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Tales of Wulver - A Night’s Peace – Chapter One
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In addition this is a cross-over story with Nataly's world of Dannee and her friends (although both my story and Nataly's can be read on their own - you will only miss some of the cross over references). You can see the start of her story in The Gambit - Part One. In addition you can find Nataly's past stories under her profile.
For links to the prelude to this chapter, and Wulver's other stories, please see the spoiler below, thank you.
A Night's Peace:
Prelude
Tales of Wulver - Chapter One
The Mad Priest of Arkay:
Chapter One - Detectives Not For Hire
Chapter Two - The Missing Priest
Interlude - Dark Dreams
Chapter Three - Carriage Ride
Interlude - Discussions of a Personal Nature
Chapter Four - Falling for Wulver
Chapter Five - The Rescue
Epilogue - Dark Omens
An Idiots Mistake
Tales of Wulver - An Idiots Mistake
Tales of Wulver - Found and Lost
Tales of Wulver - Cellmates
Tales of Wulver - Redemption
Tales of Wulver - Epilogue
Lore Bits
Fenrir Creation Myth - Fenrir Lore
Wulver Revealed - Wulver Lore
True Sight - Wulver Lore
A few little notes:
- Mralki, and others in Rorikstead, are used to unusual people around because Grim and Erik are partners and Grim has spent a lot of time at Rorikstead. Considering Grim's Daeric relatives (Hircine, Lorkhan, Kyne, Sanguine, Fenrir), his ties to the Black Wolf Company, and many of his adventures ... well the small village has seen it all. Hence normally they don't react like others might.
- Due to the cloud fog of the joining the locals probably assumed Wulver had always been one of the Night-Kin (another word for a type of Daedra) and was now part of the cult. Or they were following orders from Alduin to greet him that way.
- The episode that Mralki refers to was from a story when the Dark Brotherhood had captured Mralki and wanted Grim to sacrifice him to Sithis to corrupt his soul. Later Mralki found the dagger of Sithis and took it home with him. It started to eat away at his soul, making him thirst for death. He barely resisted and he got rid of the dagger (which later came into the hands of another one of Grim's foes). But the dagger left a small shadow of darkness on his soul and it reacts to other evil, hence his ability to "feel" evil in others.
- For those who don't know my past stories, the Grim being referred to his Grimulfr Fenrirson, Son of Fenrir Wolf, and a character that I wrote the equivalent of five moderate sized books on over the course of six years (over 1500 pages of text). His soul-mate is Erik of Rorikstead. Grim is half-mortal and half-divine. The Black Wolf Company is descended from ancient times when Aedra and Daedra roamed the lands and there were many tribes of man. The Wolf Tribe was the only one not to be corrupted by Molag and the Hagravens. Their descendants became the Black Wolf Company. They serve Fenrir but may also follow Arkay, Hircine, and Nocturnal. Their Captain, Sayid, is a Gray Lord. A mysterious entity that serves Chaos and Order to keep a balance. He is immortal and has many secrets. For a list of Grim's adventures and lore see his story list page.
Just seeing those town's folk stop them at the entrance of the village was fishy enough. Then they start talking like real loonies. Something definitely happening. Sure has me worried for Mralki. He sure risked alot giving all those information to Wulver and Thrynn but he was smart about it. It change quite alot of things. I'm starting to lean on Thyrnn's side....Wulver didn't have a plan and he was just rolling with the punches. Hopefully Mralki will make it safely to Whiterun and be safe there for the time being. I'm quite curious as to what kind of spell is draining those people...feels like they might be linked through some sort of hivemind? I guess only time will tell.
Oh Salissa, why do I feel like she doesn't know that whole much about Dannee. Well sure, she succeeded in getting her into a realm of Oblivion..but good luck keeping her there - you'll need it. ( Well I did finish reading the Gambit so I know that Salissa is not going to be a happy camper on that one.)
Could it be? A possible cameo from Erik and Grim on the horizon!??
The cult has really struck in Rorikstead.
Hopefully Dannee can get Salissa's attention long enough so that Wulver has fair time to gather sufficient information unnoticed.
Mralki acted calmly and deliberately so that in addition to Wulver and Trynn, the Black Wolf Company and Grim will now also be involves.
That should be quite interesting.
Nice story and illustrations.
Happy new year, Jon.
It also gave me a way to start my own story. Well a short backstory. I'm not good at writing the longer ones
Thanks for checking out Batman and Robins new adventure lol. They are a definite team although Wulver is more the brains of the operation and Thrynn the muscle. I tend to like light casual adventuring with the occasional dip into something serious here and there along the way. Inspired by some much older stories I grew up on like Farfyd and the Greymouser.
Yea they don't want to harm the cultists - no easy way to tell which ones are, more or less, innocent. Course if they have to defend themselves against an attack they will but they really don't want to hurt those being somewhat mind controlled or simply stupid and brain washed.
Excellent works :)
the effort you put into this chapter was all worth it... an exciting text pared to beautiful and perfectly fitting images... can't wait for the next part to see whose paths will all cross here, after you showed us some of the involved parties
and I really like the music, turned it on loop, so it followed me through the whole chapter
This line and sequence hit like a super-sledge: "In another plane a lithe female figure bent over a blood-filled vessel." A well-placed and executed dramatic blow to the head.
Yea the acting in unison is important as the joining links them together in a way. A little like a hive mind perhaps but not as intense as that. Glad yuo enjoyed the scene with Salissa as well. She is a Dark Seducer and enjoys manipulating things.
I got some hopefully cool ideas for this story and the whole plot is planned out, although each chapter is a skeleton outline I flesh out when I write. But it helps guide things having it all planned out. I also got one epic role planned for Cliff as well
It was a great chapter and the illustrations are wonderful as always Jon, it's a delight to follow your story!
If writing a book I would not take so many short cuts. There would be trust issues, doubt, more time spent thinking about what to say, other ways to get information. But when doing image-story posts with limited time and space you often need to take short-cuts to get information to the reader that you might normally withhold and slowly let it out as the story goes in a more natural and believable way.
Hence why Mralki can sense evil and Wulver has his eye. Besides part of their lore it also provides a way to determine trust a bit more easily and in a less time consuming manner of a regular book.
The cult is to bring power to Molag. They thought that meant in prestige, worshippers, more souls, etc. They hadn't realized it also meant a more literal method of getting power. The big question, however, is what is Salissa doing with that power? Is she using it for herself or does she have some other plan for it?
Looks like not only Dannee has been hitting dead ends in her hunting of a cult, but Wulver and Thrynn. Although in Thrynn and Wulver case their road has lead them to Roriksted which welcomed them with town folks acting strangely. Lemkill was nasty piece of work for all his life, so no wonder he acts as speaker of these converted people. However it is ironic that due to Wulver appearance they mistook him for higher ranking cult members while mysterious Aldain was away. At least now Wulver and Thrynn know where he can be… unless it is trap set up by Salissa.
And speaking of Salissa, she does have her hands full with both her plan about Dannee and her current affairs with the cult. Her companion looked very impressive while she send to dedicate all her attention to watching Dannee’s adventures in Inferno realm.
Mralki conversation with Wulver was very interesting and it is great to see the references to Grim and Erik story when Mralki mentioned them along with telling about his special ability to sense dark forces and his amulet. So Roriksted is really divided, good thing that Mralki and Rorik were not attacked by these people who behave like addicts after the ritual. It got even Jouanne who is a mage, sop this is serious. Looks like Mralki resilience saved him from Aldain’s ‘charms and now Mralki can think clearly and warn Black Wolf Company abut this threat.
Wulver using his eye power to see the truth was very cool! Good thing that due to Arkay’s protection Molag Bal can no longer spot Wulver right way whenever he uses his powers. Looks like Lemkill and others are used as some kind of energy source, either for Salissa or for something else and I wonder what this can mean.
Vex and Brynjolf conversation made it clear that Vex will look for Wulver and it was cool to see her and Brynjolf opinions about Wulver’s adventures.
And it was great to see Sayid telling to find Grim and Erik! I missed them and it would be so awesome to see them again!
Thank you very much for sharing your awesome work! I will look forward to see the continuation!
Lemkil seemed like the obvious choice. About half of the village converted. Hopefully the BWC can find a way to help them. It is possible Salissa focused on this town for a reason. Either way I suspect she is aware of Wulver and Thrynn's activities in trying to track down her cult base.
I think Jouane might shake of the effects soon. He is a mage and strong willed. And he didn't want to join in the first place. He wasn't charmed (that tends to damage the mind) as the joining is something a bit different. But he is already fighting it. As the effects weaken somewhat he might be able to break the spell. If he does he could provide valuable information on what happened during the joining. Even if Wulver is not there he could share it with the BWC or Grim and Erik when they arrive.
I also miss Grim and Erik but I am happy they have their own life going on these days as I sure put them through Oblivion and back in their adventures. I had to do some testing images of Grim and Erik in Rorikstead so here are two below for you to enjoy.