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  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

  Solitude

  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.