"Master, don't panic, this is your steam guard." The housekeeper hurriedly stopped in front of Wu Chen to prevent accidental injury.
It is rare for a huge mechanical puppet dragon to land lightly. Wu Chen seemed to feel an imperceptible trace of void energy.
"Ashtaret salutes you, my lord." The female knight on the dragon's back saluted gracefully.
"Are you a Dwemer?" Wu Chen's eyes lit up and he was shocked by the female knight on the dragon's back.
"The last Dwemer magic puppet master in Skyrim." The housekeeper introduced Wu Chen with a smile: "She calls herself Deep Elf."
Ashtaret was born into the respected Clan Namtara in the city-state of Arkngthamz at the beginning of the First Era. Since childhood, he has enjoyed the carefree life of the Dwemer nobles. However, all the good things were reduced to ashes after Blackfall discovered the precious Aetherium crystal and eventually triggered a war.
Itherium is an extremely rare luminescent blue crystal found deep underground. This crystal has a strong magical field, but is completely ineffective alchemically, and cannot be enchanted, smelted, stamped, bound, or broken. Ithrium was first discovered by the Dwemer in the First Age under the deepest mines, and successfully found a way to use it. It is said that the Dwemer dwarves can embed Atherium crystals in gold and metal to create Atherium artifacts. It can also be embedded in other materials and used to make crowns, shields, staffs, etc. These artifacts will possess unique and powerful magical powers, such as turning enemies invisible, summoning Dwemer machines, or harnessing the power of Standing Stones. Because of its powerful abilities, it is called the "Divine Light Crystal" by the Dwemer dwarves.
Around the 22nd year of the First Era (1E221), the Dwemer discovered a considerable source of divine light crystals. The veins were mainly located in the Raldbthar region and spread all the way to Blackfall. Four Dwemer city-states, led by Akansamz, formed an alliance to oversee mining, processing, and research. In order to smelt crystal under precisely controlled conditions, the Dwemer built a divine crystal forge deep beneath Bthalft in the Rift. This forge uses lava to create Dwemer artifacts of immense power and imbued with powerful magic. Later, the Dwemer Alliance discovered the more powerful Dark Heart and built various instruments to study and control its power. They also built the Library of Arkthzand to share this knowledge. The result is a celestial orb powered by the Heart of Darkness, which uses the crystal energy, kinetic energy, and rhythmic power emanating from the Divine Light Crystal to map the void. Eventually, internal disputes arose over the Light Crystal and the Crystal Forge, and the Dwemer City-State Alliance collapsed, with the four cities and their rivals fiercely vying for control of the forge. This conflict, which lasted for decades, became known as the "Aetherium Wars."
Many Namtala clans went to fight, only to be killed by their own countrymen. Ashtaret's parents died in the war, as did most of her friends and family. When her parents died in battle and the Namtala clan castle was burned down, she swore to her ancestors that she would honor the Namtala clan.
As the Itherium War drew to a close and Arkansamz lay in ruins, Ashtaret gathered what little wealth his family had left and delved deeper into the science of magic. From apprentice to master, Ashtaret built the powerful Dwemer Animunculi to help her rebuild and revitalize her city after the devastation of the War on Athelium. As the centuries passed, the Dwemer Empire once again flourished, in no small part due to Ashtaret's patented designs for the Dwemer Animunculus. As a master of magic, Ashtaret finally restored the honor and respect that the Namtara clan had had since ancient times. Yet she remains the only surviving descendant of her clan. As the city-state of Akansamz returned to its former glory, she decided it was time to settle down and start a family of her own, continuing the Namtara clan's lineage.
Unfortunately this dream never came true.
In the 700th year of the First Era (1E700), due to the death of the sun, the Ash Woe Blight broke out in the Dwemer Empire. The upstart Alliance of the Kingdom of Resadyn declares war on their dwarf neighbors. Ashtaret joined the Defense Legion as a master of magical machinery, responsible for the manufacture and repair of mechanical golems and Vamidium (Dwemer: 'mount'). Although he was far away from the massacre, one day, Ashtaret, who was trying to create the Brass Dragon Golem, was dragged into the void by a mysterious force and disappeared.
In the endless void, four thousand years passed by in the blink of an eye. When Ashtaret and her Valmidyum mount, the Brass Golem Dragon, woke up from their long dream, they were once again in Arkentamuz. She discovered that this was no longer the prosperous and wealthy Dwemer city-state she remembered. Deep underground surrounded by the ancient snow elf mutant Falmer, Ashtaret relied on the war puppets left in the ruins to fight his way out of the long-dead city and embarked on a completely different world above the ground. ——Skyrim Province. Looking at the distant lights and the unfamiliar city, she found herself alone again. After 4,000 years of emptiness, the extremely strong Ashtaret revived from a brief period of despair and confusion, turned into a sky traveler, and wandered in the northern land of Tamriel. Hope to open up a new life for her in a strange new world.
Ashtaret floated alone in the void for 4,000 years, successfully avoiding the annihilation of the Dwemer dwarves.
It's obviously not just luck.
A memory copy related to it jumped out of my mind. Wu Chen softly recited Mrs. Beilein's sigh: "To taste darkness is to taste infinity. This world suffers from a never-ending painful decline, born of a meaningless hope. But you know better. You You can hear it, can't you? The beating of the heart. They call it the void." "
"Sir, as you said. What dragged me into the void was the energy from the 'Heart of Darkness'." Ashtaret made no secret.
The Heart of Darkness, also known as the Frightful Heart. Its physical form is a dark sphere surrounded by a radiating aquamarine halo. It is a shard of the primordial void, trapped in Nirn (the Mortal Realm) and warping existence around it. According to the ancient Khajiit, a humanoid feline orc, Namira became a vague imitation of Lorkhan's heart, and the Reach believed that ever since Lork sacrificed himself to create everything, there was a mass left in his heart. dark. Regardless, the Heart of Lorkhan created what is now Red Mountain, and the Heart of Darkness lies deep within the Reach.
The Heart of Darkness provides a path into the Void, and by devouring souls, its power is significantly increased. Those connected to the heart describe hearing intrusive whispers and feeling its pulse, which beats more violently the stronger the heart. Furthermore, one can draw on its power at the risk of being devoured. But those trapped by the Heart of Darkness will twist their physical form into horrific, dark corrosive forms known as void stuff.
Of course, to this day, the Heart of Darkness has been completely sealed. The past experience of the Heart of Darkness changing owners several times also shows that Ashtaret only absorbed the energy of the Heart of Darkness and did not own it. Although it was not twisted into a dark corrosive body by the energy of the Heart of Darkness. But it also caused significant changes in Ashtaret's appearance. They are far different from the Dwemer dwarves they once were.
"So, this is why you are more accustomed to calling yourself a deep elf." Once upon a time, the deep elf was also one of the names of the Dwemer. It's just that in today's sky, many people have forgotten that dwarves are also elves. Nor would they regard deep elves as dwarves.
"That's right, my lord." Ashtaret acknowledged with a nod.
