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Kurdan Gro-Olar
Topic Started: Jul 4 2016, 08:55 AM (568 Views)
Andra Hawksdaughter
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I loved that Areial, it's great seeing the group having to deal with nature's bad temper, as well as the normal two and four legged baddies! Great detail! :)


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Edited by Andra Hawksdaughter, Aug 2 2016, 06:27 PM.
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Wow. Good thing they had Marc along! For a couple of reasons.... interesting about Shiamar and Urag having such long chats.... Very interesting update!
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The Storm Break's on a New Day pg 13


I woke to the feel of a hand snaking down my chest towards my dagger, when it was almost at my hip, I reached up and grabbed and found a wrist, which I twisted and pulled across me as hard as I could, sending the person flying over me. The female screech told me I may have made a tactical error in flinging her. Marcurio lit up the tent with a spell and we all sat up to see Shaimar rolling to her stomach and trying to climb out of our baggage.

I exclaimed "What the..." as she got to her knee's, took one look at the three of us watching her and went a very dark green. I could see it in her eye's, she was going to bolt, I yelled "Marc!", figuring he knew a spell that might stop her, but he launched himself at her and held her tight when she started wiggling and bucking.

Navitas crawled over and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Sister, stop, your making it very...err difficult on Marc." noticing the strain on his face. "What where you doing?" Shaimar started sobbing, huge gulping sobs that were heart wrenching to hear.

" I I thou..ght if I pleased him, he would ma..make me his fir..first Wife, not you." I closed my eye's and thought hard for a moment, but Navitas beat me to it.

"Now who said I was going to marry Kurdan? Who said he wanted to marry me in the first place? Hmm?" Well it's not the direction I would have went, but it was a good one. I crawled over so that I could sit next to Marc on the opposite side as Navitas.

"Shaimar, it will be year's before I even think to marry, the Stronghold must be built, self-sufficient and all those with-in know that they are as important as I. The women know that they can marry as they choose, any male they choose and have children. The men to know the same and that they don't need to challenge to be Chief to do so. If I marry right away, it will look like I want the same things I left."

I put my hand on her chin and lifted her face.

" Never be shammed because you think you have to do the thing's your mother said.. that tradition dictates. I will take a wife, IF that is what you want after you do some growing and know your own mind, then I would not be ashamed to call you wife. That is year's from now and I think you need to quit squirming on Marc's lap or he may think your interested." I had seen that Marc was biting the inside of his cheek and his face getting more and more strained.

Shaimar fairly leaped off Marc's lap and sat beside Navitas. " Urag said that he thought I should follow my heart to what I want to be the most." She looked at Navitas, "and that is to be like you, but I..well I don't think I could be a single warrior among men." Navitas shook her head.

"Oh, Sister. You must not have understood, I have two Heart-Sister's that would love you. When they get back, we will talk about you joining us, IF you want to." Shaimar tilted her head and had a very contemplative look on her face.

"I do not understand exactly what it is you mean by Heart-Sister, if they are not of your clan?" Navitas shook her head.

"Azul is an Imperial, Nic is a Bosmer, they went to the Imperial City to see if they could find a cure for the Vampirism that Azul caught. Then they may go to Valenwood to visit Nic's family. We started out in the same Imperial training company and have been together through vampire hunts, bounty hunting and many other things. We decided that if my mate can't except them, not necessarily as wife, but as Sister and the same for their perspective mates, then we would not marry." Shaimar's smile lit the tent.

"This is what I want, yes to have a family that Love's me for me, not because of my body proportions." I coughed and got their attention.

"That is one of the thing's that I want in my Stronghold, the ability for everyone to do as they wish, not as tradition dictates. The only thing traditional I want is the Strength, Honor and sense of self that the Stronghold's give. Our people are strong, but they will not stay so, not with our strongest women leaving and sometimes it isn't the strongest male that win's, but the one with the most cunning."

" Our crafting skill's are among the best and highly sought after. But how many of our best smith's never return to a Stronghold? They don't want to be one wife among many, but they want children, so we call them "City Orc's" and all in the Stronghold's think them weak. I do not think City Orc's are weak and I think we will prove to the other Strongholds that "tradition" has many faces"

"For now Ladies and Gentleman, I think sleep is in order. Marc, I think it's your watch, wake me in three hours and I'll take over." He nodded and understood, I knew it would be a while before he'd get back to sleep, I had been in that state before.


The storm lasted another two days and in that time we went over the notes that we had written, reading them to each other, Navitas or Marc taking notes. Each of us coming up with idea's that would work with the concept that I wanted in a Stronghold. Tradition, tempered with innovation, Strength with honor and compassion. How we would go about making ourselves even more self reliant that most "traditional" Strongholds, they had blind spot's, that we would open to the light and chase the cobweb's out of.

I knew I had chosen rightly, having Marc along, having him as a core member of our Stronghold. Having Navitas and her Heart-Sister's was one of the most important thing's that I will work towards. I knew i needed the kind's of people that could do the thing's that a town or village could do. That was one of the major problem's with the "Traditional" Strongholds, the touted being self-reliant but had to get food-stuff's and cloth from outside. We would change that.

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I've got some :book: to do on my lunch!
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Whoa! Little confuzzled there, poor kid! That was GREAT, Areial!
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It's hard to break away from what you've been taught your whole life, but I think she'll manage, eventually. Poor Marc! :evil: Good one Areial!
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Oh, dear Shaimar! This girl needs to learn some new ways. I can’t blame Marc for tackling her instead of firing off a spell, I’m sure his lap was telling him it needed to be squirmed upon. I love how they all handled that situation and gave her hope instead of shame. What a great group!
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Kurdan's ideals bring to mind the Orsinium of the Second Era and it makes me really happy and confident that it won't end as tragically as that did.
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You know.... I'd forgotten about my "manipulation" of Daggerfall's setup.... I found at some point during the game that if I had ebony armor and weapons to sell, I got about three times as much from the Orsimer in Orsinium as I did anywhere else.

From then on, I was never broke in that game. If you went dungeon-delving, and there was a reasonably powerful daedra at the bottom, you were pretty much guaranteed to find ebony armor and weapons....
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I did much wiki reading... I want Kurdan to stay inside "probable" ...as far as Lore is concerned. Though it may be at the very outskirt's of it.
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From my point of view, I don't want to see Kurdan too traditional, or he won't like the furniture!
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Aug 10 2016, 11:10 AM
From my point of view, I don't want to see Kurdan too traditional, or he won't like the furniture!
LoL... just remember more than half his "tribe" so far are females....Style often comes before comfort..and def before tradition...
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Bandit's, Taxes and Family... pg 14


"Kurdan, have you given a thought to how your charter is going to read?" Marcurio's voice reached me as we rounded a bend in the road.

"Charter? I'm afraid I don't understand."

"How is the Stronghold going to be set up, the charter needs to be written so that the Jarl knows what kind of holding you have. Think of it like a contract, which it is, the Jarl's part is the selling of the land and anything you are entitled to. Your part tells him what kind of holding you are looking at. Mining operation, farm, family holding, village... that kind of thing."

I motioned Shyla to a stop and watched the commotion going on at the palisade that crossed the road. From the looks of thing's, a group of Chiss where taking exception to the bandit's in the fort. The other's lined up beside me, with Marcurio on my right and Navitas on the far left, Shaimar between us.

"Hmmm well I would rather be a village, if we have to put anything." I shaded my eye's with my hand and realized it wasn't a two way fight, but a three way. " To get more Orc's to come I know it will have to be set up more like the strongholds they know, but I think a Tribunal and as the Stronghold gets larger then add in counselors, so the people have a say. But why is all this necessary?" I turned Shyla back down the road and headed for a shallow water crossing, no point in being attacked from three different sides.

"Taxes.", I looked over at Marcurio

"What? Taxes?! Why?"

"Well depending on how your charter is written is how the Jarl will expect you to pay taxes. Obviously a Mine is a business, a farm is also, but taxed different. A Village is set up so taxes depend on individual people."

I grumbled to myself, I could not remember our Chief paying taxes, but then again He held the stronghold through might, constantly at war from without and within. I wanted our stronghold to be strong, stronger than those of "traditional" Orc's.

A bandit jumped out from behind a boulder and I reflexedly drew my sword and kneed Shyla towards the man, one slice of my greatsword and he head was rolling back down the hill we had just climbed up. Shaimar and Navitas, off their horses, ran past and took out two more bandit's, while a spike of Ice took out the last. We looted the bodies and left them to rot, the scavengers would feast well.

Once we were back on our way to Markarth, I thought of the courier that had intercepted us on our way back with Urag Gro-Shub's book's. The Fort one of the book's had been in had been infested with Necromancers, the other with Bandit's, neither was much of a challenge. I re-opened the letter that my Heart-Mother had sent.

Son of my Heart, Kurdan,

We are just arrived in Markarth, your Heart-Mother had a mis-hap in the mountain's and we had to make camp until she could be moved. A hunter found us a cart that we pulled until we bought a horse from a traveler. Your Mother is healing as well as my skill's allow. We will camp here until we hear from you and you can arrange transport to the house of your friends.

We are safe and out of the weather, our hunters and guards have all said that they wish to say. That is they are all young and wish to join your Stronghold. They think you not only strong but wise and will test you to see what each one of them thinks is most important. Do not loose your temper with them or treat them as children and that includes your Brother.

Keenya Gra-Olar



I folded it back up as we turned a corner in the road. My Heart-Mother, was never the most physical of females, often having given up her share of food fro siblings and children. I urged Shyla into a fast jogging-walk, a gate that would allow her to speed past the miles, while not exhausting herself, I did not wish to stop early.

We camped that night on a cliff overlooking the valley that lead down to Solitude and the Sea of Ghosts. I watched the fae light's sweep across the sea, ever changing and I thought about the best way to get my Birth-Mother to the Cliff house. It would have to be the long way around, via Iverstead, the shorter mountain trail would be much to steep and narrow for a cart or waggon.

I hear the swish of the tent flap being pulled back and the soft hissing sound of leather on grass and then a hand on my shoulder.

"Don't brood, you will give yourself a headache. Your Heart-Mother would have said if it had been worse, something as simple as a twisted ankle could make trekking up and down mountain's impossible for one the age of you Birth-Mother" I patted Shaimar's hand, she was correct, but I was still going to worry.

"Shaimar, I would ask a favor of you. As the only one of us born to Skyrim, could you lead my Family to the Cliff house? I need to return those book's to Urag and see if he has any further information. I would prefer to do so myself, but it will take a very long time to get there and I need the information." She seemed to hesitate and frowned. " I am trusting you with my Birth-Mother and my Heart-Mother, it is no easy thing for me, but I have much to do. It will take twice as long if I have to make a huge circle of Skyrim." she looked startled, then frowned.

"Oh no I was hesitating because Navitas is the better warrior, but you are right, I know Skyrim better. I would be honored to take your family to the House and show the hunters the best places to hunt and perhaps take a trip to the area that you want the Stronghold to be in."

"Thank you Shaimar, It will still be a few days to get to Markarth, so we have time to discuss where the Stronghold will be and what may be needed in the way of supplies, but really we won't know until we see who it there." With that I said goodnight and went to get as much sleep as I could, I felt I would need it.

Three days later we crested a hill and could see Markarth a short ways off. As we hit the bridge I saw a gangling figure of a half grown Orc male wave, then run to the Khajiit camp, less than five minutes later the figure came running back and this time stopped at the edge of the bridge, but I could see Orc's come out of the tents, It was not a Khajiit camp, but my family.




Edited by Areial, Aug 31 2016, 01:26 PM.
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Kurdan could be forming Skyrim's first Section 502B corporation! Or maybe a limited non-profit partnership? Hmm... where's the College of Accountants located?
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Kurdan needs a Desk-Wife for all of the paperwork! I loved the scene at the end when Kurdan realized he was looking at his family’s camp. :wub:
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Sorry, but I didn't include a desk. She'll have to be an "End-of-the dining-table-Wife". :teehee:
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《 snicker 》the mod may not come with one, but Kurdan will have a Steward to take care of that kinda thing.
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Very enjoyable Areial! Heh. I like the Desk-wife idea!
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It would be so difficult to leave his family to another while he takes care of business, but it seems Shaimar has earned his trust. That should be good for them both. :) Love this Areial!

Hmm, I think Hold Wife would work. :D
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I am rolling over End-of-the-Dining-Table Wife, since that's exactly where I'm standing at my makeshift laptop "desk" / office area! :D
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