User blog:Harold Burned-Mane/Heir to the Empire - Part I

Heir to the Empire, the story of the forgotten heirs to the Reman Empire and their road to prominence roughly 300 years before the birth of Tiber Septim in the 2nd Era.

Introduction


The last flames of the dying 2nd Empire of Tamriel have been extinguished. Tamriel is fractured. While the Alliance War has come to an end. The Aldmeri Dominion and the Ebonheart Pact have split up and the Daggerfall Covenant has shrunk down only to High Rock. The Empire of Cyrodiil, ruled by the Tharns, has been destroyed. The Tharns have only maintained control of Nibenay, with the rest of the province being split between rival Kings.

One of these many nobles is Count Noster II of the Colovian Highlands. A journeyman mage, someone that believes more in his own greatness than those of the gods and someone that will do whatever is necessary to accomplish his goals. Noster also holds a very important claim, a claim of descendant from the Reman Emperors of old.

The counts of the Colovian Highlands have, for centuries, claimed descent from Emperor Reman II through the first count of the highlands: Count Amiel I. Amiel I was rumored to have been the bastard son of Emperor Reman II, the reason why he was granted the county lands in the first place.

When Emperor Reman III, the half-brother of Amiel I, was assassinated the Count expected that he'd be named the new Emperor. However, the Akaviri Potentate refused his claim of parentage, since it was never confirmed officially by the late Emperor Reman II. The Potentate ruled the Empire in the absence of a true heir to the Emperor and the counts of the Colovian Highlands were cheated from their birthright. The descendants of Amiel I have never forgotten about this injustice.



Centuries later, Count Noster II was determined to right that wrong. Cyrodiil was weak, fractured and ripe for conquest. The ambitious count was going to claim what was rightfully his. It would require him to do it by force, but the Warrior Sign-born colovian believed that he had what it took to accomplish such a monumental task. The first step of his quest for the throne was securing the kingdom of Chorrol.



This series is a spiritual successor to my Tales of Baslod blog series from 2016, that I had to prematurely end due to my savegame having been corrupted following an update.

Leave your thoughts on the story below and if you'd like I can add custom characters created by you guys to the story. If you want to suggest a custom character just leave a message below or ask on the Discord and I will ask you the necessary information for creating the custom character.

The custom characters can be vassals or courtiers of Noster. The available positions currently are:
 * Chancellor (Should be a character good in diplomacy)
 * Marshal (Should be a character good in martial)
 * Steward (Should be a character good in stewardship)
 * Magister (Should be a character good in learning)
 * Spymaster (Should be a character good in intrigue)