A Life of strife and struggle

Original media : TES Online

Notes for the personal memoirs of King Laloriaran Dynar, "Last King of the Ayleids"

<poem> Structure: ten chapters as traditional, one for each of the Ten Ancestors

Chapter One: Struggles of the Late Ayleid Period (263-331) - My father humiliated by the Empress - Nenalata as a vassal-state to the Empire of Cyrodiil - Wrenching transition to a slave-less economy - Forced adoption of Alessia's Eight Divines - I don the Crown of Nenalata - Rising sense of futility and doom

Chapter Two: Alessian Order, Ayleid Disorder (332-371) - Coup d'Etat in the Imperial City - I swear fealty to the Emperor - Theocracy in Cyrodiil - The Ayleid Pogrom - The vassal-states dwindle - Nenalata stands alone

Chapter Three: Tears for Lost Nenalata (372-374) - Ultimatum from the Emperor - Debate with the Intransigents - Last hours in Nenalata - The turbulent trek from Cyrodiil - News of the massacre of the Intransigents - Nibbled to death by Goblins

Chapter Four: Refugees on the Bjoulsae (375-452) - Welcomed by the Direnni - Displacing the Orcs, founding a city - Bisnensel-by-the-Lake - Detente with the Bretons, armistice with the Orcs - Disturbing news from Cyrodiil

Chapter Five: Menace of the Primeval Seekers (453-460) - The pernicious cult of Hermaeus Mora - Strange rites, persistent visions - High Priest Uluscant asserts his authority - Murder in the night - Flight of the royal family

Chapter Six: Sanctuary Among the Direnni (461-477) - Balfiera Island - Ryain, Aiden, and Raven - At War with Skyrim - Tactician and Strategist: I find my true calling - Hoag Merkiller defeated

Chapter Seven: Approach of the Alessian Horde (478-479) - Rumbles from the Heartland - We find Breton converts to Alessianism - Scourging of the missionaries - The Alessian Horde marches west - The fall of Craglorn

Chapter Eight: The Mustering of High Rock (480-481) - Envoy to the Vassal Kings - Aiden reluctantly signs the Rights Charter - Making legionaries out of farmhands - The Horde swarms into High Rock - Atrocities of the Alessians

Chapter Nine: The Battle of Glenumbria Moors (482) - Opening skirmishes - We present the lure - Faolchu takes the bait - Charge of the hidden knights - Conjured creatures of Corvus and Calani - Rout of the Alessians

Chapter Ten: Return to Nenalata (482-484) - Pursuit of the Alessian Horde - Extermination in Craglorn - The Maruhkati Martyrs - Return to the Heartland - Lured to Nenalata - Molag Bal's Insidious Trap - Prisoner in Coldharbour

Plenty of time in here. Just hope they don't take away my writing materials. Could even Dremora be that cruel ?