The Elder Scrolls Treasury, Part I: Corpus Tamrielicum. Vol. I
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THE ELDER SCROLLS TREASURY A REPERTORY FOR MODDERS NEW EDITION PART I CORPUS TAMRIELICUM VOL. I THE ELDER SCROLLS TREASURY Corpus Tamrielicum The Official Books, Scrolls, Journals, Letters, and Notes of The Elder Scrolls Games Edited and annotated by Zeph Vol. I Texts Occuring in More Than One The Elder Scrolls Game Dortmund 2012 All presented texts © by Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media company. This compilation © 2012 by Carsten Flaake. Dedicated to all devs of The Elder Scrolls series and all lore-friendly modders. Preface The basic concept of the The Elder Scrolls Treasury is that of an offline reference work, which hopefully will give the Elder Scrolls players and modders all original in-game information at hand they are looking for. At present, the Treasury consists of the following parts: - the Corpus Tamrielicum, which gives you all official in-game texts of the Elder Scrolls series, and - The New Encyclopedia Tamrielica, a reference work, where you can alphabetically look up places, people(s), regions, phrases, events, etc., with nearly every bit of information directly derived from the original game files, manuals, and official hint books only, as far as they were available for me. In the Corpus you will find all authentic ingame texts from Arena to Oblivion. It starts with a "critical" (annotated) edition of those texts, which occur in more than one Elder Scrolls game. The remaining texts are separated by the games, in which they occur. Within the games sections they are alphabetically ordered after their titles, as you will find them in the texts themselves, neither by their ingame names nor Construction Set IDs, because these may differ from game to game. Furthermore, each title and text has got its own reference number (ID) within its respective section to simplify notes and quotations. A star (*) after a title indicates that its full text is given in the first volume. So, if you quote from the TES III: Morrowind version of a text, you need only give the CT volume number (III), following its ID. E. g., if you want to refer to Morrowind's version of "Hearth Fire" of "2920", you need only note " CT III:287.9", i.e. the ninth text (Hearth Fire) of title 287 (2920, The Last Year of the First Era) of volume III of the Corpus Tamrielicum, which means the Morrowind version. If you have the TES IV: Oblivion version and quote from it, you note "CT IV:197.9". If there are textual changes within the versions, they are noted in the first volume edition at the end of each text. While the IDs within the games sections (i.e. volume II ff.) will not change anymore, the IDs of the first volume will, namely if in a future game of the Elder Scrolls series a text will occur, which has until then occured in one preceding Elder Scrolls chapter only. A novelty is the first supplementary volume, which consists of texts you may think you have never heard of. This is only partly true: Although their titles and arrangements are by no means official, the texts themselves are – well, at least in some way, since they are compiled from the games journal entries (and, in one case, dialogue) only. You will notice that these texts contain quite valuable information, too, at least for the lore-enthusiastic modders among us. – Obvious typos of the original texts have been silently corrected. The New Encyclopedia Tamrielica finally is a reference work which covers all The Elder Scrolls chapters, at the present state i.e. TES I: Arena to TES IV: Oblivion.1 In the main volume you can alphabetically look up places, peoples, regions, phrases, factions, events, etc. etc., with each entry given the source where its information is taken from. The supplementary volume will collect essays etc., which cover single aspects of the Elder Scrolls universe and are too large or complex for the main volume. The New Encyclopedia Tamrielica basically is a complete and largely expanded revision of the third volume of the Treasury's first edition, 1 The next edition will cover TES V: Skyrim, as well. The mobile phone games are not covered. which at that time (2004) was entitled TES3 Encyclopdaedia, while the revision of its original second volume (Common Names in Morrowind) will be enclosed within the supplementary volume under its new title Common Names in Tamriel. If you find any mistakes or missing texts etc., I would be pleased if you let me know so that I can correct or add them in the next edition. You can contact me either via the Imperial Library website (http://www.imperial-library.info) or by sending me a pm via Bethesda Softworks' Elder Scrolls Subforums (http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/forum/13-the-elder-scrolls/). C.F. Dortmund, Germany March 10, 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS [1] Aevar Stone-Singer.............................................................................................................. 1 [2] The Anuad Paraphrased.......................................................................................................6 [3] Arcana Restored .................................................................................................................. 8 [4] The Armorer's Challenge.....................................................................................................9 [5] The Art of War Magic ....................................................................................................... 12 [6] Azura and the Box ............................................................................................................. 14 [7] Biography of Barenziah..................................................................................................... 16 [8] Biography of the Wolf Queen ........................................................................................... 24 [9] The Black Arrow ............................................................................................................... 27 [10] The Book of Daedra ........................................................................................................ 33 [11] Book of Life and Service................................................................................................. 35 [12] Book of Rest and Endings ............................................................................................... 36 [13] A Brief History of the Empire ......................................................................................... 37 [14] The Brothers of Darkness................................................................................................ 49 [15] The Buying Game............................................................................................................ 52 [16] Cherim's Heart of Anequina ............................................................................................ 54 [17] Children of the Sky.......................................................................................................... 56 [18] Chimarvamidium............................................................................................................. 57 [19] A Dance in Fire................................................................................................................ 59 [20] Darkest Darkness............................................................................................................. 93 [21] The Death Blow of Abernanit ......................................................................................... 95 [22] The Dowry....................................................................................................................... 98 [23] The Dragon Break Reexamined .................................................................................... 101 [24] The Eastern Provinces Impartially Considered ............................................................. 102 [25] Fall of the Snow Prince ................................................................................................. 103 [26] Feyfolken....................................................................................................................... 105 [27] The Firmament .............................................................................................................. 116 [28] The Firsthold Revolt...................................................................................................... 122 [29] The Five Songs of King Wulfharth ............................................................................... 126 [30] Frontier, Conquest and Accommodation....................................................................... 129 [31] Galerion The Mystic...................................................................................................... 130 [32] A Game at Dinner.......................................................................................................... 131 [33] The Gold Ribbon of Merit............................................................................................. 136 [34] Hallgerd's Tale............................................................................................................... 139 [35] Hanging Gardens of Wasten Coridale........................................................................... 142 [36] The Horror of Castle Xyr............................................................................................... 143 [37] How Orsinium Passed to the Orcs................................................................................. 150 [38] A Hypothetical Treachery ............................................................................................