Author's Note

If you want to know where I got the Dovahzul (Dragon Language) translations here is the tool I found on the net: https://www.thuum.org/translate-legacy.php

Nar'l is pronounced Nah-re-el

" " Indicates spoken words

'Italics' Indicates a thought

"Bold Italics" Indicates a letter or book read aloud

'Bold Italics' Indicates a letter read silently

Chapter 1: A World Forgotten: Part 1

Somewhere in Aetherius

Akatosh stands on the balcony overlooking the mortal realm of Mundus, breathing deeply and releasing a sigh of brief pity of the fate over the last dragonborn they would ever be able to create saying, "There is no other choice my dear, not many mortals worship us or make offerings to us. If things continue as they are, Mundus itself shall perish." He glances over to Mara and Arkay saying, "Has everything been gathered for us to begin changing fate for the last time before we become mere watchers over Mundus?"

Mara rushes forth and stops just a couple feet from Akatosh pleading, "Is there not an other way for things to proceed? Certainly we can search for our lost armory to further bless our last child with weapons and powers to save Mundus once more...?"

Arkay strides forth saying, "Alas, there is not. For time itself fights us Mara, time has fought us since Stendarr perished at the hands of the Daedric Lord Boethia." Arkay looks up, places a couple fingers on his chin in thought and asks, "Of all the daedric lords, who still lives?"

Akatosh growls at the mention of the Daedric Lord Boethia and says, "It is good that Azura, Meridia, and Hermaeus Mora allied with us against their fellow lords, but it grieves me that we had to divide the realms of the fallen lords equally among them. The others that still live are: Boethia, Sheogorath, Mehrunes Dagon was mortally wounded during our last battle but died just a couple days ago, Nocturnal, Sanguine and Vaermina."

Mara weeps silently at remembering the death of Stendarr saying, "It saddens me to think on the current state of Kynareth, for I feel there is not much left of their time among us. It will sadden me greatly once we lose our ability to interact with Mundus anymore, perhaps we can bless a special item so our child can have the ability to talk to us on occasion?"

Akatosh pinches his chin with two fingers in momentary thought saying, "That might be something we can do after we finish changing the fate of Mundus, now is everything in place and set for the alterations to begin?"

Arkay breathes deeply and looks down at Mundus and answers, "All is in place. All is ready, say the word and we will start working."

A single tear falls from Akatosh's eye and falls to the balcony as he utters a single word, "Begin."

The Realm of Mundus

Solitude

A group of Thalmor make their way through the streets after they butchered everyone inside of the Temple of The Divines, destroyed the shrines to Stendarr and Kynareth, and accidentally set fire to the temple. The leader of the group looked back with a wicked sneer on her face saying, "I just love the smell of infidel blood in the morning, now they shall know their place among the Thalmor."

One of the Thalmor wizards accompanying the Justiciar looks back with a grin thinking, 'Now my revenge against the Thalmor will begin if this all goes according to plan.' Keeping the act going he says, "Was it really necessary to go to such extreme measures like that Nar'l?"

Nar'l looks back to the wizard that just questioned her judgement saying, "Ondolemar, wasn't it you that pleaded to me to give you a chance to redeem yourself by rooting out several Talos worshipers in a single city?"

Ondolemar winces, sighs and then says, "Yes it indeed was me, the Thalmor is all I know. I have no clue as to where I would go or what I would do if I hadn't begged and pleaded for a second chance."

She looks down at Ondolemar with a frown on her face saying, "I will permit you to come with us freely, as thank you for providing so much proof of the lies Jarl Elisif told us. They have been punished for their crimes against the Thalmor."

He looks down to find that his boot has came untied saying, "Curses! My boot came untied, I will catch up in a moment once I tie it." He then kneels down and begins retying it, stopping briefly to let the wizard behind him provide security for the Justiciar in front.

The other wizard walks right by Ondolemar, knocking the disgraced high elf onto his side saying, "You are so clumsy Ondolemar, I don't know how you ever became a liason to the justiciars in Skyrim." He bursts out laughing at him and hears Nar'l laughing at him too and keeps walking.

Ondolemar gets back onto one knee and finishes tying his shoe quietly mumbling, "Time for the next step in my plan." He then pulls a skinny dagger from his sleeve and stands back up and catches up to the wizard, getting right behind them and jams it in the side of the wizard's head. Holding tightly onto the wizard so he doesn't fall and alert the Justiciar of his betrayal, he lays him down gently and then puts his dagger away and grabs a heavy branch alonside the road and then keeps walking with long strides to kill Nar'l.

An uneasy feeling comes over Nar'l, calling out, "Ondolemar, did you catch up yet!" turning her head slightly to the left to try to see if he caught up or not but can't see much behind her.

While holding onto a thick, heavy branch, Ondolemar replies back to her, "Yes I have caught up, but hold up a moment please. Bern walked off to check out a noise he heard in the bushes." He brings the branch as far back as he can to whack her upside the head.

Nar'l scoffs at hearing that saying, "That idiot is always hearing things, but it is always wise to be on alert in the wilderness. You never know what is gonna sneak up behind you and.....AAAGHH!" The last thing she hears is a loud crack as something makes contact with her head, while everything goes black as her eyelids fall shut.

Ondolemar tosses the branch aside, noticing that it broke in half due to the force of the swing. He then quickly ties her hands and feet together and lays her down near the entrance of Wolf Skull Cave, feeling thankful for Bayott clearing this cave out a year ago. He goes to retrieve the corpse of Bern and returns to the cave, going inside to dump the body for the various creatures to munch on. He then picks Nar'l up and gets as far away from solitude as he can and sets up camp, waiting for her to wake up.

She wakes up with a splitting headache and looks around to see Ondolemar whittling a stick out of boredom. When she tries to get up to her feet, she learns that her hands and feet are tied and loudly asks, "What is the meaning of this Ondolemar, where is Bern?"

He grins and looks her in the eyes and replies, "Oh good, you are finally awake I see. His corpse is feeding the wildlife, as so will yours before long."

Nar'l's eyes tear up and she cries out, "Why did you do this to us Ondolemar, what reason do you have for killing the two of us. I thought you wanted to get your position among the Thalmor back."

Ondolemar bursts out laughing and says, "You actually believed me when I told you that? What a fucking joke, I actually hated that position. Too damn boring for my liking, but it paid well and kept my appetites satisfied. You want to know why I did this, the answer is simple. I want to see the Thalmor burn and fall into ruin."

Her eyes widen in fear as a piece falls into place saying, "What do you mean, why would you want that? Don't you have any love for our home?"

An evil grin crosses his face as he answers her once more, "Don't you remember when I pleaded you to give me a chance if I took you to a temple full of Talos worshipers? It was a lie. I want the Thalmor to die because of what that bitch Elenwen did to me over a simple bad joke someone asked me to play, she had me whipped and tortured for answers."

Nar'l looks in horror at Ondolemar over the information she just got, the final pieces fall into place and paint an ugly picture and says, "Y-Y-You m-m-mean to t-t-tell me that all those people in the temple...and the hidden evidence you provided me with were all..."

Ondolemar continues to grin and chuckle as he says, "Innocent and false, you didn't even second guess me after you saw them. You just assumed they were all guilty and deserved a harsh lesson, but I was the one who started the fire."

She squirms on the ground trying to get free, but finds it useless as the bindings are too tight and screams at him, "Do you know what you have done, Ondolemar?! You have cost several people in Solitude their lives, and may just have caused the great war to start back up again! Skyrim doesn't have a chance in Oblivion to defeat the Thalmor, you have doomed them to die."

He tosses the stick into the fire and puts his dagger away saying, "Yes I have just created the spark to reignite the great war again, but my plan is only half finished you see? I still have to get Elenwen's tight ass to attack the Greybeards so they join the fight. It is time you joined Bern, be sure to tell him I said hi." He then rises to his feet to slit her throat and slowly makes his way to her with his dagger drawn.

Seeing that she only has a few moments to act she tries to beg and plead for him to let her live saying, "Please don't kill me, I will do anything you want...just please let me li..." Her words were cut off abruptly as Ondolemar's dagger tore through her throat, painting the ground red with her blood.

Ondolemar stepped away from the thrashing, gurgling corpse of Nar'l and took off the Thalmor disguise he had been wearing. He then threw the disguise into the fire, happy that he was wearing a green shirt with long brown trousers and a pair of brown shoes underneath the robe. He then lets the robe burn down to nothing and snuffs out the fire and begins making his way to the Thalmor Embassy to begin the final stage in his plan as the sun rises into the sky, shedding light across the land before it.

Meanwhile, at Yngol Barrow

Bayott looks at the Helm of Yngol's that sits on Yngol's skeleton that still remained in the stone throne, falling to pieces as he pulls it off of the skull, then spots a necklace hanging on the edge of the throne's back and sees that it has a silver piece in the shape of the Imperial Legion's symbol. Taking it and quickly throwing it over his head, he begins to gather up whatever he might be able to sell.

He then sorts through the stuff he brought up to the puzzle room, moving the stuff he wants to keep into one pile and the crap into another. It takes three hours running back and forth to Windhelm and the Khajiit Caravan just outside on the banks of the river to get to the last load of junk that he wants to sell off.

Bayott scoops up the last few pieces of junk up into a bag separate from what he is taking home and leaves the tomb for the last time thinking, 'With this Helm of Yngol in my hands, my Ancient Nord Hero look will be complete.'

Four Hours later, At The Forge in Windhelm

Oengul prepares to start work on a new piece of armor but can't seem to locate it saying, "Blast, I can't seem to find my damn hammer. Did you happen to use it Hermir?"

She has been slaving away most of the morning smelting the new shipment of ores down into ingots, dumping out another onto the table saying, "No I haven't touched it, I have my own hammer. You told me that If I wanted to apprentice under you, I better get my own because It will be like family to me."

He rubs his chin with his right thumb and forefinger in thought saying, "I swear it seems like that hammer has legs sometimes. Haven't you seen it at all?"

Hermir drops another chunk of ore into the pot and waits for it to melt down, as she waits for that she looks around the bench for it and spots a handle sticking out between the forge and the bench saying, "I can see a handle sticking out between the forge and the workbench, maybe that is it."

Oengul looks down and spots the handle of his favorite hammer saying, "Ahah! there you are girl, we got armor to shape! I must have forgot that I set it down there or maybe it just fell off the table, I must be gettin' old if I'm forgetting simple stuff such as that." Just then he spots movement out of the corner of his eye and turns his head to look, and sees that it is the Dragonborn that has been making regular visits that day commenting, "You are such a pathetic milk drinker for joining the Imperials, you know that?"

Bayott looks at Oengul and sighing saying, "I would have joined the Stormcloaks if Ulfric wasn't so hateful towards other species and wanting to keep Skyrim for Nords, though I can understand his hate for the Aldmeri Dominion, the Thalmor, and high elves...but the rest haven't done anything to deserve such anger."

Oengul looks at Bayott with a slight unfriendly gaze saying, "Skyrim is the home of the Nords because no other races can tolerate the cold temperatures better than us, it takes strength to survive in such a harsh environment. Skyrim will always be our Fatherland.

He shakes his head saying, "That is true, but there is no other good reason to just outright refuse to help others because they aren't Nords. Skyrim is big enough for everyone to live together, one thing I do believe that Ulfric was right about was the liberation of Skyrim from the Empire."

The blacksmith grunts and nods and gives the Dragonborn a brief smile at the two of them reaching a better understanding of each other's views on the war that ended with Ulfric losing his head saying, "Did you need something or want some metal hammered?"

Bayott smiles and says, "I just finished clearing out Yngol Barrow, I found the Helm of Yngol in the deepest part of the tomb. It was sitting on the skeletal remains of Yngol, where I also happen to notice this necklace on the edge of the throne. What do you think of it?"

Oengul eyes the necklace saying, "That necklace is high quality, no doubt. It almost looks exactly like the Imperial's symbol on their standards, though the shape is more precise and looks more like a dragon but has flawless rubies for eyes that seem to have a glow to them. Can you pull out the helm you found so I can take a look at how our ancestors hammered steel?"

He sets down the sack of junk he wants to sell and pulls out the helm for them to examine saying, "I didn't notice that at first, but now that you have mentioned it, its' eyes do seem to have a glow all their own. You know what is strange, Oengul?"

The blacksmith looks up at him crossing his arms and says, "What is strange, Dragonborn?"

The Dragonborn looks down at the necklace and says, "Somehow it feels like it was made just for me, almost like it was a cherished item I lost awhile ago and found again, you know what I mean?" He then switches hands and grabs it by one of the horns protruding from the top of the helm, and extends his arm out for him to examine it.

Hermir glances over at the helm and whistles in admiration of the helm saying, "Wow that is in remarkably good shape to be so old, how is it that it hasn't rusted or decayed at all hardly to be able to withstand the aging like that?"

Oengul chuckles and takes the helm and turns it in various directions, examining the detail on it closely before saying, "I bet that when those old barrows were built, the ancestors had a little magical assistance from the dragons to ensure they last forever and somehow to a degree, preserves what is in them. For being so old, this has to be a bit better than what Eorlund Grey-Mane can make currently." He then hands the helm back to him smiling and saying, "A few ancestors sure knew how to hammer and shape iron and steel in their day, this is some fine craftsmanship."

Taking the helm back and returning it to the sack, Bayott picks up his sack of junk and starts stacking it on the table and asks, "How much can I get for this stuff?"

He looks over the stuff, looking closer at a couple of the pieces and says, "Well based on the quality, age, and state of the items here... I would say I could give you 750 Septims for these, do you agree?"

The Dragonborn lays his right thumb and a forefinger under his chin in thought saying, "I think that is an agreeable price for this stuff cus it can always be remelted down to make new pieces."

The blacksmith brings out the bag of septims and holds it towards Bayott, spotting a courier running towards them with a panicked look on his face, stopping a couple feet away from the Dragonborn panting heavily.

The courier takes several deep breaths as he tries to calm down a little bit before continuing to say, "I have been running all over Skyrim hoping to find you Bayott, The Dragonborn. I have several letters for you, all from Solitude. Let's see here, here is one that looks important. It's from High Queen Elisif, woah you sure have some powerful friends. Now the rest of these are Letters of Inheritance. Oh my, I'm sorry for your loss...here is the coin that was left to you." He then holds out the bag of coin and the letter from High Queen Elisif to him first.

Bayott grabs the coin purse and ties it to his belt quickly and then takes the letter and opens it to read it aloud saying, "My loyal officer and good friend Bayott, it is most important that you know of the recent attack in Solitude made by the Thalmor. Earlier today a law enforcing party involving a Justiciar and two strong wizards made claims that many citizens were worshiping talos and made an example out of them all by destroying the altars to the divines and trapping them inside the temple and setting it alight, killing them all. We will not stand for this injustice, for I am calling a moot for all Jarls to gather and discuss this matter and how we shall deal with it. We hope you could attend as well, we shall be meeting at High Hrothgar. Safe travels Dragonborn, High Queen Elisif of Skyrim and Jarl Elisif the Fair of Solitude."

Everyone was shocked at the news of the attack at Solitude as Oengul holds his hammer in a fierce grip, overcome with rage yelling, "HOW DARE THEM SHIT EATING, MILK DRINKING SONS OF WHORES BURN DOWN A TEMPLE AND BUTCHER EVERY SOUL INSIDE JUST TO STAMP OUT OUR WORSHIP OF TALOS!" He then brings the hammer down onto the anvil, making a loud ring echo throughout the quarter.

The Dragonborn looks at Oengul saying, "Worry not my friend, for all of Skyrim shall be ready and eager to bring them to justice if that choice is made." He then takes the Letters of Inheritance from the courier and puts them into his sack full of loot to read later.

Just then the ground around them shakes as a loud thunderous boom echoes throughout the sky yelling out, "DO...VAH...KIIN!!"

Oengul looks to his friend with a nervous look on his face saying, "Huh, a second time in just over a year? I wonder what the Greybeards could want with you now? Better not keep them waiting to long, something tells me it may be important."

The courier turns around saying, "Looks like that is all I have for you today, safe travels to you sir." and takes off back down the street to make other deliveries.

Bayott also takes off down the street, trying to get to High Hrothgar as quickly as he can. He runs through the gate telling the guards, "I'm being summoned, gotta move!" He quickly darts down the path to where he left Shadowmere.

As he closes the distance to High Hrothgar, the necklace around his neck vibrates. Coming to an abrupt stop, Bayott raises his right hand and lifts the emblem in his palm to gaze at it curiously. As his face gets a little closer to the emblem, a male voice speaks inside of his head, "Oh this is pleasant news, the necklace we created has indeed been found by you...My Son."

Bayott is caught off guard by what the voice says and asks, "What do you mean 'my son', you are not my father. You didn't raise me, I don't even recognize your voice, who are you?"

A female voice chuckles and softly says, "Keep calm my son, for there is something we need you to accomplish once your last fight ends. I am your mother, my name is Mara. We can finally hear your voice for the first time my son, we have enjoyed watching your journeys and adventures greatly. We could not raise you among ourselves because we knew Mundus was in great need of a savior, therefore we had to send you."

A male voice speaks up saying, "Enough! We don't have much time to tell him what he must know. I am your father, my name is Akatosh. As my wife Mara has said, we have a request for you to fulfill after your last fight of the struggle. You must go to the great tomb Ustengrav, once there you are to rest at the far back and wait until you are called again to the waking world of Mundus. You are allowed only one companion to accompany you during your rest, and take whatever you shall need to fight dangerous enemies. Hurry on your way, my son and fight well Ysmir."

The Dragonborn is confused at hearing the request and says, "I still don't quite understand how I am your son. I have many questions to ask you, please don't leave me with more questions than answers!"

Akatosh's voice slowly fades away into nothing as he says, "Farewell for now my wayward son, may you succeed in your journey..."

Bayott drops the emblem, letting it dangle around his neck as he resumes his journey to High Hrothgar to answer the Greybeards' summons saying, "They just couldn't explain themselves a bit better, they have to be so mysterious all the damn time."

Ten years later, Outside Ustengrav

Bayott's Housecarl, Lydia stood there in front of her thane, tapping her foot impatiently calling out, "Sir.....Sir....SIR!"

'It was a long and bloody ten years against the Thalmor until the last of the leaders finally died at my hands, I can still hear his screams of agony as I killed him in the worst way possible. It still surprises me that he actually survived being skinned alive, but I poured dwarven oil all over his body and set it alight to finish him off once and for all.' Bayott shakes his head as he is torn from the flashback saying, "Y-Yes? Sorry, what is it Lydia?" He then looks and waits for her to say what she wants to tell him.

She stops tapping her foot and says, "Remembering the end of the Great War are we my thane? I want to let you know that we all will wait for you until you wake once again, I still can't believe that the divines have requested you to return to that old ruin to sleep of all things. The last of your items from all your houses in skyrim have been moved into the old ruin called Ustengrav, the larger items are laying against the wall. We shall keep a detachment of guards here to keep watch while you slumber, don't want to let those pesky bandits and thieves to get their hands on any of those items you have collected through your travels, would we?"

Bayott keeps walking along the road towards Ustengrav and says, "Yes I was and definitely not, do you know how much danger Skyrim would be in if a couple of those enchanted items got out! Thank you for accompanying me on my way here, once I enter and close the doors, you may as well return home until I wake again."

After reaching the destination, Bayott gets off of Shadowmere and takes hold of his reigns and carefully leads him down the stone steps leading down into the tomb. As they reach the bottom and prepare to open the door to go inside, Shadowmere freaks out and tries to run back up the steps as a massive tremor shakes the ground violently.

He quickly grabs the reigns of Shadowmere and holds his ground as he fights to get away calmly saying, "Easy boy, easy. You are going to be fine, just trust me ok? There is no one else I trust more with my life than you boy, that is why I chose you to be my companion to join me in my slumber."

Lydia bursts out laughing saying, "Why are you treating that horse like a lover? You know horses can't understand a damn thing we say, they are little more than beasts any way. Only good thing about Shadowmere is that he isn't afraid to try to defend you when you get into a fight."

Shadowmere calms down a bit more and lays his ears back and swats Lydia across the face with his tail in annoyance thinking, "You're just jealous because he likes me better than your flat-chested ass, not to mention how I'm still standing while you are always the first to drop out of the fight being so weak."

Bayott scoffs at Lydia's remark saying, "I wonder what in Oblivion was that, I sure hope that Red Mountain wont go crazy again. I don't treat my horse like a lover, just a trusted companion like you. I think that most horses have some ability to understand what we expect of them. Well boy shall we go in and begin our slumber?" He then opens the door and steps through, leading Shadowmere inside.

He reaches the first room to unexpectedly find Sheogorath standing before him and saying, "What in Oblivion do you want you mad milkdrinker!

Daedric Lord Sheogorath leans against the large supporting column saying, "You know I just couldn't let ya go without sayin farewell, I'm gonna be quite bored and lonely for awhile until you wake once more. Oh well, I will keep a strawberry torte and a good ale waiting for when you are back. Farewell for now my puny, tiny little mortal friend. TA TA!"

Bayott finds himself inside the corridor and shakes his head saying, "UGH Nine Divines I hate it when he does that to me!" He then resumes his way towards the tomb of Jurgen Windcaller, founder of the Greybeards and the one who built High Hrothgar on the Throat of the World.

As he finally reaches the final large room with the sarcophagus, he stops to stand in front of it saying, "Sorry sir, I hope you don't mind having company for awhile. I was sent here by my father Akatosh and my mother Mara to slumber here for awhile, I sure hope you don't snore." He bows in respect to the founder's resting place, unexpectedly catching Shadowmere doing the very same thing for some reason. He rises and walks around the tomb and enters the back room saying, "I'm curious as to why you would do such a thing like that, I never taught you to do that."

He then walks around the tomb and enters the room at the back and sits down on top of the makeshift stone table between a few urns and shifts his position around until it is somewhat comfy saying, "Well boy, I guess we better try to rest for a bit." He looks at his closest friend and chuckles that he is already laying on the floor fast asleep and comments, "You beat me again boy, you always were so eager to go into battle."

The whole tomb shudders once more, with such violent force as if it's actually trying to destroy the room they are in. As Bayott's eyes start to get heavier he yawns wide saying, "Wow Shadow, I wonder what is going on out there. I'm gonna get up and take a look outside to see what is happening."

The necklace comes to life as Mara's voice speaks into his mind saying, "Hello my son, I am here to sing you a lullaby to help you fall to sleep." She then begins to softly sing a lullaby to her sleepy son.

Bayott leans back against the wall, resting his head against a stone corner saying, "What a beautiful lullaby mother, but I guess I am a little tired, so I will take a short nap and check it out when I wake up. Goodnight mother."

She finishes the lullaby as he falls asleep completely and says, "Sleep tight my little Ysmir, may you wake when Mundus has calmed down once more, and may you be able to change your elder brother's way of seeing and treating the world."

Seventy thousand years later...

Sovngarde

Tsun stands guard before the whalebone bridge checking and testing the souls that came to seek entry to the Hall of Valor, looking back at the plains that have shown up inside of the realm of the dead. He recalls the day when the realm of Sovngarde grew larger, changing forever.

Thirty thousand years earlier...

Tsun continues to test the souls that seek entry to the Hall of Valor and sighs in relief at the end of the line finally coming into view thinking, 'I wonder what is going on out there that so many souls are suddenly appearing and seeking entry, I will ask one of them to see what they have to say about that.' He then asks the approaching soul, "What causes me to be so busy these days, are the mortals of Mundus trying to kill each other again?"

The female soul replies, "That is pretty much what is happening right now ever since a fire mountain appeared over twenty nine thousand years ago with an explosion that plunged Skyrim into utter chaos! Right now it finally stopped spewing smoke and ash everywhere, some mages left to study that mountain a few years ago and have confirmed that it is actually larger than Red Mountain."

He looks at her stunned and says, "You mean to tell me that the snowy region of Skyrim has altered forever? I do pity the mortals that still live there now, are there many Nords still living?"

The female looks at him, scrunching her face in curiosity saying, "There might be one or two left, but the majority of them perished the day Mount Rifthelm made its presence known to the world. Right now for all we know we could be the only ones left living, for we haven't had any outsiders visit us in a couple centuries."

Tsun shed's a tear at hearing the fate of the citizens of Skyrim saying, "Thank you for telling me what has happened recently in the realm of mortals, you may proceed across the whalebone bridge."

Five thousand years earlier...

Tsun feels the ground shudder under his feet and turns to see the forms of Akatosh, Mara and the other remaining divines changing the location of the Hall of Valor far to the left. He watches in awe as Mara lifts the Whalebone Bridge in her aura and makes it longer to reach to where the Hall of Valor now resides, and sets it down to rest.

Tsun looks on as a vast island of plains rises into view beside the Hall of Valor, an old looking rope suspension bridge appears in the air and one end plants itself firmly on the edge of the mainland. The center support of the bridge plants itself into a rising chunk of land just big enough for the large posts as the other side plants itself into the edge of the vast plains. Tsun looks up to the divines and asks, "For what reason do you alter Sovngarde so?"

Akatosh looks to Tsun and greets him, "Hello Tsun, you have been doing your duty well. We commend you for your continued efforts, Mara shall explain to you on what is going on. Fare thee well Tsun, keep up your diligence." He then looks to Mara saying, "I shall see you when you finish with your task dear." He turns away from her and moves towards the center of the swirling skies above as the other divines follow after him.

Mara floats down a little closer towards Tsun saying, "It is good to see you once more Tsun, I am to inform you that we shall be expecting new residents of Sovngarde to be arriving here after some time passes, be sure to ask these new residents where they wish to move on to, the Hall of Valor or to the Plains of Aetherius and then send them on their way to the realm they prefer. Farewell Tsun, stay true to your purpose here and you too may join them once your replacement arrives."

He looks to Mara with confidence and says, "I shall look forward to the day my replacement arrives, for I would like to spend some time with my friends. Until next time we meet Mara, farewell and make sure to keep an eye out for Bayott. I haven't seen his return to Sovngarde, I worry that his soul may be tainted and lost to us."

She chuckles and soothes his worries saying, "Fret not Tsun, he still has duties to perform on Mundus. He shall return here one day, once he has finished his duties there." She then turns and makes her way towards where Akatosh headed.

Tsun then looks away at the entrance to Sovngarde thinking, 'May you keep yourself safe on your journeys Dragonborn, may we meet again one day. He then says to himself, "I wonder who this replacement Mara mentioned shall be, I look forward to finding out who it is."

Present time, Sovngarde

Tsun stands guard before the two bridges, questioning those who wish to pass as a stream of rainbow colored light and white and yellow flames fall down in a beam upon the ancient burial mound of the fallen World-Eater Alduin saying, "Oh Divines help us, he returns once more. Where are you Dovahkiin when Mundus needs you most now."

The land shudders heavily as the skeletal form of Alduin fights to be free of the rock and dirt trapping him inside. The stone cover shatters and flies off in various directions as he finally frees himself, taking his first few steps out of the tomb saying, "Ahrii Zu'u daal wah joor lein. Zu'u fent drun Lein zek neben rel do dovah. Zu'u fent lost dii nahkriin wah hi Dovahkiin, hi fen mindos wah faas zey. (Alas I return to the mortal world. I shall bring Mundus back under the rule of dragons. I shall have my vengeance against you Dragonborn, you will learn to fear me.)" With a mighty roar he stretches his joints and takes to the sky above Sovngarde, looking to regain the strength he lost after falling to the Dragonborn .

10 Months later, inside the library of the ruined Castle of Two Sisters

Twilight stands on the floor, using her magic to remove years of dust off some books she hasn't yet relocated to the new library inside of her crystal castle. Then after she sets her duster down, she lifts and moves them to a pile on the floor when she hears a crack and a shelf full of books fall slide and fall onto her head yelling, "YAHH!" A dust cloud rises into the air as she hits the floor unconscious.

A couple of hours later, she comes to and rubs her head in pain saying, "Ouch, that really bucking hurts." As she rises to her knees and looks around, she finds herself surrounded by dozens of dusty books saying, "Heh, talk about literally getting brained by knowledge."

Twilight gets busy dusting the books off and setting them with the others she has dusted already, and notices two with raised symbols on the cover. One symbol vaguely looks like a dragon but the other looks a bit newer with the symbol almost identical to the other but the dragon has a much more detailed form. and dusts them both off and says, "Hmm...what are these? I haven't seen a symbol like that anywhere before."

She then tries to open the first one up, finding that it is in a language that is somehow barely similar to Old Ponish. With a sigh she sets it aside and tries to read the newer one, once again it is the same language and can't make any sense of it saying, "Ugh, I wonder if Princess Celestia or Luna can make heads or tails of this. I'm glad that there is a preservation spell that kept these books safe for so long. I am also happy that Luna taught me this spell and how to cast it." She then looks around for any more books to relocate, after a half-hour of finding nothing else on the shelves or in secret rooms or hiding places, she calls out to her assistant, "Hey Spike, please gather what you can and let's get back to the castle so I can clean and catalogue these books later."

Spike wakes up with a start saying, "WAH! Sorry, what do you need Twilight?" He stands up and scratches his head with a sheepish grin at falling asleep when he was supposed to be helping his sister Twilight find and dust books that she wants to take to the castle.

Twilight sighs and repeats herself to spike saying, "Please gather what you can and let's get back to the castle so I can clean and catalogue these books later." She then begins picking up the large pile of books she has set aside, leaving the last two that she has found out so she can carry them in her arms.

He cheers up and begins to set what books he can fit into his Power Ponies backpack saying, "Sweet! I can't wait to return to the castle so I can go back to reading the latest edition of Power Ponies!" With his backpack full, he lets out a huff as he lifts it onto his shoulders saying, "Well what are you waiting for Twilight, lets get going!"

She turns her head and shoots a soft glare at Spike saying, "If you want to get back to that new edition so bad, why don't you help me finish placing this pile of books into my backpack. Thank Celestia for Star Swirl coming up with a way to store a nearly infinite number of items and reduce their weight to make it easier to move around without all that weight to overburden you, otherwise I would be forced to make a lot more trips back and forth to the castle."

Spike quickly helps her put the remaining pile of books into her backpack of nearly infinite storage, spotting the two remaining books and looks to Twilight saying, "What about those two Twilight, want me to put them in as well?"

Twilight stands up and lifts the backpack up onto her shoulders with a very unfeminine grunt saying, "Don't worry about them Spike, I will carry them in my arms back to the Castle." She then bends down, hastily picking up the two books and starts making her way back home.

He follows her out of the old library saying, "Gee Twilight, are you going to make it back home? I thought that backpack was supposed to take the weight away from the items you have inside of it? After all, you do have nearly a thousand books in there."

She looks to Spike and says, "So did I Spike, I will have to ask Star Swirl about that. Last count I had was one thousand, two hundred and thirteen books to clean and properly catalogue. We are going to have so much fun the next few days off we get!"

Spike hangs his head in grief, sarcastically saying, "Yay, I look forward to it too."

A day later at the castle in Canterlot

Celestia sits at the private dining room in the castle snacking on a cake she asked the cook to make as she was hearing a pair of hooves make their way down the hall, getting closer and closer to where she was. She takes another slice of cake and starts devouring it when she hears the doors swing open and looks over to see Twilight standing there.

Twilight looks at Princess Celestia and says, "Aha there you are Princess Celestia, I was trying to find you. I found a couple of books that I can't read, and was wondering if you might know what this language is?" She stands in the doorway waiting for the princess to allow her to approach.

Her curiosity is piqued at hearing that and swallows the portion of the slice of cake she bit into saying, "You actually found a book that you're not able to read Twilight? Come here and show me what you found, let's see if I can tell you what it is."

The second newest Alicorn to Equestria walks up to the princess, the sound of her hooves echo through the room and down the hall. As she stops before the princess, she holds out the two books for her to look at saying, "I'm sorry I interrupted your breakfast, Your Majesty. I was making my final trip to the ruined Castle of the Two Sisters to relocate the books there to the library inside my castle by Ponyville, when a bookshelf broke and dumped its contents onto my head. When I woke up, I dusted off the books and moved them to a pile and found these two odd ones. I opened them and tried to read them, but one is older than the other and have nearly the same raised symbol, though they have the same language that is barely close to Old ponish."

Celestia giggles and takes the books from Twilight and sets them on the table, pushing her cake to the side saying, "I know I taught you Old Ponish, but yet again you surprise me with your ability to find something new and interesting. Please take a seat Twilight, let's see what we have here." She then opens the older book and tries to read it, but being unable to, she sets it aside with a sigh. She attempts to read the second one, feeling a little useless, she sighs in frustration saying, "I'm sorry Twilight, it seems that even I can't read these. I recognize the shape of a few letters from a scroll I used to try to understand when I was a young filly, but one night it flew into the fireplace I used to read by and burned up." She hangs her head in brief sadness at her foolishness when she was younger, but lifts when a thought occurs to her and says, "You know, I think that Star Swirl might be able to help you because he taught me Old Ponish. I will send him a quick letter requesting his presence when he is not busy." She then quickly writes a letter and sends it off with her magic as it vanishes with a pop.

Twilight sighs, takes a seat and says, "Well at least you tried Princess Celestia, you can't know everything or you might go insane if you actually tried to learn everything in the world. Y-You didn't really have to send him a letter, I could have waited until he was..." She is abruptly cut off when Star Swirl appears beside them, looking like he hasn't slept in a week.

Star Swirl opens his tired eyes with a smile saying, "You requested my presence, Your Majesty?" he stands and waits for Princess Celestia to reply.

The two princesses look at Star Swirl when he teleports beside Twilight as Celestia speaks first saying, "Greetings to you Star Swirl, you didn't need to come so soon. Are you feeling alright my old mentor and friend, you look like you haven't slept well in the past few weeks."

He shakes his head and replies, "Don't worry about me Your Highness, my expedition has discovered another ancient structure that dates back to over seventy thousand years ago. This one is strange however because it has a glowing rune with 9 cutie marks matching yours, Luna's, the Element bearers, and myself. What is it that you wish to ask me?"

Celestia smiles and says, "Oh really, well we may have to travel there with you and check it out. I was wondering if you could tell me if you could read either of these two books that Twilight found inside the ruins of the old Castle of the Two Sisters?" She slides her chair aside to give him room to read the two books.

Star Swirl curiously steps forward and opens one of the books saying, "Hmm...This is Nordic Script here in this older book here, the title reads: The Book of the Dragonborn, and it is written by Prior Emelene Madrine. Here is what the book says..." he reads off what the book says and comments, "Heavens above, This book is the oldest one in all of Equus! I am surprised it isn't dust right now as it very should be for being just over seventy thousand years old, it tells what a Dragonborn is, their connection to a being known as Akatosh, and that they have the ability to steal the power of dragons they kill. It seems to me that this piece at the end is a prophecy that may have came to pass already, Now let's see what the other one says."

Twilight's jaw is open and snaps it shut to say, "Wow, I wonder who this 'Last Dragonborn' is and why they had to kill dragons back then. I would like to know more about them, but I doubt that there are any other books about them that survived the ages."

He started to read from the book saying, "This newer one is titled Legend of the Dragonborn and it is written by Mad Hatter Greybeard. Hmm...this is written by one of my ancient ancestors." He then resumes reading the book saying, "This first part of the book is just like the first but pretty much says the same thing but has a different prophecy that says, "When the land falls to the rule of madness once bright rain falls from the sky and smoke fills the air. When light and dark work together to wrest control and mend the broken. When family turns on itself and the world is less bright. When the young go forth and save the darkened moon. When the one achieves enlightenment and is granted a new perspective on life. When the enlightened one receives a gift of crystal and the legends of old are free again. An ancient hero, from the old shall they rise, to do battle with the one that came before."

Celestia stares in shock at how the prophecy seems to mention Luna, herself, and the Element Bearers saying, "I can't believe that it seems to mention Luna as well as the Element Bearers and myself, we must get Luna and investigate these ruins you have found involving all our Cutie Marks. She leaves her half-eaten cake on the table and leads the group towards Luna's chambers to fetch her for the journey.

Twilight grabs the books off of the table, carrying them under her arms as she and Star Swirl follow Princess Celestia down the hall when Twilight looks to Star Swirl saying, "Hey Star Swirl the Bearded, I placed the spell you created to store nearly infinite items and reducing the weight of the items on a backpack I have and I wanted to know why it doesn't completely take the weight away?"

Star Swirl looks at Princess Twilight and laughs saying, "The spell cannot completely remove an items weight, because If they were to lose all weight, they won't exist at all. I am trying to understand the reason why that they vanish when I take an item's weight completely away, and what I think so far is that they disappear due to a law of the universe stating how all things have a weight or value to them."

She looks down at the ground saying, "Well I guess there is only so much that can be done to lessen the burden you feel, maybe we can work together on figuring out how to improve its effectiveness? Would you be willing to teach me how to read the language that those two books are written in, just in case any more are found written in that language?"

The old wizard looks at Twilight with a smile and says, "It would be my pleasure to teach you what I know Princess, let's start your lessons after our adventure to the ruin and I catch up on missed sleep ok?" Being a close friend and past mentor to Celestia and Luna, he decides to tease her a little saying, "I sure hope you are better at learning languages than the two Princesses were, they had a hard enough time learning Old Ponish. Maybe that is why I look really old."

Celestia flicks her head around and glares daggers at her old mentor saying, "It wasn't our fault that the words and how to use them didn't make much sense to us, I blame the teacher!" She then huffs in mild annoyance, then glances back briefly and sticks her tongue out at Star Swirl. As they reach the door to Luna's room, she firmly knocks on the door saying, "Sister I have an urgent matter to discuss with you, are you decent? I have Twilight and our old mentor Star Swirl with me."

Luna rolls over groaning after having the same dream for the past three nights in a row, letting out a sigh and says, "Yes sister I am decent, please come in." She then rises out of bed and quickly throws a robe over her nightgown before the door opens thinking, 'That's the third time I was drawn into the same dream, reliving it each time I enter. I wonder what it means.'

The first night, Three days ago inside the Dream Realm
(Luna's Point of View)

Luna wanders the Dream Realm, chasing the sensation of great fear coming from a door located in the distance. The sensation finally brings her to a barely visible door covered with blood and a heavy black mist oozing out of it, she throws the door open and passes through the door and everything goes black around her as she is knocked unconscious somehow. When she comes to in a rickety, wooden transport, finds herself unable to control the body that her vision is tied to, leaving her no choice but to watch as it plays out.

She sits in the transport and hears someone say, "Hey, look at who is still alive. The Imperial bastards nabbed you along with us at that damned ambush set up by General Tullius, I bet the Thalmor helped him out by telling him where we were going."

Her eyes turn towards another prisoner who says, "We shouldn't be here, The Empire is after these damned Stormcloaks. If you didn't kick the hornet's nest and murder the High King, I would be on my way to Hammerfell now."

Her eyes shoot to the right to a new prisoner with his hands bound as well as the first two. Unable to speak, he lets out a muffled growl in protest to what the second prisoner said.

Her eyes then shoot to the left as the first prisoner speaks again saying, "Watch what you say, that there is Ulfric Stormcloak. He is the rightful ruler of Skyrim."

The second prisoner speaks again saying, "By the gods, the Jarl of Windhelm? If they caught you, what is going to happen to the rest of us!"

She finds herself looking back towards the first prisoner as he says, "We are all in binds, Horse Thief. I guess that makes us brothers and sisters in a way."

Her eyes turn to look straight ahead at a pair of dual opening gates of a town as she hears the first prisoner say, "Ahh, I miss Helgen. I was sweet on a girl back before the rebellion started. I wonder if Vilod continues making that ale containing Juniper Berries."

As her eyes gaze at various structures, the first prisoner continues, "I can't believe I used to feel safe behind Imperial walls, now look at the state of them and the towers, almost ready to collapse if a heavy rain hits it the wrong way. There's General Tullius now, kissing the ass of the Thalmor no doubt."

As the carriage rolls through town, a citizen says, "Who are the people in that caravan Papa?"

A citizen beside the boy says, "Don't ask questions, just go inside now my son."

The boy speaks up, "But I want to watch them Papa."

The father speaks up again, "Do as you're told and get inside!"

The boy sighs and gets up saying, "Very well Papa."

The transport comes to a halt as other prisoners are standing in a line waiting for something. As her eyes turn to face forward, she hears the second prisoner say, "What are we stopping for, what is going to happen to us now?"

She looks at the first prisoner once again as he says, "Sovngarde waits for us, feel some pride at being allowed to die in our homeland, Horse Thief."

As she gets up and follows the other prisoners off the transport, she hears a female soldier calls out, "Ulfric Stormcloak, Windhelm's Jarl please step forward and be recorded." She watches as Ulfric steps forth and is marked down on the list and guided to the line of prisoners. As she looks forward once more, she hears, "Ralof from Riverwood, step forward to be recorded." She watches once more as they step forward, being marked on the list and ushered towards the line. A sense of dread wells up deep inside the body that Luna is seeing the perspective of as they hear the soldier say, "Lokir from Rorikstead, step forward to be recorded." The named male prisoner steps forward and is recorded while saying, "You can't kill us, we aren't with the Stormcloaks. I will tell General Tullius about this!" and tries running away only to be brought down by an arrow to the back of his head.

The sense of dread heightens even more as it is her turn to be called up and hears, "The prisoner in the rags, step forward." She hesitates while watching someone in a robe say a prayer for the prisoners, not knowing why yet as they repeat themselves saying, "Get up here now and be recorded prisoner!" Her eyes shoot to the front and steps up.

The male soldier beside the female soldier says, "State your name, prisoner."

As her mouth opens to respond, a voice answers in a deep, manly voice, "My name is Bayott, I was just a traveler heading to Skyrim to study magic when I was caught by surprise. I haven't committed any crimes so you can't treat me this way." The male looks to the female asking, "What now, he's not on the list Captain?"

The Captain looks at Luna with a grin saying, "To Oblivion with the list, he goes to the headsman like all the rest!"

She is ushered to the line of criminals just as a prisoner's head is lopped off, making Luna feel very sick. Being unable to do anything to ease her sickness, she watches on as another prisoner walks up to the block when a roar echoes from somewhere around them. After that prisoner's head rolls, the roar sounds again with someone saying, "There it is again, I wonder what it is."

The Captain calls for the next prisoner and Luna steps forth as her dread reaches a new level, watching as the body drops down to its knees. Her eyes look down into the basket that is filled with heads and feels even sicker than before, but finds relief shortly when her eyes turn to the left to watch the headsman take her head just when a motion in the corner of her eye catches her attention. As a massive, black creature similar to a dragon of Equus appears and lands on top of the tower, unleashing a roar that turns the sky nearly black as night as flaming boulders rain down from the clouds.

As everything devolves into madness, the body slowly gets up and follows a voice calling it to safety. As it tries to catch its breath, a conversation ensues that she listens to. After running up the stairs to safety, the body jumps through a hole in the tower down into the hole in the roof below.

She then follows the male soldier from before, running through the streets, watching chaos happening all around as a soldier calls a boy to safety from the attack of the strange dragon. After hiding against a wall, keeping quiet for a moment till it leaves, they make their way into the keep. After being freed and gathering anything useful to fight with, they make their way through the rooms. They pass through caves with caution after the body kills a bear with one arrow and takes whatever he can from it, making Luna feel sick for a brief moment before feeling better. As they finally exit the cave, she wakes up screaming.

Three nights ago, outside The Dream Realm

Celestia holds Luna tightly in worry after hearing her sister's screams come all the way down the hall to her room and says, "Can you hear me now, Luna?"

As her eyes come back into focus and finally looks at who is holding her and sees that it is her sister and says, "Yes Cece, I can hear you now. I had the most horrifying experience in the Dream Realm tonight when I was chasing after a great fear I was sensing coming from a door far back in the Realm. When I finally got to the door, It was barely visible to me. I could see the door covered in blood with a heavy black mist oozing out of it. When I opened and walked through it, I was trapped inside of a body I could not control at all. I had no choice but to see, feel, and experience what happened around them."

Luna's sister continues to hold and comfort her, stroking her hair gently and says, "Please tell me about this experience Lulu, it must be important to know if you were not able to do anything but watch and experience what happened."

Luna calms a bit more, slowing her breathing and begins telling what she experienced starting with saying, "I have never before seen creatures like the ones I saw in this dream, or more terrified of what happened."

An hour passes as Luna finishes telling her story to her sister, she then says, "I am curious to find out who this Bayott is and find out why he did those things."