Entry I | Video

[andhishat]

[The screen is black for a long moment, though the speakers seem to be working, passing along the soothing and lovely sound of someone banging their finger against a spot too near the microphone. Finally, though, the camera blooms to life, and give those watching a great look at the massive brown eye being shoved right up against the camera. A young woman’s voice is again too close to the mic]

Honestly, whoever enchanted this thing is a master artist. I can’t even detect a hint of magic around it, and yet it seems to be working just fine. I’m not sure why they made it look like a flat brick and not a proper crystal ball or mirror is beyond me.

[She sighs, pulling back slightly to reveal a young woman with slightly pointed ears and exotic features who looks anywhere between 15 and 23]

Oh wait, right, that would require someone to become a powerful archmage without going so utterly mad that they start running around creating whatever pops into their heads. [She holds it back further and shakes her head.] At least it isn’t an owlbear.

So, am I to take it there are those out there who can hear me?

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[andhishat]

I had an...incident with a artifact designed to travel between dimensions, and I had to spend more time than I wanted to in the Abyss. If I hadn't started to get used to this I might have leveled the building I arrived in the moment I appeared here.

No, can't say I have, though the world is a big place. Toril is the name of my entire planet.

[septim]

The Abyss? Is that an afterlife?

It's alright. [ No rancor or deprecation, purely stated as a fact. ] I know better than to get my hopes up by now. Nirn is mine.

[andhishat]

One of them. Not the one you want. [Bad memories]

No one else is here from there I gather?

[septim]

With a name like 'The Abyss' I wasn't expecting Aetherius.

Once there was someone. But I was the first from my world to arrive here, and it's likely I'll be the last too.

[andhishat]

That's the happier sort priests always promise to get coin I take it?

I'm sorry. I'm alone myself, unless summoned monsters count, and they are not good conversationalists.

[septim]

[ A small laugh. ] Yes, it's the sort of afterlife I promised my congregation. If they tried to become good people, that is.

No, they are not. I'm a Conjurer and...well, the last time I summoned something here, it didn't do me any favors.

[andhishat]

[Oh. Awkward.] I suppose there's really nothing wrong with trying to be a better person, as long as you don't get preachy.

What went wrong, if you don't mind my asking? I'd rather avoid as much unpleasantness as I can myself.

[septim]

[ Martin knows the source of that awkwardness. ] I never cared for proselytizing. Ilav Dralgoner, my Primate, took care of that at our chapel.

With the summoning itself? Nothing. But Dremora are rather...demon-like. Most—if not all—of the mages here weren't pleased. Let's just say I won't be attending the group meetings anymore.

[andhishat]

Then you and I should get along just fine good sir.

I see, a sensitive lot here I take it? I shall have to refrain from summoning any Balors then.

[Ahaha...she is joking right?]

[septim]

[ A smile. ] Good. I could use a new friend.

They come from a world where magic is shunned and mages are oppressed. There are no grey areas, only evil magic and power-hungry mages. Their mages are locked up in towers, away from the general populace.

So yes, please don't conjure anything besides woodland animals. The cute kind, if possible. I don't know if they would consider wolves too shamanistic.

[andhishat]

Well, I believe we have a mutually agreeable arrangement.

[Her face darkens at his description] I've met their kind before, in a kingdom I just recently spent a great deal of time with. Though there they made the same claims, but in reality they were more worried about mages being bad for business than forces of evil. If you did not pay them the proper coin for a license, they would drag you away for the smallest cantrip and lock you in a hellish asylum until you went mad.

[Including her sister]

I'll try to remember to restrain myself, though if they wish to complain about me, there is a rather long line.

[septim]

That sounds like a terrible combination of Thedas' oppression of mages and Cyrodiil's unabashed love for profits.

My warning is only in case you'd like to avoid animosity between the other mages here. You're always free not to care.

[andhishat]

If those things are truly terrible, then I assure you, it is like them.

I do appreciate the advice, I just do not myself respond well to threats, and can't guarantee I'll put up with the judgement of others..

[septim]

I'm sorry you had to live in a place like that.

In my opinion, no one should. I'm just...used to being threatened, you could say. Their scorn saddens me, but I won't lose sleep over it.

[andhishat]

Only for a brief time, most of my world embraces magic. Even there things have started to change, after they bit off more than they could chew.

I'm rather used to it myself. It seems power one doesn't understand brings out the worst in others.