes they didn't leave not one boy alive that night they killed everyone of them leaving them dead in that alley.

When he walked through the door into the corner club his father was leaning up against the bar smoking his pipe facing towards the door when Draven opened the door his father looked at him with a smirk and removed his pipe from his mouth to say "You killed your first one eh?" Draven said quietly "Yeah" and then after standing in silence for a minute said "How did you know?" his father then said with a chuckle "You got the look boy" Draven then walked down the creaky old stairs into the basement and crawled into his bed still feeling the effects of alchohol from earlier and drifted to sleep with thoughts of murder in his mind. Draven woke up to the smell of smoke filling his nose which meant his father was around then soon after the rough raspy voice of his father saying "Get up boy" and then Draven felt something poking him in the ribs so he opened his eyes seeing his father standing over him poking him with his pipe then his father said "C'mon boy get up" So Draven got up and followed his father into his room and then his father picked up the rug standing at the foot of his bed and slid it away and when he did that it revealed a wooden trap door in the ground and his father looked at Draven smirked and then said "C'mon" and then opened the door and began heading down the ladder dissapearing into the darkness Draven was baffled just standing there then he heard his father say from the abyss "C'mon boy" so Draven headed down into the dark abyss after what felt like an eternity of going down that creaky wooden ladder he finally fealt his feet hit solid ground but he couldn't see a thing then he saw the burning embers of his fathers pipe and then in a split second his fathers face was illuminated by a torch his father had lit on the wall then his father took the torch of the wall and began walking down the long tunnel and Draven followed quickly behind him and after walking for what seemed like hours they came to a large wooden door in the narrow tunnel and then Dravens father took his ring of keys of his belt and began going through them until he found the right one and opened up the large wooden door revealing a large room with a magnificent painting in the middle of the room which was a very dark and odd painting and under it was an altar with a couple candles and on either side of the painting was a white flag with a black hand print in the middle Draven's father took a long drag on his pipe then said with a serious face nodding his head at the painting "That's the Dread Lord Sithis" and then Draven said "Who's that?" Draven's father smirked and said "You will know soon enough boy" then he began showing the boy around the rooms showing him the training room the bedroom the alchemy lab and the armory the place was bigger then he thought then Draven asked his father "What is all this?" then his father said "Well you know I used to be in the Brotherhood right?" Draven said "Yeah" then his father said "Well that's what this is it's a makeshift place for me to continue my practice even though most of the Brotherhood members stopped practicing what they learned in the sanctuary I continued to live by the Tenets and worship Sithis and train even if there ain't any other active members round here because it's what kept me alive all these years and I still get a contract every once and a while". Then he said "And im gonna teach you all about the Dark Brotherhood your gonna learn our ways".

So for the next couple of years Draven would do what he normally did during the day hanging out with his friends and drinking fighting gambling but at 3 am every night he would go inside and he and his father would go down to the sanctuary and train and learn about being an assassin and then at 6 am they would come out and they would get into bed and then Draven would wake up around 10 am and go outside and hang out with the gang until 3 am and then he would do it all again. But on Draven's 18th birthday his life would change forever. Draven woke up like any other day around 10 am and headed outside and met up with the other boys and then they headed into the alley behind the corner club to play dice and drink and smoke so Draven threw his dice down he got a 6 then he heard screams which wasn't unusual for Blackhold but usually not at this time of day so the boys all got up and walked to the end of the alley to see what all the commotion was about when they saw a whole bunch of Argonians marching down the streets throwing torches through the windows of their building and cutting down any Dunmer who came near them then Ravyn said "Scaley scum c'mon boys lets teach these lizards how a real Dunmer fights and they all began hooting and hollering and they began walking towards the mob of heavily armed Argionians weapons in hand and so Draven followed and pulled his rusty knife what compelled these boys to do this who knows probably pride maybe they wanted to die could've been a combination of things who knows but they marched right over to the Argonians and as they where marching Draven felt a firm hand on his shoulder and he turned around only to see his father who said with a stern face "What are ya daft c'mon" and then grabbed Draven by the arm and began leading him swiftly away from the group of boys back to the corner club but Draven ripped away from his fathers grip and began to jog back to help his friends when he saw Ravyn swing his hatchet at an Argonian armed with a Ebony war axe who swiftly hacked off Ravyn's arm that held the hatchet then Ravyn let out a blood curdling cry saying "Ahhh damn lizar" and before he could finish the Argonian swung his axe landing it in his neck stopping him from finishing his sentance then Draven saw the othere boys try to turn and run but the mob of Argonians surrounded them and descended on the Dunmer boys than Dravens father grabbed his arm and lead him towards the corner club and threw him through the door when he got in the corner club it was empty Draven said "Where's everyone where's mom?" but his only reply was "C'mon boy and Draven and his father went to the trapdoor and Draven's father opened the trapdoor and said "Go on boy" so Draven listened to his father and headed down the ladder when he saw the trapdoor slam shut and heard his father yell "Remember what I taught ya boy it wasn't for nutn!" then Draven heard screams and and fighting upstairs it was his father fighting the Argonians then he faintly heard his father yell "Go on send me to the void lizard I wasn't supposed to have lived this long anyway well c'mo" and then his father stopped they must of killed him so Draven headed to the end of the tunnel only to find his mother on the ground bleeding from the stomach he said "Mother are ya alright? there was no reply she must have bled out.

Draven sat in that sanctuary for days hearing the screams and chaos from above above it was driving him insane but on his 4th day in the sanctuary as he was sitting on the edge of his bed in the living quarters hearing the chaos above he looked over at the end table and began looking through the drawers out of bordem and he found a little black notebook so he opened it up and began to read it read "Draven if you are reading this it means im dead and now what you need to do is find a way of this wretched island head back to the mainland and make something of your life use the skills and values I taught you and put them to good use your a Dark Brotherhood assassin just like me and my father before me it runs in our blood your grandfather was the Listener so go hone your skills you will never get anywhere living in this hell hole so find a way back to the mainland and find the Brotherhood they will finish teaching you what I began to teach you. Remember your ancestors spirits will always be with you to guide you and defend you."

So after what seemed like weeks of waiting down in the sanctuary training and reading every book in the entire place the chaos seemed to stop and Draven emerged from the sanctuary but he had trouble opening the trap door but he finally emerged only to find his father's dead body on the floor next to the trap door and the entire basement completely trashed everything they ever had was ruined Draven walked up the steps to go open the door to the corner club only to find a door way but no door he stepped through the doorway only to find what was left of the corner club which was a pile of scorched wood and rubble he then looked around only to find the entire city was a skeleton of what it used to be everything as far as the eye could see was in ruins the only thing left standing was the large ebony stone wall that confined them all to that horrible city known as Blackhold and the old prison building in the middle of the city where the Argonians resided Draven looked at the horrible building with anger and vengance in his Black eyes. He made up his mind then and there clutching the little black notebook in his left hand and his Ebony dagger in the other that he would avenge his parents death but for know he would put his parents to rest so he gathered up both of their bodies and brought them to the center of what used to be the corner club and he prepared there bodies and then lit them ablaze as is the traditional Dunmer way of being laid to rest Draven sat by that fire containing his parents and he sat there all night until they where nothing more than ash then he collected their ashes in an urn and put them in the sanctuary on the altar and then he began to plot. He began to plot his revenge on the Argonians he started asking around Blackhold trying to find out as much information as he could on the Argonians which wasn't to hard considering everyone who survived the massacre wasn't exactly fond of the Argonians the hard part was finding the survivors to ask they where all in hiding but after weeks of gathering information he was finally ready.

Draven waited until that night then when the time came he swept away into the night traveling quickly and silently through the destroyed wreckage of a city until he came to his destination a sewer grate in the very same alley they had killed those human boys so many years ago so he lifted up the sewer grate closing it behind him and heading down into the depths of the Blackhold sewers one of the dirtiest places around. So Draven climbed down the slippery slimy ladder until he found himself ankle deep in the rubbish below him so he then lit a torch to light his way through the sewers only to find how disgusting the sewers really where when he illuminated the tunnel he was to travel through. So he made his way through the dirty mess one foot at a time and the smell was unimaginable it was unexplainable and that's saying alot coming from someone who lives in the squalor of Blackhold but none the less he continued on deeper and deeper into the sewers until he came to his destination a rusty old ladder leading up to another sewer grate so Draven headed up the ladder and opened the grate closing it very quietly he had made it inside the main Prison building he was in the basement of the old prison which was now used mostly for storage and most of the poorer Argonians lived down there so Draven snuck around the poor Argonians down there sticking to the shadows until he made it to the staircase which lead up to the main floor so Draven crept quietly up the stone stairs until he reached the main floor which was where everyone lived but Draven wanted just one lizard and that was Watches-Many he was the King of the Argonians he ruled over all of them his word was law they thought of him as god if Draven could kill the King the Argonians wouldn't know what to do it would be chaos and they would kill each other off in a frenzy of confusion and hysteria. Draven knew it wasn't going to be easy though the King stayed in the old North tower so Draven would have to go through the main market space to get there luckily it wasn't very well lit on the main floor of the prison and there was always alot of hustle and bustle so Draven threw his hood over his head and began walking through the busy indoor market pushing his way past all the Argonians yelling and screaming and dodging guards when he saw them but as he was moving through the crowd someone bumped into him hard knocking him down and when he looked up it was a guard who then said "Watch where your goi" then he paused and exclaimed "Wait your not one of us!" and then yelled for the other guards but by the time they got there it was to late Draven had already gotten up and blended with the crowd making his way to the door to the large wooden door when he heard the other guards say "Oh come on Stares-At-Walls your seeing things again there nothing here" but before he could here the guards remark he was through the door and heading up the spiral staircase heading up the tower when he heard heavy footsteps coming down the stairs above him he thought to himself "It must be a guard" he had to think fast so he bowed his head so his hood covered his face and then he continued up the stairs and then purposly bumped into the guard hard knocking him to the ground he then got up saying "What's wrong with y?" but before he could finish Draven ran his blade across his throat sending blood spraying all over the stairs and on Draven's clothes then Draven dragged the man over to the edge of the stairs and threw him over the railing and then continued up the stairs until he came to the large wooden double doors that he knew led into the Kings quarters where the King would be but at the door was a large Argonian guard in Ebony armor bearing a large ebony sword the guard said "What's your business here?" Draven replied by plunging his dagger into the side of the Argonians neck and then embraced him and layed him down softly and silently then he snatched the key ring of his belt and inserted the key into the locked door and turned it hearing a satisfying click and then the doors came open revealing a rather large room with a balcony where he could see the King standing on the Balcony looking out at the destroyed Dunmer territory so Draven snuck silently through the room and out onto the balcony crouching right behind Watches-Many clutching his Ebony dagger tightly and then he rose up swiftly and silently and grabbed the Argonians scaley mouth with his left hand and then pressed his blade tightly up against his neck and whispered "This is for my people" and then he quickly ran the blade across his throat and watched his blood shoot out off his balcony and then Draven dragged the finely dressed Argonian into his room and picked him up and threw him on his bed where he then quickly sawed away at the slit in his neck until he severed his head and then rolled his head down the spiral staircase knowing when it finally reached the bottom and someone discovered it it would cause chaos he then went back out onto the balcony and tied a long rope to the railings and then began to crawl down knowing he only had a matter of time before the guards came running up the stairs after finding the head so he quickly scampered down the rope and then when he finally hit solid ground he began to hear the screams of confused Argonians and a smirk came across his facing knowing he had completed his mission.

Draven then quickly and quietly ran through the destroyed city and used the tunnel his father had built to go under the wall and make his way to the dock his father had built on the east side of the island where his father had built a small sailboat which he had told Draven about years ago so Draven hopped the ship and set sail for Cyrodil. After traveling for a long time Draven docked his ship in Bravil. After docking his ship he headed into town when he entered the down it reminded him alot of Blackhold he thought so after wandering around town he found himself in a dark alley lost and he had no gold what so ever he was dead broke and in an unfamiliar place then as he was walking down the dark alley he heard someone say "What are you doin around here?" he turned around only to find five large men walking towards him then another man said "If your in the Black-Boots turf your gonna have to pay a tax now hand over your gold?" Draven didn't answer he didn't even move then the man said again this time louder "Pay the tax or your gonna get hurt" Draven didn't answer one of the men swung at him with a club Draven ducked under the club and punched the man in the kidneys causing him to fall to his knees in pain then another man swung a club at Draven this time Draven dodged the club and grabbed his dagger from his sash then he came back with his own attack and slashed the mans throat then then the one who asked him gold pulled out a rusty old blade of his own and said with a grin "So that's how you wanna play" and swung the blade at Draven's face but Draven ducked under the blade and plunged his dagger into the man's kidney then ripped it out as the man grabbed his side in agony and screamed then the biggest of all the men swung a right hook at Draven's head so Draven leaned back dodging the man's fist and then stuck his dagger in the man's temple and ripped it out he then got his stance and looked at the other two men remaining but they turned tail and ran so Draven wiped of his blade and put it back in his sash and then looted the bodies managing to pocket some coin then Draven walked farther down the alley and made himself comfortable and managed to get a little sleep but when he woke up he looked around only to realize he was blindfolded.

[p-sto]

Seems like an interesting place to start from, Assassin. I look forward to finding out what sort of person comes from such a place.

CBR, that was a fairly interesting scene. I have to admit, it came off a lot like a play, heavy in dialogue but light on character actions and background, which given the circumstances, made the scene a little hard to follow. Still I`m interested to see where you`ll decide to go with these characters.

[CBR JGWRR]

Seems like an interesting place to start from, Assassin. I look forward to finding out what sort of person comes from such a place.

CBR, that was a fairly interesting scene. I have to admit, it came off a lot like a play, heavy in dialogue but light on character actions and background, which given the circumstances, made the scene a little hard to follow. Still I`m interested to see where you`ll decide to go with these characters.

Thanks, I'll add more in.

[Dohva.]

Ok guys I have been thinking and I finally came up with something check it out.

Updated

Name:Draven Deth
Race:Dark Elf
Place of Birth:Island of Blackhold


Backstory:

Spoiler:

Draven was born in the Island of Blackhold which is a little known island about 100 miles off south eastern coast of Morrowind so before we can tell Dravens story we have to tell the story of Blackhold island. It was discovered in the beginning of the 3rd era by a Dunmer adventurer who set out to discover new land the Dunmer adventurer found a large ebony mine on the island and so he decided to colonize it and by the mid 3rd era a large walled village had been built around the mine and was inhabited entirely by Dunmer the Dunmer adventurer known as Vesoth Seth who had settled the island had now named it Blackhold island and began forming his own house without permission calling it house Seth a few years after that the main houses caught wind and House Redoran sent a fleet of Redoran guards to Blackhold island and asked Seth to surrender the island over to House Redoran but he refused and thus began the massacre of Blackhold 100 Redoran guards stormed the walled city killing most of the inhabitants the Blackhold Dunmer used Guerilla tactics to kill some guards and then the remaining ones fled into the mountains east of the colony.

By the end of the 3rd era House Redoran had a councillor in Blackhold and had turned the once small village around the Ebony mine into a small city with a stone wall but when the Red mountain erupted it cover the entire city in ash and the entire western part of the island which was once a lush rainforest became ashlands but the eastern side was untouched and still lush rainforest covered mountains. So a year after the Red mountain erupted the Empire re settled the land around the mine and built a prison around it where the most notourious criminals in the Empire where put to work in the mines it was a brutal prison where prisoners where sent down into the mines in the day and at night herded back up into there prison cells. But when the Great War started in 4E 171 most of the Imperial guards who guarded the large prison where sent off to fight in the war this is when the prisoners saw a chance for an uprising they where to tired of being beaten down and told what to do all it took was the beating to death of one well liked prisoner and it set off the entire prison they started an uprising the prisoners fought the guards down in the depths of the mines they waited until they where all sent down to work and then they used there pickaxes and shovels to attack the guards and get there weapons the remaining guards ran up out of the mines and locked the prisoners in the depths of the mine but the prisoners beat down the door after a day and massacred the remaining guards and what was left retreated to the docks and hopped a ship back to Cyrodil. Then for a few days after the seige the prisoners drank and celebrated with one another but it wasn't long before they started fighting again when an Argonian prisoner got into a fight with a Dunmer prisoner and ended in a stabbing with a Dunmer laying dead when the other Dunmer caught wind the declared war on the Argonians and so the Dunmer fought the Argonians and it ended with the Argonians winning and the Dunmer retreating to the Northern wall and began to build a settlement in the Northern part and the rest of the prisoners where allowed to live amongst the Argonians in the prison building until a disagreement happened between the leader of the Human gang and the Argonian gang so the Argonians cast them out into the west side of the wall and cast the Khajiits out into the southern territory and nobody set foot in the eastern part because that was where the giant mine was and the Argonians claimed that as there own to and began mining and building weapons and armor. But after a couple of years each race had built their own small towns within the walls each with there own distinct architecture with the dunmer having built wooden slum shacks one ontop of another in rows and built a small wooden wall around their district the humans built small shack houses in no particular order scattered all throughout the western side and the Khajiit had built houses in their own unique architecture and the Argonians continued to live inside of the prison making a town inside of it and the commonly known rule of the land was stay in your territory if you step in someone elses territory your fair game.

Through the years every once and awhile someone would do the wrong thing and it would spark up a little war but for the most part these diffrent groups stayed within there own territory and just fought for survival going into the wilderness getting food and water bringing it back it was a hard life for these people food and water was always scarce but through the years they developed systems to help them and by 4E 200 each territory is completely self sustaining and has there own walled towns right inside the walls of the old prison it is all they know they have nowhere else to go they have families and children there it is there home they are outcasts to society put on that island because of the horrible things they had done even if they wanted to return to Tamriel they have no means to. This is where Draven is born into a poor criminal family in a shack on an island the rest of Nirn has forgot about to a father who was a Dark Brotherhood assassin and a mother who was a bandit.

Draven and his family lived in the basement of the dilapidated shack known as the Dark Hole Corner Club up stairs above them was a small shack housing a family and above that shack was another all toppled on top of each other like a bunch of dirty cups. Draven grew up washing dishes and making drinks for customers and his mother was the bartender and his father sat at the bar most of the time and drank up the merchandise and dealt with anyone who was making too much trouble. His mother would always yell at him for drinking up all the alchohol and he would just sit there seeming not to be bothered by it she would hit him and scream and he wouldn't move an inch. Draven would try to talk to his father but he always gave short answers that seemed to be riddles and his mother could never be bothered with him she was always to busy. But as Draven grew older his fathers odd riddles came to make more sense.

By the time Draven was 14 he was out in the streets like most kids his age his mother would yell as he went out the door "Come back here Draven you need to be here helpin out at the bar!" But Draven never listened he would go out with his friends and cause mischief you see during the time Draven lived in Blackhold the Dunmers where at war with the humans so he and his Dunmer friends would sneak under the walls into the human turf through a hole and they would find some unsespecting human man walking alone and knock him down and stop him until he was senseless then they would take his coin and anything of value and then go back. By the time Draven was 15 he and his friends began to drink because of such easy access because Draven lived in the corner club he would sneak into the stash and take jugs of liquor and drink them with his friends then they would get into trouble after getting drunk. Draven was 15 when he first killed a man he and his friends where drinking on a warm night around midnight when they saw a handful of humans walking down there street walking back to the human territory so one of them yelled "What's your lot doin here!" and another yelled "Looks like yous made a wrong turn ahahaha!" then threw a bottle and it broke on ones head so they begand running but the Dunmers quickly ran after them chasing them through alleys and canals until they ran the humans into a dead end and the leader of the pack of Dunmers named Ralyn said "Look what we have here boys fair game aint that the rules eh?" then he pulled a hatchet out and threw a rusty knife to Draven and another one of the Dunmer boys had a club then Ralyn said "You boys might wanna make peace wit them nice gods of yours" then he swung the hatchet at the boy in front the boy threw up his arms to cover his face and the hatchet hacked right through his forearm and severed all the way through the arm then the boy began screaming and Ralyn swung the hatchet back and then forward right into the boys skull making a sick sound then the screaming stopped only to be followed by the other boys screaming they all dropped to their knees and held there hand up covering their faces pleading for mercy then Ralyn pushed his foot against the boys face pulled the hatchet out and said "Who's next?" then looked at Draven and said handle the redhead and pointed to the boy directly in front of Draven on his knees whimpering "No,no,no" then Ralyn looked at the boy to the left of the boy he just killed crying over his dead friends body and pointed his bony finger and said "You" and began franticly swinging his hatchet at the boy and then the rest of the Dunmer started to beat the other boys with clubs then Draven grabbed the redhead by his collar and threw him up against the wall and threw his left forearm up against his throat and gripped his rusty knife tightly and brought it back then looked into the boys eyes seeing fear and then he plunged the knife into the boys stomach and watched the boy gasp and then blood ran out of his mouth down his chin onto Dravens arm and then Draven ripped the knife out and let the boy drop to the ground. He looked to his left and right and saw that all his friends where still beating the rest of them and Ralyn was still hacking at the boy who was clearly dead then after the chaos was over each of them walked home not saying a word covered in blood and all of them having the look of a murderer in their eyes they didn't leave not one boy alive that night they killed everyone of them leaving them dead in that alley. To be continued

What do you guys think?

I like this a lot, very thorough. I recall your stories were dark, right up my alley.

[Derp53]

Ok guys I have been thinking and I finally came up with something check it out.

Updated

Name:Draven Deth
Race:Dark Elf
Place of Birth:Island of Blackhold


Backstory:

Spoiler:

Draven was born in the Island of Blackhold which is a little known island about 100 miles off south eastern coast of Morrowind so before we can tell Dravens story we have to tell the story of Blackhold island. It was discovered in the beginning of the 3rd era by a Dunmer adventurer who set out to discover new land the Dunmer adventurer found a large ebony mine on the island and so he decided to colonize it and by the mid 3rd era a large walled village had been built around the mine and was inhabited entirely by Dunmer the Dunmer adventurer known as Vesoth Seth who had settled the island had now named it Blackhold island and began forming his own house without permission calling it house Seth a few years after that the main houses caught wind and House Redoran sent a fleet of Redoran guards to Blackhold island and asked Seth to surrender the island over to House Redoran but he refused and thus began the massacre of Blackhold 100 Redoran guards stormed the walled city killing most of the inhabitants the Blackhold Dunmer used Guerilla tactics to kill some guards and then the remaining ones fled into the mountains east of the colony.

By the end of the 3rd era House Redoran had a councillor in Blackhold and had turned the once small village around the Ebony mine into a small city with a stone wall but when the Red mountain erupted it cover the entire city in ash and the entire western part of the island which was once a lush rainforest became ashlands but the eastern side was untouched and still lush rainforest covered mountains. So a year after the Red mountain erupted the Empire re settled the land around the mine and built a prison around it where the most notourious criminals in the Empire where put to work in the mines it was a brutal prison where prisoners where sent down into the mines in the day and at night herded back up into there prison cells. But when the Great War started in 4E 171 most of the Imperial guards who guarded the large prison where sent off to fight in the war this is when the prisoners saw a chance for an uprising they where to tired of being beaten down and told what to do all it took was the beating to death of one well liked prisoner and it set off the entire prison they started an uprising the prisoners fought the guards down in the depths of the mines they waited until they where all sent down to work and then they used there pickaxes and shovels to attack the guards and get there weapons the remaining guards ran up out of the mines and locked the prisoners in the depths of the mine but the prisoners beat down the door after a day and massacred the remaining guards and what was left retreated to the docks and hopped a ship back to Cyrodil. Then for a few days after the seige the prisoners drank and celebrated with one another but it wasn't long before they started fighting again when an Argonian prisoner got into a fight with a Dunmer prisoner and ended in a stabbing with a Dunmer laying dead when the other Dunmer caught wind the declared war on the Argonians and so the Dunmer fought the Argonians and it ended with the Argonians winning and the Dunmer retreating to the Northern wall and began to build a settlement in the Northern part and the rest of the prisoners where allowed to live amongst the Argonians in the prison building until a disagreement happened between the leader of the Human gang and the Argonian gang so the Argonians cast them out into the west side of the wall and cast the Khajiits out into the southern territory and nobody set foot in the eastern part because that was where the giant mine was and the Argonians claimed that as there own to and began mining and building weapons and armor. But after a couple of years each race had built their own small towns within the walls each with there own distinct architecture with the dunmer having built wooden slum shacks one ontop of another in rows and built a small wooden wall around their district the humans built small shack houses in no particular order scattered all throughout the western side and the Khajiit had built houses in their own unique architecture and the Argonians continued to live inside of the prison making a town inside of it and the commonly known rule of the land was stay in your territory if you step in someone elses territory your fair game.

Through the years every once and awhile someone would do the wrong thing and it would spark up a little war but for the most part these diffrent groups stayed within there own territory and just fought for survival going into the wilderness getting food and water bringing it back it was a hard life for these people food and water was always scarce but through the years they developed systems to help them and by 4E 200 each territory is completely self sustaining and has there own walled towns right inside the walls of the old prison it is all they know they have nowhere else to go they have families and children there it is there home they are outcasts to society put on that island because of the horrible things they had done even if they wanted to return to Tamriel they have no means to. This is where Draven is born into a poor criminal family in a shack on an island the rest of Nirn has forgot about to a father who was a Dark Brotherhood assassin and a mother who was a bandit.

Draven and his family lived in the basement of the dilapidated shack known as the Dark Hole Corner Club up stairs above them was a small shack housing a family and above that shack was another all toppled on top of each other like a bunch of dirty cups. Draven grew up washing dishes and making drinks for customers and his mother was the bartender and his father sat at the bar most of the time and drank up the merchandise and dealt with anyone who was making too much trouble. His mother would always yell at him for drinking up all the alchohol and he would just sit there seeming not to be bothered by it she would hit him and scream and he wouldn't move an inch. Draven would try to talk to his father but he always gave short answers that seemed to be riddles and his mother could never be bothered with him she was always to busy. But as Draven grew older his fathers odd riddles came to make more sense.

By the time Draven was 14 he was out in the streets like most kids his age his mother would yell as he went out the door "Come back here Draven you need to be here helpin out at the bar!" But Draven never listened he would go out with his friends and cause mischief you see during the time Draven lived in Blackhold the Dunmers where at war with the humans so he and his Dunmer friends would sneak under the walls into the human turf through a hole and they would find some unsespecting human man walking alone and knock him down and stop him until he was senseless then they would take his coin and anything of value and then go back. By the time Draven was 15 he and his friends began to drink because of such easy access because Draven lived in the corner club he would sneak into the stash and take jugs of liquor and drink them with his friends then they would get into trouble after getting drunk. Draven was 15 when he first killed a man he and his friends where drinking on a warm night around midnight when they saw a handful of humans walking down there street walking back to the human territory so one of them yelled "What's your lot doin here!" and another yelled "Looks like yous made a wrong turn ahahaha!" then threw a bottle and it broke on ones head so they begand running but the Dunmers quickly ran after them chasing them through alleys and canals until they ran the humans into a dead end and the leader of the pack of Dunmers named Ralyn said "Look what we have here boys fair game aint that the rules eh?" then he pulled a hatchet out and threw a rusty knife to Draven and another one of the Dunmer boys had a club then Ralyn said "You boys might wanna make peace wit them nice gods of yours" then he swung the hatchet at the boy in front the boy threw up his arms to cover his face and the hatchet hacked right through his forearm and severed all the way through the arm then the boy began screaming and Ralyn swung the hatchet back and then forward right into the boys skull making a sick sound then the screaming stopped only to be followed by the other boys screaming they all dropped to their knees and held there hand up covering their faces pleading for mercy then Ralyn pushed his foot against the boys face pulled the hatchet out and said "Who's next?" then looked at Draven and said handle the redhead and pointed to the boy directly in front of Draven on his knees whimpering "No,no,no" then Ralyn looked at the boy to the left of the boy he just killed crying over his dead friends body and pointed his bony finger and said "You" and began franticly swinging his hatchet at the boy and then the rest of the Dunmer started to beat the other boys with clubs then Draven grabbed the redhead by his collar and threw him up against the wall and threw his left forearm up against his throat and gripped his rusty knife tightly and brought it back then looked into the boys eyes seeing fear and then he plunged the knife into the boys stomach and watched the boy gasp and then blood ran out of his mouth down his chin onto Dravens arm and then Draven ripped the knife out and let the boy drop to the ground. He looked to his left and right and saw that all his friends where still beating the rest of them and Ralyn was still hacking at the boy who was clearly dead then after the chaos was over each of them walked home not saying a word covered in blood and all of them having the look of a murderer in their eyes they didn't leave not one boy alive that night they killed everyone of them leaving them dead in that alley. To be continued

What do you guys think?

I like this a lot, very thorough. I recall your stories were dark, right up my alley.

Interesting. I wonder what he'll do first, also I haven't been able to do any writing or skyrim between homework and family.