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  1. What you dont think a Nordic choir would follow them around?!
  2. Shit I thought this was the sekiro thread I have too many tabs open
  3. If y'all had to have a Dark Souls ost for your character as a boss fight, what'd they be?
  4. Made a little edit that changed a serious thing I had forgotten about during writing.
  5. I actually really like the idea of writing what I had in mind as if from a historical tome. I've continued that idea, thanks man I think I'll both enjoy writing this more and convey it better!
  6. Our Resurgence, The early Roscrean revolt and exploits of the Noble Teutorigos Borr. Anonymous Skald At the time of this writing a peace accordant is in discussion. Our future is uncertain but the powers are unwavering. Solitude has drew blood and dashed absolute victory, our future is uncertain. Prelude Imperial Roscrea began at the end of Uriel's conquests and ended at the tributary surrender of the Borrs. Early reign was recorded by both Skaldic and Imperial sources was the financial strain of garrisoning Roscrea. The post-war infrastructure was in ruin and little wealth could be made from the island, for generations it was a punishment duty for southern legionaries. Not until the annexation of Solitude did the legionary occupation end, squalor and a dark age was the hallmark of this period. The Imperials could not afford to repair the damages they brought, Roscrea was too insignificant for many years. The standards of living for nobility and freemen alike were abhorrent. Uriel's campaign ended in disaster in the very far east. Focus was taken away from the extra-Tamrielic islands, Roscrea suffered more then any of his other isle conquests. Praise from native mouth be given then to the string of pragmatic governors from the early Solitude reign. They inadvertently made our resurgence possible. Fairly high focus was placed in making the island profitable since their annexation. Roads were repaired, long abandoned mines refurbished, favorable laws passed to the nobility and the establishment of the tetrarchy. Four tetrarchs were chosen among the old clans, to ease the financial burden of administration by granting more power to we natives. Though diplomatic authority and overall rule remained in the Imperial administration of Urbs-Beyond-The-Sea, the legionary settler colony. Eastern Roscrea had no need of tetrarchs, as an eastern native I speak of firsthand subservience. The eastern folk, urbanized and agrarian accepted Imperial rule much more readily as their society benefited far greater then our northern and western kinsmen. Improved agricultural methods, establishment of plantation villas and the seat of Imperial rule in Roscrea secured our ancestor's acceptance in the transition from legion occupation to Solitude's annexation. And increased citizenry rights to the nobility and upper classes, the greatest efforts of Imperialization occurred in the east. These were the hallmarks of Solitude rule, Nordic in origin but no less Imperial in practice. Their efforts to create a profitable Roscrea strengthened a weakly vestige of old into a growing local power. Native authority increased through the tetrarchy, by gaining citizen rights Roscreans could now fully serve in legions and completely removed the financial strain of Colovian and Nordic garrisoning. It took several generations to make their annexation of Roscrea financially beneficial. Solitude had long replaced the administration of direct Imperial rule, but to the native peoples it seemed no different. It was an extraordinary thing then when a man chosen to govern Roscrea held our own interests at heart over that of Solitude. The noble Hrargal of Haafingar came and ruled no less then seventy years, passing to all's tremendous sorrow at a hundred and eight. His reign marked the greatest extent of Imperialization, yet crisis after crisis were resolved skillfully. His edicts are still obeyed even in revolt. His benevolence earned him many times the offer of kingship to all Roscreans, ordained by all the great clans, his loyalty to Solitude was legendary and thus refused many times over. Hrargal united squabbling clans, passed pragmatic edicts and financed the construction of Cyrodilic esque infrastructure ranging from entertainment to housing and all manners in between. It was his confessed lifelong dream to see Roscrea fully embrace Colovian culture, he himself of that race. To Hrargal the best way Roscrea could serve Solitude and the Empire was to become culturally interlinked with the two. Whatever his motives may have been, his treatment of Roscrea was gentle and when firmness was demanded, it was never a crushing grip. It encouraged our folk to embrace his values. Nirn was robbed of the greatest administrator of the age at his passing. Hrargal's passing was four months prior to the writing of this. His funeral was the largest in Roscrean history, not one of the noble clans hadn't made their presence there. They mourned not for the servant of Solitude, but the great man they knew him as. It was the only time Imperial arms were not taken against the Druids when one of the forsaken white robbed men kissed his forehead. Even they payed respect. The tetrarchs commissioned Solitude to send another of his line to govern Roscrea, they would accept no other candidate under threat of embargoing Roscrean goods. The Druid's blessing had all but legitimized his line, and although none would ever admit it under threat of lawful retribution, the Druids were still revered and respected by the natives. The nobility of Solitude held little regard of Roscrea outside the profits our island brought them, they dismissively accepted and sent a distant relative. We knew little of their familiar relationship and never will know. Solitude had grown used to Roscrean obedience and the island became and afterthought, instead of considering another longtime trained administrator they sent a distantly related merchant-noble. The Roscrean nobility accepted him dutifully and showed him in gifts, they celebrated and proclaimed seventy more years of praise. His name is forsaken into Oblivion and will never be spoken, thought of, or written. He hadn't shared Hrargal's vision in any shape or form. Eighteen of Hrargal's edicts were defunct within his first week of governance, this seemingly minor occurrence brought the native nobility to a boiling point. These edicts favored Roscrea and reduced the efficiency of tribute and taxation. He was a very effective tax master and brilliant with fiances but for the importance of governing an overseas people, impotent. He had thought his predecessor had utterly converted the Roscreans to Tamrielic rule, a thing to be orderly taxed and governed as if a lively mainland province. Uriel's other island conquests had come to this level of development, 'Roscrea must have too.' It is well documented by the Nebbezzar court that the Silver Shield client king was furiously arguing with the governor on a matter of the Imperial Cult. The governor was staunchly associated with the cult and lacked the tolerance of his predecessor. While in the client king's chambers amidst their rising anger, the governor struck at an ancestral idol of an ancient Royal Casurgian king and shattered it. The court would not prevent their client king from throwing the governor to the ground and murdering him with a dagger. His Imperial retinue attempted to flee and were cut down to the last by the court. A fit of anger shattered the peace, what might have been was naught. Although these actions were sung in praise by all true Roscreans. I have personally spoken with his lordship, he described it 'belike horse hoofs pounding against his head in terrible pain when his ancestor was disrespected.' He described his ancestor's fury in the halls of sovngarde felt personally. By murdering the Solitude appointed governor, a portion of Roscrea had instantly declared rebellion against Solitude and the Empire at large. To the Roscreans however it was Solitude who hard betrayed them. This incident grew by the day. In their great wisdom, sensing weakness in southern rule the Druids appeared before the great clans of old. They urged the appointed tetrarchs to forsake the rule of foreigners. A perfect candidate for kingship of all Roscrea had come and gone, his line as shown was unworthy to rule. They accurately acclaimed that little focus was given on Uriel's conquests in this age, we are afterthoughts at best. Never would a better time come to bite off the overstretched arm of the southerners. Three of the tetrarchs gifted the Druids their swords and cursed the Empire, the Tetrarch of Boiliobris had remained loyal to the Empire and had lost his life for it, a noble of his clan instead gifted his swords. Centuries under the administration of Imperial generals, then governors hadn't swayed the traditional way of fighting for the Roscrean peoples. The concept of large armies and pitched battles was a strange and alien idea to our ancestors. Since time unrecorded the nobles gathered bound champions and retinues of bondsmen and did battle against hostile nobles and their own champions and bondsmen. It was fighting between the most elite warrior class. To gather the commoners and place spear in hand was the last resort of any kind, only commissioned Reivers, (typically sailing men whom plunder with the blessings of their clan, almost always plunder outside the Roscrean sphere.) another type of warrior class held that distinction. It was thus when revolt came to pass that pitched battle and fields of armed commoners was nowhere to be found. The Imperial loyalist cohorts were in disarray, with the majority of the native legion abandoning their duty. The age of champions had yet long passed, in servitude to Cyrodilic, then Solitude Imperial administration our kinsmen were barred from taking arms outside of auxiliary and later legionary service. Commissioned raiding was outright banned by Imperial law, anywhere to raid was under their control. Of the tetrarchs, none responded in such brilliance as the clan of Borr. Forwent his southern title and claimed as High Chieftain to their old chiefdom. In the most inhospitable region of Roscrea, began in earnest the revolt. This firsthand skaldic recording is not of poetry, but an epic. It details the extraordinary events of the early revolt, A Resurgence to the champions of old. The adventures and noble duels of Teutorigos Borr, his retinue of champions, the druid Theudofrid the Stormsayer, and the return of the Atmoriants atop their mountains. A return into the mythic. Chapter's end.
  7. Lol nah, he's been using a more traditional staff. Keep in mind this was forty odd years ago. Thanks by the way!
  8. Northern Roscrea 159th Year, Fourth Era Around the fire judgement had been passed. The clan of Borr, ancient and hallowed gifted the white robbed men their swords. The long peaceful island erupted into a frenzy of oaths, raiding and frantic duels of clans. There was but only two oaths, the aristocracy who pledged themselves to the established Imperial rule and the nobility whom swore to the long forsaken Druids. Mere weeks prior the Imperial governor from Solitude and his administrative retinue were murdered in the southeast. What might have been a swift retribution from the legion garrison was naught, for it too collapsed in days. Without Imperial commanders, the native leadership had divided loyalties. The Imperialized and mixed blood natives remained in loyalist cohorts, they had all the benefits of Imperial rule to protect. Those loyal to their rebelling clans forsake the southern institution and returned to the towns of their birth to stir arms and lead champions. In the northernmost frozen expansion it was without doubt who the once great clan of Borr's loyalties lay. Long ago influential, powerful and rich, their abandonment of the Empire began the resurgence of the old chiefdoms. The Borr tetrarch spat on his southern title and was named High Chieftain by nobles and the commoners. The nobility tore apart any clothing of foreign design, bent the gladius and melted all jewelry. Those that stood plain and naked were named champions and would forever sit at the inner circles of feasting tables. So moved by the display of the Borr nobility, the young druid Theudofrid swore himself to the service of Teutorigos Borr, the firstborn son of the proclaimed high chieftain and once-centurion of a native cohort. Theu was a man of the Hearthland, no different from Teutorigos. His several years under the mentorship of the Archdruid did little to soften him, the hardships of his homeland toughened the druid-in-training. Teutorigos bound Theudofrid through the giving of a mighty gift, an axestaff of an ancient Borr priest to Kyne. Centuries without conflict had left the Borrs unprepared, for they had no bondsmen. The minuscule nobility hadn't led champions since their fifth great grandfathers. Teutorigos stood as one above equals. He was a leader of infantry and was swiftly elected by the nobility to bind and lead the new champions. The realm of the Borrs could never be urbanized, clans of men were lowborn outside the fortress town of Ultansburrow and none within spoke against the nobility. Firmly established and with opposition south of their realm, Teutorigos bearing only his clan's burgundy cloak and plain clothes took the old road south. He began with several dozen men, sworn noble champions, and a battle hungry druid. Teutorigos' charisma and duty drew in many. At the end of that long southern stretching road, there ended a mighty warband of furious Atmoriants, noble champions, the first Roscrean wizard-warrior in centuries, hundreds of commoner iron miners and hillmen. Here began the Roscrean's revolt in earnest, Teutorigos backed the clans revolt with force.
  9. Ah don't worry, Ubbe can always find pleasure in using his ass
  10. Detect life. Cast noodle dick. Rip Ubbe sex life as dom.
  11. Theu gonna cast eternal noodle dick on Ubbe with his dying breath.
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