Sundas, 31st of Last Seed 4E201
I woke up well rested. Yesterday was a day of long march and my sleep was deep and long. I planned to spend the day walking around the city and get to know the people. It was the first time that I have the chance to visit a dwemer-built city. It wasn’t however my first experience with dwemer engineering though. After the great was I was sent to the Imperial War Academy. One of my main subjects was siege engineering and amongst other siege engines we learned about dwemer devices. I always found Dwemer engineering fascinating and I am glad to have the opportunity to see such things at first hand. I know this is not always an experience without peril.
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| Markarth |
The city is as
astonishing as I expected. The greatness and beauty of the buildings carved
into the mountain side is mesmerizing. I did not forget though, that I was
looking for work possibilities. At first the vendor at Arnleif and Sons Trading
Company a lady named Lisbeth hired me to retrieve one of her robbed items a
Dibella statuette. I finally got an audience from the Jarl too. The Jarl did
not seem to trust me much but he gave me a task of eliminating a Forsworn
leader. Jarl Igmund seems to be a worthy
leader though and I will do my best to persuade him that I can be a capable
asset to Markarth. I met the Jarl’s
personal smith an Orc named Moth gro-Bagol. He is an experienced blacksmith
with ten years Legion experience. Her sister Ghorza gra-Bagol runs a forge in
the city. I will be able to sell my loot to them after my sorties. I bought
potions from a very helpful Brerton old woman named Bothela at her alchemy
shop.
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| Understone Keep |
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| Talmor at Understone Keep |
At the Understone keep
I met a man named Thongvor Silver-Blood. He is another self-satisfied person in
the city and he has most of the wealth of it. His family owns half of the
Businesses in Markarth including the Cidhna mine the smelter and the
Silver-Blood inn. During my walk around the city I learned about the poor
conditions the mine and smelter workers are working. I also met the arrogance
of other members of the Silver-Blood family.
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| Thongvor Silver-Blood |
I do not envy Jarl
Igmund. He has to keep the Silver-Blood family under control, cope with the
Talmor contingent and defend the city from the Forsworn attacks. It is a
demanding job to lead Markarth now-days. I will aid him as much as I will be able
to though.
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| Jarl Igmund |
I met an old scholar
at the Understone Keep, named Cancelmo. I got to know he had a problem at his
excavation site at the ruins under the keep.
Giant spiders infested the research site and the work was stopped since
then. The biggest threat was a spider named Nimhe. I agreed to clear the site.Cancelmo gave me the key and I entered the ruins. First I went through Dwemer
built corridors then I descended into a mine-like dig-site. As soon as I
reached the bottom of the site I had been attacked by multiple frost-spiders. I
cut them all down with ease. I proceeded deeper at the research site. Finally I
arrived at a big hall mostly covered by spider nets. I was sure if Nimhe the
giant spider was to be found somewhere that was the place.
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| Spiders infested the excavation site |
I was right. As soon
as I entered the hall the beast of the spider descended from the top of the
hall. I cut the spider many times but it seemed that it did not hear so much. My
sword sunk fully in the spongy spider belly but the spider was not crippled
yet. The blasted beast spat on me poison which I started to feel. After a
lengthy fight I had to retreat into the tunnel from which I entered.
Fortunately Nimhe was too large to be able to chase me there. I had the chance
to cast restoration spells and recover from the poison effect. Then I charged Nimhe the second time. I hit
her with several strong blows before I finally managed to kill the beast. After a few seconds that I realized the
spider was dead I fell unconscious.
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| Nimhe |
I was hit with poison many times during my last charge and it almost cost me my
life. It must have been an hour after that I woke up. I recovered somehow and
before leaving the hall I examined the place. I found a dead Legionnaire and a
strange letter about an expedition that explored deep into the ruins of
Nchuand-Zel. As I exited the excavation site I found a lot of Dwemer scrap
metal pieces. I collected them all.
Cancelmo was very content to hear that the threat at the research site was eliminated. He granted me access to his private Dwemer Museum. He also gave information about the lost expedition in the ruins. I will investigate that soon.
Cancelmo was very content to hear that the threat at the research site was eliminated. He granted me access to his private Dwemer Museum. He also gave information about the lost expedition in the ruins. I will investigate that soon.
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| I found a lot of Dwemer scrap metal |
There was still time in the afternoon, so I went to the smelters and smelted
the Dwemer scrap metal into Dwemer metal ingots. Ghorza was kind to show me the
Dwemer metal smithing technique at her forge. I crafted nice Dwemer weapons and
sold them. I also visited Moth and he taught me the way Orcs treat orichalcum
ore. I managed to buy from him base materials for an Elven sword too. I crafted
and sharpened the sword. I also tempered my armor with the help of Moth. My
equipment is better and better day by day.
After a long practice in smithing I headed back for the Silver-Blood inn
to have my well-deserved rest. Just as I arrived close to the gate, vampires
attacked several citizens and guards. I aided in putting them down. A master
vampire was an especially tough foe to deal with. Unfortunately one miner died
in the attack before we could get rid of those foul creatures.
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| Vampires made a very unpleasant surprise |
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