You know, if I didn’t have my suspicion than all of this is sheogorath fault I would start to think that all of this is no more than a dream, specifically a nightmare orchestrated by Vaermina, why it would do that? For its amusement of course, that would be better that the alternative…
I wake up, still in the body of a deformed unicorn with wings, alicorn if I remember correctly.
Either way I I’m in a bed trying to recall the events of yesterday, to say that it was an eventful day would be the understatement to end all understatements.
The day before if i remember correctly I exited the Shivering Isles and got back to Tamriel, I was so focused on the road and getting quickly to the Imperial City that I didn’t notice than a whole planet started to be visible from the sky.
And then just before getting to the Imperial City I found a group of refugees who wanted some safety in Bruma, I escort them all the way there. I still think the thank you and the smile of the children made the travel be worth it… everything that happened after that? I would blame it on me for not getting rest instead of the kid for wanting to be safe.
By that point I was awake for almost an entire day, how I didn’t faint stills eludes me.
In the way to the imperial city I attacked a couple of… ponies I guess, and thanks to the Wabbajack I switched bodies with one of them, they brought me to their realm, a place called Equestria, i somehoy managed to escape but I still remain in this body. I think this mare was called Twilight Sparkle, odd name I know but not worse than Pinkie Pie or Rainbow Dash.
The problem I face now is than I ended up in Skyrim instead of Cyrodill. So this is unfamiliar territory for me.
And because it would be less plausible than I’m the champion of cyrodill rather than a representative or explorer from Equestria… I guess it would for the best than I presented myself as Twilight Sparkle.
Yeah I think that Sheogorath is somewhere laughing at me, and I thought he was creative when he brought a tiny little bird to defeat a monster made by Hircine
I don’t think it matters anyhow, machination of Sheogorath, Vaermina or simply yesterday was a bad day. I decided to get out of bed. I walked out of Jorrvaskr and went directly towards a small park, from there I could go the palace of the local ki- I mean the Jarl.
But before I could get there a group of little girls appeared out of nowhere and… after surrounding me they started to pet me, call me cute and so on. Completely patronizing and one of the biggest humiliations I had on my whole life.
I somehow managed to slip away from that crown of kids and got back into Jorrvaskr. Then I asked some of the Companions to help me get into the palace without being seen by the children’s.
Then the Leader of the companions approached.
¨I saw what it happen, the kids got a liking into you, specially the girls. Don’t you worry, i will help you with those little pups¨
The face of that nord made clear that he found the whole situation amusing, and to be fair it is. The creature that descended from the world in the sky and fought an army of daedra… can’t pass children.
Wherever, he accompanied me to the park.
Fortunately the leader of the Companions is so well respected than with a small explanation of where I come from and how important was my mission combined with a small speech about personal space and how important is being respectful with strangers made the kids stop bothering me.
After a goodbye I went directly into the palace, I was informed than it was called Dragonsreach.
I opened the door and nord in a nice suit receive me.
¨I know than you want to see the court mage, but Jarl Solgar summon your presence¨
Yeah, the Jarl of Whiterun wants to speak with me, not what I expected but make sense, I followed the nord in until we got to the throne.
¨I welcome you Twilight Sparkle, the Harbinger of the Companions told me about how you saved a group of Companions from an attack from the daedra¨
I nodded and answered to the jarl
¨is a pleasure to meet you jarl Solgar, I don’t know much about this world. Even thou I would want to know more about this place and its people I need to follow any trail I can found to find a way to stop wherever is causing the current crisis¨
The jarl without wasting time told the guard he had at his side to bring the court mage, then he spoke to me again.
¨even thou I’m a warrior at heart and I crave a good fight more than nothing. I know that diplomacy is important, by your actions you shown that your people didn’t came here as enemies. You are victims like we are, even thou we have little knowledge of what is happening you have my guarantee that you will get my help¨
Yeah… really generous… he wants something in return I know.
¨and in return?¨
His jovial face changed to one serious and told me his conditions
¨in return you will tell me how much the people from the planet of the sky knows about the crisis, we need cooperation. But cooperation isn’t charging blindly into a doomed battle under the leadership of a clueless general or an apathetic monarch.
Yeah, he got a point. I don’t blame him, he help me and in exchange I share him what I know about… the crisis in the point of view of Equestria.
¨for once realm you can see in the sky is called Equestria, I’m not authorized to say much about it aside than I’m an alicorn. Got these wings recently so I’m still unable to use them, still I had many victories before so it was natural they send me here in spite of that, unfortunately the machine that I used to travel here suffered a malfunction. I survived but it will take time before my kind send reinforcements, as for what we know about why we can see our respective worlds in the sky, we know nothing, that’s precisely why I was send here, we thought you would know something¨
By the nine, what a mouthful, I don’t normally talk so much, but I really wanted to be convincing.
¨as unlikely as your story sounds I’m inclined to believe you, you shown initiative when you helped the Companions and temperance then you had to deal with those kids down below ¨
Damn, he knows about the incident with the kids, I really had to put all of my effort to keep myself from falling to the ground and cover my face in shame with my han-hooves.
¨anyway Twilight Sparkle, i said that I will cooperate with you and so I will, Vulken?¨
The Nord with the fancy suit approached to Jarl Solgar and receive an order from him I didn’t manage to heard what they talk unfortunately, then he run towards the exit. Looks like the Jarl just gave him an important task.
After that a fellow Breton appear, I guess this woman is the court mage judging by her robes. She was very excited to work with me, and like the child’s didn’t waste the opportunity to pet me, I will let it pass… just this time.
¨hello Twilight Sparkle, I’m Talia Rositte. It with be a pleasure to work with such a specimen¨
Then she had a small awkward pause, I guess she realized that calling me specimen can be a little offensive.
¨sorry, no offence intended¨
¨none taken¨
After that I follow her to her lab
We got quickly at the lab. It was a lot of books and scrolls, along with an enchantment table. She had a well stacked lab.
¨sorry for what it happened before, I just got very excited. I study a lot about magical creatures and alike, so you can guess how I felt when I saw a being from a species that I never heard before¨
Yeah, I guess acting like a child in front of the Jarl was not the best of introductions, either way I decided to no resent her and… well I sit in the ground, it would be difficult to sit un a proper chair.
¨I overheard that you are incapable of flying correctly, how it works? How did you earn your wings?¨
Just what I needed, questions I don’t have the real answer for, fortunately already thought on something…
¨I got these wings after defeating a great challenge, thanks to that I’m an alicorn. My people, the ponies have 3 main subspecies: the unicorns who are known for having a horn, the pegasus that have wings and thanks to that are able to fly. And finally the earth ponies who had neither horns or wings. The greatest of our people become alicorns and from there we become champions of all pony kind¨
Yeah. Totally bizarre and very insane if you think about it… but judging by the face of amazement coming from Talia is clear that she believe the horse dung that I’m telling her.
¨fascinating, I would like to hear more but I think we need to get back to business¨
I nodded, I completely agree on stop talking about Equestria.
So I explain her about my encounter with the portal where it descended a lot of daedra, she took note of every word I said… and then compare them with a scroll that I guess could be a report from the Companions about yesterday battle.
¨this really doesn’t make sense, I know than the dragonfires are no more, but there is no more need for them, there is supposed to be a barrier that prevent the daedra from harming the people of Tamriel¨
Good point, but i remember that the island that Sheogorath put in Cyrodill caused many ships to crash killing many people, so the daedra are still capable of harming mortals.
¨and if they can harm us indirectly? Looks like summoning a giant portal in the sea, ships that shipwreck for trying to avoid the portal are destroyed not because of their reaction instead of direct action from the daedra¨
Talia then had a face of surprise, like she had a sudden realization.
¨a loophole!¨
Yeah, that makes sense.
¨almost a year ago Tamriel was invaded by the daedra. Specifically by the Daedric Prince of destruction known as Mehrunes Dagon, the daedra reported by the companions are the same ones that took part in his invasion, I guess now we know who is responsible for this¨
So, Mehrunes dagon refuse to surrender, make sense. The daedra I fought yesterday were the exact same ones that were used by the Daedric Prince of destruction. Now I know who is responsible for this, the question is would be… what is his plan? I can’t get my head around on why putting a world in the sky would help him take over Tamriel.
¨ï will send letters to the Mages Guild and College of Winterhold, they might get an idea of what Mehrunes Dagon could planning.¨
She then started to write those letters, even thou what I found was small still could be useful, especially if gets in the ears of the Empire.
Then I noticed that she only mentioned the Mages Guild and wherever is the College of Winterhold, she already wrote the 2 leters she was supposed to write but she was still writing something on other papers… or probably not, by the way she was moving the quill she was… drawing something? I get up and walked towards her, and then I could see what she was drawing.
It was a drawing of me, well of Twilight Sparkle if we are being precise. It took me a lot of strength of my part to not take that drawing with my teeth and tear it to pieces.
But before she said something or I lose my patience the nord in a niece suit, Vulken if I remember correctly entered the lab and spoke to me.
¨The Jarl said that he would give you help, well I spoke with a local smith and paid him to make you a leather armor¨
Leather armor he said, not steel or elven. I would be disappointed but steel would be too heavy for my current body, and nords doesn’t have much love for anything related with elves. So I can understand why they would give me leather.
Anyway, free armor isn’t something I would reject, I walked alongside Vulken and Talia and went directly towards a local smith shop that almost at the gates of the city, it might be annoying than that woman is going with me but I don’t want to sound ungrateful for this reward.
I found weird that I didn’t went to the legendary sky forge, but I guess because the armor is made of leather would be redundant to get it made from the best forge of Skyrim.
We finally got to the local smith, he didn’t waste time and started to take measures of me, Vulken leave, probably to send the letters to the Mages Guild and the Winterhold College. And Talia again started to make drawings of me.
Being harassed by little girls was humiliating, but this was far worse. Did some Divine or Daedric Prince got angry at me for killing the last unicorn in cyrodill? The worst part is that the face of Talia made clear that she found cute the embarrassment on my face.
I’m completely sure this is my punishment for killing the last unicorn of Cyrodill.
¨thanks for standing still, I made horse armor before but never of your size¨
I’m sure he didn’t intended to offend but that was the cherry on top, this day was getting worse than yesterday.
then he went to other room to start working on the leather, at this point Talia was finally done with making drawings of me, could be that or she ran out of paper.
I sit in the ground waiting for the blacksmith to be done with my new armor.
After half an hour he was done, I must say it is a nice armor. Cover a good portion of my body and was very conformable to wear. It might cover my wings but because I’m unable to fly that wasn’t really a problem. Also had a hole in the helmet so no need to cut this useless horn.
But after he put me that armor noticed something… how I would be able to remove this armor? I started to think of the possibilities… oh no, please not. I have enough of annoying fans for an eternity.
¨I guess you will accompany me to Cyrodill?¨
Please say no, i prefer to go alone on my adventures. I hate being the nanny of dumb people that inevitable fall over traps, I still remember that mage who got crush to death in front of me.
¨of course, I talked with the Jarl this morning. I send a letter to my sister who lives in a nearby town. She will fulfill my duties as court mage while I go with you¨
Gods give me Strength to NOT kick this woman in the face. I would prefer to go alone or even with one of the Companions, I would even take that annoying fan from the arena over this crazy hag.
I was about to cordially reject her offer. It would be uncomfortable to wear this armor all day, but I take that over keep enduring her. But before I could say anything I heard a BIG scream that almost blew my eardrums.
¨I KNOW YOU ARE HERE TWILIGHT SPARKLE!!!¨
By the nine, who is that? What does he wants? By the way that man or creature yelled this mare name I guess isn’t a friend of hers. Well duty calls, time to show this fool what happens when someone tries to left me deaf.