Table of Contents
2920: The Last Year of the First Era
Morning Star - Book One
Sun's Dawn - Book Two
First Seed - Book Three
Rain's Hand - Book Four
Second Seed - Book Five
Mid Year - Book Six
Sun's Height - Book Seven
The Alduin/Akatosh Dichotomy - Book Seven [sic]
Last Seed - Book Eight
Hearth Fire - Book Nine
Frostfall - Book Ten
Sun's Dusk - Book Eleven
Evening Star - Book Twelve
An Accounting of the Elder Scrolls
The Adabal-a
Advances in Lock Picking
Ahzirr Trajijazaeri
Alduin is Real, and He Ent Akatosh
Amongst the Draugr
The Amulet of Kings
Ancestors and the Dunmer
The Apprentice's Assistant
Arcana Restored: A Handbook
The Arcturian Heresy
The Argonian Account
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
Book Four
The Armorers' Challenge
The Art of War Magic
The Battle of Red Mountain and the Rise and Fall of the Tribunal
The Battle of Sancre Tor
The Bear of Markarth: The Crimes of Ulfric Stormcloak
Beggar Prince
Biography of Barenziah
Volume One
Volume Two
Volume Three
Biography of the Wolf Queen
The Black Arrow
Part I
Part II
The Black Arts On Trial
The Black Star
Boethiah's Glory
The Book of Daedra
The Book of the Dragonborn
Bravil: Daughter of the Niben
Breathing Water
A Brief History of the Empire
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
The Brothers of Darkness
The Buying Game
The Cabin in the Woods
Volume II
The Cake and The Diamond
Cats Of Skyrim
Chance's Folly
The Charwich-Koniinge Letters
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Chaurus Pie: A Recipe
Children of the Sky
A Children's Anuad: The Anuad Paraphrased
The Chronicles of the Holy Brothers of Marukh
Volume IV
Chronicles of Nchuleft
The City of Stone: A Sellsword's Guide to Markarth
The Code of Malacath: A Sellsword's Guide to the Orc Strongholds
Commentaries on the Mysterium Xarxes
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
Book Four
Complete Catalogue of Enchantments for Armor
Complete Catalogue of Enchantments for Weaponry
A Concise Account of the Great War Between the Empire and the Aldmeri Dominion
A Dance in Fire
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Darkest Darkness
The Death Blow of Abernanit
The Death of a Wanderer
Decorating Guides
Markarth
Riften
Whiterun
Windhelm
De Rerum Dirennis
Report of the Imperial Commission on the Disaster at Ionith
The Doors of Oblivion
The Dragon Break Reexamined
Dragon Language: Myth No More
The Dragon War
A Dream of Sovngarde
The Dreamstride
The Dunmer of Skyrim
Dwarves: The Lost Race of Tamriel
Volume I - Architecture and Designs
Volume II - Weapons, Armor and Machines
Volume III - Culture and History
Dwemer Inquiries
Volume I - Their Architecture and Civilization
Volume II - Their Architecture and Civilization
Volume III - Their Architecture and Civilization
Effects of the Elder Scrolls
Eslaf Erol
Beggar
Thief
Warrior
King
Collected Essays on Dwemer History and Culture
Chapter 1 - Marobar Sul and the Trivialization of the Dwemer in Popular Culture
The Exodus
Experimentation in the Physicalities of the Werewolf
An Explorer's Guide to Skyrim
Fall from Glory
The Fall of Saarthal
Fall of the Snow Prince
The Falmer: A Study
Father of the Niben
Feyfolken
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
The Final Lesson
Fire And Darkness: The Brotherhoods of Death
The Firmament
The Firsthold Revolt
The Five Songs of King Wulfharth
Flight from the Thalmor
Forge, Hammer and Anvil
Fragment: On Artaeum
Frontier, Conquest and Accommodation: A Social History of Cyrodiil
Galerion The Mystic
A Game At Dinner
A Gentleman's Guide to Whiterun
Ghosts in the Storm
Glories and Laments Among the Ayleid Ruins
The Gold Ribbon of Merit
Great Harbingers of the Companions
Hallgerd's Tale
Hanging Gardens of Wasten Coridale
Harvesting Frostbite Spider Venom
Heavy Armor Forging
Herbalist's Guide to Skyrim
Herbane's Bestiary
The Ice Wraiths
Dwarven Automatons
Hagravens
The Holds of Skyrim: A Field Officer's Guide
The Hope of the Redoran
The Horror Of Castle Xyr: A One Act Play
How Orsinium Passed to the Orcs
A Hypothetical Treachery: A One Act Play
Ice and Chitin
Immortal Blood
Incident in Necrom
Interviews With Tapestrists
Volume Eighteen
Invocation of Azura
Journal of Gallus Desidenius
Keepers of the Razor
Killing - Before You're Killed
A Kiss, Sweet Mother
The Knights of the Nine
Kolb & the Dragon: An Adventure for Nord Boys
Lady Benoch's Words and Philosophy
The Last King of the Ayleids
The Last Scabbard of Akrash
The Legendary City of Sancre Tor
The Legendary Scourge
The Legend of Red Eagle
The Legend of the Krately House
Light Armor Forging
Liminal Bridges: A Discourse On The Theory and Praxis of Travelling Between Mundus and Oblivion
The Locked Room
Lord Jornibret's Last Dance
Lost Legends of Skyrim
The Lunar Lorkhan
The Lusty Argonian Maid
Volume 1
Volume 2
Lycanthropic Legends of Skyrim
Mace Etiquette
The "Madmen" of the Reach: A Cultural Treatise on the Forsworn
The Madness of Pelagius
Magic from the Sky
Mannimarco: King of Worms
The Marksmanship Lesson
The Mirror
The Monomyth
Mysterious Akavir
The Mystery of Princess Talara
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part V
Myths of Sheogorath
Nerevar Moon and Star
N'Gasta! Kvata! Kvakis!
Night Falls On Sentinel
The Nightingales
Volume I: Who We Are
Volume II: What We Were
The Nightingales: Fact or Fiction?
The Night Mother's Truth
The Nirnoot Missive (Revised Edition)
Nords Arise!
Nords of Skyrim
Notes on Racial Phylogeny and Biology
The Oblivion Crisis
Ode To The Tundrastriders
Of Crossed Daggers: The History of Riften
Of Fjori and Holgeir
Olaf and the Dragon
The Old Ways
On Artaeum
On Oblivion
On Stepping Lightly: The Nordic Ruins of Skyrim
On the Great Collapse
Opusculus Lamae Bal ta Mezzamortie: A Brief Account of Lamae Bal and the Restless Death
An Overview Of Gods and Worship In Tamriel
Palla
Book I
Book II
Pension of the Ancestor Moth
The Pig Children
The Posting of the Hunt
A Primer on Enchanting
Proper Lock Design and Construction
Purloined Shadows
The Rear-Guard
The Real Barenziah
Volume One
Volume Two
Volume Three
Volume Four
Volume Five
Reality & Other Falsehoods
The Red Book of Riddles
The Red Kitchen Reader
The Refugees
Remanada
Chapter 1: Sancre Tor and the Birth of Reman
Chapter 2: The Chevalier Renald Blade of the Pig
Response to Bero's Speech
The Rise and Fall of the Blades
Rising Threat
Volume I
Volume II
Volume III
Volume IV
Rislav the Righteous
The Ruins of Kemel-Ze
Sacred Witness: A True History of the Night Mother
Scourge of the Gray Quarter
Shadowmarks
Shezarr and the Divines
A Short History of Morrowind
A Short Life of Uriel Septim VII
Sinderion's Field Journal
Sithis
Sixteen Accords of Madness
Volume VI
Volume IX
Volume XII
Skyrim's Rule: An Outsider's View
Song of Hrormir
The Song of Pelinal
Volume 1: On His Name
Volume 2: On His Coming
Volume 3: On His Enemy
Volume 4: On His Deeds
Volume 5: On His Love of Morihaus
Volume 6: On His Madness
Volume 7: On His Battle with Umaril and His Dismemberment
Volume 8: On His Revelation at the Death of the Al-Esh
Song of the Askelde Men
Songs Of Skyrim
Songs Of Skyrim (Revised Edition)
Songs of the Return
Volume 2: The First Tale of the Darumzu
Volume 7: The Tale of the Jorrvaskr
Volume 19: The Second Tale of the Ylgermet
Volume 24: The First Tale of the Krilot Lok
Volume 56: The Final Tale of the Chrion
Souls, Black and White
Sovngarde: A Reexamination
Spirit of Nirn
Spirit of the Daedra
Surfeit of Thieves
Surviving A Horker Attack
The Tale of Dro'Zira
Ancient Tales of the Dwemer
Part I: The Ransom of Zarek
Part II
Part III: The Importance of Where
Part V: The Song of the Alchemists
Part VI: Chimarvamidium
Part IX: Azura and the Box
Part X: The Dowry
The Talos Mistake
There Be Dragons
Thief of Virtue
The Third Door
Third Era: An Abbreviated Timeline, The Last Year of the First Era
Three Thieves
Timeline Series
Volume 1: Before the Ages of Man
A Tragedy In Black
Treatise on Ayleidic Cities: Varsa Baalim and the Nefarivigum Test of Dagon
Chapter the Tenth
Trials of St. Alessia
Troll Slaying
Chapter I: I Just Saw A Troll!
Chapter II: Stop Healing Yourself
Chapter III: Finn's Secret Weapon
Chapter IV: Trimming The Fat
The True Nature of Orcs
Twin Secrets
Uncommon Taste
Varieties Of Daedra
Vernaccus and Bourlor
Wabbajack
Walking the World
Volume XI: Solitude
War of the First Council
The Warrior's Charge
Watcher of Stones
The Waters of Oblivion
The Wild Elves
The Windhelm Letters
The Wispmother: Two Theories
Withershins
The Wolf Queen
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
Book Four
Book Five
Book Six
Book Seven
Book Eight
The Woodcutter's Wife
Volume 1
Words of Clan Mother Ahnissi to her Favored Daughter
The Wraith's Wedding Dowry
Wulfmare's Guide to Better Thieving
The Yellow Book of Riddles
Yngol and the Sea-Ghosts
2920: The Last Year of the First Era
Morning Star - Book One
by Carlovac Townway
1 Morning Star, 2920
Mournhold, Morrowind
Almalexia lay in her bed of fur, dreaming. Not until the sun burned through her window, infusing the light wood and flesh colors of her chamber in a milky glow did she open her eyes. It was quiet and serene, a stunning reverse of the flavor of her dreams, so full of blood and celebration. For a few moments, she simply stared at the ceiling, trying to sort through her visions.
In the courtyard of her palace was a boiling pool which steamed in the coolness of the winter morning. At the wave of her hand, it cleared and she saw the face and form of her lover Vivec in his study to the north. She did not want to speak right away: he looked so handsome in his dark red robes, writing his poetry as he did every morning.
"Vivec," she said, and he raised his head in a smile, looking at her face across thousands of miles. "I have seen a vision of the end of the war."
"After eighty years, I don't think anyone can imagine an end," said Vivec with a smile, but he grew serious, trusting Almalexia's prophecies. "Who will win? Morrowind or the Cyrodilic Empire?"
"Without Sotha Sil in Morrowind, we will lose," she replied.
"My intelligence tells me the Empire will strike us to the north in early springtide, by First Seed at the latest. Could you go to Artaeum and convince him to return?"
"I'll leave today," she said, simply.
4 Morning Star, 2920
Gideon, Black Marsh
The Empress paced around her cell. Wintertide gave her wasteful energy, while in the summer she would merely sit by her window and be grateful for each breath of stale swamp wind that came to cool her. Across the room, her unfinished tapestry of a dance at the Imperial Court seemed to mock her. She ripped it from its frame, tearing the pieces apart as they drifted to the f
loor.
Then she laughed at her own useless gesture of defiance. She would have plenty of time to repair it and craft a hundred more. The Emperor had locked her up in Castle Giovesse seven years ago, and would likely keep her here until he or she died.
With a sigh, she pulled the cord to call her knight, Zuuk. He appeared at the door within minutes, fully uniformed as befitted an Imperial Guard. Most of the native Kothringi tribesmen of Black Marsh preferred to go about naked, but Zuuk had taken a positive delight to fashion. His silver, reflective skin was scarcely visible, only on his face, neck, and hands.
"Your Imperial Highness," he said with a bow.
"Zuuk," said Empress Tavia. "I'm bored. Lets discuss methods of assassinating my husband today."
14 Morning Star, 2920
The Imperial City, Cyrodiil
The chimes proclaiming South Wind's Prayer echoed through the wide boulevards and gardens of the Imperial City, calling all to their temples. The Emperor Reman III always attended a service at the Temple of the One, while his son and heir Prince Juilek found it more political to attend a service at a different temple for each religious holiday. This year, it was at the cathedral Benevolence of Mara.
The Benevolence's services were mercifully short, but it was not until well after noon that the Emperor was able to return to the palace. By then, the arena combatants were impatiently waiting for the start of the ceremony. The crowd was far less restless, as the Potentate Versidue-Shaie had arranged for a demonstration from a troupe of Khajiiti acrobats.
"Your religion is so much more convenient than mine," said the Emperor to his Potentate by way of an apology. "What is the first game?"
"A one-on-one battle between two able warriors," said the Potentate, his scaly skin catching the sun as he rose. "Armed befitting their culture."
"Sounds good," said the Emperor and clapped his hands. "Let the sport commence!"
As soon as he saw the two warriors enter the arena to the roar of the crowd, Emperor Reman III remembered that he had agreed to this several months before and forgotten about it. One combatant was the Potentate's son, Savirien-Chorak, a glistening ivory-yellow eel, gripping his katana and wakizashi with his thin, deceptively weak looking arms. The other was the Emperor's son, Prince Juilek, in ebony armor with a savage Orcish helm, shield and longsword at his side.
"This will be fascinating to watch," hissed the Potentate, a wide grin across his narrow face. "I don't know if I've even seen a Cyrodiil fight an Akavir like this. Usually it's army against army. At last we can settle which philosophy is better -- to create armor to combat swords as your people do, or to create swords to combat armor as mine do."
No one in the crowd, aside from a few scattered Akaviri counselors and the Potentate himself wanted Savirien-Chorak to win, but there was a collective intake of breath at the sight of his graceful movements. His swords seemed to be a part of him, a tail coming from his arms to match the one behind him. It was a trick of counterbalance, allowing the young serpent man to roll up into a circle and spin into the center of the ring in offensive position. The Prince had to plod forward the less impressive traditional way.