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• A Letter From Orsinium

  by Golden Fool February 27, 2019
  Greetings old friend, I know it has been awhile since my last letter but you cannot blame me for the road to Orsinium was a long and treacherous one. As such you should ignore any rumours of me spending my time in the company of a rather attractive fellow traveller, for I was not and there are many ...

• I'm Sorry

  by Golden Fool March 17, 2018
  You will have come to hate me by the end of this recording and it pains me that that is the case. For all that I will have done and for all that I am about to do I am sorry, these words will mean nothing to you but still I am sorry.   As you know, the original reason that I joined the Railroa...
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• In Both Life and Death

  by Golden Fool August 27, 2017
  He squinted, as what little light that had managed to make its way through the smattering of planks that passed for a roof, finally crept its way across his eyes. That it had moved this far since he woke told him he’d been lying awake for roughly half an hour, in the past he would have quite l...
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• Journal of an Outsider ToC

  by Golden Fool March 3, 2017
  So some of you might have noticed that Lissette posted a build called The Outsider (finally) and that I have been posting screenshots/journals of my playthrough in the photos section of the Vault, the album for which can be found here. Now you might be wondering why I'm posting this ToC if...
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• A Warning

  by Golden Fool December 15, 2016
  The sun had almost completely disappeared below the horizon, signalling that it was almost time for the gate guards to bar the gate for the night. As though to confirm this the stream of people seeking entrance to the city had dwindled to no more than a few old farmhands looking forward to a night s...
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• A Table of Cyre

  by Golden Fool December 11, 2016
  Greetings to anyone unfortunate enough to have found this. What you see before you is a collection of short stories featuring the various incarnations of Sir Fluffles and his lovely assistant Darling, better known as Cyre and Beast. While some of these shorts are part of the same timeline others a...
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• Necromancer

  by Golden Fool September 30, 2016
  The sun had long ago set and yet the steps of the Bannered Mare were coated in the soft reddish glow of the fire within as its light escaped from below the doorway. Cheering and song mingled with mindless chatter, forming an incomprehensible noise which streamed outside. Those passers-by who were dr...
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• On Morihaus and Eidar Cheese

  by Golden Fool August 4, 2016
  On Morihaus and Eidar Cheese   Before I get started in earnest, I would like to explain who Morihaus was for those who may be unaware. Morihaus was a man who gained fame during Saint Alessia’s rebellion against the Aldmeri rulers of what is now called Cyrdodiil, in the early F...
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• Rain

  by Golden Fool June 28, 2016
  ‘Huh, isn’t it supposed to be raining?’   Cyre was perched atop the Solitude gates, his legs swinging back and forth as he dangled them over the edge. Below, a large crowd watched on as a funeral procession passed through.   An elderly female Orc stood beside him. Cla...
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• A Tale of Deceit - Chapter 2

  by Golden Fool June 26, 2016
  It wasn’t that hard to find Viola’s house. All I’d had to do was walk with the Grey Quarter at my back and watch as the streets transformed from murky alleyways to well-maintained passageways. From there it was only a matter of time until I found the narrow house surrounded by hawk...
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• A Nap Interrupted

  by Golden Fool June 22, 2016
  The Beast was pulled from his stupor by sharp scraping sound and the smell of man mixed with blood. The scent reminded him of the ones Cyre called “bandits”, those he was allowed to hunt. It was still faint, so there was still some distance between the source and them. It would be best t...
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• A Tale of Deceit - Chapter 1

  by Golden Fool June 1, 2016
  As I stepped through the great gates that guard the entrance to Windhelm, I couldn’t help but wonder how these Nords put up with the cold. I had been able to see my breath before me and still could now. And then there was the snow (by the Three, this damned snow!), which was up to my knees in ...
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• A Tale of Deceit - Prologue

  by Golden Fool May 15, 2016
  The night air is cool and there is a slight breeze that the many holes in the walls have let in. Above me, the stars peek through a gap where one of the planks that make up the roof has rotted away. The world around me is silent except for the occasion creak of old wood, which is good because the si...
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• Inheritance - Chapter 13 - Recovery

  by Golden Fool September 10, 2015
  She awoke to a dull pain emanating from her wrist, where was she? She seemed to be lying in a bed somewhere. It took her a moment to realise that her clothes had been removed and that the only thing covering her was the sheet from the bed. Looking around she started to notice the familiarity of her ...
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• Inheritance - Chapter 12 - Unease

  by Golden Fool July 8, 2015
  Sofie kept her eyes to the floor as they moved further into the ruins. For the most part the hallway seemed to be in fairly good condition compared to the ruin's exterior and even was better than the passageways that split off from it at set intervals; each of which seemed to have caved in, and yet ...
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• Inheritance - Chapter 11 - Dungeon Delving

  by Golden Fool June 20, 2015
  It was not what he had been expecting; while the ruins had been described to him, he still hadn’t prepared for what lay before them. To either side there were crumbling stone arches and spires that gave off the feel of a temple.   In places he could see piles of cracked stone where some of the arche...
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• Things Best Forgotten

  by Golden Fool February 2, 2015
  As children my friends and I used to dream of the glory we would win when we were old enough to go to war. We each grudgingly took our turn as the enemy of the great Dominion, only to be turned upon should we actually manage to win our childish game; for how could the great Aldmeri Dominion ever los...

• Inheritance - Chapter 10 - Sheliah

  by Golden Fool November 28, 2014
  From her perch above the North Gate she watched as Alarne and his friends passed through in search of his father; she hoped that they would be able to succeed where she had failed. She had set them on the right path and now it was up to them to find what they were looking for, yet she was unsure if ...

• Inheritance - Chapter 9 - Good News

  by Golden Fool October 26, 2014
  “Oh no reason, it’s just that that’s my younger brother she’s talking to.” She knew that plenty of Dunmer had fled to Riften as well as Windhelm after Red Mountain erupted, but she had never expected to see one as thane of either city. “Could you tell me anything about the Thane?” “Don’t see why I c...

• Black Rose

  by Golden Fool October 14, 2014
  Maven may think that she had complete control over Riften but that didn’t mean she knew what she was getting into by demanding, not asking but demanding her presence in her Manor. She suspected that she had picked this meeting place in the hopes of being safe, for whenever had an assassin been able ...
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• Inheritance - Chapter 8 - The Deus Ex Machina

  by Golden Fool October 10, 2014
  Alarne sat staring into the depths of his mug; he was seated at one of the tables that ringed the main room of The Bee and Barb. The ride back from the clearing had been slow and he was sure it had been almost unbearable for Sofie. They had rushed to the temple of Mara and the priests had taken her ...
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• Inheritance - Chapter 7 - The Clearing

  by Golden Fool September 27, 2014
  The ride from Fort Dawnguard had been tedious to say the least; Alarne and Blaise had acted as though they rode in the company of a bear. Their fear of what Runa would do to them should they say or do anything to set her off was almost something Sofie could reach out and touch. Runa only made this w...

• Inheritance - Chapter 6 - Reunion

  by Golden Fool September 19, 2014
  The return back to Fort Dawnguard was far less eventful than when he and Alarne had passed through the region. Blaise had them stop in at the Riften inn to await nightfall, for as he had told Runa and Sofie; it was far easier to find the opening to the canyon by moon light due to the braziers that a...
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• Excerpt from a blood soaked journal

  by Golden Fool August 29, 2014
  “Only those that have experienced the unchecked power of the shadows can truly understand the glory of the light” I have recently come to believe that this statement is the truest thing that I have ever heard. My life up until now is a testament to this fact, and yet it started out much like that of...
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• Inheritance - Chapter 5 - Explanations

  by Golden Fool August 27, 2014
  As he emerged from the shadows he felt a light tap on his left shoulder. “By the eight, I didn’t even make it two feet into this damned city.” These words were all that escaped his mouth before he stopped himself and turned to find both Runa and Sofie staring at him with expressions of combined fury...

• Inheritance - Chapter 4 - Florentius, Arkay and Solitude

  by Golden Fool August 25, 2014
  “Hmm are you sure this will work?” They were standing in what seemed to be part forge and part mage study, at the far end of the room he could see a barricade of some sort but like everything else in the room it was unable to keep his attention for long. Alarne was not quite sure where he was or who...
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• Inheritance - Chapter 3 - Fort Dawnguard

  by Golden Fool August 25, 2014
  It had taken longer to find the vampire hunters, who he later learned were called the Dawnguard; then Blaise had originally thought. Not only had they needed to leave the horses at the Riften stables as he had been told that they would not be able to get them into the canyon that housed the ancient ...
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• Inheritance - Chapter 2 - A Chance Encounter

  by Golden Fool July 8, 2014
  It had taken them three days to get to the small town of Ivarstead due to bad weather. The path they had followed had led them past the ruins of Helgen; there had been many plans to rebuild the town yet it had never been done. Throughout his life; short as it was Alarne had heard many a tale of the ...

• Inheritance - Chapter 1 - Beginnings

  by Golden Fool June 14, 2014
  The house was silent as he crept down the stairs so as to avoid waking his siblings and father’s housecarl. Although Jordis had been like a mother to them since their parents had disappeared fifteen years ago. He slipped out the door, doing his best to ensure that it made no noise as he eased it shu...
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