Author's Note

(Update: 03/15/2023)

Hello all, this story is going through a rewrite/reboot. I've made some changes.

~Chief

Prologue: Throat of the World (updated 03/15/2023)

I shiver and pull my cold weather clothes tighter around my body as a gust of chilled wind comes up the face of the mountain. Though I keep my gaze out to across Skyrim, where I have lived for the last five years traveling with the Dragonborn to help save the world from Aluden and the Civil War. With a sigh I think back to how I ended up in this dangerous place to begin with.

I yawn and stretch as I pause my new playthrough of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. I just started a new game because I had done everything I could even with mods. Though that was a few months ago so I reinstalled it and started it up and began a new game. As I unpause the game with Ralof beginning to speak I begin to wonder what race I should play this time, however, my mind blue screens as I watch the view of the Dragonborn move on its own to the body lying in the center of the cart. It's me, but not my character its the human me that I was born as, laying there unconscious with my dad's BDU's on along with his old combat boots.

Then I realize the screen has frozen on me, before I then notice that the screen seems to shimmer, like the surface of still water. Before a hand reaches out from the bottom like the person is climbing in through the window. I'm struck speechless as finally the being pulls himself up enough to show his torso, head, and arms. He calls out to me in his usual cheerful manner, "Hero! It's been a long while since I've seen you. At least I think for all I know I could have seen you five minutes ago when you were eating cheese." He pauses for a moment but I'm still speechless in confusion and horror. "You know cheese makes an excellent fondue, unlike bandits.... What was I saying?" He looks up before focusing back on me.

All the while my body is screaming for me to run but I find I can't, something, probably the god-like being before me, was holding me in place. Then giving me a mad smile he continues, "Anyways Hero, I wanted to thank you for helping me in the Shivering Isles and thought what better way than to let you experience Skyrim for yourself! Hahaha then I had some fondue......mmmmm fondue." He wipes away the dribble at the corner of his mouth at the thought of fondue. "Well anyway off ye go!" then my vision is flooded with colors I didn't even have names for as my last act on Earth was to let out a gasp before vanishing and my world falls to darkness.

Next thing I knew I was running and screaming for my life as Helgan is razed to the ground by Alduin with a female Khajit helping keep me safe along the way with Hadvar as we made our way through the caves below Helgan fighting off Stormcloaks and, fucking spiders! I really hate spiders! Anyway as well as having to sneak past the sleeping bear which by the way is much harder than it is in the game.

Finally after the most harrowing hour or two of my life, the Khajjit, Hadvar, and I make our way out to watch the black dragon fly off. From there things happened as they do in the game with the Khajjit being the Dragonborn. I ended up on many of her misadventures over the years. Learning how to fight with a bow and use magic, not to mention Enchanting and Alchemy. I even know how to use a forge to make simple blades but mostly how to repair my own gear.

In the last few years I have lost the bit of a belly I had when I arrived, from my easy and comfy life on Earth. Now I'm toned and rather good-looking now if Shurashi's teasing had any weight.

I tear my gaze away from Skyrim back to Shurashi, the Khajit who saved me and kept me alive the whole time I've been here, who is currently talking with Parthanex. Their conversation dies out as I begin to approach with my closest friend pulling me into a tight hug with tears in the corners of her lovely blue eyes. She asks "Are you sure about this? You could always come live with this one and help take care of the children." To which I gave a pained expression as I was going to miss all those poor orphans she had given a home to over the course of her adventure. They all called me Uncle and I helped Shura take care of all of them to make sure none of the children went uncared for.

With tears pulling at my eyes now I give her a nod "yes Shura, this isn't my world and I miss my family. You know I would love to stay and help with the kids but just as you felt the pull to come to Skyrim I'm feeling the pull to leave." I explain as we both shed a tear for what our future without the other would hold. Reaching down I pick up my heavy pack with all I would need to keep my skills useful on Earth and she reached to her back to remove The Scroll. Which she passed to me before stepping back as I open the most powerful item I've ever known. As the shimmering golden light of the Arcane symbols sped across the scroll I find the light too bright to see anything else before I feel myself falling. Through the void between worlds on my way home.

As I feel my essence nearing my home I feel the world repelling me away sending me shooting off without a destination into the void. After what felt like forever and only an instant at the same time, I sense I am nearing a new world, as I near I can feel it accepting me and letting me in.

I blink away the tears as the wind rushes past my face as I find myself in freefall, falling towards a large lush forest below. As I am about to begin panicking I feel the Elder Scroll's energies begin to work on me as I am pushed out of my body to watch as a spirit as it plummets faster and faster while the energies continue to build.

And with an almighty thud, my body craters the forest clearing below sending the gore that was once me all over the clearing and trees. I watch fascinated as the red paste that was my body begins to return to the crater it had made and began to restitch itself back together, however. As I watch I find my spirit was glowing gold now to signify a spiritual shift to go with the new body.

I watch in both amazement and horror as my body reknits itself into the form of a small gryphon with a lion's hinds and a white-feathered head with a yellow-gold beak. I groan as best I can as a spirit as I notice that my new body is female, but before I can look closer the spirit shift is finished as is the body and the Elder Scroll shoves me back into my new body leaving me disoriented.

Groaning I force my eyes open as I lift my new beak from the dirt to see my talons splayed out before me and I feel the dirt on my underside as I begin to shift about to get feeling back in my limbs both old and new. I can feel my tail flicking about behind my rear as my wings flutter and then close to my sides.

Sighing I speak with my new voice finding my body already knowing how to speak with a beak, "Well at least I got to keep my fingers......" I ask out loud before noticing that I'm sitting in a rather large impression of my former body with my pack off to the side. I flop forward onto my belly in defeat "And I'm also a child, probably, so I have to go through puberty again as a female. Great. Thank you Elder Scrolls!" I shout to the heavens.

After my little flare in temper at this outcome I begin to try and figure out how to move in my new body. Though I was not going to try anything with my wings for now. Strange I may be, but stupid I am not. So after nearly two hours of me learning how to walk on four limbs and keep my wings from dragging in the dirt, I moved to check on my pack to see if any of my supplies hadn't made it.

Meanwhile, Twilight POV

I am sitting in my second-floor library in my new castle, reading an ancient book containing theories about other worlds and even other Equestrias. I was in the middle of a sentence when my head shoots up and I look around for the source of the spike in Life Magic I just felt. Narrowing it down I realize I'm looking in the direction of the Everfree forest. As I am about to return to my readings to finish the sentence I was on, I see my cutie mark begin to flash meaning I have a new mission from the cutie map.

Rushing to the throne room I find Spike in the ballroom next to it with the Cutie Mark Crusaders working on something or playing some game. I feel a bit bad that I have to pull Spike away from the fillies but the map waits for no pony. "Spike we have a mission from the map! Please clean up and see the girls out while I find out where we are going." He sighs sadly but nods and begins to clean up with the fillies while I head into the map room.

I see my cutie mark floating above the Everfree forest a section deep inside its boundaries, making me groan out "Great it's a mission for Spike and I, and it's deep in the Everfree. Of course why not?" I ask the world, as I hear the padding of Spike's feet entering the room from the way to the front entrance.

"So, Twi where are we going and who's coming with?" he asks me and I sigh and nod to the map to show it would be just him and me going deep into the forest. This of course made him gulp similar to what I would have done before becoming a princess back when I feared the Everfree. But by now it's like a trip to the park with how often I am going there in recent months.

"Come on Spike it'll be fine, it's actually not that far in just about half a day's walk past the castle. Come on let's go get our gear for a two-day trip and to write a note that we're off on a map mission." He sighs and nods as we make our way to the armory in my castle which I despise, but it did come fully stocked so it has everything Spike and I will need on this trip.