#oc annaig

[arofili]

men of middle-earth ✦ middle men ✦ headcanon disclaimer

          The Men of the Mountains were descended from the first Men who wandered to the West in the First Age, but unlike the Three Houses of the Edain they never crossed the Blue Mountains into Beleriand. Instead they settled in the White Mountains, and over the centuries divided into several distinct groups, including the Bree-men, the Dunlendings, and the Mountain-men themselves.           Of all those kindreds, only the Men of the Mountains ever fell into Sauron-worship, fearing and revering the dark god who threatened conquest of the whole world. When the kingdom of Gondor was founded and Sauron’s might was contested, King Rioc felt hopeful that his people might be freed from the Shadow’s influence and agreed to meet with King Isildur upon the Hill of Erech. There Isildur had placed a great black globe, an Oath-stone, and Rioc swore upon the stone that he and his people would aid the Dúnedain in their time of need.           At that time Rioc was but a young man, newly come into his crown, and when Isildur called upon the Men of the Mountains to fulfill their Oath, he had fallen into old age, though his liege remained young and hale. His queen, Annaig, had recently died at the hands of Sauron’s orcs, and he saw this as retribution from the Dark God for straying from his worship. To make matters worse, his only daughter Bravantel had dallied with a Dúnadan soldier and had a child out of wedlock, ruining her prospects of marriage among her own people. All this culminated in Rioc’s refusal to honor his Oath, for which Isildur cursed him and his people to never find rest until they fulfilled their sworn duty.           Rioc dismissed this threat, and his people were relieved not to march to war against their Dark God, but upon their king’s death the true extent of Isildur’s curse was revealed. Though his body perished, his wraith endured, trapped in his mountain halls, and one by one each of his people followed him. No more children were born to the Mountain-men, and they grew to hate the living and curse their faithless king, and it was foretold by Malbeth the Seer that they would not find peace until they stood once more at the Stone of Erech and heeded the call of Isildur’s heir.           The wraiths of the Mountain-men haunted the caverns beneath the Dwimorberg and the valley of Harrowdale, and came to be known as the Paths of the Dead. None among the living who walked those paths ever returned to tell the tale; most notable of these foolish souls was Prince Baldor of Rohan, who endeavored to prove the Oath of his own fathers, much like the one taken by King Rioc, would not have such horrific repercussions if broken. Baldor embarked alone upon his journey into the darkness, where he was lost in an ancient temple of the Mountain-men to Sauron, starving to death after the vengeful ghosts broke his legs.            Baldor’s skeleton would not be discovered for five centuries, when Aragorn II Elessar embarked upon his own journey through the Paths of the Dead. Aragorn’s quest was marked by a different fate: he and his companions survived, for he was Isildur’s heir, and called upon the Oathbreakers to fulfill their oath at long last. King Rioc and his people had grown weary of their half-existence, and agreed to take up arms against Sauron as they had sworn to do. They joined Aragorn in his crusade through the south of Gondor, and for their aid Isildur’s heir granted them their freedom, and they vanished from the world, free to receive the Gift of Men after centuries of dwindling in the shadows of the mountains.

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[boethiah]

the infernal city books were FUN and anyone who says otherwise is wrong anyways which one of your ocs would get along most with almalexia

they REALLY WERE also annaig is the definition of ‘compulsory heterosexuality’ lbr. saying “i’m totally in love with this dude i’ve only ever read about in a book” while being obsessed with your female best friend like that was just me at sixteen. closeted lesbian representation right here 

for the oc question, obligatory it’s iliah ra’athim because she’s a literal hand of almalexia. THAT SAID bthamzual (my vestige) and almalexia get along like a house on fire, because bthamzual beat up molag bal and hates sotha sil. once a month they just get together and drink way too much sujamma and shittalk the clockwork city until they’re both in tears and then they go raid yansirramus or something

[sagenundlegenden]

Lord of Souls lore notes

Again, these were some notes I took about the Elder Scrolls novel Lord of Souls. These two novels are really one story. Didn’t get too far with my note taking here, maybe I’ll go back to it someday.

PART ONE

PT ONE Prologue

-          The worst thing someone on Umbriel can imagine is stasis

-          The high lords of Umbriel are immortal

-          Annaig killed Glim with a drug that caused his body to form a crystal like a soul gem to trap his consciousness inside

-          Clavicus Vile looks like a 13 or 14-yr old boy with a paunch, horn above his right eye and festering sore above the left; has a white dog named Barbas

PT ONE Ch 1

-          Letine Arese has a wolf’s head tattoo on her hip, which is worn only by the Medes’ inner circle

-          Colin’s last name is Vineben

-          For ten years Mede had no suspicions about Hierem, though he placed Letine in the ministry to watch over him as a general precaution; Hierem began testing her in order to establish his own intelligence circle

-          Letine: “the emperor has survived because he waits until he knows where all the forces are and their strengths before he strikes”

PT ONE Ch 2

-          Annaig extracts emotions from living substances to use as cooking ingredients, using the same principle as subgradience (the chemical is a vessel shaped by the soul stuff it contains)

PT ONE Ch 3

-          Colin’s supervisor is Intendant Marall

-          Colin: “Thalmor agents continue to harass the refugee communities in Sentinel and Balfiera—there has been a series of murders we can pretty confidently assign to them. The pattern is typical—the victims were all of mixed blood or had associations considered by the Aldmeri Dominion to be unclean.   It’s much worse in Valenwood—our supplies are no longer reliably getting to the rebels there. Sixty were caught and executed last week, along with four of our own men. There’s a leak we don’t know about, someplace. They know too much about our movements.”

- details about Umbriel leaked out when Attrebus sent letters to his biographers before disappearing to go to Morrowind, these were put up in broadsides on every street

- Gideon and Stormhold were also destroyed, meaning the undead armies don't need to be near Umbriel (b/c it went straight from Lilmoth to Vvardenfell)

- Colin says he has no evidence the Thalmor are even aware of Umbriel let alone coordinating it

- Umbriel is a pocket of Oblivion, not an invasion (which is impossible after the OC)

- "the Synod and College of Whispers, who never agree on anything" -Marall

- "the Thalmor have a plan, a plan laid out in decades" - Colin

- "The lizards?  They're entirely parochial.  Even if they could muster the sort of arcane knowledge this would require, why would they bother? They're content in their swamps." (Marall)  "They invaded Morrowind."   "For revenge.  They stopped their advance decades ago, and haven't showed the slightest interest in doing anything since then."  "Except keeping the Empire from reclaiming their territory."  "To my knowledge, we've never invaded Black Marsh.  Who wants it?"

- Colin: the An-Xileel are "entirely nativistic in their views, interested only in purging the former colonial influences and returning Black Marsh to whatever state they imagined it had been before it was ruled by foreign powers."

- wonders if the Sload could have done it, b/c they were supposed to be powerful sorcerers

- Colin gets intelligence from Black Marsh that has been collected remotely by the Synod and College of Whispers (by magic), and some on-the-ground reports of Umbriel transmitted mostly by sorcery

- Colin sees a group of Khajiit tumblers performing in Talos Plaza, juggling torches

- Hierem made a secret trip to Black Marsh the previous year, supposedly to negotiate with the An-Xileel, and didn't want the emperor or anyone else to know

- Varus Mountains separate Morrowind and Cyrodiil

PT ONE Ch 4

- Glim gives Fhena some kraken barnacles, like edible clams, which he says are native to the Lilmoth area

- the trees on Umbriel can make any substance, and talk to the Umbrielans

- the Argonians spines go rigid and they give off an odor when they're about to fight

- when they're named, they take Hist sap and are changed, "sometimes a little, sometimes very much"

- they count in twelves

- the Hist called Argonians back to Black Marsh during the OC and changed them, making them more warlike, stronger, faster

- the rogue Hist began to sing to the trees in Umbriel to call the city forth to Tamriel

PT ONE Ch 5

- Colin "opens his spectral eyes" and can see a ghost

- ghosts move on except in places with power to keep them

- an attack from a ghost feels like death spasms overtaking the muscles without physical damage

- Colin is able to cast a spell by reaching "into the middle of himself, where his little star was, the tiny piece of him that had come from beyond the world and even Oblivion, from Aetherius, the realm of pure light and magic"

- the language of redguards is Yoku

- Hierem performed some sort of ritual at the City Tree in Lilmoth

- Delia Huerc describes the City Tree as enormous, the only one bigger she'd seen in Valenwood but the Hist was more massive, more spread out- it had a palpable presence

- she describes Lilmoth as festering and putrid; the An-Xileel sang to the tree- a cacophonous chant, Hierem joined in as a counterpoint and lit a brazier, then did something magical- in his younger years he was a leader in the Mages' Guild; he called the name Umbriel many times

- summoning daedra means touching their minds- they can influence the summoner with violent passions

#The Elder Scrolls