The Unlikely High Elf

• Posted by Mukhtar Farid January 27, 2014 - 359 views

  The beginning:-

  Ok so I am a high elf named Jacob who lived a quiet life in Cyrodil -the place of my birth.My father always complained about how much racist the Nords were and that it was good that his kin of Summerset Isle set the White Gold Conordat.I never really agreed with him on that point because I believe my mentor Kajlin who taught me the basics of combat and some of magic that no one should be treated unfairly on the basis of what deity he or she submits to.Years passed and I ended up quiting my school in Skingrad and got involved in drug dealings-particularly Skooma-which had a refreshing taste and enhanced of its consumer.My boss got me a killer deal in Skyrim where Skooma was heavily in demand, so I took the offer to relocate to Skyrim and start my base of operations there.That was the fatal decision where all my compatriots were killed and I was arrested by Imperial soldiers serving General Tullius in Skyrim and was taken along with a couple of other prisoners to Helgen for execution.But en route I fell asleep and had the strangest dream..it would seem a dragon looked at me with stern eyes and spoke to me-

  'As Alduin returns, so does the dragonborn..and what you are has been decided by my sub deity Kyne.I will not reveal more-but the chain of events-the victory of the Stormcloaks, the murder of the Emperor of Cyrodil, the greatest heist ever performed by a thief,the arrival of the savior of the mages and leading the companions to further glory all connect back to you!Lastly the end of world....well that is your destiny to choose....'

  I woke up when the carriage clambered against the rocks on the road to Helgen. One of Stormcloak rebels looked at me curiously and said' You were right there during the Imperial ambush...and that thief over there'.The thief and the Stormcloak who identified himself as Ralof had a heated debate which I was uninterested to listen to. But as fate would have it- the leader of the Rebels-Ulfric Stormcloak was also captured by the Imperials-and shouted vehemently' Shutup back there!'.I have to admit the man had an air of authority even while he was tied up and gagged.

  We eventually reached Helgen and 2 of the prisoners were executed one of them being the  thief who had an argument with Ralof.Evidently the thief was not ready to be executed and thought he could get away-but the archers targeted him and ended his life!Then the strangest of things happened when it was my turn of being executed. As the headsman prepared to decapitate me a black dragon landed atop the nearby keep and shouted some unholy language which caused the sky to turn dark and to rain down meteors.Ralof shouted out to me to escape into another nearby keep where he,Ulfric and a couple of other Stormcloak soldiers were taking shelter from the enigmatic black dragon.

  Ralof starts talking about some dragon legend when Ulfric gave a haughty response-'Legends don't burn down villages..'.I quickly ran off to the top of the tower whence the dragon destroyed a section of the wall and started breathing fire...I was never so scared of losing my life before...I hail from Cyrodil...why the hell did I come here only to end up being killed or worse eaten alive by a mythical dragon.Ralof broke my thoughts and suggested me to leap toward the nearby broken building.I followed his advice and then joined Hadvar as he led me to a keep and started rebuking Ralof as a traitor for escaping.I rejoined Ralof and headed to the yet another tower.Once inside,Ralof cut my bindings off and suggested me to equip myself with a set of armor and a weapon.Evidently there was no way out of the particular section of the keep-so we both started brainstorming of  a way of getting past the locked door.Just then an Imperial captain open the door and together we took her down and her guards,picked the key and proceeded to the lower sections of the tower hoping that there might be a secret way out of Helgen one which evades the dragon.But it turns out one of those paths got blocked due to dragon still destroying parts of keep.

  Companion's harbinger:

  I joined the Companions for earning respect.With my help and Aela's we dealt a severe blow to the Silverhand operation and recovered all of the pieces of the Wuthraad. However we lost Kodlak. Vilkas one of the senior members of the companions was mad and had all of the remaining silver hand slaugtered I was not entirely convinced that this was honorable but went along with the slaughter.Having done that, we ventured into Ysgrammor's tomb, proved our worth to his ghostly companions and fulfilled Kodlak's final desire-to free him from lycantrophy by throwing the hagraven witches' head into the flame of harbinger.In the process of doing so, I freed myself too and killed the wolf spirit of Kodlak and mine thus ending our beast blood dilemma.After a while I decided to marry Aela now that she was happy with me leading the companions and adopted two beautiful children.

   Master Architect:-

  Through my exploits one of them being retrieval of pieces of Mehrune Dagon's razor I amassed a huge amount of gold-and built 3 houses-and plan on buying more

  Hero of Skyrim:

  After building 3 houses and successfully marrying Aela my sweetheart and adopting two beautiful children I decided that enough is enough.The Empire has been discriminating in its policies against my fellow Nords by specifically banning worship of Talos.Now I may not be a Nord but I believe in right to choose your own god and religion-so I joined the Stormcloaks.Under Ulfric's command and his second in command-I was to prove myself by killing an ice wraith at Serpentine Island.I did this with less difficulty-owing to my powerful dragonbone armor that I have crafted garnered from dragons I have encountered and killed.I returned back with success report and Ulfric's second in command haughtily instructs me to gather the jagged Crown from a crypt which he believed to be Korvunjund.

  So I headed there and found my fellow Stormcloaks sharing reconnaissance information-stating that the Empire's legions knew about their mission and came to thwart their efforts since this would be a killing blow to the Empire's control over Skyrim.We eventually slayed all of the Imperials and the Draugr which was wearing the crown and then I returned to Ulfric to report on my mission success.Ulfric was looking timidly at the map and pointed his finger at Whiterun..and looked at me and said' Deliver this axe to the Jarl of Whiterun'

  . Not being a native Nord I did not understand why he wanted me to do so ,so I asked him why.He had  a predictable reply' How long have you been in Skyrim. This axe serves as a symbol of peace or possible aggression.If the Arl accepts it we have peace..if not then we go to war with Whiterun'.I nodded in agreement and was about to leave when he shouted' Be wary.The Arl of Whiterun is known for his temper'.