Among the Carnival Goddess Sanjian and a group of lively Blood Rose Madams, there is also an old linen-robed ascetic.
When the old man lifted his hood and bowed to the lofty lord, a memory of an old adventure emerged.
"Ah, long time no see, Elendur." The Lord Lord spoke first.
"I salute you, Lord Baron." The old ascetic replied respectfully.
As the demon of dreams and nightmares, Varmina is recognized as one of the most evil demons. The demons known as "Omen" are her familiars and seem to only come from her realm of annihilation. In Tamriel Valmina is known as the "Weaver of Costumes", "The Giver", etc., with no less than a dozen titles.
Her realm of annihilation is called the Nightmare Swamp, the land of nightmares. The changing environment at any time is frightening. Although there are countless paths, you can never get out. Lightning flashes across the night sky every moment, causing great panic. Whenever night falls, she will sneak into the dreamland to collect mortal thoughts, leaving only fear and despair. This experience is called a nightmare. It is said that through some special magic, people can even enter the Nightmare Swamp while awake.
The Skull of Corruption is a magic weapon staff of Valmina, commonly known as the "Skull of Corruption". It can absorb other people's dreams and create shadows of enemies to aid in combat.
In the old adventure, the lord once completed the mission of a walking nightmare (Waking Nightmare).
It is said that during the adventure of the last dragonborn traveling in the sky, he found that the people of Morningstar City were all depressed. After asking, he found out that the locals could not sleep well. A priest named Erandur led Wu Chen came to the Nightcaller Temple to help the people of Morning Star get rid of the nightmare. It turns out that there is a demonic staff in the Night Calling Temple that constantly absorbs the dreams of people around it and rots the skulls. In the end, the last dragonborn eliminated the threat of the staff by drinking a dream potion and traveling back in time. When Elendur planned to destroy the Corrupted Skull, the voice of the demon Valmina appeared in Wu Chen's mind, tempting the last dragonborn to kill Elendur to obtain this artifact. But it was obvious that the Lord chose to destroy the staff and let the priest Ilandur go.
Elendur's original name was Casimir. He was brought back to the Night Calling Temple by the priests of Valmina since he was a child to be trained as a believer. The life of the believers was very dull and depressing. They were not allowed to contact the outside world, and even their parents were rarely seen. Above.
Later, the Night Calling Temple was not maintained for decades, causing the demonic artifact Skull of Corruption to gradually affect the residents of Morningstar City. Valmina believers also used this demonic artifact to obtain the power of mortals' dreams. As a sacrifice to Valmina, there must have been some bloody and cruel deeds, and Elendur had frankly admitted that he had killed more people than he cared to admit.
Later, the temple was invaded by a group of orc bandits. Although Varmina is a demon god, most of her divine power is used to confuse people and invade dreams. Most of the believers in the Night Calling Temple have inherited this characteristic. In addition, this group of orcs suddenly launched an attack on the temple, and the believers were unable to resist it for a while. Live, and hurriedly decided to let Elendur release the mist. But at the critical moment, he did not choose to die with the orc bandits like the two temple high priests Thorek and Veren Dureri. After releasing the mist, he was unwilling to fall into a deep sleep and become a madman. So he escaped from the temple first. After escaping to a safe place, he realized that he was alone. His parents have been dead for many years, and he is homeless and wandering aimlessly in the sky.
It was not until a few years later that a priest of the loving mother goddess Mara in Mosar took him in and taught him the ways of Mara. From then on, Elendur's world took a turn. Out of hatred for his own cowardice, cowardice, and incompetence, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the way of Mara.
Ilandur often felt guilty for his behavior of escaping from the temple and abandoning his best friends. Ilandur, who tempered himself with a heart of atonement, chose to become an ascetic.
Decades later, the out-of-control demon power in the Night Calling Temple has spread to the Morning Star City under the mountain. Ilandur hurriedly came after learning the news. Although he has the ability to purify rotten skulls, there are still a large number of sleeping and unconscious orc bandits and fanatical believers of Valmina in the temple, which means that he still needs the help of a powerful warrior because he is too old. Then Wu Chen, the last dragonborn, appeared on stage to help him solve Chenxing's nightmare.
What moved Wu Chen the most was that after destroying the rotten skull, the two returned to Morning Star together. Seeing that the residents in the city had changed from the previously confused and haggard people who were tortured by nightmares, Yilandur said happily to Wu Chen: I can sleep. It's wonderful to be able to sleep soundly, don't you think?
Elendur has neither superhuman fighting strength nor powerful magic, but only a heart of justice and repentance.
But this point alone is enough to make the lord admire him.
"Didn't we destroy the rotten skull?" The Lord Lord had an ominous premonition.
"Yes, Lord Baron. Use the compassionate power of the loving mother goddess." Yilandur looked at Wu Chen: "However, not long ago, you personally restored it."
"When did it happen?" The Lord Lord was also stunned. Everyone knows that the lord will recognize anyone who has done it.
"On your overseas adventure to Solseheim." Ilandur's eyes were firm.
"Wait a minute," the Lord suddenly realized, "Is this the 'Nightmare of the Dead Girl'?"
"When you used your 'Crimson Dragon Break' to erase the nightmare of the Dead Girl from the living world. The 'Dead Girl' and her 'Dead Dream' eventually arrived in Valmina's Nightmare Swamp. The Nightmare Queen A new demonic staff - the Death Skull was created using the 'Death Girl's Skull'. It is far more powerful than the rotten skull we destroyed." Ilandur said in the calm tone of an ascetic: "The Divine Realm of the Loving Mother Goddess It is being corroded by the 'Death Dream'. Not long ago, the Mother Goddess sent an oracle, saying that only you can dispel Varmina and her 'Death Dream'."
"Alicia?" The lord asked the housekeeper: "Have you heard the Oracle of Mara?"
"No, my master." As the incarnation of the loving mother goddess, the true love goddess Alicia did not feel anything strange about the mother goddess Mara.
"That's because you and the master have been in the plane of annihilation." Hermoeus Mora, the goddess of knowledge, thought of a possibility: "Or it may be the deliberate concealment of the 'Death Dream'."
"Where is the 'Dream of Death'?" The Lord made a quick decision.
"Labrincian." The answer given by Yilandur was beyond everyone's expectations. It's not the Mara Temple in Rift City, nor the Mara Shrine on the left side of the Night Call Temple hall, nor is it a collapsed wild altar. But Labrinthian, who has nothing to do with the loving Mother Goddess.
However, when the ascetic monk said this name, everyone's expressions changed drastically.
Labrinthian, formerly known as Blomjona during the Mythological Era, means "Northern Kingdom" in dragon language, and is also the capital of the Dragon Cult.
