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Tyr's Figure could be seen dressed in a clean set of clothing as white bandages that wrapped around his body peaking out of his clothes with each movement of his arms.
Lowering the bottle of Honningbrew Mead from his lips as he sat upon the chair as he looked upon the map on the table "Finally my body has recovered to a certain extent"
He clenched and unclenched his fist as the recovery was at most 5 days since while the healing spell is a miracle by its own right it still has its own fair share of side affects as the healing spell forcefully accelerated the body's rate of regeneration causing a rising burden to dwell and linger within the body and if not properly relieved giving enough time for proper recuperation will naturally affect the body's function in the long term.
"i just got a new body.. a new life with powers right at the tip of my fingertips no way in hell am i wasting it"
Tyr Looked at the map with some confidence "But at least i made some progress within these 5 days" Part of the days was spent combing through the cavern securing food, water and valuables that the Silverhand have not cared for or unable to carry on their journey.
"As for this body" Some testing and observation of what changes occured when this undead cadaver burned with new life. "First These eyes" His Blue eyes glowed a dim light as his vision turned grey gaining a temporary night vision. "While gaining life once again inherently lost the long lifespan of being a vampire it still was not able to change the transformation that occured in the process" He focused on his fingertips as his nails grew long and sharp while his teeth were still the same fang like structure.
"But its not bad while it might lead to questions of my identity of possibly being a vampire having a few more weapons in my arsenal is for the best"
Cancelling the night vision he continued "Next The vampire state of immortality was permanently lost the only good thing was this body was young when it turned so there is still room for growth in both physique and Magical reserves " Looking at his thin form that has just started to build some form of meat instead of a skeletons long lost brother due to his efforts the past five days.
"And of course the most important part the memories and the instinctual magical knowledge the body holds" his eyes turned to his palm as it glowed a purple hue as he directed a small amount of Magicka into the palm of his hand placing a mental image within his mind constructing a body fit for a spirit as he casted 'Conjure Familliar'
A Swirling purple portal manifested as a spectral raven appeared flapping its wings as it rested upon his shoulder. "The smaller the body the less Magicka it takes to construct a body for the spirit and by cutting of the spell early" With a flick of his mind the Magicka holding the body together dissipated into the Aether as payment for its summoning"
His nonchalant eyes narrowed turning serious as he looked at the Map "But What should i do going forward" His finger traced the map before landing Northwest of the Dragonbridge as the cave he currently resided in "For now it would best to go to solitude and gather some current information on recent events. The only thing i can be sure of is that the Greybeards has not found their chosen Dragonborn so there is still sometime before Dragons start rising from their graves" His finger traced it all the way east passing A pond with a small island following a road heading straight to solitude.
"as for plans after that well thats for future me to worry about as planning without adequate information is downright useless and might hinder my thinking"
he rolled up the map as he went to another table putting on some leather armor some iron gauntlets and greaves. tightening the straps he walked out of the cave where a small carriage is waiting with the rest of the spoils he gathered.
"Good thing some of the vampires dragged this thing when they ambushed some travellers"
He extended his hand forward manipulating his Magicka to gather within his palm as he closed his eyes constructing a body and soon he casted "Conjure Familiar" as he threw it infront of the carriage as a spectral horses neighed wildly snorting as it waited for the commands of its master.
Looking at the proud steed still put some awe to the minor spell of conjuration. the fact that you can theoretically craft any kind of vessel for the summoned spirit to do your bidding.
He grabbed some rope wrapping one end to the carriage and the other to the horse. and with command of his mind the horse neighed as it dragged the carriage forward.
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The drive in all honesty was lackluster while the surroundings still gave him a small sense of wonder despite the vampires decades of memories.
he could finally see with his own eyes the vistas he could only once have seen through a monitor right before him, but an hour or 2 hours sure it might still hold some charm but when you travel for most of the day looking at nothing but trees and empty road the charm would naturally vanish.
so he could only turn back to small practice sessions of manipulation of his magicka fine tuning his own control while leaving more than enough for any unexpected encounters and as for his familiar not dissipating within a time limit it ciuld inly be explained as the game limiting the players power, as here The cast of the spell took magicka to make the vessel of the soirit while the rest of the magicka being regenerated is being sent to the vessel to keep the form.
As the sun fell and the moon risen his eyes open as he heard the clashing of steel. his eyes changed as his vision turned grey, stepping off the carriage he ordered the horse to move deeper into the forest and guard the carriage as his figure crouched slipping into the tree line by the side of the road moving forward to the sound of battle.
deeming himself close enough he set his eyes to his fingers as sharp claws jutted out as he climbed the tree to the top as he looked down.
"So thats the case.."
What appeared before his eyes was a large closed carriage used by the wealthy families or noble houses. A man and a woman wearing fine clothing looked on their faces grim as they held their weapons in their hands watching from behind their guards as they fought off attackers.
"from the armor of the attackers. this is not your ordinary bandit ambush at least not with that armor"
The attackers were fully covered in unmarked plain steel while they were fewer than the guards the way they moved was well trained and filled with experience.
"an assasination attempt by another family or is this an extension and aftermath of the warring empire and stormcloacks?"
a few idea already popped into his mind but what truly made him pause was the question. should he help and what he could get with his assistance as he scanned the finely clothed imperials.
Even he did not noticed that his thinking became more warped his first thought is how to opportunistically take advantage of someone's else plights for his own benefit not caring about the slowly dwindling hired guards.
"from the size of the guards and the fact that two hiding behind while grim still lacked that instict to turn the tide by helping means they are not concerned about being outright killed but maybe ransomed so they should have some moderate capital and importance"
his gaze calculating as he thought a most likely scenario if he were to help.
he will be able to gather a mighty sum of capital and some connections to speed up any information seeking and planning i might need when i reach solitude.
as for the cons of such an action such as offending the people send the attackers. the only thing i could say to that is thats life if there is a positive reaction then naturally there could also be a negative one. if it truly all comes crashing down i could always just book it to another hold and lay low for a while.
With his thoughts set he went into action silently going down the tree as he sneaked over a cold air forming over his hands slowly shaping into a throwing dagger.
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Author here i kinda just looked through my old stuff and got inspired to make another chapter of this and just spew this chapter out in 30 minutes or so.
if you can be so kind give some thoughts on it. and maybe some ideas or plotpoints that you would like to see or would find interesting that would be appreciated.