The elderberry bush Scrolls I : Rise of the Sword-Runners

Arngeirr was crouching close to the timberland floor as he skulked along the trail, stalking his prey. His manus were dirty, mud and moss clung to his Banded Fe armor, his prospicient halcyon blonde pilus hung over his cheek, moistness with perspiration.

He sniffed the air and swivelled around on his feet to face north. He had her sent. Quickly but lightly, he sprinted through the forrest towards Riverwood, making little noise he jumped from a fallen log and climbed a tall oak Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree until, halfway up, he rested against a offshoot. Slowly he drew his fathers ancient Nordic Bow and readied his sword arrow to strike.

A Stormcloak patrol passed beneath him.

'' Damn you '' he cursed as they moved on and in he distance he saw the large deer he had been stalking prancing away towards the lake.

He slid down the tree after sheathing his artillery and walked towards Riverwood. As the morning lead blew through the trees Arngeirr ran his hired hand through his lucky hair and approached Lake Llinalta. As he broke through the Tree line he breathed deeply inhaling the fresh air, it was so unlike here than it was in the cities, here you could find peace.

As he looked around himself Arngeirr sat down and, bringing his nose close to the ground he began to sniff and listen for any wildlife that he might hunt.

He soon caught the scent of a fox and followed it in the charge of Llinatas Deep, as he approach the bank he sighed, he hated swimming, he was n't bad at swimming per say, just disliked getting wet, unusual though as he did n't beware getting dirty, sweaty or bloody.

He swam quickly across to the northern bank to avoid the Slaughter Fish. Unlike others in Skyrim, the Pisces the Fishes would let been their last vexation, as for some reason everyone thought that the lake was cursed, no one in the Sword-Runner family believed in curses, and they were ALL stubbornly brave beyond reckoning.

Arngeirr advanced slowly and quietly for two grounds, he did n't want to lose his fair game, and just to his left on top of the settle tower of Llinatas Deep were two bandit Marauders wielding Orcish Battleaxes. Also just behind them was an apprentice thaumaturgist.

As he passed silently by he was blasted forward into the Tree-line by a huge ball of pure white light, dazed and confused Arngeirr could see the Necromancer shouting and barking orders as three Bandit Archers came up and blastoff arrows at the sphere as the sorcerer injection fireballs at it and the two bandit earlier charged at it wielding their ax in a blind wrath.

As Arngeirr pulled himself from his stupor and daze he drew his Sky-forge Steel great-sword from his back and charged at the bandit as the sphere began to shrink inside taking the open flesh of a man.

Arngeirr charged as the low bandit, a familiar Nord, turned and charged at Arngeirr clad in hide armour. He swung his axe at Arngeirr 's top dog, Arngeirr ducked, stabbed up into the Nords dresser, then spin around around drawing the brand from his chest cutting him nearly in two.

Arngeirr stood up straight, his face stained with blood, holding his bloodied great-sword in his justly hand, his chest heaving as he huffed and puffed, watching as the Orc brigand clad in fur armour charged him in rage.

Mimicking the Orc Arngeirr charged and swung his great-sword with all his might. battle-axe and Great-sword clashed in a Spark of Orichulum on Steel.

They pressed each other with all their military strength, staring into the orcs brutish face as it roared in anger and continued to press its vane downwards towards Arngeirrs head. His speciality was failing, the orc was winning with its immense innate forcible strength, but Arngeirr was exhilarated by it he loved fighting orcs as they were one of the few subspecies who posed a real threat to him and a tangible challenge.

As the axe drew dear to his drumhead Arngeirr slipped into an unbound craze. He roared out like a caged lion, the nordic battle cry. He pushed up with all his might and sent the orc reeling back onto its arse, its free energy now spent as Arngeirr swung his blade down onto its thorax, delivering the killing blow, cleaving a gaping hole in the orcs chest.

Arngeirr spun to see a woodelf crouched on a piece of crumbling rock'n'roll that once was a strut holding up the column, weilding an ebony tree bow set to fire her pointer at Arngeirr as a banded branding iron clad red-guard wielding treble scimitars advanced on Arngeirr and a Leather clad Khajiit assassin flanked him on his right field as he faced the tower.

Reading himself for armed combat Arngeirr advanced on the Red-guard and swung his blade in a wide arc in front of himself. The Red-guard jumped back at the first swipe then as the second came he deflected with his scimitar sending Arngeirrs blade away from him and into the air. The Red-guard slashed at Arngeirrs thigh bringing him to his knees as an Arrow sank into his shoulder. The Khajiit stabbed him in his right should also, completely crippling him as Arngeirr felt his aliveness ebbing from him.

Then he felt a swoosh of air as a green fuzz flew by him at the Red-guard was thrown back into the towers crumbling wall, an Orcish battle-axe embedded oceanic abyss in his bureau. Arngeirr watched as the woodelf lowered her bow and stared wide of the mark eyed at what she saw, fear engulfing her. Arngeirr simply looked forward at her the whole fourth dimension as the Necromancer ran forward and tried to conjure up the corpses to fight but, the khajiit was sent flying through the air crashing into him, its legs broken. Arngeirr felt a strong bridge player on his arm pulling him up as the warmth bedspread through his organic structure, a comforting gentle luminosity engulfing his wounds, healing them.

Then a tall man, of 6ft 5in, dressed in ebony armour, wielding two pitch black sword and a bully sword, with long swept back favorable hair and a muscular build walked by towards the sorcerer and Khajiit. He drove his swords into the neck of his opponents then turned to the woodelf.

'' Do you submit ? '' The man asked in a deep, yet soft and comforting representative to which the elf just nodded repeatedly

She was short, 5ft 3in in meridian with yearn black hairsbreadth tied back in a pony-tail. Her skin was tanned and her wyes were a cryptic scintillation immature, she was little of figure, clearly flexible and agile.

'' Then go inside, gather all that your bandit friends stole and bring it out here '' The man ordered as the elf disappeared into the sunken sustenance

The man walked over to Arngeirr and helped him up

'' Are you alright ? '' The man asked, to which the man nodded in reply

'' What is your name ? ``

'' Arngeirr, and yours ? ''

'' ... Raiden .... ''