 A Life of Strife and Struggle |
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| Collection | Coldharbour Lore | ||
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A Life of Strife and Struggle
Notes for the personal memoirs of King Laloriaran Dynar, "Last King of the Ayleids"
- Structure: ten chapters as traditional, one for each of the Ten Ancestors
Chapter One: Struggles of the Late Ayleid Period (263-331)
- —My father humiliated by the Empress
- —Nenalata as a vassal-state to the Empire of Cyrodiil
- —Wrenching transition to a slave-less economy
- —Forced adoption of Alessia's Eight Divines
- —I don the Crown of Nenalata
- —Rising sense of futility and doom
Chapter Two: Alessian Order, Ayleid Disorder (332-371)
- —Coup d'Etat in the Imperial City
- —I swear fealty to the Emperor
- —Theocracy in Cyrodiil
- —The Ayleid Pogrom
- —The vassal-states dwindle
- —Nenalata stands alone
Chapter Three: Tears for Lost Nenalata (372-374)
- —Ultimatum from the Emperor
- —Debate with the Intransigents
- —Last hours in Nenalata
- —The turbulent trek from Cyrodiil
- —News of the massacre of the Intransigents
- —Nibbled to death by Goblins
Chapter Four: Refugees on the Bjoulsae (375-452)
- —Welcomed by the Direnni
- —Displacing the Orcs, founding a city
- —Bisnensel-by-the-Lake
- —Detente with the Bretons, armistice with the Orcs
- —Disturbing news from Cyrodiil
Chapter Five: Menace of the Primeval Seekers (453-460)
- —The pernicious cult of Hermaeus Mora
- —Strange rites, persistent visions
- —High Priest Uluscant asserts his authority
- —Murder in the night
- —Flight of the royal family
Chapter Six: Sanctuary Among the Direnni (461-477)
- —Balfiera Island
- —Ryain, Aiden, and Raven
- —At War with Skyrim
- —Tactician and Strategist: I find my true calling
- —Hoag Merkiller defeated
Chapter Seven: Approach of the Alessian Horde (478-479)
- —Rumbles from the Heartland
- —We find Breton converts to Alessianism
- —Scourging of the missionaries
- —The Alessian Horde marches west
- —The fall of Craglorn
Chapter Eight: The Mustering of High Rock (480-481)
- —Envoy to the Vassal Kings
- —Aiden reluctantly signs the Rights Charter
- —Making legionaries out of farmhands
- —The Horde swarms into High Rock
- —Atrocities of the Alessians
Chapter Nine: The Battle of Glenumbria Moors (482)
- —Opening skirmishes
- —We present the lure
- —Faolchu takes the bait
- —Charge of the hidden knights
- —Conjured creatures of Corvus and Calani
- —Rout of the Alessians
Chapter Ten: Return to Nenalata (482-484)
- —Pursuit of the Alessian Horde
- —Extermination in Craglorn
- —The Maruhkati Martyrs
- —Return to the Heartland
- —Lured to Nenalata
- —Molag Bal's Insidious Trap
- —Prisoner in Coldharbour
- Plenty of time in here. Just hope they don't take away my writing materials. Could even Dremora be that cruel?