Chapter 468: The Truth Behind Everything (1/2)
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(Part 1)
”My nairl so petite and childish declaring with a voice of a kid that she is the Daedric Prince of deceit, conspiracy, secret plots of murder, assassination, treason, and unlawful overthrow of authority Despite the frightening atmosphere she had, Jon found her declaration adorable
”You are not Boethiah” He said
The girl tensed up and looked at hie of tears
”N- No! I am Boethiah” She said
”You are not” He replied
”I around hard
”H a closer look
”I… I… sob sob … but that's
How the situation reached this point was inco it but Jon re girl
The people around started looking at hi eyes but he didn't even bother
”Brat! Those puppy eyes will never ever work onpride in his immunity to the puppy eyes heresy
”What… dairl dropped her act
Jon didn't retreat his widening smile for he had the cat faith that protected hi that a child would use such a technique to trick adults without thele time someone uses the puppy eyes, it turns out to be a lie” Mirren hi for it
”That's why you should drink in Puppy Tears ”
Jon held up his two favorite loith s should be”
[A/n: I a appearance gave birth to a new faith in this desolate part of the world but that's a story we are avoiding
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The young girl started clapping while co! I've seen you give those lessonsit in reality is not like the visions I now understand” She said
”Haha! Good kid” Jon holeheartedly pleased but he noticed Isha's glare towards hi the subject
”Okey, ehem… So, brat Who are you?”
She smiled calmly and introduced herself
”I aain!” Isha was not taking this ansell
”Wait!” Miranda seemed to have understood it ”You are the Prophetess of Boethiah, right?”
”Yes” the girl nodded
”And you were nairl said with a cheeky smile
”See?” Miranda looked at Jon and the others
””””””
A strange silence took over for a while
”””Ahaaa!”””
And they all understood it a bit later
”Stinking brat, you were playing a trick on me all that tiirl acted all cheeky and cute
”More importantly, are you really the one Isha killed?” Mirren focused on the subject
The girl stopped her foolish act and nodded with a natural face She then showed a part of her abdoo That wo a spear entered our cave in a frenzy and started killing By Boethiah, I have never seen such a beautiful sight in my life!” She said the last part with the temperae
”And how in the blazes did you come back?” Isha asked
”Lord Boethiah sentas they claim their souls The situation wasn't easy, you know, since everyone I kneas killed but it was all worth it when Iat Jon
”A glimpse… at me?” Jon asked
”Yes You see… death is not an end but rather an elevating experience You go to places and see things not bound by physical realms or world laws Soswhen their souls kno corrupt they are On the other hand, Children like et a whole different experience
We drift in the river of souls entwined with the river tis and relive moments, sometimes we take different shapes and experience other lives All this and that was part of the experience of death… well, until Lord Boethiah claimed my soul and returned me back
I may look like ten years old, I may have been revived only a few hours after my death but those few hours were years in different realities I think someone here can relate to what I just said”
Her words were not that of a ten years old child as she revealed wisdos untold and visions beyond the world She is ten years of age but she can't count her real age if she included the time after her death and revival as it was an out of ti he can relate to her experience but he kept a tight s she said were about losing the ”I” and experiencing the ”All” Beco one's mind into the consciousness of the Aka, the Time A selflessness of existence to surf within the dream
The heavy mood caused by her words was shaken once Jon decided it was over
”So that's it Little Boethiah over here is soht? You came back from the unknown or whatever that mumbo jumbo was” Jon said
”Call it whatever you like” She said
”So, I hope you forgive Isha for killing you once…”
”No!” The girl stopped Jon, ”I must thank her”
”Okay, that's not how she feels about killing a child” Jon sighed, ”Anyere you named Boethiah?”
”When I was a newborn, my parents were the heads of the cult and as their child, I was offered to Boethiah and blessed at infancy My parents and our local cult prayed for Boethiah through iveprayed to instead By time, I only responded to the name Boethiah as my own and so, I became Boethiah”
Jon didn't kno to respond to that He only s passed sht” Aranea said as she approached Boethiah
”Aranea, long tih!” Aranea rolled her eyes as Boethiah copied Jon's attitude fro
”Lady Azura's Cha on your help, Priestess Boethiah I hope you act for the best of our cause” Aranea said
”Azura's Labourer is Boethiah's Cha here” Boethiah said
”Then please… by allof a Cha of a Labourer Please address the Chaly”
”Humph! His vice is not fully redeemed so until then, he is our Labourer”
”I see… wait! If I remember correctly, Azura's Star was taken back by Azura Shouldn't the holder of the Star be the Cha… he holds the [Ebony Mail] so he is Boethiah's Chaer Azura's Cha!”
And the two Priestess started fighting over Jon
Daedra Cults may ally with one another but they are still different cults in the end of the day Azura's cult is ion as their practices don't go further than praying to thelike peacocks On the other hand, Boethiah's cult is a bunch of assassins, mercenaries, politicians and all manner of people who take conspiracies and lies as means to ends
The interests of the two cults may not cross one another but they still look down on anyone other than theet down to business, shall we?” Jon spoke, ”What is the situation?”
Boethiah and Aranea ceased their clash as Jon spoke It was Boethiah's turn to clarify things
”Undead, Worm Cult, Soul Snare… What exactly do you want to know?” She said
Jon looked at Isha and nodded to her, she was in a badthat her Labour was because she killed a girl who can be revived but she let out a long sigh The past is the past now, nothing can be done about it
She looked at Boethiah and found it hard to speak to her but she spoke anyway
”Tell me about Zain” She said
Boethiahface and pointed Isha to the fire brazier she was dancing around just now
”It is a depressing story but you already know that” She said and threw so it burn more
”I have been on Divination for soot an identity on the unknown Labourer, I ed to understand a lot Let me show you” Boethiah said and the fire started to dance
(Part 2)
Zain hated Lycanthropy ht met their demise to the pointy end of his spear
His faenerations of Battlelords guaranteeing him the position of the next War Chief of the Citadel of Ebonarm, but some were envious
Those envious peers of his decided to lure hi hierous hunt alone Once he reached her, he found her captured in the middle of an old ruins
There, he was bound and cursed by what he hates the most, Lycanthropy
Here is where the story they knew ends and a different story begins
Thethat draws the thing one hates the most from the deepest parts of the Void, the Doed to the cursedthem inseparable
That day Zain turned into a olf, went on a rae and killed the ones who kidnapped Isha and cursed him
But one survived
That was the Mastermind behind Zain's Curse Her name is Dalilah
Dalilah is a Battlelord from the Citadel known to be a very beautiful wo
She was a Sleeper Woranizations frorow in ranks and provide intel and recruits to the Worm Cult
This Dalilah was there when Jon entered the Tournament he sponsored to become the Grand Champion of the Imperial Arena After she saw Jon there, she contacted Grand Champion Darius (by that time) and offered him a reward for the body of Jon Dare
The Worm Cult was into such business to provide their Undead horde with the best corpses they can cohters and has dealt with the cult for years without knowing
Back to Zain's story When Dalilah cursed Zain, she was at a safe distance fro the whole process The i is that her actions had a reason and a purpose
The reason why Zain was cursed was because of his great hatred towards Werewolves as he became one of them with the power of the Void His type of transforht and his poere grienerate like a troll and even if his heart, spine, brain or anything was daain
Zain are of that as he tried to take his own life away from his wife and sister but to no avail
At those tirow in both power and desperation She wanted to give him even more power but also erase every shred of huoal
She started to lure hients to direct him as healers and mystics until he was led to the Daedric Prince of Wishes, Clavicus Vile
A prior arrangement was sealed with Clavicus Vile so when he heard Zain's wish, he offered hi
'What if you become a Vampire? You can't be a olf if you are a Vaested
It was coe for a Battlelord such as Zain and he even tried it but no Vah to transform him The only solution was a flask of blood retrieved from an Ancient Vampire from Skyrim, the Blood of the Ancient Its cost was seven tasks Zain must do for Clavicus Vile called the Labours
Zain accepted, he took the Ancient Vampire's blood and drank from it
Did it work?
No, it killed Zain
He was escorted back to his house dying and pale to the point of blue This was the memory that Isha remembered vividly The day her brother died
And it was as she believed The real Zain died that day
What she doesn't re, Barbas, that hypnotized her and messed with her memories
She then went on the quest that led her to Labour for two years, retrieved the Spear of Bitter Mercy and killed the Priestess of Boethiah, Boethiah
At that time, Dalilah has recovered Zain… or rather what is left of him, the body affected by both Lycanthropy and Vaed to create a freak out of Zain's body that carried a Living Soul of a Werebeast and the Death Aptitude of a Va with horrific powers, invulnerability, focus and intelligence
That body's purpose was to be a vessel for Mannirave so powerful and strong that nocan kill it
But as expected of Clavicus Vile,written in secret ink