Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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“So Ulfric Stormcloak’s coming to the city,” says the boy through a mouthful of chicken. “What’s so important about that?”
In which the East Empire Company's newest apprentice begins his education.
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- Part 1 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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On the coldest night of winter, the grubbiest urchin in Riften sits in a kitchen and sips tea.
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- Part 2 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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“There are twenty-two Company factories in Haafingar,” says the boy named Rafe, beaming as though he’d built them himself. “Ours is the biggest. Our godowns—can you tell me,” he adds, glancing down at his companion, “what a godown is?”
The urchin, shrugging her worldly goods over her shoulder, grudgingly shakes her head.
In which the East Empire Company's newest apprentice begins her education.
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- Part 3 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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“The contracts are in order,” says the lawman, reaching for his quill. Then his hand stops. Through silver-rimmed spectacles, he sizes up the urchin: her togs, her scabby ears, the bald tip of her tail. The hard corners of his mouth turn down. “And—this is the child in question?”
As two strangers negotiate a disreputable-looking urchin's contract of apprenticeship, the urchin negotiates with herself.
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- Part 4 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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I heard this story from my mother, who heard it from her mother, who heard it from a spider that whispered in her ear—and the spider told it best, because spiders, you know, spin stories as strong as their silk. But I’ll tell it to you now as best I can, so that none will forget how Tiro Dirnamat kindled the first fire.
A Velothi factor's clerk tells his young apprentice the tale of a lesser-known saint.
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- Part 5 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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While visiting harsh, inhospitable Skyrim on business, a travel-weary land agent from the Gold Coast is heartened by a brief reminder of home.
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- Part 6 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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The storm, first of the season, smashes into Solitude like a great gray hand.
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- Part 7 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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In which a Company clerk and his daughter sagaciously discuss geometry.
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- Part 8 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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In which a perilous visit is paid to the home office of the only lettered man on Beefskid Street.
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- Part 9 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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In a dark house, in the middle of the night, a child knocks on a door. A devil opens it.
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- Part 10 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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A young Khajiiti fosterling studies the blade.
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- Part 11 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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After years of putting it off, a somewhat skeptical Khajiiti fosterling undergoes a Velothi rite of adoption: introducing oneself to the ancestral spirits of the household hearth.
And making lots of food.
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- Part 12 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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Three minutes before their morning Cyrod lesson, Gerd and her siblings watch a burglar wiggle through the drawing-room window.
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- Part 13 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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A fortnight before the Battle of Whiterun, two young legionaries share an apple.
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- Part 14 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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When the doors burst open and the footsoldiers pour in, the jarl of Eastmarch is polishing his sword.
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- Part 15 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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Revyn Sadri disposes of a ring.
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- Part 16 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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The Dragonborn spars with the High Queen's newest shield-maid.
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- Part 17 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
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In which a shield-maid of Skyrim's High Queen wins three games of halatafl.
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- Part 18 of Vignettes: Solitude (4E 180s-present)
- Part 37 of In Nomine Araneae (And Other Incantations)