At the beginning, there is the Vacuum. Then appear two beings, Light and Shadow. Unable to make open battle, each one creates a building, floating in the Vacuum, the Demon Dungeons and the Angel Tower, that they populate of two races: Angels and Demons. The two new forces begin a war, the first and greatest ever.
They battle for a long time, but no camp manages to get an advantage on the other, so to settle the fight Good and the Evil work together to create the Young Races [Mrywekard (Drakes), Dïushara (Blood Elves) and Hrakagi (Ghouls)] but also Ethyragan, the world connecting the Tower and Dungeons (before that there was just a bridge), who join the war on either sides or fight between themselves. They manage however to get together to create Ethyragan, which is also the name of a city (which gave its name to the world): Ghouls bring materials, the Blood Elves arrange them, cut them and make plans while Drakes welds the blocks together and solidify them.
Ethyragan mainly becomes the capital of the Blood Elves, but because of their help, the Drakes and Ghouls have the right to stay and have the same rights as the Blood Elves.
Ghouls mostly live however in the wild lands in the surroundings, and Drakes rarely come out of their Sacred Lake, but to participate in the War.
By their thought, being the only races to have faiths, the Young Races create the gods, still weak and sleaping, having no powers or consciousness of their existence.
The War finishes by an alliance of the Young Races against the Angels and Devils, but Darkness and Light become allied temporarily to give rise to their fury against the Young Races.
They create another dimension to absorb this abundance of energy, but it was not big enougth: Ethyragan loses the biggest part of its greatness, its fauna and its flora are altered...
The Blood Elves are almost annihilated, and lose most of their powers, but they survived, living in the ruins of Ethyragan, kindling their hatred of their creators, sometimes serving as mercenaries for Darkness or Light...
Drakes fall into a deep sleep, in the deepest pit of the Lake, awaiting the arrival of the Chosen One in order to awake and to be avenged of their old masters.
The Ghouls were totally devoted to Darkness or Light, and did not think of protecting themselves: their bodies and their souls were corrupted, distorted, tortured and cast in the Vacuum. Some mages are capable of calling upon them temporarily, and even, by using ancient words of forgotten powers, by using the soul of an Angel or a Demon as well as a sacrifice, to make one come bake into the real world. But this is extremely hard, and few see the interest in making one of these tortured and completely uncontrollable creatures come back.
Hell and Paradise were create, out of reach, 2 powers keeping only the Tower and the Dungeons as nearly empty advanced posts in Ethyragan.
The dimension created was named Oblivion, and suddenly the gods woke up, without any memories, having no means to see Ethyragan, believed to be at the dawn of the world.
There we join the scenario of Bethesda: some Gods decide to leave Oblivion and to create Tamriel: they are Aedras (the 9 Divine), the other become Deadras. Aedras also create the other races.
Here we leave the scenario of Bethesda again: the last Blood Elves create, helped by Angels and Demons who want to continue the War (in a discreet way, being afraid of the anger of the Young Races) Altars connecting Ethyragan and Tamriel.
Far later, an Angel of the name of Cyfer helps the Demons, but when they don't deed him any more, they reveal his treachery: he is then banned, and arrives at Tamriel, filled with hatred as much for Darkness as for Light. He takes refuge in a fort named Irmehk to study means to create an overpowered race, capable of serving his purposes. He urges Ayléides to create the Necromancy, but he knows that it will not be sufficient, at least it allowed him to build up a small garrison.
After long years, he more or less succeeds in developing a sample of Black Elixir. He knows that he cannot test on himself, but does not want to offer it to just anyone. He chooses a brilliant character, named Nargash, an initiate with the secrets of Necromancy. The Elixir increases his capacities, but not as much as hoped for, and the experience leaves him terrible side effects. he becomes a sort of lower vampire, and those of Tamriel are in fact his vampiric “descent”. he continues improving the Elixir, but a violent argument occurs between him and his master. But the pupil had become stronger, and the angel had to flee. his went and denounced him to the Angels but also to the Demons, hiding his identity. Then he fled in an unknown place.
Irmekh was well made, but not enough…. All the impious writings were burned, the fortress devastated, its occupants destroyed and incinerated. Only seven parchments survived, and upon them was written an incomprehensible poem.
An even longer time passed, and when the seven parchments found taking, all the current races were already create. Each purchaser were avid of power: Oshuran of Styrgas, an Orc, Adharosh, Redgard, Lei-Jhin, Argonien, Karskrin, Khajiit, Vlad Vaan Korstein, Imperial, Nefertari, Northern and Bo' Zhun, Bret.
All succeeded in cracking the messages code. They met at the same time in the hiding-place where Nargash had buried his dark secrets. They studied together, then finally managed in creating the finale version of the Black Elixir. They drunk one drop each, inside were 8 of them. They didn’t know what to make of the last one, so they left it, sealing the bottle by magic and locking up it in Nagash’s hiding place.
Each one accepted various capacities, and various curses, in addition to the vampirism considered as “common” today:
Oshuran’s body was horribly deformed, but he became more resistant and could run like no other creature. His wounds healed instantly. His followers were named Styrges. He sought to overcome the need for blood by the greatest hatred that can exist, and his pupils followed his teaching. He was killed by its own race, the Orcs, irritated by his hatred.
Adharosh becomes a warrior without equal. No one could beat him in a duel. His magic faculties were almost destroyed. He died facing a Dragon because he wanted to drink his blood which, according to rumor, would remove for always his need for blood. his sought to overcome his thirst by martial perfection. His pupils bear the name of Hémocrates.
Lei-Jhin tried to understand the mysteries of the world by using magic. For him, if someone discovered the true nature of an object, of a race or of one element by meditation, it could have absolute control on it. After having discovered many secrets, he tried to understand the mystery of Death. He is always meditating although his heart and his brain stopped working long ago, according to his disciples. He tried to control his thirst by meditation. His pupils are Naurelmmeents gifted in Mysticism, Alteration, Cure and bear the name of Jadhlings.
Karskrin became a assassin master. He was able to kill anyone, wherever they were. On the other hand, even full of blood, the light was unbearable for him. For him, the vampire can seal its thirst for ever if it kills a sufficient number people. He perished by pursuing his target outside whereas the first lights of dawn were appearing. His disciples are Harkans.
Vlaad Van Korstein thought that only the perfect control of each aspect of vampirism could release him from the bloody cycle. His capacities were weaker but superior to those of the “common” vampires such as one finds in Tamriel and does not have any of the curses which touche the six other Vampire Masters. He was killed by a Priest of Akatosh who had had wind of his misdeeds. His disciples are Van Korsteins.
Nefertari specialized in the mortal spirit. Her beauty without equal and her higher intelligence enabled her to be made invisible, to charm the living, to make them obey her least whims… Her force and her resistance are less powerful than that of the other Vampires, but remain more important than that of the simple mortals. She was killed by a jealous Northern girl who took her by surprise. According to her, a vampire can be delivered of the blood obsession by living in luxury, joy and surrounded by many slaves. Her disciples are Lahmiaes.
Bo' Zhun was a very powerful magus and an good alchemist, the worthy heir to Nargash. He was the only one of the seven to go back to Necromancy. He also learned in less proportions the Daedric magic. For him, only a potion would make it possible to preserve the advantages of the vampirism without nourishing a thrust for blood. He died of his continual experiments, because all of them caused an important putrefaction of its body. His disciples are Nécrarques.
A mortal can join one of the these lines by drinking a drop of the blood of the Master of the line. Although they died, there remains an important quantity of the Master’s blood, because very few are the chosen and each Master gave one liter of blood per year.
The reserves of second generation blood are also very important, and they undoubtedly will never be exhausted.
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