#telvanni wizard

[captain-of-silvenar]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Never bothered posting it to tumblr, but that changes now.

An experimental story featuring different characters and their experiences and impressions of the Telvanni Wizard, Lorana Alithar.

Currently 3 chapters, hope you enjoy these stories!

[pantaloonzzz]

Master Neloth’s new assistant just CAN’T get his canis root tea right!

[shady-figure]

Anyone else ever had the urge to smack master Neloths bald head in a friendly "like ya cut g" way or is that just me?

[otvlanga]

Neloth Headcanons

@azure-shades-of-blue here’s ur dose of our favorite rat bastard man, please enjoy

- This man has disgusting toenails, absolutely horrifying toenails. He never clips them, they’re like filthy talons. He can and will cut someone with his big toenail and they’ll probably die from an infection. Khajiit from Elsweyr all the way to Skyrim would envy the damn claws this man has not just on his feet, but on his hands too.

- He doesn’t need to sleep because of all the Canis root tea he drinks. He likes it brewed in a VERY specific way, so that it pumps unholy amounts of caffeine into his body, and helps him keep unwavered focus on projects at the same time. Probably the only person in the history of living beings that actually enjoys the foul taste of it too. His breath smells like shit as a result.

- Neloth will walk up behind you and irritatingly peek over your shoulder at whatever you’re doing, breathing all in your air, invading your personal space, and not saying a single word. Then he’ll randomly smack you in the back of the head and walk away. He likes hitting people, and he’s too old and grubby to care about respecting personal space. “This is mY tOwEr and I make the rules!!”

- Has definitely made many attempts to clone himself. Definitely for scientific reasons. Strictly scientific reasons. Absolutely no other reasons. So far he hasn’t been successful, but he’ll do it one day. 

- Sometimes the Skaal children, fresh faced and on their first hunts, will gather around Tel Mithryn and stare in awe at the absolutely humongous big daddy of a mushroom that Neloth calls a tower. They chase each other in circles around the outside, and make bets on who can climb the highest on the smaller mushrooms surrounding it. Neloth finds it to be very irritating, and opens his window to shake his fist and yell at those “Malacath be damned ankle-biting cretins!” to shut up and go away. They always come back.

- He’s definitely a bit off the rocker. There’s a couple of screws knocked loose in his head from centuries of reckless experiments, and failed spells that quite literally blew up in his face. Despite this, he is no less intelligent than he was in his prime. He has solved countless puzzles and riddles that have gone millennia without having come close to being figured out, and he’s cracked ancient codes and scriptures that have never before been read in the common tongue. He isn’t a Master Telvanni Wizard for nothing after all. The man has done a lot, and contributed revolutionary data and information to historic and arcane studies. 

- Despite how the centuries have weathered him into a cranky, snarky old man, he does hold a soft spot for the people he cares about, deep in his heart. Like, very deep, deep, deep in there. Deeper than Blackreach. Keep digging, you’ll get there in a few decades, maybe. Regardless, he can be, believe it or not, quite generous to people he likes. He’ll hand over old tomes and staffs that he hasn’t had a use for in ages, and dismiss it with a wave of a hand and scoff as if it doesn’t mean anything, even if it’s some ancient spell book for a forbidden spell that he definitely shouldn’t have read and translated into 36 different languages. Or a stupidly powerful staff that turns the wielder’s enemies into mushrooms. “Just take it before I beat you with it!” He cares in his own way.

[illegalbones]

Give Neloth A Gun 2020

[maybemanyskeletonhats]

Neloth as a S/O would include...pt 2

- sometimes he'll walk over and pull you close.

- he'll rest his head on your shoulder. He claims he does this because it helps him concentrate.

- forehead kisses, when no one else is around of course.

- You get a pleasant noise from him if you decide to peck him on the lips.

- if you're busy around the tower and you're too preoccupied to notice, He will silently watch you.

- not in a creepy sense by the way. He enjoys watching your expression.

- "Dearest..."

- The poor Telvanni wizard/Mage lord really sometimes can't believe you chose him.

[captain-of-silvenar]

Hi! I was looking at your pinned post and Brisala caught my eye because of "fungal necromancy" - so my question is, what is that, it sounds so cool! I'd love to hear more about that!

Oh, Brisala is pretty neato, thank you for the ask!

So Fungal Necromancy, what is that? First I have to explain that my idea of necromancy is basically manipulation of life energy, yeah? So not really dissimilar to regular healing magic. But necromancy has the benefit of kind of encompassing anything with life energy. And that includes plants and fungi!

As a Telvanni Wizard, Brisala is a proud citizen of Morrowind and all the natural wonders it encompasses. A majority of it is covered in gigantic mushrooms and assorted fungi, to say the least of the Telvanni Tower grew by herself. If you're not including the potentially magical landscape by virtue of the place, all the fungal mycelium alone has a huge storage of energy! Fungi in general have huge networks that spread over whole continents sometimes and they interact and transfer energy from dead matter into other living organisms it lives with. Using this as a foundation, if one were to tap into it they could draw life energy from the very land into yourself. You would need to have an immense storage of magicka in your body then, so long as you knew how to harness and use the very land to fuel yourself.

This is the magical theory Brisala has worked on since childhood. House Telvanni already pride themselves on a lot of mushroom motifs and practical uses in their every day life. Surely it has to extend to more than just a home, armor, food, and pretty decoration. Imagine what one could accomplish if you could drain a continent the size of Morrowind by tapping into a vein of mycelium? Not that Brisala would do that, it is simply too big of an idea to test for a single Master Telvanni.

But a single Telvanni Tower? Now we're talking. Brisala grows unique and strange fungi in her studies to research different properties and uses in alchemy and magicka. If magic can be tapped from them, what else could be gleaned from them? Testing has shown that mycelium networks can communicate with each other and organisms they are attached to. Brisala has successfully added herself into that equation after years of experimentation and can now use fungi as extensions of herself.

So imagine you are trying to infiltrate or sneak into a Telvanni Tower. You're as quiet as you can be, but everywhere you go you can't help but feel as if you're being watched. And if you so happen to be in the Alithar family Tower, you most certainly are being watched by Brisala and are about 0.02 seconds from being consumed by the fungal floor.

Brisala has such an aptitude for fungal manipulation, she can freely change the interior of her Tower to move stairs, walls, and even whole rooms. Whatever extra magicka she has building up in her body she could deposit it into her Tower as a backup resource. Within the confines of her own home, Brisala is a terrifying being to behold in the seat of her power.

There is always more to learn from our fungal neighbors. Brisala is dedicated in exploring every possibility fungi have in everyday and extraordinary situations. As far as she knows there are very few actual fungomancers, much less those that dabble in necromancy.

And she intends to keep it that way, her research is precious and secret. Wouldn't want some upstart Spellwright getting any funny ideas to try and rise up the ranks through her notes.

[artbytal]

Colour! Thats a first in a while! XD

This was originally for The Elder Scroll Renewal,