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== ''' ''Foreword'' ''' ==
This is the tale of Gaius Perelius, a warrior in his early days, and Imperial Scribe in his later. The story, however, begins with the founding of The Order of the Freelance Blades (ironically most members did not fight in the melee form of combat), an organization that got its name from the fact that they were, essentially a guild who could do anything from a Mages Guild type contract, to Fighters Guild type, to Dark Brotherhood, to Thieves Guild, they covered it all in one organization of freelance warriors, mages, thieves, alchemists, enchanters, craftsman, assassins, witch hunters, and even Knights at some times. They were employed countless times in the Fourth Era, and survived long after. But after the first two chapters, this tale will bring you to Gaius Perelius, a young upstart Imperial Battlemage serving in the Legion during the last 4 years of the Third Era. The end of the Oblivion Crisis, and the beginning of the Fourth Era is the setting for chapter three, and the tale continues from there.
:'''The Tale of Gaius Perelius'''
:'''Originally Penned in 4E 057 By Gaius Perelius'''
:'''Revised, Edited, and Rewritten By Nelandor Vorkhan in 4E 469'''
:'''Comission Historian and Imperial Scribe in the Court of the Mede Dynasty'''
== Chapter One: The Founding of the Order ==
In the year 3E 409, a man by the named of Olfand Tolgarsson, son of Tolgar Ermundsson, began serving in the Bruma City Guard, after three years of serving in Skyrim as part of the Legion there, and two more years in Morrowind as part of the East Empire Trading Company Garrison in Caldera. Born in 3E 389, Olfand was born in Whiterun unto a Nordic family of old. His father and mother were together in the Nord style, and Olfand's first sword was inscribed with old Nordic runes which read, "Ysgramor is always with the brave". He had had this sword from the yound age of eight, and still wielded it in the Imperial Legion and the East Empire Trading Company Legion Garrison.
But in 3E 433, an assassination took place there. Olfand was the only guard not aware of the fact that the increased salary he had gotten was actually thanks to a bribe on someone's part, though who unknown. When the Nord learned of this, he became so enraged at the inability of the Guard to protect Bruma's citizens. He researched, and soon discovered that every military force in Cyrodiil, even the Legion itself, had been a part of a vast cover-up or bribing. Appalled and angered, Olfand purchased the now ruined Mages Guild, whose survivor, a High Elf, had moved to Cheydinhal's Guildall, and sold it to Olfand. He then founded an organization known as the Order of the Freelance Blades. Immediately, Derilius Veronnicus, an old friend of Olfand's who he had met in Caldera, joined up, as well as Lenteroth the Conjurer, a Bosmer Mage, and Samuel Renoit, a Breton Assassin and Thief. These three represented the types of skills that would -- for the most part -- be seen in the Order for the next few years.
The end of the Oblivion Crisis saw three things happen to the Order: One, an influx of Legionaries leaving the army came to Bruma to set up shop as the The Imperial-Nordic Bruma Garrison Division, but also set up in Chorrol, Leyawiin, and Bravil, as the Imperial Highlands Chorrol Garrison Division, the Imperial-Nibenean Leyawiin Garrison Division, and the Imperial Defenders of the Impoverished People of Bravil Garrison Division -- the latter simply being reffered to as The Defenders -- respectively. Two, the Mages Guild began quick but temporary decline, and many members left the Guild, and joined the Order of the Freelance Blades. A similar occurrence within the Fighters Guild resulted in even more additions to the Order, and soon, the small Guildhall was not enough. A large house for sale in Chorrol near the other Guilds was bought, gutted and revamped into a new Guildhall for the Order. Half of the members of the Bruma Chapter moved to Chorrol.
The third, and final, happening was that as the Empire slowly disintegrated a few months following the end of the Crisis, and the Order came to power in Bruma and Chorrol, not only as the military, but as the leaders. In 4E 002, Olfand Tolgarsson moved south, making Chorrol the capital, and ruled from there. The Count and Countess still held political weight, but King Olfand far outweighed them in power. Peculiarly, a similar situation was allowed in Bruma a few months later, and King Derelius Veronnicus came to power; Lenteroth moved to Chorrol and became King there, while High King Olfand ascended to the throne. He began planning out a new capital just south of Chorrol, at the site of Weatherleah. The Jemane brothers oversaw the construction of the city. Olfand so much liked the name, that he decided to keep it.
A new golden age for the Order was at hand.
== Chapter Two: Geopolitical Acknowledgment, and the Bloody Civil War of 4E 012 ==
As unlikely and rediculous as the events that I have recorded may seem to one of my time, these words are true, and the fact that these truthful histories have not been preserved as common knowledge in this generation -- or the human one before, for that matter -- is an act of perversion which must quickly be corrected, and only I seem up to the task of doing so. And I am only to happy to oblidge with Fate so that you all may learn the truth of the history of the beginning of the Fourth Era in the Imperial land of Cyrodiil. But as for the matter at hand, we move to the next stage of power for this uprising power.
In 4E 004, the Order, now under the name of the Kingdom of the Adabl-a (god-stone in Ayleid, a refrence to their control of the Stone of St. Alessia), was for the first time recognized as a true, genuine, geopolitical power in a skirmish with the Cheydinhal Guard at the Temple of the Ancestor Moths, which resulted in a trading of maps. All of the land from Gnoll Mountain to the Skyrim border north, and to Lake Rumare to the South, and from Weatherleah to the border with hammerfell west, and to Lake Rumare east, and to the Skyrim border north belonged to the Kingdom of Adabala. All of the land from Cheydinhal to the border with Skyrim north, Morrowind East, and south, encompassing all of the land on the eastern side of Rumare and the Niben River. Other borders included Leyawiin and Bravil (known as the Nibenay Alliance, which had its capital in Leyawiin), the Imperial City contolling its main island and all of the islands on the Niben except for those in Topal Bay, and the Heartland Coalition, which included all of the land not controlled by any other (the cities, Skingrad, Ionith, and Anvil, the former of which became the capital).
This revitalization of the knowledge of geopolitical barriers caused the other kingdoms besides High King Olfand's to realize that the Highland Wars had come to an end, after only two years. No one could expand into Olfand's lands without making a new, powerful enemy (militarily and religiously, concerning the control of the Stone of St. Alessia, which had been awarded to the order at the end of the Third Era by the Bruma Chapel head, Cirroc. This revitalization of knowledge also caused something else: the burning desire control the land. And so it was that alliances began to form. The Kingdom of the Adabal-a, the Imperial-Cyrodilic Colonies (The Imperial City), and the Heartland Coalition were on one side, while the Nibenay Alliance and Cheydinhal on the other.
And at last in 4E 012, an inevitable and predictable Civil War broke out in Cyrodiil, and at first the winner seemed clear: already the Nibeneans had laid siege to Skingrad and Cheydinhal to Bruma. Samuel Renoit left and assassinated Count Indarys, however in 4E 013, which brought a quick end to Cheydinhal as a collective force, as his son was unsuited for military leadership. Skingrad, however, did fall, and Lenteroth left to go to war there along with Olfand, leaving Prince Regeant Samuel Renoit to rule in his stead.
This is the tale of Gaius Perelius, a warrior in his early days, and Imperial Scribe in his later. The story, however, begins with the founding of The Order of the Freelance Blades (ironically most members did not fight in the melee form of combat), an organization that got its name from the fact that they were, essentially a guild who could do anything from a Mages Guild type contract, to Fighters Guild type, to Dark Brotherhood, to Thieves Guild, they covered it all in one organization of freelance warriors, mages, thieves, alchemists, enchanters, craftsman, assassins, witch hunters, and even Knights at some times. They were employed countless times in the Fourth Era, and survived long after. But after the first two chapters, this tale will bring you to Gaius Perelius, a young upstart Imperial Battlemage serving in the Legion during the last 4 years of the Third Era. The end of the Oblivion Crisis, and the beginning of the Fourth Era is the setting for chapter three, and the tale continues from there.
:'''The Tale of Gaius Perelius'''
:'''Originally Penned in 4E 057 By Gaius Perelius'''
:'''Revised, Edited, and Rewritten By Nelandor Vorkhan in 4E 469'''
:'''Comission Historian and Imperial Scribe in the Court of the Mede Dynasty'''
== Chapter One: The Founding of the Order ==
In the year 3E 409, a man by the named of Olfand Tolgarsson, son of Tolgar Ermundsson, began serving in the Bruma City Guard, after three years of serving in Skyrim as part of the Legion there, and two more years in Morrowind as part of the East Empire Trading Company Garrison in Caldera. Born in 3E 389, Olfand was born in Whiterun unto a Nordic family of old. His father and mother were together in the Nord style, and Olfand's first sword was inscribed with old Nordic runes which read, "Ysgramor is always with the brave". He had had this sword from the yound age of eight, and still wielded it in the Imperial Legion and the East Empire Trading Company Legion Garrison.
But in 3E 433, an assassination took place there. Olfand was the only guard not aware of the fact that the increased salary he had gotten was actually thanks to a bribe on someone's part, though who unknown. When the Nord learned of this, he became so enraged at the inability of the Guard to protect Bruma's citizens. He researched, and soon discovered that every military force in Cyrodiil, even the Legion itself, had been a part of a vast cover-up or bribing. Appalled and angered, Olfand purchased the now ruined Mages Guild, whose survivor, a High Elf, had moved to Cheydinhal's Guildall, and sold it to Olfand. He then founded an organization known as the Order of the Freelance Blades. Immediately, Derilius Veronnicus, an old friend of Olfand's who he had met in Caldera, joined up, as well as Lenteroth the Conjurer, a Bosmer Mage, and Samuel Renoit, a Breton Assassin and Thief. These three represented the types of skills that would -- for the most part -- be seen in the Order for the next few years.
The end of the Oblivion Crisis saw three things happen to the Order: One, an influx of Legionaries leaving the army came to Bruma to set up shop as the The Imperial-Nordic Bruma Garrison Division, but also set up in Chorrol, Leyawiin, and Bravil, as the Imperial Highlands Chorrol Garrison Division, the Imperial-Nibenean Leyawiin Garrison Division, and the Imperial Defenders of the Impoverished People of Bravil Garrison Division -- the latter simply being reffered to as The Defenders -- respectively. Two, the Mages Guild began quick but temporary decline, and many members left the Guild, and joined the Order of the Freelance Blades. A similar occurrence within the Fighters Guild resulted in even more additions to the Order, and soon, the small Guildhall was not enough. A large house for sale in Chorrol near the other Guilds was bought, gutted and revamped into a new Guildhall for the Order. Half of the members of the Bruma Chapter moved to Chorrol.
The third, and final, happening was that as the Empire slowly disintegrated a few months following the end of the Crisis, and the Order came to power in Bruma and Chorrol, not only as the military, but as the leaders. In 4E 002, Olfand Tolgarsson moved south, making Chorrol the capital, and ruled from there. The Count and Countess still held political weight, but King Olfand far outweighed them in power. Peculiarly, a similar situation was allowed in Bruma a few months later, and King Derelius Veronnicus came to power; Lenteroth moved to Chorrol and became King there, while High King Olfand ascended to the throne. He began planning out a new capital just south of Chorrol, at the site of Weatherleah. The Jemane brothers oversaw the construction of the city. Olfand so much liked the name, that he decided to keep it.
A new golden age for the Order was at hand.
== Chapter Two: Geopolitical Acknowledgment, and the Bloody Civil War of 4E 012 ==
As unlikely and rediculous as the events that I have recorded may seem to one of my time, these words are true, and the fact that these truthful histories have not been preserved as common knowledge in this generation -- or the human one before, for that matter -- is an act of perversion which must quickly be corrected, and only I seem up to the task of doing so. And I am only to happy to oblidge with Fate so that you all may learn the truth of the history of the beginning of the Fourth Era in the Imperial land of Cyrodiil. But as for the matter at hand, we move to the next stage of power for this uprising power.
In 4E 004, the Order, now under the name of the Kingdom of the Adabl-a (god-stone in Ayleid, a refrence to their control of the Stone of St. Alessia), was for the first time recognized as a true, genuine, geopolitical power in a skirmish with the Cheydinhal Guard at the Temple of the Ancestor Moths, which resulted in a trading of maps. All of the land from Gnoll Mountain to the Skyrim border north, and to Lake Rumare to the South, and from Weatherleah to the border with hammerfell west, and to Lake Rumare east, and to the Skyrim border north belonged to the Kingdom of Adabala. All of the land from Cheydinhal to the border with Skyrim north, Morrowind East, and south, encompassing all of the land on the eastern side of Rumare and the Niben River. Other borders included Leyawiin and Bravil (known as the Nibenay Alliance, which had its capital in Leyawiin), the Imperial City contolling its main island and all of the islands on the Niben except for those in Topal Bay, and the Heartland Coalition, which included all of the land not controlled by any other (the cities, Skingrad, Ionith, and Anvil, the former of which became the capital).
This revitalization of the knowledge of geopolitical barriers caused the other kingdoms besides High King Olfand's to realize that the Highland Wars had come to an end, after only two years. No one could expand into Olfand's lands without making a new, powerful enemy (militarily and religiously, concerning the control of the Stone of St. Alessia, which had been awarded to the order at the end of the Third Era by the Bruma Chapel head, Cirroc. This revitalization of knowledge also caused something else: the burning desire control the land. And so it was that alliances began to form. The Kingdom of the Adabal-a, the Imperial-Cyrodilic Colonies (The Imperial City), and the Heartland Coalition were on one side, while the Nibenay Alliance and Cheydinhal on the other.
And at last in 4E 012, an inevitable and predictable Civil War broke out in Cyrodiil, and at first the winner seemed clear: already the Nibeneans had laid siege to Skingrad and Cheydinhal to Bruma. Samuel Renoit left and assassinated Count Indarys, however in 4E 013, which brought a quick end to Cheydinhal as a collective force, as his son was unsuited for military leadership. Skingrad, however, did fall, and Lenteroth left to go to war there along with Olfand, leaving Prince Regeant Samuel Renoit to rule in his stead.