#its actually radac

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Dwemer if they were BASED!!!!

Inspired by Assyrian shock troops

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I'm obsessed with the dynamic between vatyr and radac. There's so much chemistry and humor. Sorry if you've talked about this before, but how did they cross paths? Or just how did they come to be companions?

YOOO ANON! How you doing?

I’ve actually not talked about how they met before! So here, I hope you enjoy! :D I’m always overjoyed to talk about these two!

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As most know, Radac is a canon NPC from Morrowind’s Tribunal DLC main quest line. With a reforged blade, you are instructed to bring its enchanted flame back, to which no one knows how to do this?? Anyway, you find Radac floating around and he helps you with that. He’s also the only non-hostile dwemer spectre, and one of two dwarves you ever speak to. For Vartyr, I broke lore a bit to make it a bit fun.

Vartyr at this time was extremely disheveled, following the main events of Morrowind’s base game main questline. Before this however, he (then she), was an ex-member of the Magribash warrior witches, a group of matriarchal ashalnders (uesp has a great page on this if you’re interested!)

After this and the fall of some very naughty gods, Vartyr follows canon and makes way to Akavir as a hermit, to begin a journey of reflecting his previous life and understanding his new life as an immortal. He learns to read, write and his magical abilities soar, he decides to specialise in soul/dark magic in an attempt to help those undead and wandering to pass on from Mundus. Though he avoids calling himself a priest, or a necromancer as per his cultural ethos.

The Oblivion Crisis unfolds, Baar Dau falls from the skies of Vivec City and Red Mountain erupts leaving Vvardenfell almost completely devastated. Vartyr after some insane metamorphosis of his persona emerges from Akavir, noticing the natural catastrophes that happened to his home, and goes wandering to find familiar faces. Most, if not all, are gone to the sands of Akatosh. This renders his Nerevarine title near obsolete, to which he found refreshing. Deshaan though, was thankfully unscathed by the volcanic onslaught, so Vartyr went to see if a particular individual had passed on beneath Mournhold.

Radac’s soul has been bound to something in his forge following his death by the Nord invasion of Morrowind in 1E, and Vartyr takes to convincing Radac to help him pass and rest. Begrudgingly he obliged after some arguments, but then went back on his word and refused to leave Nirn. So Vartyr struck a deal, he’ll find and take the Dwemer phylactery with him and show Radac the world. Radac before only knew his work as is Dwemer tradition but agrees to travel. Though the condition is that once Radac feels content, he must come to a conclusion and choose to leave or stay.

Of course this is actually pretty good-hearted but really stupid of Vartyr, because their newfound friendship blurs the lines between helping a spirit pass, and fraternising with the undead which not only goes against Varys’s previously mentioned ethos but is also extremely immoral in the eyes of the public…

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