Miraak, the first dragonborn, meaning "faithful (mir) guide (aak)", was a dragon priest in the mythical era. It is said that he was also the first dragonborn in history, but he betrayed his The Dragon Lord, who devoured the dragon's soul to learn the dragon's roar, also betrayed the Dragonborn's mission to defeat Alduin. He fled to Solseheim and became the best agent in the plane of Mundas for Hermaeus Mora, the demon king of knowledge in the Annihilation Realm. The latter gave him the ability to twist the will of others with dragon roar (i.e. Dragon Roar: Will Surrender). In addition, Mora also taught Miraak the power to make dragons surrender, and used this knowledge and innate ability granted by the demon to devour dragon souls. It is said that he killed many dragons.
As those popular poems say. Only a brave man with the "Dragon Voice" can kill the dragon. These ancient dragons whose dragon souls were swallowed by the first-generation dragonborn Miraak can never be resurrected.
"I want to buy all the complete dragon bones." The Lord explained his intention.
"A completed keel almost takes a long ship to hold." Ressard began to bargain carefully: "You know, sir. A long ship can hold two hundred barrels of Alto Wine and Five hundred bottles of Cyrodilic Brandy.”
"Then the keel will be purchased for the total price of two hundred barrels of Alto wine and five hundred bottles of Cerrodirich brandy." The lord can naturally understand.
"As you wish, my lord." Rhysad was satisfied.
An oak barrel of Alto wine costs 600 gold coins. Cerrodirich is a brandy imported from the empire. A bottle is worth 150 gold coins, making it the most expensive wine in Skyrim. Adding the two items together is Rezad's asking price: 195,000 gold coins.
Purchasing a complete dragon bone for less than 200,000 yuan was extremely cheap for Wu Chen, who held a mountain of gold.
Similarly, only high prices can make Khajiit merchants take risks. Braving the many dangers of crossing the Annihilation Storm, traveling thousands of miles and taking desperate risks.
"Sir, you must know that as long as you carry a dragon bone, you can resist the annihilation that tears the sky apart and is everywhere." Resad took out the dragon bone pendant that he wore close to his body: "But to make everyone on the carriage safe and sound, just It needs a keel the size of a dragon's tooth. And if you want to protect a longship, it's best to have a complete dragon skeleton. So, are you going to build an 'expedition fleet'?"
"Resad, the "Platinum Agreement" is an established fact, and the great war has ended long ago. As a small lord of Ximu under the leadership of Xueman, I have no intention and no ability to provoke the conflict with the 'Third Ancestral Continent' Thalmo (Thalmor) regime's war. Therefore, there will be no expedition fleet." Of course Wu Chen understood what he meant.
Thalmor is the current regime known as the "Third Ancestral Continent", a coalition government formed by Valen Forest, Summerset Island and the vassal province of Elsweyr. But in terms of blood, the "Thalmer" are not pure high elves. Their origin is generally believed to be the provisional government established by the high elves (Aldmer) and wood elves (Bosmer) during the Second Ancestor China period. They rose up after a series of cataclysms and claimed Summerset as belonging to the Thalmer. In the Fourth Age, they changed the name of Summerset to Alinor.
As Delphine, the proprietress of the Sleeping Giant Inn, said, the members of Thalmor advocate "elven supremacy." They want to destroy the Empire and completely destroy the faith of Talos, the Ninth Holy Spirit, because the Talos faith conflicts with the Thalmor faith. Thalmor successfully seized power on Summerset Island by claiming to have closed the Gate of Annihilation. In fact, even in the distant Skyrim Province, all humans know that the person who saved the entire continent of Tamriel and even the entire planet Nirn was actually Martin Septim, the last emperor of the Tamriel Empire. Even in the Xiamu Island, fighting to the end with the demon warriors who rushed out of the Gate of Annihilation, it was the second ancestor China that had been destroyed that could not prevent the crystal tower from collapsing.
The Thalmor just took advantage of the chaos to rise up and despicably stole the last remaining fruits of victory.
As a hybrid branch of the High Elves of the Aldmeri, the Thalmor wanted to unify the provinces of Tamriel and implement an elven dictatorship. To put it simply, it is to return the human empire of Tamriel to the slave queen A who led the slave uprising against the Ayleid elves in the First Age, liberated the human slaves in Cyrodiil and established the First Cyrodiil Empire. The Pre-Lecian Era (Merethic Era). Before the Annihilation Crisis, some of the high elf organizations who joined the Thalmor were just theoreticalists who were marginalized by society at the time, and most of them were even openly ridiculed by public opinion. Towards the end of the Third Age, the Thalmor began to grow in power in Summerset and openly opposed trade with the Empire. When the Gate of Annihilation opened, the rampant demonic creatures plunged Summerset Island into a state of anarchy. Thousands of refugees were massacred. Some elves who wanted to escape by sea were swept into the sea by the sea storm summoned by the demons, and their bodies were left behind. Others who fled at docks and ports were discouraged by the storm and felt despairing. This is known as the "Annihilation Crisis Period." On the chaotic Summerset Island, only the legendary Crystal Tower still stands, fighting against the demon army. This is also the last hope of the high elves. Surrounding the crystal tower, the high elf mages and archers killed countless annihilated creatures. They themselves were also bleeding and piled up like mountains. The prosperous Summerset Island turned into a sea of blood and a hell on earth. However, the bloody battle of the high spirits still ended in failure, and the crystal tower was torn into pieces by the demon machines.
Seeing that the defeat is certain. Just then, a miracle happened. Martin Septim, the last dragon-blooded emperor who didn't even have time to be crowned and ascended the throne, shattered the amulet of kings, and all the demons were instantly reduced to nothing.
Taking advantage of the chaos to seize the power vacuum, Thalmor, who had made no achievements in fighting the demons, rose to power amidst a chorus of doubts and abuse. The first thing they do when they take office is to eliminate the remnants of the party and eradicate dissidents. All open doubters and covert opponents were discredited by Thalmo one after another and were brutally exiled. Most of them were brutally killed by assassins sent by Thalmor during their exile.
The most typical example is Rynandor the Bold, the great prophet mage of Summerset Island. Renandor saved the lives of countless high elves during the Annihilation Crisis. His heroic deeds were recorded in history. He was also one of the few survivors after the fall of the Crystal Tower. But after the crisis ended, he was slandered, slandered, and exiled for openly questioning Thalmer. And was brutally killed by Thalmor assassins on the way to escape.
It is said that the spread of Talos, the ninth holy spirit, in Valen Forest hurt Thalmer's self-esteem from the high elf bloodline, so Thalmer wanted to completely eliminate the empire's Talos belief.
In the "Platinum Agreement", the empire gave Thalmer the right to legally eliminate the belief in Talos, the ninth holy spirit, within the empire and publicly execute believers. However, the fact is that these public trials and massacres did not stop the people of the Empire from believing in the Ninth Holy Spirit. Many Imperials either joined the resistance against the Thalmor or secretly believed in Talos.
Moreover, the "Platinum Agreement" directly led to the Skyrim Civil War.
In fact, to the discerning eye. The reason why Thalmor insisted on signing the "Platinum Agreement" was to attack and divide the human empire from the perspective of belief. Start a civil war in Skyrim, weaken the Empire, and create a favorable situation for the next world war.
It is even rumored that Ulfric Stormcloak, a general of the Imperial Nord Legion who was captured by the Thalmor and later released unharmed, had an impure reason for initiating the Skyrim Civil War.
Conspiracy theorists claim that Ulfric Stormcloak made a secret deal with the Thalmor while in captivity. He became a lackey of the Thalmor people, and from then on he only served the Third Ancestor Continent. Instead of serving the Empire and being loyal to the Skyrim Nords as he swore to do.
Think about it this way. As Lord Ximu who owns a mountain of gray stone and gold. The last dragonborn of the Nords did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy keel bones that can resist annihilation. Isn't it to build an invincible fleet for the expedition to Summerset Island?
Of course Khajiit merchant Rhysad would have this question.
