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== ''' ''Foreword'' ''' ==
This is a compilation of Volumes One and Two of the ''Saga of Tolgar Ermundsson'', grandson of Regner Thorkelsson, son of Ermund Regnersson, meber of the Skyrim Imperial Legion, headed by the King of Rifton, and father of High King Olfand Tolgarsson, ruler of the 4E Kingdom of the Adabal-a (Kingdom of the God-Stone) as well as the founder of the Order of the Freelance Blades. He was born in 3E 318, and his father, Ermund, died in 331, three weeks before his birthday. He was only twelve. After that, he joined the army of King Herold Elf-Killer, king of Rifton, and went on a campaign in Vvardenfell to quell an Ashlander rebellion there. These first two volumes end with Tolgar's vengeance achieved, his mother killed, and a new driving ambition for revenge against a groop of bandits which killed Agnes Herold-Daughter, his mother. The ending date is 3E 342; this writing therefore spans 24 years.
:'''By Agolius Philidius'''
:'''Biographer of Tolgar Ermundsson and Olfand Tolgarsson'''
:'''Date of Penning: 3E 411'''
== Volume One ==
Tolgar Ermundsson was born in 3E 318 in the town of Falkreath, in southwestern Skyrim. His father, Ermund Regnersson, quickly moved the family out to an Imperial Legion fortress where he joined up. Tolgar lived with his mother, Agnes, in a simple hut built inside the walls. When he was four, his father, going away on a campaign, gave Tolgar a sword which Regner Thorkelsson had given to Ermund, and Thorkel Madriksson had given to him, and so on. The month after, Ermund's regiment left the Fort and went east, to Rifton where the force met up with that of King Herold Elf-Killer, the King of Riften. They went on a campaign to take Blacklight -- which had begun to riot against the empire, the garrison there going rogue.
What happened there, however, is not yet an important part of the story. When was six, Tolgar began training as a warrior with the remaining soldiers in the fort, and he immediately caught on to the Imperial training tecniques, though it was difficult the first day or two. By the age of nine, he was a full-fledged warrior and actually began raiding nearby bandit camps with the Legion. In 327, Ermund returned; the Legion had failed to take Blacklight, but there were troops being dispatched from several cities: Ebonheart, Whiterun, Bruma, and Winter Hold. Ermund stayed with Tolgar and Agnes for a year, before he was at last forced to leave again for the second siege of Blacklight.
These next two years would be the most eventful of Tolgar's early childhood. In 328, the fort was attacked by marauders, and Tolgar was only too happy to lead a militia from the village outside the fort to attck the marauders from behind. Though he was but ten, he was undeniably the best militia fighter there, and so he was the leader. Out of the twenty-one marauders that layed seige to the castle, only two survived, who were brutally interrogated. The torture brought valuable information, and the two marauders were allowed to live. They were escorted to Bruma to start a new life. The vital information mentioned was this: the marauder base was only nine miles away.
The next day, the force moved out, leaving fiteen people to guard Fort Refuge -- a name it had been given following the repelling of both the marauders and the bandits. The fighters took the marauder base and set it up as an Imperial Lwgion camp, and construction on a new fort soon began. Tolgar and the militia -- now fourty-five in all -- were ordered back to Fort Refuge, and the thirty other Legionaries were left in the new camp. The year also brought a few other things: One, a messanger arrived at Fort Refuge in the last month of the year bearing good news: the invasion force had made it to Blacklight, and the siege had begun. Second: Tolgar was asked to come and visit Bruma, where he met with the countess. She immediately hired him for a very special job: to deliver an Akaviri artifact from Cloud Ruler Temple. With nearly all of her force out in battle, she could not afford to send any more men out of the city. So he went, delivered it to her, and got 1,000 drakes in return, before returning to his village to share his wealth with his family.
The following year, in 329, half of the garrison at Fort Refuge was transfered to Bruma and Winter Hold, leaving only twenty -- not including Tolgar -- soldiers left to defend the fortress, eight legion, and twelve militia. This left them extremely vulnerable to a recent alliance of bandits and marauders in the Rifton region, fifty strong. This force invaded and took Fort Refuge on this year, and took the garrison survivors as prisoners. Tolgar, taking advantage of the dysfunctional and independant criminal attitude, drove evryone in the army to turn against each other, and the group destroyed itself from the inside out. Most of the survivors either joined the garrison or left to restart their lives, bu the others were killed. This change left only four Legion Soldiers, three Militiamen, and eleven ex-marauders/bandits to protect Fort Refuge; this left the garrison at eighteen strong.
And at last, in 330, bittersweet news would recieve Tolgar and Agnes.
== Volume Two ==
Tolgar awoke to a freak blizzard, and found that a Legion Courier had delivered the famiy a letter the day before, which he had slept through due to a wound delivered in a raid on a nearby marauder base. Ermund and the siege force had succeeded in taking Blacklight, and Tolgar's father was still alive. However, since the force was the largest collected one near a nearby Ashlander uprising near Khuul, and House Hlaalu's temporary alliance with them, caused them to have to invaded Vvardenfell's northwestern tip. The two were willing to live with this, and hoped for the best.
But the best would not come.
In early 331, another courier arrived, and this time the news did not bode well at all from the look on the courier's face. He ushered one phrase that said it all, "I'm sorry." And with that, he left. And that phrae told the two everything. The letter was from Agnes' father, and it said that Ermund Regnersson had been killed in a raid of the hidden Alasinambu Camp. This brought an end to not only Ermund's life, but Tolgar's hope that everything would be alright for him and his mother.
The two lived in sorrow for three years, until at last a new invasion was prepared in 334, and Tolgar joined up. The sorrow turned to anger, and Tolgar began to feel the burning need for revenge. He would not leave this invasion without the head of whoever had killed Ermund Regnersson. In 334, the force reconquered Khuul and moved in on the Ashlander Tribes. The Hlaalu, realizing just how serious this conflict was, withdrew from it, which was fine with King Herold, but did not sit well with the Ashlanders. The first month of 335 saw the invasion of the Alasinambu Camp, and this time it was successful. Tolgar took his revenge brutally, and the war continued from there.
But in 337, a serious wound was dealt to King Herold by the Ashlanders. He died the next day. But a week after, a representative brought an offering of peace, which was accepted, and Tolgar returned home a new man. He had fulfilled his promised, and a 15 year series of conflicts came to an end. But what Tolgar found at home again tore his life apart.
While he had been gone, bandits had invaded Fort Refuge, which had been weakened by previous attacks. In this invasion, the village and fort were both destroyed, and its inhabbitants tortured, beaten, and mutilated, before the carcasses were displayed all around. And where his house once stood, he found the tortured, mangled body of Agnes Herold-Daughter. And because of this, a new lust for vengeance burned within Tolgar, this one the strongest ever.
''The Second Saga of Tolgar Ermundsson will continue with volumes three and four of the series.''
This is a compilation of Volumes One and Two of the ''Saga of Tolgar Ermundsson'', grandson of Regner Thorkelsson, son of Ermund Regnersson, meber of the Skyrim Imperial Legion, headed by the King of Rifton, and father of High King Olfand Tolgarsson, ruler of the 4E Kingdom of the Adabal-a (Kingdom of the God-Stone) as well as the founder of the Order of the Freelance Blades. He was born in 3E 318, and his father, Ermund, died in 331, three weeks before his birthday. He was only twelve. After that, he joined the army of King Herold Elf-Killer, king of Rifton, and went on a campaign in Vvardenfell to quell an Ashlander rebellion there. These first two volumes end with Tolgar's vengeance achieved, his mother killed, and a new driving ambition for revenge against a groop of bandits which killed Agnes Herold-Daughter, his mother. The ending date is 3E 342; this writing therefore spans 24 years.
:'''By Agolius Philidius'''
:'''Biographer of Tolgar Ermundsson and Olfand Tolgarsson'''
:'''Date of Penning: 3E 411'''
== Volume One ==
Tolgar Ermundsson was born in 3E 318 in the town of Falkreath, in southwestern Skyrim. His father, Ermund Regnersson, quickly moved the family out to an Imperial Legion fortress where he joined up. Tolgar lived with his mother, Agnes, in a simple hut built inside the walls. When he was four, his father, going away on a campaign, gave Tolgar a sword which Regner Thorkelsson had given to Ermund, and Thorkel Madriksson had given to him, and so on. The month after, Ermund's regiment left the Fort and went east, to Rifton where the force met up with that of King Herold Elf-Killer, the King of Riften. They went on a campaign to take Blacklight -- which had begun to riot against the empire, the garrison there going rogue.
What happened there, however, is not yet an important part of the story. When was six, Tolgar began training as a warrior with the remaining soldiers in the fort, and he immediately caught on to the Imperial training tecniques, though it was difficult the first day or two. By the age of nine, he was a full-fledged warrior and actually began raiding nearby bandit camps with the Legion. In 327, Ermund returned; the Legion had failed to take Blacklight, but there were troops being dispatched from several cities: Ebonheart, Whiterun, Bruma, and Winter Hold. Ermund stayed with Tolgar and Agnes for a year, before he was at last forced to leave again for the second siege of Blacklight.
These next two years would be the most eventful of Tolgar's early childhood. In 328, the fort was attacked by marauders, and Tolgar was only too happy to lead a militia from the village outside the fort to attck the marauders from behind. Though he was but ten, he was undeniably the best militia fighter there, and so he was the leader. Out of the twenty-one marauders that layed seige to the castle, only two survived, who were brutally interrogated. The torture brought valuable information, and the two marauders were allowed to live. They were escorted to Bruma to start a new life. The vital information mentioned was this: the marauder base was only nine miles away.
The next day, the force moved out, leaving fiteen people to guard Fort Refuge -- a name it had been given following the repelling of both the marauders and the bandits. The fighters took the marauder base and set it up as an Imperial Lwgion camp, and construction on a new fort soon began. Tolgar and the militia -- now fourty-five in all -- were ordered back to Fort Refuge, and the thirty other Legionaries were left in the new camp. The year also brought a few other things: One, a messanger arrived at Fort Refuge in the last month of the year bearing good news: the invasion force had made it to Blacklight, and the siege had begun. Second: Tolgar was asked to come and visit Bruma, where he met with the countess. She immediately hired him for a very special job: to deliver an Akaviri artifact from Cloud Ruler Temple. With nearly all of her force out in battle, she could not afford to send any more men out of the city. So he went, delivered it to her, and got 1,000 drakes in return, before returning to his village to share his wealth with his family.
The following year, in 329, half of the garrison at Fort Refuge was transfered to Bruma and Winter Hold, leaving only twenty -- not including Tolgar -- soldiers left to defend the fortress, eight legion, and twelve militia. This left them extremely vulnerable to a recent alliance of bandits and marauders in the Rifton region, fifty strong. This force invaded and took Fort Refuge on this year, and took the garrison survivors as prisoners. Tolgar, taking advantage of the dysfunctional and independant criminal attitude, drove evryone in the army to turn against each other, and the group destroyed itself from the inside out. Most of the survivors either joined the garrison or left to restart their lives, bu the others were killed. This change left only four Legion Soldiers, three Militiamen, and eleven ex-marauders/bandits to protect Fort Refuge; this left the garrison at eighteen strong.
And at last, in 330, bittersweet news would recieve Tolgar and Agnes.
== Volume Two ==
Tolgar awoke to a freak blizzard, and found that a Legion Courier had delivered the famiy a letter the day before, which he had slept through due to a wound delivered in a raid on a nearby marauder base. Ermund and the siege force had succeeded in taking Blacklight, and Tolgar's father was still alive. However, since the force was the largest collected one near a nearby Ashlander uprising near Khuul, and House Hlaalu's temporary alliance with them, caused them to have to invaded Vvardenfell's northwestern tip. The two were willing to live with this, and hoped for the best.
But the best would not come.
In early 331, another courier arrived, and this time the news did not bode well at all from the look on the courier's face. He ushered one phrase that said it all, "I'm sorry." And with that, he left. And that phrae told the two everything. The letter was from Agnes' father, and it said that Ermund Regnersson had been killed in a raid of the hidden Alasinambu Camp. This brought an end to not only Ermund's life, but Tolgar's hope that everything would be alright for him and his mother.
The two lived in sorrow for three years, until at last a new invasion was prepared in 334, and Tolgar joined up. The sorrow turned to anger, and Tolgar began to feel the burning need for revenge. He would not leave this invasion without the head of whoever had killed Ermund Regnersson. In 334, the force reconquered Khuul and moved in on the Ashlander Tribes. The Hlaalu, realizing just how serious this conflict was, withdrew from it, which was fine with King Herold, but did not sit well with the Ashlanders. The first month of 335 saw the invasion of the Alasinambu Camp, and this time it was successful. Tolgar took his revenge brutally, and the war continued from there.
But in 337, a serious wound was dealt to King Herold by the Ashlanders. He died the next day. But a week after, a representative brought an offering of peace, which was accepted, and Tolgar returned home a new man. He had fulfilled his promised, and a 15 year series of conflicts came to an end. But what Tolgar found at home again tore his life apart.
While he had been gone, bandits had invaded Fort Refuge, which had been weakened by previous attacks. In this invasion, the village and fort were both destroyed, and its inhabbitants tortured, beaten, and mutilated, before the carcasses were displayed all around. And where his house once stood, he found the tortured, mangled body of Agnes Herold-Daughter. And because of this, a new lust for vengeance burned within Tolgar, this one the strongest ever.
''The Second Saga of Tolgar Ermundsson will continue with volumes three and four of the series.''