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Tiercel's Peregrinations
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Andra Hawksdaughter
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Yep, hit me in the feels. :) :rose:
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Thanks everyone!
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130 - Motherhood doesn’t go very well with getting any sleep

but it is what it is. I’m by way of wanting to enjoy my children while they’re small - because they just grow up too fast....

Holding throne-duties in Highmoon Hall annoyed so many of the Jarls that Var, grumbling, finally built a separate “throne room” at the back of the house property - which then became the front of the property by default, with the building of a road. Personally, I think the Jarls should be grateful for a few things: that Var is perhaps the best High King Skyrim’s had in centuries; that he puts up with their stupidities, only complaining to me and not everyone in the world; and that he stays out of their business unless specifically requested to intrude. Of course, part of the problem is that Solitude became the “seat of royalty” for Torygg and Var’s father. Most of the Jarls are old enough they should be passing things on to sons or daughters, but - well.... stepping down isn’t something these old men do very well. Unlike g’ma.

So yes, I’m now Morthal’s Jarl. It’s - not really comfortable for me yet, though I assume that once I’ve done it for a few years I’ll be happier about it. And better at it, but g’ma just laughs at statements like that. And obviously, Morthal has had a Jarl who had children at her feet all the time - so that at least isn’t a problem. The problem is my - diffidence - with regards to people thrusting their issues up my nose on a regular basis!

I’ve been receiving regular updates from Beran on the shrine’s progress all along. And that has meant keeping Neloth Telvanni apprised as well. And in fact, I had heard from Beran that he expected his parts of the shrine - that is, the Akatosh sculpture and whatever it was he was doing with Paar’s bones - to be done about the time the children would be a month old. So I’d sent a courier on to Neloth to let him know that time was shortening, and he might like to start for Morthal where we could give him a nice set of rooms.

Progress. I admit to having stomach-moths about seeing what Beran’s done.
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very nice.. idk about a road trip with babies though... a sling works...but..

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Eh - women in Skyrim are a lot tougher than people like my stepdaughters (none of whom could budge out of the house without practically the ENTIRE house.... *sigh*) Now I managed just fine - with a stroller, a diaper bag (which included an area effectively known as "my purse") and a few bottles. I walked miles from where I lived in San Diego to the "nearest" shopping (wasn't the base for sure - that was like 10 miles away, one way.... nearest shopping was a couple of miles downhill - unfortunately, the return home was - uphill.... duh!)
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Sheesh! You had a stroller?!? Lucky dog! My eldest son weighed about 500 pounds from age 3 months to about 2 or so, and was carried everywhere we went. He was lessee... a year and three months when our daughter arrived. Fortunately, she was lighter, and weighed only about 450 pounds... My wife carried one of the two babeses on her hip, while I carried the other one and the diaper bag.

Funny thing was that my eldest boy was still less than 2 1/2 and not real talented at walking when my wife's third baby was born. Funny, because that one wasn't mine, and we were divorced already. :D I told her she just had to figure out what was causing that...

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Funny one Sis, I can see Tier wanting to wring some necks! Can't wait to hear more about the shrine! :D
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I had a "sling" that I carried Damien around in.. yeah I had a stroller for loooooong walks, but the sling worked for both walking.. and the leased horse I rode.. I carted that boy everywhere.. he was 10lbs 22 inches at birth.. I wasn't even "supposed" to pick him up after my c-section... ex was out to sea.. and gee I just couldn't afford a Nanny...
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Actually the stroller was better since I always had a few bags of groceries.... a sling wouldn't have been very good.... When we got my horse, I boarded him winters at a place in Vegas. The owner trained show-ring paints, and agreed to help me train him for just the boarding fee ($600 a month) if I'd help her lunge the colts and feed, muck stalls, that kind of thing. She was highly pregnant, really needed the help.

After her little girl was born, I lunged horses with the baby on my back in a sort of backboard thing. She was a good kid - just slept while we turned circles.... I wound up as an unpaid vet assistant too - because I was the only one with a horse there who could be counted upon NOT to panic about things like eyes pulled out of sockets and deep gashes on flanks....

I never get how people can panic before trying to do something to help.
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Some people are very good some kinds of crisis.. other's in true emergencies ...

I am horrible at work "emergencies"..cause my 1st thought is usually against company policy... would work, but..

Now "true emergencies"...medical and otherwise, those I am very good at.. some conventional, others not so much. Partly my personality, partly training.. Military and Paramedic's.. plus all the volunteer stuff in High School, for Hurricane's and other natural disasters... training.
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131 - Neloth’s not improved since I saw him last

not that I expected him to! He did admit that the rooms we had for him were “better than he expected.” And after g’ma put him in his place, reminding him that she was the Last Dragonborn, he got a little less stiff. He was of course totally uninterested in my twins, but I’d expected that - old Dunmer bachelor mages....

The day arrived finally; we packed up the twins, and gave Neloth the new carriage, with g’ma and g’da and da while Var and I and the babies and ma used the old one. With all of us, and the twins, it took us four days to Ivarstead.

Neloth took himself off up the steps without us, which was fine. We’d be taking it more slowly for any number of reasons - beginning with the babes, and winding up with my parents and grandparents. We made High Hrothgar just at dusk, and found Arngeir awaiting us - so I presumed Neloth had informed him we’d be along.

There was food from the inn in the town, and beds, and in the morning I said to g’ma “So, how are we getting Master Arngeir up to Paar’s Aerie?”

She just grinned, and motioned us out on the back courtyard. Once there, she threw back her head and Shouted a name. I looked at her in shock, as did everyone else - except Arngeir.

“DUR NEH VIIR!”

And very shortly indeed a dragon appeared overhead, and landed fairly gently in the snow of the courtyard. It spoke to g’ma.

“Qahnaarin. It has been long since you learned the last Word. And long since you called me. What aid do you need?”

“We wish to take Master Arngeir, the last of the Greybeards, up to Paarthurnax’s Aerie at the very peak of Throat of the World. In order to spare him as much pain as possible, I would ask that you fly him up there, as Paarthurnax once flew him to a meeting in Hjaalmarch.”

I could see the thoughts swirling around in its eyes. “I can do this, Qahnaarin. I will be interested to see the peak of this strunmah myself. Normally, none may ride upon my back - but for you, for your friendship all these decades, I will Bend my Will for this.”

Master Arngeir looked at this dragon and said softly, “I thank you. I will not be coming back down....”

Durnehviir bowed his head and replied, “I am sorry for that. I am sorry that I will never know how to shed my cursed self so that I may die in truth. My life is heavy on me, and as the centuries heap themselves upon me in the Soul Cairn - well.... I envy you the ability to go on to Sovngarde.”

And I felt a niggle of - something. I put it aside for the moment, for now we needed to finish the climb while Arngeir rode a dragon.
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Oh!!! :clap: :clap: :clap: I'm not saying anything else, I'll just hope. :D
:hugs:
Edited by Andra Hawksdaughter, Jun 11 2017, 06:43 PM.
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You know, I did all of both DLCs on Veri, I just didn't write about it (it was so long already....) - but the minute I thought about getting Arngeir up there, but Paar is dead.... well.... bingo! Thanks Sis!
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<sniffles> that is such a good way.. Durnehviir, but I always feel sooo very sad for him.
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Thanks sis.... yeah.... me too.... so. I may have to take a page out of my mother's book and rewrite some history. Otherwise known as "ret-conning" - and if beth can do it, so can I.
Edited by Serethil, Jun 11 2017, 06:47 PM.
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Well why the hell not? ;)
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Interlude - Arngeir and Durnehviir

“So, Durnehviir - this... flying.... it’s almost more than flesh can bear! But - it is - exhilarating. I.... can’t remember the last time I felt - that. Perhaps when I first mastered a Shout....”

“Ah. Master, you are - one of those who followed Jurgen Windcaller. There was much he knew - and much he did not know. And you are the last of those who followed his rede. You.... are - as much out of your own time and end as I am, though of course, you are not cursed. You are simply - aged. And seek Sovngarde.”

“Aye. I have lived so long.... too long. I - could not - leave and knew not why. Until the Last Dragonborn’s granddaughter arrived at my doorstep.

“How is it you are cursed? I have known dragons.... but I have not known a cursed one before. Or if you do not wish to speak of it.... then my apologies for asking.”

“Oh, I do not mind it. Speaking of it is - far less painful - than dealing with it.”

Arngeir saw spread in his mind the entirety of the abominable situation which had been Durnehviir’s lot. And sudden tears flooded his eyes.

“To use you so.... it’s.... not - kind. And should never have been allowed.”

“Old man.... Greybeard - the things that have been practiced on our kind.... well.... some of them we earned in truth. And - some of them were done by those afraid of what we might do. As AL DU IN did - the betrayer.... he who failed to understand his role as set by Akatosh, our All-Father. Do you not, even now, pray to Akatosh for blessings and succor?”

“Aye. We do. Well.... I do. I am all that is left of Jurgen Windcaller’s progeny.”

“No.... not all. For Verinne Ravenwing Shouted my name to the skies - and brought me here, to carry you to where you will rest.... and.... to talk to you - the last scion of Jurgen Windcaller. In this age.

Arngeir wondered if that last phrase had perhaps escaped Durnehviir’s conscious control.

“Man. Arngeir. You - receive - quite well. Keep faith, keep heart. You.... have a purpose yet.

“Ah. Here we are. Hmm. How strange that a human, an artist, could honestly produce - something - so appropriately... magnificent....”

Arngeir’s eyes lit with laughter. “Do you not know that we are all of us your children? How could he have failed to honor both Talos, and the dragons? Talos was never a dragon-killer - that was the Blades. And I have done the best I knew how to mitigate that - aberration - because...”

“Because you understood the larger arch in this world’s tale. That without the dragons, the world would stultify - would go stale. That nothing would be done except that - brother would kill brother....”

“Aye. But.... we did not do it right. We.... settled into the stone walls.... and if Verinne Ravenwing had not forced us out of them.... we would have lived there inside the cold stone walls, and never - accomplished anything of any purpose.”

Durnehviir settled into deep thought. “So then. Your founder, Jurgen Windcaller. He - proposed that the Voice was something to.... study. To learn. And having learnt all he thought it could tell him, he - settled to - doing.... no harm?”

Arngeir paused for thought. Deep thought. Because.... this dragon had just stated his own - Arngeir’s - ambivalence all these years since Verinne Ravenwing had sobbed into her knees while sitting on the cold stone floor.

“He did. And.... I found.... I could not countenance failing to aid the Last Dragonborn in her quest to end Alduin. I - used to think - that because of that I had failed my calling. But now....”

The words from the dragon were a caress over his soul. “You have aided those who are the future of this world. No blame to you, and no harm if I have my way.”
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A truly thought provoking scene! and perhaps.. they can help each other.
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Thank you sis!

What I truly love about Skyrim.... is the ability to hare off in a direction never though of by the devs.
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Kindred souls, unknown before now. How terribly sad....
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