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To care for the remains of an Elven tongue whose existence is blasphemy before our people and our Gods is very low, even for you.
 
— Reyla to her sister on their reunion after the second Atmoran-Falmer War

Reyla Silver-Moth is an Atmoran spellsword. She was a Sage of the Companions, member of the crew of the Ylgermet, and a Magician graduate of the College. She fought in the 2nd Atmoran-Falmer War as a member of the Companions, but afterwards left the crew and became a Housecarl to High King Harald.

History[]

Backstory[]

An Atmoran whose line currently traces back to a group of magic users with strong affinity towards Restoration magics, and were responsible for saving the lives of would-be casualties during the war against the Snow Elves and later the Dragon Cult. Despite being young for a healer, Reyla is a talented healer and trained to keep her comrades and charges in the fight under the heat of battle.

When she was in her teens she was sent to study at the College, which was at the other side of Skyrim from her home town. Because of this big change, she became quite timid and made few connections. Her first friend was a fellow student named Jofrodr Sword-Thrower. She grew close to him and when she graduated from the College she followed him to Yorgrim to join the Companions alongside him. Within the Companions she eventually rose to the rank of Sage for the Ylgermet crew.

Ballad of the High King[]

The Dragon Jermulgraag[]

Reyla was in the Ylgermet Mead Hall. Unlike most of her companions, she hadn't left on the Orc Quest alongside her Captain because Jofrodr Sword-Thrower had remained behind. Jofrodr instead found another bounty to take, a dragon quest posted by Thane Harald Word-Bringer of Morvunskar. He asked her to join him and she accepted without needing convincing.

The duo headed to the Chieftain's Longhouse, where the thane was said to be. The guards let them in once they stated their business and inside they found Chief Jænis Brák with two men: Thane Harald and his housecarl Skorm Snow-Strider. The Companions sat down at the table. Yorgrim's chief introduced them and they discussed the details of the bounty. A foreigner arrived, also wanting to pursue the dragon. He joined in the conversation after a quick introduction. They had narrowed down the area where the dragon was likely hiding, as Harald had sent some scouts from his company at Morvunskar. The thane was also going on this quest, since the three of them were too ill-equipped to kill a dragon. He told them to get ready as they would be leaving soon. He paid them part of the bounty upfront. Jofrodr took all the gold himself, saying that he would split it with Reyla and the foreigner later.

Jofrodr led the trio into town to buy supplies for the trip south to the mountains. He led them to a shop he knew and brought some supplies with the gold that the thane gave them. After they were done shopping, the Companions introduced themselves properly to the stranger. He did as well, he was a Cyrodiilic named Kane Styrson. The thane and his housecarl met up with the group in the town square and they departed for the dragon sighting location. Jofrodr asked Kane for his reasons for coming to Skyrim and the foreigner mentioned his clan, Clan Silver-Tongue, asking Harald about it. Harald had heard the name before and assumed them to be descendants of Companions that didn't remain in Skyrim after the Return. They suggested that Kane seek information from the Skalds to learn more.

Eventually they arrived at the forest and ran into Harald's scouts. They told them about a clearing that they discovered that wasn't natural, clearly caused by the dragon's thu'um. While they were discussing the clearing, a masked woman approached them. The thane recognized her outfit's similarities to the Dragon Cult and she went by a dovahzul name. He questioned her in the dragon tongue. She replied, confirming the thane's suspicious and let it slip that she wasn't alone. Harald looked around for her associates. Skorm and the others began to get ready for combat. The cultist, Heyvahkrin, told them to stop what they were doing. Harald told the others to stand down and questioned her motives. She wanted to halt their hunt without bloodshed. Jofrodr stated that there were no more cultists, having cast Life Detection to search the treeline. Harald aggressively asked her why they shouldn't just kill her and her dragon master, as they weren't going to allow such a dangerous beast live so close to Yorgrim. Harald asked her if she would step down and let them kill the dragon. She argued, trying to appeal to their sympathies to the endangered dragons. She failed, the Atmorans had no empathy for their former overlords. Reyla said that there was no reasoning with zealots and Harald agreed. They were at an impasse. He ordered Heyvahkin to step aside or fight.

Heyvah chose to fight. Skorm threw the thane his weapon and Harald shouted, but the woman shouted as well. She began to move incredibly fast, faster than Harald with his Whirlwind Sprint. Not only that she moved more fluidly than him with his shout. She tripped him and then took out his three scouts, before disappearing into the treeline. All they could see of her were blurs as she moved. When she was gone, they questioned what happened. Harald knew the shout that she had used, Slow Time. It allowed her to slow down time considerably, which made her appear to go fast while in fact they were the ones slowed down. Harald told them of the limitations of the shout and they came up with a strategy to use against her. They chased after the cultist, but she was long gone. Not even Jofrodr's spell could find her.

The sun was going down, so Harald decided to make camp. They headed to the clearing, finding evidence of a recent battle there as they heard the cry of a dying animal and found fresh blood in the snow. The thane told them to investigate in the morning, as they needed to get the camp ready to last the winter night in the wilderness. They took turns on watch, Jofrodr taking first shift because of his Life Detection spell to keep and eye out for the cultist. Nothing happened during the night, so the group got a full night's rest and packed up camp in the morning.

Harald chose to follow the blood trail in the clearing. There was dried blood near the fresh one that followed a parallel trail. Skorm suggested that it might from a survivor of the dragon attack that caused the clearing. The trail led to a cave nor far from the clearing, inside they found a fresh campfire who's ashes were still warm. Reyla led them inside with her magelight. The fresh blood trail led to an adult sabercat by the campfire, while the dried blood led further in. They followed it and ran into three individuals. They told the thane's group to stop and identify themselves. Harald told them who he was. He came face to face with them and saw that the dried blood wasn't from them, but a torn up corpse on the ground. He wondered if they were friends or foes. They introduced themselves as Stormhawks: Hefndir, Tiskr and Reeth. They claimed to also be after the dragon.

Seeing that they shared the same foe, Harald decided to trust them and went to investigate the corpse. Hefndir, the masked leader, walked past him refusing to help them. Harald ordered Skorm to stop them. Skorm blocked the path of the other two Stormhawks while the thane examined the corpse. It was certainly killed by the dragon, probably before the sightings. Reeth, the mage, threatened Skorm with a lightning spell while his warrior friend Tiskr drew his weapons. Hefndir threatened to shout them apart if they didn't let his compatriots pass. Skorm wasn't afraid of the mage and didn't move, following the thane's orders. Harald threatened the masked leader and demanded them to back off and tell him what they learned from the corpse. The situation was getting more tense until the mage stopped his spell and told his friends to calm down. He offered to tell the thane all they knew if he let them pass. Harald agreed once they swore on their honor and told Skorm to stand aside. The housecarl did so and the situation defused.

The mage told them that the body of the treasure hunter came from the clearing, no doubt killed by the dragon as the thane suspected. The sabercats dragged it into the cave, which was their lair. They followed the blood trail there just the other day and that morning found a dragon claw on the corpse. Harald knew that those claws were used to open the Dragon Cult's puzzle doors. It was likely that the dragon's temple was nearby and the beast killed the treasure hunter to keep its location a secret. Kane reminded Harald of the female cultist and he asked the Stormhawks if they had encountered her. They claimed not to have. The thane warned them about her power. She was their clue so the group decided to hunt after her, first returning to the clearing to follow the tracks that the scouts had found there previously. Jofrodr and Reyla stayed behind to investigate something in the cave. The others returned to the clearing.

Jofrodr and Reyla investigated the cave and found a Sabercat cub hiding from the group. Once the others were gone the cub seemed more at ease. Reyla was able to calm it down further and got the cub to follow them outside. On their way to the clearing it took a liking to her. She named it Tannr. They caught up with the others as they were about to split up to search for the dragon's temple. Jof and Reyla joined the thane's group with Kane. Skorm remained with the scouts, the Stormhawks went off on their own.

They eventually came across the source of the blood trail with the help of the cub, finding the treasure hunter's severed arm in a plateau. At the plateau they discovered the dragon cult's temple with the puzzle door hidden on the mountainside. They had to wait for the Stormhawks since they were the ones with the silver dragon claw, but they got there shortly after. Reeth sent a magic signal to tell Skorm that they found the temple, then went to the door and unlocked it with the help of the masked Stormhawk. The door opened once the carved rings were in place and they headed inside.

As they went up the flight of stairs at the entrance, Harald accidentally set off a trap. He told the others to stand back and then used Whirlwind Sprint to move himself out of danger. They reached the entrance hall without further incident and found natural sunlight coming into the room, which was odd. They found two corridors that led out of the hall so they decided to split up. The Stormhawks took the left one while the others took the right. Harald triggered another trap, but it only damaged his shield. When they found some stairs their group split up again, with the Companions heading up while Kane remained with Harald. Jofrodr and Reyla found themselves in a mess hall with a bunch of undead. They fought them off and then discovered that the temple led to a secret crater inside the mountain. With this new info they headed back to the thane's group to inform him.

They found Harald and Kane fighting draugr in the Hall of the Dead and saved them, as the duo had been outnumbered. With their help, the two men managed to kill the undead. Harald found a key on the undead leader and they returned to the locked metal door. The thane went to unlock the door, but a large group of undead come from the rooms on the balcony to stop them. They defended themselves from the horde of draugr.

They helped each other during the fight, Reyla keeping them healed up while Jofrodr used his telekinesis on the thane's spear to pick out the Draugr from a distance. Working together, they thinned the numbers of the undead until finally the last of the fiends were dead once more. The group rested for a few minutes before opening the door and heading outside into the temple's inner sanctum.

The inner sanctum was located in a crater hidden inside the mountain. They headed through the snowy surface and to the altar at the far end. Above the altar was a cavern outlook where Kane spotted the dragon. Reyla was filled with a mix of shock and riled anger upon being presented a master of the Dragon Cult.

The dragon laughed and then taunted them. Harald told the others to follow his lead. He told them to slowly head closer to the altar, while trying not to get the dragon to attack them. The dragon was angry that they were ignoring him. Jofrodr knew they needed to do something as the dragon got ready to shout at them. Harald then talked with the dragon in Dovahzul, which caught the dragon off-guard. While the thane distracted the dragon with a conversation, he gestured for the others to get in position. Jofrodr trekked through the snow towards the altar. He kept his distance from Kane and Reyla so the dragon couldn't kill them all at once.

The Stormhawks arrived and Hefndir spoke to the dragon in its native tongue as well. With them was Skorm and another man in heavy armor. The dragon was angered by the Stormhawk and shouted, creating a storm over the crater. The thane told them all to scatter to evade the storm that shot down lightning at them. The Stormhawk shouted as well, creating his own storm that boosted the dragon's own. The masked Stormhawk's shout hurt the humans more than the dragon, angering Harald greatly as his plan was ruined. The mortals rushed into cover, trying to avoid the storms.

Reyla headed to the altar. She was in trouble, the lightning was strongest there and it baraged near her constantly. Nonetheless, she used her magic to keep herself healed. Jofrodr rushed to her side, keeping her company. They decided to attack the dragon with their magic. The dragon shouted at them in return. Reyla became panicked for an instant, before her ritual circle cleared her mind. She used the same magic to snap Jof out of his disoriented state. With his confidence returned Jofrodr tried to attack the dragon once more, however two lightning bolts shot right at him. They intercepted each other and exploded right on his face. The Companions was knocked unconscious immediately.

Reyla desperately tried to heal her friend, but he remained unconscious. Harald ordered her to return to the temple and serve as healing support. Skorm helped get her there, dragging Jofrodr back with them. Once there, she focused on healing Jof as well as anyone else that got injured during the fight with the dragon. The battle raged on, with the Stormhawks taking the dragon down to the ground and the humans rushing in to kill it. The female cultist appeared and split the group up into two fights.

When Jofrodr woke up he was back inside the temple with Reyla and Tannr standing beside him. He asked what happened and Reyla explained the situation. Reyla told him to get out there and help. Jofrodr picked himself up and thanked Reyla for taking care of him while he was out. He drew his sword and rushed out back out to the crater. Jof called Reyla to heal the thane, who had been bitten by the dragon and was bleeding out. Reyla asked him for help to fend off the lightning on her way there. He readied his defensive spells and kept her safe until they reached Harald. While she healed the thane, he protected them with his Spell Absorption.

The storms finally dispersed as Reyla finished her healing. Harald got back up and rallied a new offensive against the dragon, meanwhile Reyla remained behind and kept everyone healed throughout the fight and keeping them buffed with her magic. Harald, Skorm, Jofrodr and Reeth managed to weaken the dragon steadily and the thane dealt the final blow with his spear. With the dragon dead the cultist was the only thing that remained. She seemingly surrendered, but when the hunters tried to imprison her she surprisingly attacked and then sprinted out of the temple. The hunters celebrated their victory over the dragon. Harald thanked Reyla for saving his life, but she brushed it off. Skorm then convinced Harald to take a trophy of their kill back with them, so they lopped off the dragon's head and then had the scouts bring it back into town on the sled.

The group arrived in Yorgrim the next day. Harald rode in the front on his horse. Skorm had the second horse, leading the sled carrying the dragon Jermulgraag's severed head. As soon as the first townspeople saw the dragon skull, word spread across all of Yorgrim. The people gathered around the group, their mouths agasp at the sight of the dragon's head.

When they made it to the town square, Harald gave a short speech that caused the people to cheer his name and applaud the heroes. Reyla kept on the sidelines and allowed Harald and Jof to hog the fame, being a reserved individual. Chief Jænis arrived in the town square and called for a feast in their honor. The chieftain's announcement made the people cheer louder. That day Yorgrim was enthralled in a festival that lasted well into the night. Not even the cold could stop the Atmorans from celebrating. As the festivities took place, she wanted a strong drink and great food as a reward for her aid in slaying the dragon. It was during the festival that Harald paid the hunters for their work, making Jofrodr very happy. He also kept his promise and split up the initial 3000 gold with Reyla and Kane.

Orcs of Akul Khazak[]

During the celebration in Yorgrim, they learned that the Orc problem to the northwest that Captain Bodvar had gone to stop had only gotten worse. The rest of the Companions from Ylgermet had also left to fight the Orcs while he was gone on the dragon quest. The bounty on the Orcs had been raised to 500 gold a head, so most mercenaries had departed to help fight them.

Sunchaser

Sunchaser, Jof and Reyl's new horse

Reyla suggested that they follow after their captain and Jofrodr Sword-Thrower agreed. They enjoyed the rest of the feast, then slept at their mead hall. The next day the duo began getting ready for the long trip towards the Orc infested lands. They bought new scalemail at the local blacksmith and heard that a new smith had come to town, Völundr. Jof sought him out as he had heard of the smith's reputation, and had him maintain his sword, though when it came time to pay the two disagreed on the price and left on sour terms. Reyla enchanted a ring of resist silence at the local mage's shop. Jofrodr gave some gold to Reyla and asked her to buy them a cart and a horse for the trip. She did so and when the preparations were complete they left early next morning and rode all the way to Sílfrisin.

Along the way they encountered some trouble with giants fighting some Atmorans, but chose not to interfere. Not long afterwards they noticed that the Stormhawks were following them. Since they weren't causing any trouble they let the trio follow their cart at a distance.

As the Companions approached the village, they saw that it indeed looked abandoned. Some of the buildings looked damaged and others were completely burned down. They rode inside and saw nothing but death and destruction. The Orcs had done a number to it. Tannr warned them of nearby danger. At the town square they found a pack of wolves eating freshly dead corpses. The Companions attacked the wolves to get them away from the corpses. After injuring the alpha and killing others, they got the rest of the pack to retreat. While they were investigating the eaten corpses, a group approached them. At their head was none other than Captain Bodvar.

They greeted him and asked what happened to the village. He explained that they had evacuated the town after they suffered too many losses to keep a strong patrol on the perimeter. They were all hiding out in the mines north of town. Bodvar caught them up on the situation with the Orcs and the other Companion crews, then stopped someone standing on a nearby roof. Jof said it was Reeth Gylden-hand, a friendly. The Captain knew about the Stormhawks, but didn't seem to like them much.

Bodvar then asked them to come with them to find the Orc hunting party that had been spotted coming to the village. The duo agreed and followed the other Companions through the village. One of the Companions then saw a woman coming down the road. Neither Jof nor Reyla knew her. The Captain went to greet her with the two of them. They questioned the stranger and discovered that she was a mercenary come to kill Orcs for the bounty. Since they needed every man they could get, Bodvar invited her to accompany them.

Eventually they found a bloodied road where four Orc corpses laid. They examined the bodies and concluded that they weren't killed by the Stormhawks, someone else had killed them. The woman, Kal, also wasn't responsible. The group tried to find the person responsible, but after coming up short they went back to the mines. On the way there, the duo told their captain about their dragon hunt. The lookouts greeted them before they headed into the mine shafts and to the makeshift camp set up in a large chamber.

Reyla kept to herself, keeping Tannr close as they wanted for their captain's next orders. Not much was happening in the Companion camp until she overheard some arguing near her. It was men from different crews, they were yelling at each other, blaming each other for the ambush. Things escalated when they began to insult each other. Reyla tried to break it up, but was unsuccessful as it devolved into a brawl. She was dragged into it as a crowd gathered around them. Jof shoved his way into the circle of fighters. Reyla fought alongside Tannr. She wasn't strong enough to bring the man down on her own, but she held her own. The Captains came and tried to break up the fighting, but it was a new arrival that finally broke it up, the Harbinger of the Companions. With the fighting stopped, Reyla healed Jof's bruises as he was beaten up.

The Harbinger brought order to the camp and gathered the captains to figure out a plan for taking out the Orcs. They met in full view of the other crewmen and discussed the events of the previous ambush and how to deal with the Orcs. Captain Rolf told him how the Orc frequent raids began a few months ago and how Captain Heimir had led the first group of Companions to try to fight them off and how the situation escalated until Jarl Sigrún put out the first large bounty. Bodvar and Captain Styrbjorn added how their crews came to help defend the village and how everything culminated in the failed expedition up the mountain to the stronghold, where the Companions were ambushed and many of them lost their lives. The captains argued, but Harbinger Randagulf kept them in line.

By the time morning came, the Companions had a plan. The Harbinger had seperated the Companions into 9 war parties, each with around 20-30 men and gave each of them a path to head up the mountain. Mixing up the crews was an unpopular plan as they weren't getting along, but Randagulf's authoritative approach was keeping them in line for now. He knew that he needed to get these men to fight together instead of fighting each other or the Orcs would smash them.

Jofrodr and Reyla were placed in Randagulf's party. The Harbinger had a scout from Rolf's crew lead the party through the wilderness. The scout led Randagulf's party up the western path. There were 24 of them in the group. The Harbinger had separated them into 4 half-dozen sized parties and spread them out through the path. This was to try to stop the whole group from getting surrounded all at once. As they were walking, however, Tannr raised his head and ears and was looking them around as if he was trying to listen to something. They chose to follow the sabercat.

After a few minutes, the humans heard the sounds two, sounds of battle. The group approached what looked like a plain rockface, but the sound was coming from it somewhere. It echoed around the area. Jofrodr used his Life Detection magic and said there was a cavern behind those rocks. Tannr led them to the entrance of the cavern, a small crevasse on the side of the rock, hidden by perspective.

The inside was lit by faint torchlight and they followed the tunnel to a chamber were a stranger was fighting four Orcs, with two already dead on the ground. The man's armor was covered in dry blood and he seemed to be surrounded by the Orcs. They charged in to help the bloodied man against the Orcs. The Companions outnumbered the Orcs and quickly overpowered them, letting the bloodied man finish off the last of them.

The room they were in looked like a base camp. Randagulf came to the conclusion that the Orcs must have made a network of tunnels in the mountain to easily travel without being seen and used it to ambush the Companions. The bloodied man was praying in an unknown language. Jofrodr questioned him and found out his name was Hans, but didn't learn any more than that. Hans left without resting and the Companions decided to follow him through the tunnels.

Reyla didn't trust this stranger, but following the Harbinger nonetheless. Jofrodr asked Hans if he needed healing as he looked to be bleeding, but he refused. The Companions followed him despite their reservations about him. She and Jof talked about the man's strange speech, he talked in an archaic way and spoke a language none of them did. There was a lot of mystery around this man.

Hans stopped and told them that there were Orcs ahead. Reyla readied herself for battle as they cautiously approached the chamber where they heard sounds from. They found a large mining chamber. Wooden platforms and stairs lined the sides of the chamber, where a group of Orcs were swinging away at ore veins. The humans put out their torches and ambushed the Orcs, with Hans jumping right into battle. Randagulf ordered his men to help the stranger in his assault.

Reyla stayed back and used her magic to boost the strength and resistance of the humans while they killed the miners and the Orc guards in the chamber. Due to their surprise attack they suffered few losses. Hans had proved himself a brutal fighter and as soon as the fight was done he prayed in that same strange language. The man's helmet had been knocked off in the battle and revealed that he had white hair, red eyes and weathered skin. Jofrodr questioned him about his identity, but Hans only answered that the language he was speaking was that of the ancients. That angered Jof greatly, but Reyla got him to calm down. The Companions re-lit their torches and headed down the tunnel, catching up with Hans rather quickly as he headed further.

They followed after the man for almost an hour, going through the network of mining tunnels in the mountain. They came into an intersection where the mining tracks made to bring mining carts along met. They were crude constructions, but still effective. Hans stopped and looked around. Tannr lifted his ears. Both of them clearly heard something. Jofrodr used his Life Detection to see what was up ahead and stated that there were Orcs ahead. Hans charged ahead at the dark tunnel to fight the Orcs. As he was getting close the light from his torch illuminated the section of tunnel and showed a group of Orcs chopping down the wooden structure holding the roof up. He wasn't fast enough to stop them and they destroyed the last of the structural pillars. The tunnel began to rumble as the pressure mounted on the unstable rocky roof. The Companions retreated to avoid getting crushed by the falling rubble, but Hans kept running and was separated from them by the collapsing tunnel.

When they reached the mining chamber, they ran into Captain Bodvar and his war-party. They caught each other up and then went over the situation. The Orcs were trying to seal the tunnels to keep them from reaching the stronghold through the mines. The Harbinger split the Companions up further to increase their chances as they went searching for a way through before the Orcs blocked all the tunnels. Reyla was in the same group as Jofrodr, the mercenary Kal and led by the Harbinger's daughter: Elisiv Begalin.

Bodvar and the Harbinger's groups backtracked, while Elisiv's went through an adjacent unexplored path. The tunnel seemed to be a straight path, but it was a bit hard to tell what was up ahead as the Companions' torches only illuminated up to a certain point and cast shadows on the wooden beams and jutted out rocks of the tunnel. Kal suggested that they be careful, they had previously been ambushed on a similar looking tunnel. Elisiv agreed and they proceeded cautiously. Jofrodr confirmed their suspicions with his magic. He grabbed a torch from one of the other Companions and threw it as far as he could. The flames flickered as the torch flew, but weren't put out by the time it finally landed on the rocky ground. The light revealed a shieldwall ahead as well as another side tunnel with more Orcs who were trying to collapse the tunnel. Elisiv ordered a charge into the enemy to stop them before the tunnel could be brought down.

Reyla used her magic to help take out the Orcs, shooting energy blasts at them and boosting their strength. Kal slipped through the skirmishing and made it to the miners that were trying to collapse the tunnel. She and Jofrodr killed them and secured the tunnel while Elisiv and the other Companions crushed the Orc soldiers. They didn't stay in the tunnel for long, since the miners had done a lot of damage to the wooden supports so it was unstable. The tunnel led to another mining chamber, where the Companions saw another group of Orc warriors that outnumbered them. The enemies seemed to be distracted by something else. Before the Companions could retreat, the Orcs spotted them and attacked.

Elisiv ordered the Companions to stay in the tunnel and form a shieldwall since they were outnumbered. Kal, Jofrodr and Reyla remained behind the shieldwall since they didn't have shields. Reyla kept the Companions healed and their strength boosted, but couldn't do much as the Orcs swarmed against the shieldwall and tried to overcome the humans. Jofrodr summoned a spear and gave it to Reyla for her to help attack the Orcs from a distance. They took losses, but the Companions held strong and killed many of the Orcs. When their numbers had diminished, Elisiv ordered the shieldwall to advance and push them back. At the mining chamber they ran into Randagulf's group who had been the distraction that Elisiv's group first witnessed. Together the Companions overwhelmed the Orcs from both sides and killed them all.

Randagulf and Elisiv's groups tried to caught each other up, he told them that he found the Stormhawks and they had joined their war effort. However, their conversation was cut short as the Orcs tried to cut off their only advance into the stronghold. Luckily for the Companions, Jofrodr used his telekinesis magic to hold the tunnel roof in place. He urged his companions to go on without him. Reyla didn't want to, but Jofrodr convinced her due to her being the only healer as long as he promised to survive. She reluctantly joined the Harbinger's charge through into the last mining chamber before the tunnel behind them collapsed with Jofrodr's magicka having run out. In the last mining chamber they found the largest group of Orcs thus far led by the Orc Champion and a Red-skinned Orc.

The Companions formed a shieldwall to protect themselves from the Orc archers and warriors. The Orcs charged at them, but with Reyl's magic boosting their strength the Companions managed to hold them back. Reyla used her energy spells to blast the archers, but she had to keep most of her magicka focused on healing and boosting the other Companions. The Harbinger dueled the Red-skinned Orc woman. While he was very skilled, her strength proved greater than his and he was injured pretty seriously. He called to Reyla for help and she kept him fighting while he slowly overcame the Orc's brute strength with his superior fighting skills. With her help he defeated the Orc and she retreated to avoid death. Reyla and Reeth blew up oil barrels in the cavern with their magic, causing the Orcs many casualties. The battle was gruesome, with many Companions meeting their end, but with the help of the Stormhawks and Hans, whom had appeared in the cavern, they were able to defeat the Orcs.

They did not rest, instead they headed outside into the stronghold and found that it was ablaze and in the middle of a battle. Other Companions led by Captain Bodvar had attacked the Orcs' home and were fighting in the longhouse's courtyard. Harbinger Randagulf led the survivors of the mining tunnels into the battle, attacking the Orcs on their flank. Their arrival turned the tide of the battle, which had been in the favor of the Orc Chief. Reyla stayed back and focused on supporting the Harbinger's men. Her support proved vital to the battle as she allowed the humans to overcome the Orc's berserker rages. Elisiv helped Reyla cut through the battle to make it to where Tiskr, Hans, Kal and Bodvar were fighting the Orc chief. The healer boosted their strength and kept them from dying from the Orc Chief's furious attacks. The battle ended when Tiskr dealt the final blow to the Orc Chief. The rest of the Orcs were slaughtered and their stronghold burned to the ground.

The Companions recovered after the massive battle, burying their dead, counting the kills, looting the stronghold and resting. Reyla saved her Huntmaster, Helgi of Ylgertmet, from a fatal wound that he had suffered against the Orc Chief. Jofrodr returned from the tunnels and reunited with her. She was glad that he was safe. Once they had done this the crew split up and went their separate ways. The two of them joined Helgi's party on their way to Dagastar to get their reward for this quest while Bodvar led the rest of their crewmembers back to their mead hall.

Calm before the Storm[]

The Ylgermet crew headed back to Silfrisin, where Reyla and Jofrodr Sword-Thrower retrieved their horse and got a carriage to take them the rest of the journey to Dagastar. Even with a carriage, it took the Companions 3 weeks to arrive at the coastal city. Once there they headed straight for the Tower of Dawn where the Jarl lived. They waited in the courtyard of the tower, joking among each other, before the Jarl summoned them to give them their reward. Reyla didn't like the steward that had led them there, he seemed untrustworthy.

At the Jarl Sigrún's throne room, she presented them with three chests of gold as a reward. However there were four crew and even combined the gold was not the amount promised to them. The Jarl said that she had reduced the bounty due to the damage suffered by Silfrisin during the quest, which angered the Companions. Jofrodr in particular was quite vocal about his outrage. However infighting between the crew over how they would split up the remaining reward turned their anger from the Jarl to each other. Helgi of the Ylgermet argued with a member of the Vedrfolnir crew and it looked their a fight would break out. Reeth Gylden-hand of the Stormhawks tried to calm down the Companions, but to little avail. They continued to argue how to split up the gold until finally a brawl broke out when the Vedrfolnir leader tried to claim the largest chest for his crew. Helgi and him exchanged blows briefly before the Jarl angrily broke up the fight. She had her steward separate the reward fairly through the reported kills of each crew and then had the Companions leave her tower.

Helgi ordered Jofrodr and Reyla to less their carriage while he went to fetch them a ship to Yorgrim. The two did so at the local stables before reuniting with the rest of the crew. They took a cog back to their hometown. At Yorgrim they decided to finally leave Tannr with a professional trainer as the cub was growing quite large and soon would be beyond their control. They met with the kennel master Urlath and paid the Nede to take care of their pet and teach him properly. After that Reyla went to the local magic shop and ordered a new staff for herself given how much she needed a new weapon after the fight with the Orcs. She purchased it with her share of the dragon reward.

A few days later they learned that Harald Word-Bringer had become the Jarl at Vindhelm following the death of his father and that he had sent out a call to arms to all true sons of Skyrim to fight in a war against the Snow Elves. He planned to finish Ysgramor's crusade against the traitorous elves. Captain Bodvar Little-Bear accepted the Jarl's request and headed to the city to meet with him. Reyla and Jofrodr remained at Yorgrim for now, taking on smaller quests to earn money while they waited for the war to begin.

Reyla found a quest from the stablemaster that had sold them Sunchaser. Apparently his prized mare had been stolen. She accepted the quest and Jofrodr joined her. They met with the stablemaster, but he had few details about the possible thieves. They decided to bring the kennelmaster that had been training Tannr to help them track the thieves. He agreed to help them, as long as they paid him, and took one of his best hounds to track the thieves from the stables.

Along the journey the kennelmaster Urlath asked about her personal relationship with Jof, but she dismissed his questions saying they were only professional acquaintances. The group tracked the thieves to a farmstead in the woods a few days journey from Yorgrim. Jofrodr used his magic to discover that there were half-dozen bandits in the area. Urlath remained in hiding as the two Companions sneaked towards the barn where Jof noticed only two bandits. Unfortunately a bandit was exiting the barn just as Jof was entering and a fight broke out. Bandits from the main house exited, but Reyla held them off with her new staff. Jof returned from the barn with a prisoner, whom they questioned and learned that he was the man that hired the bandits to steal his competitor's horse. The bandits had double-crossed him and were planning to sell the prized mare to someone in Hvitstrad. They had recently left their hideout on a convoy with the horse. The three of them left the prisoner there and went after the remaining bandits.

The hurried after the bandits and managed to find their convoy. They both mounted on Sunchaser and left their cart with Urlath. Using their magic they took out the bandits from a distance, but as they killed them off the main carriage and its horses were going out of control and it was going to crash. Jofrodr jumped from Sunchaser to the carriage and managed to take control of it before an accident occured. With the horse in their possession they returned to Yorgrim and gave the mare back to the stablemaster, receiving their reward.

Captain Bodvar had returned from Vindhelm and he informed the other Companions of the Jarl's plan to attack after summer and ordered his men to get ready. Since then the Ylgermet crew had been training and recovering their strength after the losses they took against the Orcs. The crew had finished preparations for the war at the end of summer. Before they were to head to Vindhelm, Reyla and Jofrodr met with Urlath and recovered Tannr. In the months since they had left him in training the sabercat had grown into a full adult and was almost as big as a horse. Even though he had spent more time apart from her than with her, the cat seemed to remember and still like her. With his training complete Tannr was a capable battle animal and even a mount. The Ylgermet crew took ships to Vindhelm

The Falmer War[]

Reyla arrived in Vindhelm with her crew. They set up camp outside the city along with the other Atmorans. While they waited for the army to set off for battle, Reyla and Jofrodr Sword-Thrower talked about their families. Jofrodr had left Solstheim against his clan's wishes, which left them in bad terms. Reyla as well had a poor relationship with her highly religious family, who were cultists of Dibella. She also felt inferior to her younger sister, who was the current Sybil of Dibella and the leader of the cult. She made Jofrodr promise to bring her body back home should she die in battle, but he promised to not allow her to die as long as he stood.

They set off for war a few days later, after the planning for the war concluded. Harbinger Randagulf Begalin had been put in charge of half of the Atmoran army. His warband was comprised of the Companions forces, half of Jarl Harald's army under command of Thane Skorm Snow-Strider and a few others smaller armies. Randagulf's warband set up camp on the shores of the Lake Geir beside the tower fort of Nilheim, having arrived there after a three week journey. They built longboats from the nearby trees during the next week. Once enough ships for the army had been made they set off across the lake and into the River Treva towards the elven fortress of Vetudar.

The fleet encountered elven scouts along the shores of the river and became worried that the elves were planning something. Randagulf ordered them ashore and set up a scouting party to find out what the elves were up to. Reyl, Jofrodr and Tannr joined the party, which was led by Elisiv Begalin and contained the mage Lars Sun-Laud and the Companion Kal Curse-Bringer. They discovered barrels anchored upriver and figured that it was an elven trap, though before they could investigate further Tannr heard a battle taking place nearby. After checking out the battle, they saw Hans fighting against multiple elves. Kal and Lars went after the mages while the others went after the warriors. After a short battle, the group attempted to question Hans but the man left without much of an explanation.

They returned to the clearing and decided to split up. Kal and Lars were to return to the camp and report to the Harbinger, while the rest would remain and attempt to undo the trap. Jofrodr labored for a while, but made little progress with disarming the elaborate river trap. When the two returned they brought with them reinforcements, Captain Bodvar Little-Bear and his crew, as well as orders from the Harbinger. They were to set off the trap, as it was near impossible to undo it. Though as they figured that the elves would come to investigate when they set of the trap, they decided to set up a trap of their own. Jofrodr brought the oil barrels in the eastern forest with his magic. Lars requested that they leave one elf alive for him to interrogate. Once everything was set Bodvar's men set off the river trap and they waited for the elves to arrive.

Sure enough, an elven patrol came to investigate and Lars set off the forest trap, trapping them and allowing Bodvar's crew to trap them between the flames and the riverbed. A battle ensued in the forest with Reyla providing support to the Companions with her magic. She saved Captain Bodvar, healing his injured arm so that he could defeat his opponent. In the aftermath, the elves were routed with Lars going after to deal with the stragglers. After looting the corpses and tying up the elf that Lars' friend Fjoll captured, they returned to the Companion camp.

Reyla was there for Lars' interrogation of the captured elf. Surprisingly the mage knew elvish so he was able to speak to the prisoner. Though she proved to be uncooperative until threatened and beaten. Eventually Lars was able to learn that the elves had a secret portal under their fortress from which they could bring in reinforcements. Elisiv reported this to the Harbinger as he was making his battle plans. The news forced him to reconsider his approach.

The Companions set off the next day, sailing up river once more as they neared the fortress of Vetudar. The fleet stopped on the opposite side of the river from the fortress and remain out of sight of the fortress until the night came. At dusk the longboats sailed across the river and landed near the fortress, initiating their attack on the walls. Meanwhile, Elisiv was leading an infiltration force that went around the fortress to deal with the portal before the enemy could call their reinforcements. The main attack was in fact a distraction so that her group could accomplish their mission. They reached the gatehouse and Jof levitated Kal up to the walls, where she set down a rope for the others to climb. They entered the main keep and investigated with the aid of Jof's Life Detection spell, allowing them to uncover the location of the secret passage that led to the underground portal. A fight ensued as the elves discovered them, but they were unable to stop the group from reaching the underground, where they found more elven resistance.

The infiltration group fought past the mages guarding the underground chambers and arrived at the portal, which was housed inside a large marble shrine. Fjoll remained behind to try to stop the paladins from pursuing them. Jofrodr attempted to figure out how to disable the shrine portal while the rest of the group headed to aid Fjoll when their pursuers caught up with them. Jofrodr wasn't able to disable the portal so joined them in the fight. He helped to hold off the warriors while Lars dueled with an elf mage. After the elf mage was dead they searched his body and discovered a black gem that they figured worked as a key to the portal, so Jof destroyed it.

With that matter settled they returned to the first floor of the keep and discovered that the last of the elves had retreated inside the fortification as the Atmorans overwhelmed their defenses outside. Lars suggested that they try to demoralize the elves by showing them the body of the mage Prelate and the broken gem, so that they could try to get the elves to surrender. Though careful negotiations with the last elf Curate, Lars was able to convince him to surrender so long as he gave himself over to the elves as a bargaining chip to use against Harbinger Randagulf. Jofrodr didn't believe the plan would work, but it did serve as a good distraction while they waited for the rest of the Companions to reach them.

When the Companions did arrive the fighting resumed and Lars' plan went out the window. Jofrodr could hear Hans yelling a battle cry, he had somehow joined the human army. The infiltration group held them off in the underground passage so their numbers wouldn't be as overwhelming until the rear of the elven forces was crushed by the Companions. When the battle was over, Reyla helped Jofrodr loot the corpses. The battle had not been without losses. In particular the Ylgermet crew lost a lot of their forces during the initial assault. The Jorrvaskr crew was in a similar situation. Harbinger pulled them from the front lines and gave them a different task. They were to escort Jarl Hildr througn Lake Honnith to the eastern front of the war. Captain Bodvar was angry with this assignment until the Jarl offered them payment. Jofrodr and Reyla were put into a longship commanded by Huntmaster Helgi. Tannr went with them.

The fleet of longships was intercepted by five elven galleys and a battle ensued. Helgi's longship circled around, dodging the enemy barrage of bolt throwers. As they got closer, elven mages rained spells at them. Jofrodr used his defensive magic to protect his crew as they tried to ram into one of the rear galleys of the enemy fleet. Lars, whom was aboard Elisiv's longship, shouted at the galleys, creating a mist that sapped the strength of the elves. However, a elf Tongue revealed himself and used his thu'um to create a storm, the same shout used by Jermulgraag month prior. Luckily Helgi's vessel was outside both shouts' range so they didn't suffer any of the consequences. They attacked the elven ship and began to board, but the elves had more warriors than they anticipated and they were pushed back until Elisiv's longship came to aid them.

Their aid was indispensable in winning the fighting on the galley, but when the battle seemed won the lead elven vessel came to reinforce. When the new vessel was within reach, Lars shouted at them and killed some of the elven mages, causing them to raise again and fight against their former allies. Jofrodr spotted the elven Tongue on that ship and after informing Reyl, they attacked him. The elf persevered against their attacks, dodging Jof's thrown weapons and withstanding Reyl's spells. He jumped across to meet them in battle. Other elven warriors followed him in a boarding, which Helgi and Elisiv went to figth off.

The elven Tongue challenged Jofrodr to a duel in the Atmoran way, speaking the Atmoran language. The two exchanged blows, but Reyla didn't stay out of their duel. She had no respect for the elves so she interfered and aided Jofrodr healing him and buffing his strength. The elf tried to shout at him at close range, but Jofrodr managed to reflect the shout back at him. Even so, the elf would not go down. An elven mage tried to help the elven tongue, keeping Reyla at bay with her ice spells. Reyl's wards protected her from the enemy mage and she continued to interfere in the duel. As did Kal, who tried to strike at the tongue while he wasn't looking. Outmaneuvering them, the elf was able to knock them down and Marked them for Death. With them weakened, he tried to go after Reyl. However as he attacked her he was pounced on by Tannr, who had been standing by her protecting her.

Now having to contend with both Companions and the beast, the fight was turning in their favor quickly. The elf cut Tannr in the face and fought off Kal. Jofrodr used his telekinesis on the the elf's weapons, messing up his fighting stance. The enemy mage aided him once more, creating a Wall of Ice so that Reyla could no longer interfere in the fight to heal them. Lars and Reyla began to launch spells at the elven mages, exchanging attacks with them while Jof and Kal handled the tongue. During the fight, the elf got the upper hand once more and tried killing Kal. However, Tannr intercepted the attack and tackled him to the ground. Before the beast could crush the elf's his head in its powerful jaws, the elf stabbed it in the neck and killed the sabercat.

By now the battle had been pushed heavily in the humans' favor. The paladin commander was dead and his warriors had been defeated. The elven mages were all that was left. The elven tongue seemed to notice that the battle was lost for them and used Storm Call to keep the humans on the defensive while he jumped into the water to escape. Helgi attempted a boarding of the last enemy ship. Unfortunately, the she-elf mage commanding the lead galley conjured up a powerful Frost Tornado which caught the Companions and sent them flying like ragdolls, killing Helgi and many of others. Elisiv led a second attempted boarding of the lead galley. The mage tried to pull a similar maneuver again, but was unable to due to Lars and Reyla suppressing her. After being pushed into a corner, the mage cast Mass Paralysis and took out all the human warriors, leaving only Reyla and Lars to fight her off. Lars tried to get her to surrender, but she fought to the bitter end. She nearly managed to finish off Lars, catching him with her ice spells, but not before Reyla dealt a fatal blow to her chest with her light magic. Before she died the elf cast a scroll spell that caused a large fiery explosion on the ship.

The explosion left a massive hole on the ship and caused it to start sinking. Luckily by then the paralysis had worn off so the humans were able to make it to safety. The remaining longships had regrouped and helped to rescue the human survivors from the battle. The humans had lost about half their forces, but they had defeated the elves and won the battle. They continued on their journey east and landed on the shores of the lake to rest up while they sent a scout to find out the location of Harald's warhost.

Once the scout returned they discovered that the warhost had captured an elven port town and had made it their current base. The fleet headed there and found the warhost in the middle of a large building effort for a new invasion fleet to attack the Snow Elf capital. Bodvar's men completed their mission to escort Jarl Hildr, but she didn't pay them just yet. She promised them payment from her coffers in Nimalten, which Bodvar reluctantly accepted but promised that if she didn't pay them willing he'd force her. Bodvar's crew rested at the elven port town, helping with the construction effort as well as raiding expeditions into the elven countryside. Despite the death of Helgi, Bodvar had refused to name a new Huntmaster for his crew. He seemed not to be taking the death of his friend well and had fallen to a drunken state while in the town. Jofrodr was under the impression that he might be able to secure the position. Reyla wasn't too interested in it herself and supported Jof's claim to it.

News of Atmoran raiding parties not returning to the town reached Jarl Harald. He ordered a scouting expedition into the east to track down the missing raiding parties and find out if the elves had captured or killing them. They managed to discover the elven camp and reported its location to the Jarl. He gathered together a large force to deal with the Falmer, as leaving them to their devices would mean losing their supply lines into Skyrim. The Atmorans could not afford that, as they would also starve. The Companions remained in the town with Thane Egil and Jarl Ivar's militia to protect it.

While Harald and the main Atmoran army was away, the elves did launch an attack on the town. Thane Egil and the militia held the walls while the Companions sullied out on longships and circled around the enemy to attack them from the rear. However, before they could reach the enemy's flank the elves destroyed the gatehouse and flooded into the town. Gauldur held the elves at bay long enough for Bodvar and his men to flank and take the enemy' rear. Pinned down inside the town and surrounded, they were able to destroy the enemy force, but at great cost. Many Companions died and the structures in the town were heavily damaged. The most notable death was Thane Egil Gray-Mane. He had died in the watch tower at the gatehouse. The Ylgermet crew lost some of his members, including Hugaldr and Ráðbarðr.

When they were burning their dead, sending the souls of their fallen comrades to Sovngarde, Haralds' army returned. They had been victorious in their battle against the elves, though they also suffered losses. The Atmorans remained in the town, licking their wounds and preparing for the final battle with the Falmer.

Harbinger Randagulf's warhost arrived in Nennas in Evening Star. The reunification of the invading army brought renewed morale and vigor to the Atmorans. Shortly afterwards they celebrated the Winter Solstice. A massive banquet was held, with plenty of drink and food to celebrate their successful campaign and to toast to the coming battle for the elven island. It was a mid-Morning Star that Thane Skorm's army finally reached Nennas and regrouped with the main Atmoran force. Now the whole warhost that had set off from Vindhelm was back together and ready for the final battle. The dragon-ship (drakkar) fleet was long completed, having been built during the last couple months since the Battle of the Autumn Field. As it was the middle of winter, the Atmorans had to wait until the ice thinned a little before they could set sail. On the 12th of Sun's Dawn, the eve of the famous Feast of the Dead that celebrated the 500 Companions and Ysgramor, the Atmoran army sailed to invade the Snow Elf island.

The vanguard of the Atmoran fleet was spotted by the Falmer's lookouts on the walls of Ilinhame. They raised the alarm at the Keep and the Falmer quickly began to mobilize their defenses. The fleet headed straight for the ice that had formed outside the walls. The Atmorans raised their shields as the arrows came flying. A few of the humans were hit, some of their sails torn, and some fires were started by the flame arrows, but the volley did not stop them. The humans withstood a couple more volleys before they reached the ice sheet, where their drakkar ran aground. As the humans began disembarking onto the ice, they then lifted their ships and upturned them, planning to use the longships as defenses against the elves. Bodvar's crew made it onto the ice. Jofrodr and Reyla were near the front of the ship, right behind their captain. Elven arrows and spells hit against the hulls of the ships as they were making their way towards the frozen harbor of the city. Jofrodr protected their ship with his magic. As they were running through the ice runes were triggered. The elves had trapped the ice with magic, making the trek much more dangerous. The humans began coming up with ways to avoid the runes. The numerous explosions had caused parts of the ice to crack and break, making it harder for the entire fleet to make it to the harbor. The first few ships that crossed had an easier time, so most of the vanguard was able to cross the ice without being blocked off by the cracks and gaps. A few of the ships caught fire from continued elven firebolts striking against their hull, which forced their crews to abandon them and just charge ahead without cover.

With Reyla and Jofrodr offering support, Bodvar's ship was able to make quick progress too and catch up with the vanguard who was making their way into the elven harbor. The elven Tongue made his move and shouted, creating a storm to catch the humans. However, the Tongue Hjormund Time-Tongue was able to cancel it out with his own shout. As they reached the pier, they spotted barrels that looked identical to those that the elves had used in the river trap to the west. They warned their comrades of the trap and they were able to avoid it. They fought their way past the elven barricades, reaching the gates. The gates were heavily defended and the humans was led into a kill-box by the elves. The humans retreated to the nearby warehouses as the gates were far too open to assault. Lars created a distraction with his magic, keeping the bolt throwers busy. With this Harald and the Tongues were able to attack the gates with their voice and shouted it open, allowing Skorm and his men to charge in and push the elves back into the courtyard of the Paladins' Keep.

The Paladins tried to hold off the humans, but Randagulf rallied the Companions and managed to go around the main elven defenses to flank them from the north. As they were flanking them, however, elven mages summoned a stampede of Frost Atronachs that charged into the human lines. Captain Bodvar was knocked down by a charging Atronach. He fell on his back and the Atronach was subsequently trying to stomp on his chest. Jofrodr ran to the aid of the captain. Bodvar used his shield with both hands. He managed to initially hold on, but the weight of the icy limb was overtaking him. Thalg Soul-Smasher swung into the Atronach's leg and cracked it, with Jofrodr staggering the Daedra with a spear throw to the head. Bodvar was able to break free and was helped up by Jof. Reyla healed him, letting Bodvar rejoin the fight as the humans forced the elves to retreat into the city and captured the keep.

With the keep captured, the priests moved in to heal the injured in the keep while the rest of the army swarmed into the city. The Companions headed up the northern section of the city. They were making quick work through the Middle-Ring of the city as the elven militia was no match for the hardened warriors. As they were passing through a market area, they were suddenly attacked from the back by the elven Paladins. The Jorrvaskr crew was the one that suffered the ambush the worst. Bodvar ordered his crew to go and reinforce them after they discovered the ambush. When they reached the street where the fighting was taking place, several of the Jorrvaskr crewsmen were already injured. They protected Reyla and she began to heal them. The Hildisvin crew also came to reinforce them and help fight off the Paladins. Jofrodr spotted the half-elf Tongue among them. He attacked Karyor with telekinesis to throw weapons at him. Karyor resisted the first attacks, but was caught by an Aetherial spear that tore a chunk out of his flesh. Jofrodr engaged him in melee, resuming their duel from the previous battle. The two exchanged blows and insults. Reyla was boosting Jofrodr's strength, but Karyor's Marked for Death evened the battle once more. Reyla was distracted by another elf and was stopped from continuous healing Jofrodr. This allowed Karyor to do significant damage against him. The fight slowly turned in Karyor's favor. Eventually, Karyor was able to land a blow to the head of the Shield-Brother, killing him. Reyla was devistated by Jof's death. She ran ahead and took Prince-Slayer from the ground and charged at the half-elf. Captain Bodvar came to her aid. However, before either of them could best the Tongue the Paladin leader called a retreat, so the elven Tongue shouted to create a Storm to cover their escape. Reyla tried to follow, but they were forced to disengage as the storm intensified. Before he retreated, Bodvar grabbed Jof's body. He dragged Jof's body out of the street into a nearby shop for cover from the storm. He grieved over Jof's death, while Reyla was too angry to feel sad. Several Companions had died to the paladins during the fighting. Jorrvaskr's crew had been hit the hardest. It was barely keeping together at this point, with only about a fourth of their original numbers at the start of the war. The Ylgermet crew wasn't much better, but its Captain was still alive at least. The Jorrvaskr crew had lost its Captain, Gunnar Battle-Born.

After the ambush, the Companions regrouped with Harald's forces. The humans pushed the elvens back into the central section of the city, the large plaza district. Their combined forces attacked from the north. The elves had placed archers on the rooftops and fired down on the humans. They formed shieldwalls to defend themselves as they pushed through. The Paladins tried to hold them off. Bodvar spotted the elven Tongue among the Paladins. He and Reyla set after the elf to get revenge for Jofrodr. Reyl's magic invigorated the Captain as he charged. However, the elf's Thu'um weakened him once more. The elf tried to get the advantage by moving in close, but Bodvar did not back down and wrestled against him. The elf stabbed him through the gut, but the War-Bear indured and disarmed the elf of one of his weapons. Even while bleeding out, Bodvar fought on exchanging blows with the elf. However, his injuries got the better of him and he fell to his knees. Before the elf could finish him off, though, Reyla joined in with Jofrodr's sword. Fueled by her rage at her friend's death, she fought ferociously against the half-elf. She pushed him back and allowed the Captain to retreat. The half-elf retrieved his weapon, which he had been disarmed from by Bodvar. The Tongue Hjormund joined in the duel and aided Reyl, nullifying his thu'um and giving Reyla the advantage in the fight. Eventually she landed a fatal blow through his torso and decapitating the elf with another strike. While she was dueling the elven Tongue, Harbinger Randagulf had killed the Paladin leader. The humans charged in to the center of the square to end the Snow Elf leader and the last of his defenders. The elves cast a blizzard, covering the area but it did not stop them, neither did the elf's leader casting a Mass Paralysis spell. After a brutal confrontation, they decapitated the elf leader and slaughtered the remaining elves. Some elves, however, managed to escape as the Dwarves have arrived in their airships and rescued hundreds of civilians. Still, the battle was won for the humans and the last Falmer city was razed.

Aftermath[]

With her dreams of a life with Jofrodr Sword-Thrower shattered, Reyla was left with almost nothing at the war's conclusion. She swore revenge against the Stormhawk's entire Order for the loss of Jofrodr and Tannr. She kept Prince-Slayer as a keepsake of Jof. After a short time recovering in the ruins of the elven city with her crew, Reyla departed from the Companions leaving her crew behind.

She first proceeded to head home to the Cult of Dibella's headquarters in western Ostmark, to request assistance in hunting down the Stormhawks and putting them to the sword. However, the Cult of Dibella itself were uninterested in pursuing the path that Reyla had chosen to take. Even her own sister, whom was the new Sybil, refused to speak with her after their relationship deteriorated further. Ultimately, Reyla was branded an outcast by the Cult of Dibella after repeated attempts to persuade them into supporting her path of vengeance. Now an outsider, the Atmoran went to place her faith on a different god. Having witnessed the mercilessness of Hans the Fox, the alleged avatar of Ysmir, against the Snow Elves she decided to seek their aid in her quest. She explain her case, from everything she knew about the Stormhawks to how the Thu'um was used by a halfbreed with elven blood, in hopes of getting them to take action. The cult saw an elf using Kyne's gift to be blasphemy and agreed to aid her in bringing vengeance upon the Stormhawks.

Walking Winter's Woe[]

After setting the Cult of Ysmir after the Stormhawks, Reyla headed for Vindhelm where she saw to enter into the employ of Harald. After he had declared himself High King, he became the most powerful man in Skyrim so siding with him would give her the most reach in accomplishing her goals. When she arrived in the city, she headed for the Palace and requested an audience with Harald. However, she was turned down as he was quite busy. The people of Vindhelm had been getting worried that Harald had made demands of the other Jarls and so far only Jarl Hildr of Reftva had answered his summons. To distract the populace, Harald organized a melee at the Hall of Trials calling forth worthy warriors to battle in the fighting pit in order for him to choose new housecarls. Reyla saw this as the perfect chance to earn her place in Harald's court and so signed up for the event. At the Hall, she ran into members of her former Companions crew, namely Captain Bodvar. He still seemed sad of her departure from the crew, but she did not have any intention of returning to it. Besides the Companions, the only other noteworthy fighters were two Sea Giants.

At the day of the melee they were introduced to the cheers of the crowd and convined inside the fighting pit. On word from the High King the melee began. The two giants started the fight with quite a show, the giant Styld summoning a spectral version of himself to fight the Companions while he attacked the veteran pit fighters. Reyla was cautious, keeping her distance and observing each opponent before determining her first target. She was intercepted, however, by her former crewmember Emma. The Shield-Sister dueled against Reyl. Emma was a strong warrior, wielding a large club and heavy armor. Reyla was lightly armored and armed, only having Jofrodr's sword. However, she was quicker and was able to avoid Emma's more powerful strikes. Emma berated her for abandoning the crew in its lowest point, after so many of their comrades had died in the war. Reyla did not back down and was not taunted by her words. She kept a cool head and slowly widdle down the warrior, helped by her sword's enchantment. She was left bruised, but she ultimately won the duel after Emma submitted. During their duel, Emma came to respect Reyla for improving her fighting prowess now that she carried a legendary sword. Reyla was also impressed with Emma's prowess and the two reached mutual respect. Reyla then joined the fight against the giant Styld, who had defeated several humans by now. She fought alongside the Tongue Geld, supporting his attacks with her spells. She bombarded the giant with beams of light, weakening him enough for Geld to deliver the blow that downed him. Afterwards, Reyla turned her attention to a Nede warrior, whom had defeated two Companions thus far. The Nede had attacked the Tongue and Reyla caught him off-guard, but one spell did not defeat him. He was agile, avoiding her second spell and quickly closing the distance between them. The two clashed blades, all the while the others were fighting the giantess. The Nede's speed and swordsmanship was more than a match for Reyl, so she had to rely on her magic to get the upper hand. She was able to time her spells well enough to hit him, weakening the Nede and pinning him with her sword. He surrendered the duel.

The giantess remained, as did a few others that were fighting her. Hlian proved to be a tough match, her combination of spells and fighting techniques making her a pain to fight. The men fighting her had tried to get Reyla and the Nede to join them, but the two had been too engrossed in their duel. When Reyla finally decided to help against the giantess, only the young Companion Reynir remained against her. Reyla bombarded the giantess with her spells, weaking her and allowing the Companion to get some hits in. The giantess saw that she would not be able to defeat them both and so surrendered in annoyance. It came down to Reyla and Reynir. Reynir was in rough shape from his fight with the giantess, but nevertheless he put up a good fight. He was relentless and kept Reyla on the back-foot, but his injuries proved too great a handicap. He was slow and that gave Reyla the opportunity to strike, granting her victory. The crowd cheered for the former Companion and she returned to the undercroft with her head held high. In the crowd, though, she noticed a familiar face.

Harald soon arrived in the undercroft to meet with the fighters. He complimented the fighters and thanked them for the blood they spilled in the Hall, promising them all compensation for their sacrifice. The king ordered the Pit Master to bring in the gold, paying all the fighters. To Reyla and Geld he extended the offer of making them a housecarl. Both accepted the offer. To others he offered service or work. Among those were the two giants and the Nede Braonan. To the Orc, who had entered the melee as a masked stranger but was unmasked by Geld, he offered him a choice of either prison or service. The Orc accepted reluctantly, but in the process also gave up his accomplice whom became Harald's prisoner. Reyla was given room and board in the palace as befitting her new role.

Harald arranged for the oath ceremony of his two new housecarls. With his court as witness, Reyla relayed her ancestry and her achievements, then swore to fight for the High King, bring the vengeance of the gods against his foes and avenge him should he fall in battle. Satisfied with Reyl's oath, Harald beckoned her to rise and gave her a golden armring to represent her service to him. Geld followed her example, and swore that his clan would serve the High King and heirs faithfully, as well as not rest until he is avenged should he fall. Likewise, he received an armring and was recognized as housecarl. They were showed the ropes by Kane Styrson, the only of Harald's housecarls that survived the Falmer war.

While walking through the city, Reyla had the feeling that she was being followed and baited her pursuers into an alleyway where she confronted them. It turned out to be her sister Froydis and her protectors. She tried to talk Reyla out of her quest for vengeance, but Reyla was not persuaded. She was carrying with her the skull of the elven Tongue she killed in the war. Without seeing eye-to-eye, Reyla parted.

A couple days later, Jarl Arngrim of Saarthal had arrived in the city and challenged High King Harald for the right to rule in the old traditions of Atmora. The two dueled in the Hall of Trials, with Harald pulling a victory after a hard-fought battle. However, Arngrim's son Hrani tried to assassinate the injured Harald. He shot Harald with an arrow, hitting him in the chest. Before he could finish the assassination attempt, Arngrim's former housecarl Ragnarr stopped Hrani and protected the High King. Reyla and the Orc prisoner Lash both jumped down to the fighting pit to heal the injured High King. Harald was pale and weak when they reached him, but Lash was able to remove the arrow and heal his wounds. Reyl's magic granted Harald renewed strength and allowed him to stand up on his own. Atmoran priests came to his aid, but Harald was already apt. He retrieved his sword and headed to join the fight, much to the dismay of the two women and the priests. However, by the time he arrived the battle was over. Hrani and his Saarthal warriors were defeated, most of them killed and the others surrendered. Following the attempt, Harald called his banners to march his army to Saarthal, intent on conquering the holds.

Personality[]

Reyla is a quiet and reserved person due to her timid personality. Nonetheless, she takes her duty very serious and can be quite passionate about it.

After the Falmer war, Reyla became much more ruthless and vengeful as she was overtaken by the anger at losing her close companion Jofrodr Sword-Thrower and her subsequent slaying of Hefndir Stormrhaukr. Her rage also led to her being a lot more callous of other people, but also more dutiful of causes she believes in.

Statistics[]

  • Attributes: Endurance and Intelligence
  • Major Skills: Master Restoration, Master Alteration, Expert Two-handed, Expert Blocking, Adept Acrobatics
  • Minor Skills: Light Armor, Athletics, Survival
  • Spells: Essence Drain, Reflective Light, Combat Prayer, Healing Ward, Radiant Magelight, Restoring Focus, Channeled Focus, Total Dark, Extended Ritual (Ballad of the High King); Telekinesis, Dispel Other, Purify, Living Dark, Radiant Magelight, Reflective Light, Defensive Barrier, Combat Prayer (Walking Winter's Woe)
  • Powers: Ritual of Rebirth, Gift of Mara, Resist Frost
  • Equipment: A suit of chainmail under a set of intricate robes with Atmoran rune symbols on the edges.
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