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Anoriath

2026-05-12T17:18:07Z

Zadammac: /* Role in the Dragon Break */

[[category: Morrowind]]

'''Anoriath'' was a [[uesp-l:Bosmer|Bosmer]] male who is one of the possible subjects of the [[uesp-l:Nerevarine_Prophecy|Nerevarine Prophecy]] whose conjectural existence is one of the questions posed by the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]]. Anoriath was a traditionalist [[uesp-l:Green_Pact|Green Pact]] Bosmer who was displaced from [[uesp-l:Valenwood|Valenwood]] during the events of the [[uesp-l:Five_Year_War|Five Years War]] and [[uesp-l:War_of_the_Blue_Divide|War of the Blue Divide]], eventually becoming a vagrant survivalist in [[uesp-l:Cyrodiil|Cyrodiil]]. He enters the stream of events that are warped by the Uncertain Sign Dragonbreak after being imprisoned in the [[uesp-l:Imperial City|Imperial City]] prison as the result of a drunken bet gone quite awry. In spite of his background, Anoriath was considered by his contemporaries to have been a profoundly unserious elf.

He was an '''Archer''' born under the [[uesp-l:The_Steed|Steed Sign]].

== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Anoriath was born in [[uesp-l:Third_Era#3E_407|3E 290]] near [[uesp-l|Silvenar]], though much of his early life appears to be unclear and unrecorded. It is likely he lived a life very typical of contemporary Bosmer, though some of his writings take special care to highlight his love of hunting. Anoriath fought briefly in the two major wars toward the end of the fourth century CE, though his precise service remains unrecorded, and describes the resulting decision to leave Valenwood as "the prey's retreat".

He does not seem to have lived well in Cyrodiil after fleeing Valenwood, and describes himself as "living rough" during that time period. The most noteworthy incident is of course that which lead to his imprisonment in the Imperial City prison.

=== Imprisonment and Deportation to Vardenfell ===
Anoriath's personal history joints to the history of the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]] after his imprisonment in the Imperial City Prison in the late fall of 3E 426. He remained in prison for several months before being assigned a parole that would lead to him being sent to [[uesp-l:Vardenfell|Vardenfell]]. Anoriath describes the incident leading to this arrest as "a great farce". Imperial records record only an assault and the destruction of property at the Merchants Inn in the imperial city, but Anoriath describes the incident much more candidly.

<blockquote>To begin with, everyone involved was quite drunk; the orc most of all. If he felt anything at all it was the next morning and merely the aftermath, which believe me was just as much for the best as it was responsible for what happened next. I won't deny being quite drunk as well - no ''sober'' hand in the Green is going to make a mistake like that, let me tell you. So anyway, the orc was quite certain he'd have the better of me in a contest at the shortbow, which of course I couldn't simply allow to stand. Everything was going fine at first; apples off of the banisters and one another's heads. It was only ''his'' brilliant idea to grip a jug in his arse. I must've had the Lies of Lorkhan pulled over my eyes to miss a shot like that. One arrow, four holes later and the whoreson threw an entire ''table'' at me, if you please! It was just as well the Guard finally stepped in at that point. Saved the old sod's life.</blockquote>

Evidentally, the orc held some fear for Anoriath, who accepted parole to Vardenfell rather than a straight release.

=== Role in the Dragon Break ===
Because of his arrival on 17th Last Seed, 3E 427, at the Customs and Excise Depot of the Imperial service in the village of [[uesp-l:Seyda_Neen|Seyda Neen]], Anoriath satisfies the condition of being a subject of the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]]. His actions from that point onward become [[ambihistory]].

=== Explorations of the Ascadian Isles Region ===
Anoriath's arrival in [[uesp-l:Sayda_Neen|Sayda Neen]] was a welcome one for him, as he did not enjoy the relatively brief seabourn leg of the journey, complaining frequently of seasickness and nightmares. He recounts the period after disembarking relatively fondly, and we know from the journals of others that he had an arguably positive effect on the community, though not without both edges of the dagger, as it were. He solved the murder of [[uesp-m:Processus_Vitellius|Processus Vitellius]], but may also have been implicated in the continuing harassment of his fellow bosmer, [[uesp-m:Fargoth|Fargoth]]. It does appear, however, that he may not have taken his charge from the [[uesp-l:Blades|Blades]] especially seriously as it took until the second day of his stay in Morrowind for him to have even left the township, and he did not appear at his intended destination, [[uesp-l:Balmora|Balmora]], for several days. Along the way, he is known to have spent a considerable amount of time "exploring" (and often times plundering), a number of underground sites he came across - both caves and crypts. Surviving records from the period indicate that he intimated to [[uesp-l:Caius_Cosades|his parole officer]] that he considered this a period of good sporting, and these sorts of extended outings and rangings would become de-rigeur for him.

=== Working with the Balmora Fighter's Guild ===
Records of the Imperial Fighters Guild do show quite a bit of activity figuring Anoriath. It seems he took up with their cause fairly early on in his explorations, and he fulfilled a number of their contracts without issue, such as the removal of kwama poachers from [[uesp-m:Shulk_Egg_Mine|Shulk Mine]]. One mission on behalf of the guild took him to [[uesp-l:Caldera|Caldera]], and this was his first real stumbling block of his new adventure, purportedly having spent "all I had on potions and scrolls" and still scarcely managing to survive the encounter, which had pitted him against a number of thieves - purportedly aligned with House [[uesp-l:Telvanni]] - who were stealing from the [[uesp-l:Ebony|Ebony]] Mines. As a result of this mishap, Anoriath seems to have withdrawn from urban society after returning to Balmora to collect on the contract.

It is believed that during the explorations he engaged in at this time he uncovered the location of [[uesp-m:Vassir-Didanat_Cave|a lost Hlaalu mine]].

== Personality ==
Anoriath is a playful sort who tends to gamble above his station when it comes to chansing adventures, leading him into scrapes. He's goodhearted, but not necessarily good, and has many broad definitions of "fair plunder". Now well outside the Valenwood he no longer fully keeps the [[uesp-l:Green_Pact|Green Pact]], but seems to have a generous interpretation of the traditional "Rite of Theft". Unserious as he is, he's not strongly compelled by the instruction to serve as a [[uesp-l:Blades|imperial stooge]] while in Valenwood and sets off almost at once for high adventure rather than anything else.

== Trivia ==
* Though a combat specialization like [[Iacobus Tenura]], Anoriath was created to test out the marksman skill options as well as to retain some use of the survival modifications used by the player and to help tune their settings, after the inappropriately aggressive default configuration lead to the decision to disable it for Iacobus, [[Seeks-his-Heart]], and [[Adyne Mathendis]].
* Anoriath is a manifestation of the continuing habit of the player that "fundamentally, all roads lead to Ranger", a tradition that has followed him life-long through RPGs of all kinds since he was in elementary school.

Adyne Mathendis

2026-05-12T16:57:32Z

Zadammac: /* Role in the Dragon Break */

[[category: Morrowind]]

'''Adyne Mathendis''' was a [[uesp-l:Dunmer|Dunmer]] mage who is one of the possible subjects of the [[uesp-l:Nerevarine_Prophecy|Nerevarine Prophecy]], and therefore whose conjectural existence is one of the questions posed by the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]]. Mathendis was strongly characterized by an independent streak for which the ends very much justified the means, but is nonetheless somewhat favoured by the Imperial Chronoarchaeologists due to her habit of leaving historically- and biographically-relevant writings in her wake. Nonetheless, her independent streak means it is ambiguous whether or not she actually entered into the prophecy during the dragonbreak, in spite of her satisfying the usual requirements for identifying a candidate.

She was a '''Mage''' born under the [[uesp-l:The_Ritual|Ritual Sign]].

== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Adyne Mathendis was born in [[uesp-l:Port_Telvani|Port Telvanis]] in [[uesp-l:Third_Era#Fourth_Century|3E 389]], which at the time was still an important center of [[uesp-l:House_Telvani|House Telvani]] rule. She was the daughter of a washerwoman who claimed her to be the bastard of [[uesp-m:Galos_Mathendis|Galos Mathendis]], but in truth she never knew her father, and by the time of the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]], had no interest in identifying her father nor any faith that her mother's claims on the matter had been entirely truthful. Adyne became quite independent at a young age, in part because of the conflict caused by the [[uesp-l:Third_Era_Wars#The_Arnesian_War|Arnesian War]], which occurred when she was a small child. The experiences of poverty and food insecurity at this young age are considered by later scholarship to have been a powerful motivating factor in her progress. It is also known that she spent at least a few years under professional tutelage - that, or she forged such records and later presented them when appearing in [[uesp-l:Cheydinhal]].

=== "Rebel Yell" Era ===
For at least some portion of her early life, Adyne is known to have begun harboring significant anti-[[uesp-l:Third_Empire|Imperial]] views, citing in particular the [[uesp-l:Armistice|Armistice]] (though obviously she was ignorant of the secret terms of the agreement) and Imperial ambition in general, as well as questioning the legitimacy of [[uesp-l:Uriel_Septim_VII|the current emperor]] following the revelation of the [[uesp-l:Imperial_Simulacrum|Imperial Simulacrum]]. In 3E 409, Adyne travelled to the city of [[uesp-l:Cheydinhal|Cheydinhal]], presenting herself as a House Telvani "associate" and seeking admittance in the local [[uesp-l:Mages Guild]], but was rejected out of hand when her application was opposed by [[uesp-o:Falcar|Falcar]] and several other members of the guild.

Frustrated with this set-back, she remained generally at large in County Cheydinhal, and would make several additional attempts to be admitted to the guild. County records show that in 3E 413 she went so far as to appeal to Count [[uesp-l:Andel_Indarys|Indarys]] to force the issue, but he deferred, claiming (likely correctly) that he had no authority to issue such an order. Throughout this period, she is known to have studied with anyone that would spare her the time, consuming lessons on any subject and paying her way with coin she earned performing minor clerical work.

Her personality went through another shift came with the announcement in 3E 414 that [[uesp-l:Vardenfell|Vardenfell]] would no longer serve as a preserve of the Tribunal, but that it was being opened to Imperial (and Dunmeri) settlement and exploitation. During this time, Mathendis penned [[The Rape of Vardenfell]], an incendiary, anti-Imperial pamphlet and traveled to [[uesp-l:Imperial_City|The Imperial City]] to produce and distribute it. The invective proved to be a profitable exercise, to the point that Adyne eventually owned her own small press and employed several distributors for the pamphlets. Many of these pamphlets are lost to [[ambihistory]] and of the surviving corpus not all are considered memorable works; at this period in her life Adyne had a reputation more in line with a muckraker than a promising political figure. Her pamphlet condemning [[uesp-l:Levitation_Act|the Levitation Act]] of 3E 421, [[Restriction of Dreams]], was explosively popular and saw a resurgence of her brand; suddenly, she had the attention of mages and the spare capital to pay for their training.

Of course, with success came enemies. Adyne frequently had to more or less hide on the premises of her press and travel only with groups of her staff for protection, often for months at a stretch. In 3E 425, the press was raided by the Imperial City Guard, with the physical presses and many other resources seized. During this raid, Adyne herself was accused of shoving an officer and causing him to injure his arm in the process, a crime for which she was sentenced to the Imperial City prison for a term of many years.

=== Imprisonment and Deportation to Vardenfell ===
Adyne's imprisonment was not passed comfortably, compounded by the lengthy term and the loss of access to material comforts, writing materials, or the freedom to exercise her magical abilities. At various times, patrons offered to pay fines for her early release, but she refused them, wishing to avoid creating a subordinate relationship with any of them (fearing, in other words, that they would use their "gift" against her). She actually extended her stay on one occasion, and should have been released in 3E 426, except that she had a patron smuggle in writing materials and was able to publish [[Liberty in Mind]] from within the prison.

It is likely this constant rebellion, combined with her Dunmeri heritage and vague correspondences to the Nerevarine Prophecy, ultimately led to the decision to exile her to Vardenfell.

=== Role in the Dragon Break ===
Because of her arrival on 17th Last Seed, 3E 427, at the Customs and Excise Depot of the Imperial service in the village of [[uesp-l:Seyda_Neen|Seyda Neen]], Adyne satisfies the condition of being a subject of the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]]. Her actions from that point onward become [[ambihistory]].

==== Capitalization upon Seyda Neen ====
Unlike the Imperial City, where Mathendis had garnered herself a reputation, she had no resources in Seyda Neen other than those made available to her by the Empire: a paltry release fee. She attempted to investigate the murder of a local tax collector but apparently decided not to turn in the culprit, who, according to her journals, had made a cogent argument for the likely corruption of said tax collector; she further lamented that she had already turned over his returns. She spent a total of three days in the village, collecting samples of fungi and plants that were endemic to the area, and also happened upon [[uesp-m:Tarhiel|a most ridiculous arcane experiment]]. The imperial contingent at the village left records indicating that she also burned out a nearby smugglers' den though the use of arcane magics. Mathendis does not specify this event directly in her journal, but does claim in an entry on the 19th of Last Seed that she "left Seyda Neen feeling powerful and free", and that "at the end of the day, there is no shame in taking by force what was taken by force".

==== Ingratiation with the Mages Guild ====
It is unclear whether or not Adyne immediately made contact with her [[uesp-l:Blades|parole agent]] or deferred the matter until later, but we do have clear records that she joined the Mages' Guild through its [[uesp-l:Balmora]] chapter, pursuing a functional working relationship with the appellate journeyman [[uesp-m:Ajira|Ajira]]. The two worked together for two or three days, largely consisting of Adyne performing herbological field-work or running minor errands for the senior mage. During this time, Adyne spent a large amount of money on additional training, specifically to learn a number of spells from other guild members; in historical terms this period was less historically significant than it was significant in terms of her character. For the first time, Adyne had the capacity to obtain magical knowledge relatively easily.

Adyne's tone changed just days later when Ajira handed her training over to the chapter steward, [[uesp-m:Ranis_Athrys|Ranis Athrys]]. Ranis immediately assigned Adyne duties that she considered "unsuitable"; the coercion, by force if necessary, of Telvanni sorcerer [[uesp-m:Llarar_Bereloth|Llarar Bereloth]] into joining the guild and the collection of guild dues. Unwilling to approach either task directly, Adyne instead demurred and began visiting other branches of the guild by way of the Guild Guides.

She did a small amount of work out of the [[uesp-l:Ald'ruhn|Ald'ruhn]] chapter on behalf of that chapter's steward, [[uesp-m:Edwinna_Elbert|Edwina Elbert]], largely based on her reputation for concern with fine scholarship. However, we also know from Adyne's journals at the time that she wasn't much better pleased with Edwinna, writing that she was "either the catspaw of the Balmora guild or the errand-wench of Elbert"; apparently stemming a dispute she'd had with Edwinna over reimbursement for costs for a copy of [[uesp-l:Chronicles_of_Nchuleft|Chronicles of Nuchelft]] which Adyne obtained for her from [[uesp-l:Vivec_City|Vivec]] and Edwinna's insistence on the collection of dues from Adyne herself before furthering her advancement in the guild (to the rank of Conjuror). While she did assist Edwinna further by helping her to steal a copy of the [[uesp-l:Chimarvamidium|Chimarvamidium]]. However, it was shortly after this exchange when she decided to "check up on" the guild branch a [[uesp-m:Wolverine_Hall|Wolverine Hall]].

==== Ingratiation with House Telvanni ====
Though earlier efforts on behalf of the guild had lead to her brief visit to Wolverine Hall, she had not previously taken the opportunity to explore the city of [[uesp-l:Sadrith_Mora|Sadrith Mora]]. It seems likely that she only explored the city after her second visit, because of the dating of her specific [[Hospitality Papers]] issued by Great House Telvanni, which survive in [[ambihistory]]. It seems probable that it was this period of exploration which lead to her decision to join with the Great House. An essay from her personal writings, unpublished, which has become known as the [[Dualities of Service]] seems to suggest that, while both the Mages' Guild and the Great House expected service from their lower-order members on their rise to the upper echelons, it became clear from only a few conversations that House Telvanni had "the more appropriate view" on such things.

Most of her early work with the Great House was "broadly menial" - the accumulation of raw alchemical ingredients for various house members and a number of errands to speak with the Telvanni lords [[usep:Divayth_Fyr|Divayth Fyr]] and [[uesp-l:Baladas_Demnevanni|Baladas Demnevanni]], both of whom she seemed to be very impressed with. Curiously, during this time she also paid the dues she was owing to the Mages Guild - seeming to demonstrate that she was willing to work with both factions as long as they continued to advance her personal development.

==== Plunder of Arkngthunch-Sturdumz ====
In keeping with her decision to pursue both factions to their maximum utility to her personally, Adyne accepted a commission from Edwinna to investigate the dwarven ruin of [[uesp-m:Arkngthunch-Sturdumz|Arkngthunch-Sturdumz]] in search of a specific dwemer artifact. In her records of the time she recounts significant nervousness - overland travel was quite familiar to her by this time and she "held no fear of gwar or nix-hound", but plundering a dwemer ruin was a different matter. She was particularly meticulous about this process, first travelling to [[uesp-l:Gnisis|Gnisis]] then [[uesp-m:Ald_Velothi|Ald Velothi]] to set up a mark, then returning by magical means to Gnisis, returning to Ald'ruhn to take more meticulous preparation, and finally recalling herself magically to Ald Velothi several days later to commence the raid. After the event, she remarked "I would hardly have bothered" to do so had she been aware of just how small the accessible portion of Arkngthunch-Sturdumz was or how sufficient to task her magics were for dealing with the inhabitants. In the period after, she's known to have strongly considered the exploration of further dwarven sites she was aware of, especially having been charged by [[uesp-l:Trebonius_Artorius|Archmage Trebonius]] to resolve the mystery of the dwarven disappearance - though, naturally, she considered this assignment fundamentally unserious given the advanced age of that particular unsolved problem.

== Personality ==
Adyne is motivated by her own sense of freedom and the accumulation of power, as a means to prevent her from ever becoming "victimized", whether by bandits, poverty, or the state. She is not malicious in her pursuit of these things but neither is she troubled by acts of overt violence or subterfuge, especially as a measured response to an obstacle. She won't rob or mug a peaceable individual but delights in finding new and exotic ways to "delete bandit". This contrasts her with her ambi-contemporary [[Seeks-His-Heart]] in that there are limits to who she considers a "valid target", and from [[Iacobus Tenura]] in that she believes that the ends justify the means, rather than in any sort of external justice or goodness.

She's intended to be strongly aligned to the cause of the [[uesp-l:Tribunal_Temple|Tribunal Temple]] which is another point of distinction to Iacobus, and in addition to "ordinary" magical power likely finds it desirable to accumulate the lessons and powers of the Tribunal.

== Trivia ==
* Adyne was originally going to begin play as a "purer" mage archetype, focusing on the "most good" approach in any given situation. However, on examination of her Dunmer heritage and the player's intention to involve her with the House Telvani storyline, it was later determined that she should have a slightly darker approach.

Iacobus Tenura

2026-05-12T16:15:43Z

Zadammac: /* Return to Balmora */

[[category: Morrowind]]

'''Iacobus Tenura''' was an [[uesp-l:Imperial|Imperial]] male who is one of the possible subjects of the [[uesp-l:Nerevarine_Prophecy|Nerevarine Prophecy]], whose conjectural existence is one of the questions posed by the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]]. Iacobus was a professional soldier who had served in the [[uesp-l:Imperial_Legion|Imperial Legion]] in [[uesp-l:Cyrodiil|Cyrodiil]] before being imprisoned for an assault on a senior legion officer. Dishonourably discharged, he was eventually exiled to [[uesp-l:Seyda_Neen|Seyda Neen]], fulfilling the Imperial Chronoarcanologists' requirements to be considered a possible subject of the Dragon Break.

He was a '''Knight''' born under the [[uesp-l:The_Warrior|Warrior Sign]].

== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Iacobus Tenura was born the son of [[uesp-l:Colovia|Colovian]] tenant farmers near [[uesp-l:Kvatch|Kvatch]], in [[uesp-l:Third_Era|3E 405]]. After an outbreak of disease claimed his parents in his infancy, he was sent for a time to foster on a nearby farming collective. He thrived in this environment, raised by a family unit with eight parents - five fathers, three mothers. Of these, he was particularly close with "Mother Elise", who frequently read him stories of famous knights in Colovian and broader imperial history.

When he was old enough Iacobus enlisted with the [[uesp-l:Imperial_Legion|Imperial Legion]], seeking adventure and "a role in justice". Since Colovia was largely at peace at the time, his career, beyond his basic training, proved rather uneventful. Though occasionally detailed against bandit encampments as they became sufficiently problematic, he (now rather famously) refused such an order on one occasion, after correctly guessing (with admittedly insufficient information) that one such "bandit camp" he was being detailed with was in fact a refugee settlement. In the resulting argument, he missed at a punch intended for his commanding officer and instead broke his hand upon a nearby post. While this was arguably treason, the circumstances merited a more lenient punishment, and he was imprisoned pending a dishonorable discharge instead.

=== Imprisonment and Deportation to Vardenfell ===
Iacobus's personal history joins to the history of the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]] after his imprisonment in the Imperial City Prison in the late fall of 3E 426. He remained in prison for several months before being assigned a parole that would lead to him being sent to [[uesp-l:Vardenfell|Vardenfell]]. Iacobus expressed his misgivings about the assignment in writing in [[an apology letter]] he wrote to "Mother Elise" after learning of it. Earlier in that same year, the Imperial Legion had been used to crush a tax revolt in [[uesp-l:Balmora|Balmora]].

=== Role in the Dragon Break ===
Because of his arrival on 17th Last Seed, 3E 427, at the Customs and Excise Depot of the Imperial service in the village of [[uesp-l:Seyda_Neen|Seyda Neen]], Iacobus satisfies the condition of being a subject of the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]]. His actions from that point onward become [[ambihistory]].

==== Arrival and Service in Seyda Neen ====
Iacobus's arrival in Seyda Neen corresponded in time with the murder of the Imperial tax agent, [[uesp-m:Processus_Vitellius|Processus Vitellius]], and after discovering the body himself, Iacobus took it upon himself to investigate the man's murder, for which he was evidentially well-rewarded. Contemporary records appear to show the deed transfer of a small hovel in the village to Iacobus' ownership on the same day as his arrival. On the 18th of Last Seed, the journal of a Dunmeri native of the city indicates that Iacobus then proceeded to raid a nearby cavern which was being used by smugglers and slave-traders. Iacobus is noted as having routed the bandits as well as rescuing the slaves and releasing them from service, establishing a pattern of behavior that earned him, at best, "mixed" reception among the [[uesp-l:Dunmer|Dunmer]].

==== Journey to Balmora ====
Iacobus proceeded to Balmora on foot, departing Seyda Neen on the 19th Last Seed, having been ordered to report to an Imperial agent, [[uesp-l:Caius_Cosades|Caius Cosades]], as a condition of his parole. Along the way, he briefly made a series of detours into and out of the fort town of [[uesp-l:Pelagiad|Pelagiad]], delivering messages and purchasing additional equipment using the proceeds of his earlier adventures. Though he departed Seyda Neen looking rather ill-equipped for the [[uesp-l:Vardenfell|Vardenfell]] wilds, he is noted in Cosades' notes as ultimately arriving in the city of Balmora rather well-eqipped, "for all the world as a Knight arrayed for combat".

Cosades was, as scholars of the time period are well aware by this point, an agent of the [[uesp-l:Blades|Blades]], a clandestine service answerable directly to the [[uesp-l:Emperor|Emperor]]. He accepted Iacobus into the service, but noted that the warrior was still "young and green" and sent Iacobus on to receive further training and experience. Mindful that he would need steady employment, and that he had a debt to repay, Iacobus determined to rejoin the Imperial Legion as well, and made inquiries that lead him to travel to Gnisis.

==== Legion Duties at Fort Darius ====
Gnisis was also the location of [[uesp-m:Fort_Darius|Fort Darius]], a minor legion force securing the local mines, which happened to be the only detatchment of the legion presently recruiting at the time. Iacobus arrived in the town via [[uesp-l:Silt_Strider|Silt Strider]], and as a result had developed fairly severe dehydration, which lead to him delaying his first contact with the local Legion command. The commander of the Deathshead Legion, [[uesp-m:Darius|Darius]], records in his journal during periods where Iacobus's presence in Gnisis is [[ambihistory]] that Iacobus showed significant misgivings in pursuing his initial mission of obtaining a land deed off of a recently-widowed Dunmer, but ultimately that Iacobus instead revealed the woman's husband had been murdered by a fellow Legionaire and that Iacobus took to further work with a bit more zeal after the matter of the deed was dropped.

Iacobus continued to serve out of the Fort Darius department with some distinction. He is credited with personally curing the queen of the local egg mine of Blight (though by all accounts he was a thoroughly untalented spellcaster, so this feat was most probably achieved with the use of a tactically-appropriate scroll). His commanding officer also charged Iacobus with investigating a plot by a cult of [[uesp-L:Talos|Talos]]-centric worshipers who were found to have been plotting the assassination of [[uesp-l:Uriel_VII|Uriel_VII]]. Following this, Iacobus was tasked with rescuing a pilgrim who had been taken hostage; however, in this respect records indicate he paid the demanded ransom rather than dispatching with the criminals. We know from his own records that he regretted this course of action.

By this point, Iacobus's misgivings about having rejoined the legion seem to have largely passed, and he accepted a new posting to [[uesp-l:Moonmoth_Legion_Fort|Fort Moonmoth]].

==== Return to Balmora ====
Iacobus's first assignment operating out of Moonmoth was an expedition into [[uesp-m:Arkngthand]], which he is known to have subsequently explored quite thoroughly. He spent approximately two days within the ruin, clearing it of the bandit clan which had taken up residence. He turned back only after encountering dwemer ghosts, which he was incapable of dealing with, and considered his retreat in this circumstance appropriately tactical. Upon his return to the fort, he was dispatched to [[uesp-m:Erubinisum|Erubinisum]]. In order to facilitate this march, he is known to have spent a considerable sum obtaining an enchanted sword, and to have traveled by Silt Strider to [[uesp-l:Molag_Mar|Molag Mar]], a traditional setting-out point for such journeys.

== Personality ==
Iacobus's personality was defined primarily - some might say overly - by a sense of justice and a well-defined moral compass with strict cardinality, to the point where he was often unable to subordinate his own sense of justice to that of his social, political, or even martial superiors. Iacobus was a natural warrior, but not a man to whom violence came naturally. Instead, he viewed the delivery as violence as a the necessary burden of the man who would seek justice, rather than as the means to whatever end he found most desirable.

== Trivia ==
* Iacobus Tenura is a transparant rip of James Holden, the male lead of The Expanse, at least in his backstory and the broad strokes of his appearance.

Seeks-His-Heart

2026-05-12T16:13:01Z

Zadammac: /* Role in the Dragon Break */

[[category: Morrowind]]

'''Seeks-His-Heart''' was an [[uesp-l:Argonian|Argonian]] male who is one of the possible subjects of the [[uesp-l:Nerevarine_Prophecy|Nerevarine Prophecy]] whose conjectural existence is one of the questions posed by the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]]. Seeks, as he was often nicknamed, was born to captive parents in Morrowind, and was therefore considered ''lukiul'', an Argonian term for those born outside of [[uesp-l:Black_Marsh|Black Marsh]] who cannot hear the [[uesp-l:Hist|Hist]]. Despite his best efforts in his early life, he was never able to obtain such a connection, though his personality was much more profoundly shaped by the loss of his sister, [[Slips-Through-Fingers]], earlier in his childhood. Unsurprisingly, he was a staunch abolitionist, with a philosophy that bordered on absolute anarchism.

He was a '''Thief''' born under the [[uesp-l:The_Tower|Tower Sign]].

== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Seeks-His-Heart was born in [[uesp-l:Third_Era#3E_407|3E 407]] in a slave clutch near Tear, his exact parentage unrecorded and relatives property of vassals to [[uesp-l:House_Dres|House Dres]]. When he was young, he and several of his siblings were transferred to a colony on [[uesp-l:Vardenfell|Vardenfell]] after the island was finally opened to colonization. Seeks-His-Heart and a few of his older siblings were able to break free of their restraints and take control of the ship one day out of port. In the ensuing conflict, his younger sibling, [[Slips-Through-Fingers]], was cast overboard by one of their captors, and Seeks-His-Heart threw himself overboard after her. Unable to find her in the choppy seas, he swam back to the ship before it had gone entirely out of the range of his endurance. He and his siblings turned the ship after their missing sister but were ultimately unable to sight her again. After running aground again on mainland [[uesp-l:Morrowind|Morrowind]], the surviving pack of Argonians made their way west and ultimately crossed into [[uesp-l:Cyrodiil]] by way passes in the Valus Mountains, aided along the way by various outlanders. The journey took them nearly three years to complete, moving only in the cover of darkness, rarely along the most efficient paths. As a result, Seeks-His-Heart was ten years old by the time they finally entered the Imperial province.

With no clear heritage and no trade skills, apart from those which none of the party had any interest in pursuing again, the pack of siblings eventually split up. There was less risk in being caught out alone within the Empire proper (where slavery was illegal and they were unlikely to be rounded up), and it was easier to beg alone or in pairs. It was at around this age when Seeks began to be known by his Cyrodiilic name, and ultimately this name supplanted his own in any documentation.

He remained in Cyrodiil for nearly ten years, mostly in the area around [[uesp-l:Bravil|Bravil]]. In and around Bravil, food was obtainable and septims "procurable". Seeks became a known quantity in this area, though not at the time truly noteworthy. According to journals attributed to him which were recovered from the foundations of house in Bravil during the [[uesp-l:Oblivion_Crisis|Oblivion Crisis]], Seeks went through "about three" boom-bust periods in this time where he built up a nest egg only to lose it. At various points in these journals, he considered either returning to Morrowind to seek for signs of his sister, or to head south to [[uesp-l:Black_Marsh|Black Marsh]] to rejoin his people. By all accounts, this decade of adolescence was not a happy time for Seeks, and he had frequent periods of imprisonment for petty thefts and larcenies. Despite the events of his later life it would come to light that based on his existing reputation he was effectively barred from the [[uesp-l:Thieves_Guild|Thieves Guild]] of Cyrod due to his reputation as a bungler and pickpocket in Bravil. Indeed, it was one such failed attempt to steal a considerable sum of money from a tax convoy that lead to his imprisonment at the Imperial City Prison.

=== Imprisonment and Deportation to Vardenfell ===
Seeks-His-Heart's personal history joints to the history of the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]] after his imprisonment in the Imperial City Prison in the late fall of 3E 426. He remained in prison for several months before being assigned a parole that would lead to him being sent to [[uesp-l:Vardenfell|Vardenfell]]. This same fate, and the dire costs of avoiding it, earlier in his childhood lead to Seeks-His-Heart considering taking his own life, though he clearly never went through with it. Nevertheless, he remained in a deep depression for the entire voyage, and suffered crippling nightmares the entire way. He later recorded that it was only the constant attention from his fellow prisoner, [[uesp-l:Jiub|Jiub]].

Seeks-His-Heart's release was conditional, though he briefly considered ignoring the conditions of his release, and likely did not comport himself in Vardenfell as his Imperial masters would have approved of. Ultimately though, it's believed he accepted the parole as a way to bring himself back to Morrowind (if only indirectly), and potentially pick up the trail of his lost sister.

=== Role in the Dragon Break ===
Because of his arrival on 17th Last Seed, 3E 427, at the Customs and Excise Depot of the Imperial service in the village of [[uesp-l:Seyda_Neen|Seyda Neen]], Seeks-His-Heart satisfies the condition of being a subject of the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]]. His actions from that point onward become [[ambihistory]].

==== Plunder of Seyda Neen ====
In the simplest of terms, Seeks-His-Heart can be said to have plundered Seyda Neen when he first arrived there, though he was only in town for a partial day. He discovered the body of [[uesp-m:Processus_Vitellius|a local tax collector]], but given his past association with tax robberies, he did not report the crime and merely looted the man of any remaining valuables. He would later boast of having broken into every house in the settlement and sold many of the items he recovered, including those from the excise warehouse, to the local trader. As nightfall approached, he purchased a token quantity of equipment and fled for [[uesp-l:Balmora]] before anyone was likely to return to their homes and discover what had happened.

==== Balmora's Thieves Guild ====
Of the locations Seeks could have chosen to flee to, he would later admit that Balmora was the least promising choice. He had gone there merely because it was known to him that he was expected there, and it was only few days later that he realized if anything ''had'' come of the plunder of Seyda Neen, Balmora would likely have been the first place the law would have come looking for him. Instead, Seeks had prioritized the conditions of his Parole, quickly seeking out the [[uesp-m:South_Wall_Cornerclub|South Wall Cornerclub]] as a source of information for finding his contact, [[uesp-l:Caius_Cosades|Caius Cosades]], an agent of the [[uesp-l:Blades|Blades]]. Cooperation with the Emperors' clandestine service had been the principal condition of Seeks' release. To Seeks' taste, however, Caius first insisted that the young thief "get the smell of Vardenfell on him", and turned Seeks loose, so to speak, on the island.

This left Seeks in a somewhat difficult position. He had food and water sufficient for a few days and the coin to keep that condition going, but certainly wasn't fit to retire on the wealth he had. With Seeks' background in mind, Caius put the Argonian in touch with [[uesp-m:Sugar-Lips_Habasi|Sugar-Lips Habasi]], a [[uesp-l:Khajiit|Khajiiti]] native of the city who happened to front for the local extension of the [[uesp-m:Thieves_Guild|Thieves_Guild]], and the two began working together immediately. Within just two days of his arrival in Balmora, and on Habasi's behalf, he had gone on a considerable crime spree that primarily targeted the town's Dunmer population:
* Stealing a key from [[uesp-m:Sovor_Trandel|a Cammona Tong rival]] which allowed the guild to later plunder [[uesp-m:Balmora_Homes#Nerano_Manor|Nerano Manor]]
* Robbing the emporium of the local alchemist, to a considerable profit,
* Similarly plundering the [[uesp-m:Balmora_Homes#Hlaalo_Manor|Hlaalo Manor]]
* Re-Securing, and then smuggling into the city, a trove of [[uesp-l:Dwemer|Dwemer]] artifacts.

Indeed, it was partially due to the heat the two of them were generating that Seeks-His-Heart agreed to take a break from robbery to run an interference mission in [[uesp-l:Pelagiad|Pelagiad]], however, this proved to only be a relatively minor errand occupying an overnight trip, during which he secured the release of a guild-affiliated prisoner by blackmailing a local official. Shortly after his return, he instead determined to visit the guild branch in [[uesp-l:Ald'ruhn|Ald'ruhn]].

==== Ald'ruhn and Sadrith Mora ====
Seeks-His-Heart found the profile of his activities in [[uesp-l:Ald'ruhn|Ald'ruhn]] to be a bit high for his liking. The first task he was assigned was effectively a heist against the mage guild, which he was only able to carry out after significant personal investment in invisibility potions; despite the opportunities such an operation would pose, it's known from the attestation of his peers that he considered the heist a great waste of his time and "risk to his skin". When handed the lucrative opportunity to follow that heist up with one against a well-regarded member of [[uesp-l:House_Redoran|House Redoran]], he instead took the opportunity to travel to [[uesp-l:Sadrith_Mora|Sadrith Mora]].

Unsurprisingly, an Argonian like Seeks sticks out like a sore thumb in the seat of [[uesp-l:House_Telvanni|Telvanni]] power. Records found which date to this time period indicate that Seeks was planning a possible "sweep" of the city, intending on a string of burglaries that would have left no household untouched, but these plans either never came off or went awry. Instead, Seeks became the subject of a 1600 [[uesp-l:Septim|septim]] bounty and ultimately had to flee the city by boat, though we believe he kept contact with the Thieves Guild contacts in Sadrith Mora as he continued to operate on their list of operations. It was at around this time he is believed to have obtained the rank of Operative with the guild.

==== Raid of Caldera ====
One of the few events we can confirm Seeks directly participated in - because [[Seeeks-His-Heart on Caldera|his writings survive in the ambihistorical record on this matter]], was a heist targeting the [[uesp-m:Caldera_Mine|Caldera Mining Company]]. Seeks-His-Heart targeted the mine not out of any especial profitability of the ebony trade (which it must be noted at the time was considerable given the Imperial Monopoly), but out of a need for [[uesp-l:Ebony|raw ore]] to satisfy an arrangement he was brokering between the Guild's interests at [[uesp-m:Wolverine_Hall|Wolverine Hall]] with contacts he had cultivated within the [[uesp-l:Mages_Guild|Mages Guild]]. Though the initial intent was "a quick nip at the rocks", Seeks discovered documents during his casing of the mines which indicated that the majority of the labour on-site were in fact slave labourers. As a result, he took a more aggressive tack on the project and freed the entire contingent of slaves currently at the mine, aiding them to escape along with him as his theft of the ebony drew the attention away from the slaves. He is known to have considered this attack among one of his finest hours. Contemporary accounts from fellow thieves suggest he was in unusually high spirits for quite a time after, and he used the proceeds from his share of the stolen ore to use the Thieves' whisper network to reduce the legal attention being paid to him.

== Personality ==
At the outset of his adventure, Seeks-His-Heart is much more brash and given to conflict than his sister - more of a bandit than a traditionalist thief. While he prefers the minimum amount of trouble and is trained in (and prioritizes) the use of stealth, he is not above resorting to violence to preserve a desired outcome, even if that outcome is merely another day of his freedom. Seeks does not form strong bonds and does not have a firm respect for authorities of any kind; he visits Caius ''merely'' to satisfy the requirements of his relief and no doubt fully intends to steer well clear of the man now that he's been turned more broadly loose upon the whole island of Vardenfell. This all being said, he still would not consider himself a murderer; killing a bandit or assassin or other outlaw is one thing, but common civilians are not, as he would put it, "in the game".

He is quite loose with his money and as a result prefers bribery to more indirect charm offensives.

He has an ingrained - he would say natural - hatred of the [[uesp-l:Dunmer|Dunmer]] and feels no compunction one way or the other toward their lives. He prefers them as targets for his theifts and robberies when available.

== Trivia ==
* Despite being shown as the older brother, Seeks-His-Heart was actually created later than [[Slips-Through-Fingers]] when the author attempted to come up with a better reason for such a name than being a thief, and the story of their separation was born. At the time, Seeks was a nameless and non-specific older relative.
* Seeks' more brash nature is due in part to gameplay limitations of Morrowind as well as different qualities between the Thieves Guild quest requirements in that game as opposed to Slips' behaviour in Oblivion.
* In mechanical terms, he uses the thief class.

Anoriath

2026-05-11T19:52:51Z

Zadammac: /* Trivia */

2026-05-08T12:36:52Z

Zadammac: /* Role in the Dragon Break */

[[category: Morrowind]]

'''Adyne Mathendis''' was a [[uesp-l:Dunmer|Dunmer]] mage who is one of the possible subjects of the [[uesp-l:Nerevarine_Prophecy|Nerevarine Prophecy]], and therefore whose conjectural existence is one of the questions posed by the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]]. Mathendis was strongly characterized by an independent streak for which the ends very much justified the means, but is nonetheless somewhat favoured by the Imperial Chronoarchaeologists due to her habit of leaving historically- and biographically-relevant writings in her wake. Nonetheless, her independent streak means it is ambiguous whether or not she actually entered into the prophecy during the dragonbreak, in spite of her satisfying the usual requirements for identifying a candidate.

She was a '''Mage''' born under the [[uesp-l:The_Ritual|Ritual Sign]].

== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Adyne Mathendis was born in [[uesp-l:Port_Telvani|Port Telvanis]] in [[uesp-l:Third_Era#Fourth_Century|3E 389]], which at the time was still an important center of [[uesp-l:House_Telvani|House Telvani]] rule. She was the daughter of a washerwoman who claimed her to be the bastard of [[uesp-m:Galos_Mathendis|Galos Mathendis]], but in truth she never knew her father, and by the time of the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]], had no interest in identifying her father nor any faith that her mother's claims on the matter had been entirely truthful. Adyne became quite independent at a young age, in part because of the conflict caused by the [[uesp-l:Third_Era_Wars#The_Arnesian_War|Arnesian War]], which occurred when she was a small child. The experiences of poverty and food insecurity at this young age are considered by later scholarship to have been a powerful motivating factor in her progress. It is also known that she spent at least a few years under professional tutelage - that, or she forged such records and later presented them when appearing in [[uesp-l:Cheydinhal]].

=== "Rebel Yell" Era ===
For at least some portion of her early life, Adyne is known to have begun harboring significant anti-[[uesp-l:Third_Empire|Imperial]] views, citing in particular the [[uesp-l:Armistice|Armistice]] (though obviously she was ignorant of the secret terms of the agreement) and Imperial ambition in general, as well as questioning the legitimacy of [[uesp-l:Uriel_Septim_VII|the current emperor]] following the revelation of the [[uesp-l:Imperial_Simulacrum|Imperial Simulacrum]]. In 3E 409, Adyne travelled to the city of [[uesp-l:Cheydinhal|Cheydinhal]], presenting herself as a House Telvani "associate" and seeking admittance in the local [[uesp-l:Mages Guild]], but was rejected out of hand when her application was opposed by [[uesp-o:Falcar|Falcar]] and several other members of the guild.

Frustrated with this set-back, she remained generally at large in County Cheydinhal, and would make several additional attempts to be admitted to the guild. County records show that in 3E 413 she went so far as to appeal to Count [[uesp-l:Andel_Indarys|Indarys]] to force the issue, but he deferred, claiming (likely correctly) that he had no authority to issue such an order. Throughout this period, she is known to have studied with anyone that would spare her the time, consuming lessons on any subject and paying her way with coin she earned performing minor clerical work.

Her personality went through another shift came with the announcement in 3E 414 that [[uesp-l:Vardenfell|Vardenfell]] would no longer serve as a preserve of the Tribunal, but that it was being opened to Imperial (and Dunmeri) settlement and exploitation. During this time, Mathendis penned [[The Rape of Vardenfell]], an incendiary, anti-Imperial pamphlet and traveled to [[uesp-l:Imperial_City|The Imperial City]] to produce and distribute it. The invective proved to be a profitable exercise, to the point that Adyne eventually owned her own small press and employed several distributors for the pamphlets. Many of these pamphlets are lost to [[ambihistory]] and of the surviving corpus not all are considered memorable works; at this period in her life Adyne had a reputation more in line with a muckraker than a promising political figure. Her pamphlet condemning [[uesp-l:Levitation_Act|the Levitation Act]] of 3E 421, [[Restriction of Dreams]], was explosively popular and saw a resurgence of her brand; suddenly, she had the attention of mages and the spare capital to pay for their training.

Of course, with success came enemies. Adyne frequently had to more or less hide on the premises of her press and travel only with groups of her staff for protection, often for months at a stretch. In 3E 425, the press was raided by the Imperial City Guard, with the physical presses and many other resources seized. During this raid, Adyne herself was accused of shoving an officer and causing him to injure his arm in the process, a crime for which she was sentenced to the Imperial City prison for a term of many years.

=== Imprisonment and Deportation to Vardenfell ===
Adyne's imprisonment was not passed comfortably, compounded by the lengthy term and the loss of access to material comforts, writing materials, or the freedom to exercise her magical abilities. At various times, patrons offered to pay fines for her early release, but she refused them, wishing to avoid creating a subordinate relationship with any of them (fearing, in other words, that they would use their "gift" against her). She actually extended her stay on one occasion, and should have been released in 3E 426, except that she had a patron smuggle in writing materials and was able to publish [[Liberty in Mind]] from within the prison.

It is likely this constant rebellion, combined with her Dunmeri heritage and vague correspondences to the Nerevarine Prophecy, ultimately led to the decision to exile her to Vardenfell.

=== Role in the Dragon Break ===
Because of her arrival on 17th Last Seed, 3E 427, at the Customs and Excise Depot of the Imperial service in the village of [[uesp-l:Seyda_Neen|Seyda Neen]], Adyne satisfies the condition of being a subject of the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]]. Her actions from that point onward become [[ambihistory]].

==== Capitalization upon Seyda Neen ====
Unlike the Imperial City, where Mathendis had garnered herself a reputation, she had no resources in Seyda Neen other than those made available to her by the Empire: a paltry release fee. She attempted to investigate the murder of a local tax collector but apparently decided not to turn in the culprit, who, according to her journals, had made a cogent argument for the likely corruption of said tax collector; she further lamented that she had already turned over his returns. She spent a total of three days in the village, collecting samples of fungi and plants that were endemic to the area, and also happened upon [[uesp-m:Tarhiel|a most ridiculous arcane experiment]]. The imperial contingent at the village left records indicating that she also burned out a nearby smugglers' den though the use of arcane magics. Mathendis does not specify this event directly in her journal, but does claim in an entry on the 19th of Last Seed that she "left Seyda Neen feeling powerful and free", and that "at the end of the day, there is no shame in taking by force what was taken by force".

==== Ingratiation with the Mages Guild ====
It is unclear whether or not Adyne immediately made contact with her [[uesp-l:Blades|parole agent]] or deferred the matter until later, but we do have clear records that she joined the Mages' Guild through its [[uesp-l:Balmora]] chapter, pursuing a functional working relationship with the appellate journeyman [[uesp-m:Ajira|Ajira]]. The two worked together for two or three days, largely consisting of Adyne performing herbological field-work or running minor errands for the senior mage. During this time, Adyne spent a large amount of money on additional training, specifically to learn a number of spells from other guild members; in historical terms this period was less historically significant than it was significant in terms of her character. For the first time, Adyne had the capacity to obtain magical knowledge relatively easily.

Adyne's tone changed just days later when Ajira handed her training over to the chapter steward, [[uesp-m:Ranis_Athrys|Ranis Athrys]]. Ranis immediately assigned Adyne duties that she considered "unsuitable"; the coercion, by force if necessary, of Telvanni sorcerer [[uesp-m:Llarar_Bereloth|Llarar Bereloth]] into joining the guild and the collection of guild dues. Unwilling to approach either task directly, Adyne instead demurred and began visiting other branches of the guild by way of the Guild Guides.

She did a small amount of work out of the [[uesp-l:Ald'ruhn|Ald'ruhn]] chapter on behalf of that chapter's steward, [[uesp-m:Edwinna_Elbert|Edwina Elbert]], largely based on her reputation for concern with fine scholarship. However, we also know from Adyne's journals at the time that she wasn't much better pleased with Edwinna, writing that she was "either the catspaw of the Balmora guild or the errand-wench of Elbert"; apparently stemming a dispute she'd had with Edwinna over reimbursement for costs for a copy of [[uesp-l:Chronicles_of_Nchuleft|Chronicles of Nuchelft]] which Adyne obtained for her from [[uesp-l:Vivec_City|Vivec]] and Edwinna's insistence on the collection of dues from Adyne herself before furthering her advancement in the guild (to the rank of Conjuror).

== Personality ==
Adyne is motivated by her own sense of freedom and the accumulation of power, as a means to prevent her from ever becoming "victimized", whether by bandits, poverty, or the state. She is not malicious in her pursuit of these things but neither is she troubled by acts of overt violence or subterfuge, especially as a measured response to an obstacle. She won't rob or mug a peaceable individual but delights in finding new and exotic ways to "delete bandit". This contrasts her with her ambi-contemporary [[Seeks-His-Heart]] in that there are limits to who she considers a "valid target", and from [[Iacobus Tenura]] in that she believes that the ends justify the means, rather than in any sort of external justice or goodness.

She's intended to be strongly aligned to the cause of the [[uesp-l:Tribunal_Temple|Tribunal Temple]] which is another point of distinction to Iacobus, and in addition to "ordinary" magical power likely finds it desirable to accumulate the lessons and powers of the Tribunal.

== Trivia ==
* Adyne was originally going to begin play as a "purer" mage archetype, focusing on the "most good" approach in any given situation. However, on examination of her Dunmer heritage and the player's intention to involve her with the House Telvani storyline, it was later determined that she should have a slightly darker approach.

Iacobus Tenura

2026-05-08T12:15:40Z

Zadammac: /* Role in the Dragon Break */

[[category: Morrowind]]

'''Iacobus Tenura''' was an [[uesp-l:Imperial|Imperial]] male who is one of the possible subjects of the [[uesp-l:Nerevarine_Prophecy|Nerevarine Prophecy]], whose conjectural existence is one of the questions posed by the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]]. Iacobus was a professional soldier who had served in the [[uesp-l:Imperial_Legion|Imperial Legion]] in [[uesp-l:Cyrodiil|Cyrodiil]] before being imprisoned for an assault on a senior legion officer. Dishonourably discharged, he was eventually exiled to [[uesp-l:Seyda_Neen|Seyda Neen]], fulfilling the Imperial Chronoarcanologists' requirements to be considered a possible subject of the Dragon Break.

He was a '''Knight''' born under the [[uesp-l:The_Warrior|Warrior Sign]].

== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Iacobus Tenura was born the son of [[uesp-l:Colovia|Colovian]] tenant farmers near [[uesp-l:Kvatch|Kvatch]], in [[uesp-l:Third_Era|3E 405]]. After an outbreak of disease claimed his parents in his infancy, he was sent for a time to foster on a nearby farming collective. He thrived in this environment, raised by a family unit with eight parents - five fathers, three mothers. Of these, he was particularly close with "Mother Elise", who frequently read him stories of famous knights in Colovian and broader imperial history.

When he was old enough Iacobus enlisted with the [[uesp-l:Imperial_Legion|Imperial Legion]], seeking adventure and "a role in justice". Since Colovia was largely at peace at the time, his career, beyond his basic training, proved rather uneventful. Though occasionally detailed against bandit encampments as they became sufficiently problematic, he (now rather famously) refused such an order on one occasion, after correctly guessing (with admittedly insufficient information) that one such "bandit camp" he was being detailed with was in fact a refugee settlement. In the resulting argument, he missed at a punch intended for his commanding officer and instead broke his hand upon a nearby post. While this was arguably treason, the circumstances merited a more lenient punishment, and he was imprisoned pending a dishonorable discharge instead.

=== Imprisonment and Deportation to Vardenfell ===
Iacobus's personal history joins to the history of the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]] after his imprisonment in the Imperial City Prison in the late fall of 3E 426. He remained in prison for several months before being assigned a parole that would lead to him being sent to [[uesp-l:Vardenfell|Vardenfell]]. Iacobus expressed his misgivings about the assignment in writing in [[an apology letter]] he wrote to "Mother Elise" after learning of it. Earlier in that same year, the Imperial Legion had been used to crush a tax revolt in [[uesp-l:Balmora|Balmora]].

=== Role in the Dragon Break ===
Because of his arrival on 17th Last Seed, 3E 427, at the Customs and Excise Depot of the Imperial service in the village of [[uesp-l:Seyda_Neen|Seyda Neen]], Iacobus satisfies the condition of being a subject of the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]]. His actions from that point onward become [[ambihistory]].

==== Arrival and Service in Seyda Neen ====
Iacobus's arrival in Seyda Neen corresponded in time with the murder of the Imperial tax agent, [[uesp-m:Processus_Vitellius|Processus Vitellius]], and after discovering the body himself, Iacobus took it upon himself to investigate the man's murder, for which he was evidentially well-rewarded. Contemporary records appear to show the deed transfer of a small hovel in the village to Iacobus' ownership on the same day as his arrival. On the 18th of Last Seed, the journal of a Dunmeri native of the city indicates that Iacobus then proceeded to raid a nearby cavern which was being used by smugglers and slave-traders. Iacobus is noted as having routed the bandits as well as rescuing the slaves and releasing them from service, establishing a pattern of behavior that earned him, at best, "mixed" reception among the [[uesp-l:Dunmer|Dunmer]].

==== Journey to Balmora ====
Iacobus proceeded to Balmora on foot, departing Seyda Neen on the 19th Last Seed, having been ordered to report to an Imperial agent, [[uesp-l:Caius_Cosades|Caius Cosades]], as a condition of his parole. Along the way, he briefly made a series of detours into and out of the fort town of [[uesp-l:Pelagiad|Pelagiad]], delivering messages and purchasing additional equipment using the proceeds of his earlier adventures. Though he departed Seyda Neen looking rather ill-equipped for the [[uesp-l:Vardenfell|Vardenfell]] wilds, he is noted in Cosades' notes as ultimately arriving in the city of Balmora rather well-eqipped, "for all the world as a Knight arrayed for combat".

Cosades was, as scholars of the time period are well aware by this point, an agent of the [[uesp-l:Blades|Blades]], a clandestine service answerable directly to the [[uesp-l:Emperor|Emperor]]. He accepted Iacobus into the service, but noted that the warrior was still "young and green" and sent Iacobus on to receive further training and experience. Mindful that he would need steady employment, and that he had a debt to repay, Iacobus determined to rejoin the Imperial Legion as well, and made inquiries that lead him to travel to Gnisis.

==== Legion Duties at Fort Darius ====
Gnisis was also the location of [[uesp-m:Fort_Darius|Fort Darius]], a minor legion force securing the local mines, which happened to be the only detatchment of the legion presently recruiting at the time. Iacobus arrived in the town via [[uesp-l:Silt_Strider|Silt Strider]], and as a result had developed fairly severe dehydration, which lead to him delaying his first contact with the local Legion command. The commander of the Deathshead Legion, [[uesp-m:Darius|Darius]], records in his journal during periods where Iacobus's presence in Gnisis is [[ambihistory]] that Iacobus showed significant misgivings in pursuing his initial mission of obtaining a land deed off of a recently-widowed Dunmer, but ultimately that Iacobus instead revealed the woman's husband had been murdered by a fellow Legionaire and that Iacobus took to further work with a bit more zeal after the matter of the deed was dropped.

== Personality ==
Iacobus's personality was defined primarily - some might say overly - by a sense of justice and a well-defined moral compass with strict cardinality, to the point where he was often unable to subordinate his own sense of justice to that of his social, political, or even martial superiors. Iacobus was a natural warrior, but not a man to whom violence came naturally. Instead, he viewed the delivery as violence as a the necessary burden of the man who would seek justice, rather than as the means to whatever end he found most desirable

== Trivia ==
* Iacobus Tenura is a transparant rip of James Holden, the male lead of The Expanse.

Seeks-His-Heart

2026-05-08T12:06:33Z

Zadammac: /* Balmora's Thieves Guild */

[[category: Morrowind]]

'''Seeks-His-Heart''' was an [[uesp-l:Argonian|Argonian]] male who is one of the possible subjects of the [[uesp-l:Nerevarine_Prophecy|Nerevarine Prophecy]] whose conjectural existence is one of the questions posed by the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]]. Seeks, as he was often nicknamed, was born to captive parents in Morrowind, and was therefore considered ''lukiul'', an Argonian term for those born outside of [[uesp-l:Black_Marsh|Black Marsh]] who cannot hear the [[uesp-l:Hist|Hist]]. Despite his best efforts in his early life, he was never able to obtain such a connection, though his personality was much more profoundly shaped by the loss of his sister, [[Slips-Through-Fingers]], earlier in his childhood. Unsurprisingly, he was a staunch abolitionist, with a philosophy that bordered on absolute anarchism.

He was a '''Thief''' born under the [[uesp-l:The_Tower|Tower Sign]].

== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Seeks-His-Heart was born in [[uesp-l:Third_Era#3E_407|3E 407]] in a slave clutch near Tear, his exact parentage unrecorded and relatives property of vassals to [[uesp-l:House_Dres|House Dres]]. When he was young, he and several of his siblings were transferred to a colony on [[uesp-l:Vardenfell|Vardenfell]] after the island was finally opened to colonization. Seeks-His-Heart and a few of his older siblings were able to break free of their restraints and take control of the ship one day out of port. In the ensuing conflict, his younger sibling, [[Slips-Through-Fingers]], was cast overboard by one of their captors, and Seeks-His-Heart threw himself overboard after her. Unable to find her in the choppy seas, he swam back to the ship before it had gone entirely out of the range of his endurance. He and his siblings turned the ship after their missing sister but were ultimately unable to sight her again. After running aground again on mainland [[uesp-l:Morrowind|Morrowind]], the surviving pack of Argonians made their way west and ultimately crossed into [[uesp-l:Cyrodiil]] by way passes in the Valus Mountains, aided along the way by various outlanders. The journey took them nearly three years to complete, moving only in the cover of darkness, rarely along the most efficient paths. As a result, Seeks-His-Heart was ten years old by the time they finally entered the Imperial province.

With no clear heritage and no trade skills, apart from those which none of the party had any interest in pursuing again, the pack of siblings eventually split up. There was less risk in being caught out alone within the Empire proper (where slavery was illegal and they were unlikely to be rounded up), and it was easier to beg alone or in pairs. It was at around this age when Seeks began to be known by his Cyrodiilic name, and ultimately this name supplanted his own in any documentation.

He remained in Cyrodiil for nearly ten years, mostly in the area around [[uesp-l:Bravil|Bravil]]. In and around Bravil, food was obtainable and septims "procurable". Seeks became a known quantity in this area, though not at the time truly noteworthy. According to journals attributed to him which were recovered from the foundations of house in Bravil during the [[uesp-l:Oblivion_Crisis|Oblivion Crisis]], Seeks went through "about three" boom-bust periods in this time where he built up a nest egg only to lose it. At various points in these journals, he considered either returning to Morrowind to seek for signs of his sister, or to head south to [[uesp-l:Black_Marsh|Black Marsh]] to rejoin his people. By all accounts, this decade of adolescence was not a happy time for Seeks, and he had frequent periods of imprisonment for petty thefts and larcenies. Despite the events of his later life it would come to light that based on his existing reputation he was effectively barred from the [[uesp-l:Thieves_Guild|Thieves Guild]] of Cyrod due to his reputation as a bungler and pickpocket in Bravil. Indeed, it was one such failed attempt to steal a considerable sum of money from a tax convoy that lead to his imprisonment at the Imperial City Prison.

=== Imprisonment and Deportation to Vardenfell ===
Seeks-His-Heart's personal history joints to the history of the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]] after his imprisonment in the Imperial City Prison in the late fall of 3E 426. He remained in prison for several months before being assigned a parole that would lead to him being sent to [[uesp-l:Vardenfell|Vardenfell]]. This same fate, and the dire costs of avoiding it, earlier in his childhood lead to Seeks-His-Heart considering taking his own life, though he clearly never went through with it. Nevertheless, he remained in a deep depression for the entire voyage, and suffered crippling nightmares the entire way. He later recorded that it was only the constant attention from his fellow prisoner, [[uesp-l:Jiub|Jiub]].

Seeks-His-Heart's release was conditional, though he briefly considered ignoring the conditions of his release, and likely did not comport himself in Vardenfell as his Imperial masters would have approved of. Ultimately though, it's believed he accepted the parole as a way to bring himself back to Morrowind (if only indirectly), and potentially pick up the trail of his lost sister.

=== Role in the Dragon Break ===
Because of his arrival on 17th Last Seed, 3E 427, at the Customs and Excise Depot of the Imperial service in the village of [[uesp-l:Seyda_Neen|Seyda Neen]], Seeks-His-Heart satisfies the condition of being a subject of the [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]]. His actions from that point onward become [[ambihistory]].

==== Plunder of Seyda Neen ====
In the simplest of terms, Seeks-His-Heart can be said to have plundered Seyda Neen when he first arrived there, though he was only in town for a partial day. He discovered the body of [[uesp-m:Processus_Vitellius|a local tax collector]], but given his past association with tax robberies, he did not report the crime and merely looted the man of any remaining valuables. He would later boast of having broken into every house in the settlement and sold many of the items he recovered, including those from the excise warehouse, to the local trader. As nightfall approached, he purchased a token quantity of equipment and fled for [[uesp-l:Balmora]] before anyone was likely to return to their homes and discover what had happened.

==== Balmora's Thieves Guild ====
Of the locations Seeks could have chosen to flee to, he would later admit that Balmora was the least promising choice. He had gone there merely because it was known to him that he was expected there, and it was only few days later that he realized if anything ''had'' come of the plunder of Seyda Neen, Balmora would likely have been the first place the law would have come looking for him. Instead, Seeks had prioritized the conditions of his Parole, quickly seeking out the [[uesp-m:South_Wall_Cornerclub|South Wall Cornerclub]] as a source of information for finding his contact, [[uesp-l:Caius_Cosades|Caius Cosades]], an agent of the [[uesp-l:Blades|Blades]]. Cooperation with the Emperors' clandestine service had been the principal condition of Seeks' release. To Seeks' taste, however, Caius first insisted that the young thief "get the smell of Vardenfell on him", and turned Seeks loose, so to speak, on the island.

This left Seeks in a somewhat difficult position. He had food and water sufficient for a few days and the coin to keep that condition going, but certainly wasn't fit to retire on the wealth he had. With Seeks' background in mind, Caius put the Argonian in touch with [[uesp-m:Sugar-Lips_Habasi|Sugar-Lips Habasi]], a [[uesp-l:Khajiit|Khajiiti]] native of the city who happened to front for the local extension of the [[uesp-m:Thieves_Guild|Thieves_Guild]], and the two began working together immediately. Within just two days of his arrival in Balmora, and on Habasi's behalf, he had gone on a considerable crime spree that primarily targeted the town's Dunmer population:
* Stealing a key from [[uesp-m:Sovor_Trandel|a Cammona Tong rival]] which allowed the guild to later plunder [[uesp-m:Balmora_Homes#Nerano_Manor|Nerano Manor]]
* Robbing the emporium of the local alchemist, to a considerable profit,
* Similarly plundering the [[uesp-m:Balmora_Homes#Hlaalo_Manor|Hlaalo Manor]]
* Re-Securing, and then smuggling into the city, a trove of [[uesp-l:Dwemer|Dwemer]] artifacts.

Indeed, it was partially due to the heat the two of them were generating that Seeks-His-Heart agreed to take a break from robbery to run an interference mission in [[uesp-l:Pelagiad|Pelagiad]], however, this proved to only be a relatively minor errand occupying an overnight trip, during which he secured the release of a guild-affiliated prisoner by blackmailing a local official. Shortly after his return, he instead determined to visit the guild branch in [[uesp-l:Ald'ruhn|Ald'ruhn]].

== Personality ==
At the outset of his adventure, Seeks-His-Heart is much more brash and given to conflict than his sister - more of a bandit than a traditionalist thief. While he prefers the minimum amount of trouble and is trained in (and prioritizes) the use of stealth, he is not above resorting to violence to preserve a desired outcome, even if that outcome is merely another day of his freedom. Seeks does not form strong bonds and does not have a firm respect for authorities of any kind; he visits Caius ''merely'' to satisfy the requirements of his relief and no doubt fully intends to steer well clear of the man now that he's been turned more broadly loose upon the whole island of Vardenfell. This all being said, he still would not consider himself a murderer; killing a bandit or assassin or other outlaw is one thing, but common civilians are not, as he would put it, "in the game".

He is quite loose with his money and as a result prefers bribery to more indirect charm offensives.

He has an ingrained - he would say natural - hatred of the [[uesp-l:Dunmer|Dunmer]] and feels no compunction one way or the other toward their lives. He prefers them as targets for his theifts and robberies when available.

== Trivia ==
* Despite being shown as the older brother, Seeks-His-Heart was actually created later than [[Slips-Through-Fingers]] when the author attempted to come up with a better reason for such a name than being a thief, and the story of their separation was born. At the time, Seeks was a nameless and non-specific older relative.
* Seeks' more brash nature is due in part to gameplay limitations of Morrowind as well as different qualities between the Thieves Guild quest requirements in that game as opposed to Slips' behaviour in Oblivion.
* In mechanical terms, he uses the thief class.

Ambihistory

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'''Ambihistory''' is a chronoarchanological term indicating the necessarily ambiguous nature of historical claims during periods where the dragon is broken and the linearity of time is compromised. All ambihistorical claims are effectively simultaneously true, false, and indeterminately plausible. Ambihistorical accounts are therefore not canon. Except when they are incidentally.

Adyne Mathendis

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Zadammac: Created page with "category: Morrowind '''Adyne Mathendis''' was a Dunmer mage who is one of the possible subjects of the Nerevarine Prophecy, and therefore whose conjectural existence is one of the questions posed by the Uncertain Sign Dragon Break. Mathendis was strongly characterized by an independent streak for which the ends very much justified the means, but is nonetheless somewhat favoured by the Imperial Chronoarchaeologists..."

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The '''Undercertain Sign Dragon Break''' was a collapse of historical clarity and temporal determinism which surrounded the [[uesp-l:Nerevarine_Prophecy|Nerevarine Prophecy]]. The Dragon Break is believed to have begun in the general temporal neighbourhood of [[uesp-l:Third_Era#3E_427|3E 427]]. The Imperial Chronoarcanologists discovered the [[uesp-l:Dragon_Break|Dragon Break]] when attempting to ascertain the actual identity of the Nerevarine, a figure connected with the prophecy.

The Imperial record currently considers the following individuals ''potential'' Nerevarines. Records from the time the [[uesp-l:Mundus|Mundus]] was experiencing the Dragon Break are, for obvious reasons, unreliable and sometimes conflicting. The Chronoarcanologists have thus focused on the records of the Imperial clerk [[uesp-m:Socucius_Ergalla|Socucius Ergalla]], a customs and excise agent from [[uesp-m:Seyda_Neen|Seyda Neen]]. Ergalla's records for the 16th of Last Seed, 3E 427 always show the arrival of an Imperial parolee as the only arrival of that day. The following individuals have been identified from those records:

* [[Seeks-His-Heart]], a male [[uesp-l:Argonian|Argonian]] who had escaped slavery in mainland [[uesp-l:Morrowind|Morrowind]] only to be later paroled to [[uesp-l:Vardenfell]]. He is notable for being the brother of [[Slips-Through-Fingers]], a possible subject of the [[Mantling of Akatosh Dragon Break]].
* [[Iacobus Tenura]], a [[uesp-l:Imperial|Imperial]] who was briefly imprisoned during his service in the Imperial Legion for assaulting a senior officer.
* [[Adyne Mathendis]], a [[u-esp-l:Dunmer|Dunmer]] scholar.

Most, but not all of these subjects later become implicated in the records of other Imperial officials. At the time of writing, it is unclear which, if any, are responsible for the later fulfillment of the Nerevarine Prophecy, though by all accounts ''someone'' must have fulfilled the prophecy and a Third Era Nerevarine must have been incarnated if the later histories and dragon breaks to be investigated are to make any sense at all.

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Welcome to the '''Disentangling Dragon Breaks''' wiki.

This wiki is the carefully compiled work of [https://furry.engineer/@patcharcana Imperial Chronoarcanologist Primus Interpares], exploring several [[uesp-l:Dragon Breaks|Dragon Breaks]] which took place in the [[uesp-l:Third Era|Third Era]] and [[uesp-l:Fourth Era|Fourth Era]]. In particular, the archive focuses on the following known dragon breaks:

* The [[Uncertain Sign Dragon Break]], a breaking of linear time surrounding the possible fulfillment of the [[uesp:Morrowind|Nerevarrine Prophecy]].
* The [[Mantling of Akatosh Dragon Break]], a breaking of linear time surrounding the [[uesp:Oblivion|Oblivion Crisis]].
* The [[Perchance Dragonborn Dragon Break]], a breaking of linear time surrounding the [[uesp:Skyrim|Return of the Dragons]].

The Imperial Cronoarcanologist largely attempts to disentangle the identities of figures whose uncertain identity is a consequence of the Dragon Break indicated. As a consequence of the nature of a dragon break, some figures who at first appear to be the key figures of their respective dragonbreaks may turn out to have never been that figure in the first place.

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This wiki is a work of fan-fiction, essentially. It contains information generated through successive play-throughs of various games in '''The Elder Scrolls''' series. No claim of copyright or ownership is laid over the existing lore of those universes.

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