The forward turned into something larger. I probably had too much fun writing this: it’s fun horribly misinterpretting texts. This goes into the Nerevarine and Vivec’s relationship with the author interpretations, as I think the other interpretations would be obvious enough reading the Fire Ants book by itself. Most of the body of the text is here, though I need to clean it up a bunch still.
A Dunmer scribe’s record of a Redoran ceremony after a (relatively small) battle between them and the Nords of Skyrim in the First Era. The purpose of this book is to highlight some of the core aspects of Redoran culture: the code of honor, adopting new members into a House for showing prowess in battle, and the fixation with war.
Inspiration came from real world history; apparently the samurai armies had somewhat similar ceremonies during the 1400—1600’s. The warchief’s role as a “giver of treasure” is inspired by early middle ages Viking and Anglo-Saxon cultures.
Not sure if this is an Ashlander folk-tale or a Tribunal homily. The wandering cliffracer seems more like a criticism the Hosue Dunmer would have, but the setting and the animals are those found in the Ashlands. Could probably use tightening up of words and phrases like the other Homily I wrote.
TITLE: The Hungry Nix-Hound (alternatively, The Homily of the Nix-Hound if it seems Tribunal-ish enough.)
So while I know that this particular interpretation doesn’t match what we’d like to use for the Dres, I thought perhaps it could be salvaged with some tweaking of the details or otherwise used for inspiration for the House Dres questline.
TITLE: The Peculiar Case of the Murder of Yakum-Fel AUTHOR: Legionnaire Ghantus gor-Bakrum
