JonEdit
Jon was born in a cave, as are all trolls. His Mother was a Bosmer, and his father was a Troll, which resulted in him having a strange blue pigmentation and green hair color but still maintain Bosmer like attributes. He was rebuked by The world, and was forced to live in the Wilderness, but had to kill out the residents of caves that he wished to live in, as not even his own Trollkin would accept him.
Around the Date 5E247 17 Suns Dawn he ran out of food, and started to get hungry. He had been practicing archery for about 28 years now, and he was now 32 years old now. He was an eccelent surviver, but he had recently run out of meat, and Fruit and could not find any, so desperately, he hid in a bush and waited for a traveler to come by. After about Twelve hours of waiting, someone wearing fancy clothes was riding a horse down the road. He strung an arrow, pulled it un against his right cheek, took aim, and fired. The Arrow hit the merchant dead in the chest, and he fell backwards, off his horse, onto the road. The Horse ran off into the blue, before Jon could get a clear shot on it.
He walked up to the Merchant, who sputtering out blood asked, "Why...*Cough*...Why did you do this? *Cough*," and died. Jon then took off all of the dead Merchants clothes and got a bunch of food from the Merchants pack. He then Drug the Merchant into his cave, and tied his corpse up to the roof with some string around his neck. Jon sat down and ate all of the carrots, apples, and venison. He was still hungry, so he built a fire and walked over to the Merchant, and cut into him with a stone knife he had carved a few years ago. He pulled of the meat and put it over the fire cooking it.
After he had finnished eating the meat, he was full, and laid down to sleep. He did not get much though, because as soon as he went to sleep, he was visited by a man dressed in a black robe and hood. The man said, "Hello Jon, how are you today? I see by the look on your face that you are confused, I am Lucien Lachance, and i am a speaker for the Dark Brotherhood, and you, you are a killer. We have been tracking you for many years, thirty-two i think, and have found a fascination in you. We would like to offer you membership into our family, and a home, with free food without worry, all you have to do in return, is do what you have already done, and kill more people, for us of course."
"A home? A family who loves me? And all I have to do is kill some people, That sounds good to me, I had always thought that everyone hated me. What must I do to gain entrance into the Dark Brotherhood?"
"You. You must wait here with me for a few hours, and I will guide you to Cheydinhal, and you will gain entrance to our Sanctuary."
so they waited for a few hours until the Tenth hour of the night, then Lucien said, "It is time." and stood up. Jon stood up as well and followed him out. They had reached the Gates of Cheydinhal, and Lucien opened them with some stange spell, which made them glow white. Lucien then Lead him to an Abandoned House on the East side of town.
"I go no farther," Lucien said, "but, when you enter, you will eventually arive at a door, which will ask you a question, you must answer, Sanguine, my brother, and it will open to you."
Jon nodded, and watched as Lucien became truely invisable, and left. When he attempted to open the door, he realized it was locked, Fortunately, he had been given the Skeleton Key by Nocturnal when he was 16. He pulled it out, and unlocked the door, and entered the house. He had followed the way downstairs, and indeed came to a door, glowing red with Black Symbols covering it. He touched it and is was quite cool, and asked, "What is the color of Night?" Jon then replied, "Sanguine, my Brother."
When he entered the sanctuary, an Argonian dressed in Shrouded Armor greeted him. "Hello," she said as sharp as a snake, "I am Ocheeva, and, I hear you are named Jon, you shall take your contracts from Vicente, and then through me, but first seek out Vicente, and do what he asks you to do, but, before you go, let me give you a gift. Wear this Armor and Hood proudly, and always travel at night. May the Night Mother be with you."
Jon nodded, and walked away, down the hall and into a room that contained a Vampire. "Hello Jon, my name is Vicente, and I understand you are to be taking your Contracts from ne. That is good, I have a few. You must always remember to talk to your fellow guild members, and stive for the bonus. I do have a contract ready for you, if you are ready to accept it."
Jon replied quickly, "Of course Vicente, I am always ready to accept," And Vicente told him of the contract he was to be given.
Now, this went on for about three months, and Vicente gave him his last contract to be given by him. After Jon had completed the odd contract, of preserving someones life, he returned to the sanctuary, and Vicente gave him his reward, and told him to report to Ocheeva. Ocheeva then gave him Contracts for over five years.
Now, it was 5E252 31 Suns Dusk, when Ocheeva told him, "After all of your years of working for me, training in the Training room, and eating and sleeping in the Living Quarters, It is time that I give you this letter from Lucien himself. Now read it and make haste, he is not a Patient man."
Jon sat on the booth in Ocheeva's Quarters and read the note.
My beloved Jon, the Night Mother has come to me and has told me that you must come Quickly to my lair in the ruined fort North of town. More instructions will be given there, now make haste and let no one know the contents of this letter.
Sithis Be With You,
Lucien Lachance
Jon smiled, he had waited for this for five long years. He stood up and left the sanctuary in a dead sprint. When he reached the fort, he remembered someone saying there was a trap door in a hollow tree, straight into Luciens Quarters. When he found it, he used it, and meeted up with Lucien. Lucien saw him and smiled darkly. "So you received my letter? Good. What I need you to do is quite strange. First, I shall promote you to Elimenator. You are no longer bound by the five tenants. I will now ask you to preform the Purification. This is a drastic measure, but it must be done. Someone has tainted the Cheydinhal Sanctuary, but we do not know who it is. The taint has arrived before you were accepted, so you are elimenated from suspicien, but, i must now ask you to kill everyone in the sanctuary, yes, everyone, now go, and don't return until it is finished.
After the Purification was complete, Jon returned to Lucien. "I have fealt the taint removed, you have done well. I will now promote you to silencer. You will no longer directly receive your orders from me, instead you will go to dead drops, and get them from there. The first dead drop in West of here, in a hollowed out, moss covered, rock. Now go, and I will see you again only when I see fit. Oh, and I suppose i should give you some insight as well. What is well known is that the Black Hand is made up of Four Speakers, and one Listener. Four fingers, and a thumb. What you did not know is that every Speaker, has a Silencer, just as every finger has a nail. Now, go, I have kept you long enough.
Jon left and went to the Dead Drop. He read the Letter which described his next target, and where to find his next dead drop. He fulfilled his orders, for some time, and then was visited by Lucien after completing his last one.
"No! I thought I could stop you before it was too late, but I was wrong. You obviously have no idea what I am talking about. You have fulfilled two of my dead drop orders, but the rest were left untouched. You have been fulfilling someone elses orders, and have been picking off the members of the black hand one by one. You have killed four Silencers, and the Listener himself! The rest of the Black hand knows you are innocent, but thinks I am guilty. You must now go to the next Dead drop, and wait and find out who puts the orders in it, you must then apprehend them and find out what they know. The traitor would not dare go himself, see if you can find him."
Jon went to the next Dead Drop and saw another Bosmer putting the letter in the Dead Drop. Jon apprehended her and asked her who had hired her. She said, "Jon I haven't seen you in Thirty-Seven years! I do not know who gave me the orders, but he was at the light house wearing a dark hood, much like yourself, but I could not see his face."
"Mother?" Jon asked.
"Yes, I could not have you in the city, the other people would rebuke me. So I had to leave you in the care of your father, who obviously left you when you were four. Oh, did you not know why you looked the way you do? You are half troll." She whispered.
"So, Your reputation was more important than your own son?"
She nodded sadly and a tear rolled down her face, "I am sorry."
Jon gaped and sat down. His mother patted his back and began to walk off. He took his bow, nocked an arrow, and shot his mother.
He then got up and ran to the Light House, and found the Master of it. "Where is the man in Black?!" The master then said, He was downstairs in the basement, here is the key, though he left in the morning.
Jon ran down into the basement, and opened the door. He found the bodies of his recent kills, strewn over the floors, and a Journal on a table. Jon opened up the book, and read it. He was shocked by the entries. He left and went back to Applebee Manor.
When he arrived, he saw four people standing in the Black Hand Robes. One of them walked up to him and said, "Lucien was a traitor. We delighted in his death, and we shall now go to the statue of Our Dear Lady in Bruma to meat with the Night Mother to get assigned a new Listener, let us go."
It took them a three days journey to Bruma, and when they arrived at Our Dear Lady, they formed a circle and chanted, "Our Dearest Night Mother, We ask that you allow us to come unto your presance so that you may assign a new Listener to us," and the statue moved backwards and a passageway opened underneath it.
When the arrived there, the Night Mother in the form of a spirit was standing there. She said, "There is a traitor amongst you." And the same Dunmer that greeted Jon at Applebee said, "My Lady, we killed Lucien."
The Night Mother bellowed, "FOOLS! LUCIEN WAS LOYAL TO HIS LAST BREATH!"
then a Breton said, "I cannot take this any longer! The Night Mother killed my mother, and now she shall pay!" and he unsheathed his dagger and killed three of the speakers, and ran towards the Night Mother. Then he was killed by Jon, and the Dunmer Speaker.
The Speaker said, "Milady, we still do not have a Listener."
The Night Mother replied, "Ahh, yes. I hereby appoint Jon the Listener of the Black Hand. I have followed his travels and he has done far better than any other Brotherhood member. Now return to the Cheydinhal sanctuary, and, Jon, Come to me once a weak for contracts to give to your Family. As Listener, you are like a fatherly figure, and your children love you, as do I."
"Farewell, mother. Blessed are you. I will always love you as my very own Mother, and Sithis as my Father." And they left.
Jon returned to the shrine once a week and fulfilled his duties as Listener, and lived in the Sanctuary. He watched the numbers of the Dark Brotherhood increase as if he were there father, and he loved them as his children.
Jon died in 5E265 30 Suns Dusk at the age of sixty, fulfilling a contract. The month and day as his entrance into the Black hand as a Silencer. The Dark Brotherhood mourned his passing and the Dunmer Speaker took over his place at the age of 27. The Night Mother nurtures to Jons soul to this day, as his very own Mother.