Dragonborn from Lord of the Rings

Chapter 217 The Marcus Rebellion

A gray figure stood on a high rock, looking at the world below.He is tall and fit, with stars in his eyes that do not belong to this world. The braids of long black hair sway beside his handsome face, and the long hair behind his head is tied with an exquisite crown on his forehead.The sun was shining directly from the top of his head, and his skin was glowing in the light.

He is like a king.

Rojatus once again felt amazed.But then, the young farmer blushed and called Talos' god name in his heart, feeling ashamed for his extravagant thoughts.

The Nords have only one king.

Rojatus glanced at the man above the rock peak again, but the enthusiasm in his heart was shaken.

Turka's piercing gaze scanned the scene below.From this position, you can have a panoramic view of the avenue below and the surrounding mountains.

As the Forsworn became more active, the caravans from Falkreath and Snowman had gradually disappeared, and there were very few people on the road.Even though Macarth in the frontier is rich in silver mines that are rare in the entire sky, compared with the life-threatening thieves, it seems that the benefits are not enough to make them tempted.

After all, those Forsworn who were driven to the backcountry by the Old Nords were real cannibals——About Forsworn Cannibalism, Forsworn Cultural Studies, Imperial Researcher Arianus Arios in his It is described in the book "The Richman of the Frontier Territory".Since the contents of the book are too appalling, we will not list them here.

Of course, in the book, Arianus also stated unmistakably that the Forsworn ≠ Rich people.

"Do you want to know who the Forsworn are? We are the ones who have been forced to rob our own lands and burn our own yards. We are the plague of the Nords, the hatchets of the dark, to whom your souls The last scream heard before the gods. We are the true children of the frontier. The spirits and witches have lived here since the beginning, and they are with us. Go back. Go back and tell your empire, we will Rebuild your kingdom. When that day comes, we will bury you in the land that is no longer yours."

This is a quote from Arianus quoting one of his Forsworn 'friends'.It can be seen from this that these warriors who refused to submit to the Nords, to a certain extent, sincerely hated and hated the Empire and all non-swearers.

Therefore, even though we know that Macarth in the frontier is constantly producing mouth-watering silver, as the road to the east becomes more and more dangerous, the business travelers who dare to come to Macarth in the southwestern border of Skyrim are still visible to the naked eye. rare.

Although caravans from Solitude and Windhelm still arrive at the frontier from time to time.Because one of them represents the Supreme King of Skyrim, the king of all the children of Skyrim; the other is the giant bear of the East, a powerful Nord hero.The heroic soldiers under their command can still make these traitors who are always thinking about taking back the land of their ancestors a little bit afraid.The trade route from the north is still open, but according to Turka's observations these days, such days will not last long.

And this also caused the growing uneasiness in the city of Markas today.People found that with the reduction of commercial roads in the east, the people's living supplies were also in short supply, and riots occurred from time to time.The bloody incidents followed one after another, coupled with the activity of some spies, the entire city of Markas was like a volcano about to erupt.

Old Dondis complained more than once that the guards began to collect more taxes from the people in the frontier fortress. The reason was that war might break out at any time, and the nobles and powerful people in the city had to recruit more soldiers to protect everyone.

But in fact, the old farmer said bluntly: "They just want to take more and more gold coins from us. As for our life and death, they don't care."

Thinking of the exasperated but helpless look of the old farmer when he said this, Turka could not help but smile in his heart.But then, he calmed down again.

In any case, the Savius ​​family extended a helping hand to him when he needed it the most. In the past two months, Turka has learned a lot of basic knowledge about Tamriel from them For example, language, belief, etc. Therefore, he must ensure the safety of their family in this chaotic situation.

Jun Shi Yide, I repay your kindness.

Turka thought so.

In fact, he has been waiting all this time.

As for what to wait for.

Turka looked up at the 'sun' in the world of Mundus, neither sad nor happy, but thoughtful.He remembered that there was no grand movement here.

In other words, those legendary Prince Daedra and the Nine Holy Spirits may indeed be powerful, but they still cannot see through fate!And his plan is likely to succeed.

In fact, he can feel the world's rejection of him, or in other words, as the soul of the earth, Arda's body has now descended on Nirn, and he himself naturally has the attribute of CHIM.And this is the key to becoming a god.

At that time, under the gust of wind, snowflakes swirled and blew through his hair.Turka lowered his head, no one could see through his inner thoughts.

And about a hundred miles east of here, the Sky Sanctuary Temple is looming in the mist. The blessing of the Creator God from another world is still valid on the Tamriel continent, and Turka can even see it. The huge stone pillars in front of the temple glowed gray in the morning light.It seems that something co-existing in both worlds is reinforced in this moment.

But at the same time, the differences between the two worlds are weakened or even disappeared.Of these, most obviously, the little illusions he'd learned from the elves didn't work here.His eyes cannot be covered by magic, but are revealed for what they are.But fortunately, on the continent of Tamriel, there are such strange races as Yalong people and tiger people. Turka Arakano's golden vertical pupils will not be regarded as aliens here.

On the contrary, the old farmer's family even once thought that he was the crystallization of a giant and a vigorous Argonian in the Black Marsh—in fact, it was a long time later that Turka learned about this extremely important thing from Rogatus. Faux pas.Two, this also earned him the nickname of "Miss Pod".In Norse, this means mixed blood.

Turka still remembers that night in the Frost Moon, when he knocked on the wooden door of the farmer's family, old Dondis, his wife, the amiable Estelle, and the frightened look in the eyes of little Rojatus.

Maybe they thought they were some kind of vampire prince.

While looking east, Turka was thinking about everything that happened to him in the past two months.Among them, the most important thing is, what are the reasons and conditions for him to travel through?
"If there is a system, please say a word." Turka couldn't even bear it for the 250th time, whispering in a long-lost language.

But unfortunately, the only response to him was still the howling cold wind from the sky.Ginalis couldn't help but slapped him with the wind.If the god of wind and atmosphere in Nord's population really noticed that there was such an unexpected number in Nirn.

As if answering him, a voice came from beneath his feet, "Turka, what are you talking about?" It was Rojatus, the son of old Dandis.

Turka looked down and smiled, but didn't answer.

Then he looked up again.As far as he could see, he saw groups of savages dressed in crude furs and war equipment, and with all kinds of strange markings on their faces, coming out of the Cass Peak that old Dandis said, howling wolves With a roar like a priest, some kind of bloody ceremony was carried out under the leadership of a guy who looked like a priest.

They pushed an innocent man out of the dungeon, skinned him, gutted him, and smeared his blood on their faces and bodies.And every Forsworn who was smeared with foul-smelling blood screamed frantically, like animals.

And those innocent people who were captured by them from the mountain or sneaked into the village at night were often skinned and heart-digged alive, and even when those disgusting guys smeared blood on their bodies, these people may not necessarily die.They screamed terribly, from loud to soft, until they were completely dead.This scene happened more than once.

Then, he saw several evil creatures coming out of the dark cave. They had bird claws and feathers, but at the same time they had human bodies and ugly old faces.They went out into the crowd and cast some sort of evil spell on the strongest of the fellows.They took out their hearts and replaced them with something like a thorny fruit.Then heal them.

As a result, these Forsworn who had been implanted with some kind of strange magic item quickly straightened up from the stone platform in front of the temple, without any appearance of being heartbroken.

And these human beings who had been given some kind of evil magic raised their axes and swords, and howled like wolves at the same kind below, triggering a new round of howling.The whole Cas Peak trembled at the raw, bloodthirsty, savage roar of these guys.

At that moment, Turka seemed to see the sky covered by a shifting darkness, and this tide swept across the land, flooded the houses, and left only ruins.

And as if aware of Turka's sight, one of the monsters with bird limbs and human body suddenly turned back and looked at the mountain peak to the west.Their family has gained great power from blood and hunting princes, and is extremely sensitive to malice and prying eyes.Coupled with their own magical skills, the monster discovered Turka hiding far away.

She uttered some horrible howl, like a crow, like iron sand on tiles, unbearable.

The Forsworn below had no idea what was happening.

The monster pointed to the mountain peak hundreds of miles away, and said something to the thorn hearts (the Forsworn after the heart-changing) who were leading it.They roared immediately, and hurriedly led those evil guys to run out of their camp, along the pipeline in broad daylight, and came towards Mount Aiduin to the west.

They were rowdy, rude and disorderly, more savage than civilized.It's hard to believe that they were once part of the human race.They walked through the long pipeline, burned, killed and looted all the way, which alarmed many people.

in the north.

Drew Adaqi, who was close to the pass in the inner country, was a muscular, muscular man with gray hair and beard. He said angrily, "What? Those stupid guys actually Unauthorized attack? May the Void Lady swallow their pig brains!"

Maidenaki was originally just an ordinary Richman, but after years of fleeing and fighting, in the end, Maidenaki, who was called the ragged king by later generations, became the name of the Richman in the southwestern border of the sky. leader.

He saw that the war between the Empire and Summerset Island consumed most of the power of the Empire, and dissatisfaction with the Empire's high-handed rule began to erupt in many provinces.Especially for Hammerfell, because the Empire ordered the retreat from Skaven, and de facto ceded most of Hammerfell to Summerset Isle, which triggered a huge war of independence among the Redguards of Hammerfell.

And the empire will transfer the legion stationed in Solitude to Cyrodiil, and recruit a large part of the Nord militia, which has caused a virtual emptiness in the sky.Medenaki immediately felt that the time had come to regain the frontier territory, the ancestral land passed down from generation to generation in the population of Rich.

So, he ran for many years, trying to integrate the various Rich tribes in the frontier, and persuade them to join forces to attack the increasingly chaotic and weak Macarth City.

In fact, his plan has the support of many people.There are even a lot of really powerful guys among them.However, due to certain reasons, these cunning and despicable careerists and speculators refused to stand up to support him, but secretly used some information and transactions to walk between the empire and Rich.

Regarding this, Maidenaki was naturally clear about it.If the words of politicians and nobles can be believed, then pigs can also climb trees.

I just need them to stand up against me unambiguously.

As for the deal.

Only the winner deserves to negotiate a deal.

Maidenaki thought so.

And the Void Lady in his mouth is Namira, one of the kings of Daedra, the goddess of soul and decay.According to Reach's version of the creation myth, Lockhan persuaded Namira to create a world of hardship and pain in her void, representing the spirit.Hircine, on the other hand, is dealing with pain to make the Reach people stronger and then make others suffer (such as werewolf), representing the flesh. ——This assertion comes from the book "The Reachers of the Frontier Territory", whose author is none other than Arianus Arios of the Forsworn Cultural Studies and Institute of Imperial Researchers.

Originally, the two sides had already 'negotiated' the terms, and the 'insiders' in the city had sworn to assure him that if the Forsworn Army came to the city, then Markas' door would definitely be open to him.But the sudden accident cast a shadow over the plan in Medenaki's mind.

Maidenach paced back and forth anxiously, and some kind of dignified air permeated the leader's tent.Suddenly, Medenaki stopped and asked the subordinates who came to report, "How many days have they been away?"

"Two days." The subordinate replied.

Maidenach's face changed for a while, and finally, the leader of the Rich people gritted his teeth and said loudly: "Everyone! Throw away all unnecessary things, take only swords and axes, and march towards Markas!"

And what responded to him was the betrayal and Forsworn militia that countless Nord populations called.

(End of this chapter)