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Taren Velas

I have finally gathered together enough attention span to be able to talk about my favorite child, my scion of Mephala, my Vestige - Taren.

Art by https://x.com/madnessdemon

Name: Taren Velas

Race: born Dunmer, got Soul Shriven, now is in a weird state of being thought of as mortal by some while keeping a lot of daedric traits

Age: 35 at 2e582

Gender: Agender, they/them

Backstory

Their story wasn't known to them as well until much later in their life, so the very fact of discovering their roots was almost overwhelming for Taren. But what are those roots?

Taren's mother, Feldsii Dres, was a House Cousin of House Dres and was stuck in that rank, while having ambitions to climb as high as she could until, to quote her, "one of those s'wits gets scared and sends Morag Tong after me!" This ambition, however, wasn't enough, and as she focused her attention on attempts to claw her way through House hierarchy, her saltrice farms weren't performing as well as before, and that stopped her from progressing even more.

Feldsii, however, saw only conspiracies against her, not her own faults, and decided to use raw power against them. Who were these "they"? I doubt even Feldsii knew an answer to that.

So, when 13th of Frostfall came around, Feldsii gathered everything needed for the ritual and prepared for her trade - her soul in exchange for a child from Mephala.

Now here's a thing - while demiprinces are not very well known, mostly only heard of from the mention of Fa-Nuit-Hen in 36 lessons of Vivec, the fact that majority of offspring of Princes don't gain any of their parents' properties is known even less. Feldsii knew of the first fact, but hasn't even considered the second.

Mephala, of course, knew why Feldsii wanted that child - to intimidate the neighbors with the threat of a demiprince - and found it very amusing that Feldsii was ready to seal the deal without even understanding the finer details of it.

But as much as Mephala found amusement in the future strife of these mortals, Webspinner also cared for dunmer, and blessed the child with heightened agility and stealth, knowing that the secrets this child gathers would make their way to her, in the end. After all, it would be just a mortal, and their lives are deceptively short.

Feldsii, however, now had a lot of time to spend hoping that her plan wasn't for nothing, all while her saltrice farms produced less and less, and talks around House leadership to actually derank her to Kinsman or even Lawman. Feldsii was ignorant to these talks, all of her plans hinging on this child, who she hoped would be a demiprince with enough power to instill fear into competition. She hadn't considered that an infant would have to grow, or that it could be not a demiprince at all.

So when the child was born a normal dunmer, not sporting any features that would relate it to Mephala, and had nothing special going on at all, Feldsii got mad. Very mad. She felt as if she was betrayed, and ordered the servants to get rid of the child - she didn't care how, she didn't care what was going to happen to it, she just wanted it gone.

Feldsii was found dead less than a month later. Morag Tong writ said that she has become a liability for the honour of the House and had to be removed.

The child, meanwhile, was given to one of the branch families under House Dres - Velas, to be exact. Ilen Velas was the only representative of this family in this part of Morrowind, and while always wishing for a child has been childless so far. So he took this as a sign from the ancestors, gave Taren their name and took them under his wing. He didn't know where Taren came from, and raised them as his own child.

Taren was raised well and their skills were recognized early on, with affinity to both magic and stealth they were taught the art of the nightblade, of how to become one with the shadows and how to gather information. Ilen Velas was one of the few members of House Dres who were not focused on agriculture and instead on espionage, and decided to teach everything about his trade to his adoptive child. Ilen was also strongly against slavery, although for all the wrong reasons, but this aversion rubbed off on Taren as well, and grew into abolitionist ideas later on.

After completing the base part of their training, Taren was sent to test out their skills, as gathering information is always important, and any missed conversation could spell catastrophe and ruin for the entire House. And the bustling port city of Davon's Watch was one of the best places to overhear any conversation.

What Taren didn't expect, however, were cultists of the Worm. They were captured while listening to the heated argument between two dunmeri nobles, got sacrificed to Molag Bal, and died.

But it's never that easy with the Worm Cult, is it? They imprint your Anuic Soul onto a Daedric Vestige and send you out into Coldharbour, no longer mortal. This was the first time Taren found themselves feeling... different, but they put it off as a side effect of becoming a daedra - which, you know, fair.

But each time they were exposed to Spiral Skein they felt more and more weird, as if the Chaotic Creatia within them wanted to sink into that fragment of Mephala's domain and emerge anew.

So, when the opportunity came, when they found themselves deep into Spiral Skein, they let go - and discovered a new piece of themselves. They felt a lot more... arachnid, with ability to sprout eight spider legs from their back - or, if they concentrated enough, to fully change form into a Spider Daedra. That, however, took way too much out of them, and that was here, in Spiral Skein - so they didn't risk using it in other places unless it was really necessary.

But now Taren knew something more about themselves, all while being left with more questions than answers.

And now time for a couple screenshots!

Taren and their nice Nix Ox Foyada

Taren in their armor, they are dressed like this most of the time to hide their identity, it is embroidered with runes that help Taren blend with shadows

[spear-gsun]

Happy 20 years to the Imperishable Night

[princessbubblecup]

Undead stan... ive seen a couple fics for them and i think the idea needs more attention

Like, sort of zombie mostly just. Immortal.

Stan accidently kills a guy/ witnesses a dude dying and gets caught up in it (whether trying to help or just is unfortunately in the direct area). Hes all, "oh no, this guy is dead. I am holding this dead guy, maybe even moving him so i can hide the body--" when BAM! Dead guy is not dead, and is wiggling around in his arms while stan screams.

Dont know how he gets infected, maybe the guy bites him in a fit of freshly revived nonclarity, maybe their blood mixes, maybe the guy is pissed at being killed and curses/"blesses" stan for either killing/attempting to help him. Idk.

Point is, stan cant die! Well, he can, but he comes back.

This goes surprisingly unnoticed by the people around him. The environments stan finds himself in dont breed a lot of concern for those dropping dead, enough so that people dont even notice his corpse long enough for him to revive, his body is actively hidden and left behind so it doesnt have attention brought to it, he is alone the whole time, or any witnesses get written off as drug addicts or insane.

This provides a few issues with his internal worth as a person, but overall, convienant to avoid being dissected in a lab or repeat murderers!

However.... you can only die so many times before it gets noticed.

NOW! i have two ways this could go.

Option one: it actually takes a while to revive, working from the inside out. Waking up and breathing is the step right before healing external injuries. This makes it hard to tell the dead guy is alive until hes wiggling around on your morgue slab. That, and maybe it takes a little longer after every death (seriously stanley, you die, like, a lot) to come back.

So, stan is FINALLY found as a john doe and brought to a hospital and then to a morgue. He stays dead long enough for fords number to be found on him and then called and then ford to come to identify him. Long enough for ford to come back at midnight with plans to steal a body. Long enough for ford to start sliding the body off the table, but NOT long enough to make it to the door.

Stan wakes up, starts wiggling and gargling in post- unmortemdem, and ford starts screaming and dropping him and looking for a weapon because ohhhhh my god thats a zombie, stan is a zombie, holy crap.

For funsies maybe ford stabs him to death in a panic and then immediately regrets it because damn, stan is dead again. Starts to steal him again and hopefully find an anti zombie charm at some point, the whole thing happens again on the drive home and stan manages to explain before being killed again.

Option 2: stan goes up to meet ford, postcard in hand, and-- youll never guess-- fords crossbow introduction ends with a bolt sticking through someplace vital in stans anatomy.

Ford starts screaming, apologizing, trying to stop the bleeding. Ford tries putting pressure on the wound, he tries to stem the bloodflow, he tries cpr for the life of him. He has a full breakdown, he tries so hard but stan chokes and gasps and bleeds and dies.

Its useless.

He sits in the snow, starting to have a full mental break as he starts crying to his brothers corpse all the things he needs to and would never say, its all very tragic and sad, and we know how it goes by now.

Stan wakes up mid soliloquy and scares the shit out of ford, yelling about the injustice of being murdered literally right when they see each other for the first time in a decade, while ford starts wailing all over again from relief.

Either way, frankenstan is rudely interrupted by stan just solving the issue himself. By being undead.

Uhhhh, where to go from here.... im not sure... yet.

[helianthus21]

love Daniel during the vampire apocalypse. Akasha shows up at the vampire dinner table burning vampires left and right and he's like wow! I'm a part of this!! I can sit at the big adult vampire table! I am here with my maker and we will be together forever and ever!!

wonder if he’d been the same if he hadn’t been high on vampire birthday endorphins

[neverswungonswingingstars]

Unholy Family in S1 Promo

[deterioratingpisces]

Raglan James really said, ‘I want 10 million dollars and complete possession of your powerful, immortal and indestructible body’, and Lestat was like, ‘Say less’.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

you are so whimsical i qant to check out this mdzs (..??) because of your whimsical nature thank you sorry im very high and your art moved me emotionally

This is simultaneously the sweetest and funniest thing someone has sent me, thank you.

[eyesthecolorofarson]

DpxDc demon twins AU where Danny is basically fishingarret on YouTube. If you haven’t seen him he’s this psychopath of a man that walks barefoot in Florida and other dangerous places like Australia and the Amazon and removing invasive species. He does this by picking them up with his bare hands. This man feels so fear. He willingly poked a wasp nest. He tackled a 15ft python. And every time he picks something up he says yoink. Danny ‘already dead’ Fenton being left in Florida instead of Ohio

[thegremlininyourcloset]

c!Lizzie is one of those characters whose just really hard to understand, in such a way that I find sooo interesting.

like. Even from her own POV, it’s hard to tell what’s going on in her head!

Like, life series Lizzie often strikes me as surprisingly…unbothered? By her situation? That’s not the right way to phrase it either actually— she’s aware she’s in a death game, and she doesn’t want to die, but she also seems…almost calm about it? Like, she’s often paranoid, and yet she just sorta…continues to do her own thing!!!

but the most easily overlooked aspect of that, is Lizzie is still casually ruthless, in a away that’s simultaneously subtle and glaringly obvious.

she’s completely willing to use other people’s affection for her to her advantage! She lies not infrequently!!

and then, oftentimes there comes a moment where Lizzie’s “just vibing” energy gets disrupted—when someone makes her care.

and when that happens, Lizzie’s whole demeanor changes, and she develops a startling amount of bloodlust!

idk if this is coherent. Just. The Character. @fictfrenzy @feralpodcastlistener

[sea-owl]

One more post for the night since my brain doesn't want to quiet down.

After Arthur dies, Merlin returns to Camelot and Gwen. He tells her that Arthur has passed and he tells her about his magic. It is under Gwen's rule that magic is no longer outlawed, and Merlin becomes her court sorcerer. It is her rule that allows for not only Arthur's legacy to come about but also Merlin's.

The two cling to one another after Arthur's death. (Whether they were a throuple before or not is reader's choice.) Many nights spent in one another's arms. As Gwen grows older Merlin finds himself becoming more and more unable to accept that she may soon pass as well. He's lost too many, please just let him keep her, his first friend in Camelot.

It takes a significant amount of magic, but Merlin finds a way. Gwen is now immortal like him. They fake her death once they are sure her heir is ready.

The years that pass by are now less lonely than they would have had been had Merlin left on his own. They have each other, and they know Arthur will return to them too one day.

[khruschevshoe]

Really big fan of all the undead horror gay love quadrangles we've got going on this month. First Dead Boy Detectives with their Edwin-centric shenanigans and now IWTV and their Louis-centric. 10/10 for centering the prettiest guys in the world in the middle of a literal You-Cannot-Bury-These-Gays-They-Will-Literally-Dig-Themselves-Back-Out-Of-The-Ground-Woth-Their-Bare-Hands situation.

[big-city-times]

Tangent once had an octopus grab his legs and he went "oh look an octopus [:" and it started to drag him out to sea

oscar had to fight it off

he was perfectly fine with being dragged. he said ok ^_^ here we go!

[feralwetcat]

Thinking about how hundreds of years in the future when theres probably written stories of Momboo and Ari in libraries, people fantasizing their story, the lady of the world and a humanoid Allay, finding love in eachother even with their differences, even though they both lost their homes in many different ways, even though for a while the world was gone, and the allay was brutal, they still found eachother (aka a hugely romanticized version because there always has to be at least one per love story)

And then we cut the camera to the two of them running around trying to catch the allays who escaped through the portal while Bruin watches in the background, a flicker of Easton leaning next to Bruin, head leaned back as they laugh, unable to truly be there but still there in spirit, allays chittering as they float higher and higher above the two

(they eventually got all the allays but not without ari having to fly up, Momboo walking on a vine to reach the allays as she instills true fear into their tiny souls, and lots and lots of screaming)

[loki-ioki]

Forced Family Bonding ft. Da twins. He would like to be anywhere else lol

[neverswungonswingingstars]

Lestat in After the Phantoms of Your Former Self

[desalvar]

comperehensive compendium of things nik broke or built wrong in the process of frankensteining himself into an apex creechure:

his blood's straight up rotten.

like, enough to poison vampires and kill humans.

pulse approximately the BPM of a severely hypothermic man but his body temperature is average

somehow still has very few supernatural resistances and can die from pretty much everything you'd expect: fire, impact, blood loss, poison, eldritch insanity, etc. just drops like a sack of flour

AND feels the pain in full. his fleshy bits may not all be intact or anatomically correct, but they still hurt. divine comedy right there.

he severed his left hand at the wrist long ago, then reattached it. sustains it through living necrosis. it, too, feels pain.

can't stay dead

somewhat immortal

still affected by aging

technically NOT a natural magic user - anyone born capable of casting, learning, gaining or being gifted magic. had to single-handedly create a magic system for himself from the scraps of others and then change his metaphysical nature to sustain it.

it's like stealing a computer and reverse engineering yourself a whole new operating system

works with runes. has to create every single one individually and then update his own hardware and software with them one by one. it's as bloody and gruesome as it sounds. and not all of them even work

hell, sometimes they even backfire. when your metaphysical nature is this badly duct taped together, shit occasionally happens when you tinker with it. he has been historically stuck as, in no particular order, various arrangements of bloody viscera, a mummified undead, a chimera of eldritch proportions, an abyssal uncloseable portal and once, famously, a sentient domestic housecat for several years.

to no one's surprise, his DNA is no longer compatible with other humans. liger situation on steroids, he's just too far down the evolution line to procreate anymore

can't create any life, really. can't grow or sustain anything, plants and animals included.

his grimoire is swritten on his skin

taxonomic abomination, practically uncategorizable as any species in existence