Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20171226150054/@comment-17114085-20180414154614

The energy passed through the Redguard, the Nords, the Paladins, the Animunculi and the Chaurus without doing anything...however, the screams of the Falmer soon covered the air.

The Falmer screamed in agony as their bodies were forcefully transformed by the power of Auriel unleashed by his relic. It wasn't a pretty sight, seeing the creatures hunched over in great pain. It took a few moments, but their bodies went through the daunting transformation and left the Falmer collapsed on the ground.

As per Ursine's agreement with the Arch-Paladin, she ordered her troops to capture, not kill, the Falmer after they were transformed. The Stormcloaks began to round up the thousands of Falmer, while putting down the Chaurus and Dwemer animunculi that remained. Thynvil helped oversee their trip to the surface.

Gwen knelt down next to a Betrayed shaman, who was barely conscious after undergoing the transformation forced upon her. "Remarkable, his plan worked." She muttered, the she-elf looked just like a Snow Elf except for her eyes being pure white.

The shaman didn't react to her approaching.

Gwen passed her hand in front of her face. "It seems that father was right, they are still blind."

It took quite some time to retrieve all the Falmer from Blackreach, as well as the three dead Paladins and the Star of Auriel, but when it was all on the surface Thynvil took charge of the band and with a Stormcloak escort, began to head west to the Forgotten Vale.

He wasn't happy with how things turned out, but they had succeeded in their mission and he reluctantly followed Athyis' last wishes.

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Gwen was sent back to Windhelm to retrieve Engwe and Rigmor accompanied her on the journey. She bid farewell to the Skald after they got Engwe safely back into the Vale territory and stayed to help her people integrate the former betrayed. She put her wishes of seeing Tamriel on hold for a few years, but in time she would set off as an adventurer and accompany the Skald in his journeys to the other provinces.

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Peace was restored to Skyrim, the Falmer threat extinguished. The underground of the province became much safer for a time, though Dwarven animunculi and feral Chaurus still roamed the ruins and caverns underneath the surface. Eventually most of the caverns formerly under Falmer control were taken over by bandits, cults, vampires and rieklings so the previous status quo returned for the most part.

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Now that they had a large enough population to maintain their species, the Snow Elves were here to stay. They made their home in the Forgotten Vale, now just called the Vale, Auriel's Vale (by some Falmer) or the Snow Vale (by some Nords). The new nation was a theocracy, ruled by the Arch-Curate. Because of their region's climate and little to no infrastructure had to rely considerably on trade with the neighbouring Nords until they managed to become self sustaining. This made the Falmer have a begrudging friendship with the Nords, who's ancestors nearly killed all of them.

The Inner Sanctum housed the population of regular elves, the 100 that made up the Paladins and the Curates that ruled over the theocracy. The Star of Auriel was kept there, heavily guarded as the most sacred treasure of the theocracy.

The former betrayed lived in towns and villages that were constructed in different locations in the territory. Their first settlements (Darkfall and Sharpslope) were in caves, since they still disliked the sunlight. They were treated as second class citizens, as they had no say in the politics of the new realm, but the upper class did their best to keep them placated and tried to teach them the old ways of their ancestors. It was a long process, as most of the former betrayed still had underdeveloped minds. Nonetheless, they were taugh the Falmeris and some of the smarter ones (the shamans) even learned Tamriellic. Because they never asked asked for this, some former betrayed became resentful of their Falmer kin and began causing trouble, but they were stopped by the Paladins of Auriel before they could start any large revolts.

Through the future generations, the Falmer would learn that interbreeding with the former betrayed brought the probablity of the child being born blind or normal. It was not always one or the other. As such interbreeding wasn't common for most upper class members, for they feared their children would inherit the betrayal that still stained their lower class kin's blood.