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The Beginning of the End by MareenaVee for I_was_here_once
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
10 Apr 2026
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Athis said nothing, letting Farkas ‘sing’ into the dimness while he grit his teeth. Home was just around the corner. The three of them continued on, Aela sighing audibly every time Farkas’s voice cracked when he tried to sing the ancient Nord version of the bard-song. Blessedly, after another mile, Farkas cleared his throat, complained of its soreness, and shut up.
That left just the sounds of the night.
Until, of course, those very same sounds of night were broken by a piercing screech the likes of which Athis hadn’t heard around Whiterun in time out of mind.
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- Part 2 of Dragonborn and Far-Star Marked
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The World on Our Shoulders by MareenaVee
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
28 May 2025
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This is a tale of two timelines. On one side, we have Nyenna, afraid and alone, fleeing into Skyrim from the horrors of her past. She is whisked away from her trouble for the briefest of moments, finding light in the deepest darkness. She falls in love. She gets married. Tries to settle down. Does all she can to learn new skills and earn a living and build a good, happy life with a comfortable future she never thought she'd be able to achieve again. And then, one day, her mentor sends her on a quest that would end up altering that future forever in unthinkable, unimaginable ways. She wakes up in the night, hearing the call of dragons in her head, and she can do naught but follow. And of the other side of things? Mistakes have been made along this path becoming this legendary thing. The bards sing of her deeds - and her misdeeds - and all eyes are on her now.
Next Post: We are goin' deadlineless for a while, friends! But Nyenna still lives in my head rent free, don't you worry. Stay tuned for one-shots!
Whiterun Arc - Ch. 1-14
Raven Rock Arc - Ch. 15-30
Riften Arc - Ch. 31-??Series
- Part 1 of Dragonborn and Far-Star Marked
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It Does Not Do To Dwell on That Which Can No Longer Be Overwritten by MareenaVee for IndorilJinumon
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
02 Apr 2025
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There was a voice that spoke to me after I made my choice to stay. It may have been a God, or something attempting to be. Regardless, the voice said that it does not do to dwell on that which can no longer be overwritten.
Begin a new file, it said. There was, I recall, a version of myself that understood what that meant better than I can comprehend it now. The memory of that time has long since fallen from me. Regardless, I can’t be faulted for repeating that advice to myself as I wait behind the eyes of a carefully designed persona for time to turn and the next story to unfold before me.
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- Part 13 of Constellation
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To Oblivion and Back by MareenaVee for SnippetsRUs
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
15 Dec 2024
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“Ilias!” Brynjolf exclaimed, turning and throwing his arms wide—notably, he was not carrying a large, heavy crate—as he walked backwards. “Welcome to Solitude, and the biggest opportunity for, ah, profit you and I have ever had.”
“This idea was not yours,” Ilias-Tei muttered, each ‘s’ bringing forth a small snake-like hiss from her voice due to her immense irritation. “Also, it’s Ilias-Tei, for the thousandth time.”
“What’s a new nickname between friends?” Brynjolf said, his odd Bruma brogue scraping at Ilias-Tei’s last nerve. It had been a very, very long journey from Riften.
“I’ll give you a nickname,” she quipped.
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- Part 10 of Lost Legends
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The Heist by MareenaVee for Rhiannon1199, SnippetsRUs
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
29 Nov 2024
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The wayward Nord was currently busy stacking an absurd amount of stones of various shapes and sizes inside the unkempt cabin in the silt strider’s back. They weren’t all large, but the tedious work would have worn out the average person by now, or so Teldryn thought.
“And what, may I ask,” he began, wiping the dirt and ash off of his gloved palms onto his pants, “were you planning to do with a half-dead silt strider, sera?”
The wayward Nord grinned, and his eyes lit up like sunrise. Considering their errand—which was theft, really—this surprised Teldryn. That was usually no laughing matter.
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- Part 9 of Lost Legends
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Until the Last by MareenaVee for I_was_here_once
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
19 Nov 2024
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“Nyenna,” Athis said. His tone was…not exactly flat, but laced with a complex web of emotions Nyenna hadn’t been able to parse. Something like grief, though, shone at the front of it all.
She swallowed bile. Eris’s vision hadn’t spoken.
“A-athis.” Her answer felt small as it escaped her lips. Nervous. Weak.
He sighed, the sound an echo of the pain that once tensed his shoulders as they parted long before this.“So it’s true, then.”
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- Part 4 of If Only Time Changed Its Mind
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Vantage Point by MareenaVee for AngelofAftermath
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
11 Aug 2024
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Enthir turned, lighting his cigarette with a tiny Flames spell on the tip of his index finger. He shook his hand to extinguish it and took a deep drag. He exhaled while glaring sidelong at the jester. The stench of burning imported tobacco filled the air like a curse. Ancano coughed. Cicero stared—still grinning—as if things were becoming some kind of challenge. Enthir got up, brushing past Ancano’s shoulder none too gently, almost as if he didn’t notice another person there. The innkeeper raised his eyebrows in disbelief, but did not actually look up from the mug he was drying. The air seemed filled with static, as it always did to Ancano before a good conflict was about to happen.
Enthir stopped and leaned against a pillar next to Cicero’s table and took another drag of his cigarette. He ashed it into the empty stew bowl without taking his gaze away from the jester. The silence stretched out for a beat, then a second one. Enthir finally exhaled a cloud of smoke like some kind of dragon.
“What did you call me?" he asked. His voice had gone cold as ice.
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- Part 8 of Lost Legends
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I Couldn’t Face You, Because Your Face Was Mine by MareenaVee for muldezgron, AngelofAftermath
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
24 Jul 2024
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A familiar chitin thunk sounded, and as Teldryn looked up, the curious Dunmer from the common area upstairs invited himself to sit at the table. Teldryn glanced around, noting the rather obvious lack of occupants in the dining room and rolled his eyes—not that the other Dunmer could see, what with the chitin helm and goggles in the way. He rather doubted this one would care, all things being equal.
“Can I help you, sera?” he drawled, thick accent scratchy with the effort to keep his volume low, just in case.
“Rather, I could be of assistance to you,” countered the Dunmer, voice sounding eerily similar (except maybe with a hint more swagger and a hint less exhaustion). “Depends, I suppose, on what you’re doing on the island, and if your task requires someone to watch your back.”
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- Part 12 of Constellation
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Life's a Beach by MareenaVee for I_was_here_once, mishcellany
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
21 Jun 2024
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“Ridiculous we should end up here, my friend.” Yagrum snapped his fingers absently and a humanoid shape burst from the sand beside him bearing a tray of drinks. He took one, the nearest being something served with a pink paper umbrella and a matching straw poking out of the green shell of a local delicacy—what they’d been calling a ‘coconut.’ It was a form of palm fruit filled with sweetened water. “It’s almost like we needn’t work at all.”
“Ah yes. You always were rather addicted to your research,” Divayth Fyr said.
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- Part 11 of Constellation
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That Is the Choice I Give You by MareenaVee for IndorilJinumon
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
24 Apr 2024
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A note from the publisher:
These letters and journals were recovered or removed from Dren Plantation and Ules Manor before being carried to Ebonheart by formerly shackled individuals. The original texts were written either in pictographic Jel, a coded version of Tamrielic known between the two correspondents, or a combination of the two. They were translated and edited for readability with no small effort by the members of the Argonian Mission in Ebonheart before submission.
Light the way.
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- Part 10 of Constellation
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The Love We Deserve by MareenaVee for IndorilJinumon, Cethlenn13
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
12 Mar 2024
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Not all that which fades into the shadows of ancient Nordic ruins are agents of darkness. I’ve learned as much, though the lesson has been a long time coming. Peace is not, and has not been, my main priority—not with the prophecy, or death by dragon hanging over me wherever I go. It is, perhaps, the reason I am called to do this thing—to put to rest two souls whose hearts have been apparently keening out across all of Skyrim for time out of mind. Not that I can hear them. Perhaps the quest came to me because I cannot—and had ought.
Dinya didn’t say as much, but I imagine the thought was in the back of her head.
Then again, Mara’s voice was not one I’d sought. Not after everything I’ve been through in this regard. But those are stories for another time. My pain, as far in the past as it lingers, can wait another day.
I had decided to make my way toward Rorikstead on my own. This is not a complex task, and my associate could do more good back in Riften than out here in the woods. She, of course, did not see it that way, but promised she’d look after Dinya while I ran this errand.
And so here I stand—alone and freezing—out in the wilderness.
It is rather fitting.
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- Part 7 of Lost Legends
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Amaranthine by MareenaVee for IndorilJinumon
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
01 Mar 2024
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My illusion of freedom was sundered the second I set foot in Seyda Neen. I could not know it then, not as time bent and warped around me. Sunset staining the far horizon red, all that was left was to move forward. Through dust and uncertainty, I persisted. And still do. And will. Because I must – or else, what then? Yet you, in your great wisdom, and with great force, insisted I turn back – as if destiny was so simple to twist out of shape, or cut away with blades unseen.
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- Part 9 of Constellation
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Better To Seek Forgiveness Than To Ask Permission by MareenaVee for Queen_of_the_Winter
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
21 Jan 2024
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Ulfric Stormcloak stands at a crossroads. The two paths are ones he has contemplated abandoning all together—though he knows turning back has its own consequences. He is young—barely trudging through his nineteenth summer. Hearthfire looms. If he does not choose a path, his twentieth year will be spent in silence, too. Some would say he has wasted most of his life up until now atop this very mountain.
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- Part 6 of Lost Legends
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Lean Into the Storm and Hope To Weather It by MareenaVee for Cethlenn13
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
16 Jan 2024
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Wicked stalk him, righteous curse him. Prophets speak, but all deny.
Nibani Maesa’s voice trailed off as more of her grandmother’s words filled her head. She knew this prophecy—as did everyone else. It was a tale passed down for untold ages about the Nerevarine. But why this day? Why now? Rumors of an incarnate had not yet filtered down to the Urshilaku. Her mother would be the first to proclaim such a sign. She frowned, pondering over the words. Each line of the story was coming to her in waves. She turned, distracted, and looked out over the ash fields toward where the sea would be. She swore she heard the sound of crashing surf. Flashes of lightning filled her mind’s eye. Thunder boomed in her ears.
“Nibani?” Sul-Matuul asked. He took her hands again, snapping her back to the present moment. Where had she been just then? She swallowed hard. This gift of hers—if it could be called a gift—was disorienting. Her mother had warned it never did manifest with any kind of convenience in mind.
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- Part 1 of Namtud | Rebirth
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Winter Friends Are Friends Forever by MareenaVee for IndorilJinumon
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
11 Jan 2024
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Cold.
Always cold now, because Man didn’t light the fire anymore. Or couldn’t. He was like the rabbit Meeko had just caught. Only bones—or would be soon enough.
Sad.
Meeko didn’t like that. He whimpered to himself. It was strange and quiet in this place. No more ear scratches, no more treats. No light. No fire. No blankets. None of it. House was empty and Man was in his long sleep and the storms just kept coming. The snow wasn’t so bad. Better than loud rain, but not better than mud. Snow didn’t make the sadness go away, though—at least, not for long.
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- Part 5 of Lost Legends
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Sure as a Storm by MareenaVee for SaltyMapleSyrup
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
07 Jan 2024
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Silje Ice-Shaper pushed back the hood of her thick fur coat and ran her arm across her forehead with an exhale. She risked taking off a glove to rake her fingers through sweaty, coppery hair and tucked it back, before pulling the hood up over her head again and replacing her glove. Regardless of the temporary warmth her hard work brought her, it was cold today, and getting colder. Clouds were roiling in the distance, darkening not unlike her mood. She didn’t much like the prospect of another day in these open barrows with the weather due to be as bad as the elders warned.
Sure as a storm, they’d said, you’ll get caught in the worst of it.
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- Part 8 of Constellation
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The Very Spirit of This Place by MareenaVee for Rhiannon1199
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
24 Dec 2023
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It never snowed like this on Vvardenfell. All that place got was ash, especially these days. Not that Solstheim was immune, but this part of the island was at the whim of the storms off the sea. That meant—much to his chagrin—blizzards.
Teldryn Sero looked up, letting a few heavy flakes fall onto his chitin lenses, melting and obscuring his vision. At least not much had changed since the last time he left it.
He’d wandered out here on some mindless quest for Neloth. The old bastard was tired of his drinking, and tired of his chaos, or so he had vehemently spat. After Teldryn had gone and destroyed Raven Rock’s shrine to the Nerevarine—and blasted bits of the roof off the temple to boot—Neloth had given him a bit of an ultimatum. Shape up or ship out. To be perfectly honest, neither of those options appealed to him. But then again, neither did wasting away in the Bulwark jails for being a destructive s’wit.
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- Part 4 of The Heart of the World
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You’re Never in the Dark by MareenaVee for SnippetsRUs
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
15 Dec 2023
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Brynjolf saw her face whenever he closed his eyes. Her hair, like soft strands of gold, falling in waves over her shoulders. Those eyes, green as the fields, overflowing with tears at the sting of his rejection. He’d have done anything to take that all away from her, had he not been the cause of her pain. Gods, but he wished one last time to reach out for her hand, hold it in his, warm against the weather. Strong, too, against the coming storms.
But it was not meant to be. She deserved so much more than him. He’d been bound to the darkness, and she’d always been this bright light. What could she possibly see in him? What could he ever give her that she didn’t already have? All he was capable of doing was shattering precious things. His destiny was not to build—all of that was left to her. And she would, if he did not tie her down. He would not. It was already decided. So he’d turned his shoulder to her and left her behind, not glancing back for fear of losing resolve.
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- Part 4 of Lost Legends
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Where I Failed, You Will Succeed by MareenaVee for Rhiannon1199
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
03 Dec 2023
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Teldryn Sero stood on an outcropping of rock that overlooked the frozen wasteland that was Northern Solstheim. Wind whipped around his face, dry snow collecting in the crevices of his chitin goggles. His scarf barely kept the sting of the weather from searing his skin. Bitter cold seeped through every layer of fur and chitin armor, numbing his fingers and feet. He stuck his hands under each armpit and wondered if it would ever be possible to warm up again.
Likely not.
This was not the first time he’d been trapped all the way out here by the hand of an errant blizzard. It was, however, the first time he’d glimpsed a ghost in the wastes.
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- Part 6 of The Heart of the World
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The Inherent Opposite of Life by MareenaVee for IndorilJinumon
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
25 Nov 2023
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There had been scouts sent out before her. None had returned. Veru Bavani had known the rumors of what would haunt these caves adjacent to ancient Dwemer strongholds. There hadn’t been a reason to confirm previously. But now? There’d been far too much loss, and whatever was going on up ahead would have to be dealt with. If she didn’t figure out what the problem was, the whole plan would fall to shambles. Then, what of the lives lost in the process? Would that have been for nothing? The point of this was to fight well against that which threatened not only the Mountain, but the world. Life. Love. All of that. While it would make for a decent epic, some of them would have to live in order for it to be written. So the task of finding out why the mission repeatedly failed fell to her. She kept her free hand on the hilt of her sword, and it grounded her enough to keep moving.
Nobody knew the Mountain as well as she did, anyway.
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- Part 3 of The Heart of the World