#zulanabi ashtebal

[andauril]

3, 6, 29, and 43 for the saltiest dunmer, Zulanabi :D

3. What is the worst pain they’ve ever experienced?

Being sacrificed to Molag Bal. It wasn’t just the physical experience of being killed, but the whole process … feeling her soul literally ripped from her body was agonising, and the terror she felt when she was helplessly strapped down to the altar as Mannimarco cut her still beating heart out. It was a harrowing experience through and and through, and probably has been a reason for her partial amnesia after escaping Coldharbour, as she initially wasn’t even aware of having DIED or being soulshriven. Regaining her memories of the event is something she would luckily had passed on if she’d been given the choice. 

6. What is something that never fails to make them feel sick?

Having to be around House Dunmer s’wits. That’d be her sister turning her back on the tribe to marry a House Dunmer. Zulanabi just doesn’t understand it. Her sister, Raishiwi, was raised with the same beliefs and values and in the same tradition as her. And yet she renounced her ties to the Urshilaku by marrying a Telvanni, of all people. It makes her sick, because for Zulanabi, it means forsaking her roots, her family, her tribe, her people, especially because Raishiwi had to accept the Tribunal faith to be accepted as a bride by her husbands family, which goes against anything Zulanabi has learned and against the very beliefs of the Ashlanders. 

29. Does what they cannot see scare them?

No. Zulanabi was trained in the ways of the Wise Women, and thus the unseen and unseeable are entities she has learned to respect as well as anticipate. It’s tangible threats that scare her a lot more than any obscure maybes. 

43. Do they wish that they could change their pasts?

Yes, definitely. If she could, she would go back and prevent her own sacrifice to Molag Bal. She also would try and convince her siser to not run off with a filthy House Dunmer f’lah, but preventing her own death and sacrifice to Molag Bal would take priority. It was the worst experience of her life, and she fails to see where it wisened her ... 

[andauril]

The Aldmeri Dominion has a honorable (albeit disgraced and hellbound on restoring her honor and her good name ... and her soul) hero, Casaia Barillion, who also has got a hopeless crush on her queen, but aside from that ... I mean, Casaia is well-trained on many weapons and definitely capable. She was captain of the houseguard of an important Altmer House before she fell from grace. So the Aldmeri Dominion isn’t really that bad off with her, and they have a champion who will always try what’s right, who will not be swayed by the lure of gold and fortune. 

The Daggerfall Covenant’s got Riya Tigris, a battle hardened veteran who will always put her duty first and who’s got a very strong sense of loyalty to the Covenant so she’ll never put her own needs before them. Riya will do what needs to be done. Sometimes that means making hard choices, but ultimately she has the good of everyone in mind. 

And then there’s the Ebenheart Pact with a ex-thief Argonian and a grumpy Ashlander, who while kinda sorta liking each other also tend to get on each other’s throats a lot. Not to mention Mar-Ei’s battle against his thievy urges that he can’t seem to leave behind and Zulanabi’s struggle to retrieve her missing memories ... Of all the three alliances, I’d say the Ebenheart Pact got the short end of the stick. 

[andauril]

And here’s Zulanabi Ashtebal, a proud Ashlander, who has the incredible luck of being sacrificed to Molag Bal and becoming Hero of the Ebenheart Pact alongside a certain Argonian who found her, a partly amnesiac Dunmer, after she had escaped from Coldharbor. 

[andauril]

She’s finally among her kin (but I have to get my hands on the motif damnit ... I wish I could just buy them or sth ...) 

[andauril]

Can you tell us more about your eso ocs? We don't know much about them tbh.

Sure, why not?

Casaia Barillion is my Soulless One/Vestige. She was formerly the captain of the house guard of the noble Aldmer House of Nethereth (from which btw another of my OCs is descended) but fell from grace when the head of the House was assassinated under her watch. Since then, she had to earn her coin as mercenary until she was sacrificed to Molag Bal. The experience of being dishonored and of her death have considerable humbled her, and they’ve given her compassion towards the poor and unfortunate and the disadventaged that she didn’t have before. It doesn’t stop her from falling in love with no one other than Queen Ayrenn herself, though. 

Mar-Ei is my Pact Hero. He’s an Argonian who used to be a thief until his sweetheart was beaten to death by the people he worked for because he didn’t met a deadline. He then had enough of all this and turned himself in to the guard, gave them the name of his boss and served some years in prison. When he was released, he swore off the life of a criminal. He’s trying his best, leading a honest life, being a good person … and then the ship he hired on sinks on the Coast of Bleakrock. 

Ah, yes, and there’s Zulanabi Ashtebal, by the way a distant ancestral relative of Lledana Hladu. She’s an Ashlander, and proud of it, and you can bet she’s got a look of contempt and exasperation on her face everytime she has to deal with House Dunmer. She, too, ended up sacrificed to Molag Bal, and therefore is Soul Shriven, but managed to escape … to be found by Mar-Ei, no less. The harrowing experience of being sacrificed and the torture she had to endure in Molag Bal’s prison left her bereft of most of her memory, and now all is in a fuzz and she’s desperate to figure out what happened. She and Mar-Ei don’t always got along, and spend a lot of time bickering. And it definitely doesn’t sit well with her that she ended up a hero for the Pact. She couldn’t give two shits about the Pact.

And then there’s Riya Tigris, Hero of the Covenant. She’s a veteran soldier, and a proud Redguard. She’s seen a lot of battle and is therefore … well, let’s say she’s more on the pragmatic side than Casaia, although not ruthless by any stretch of the word. But she’s seen enough of the world to know that you gotta be sensible sometimes instead of following noble ideals 100% of the time. She is very loyal and devoted and believes in the Covenant and what it stands for. She’s also already in her 40s, so retirement is around the corner and she sometimes longs for it, but her work isn’t done yet and she won’t lay down her weapons when she’s still needed. 

Then there’s Ellinor Vaun. She’s only 17 year old, but already an assassin of the Dark Brotherhood, and she uses her babyface to her adventage. No one suspects the sweet innocent girl to be a ruthless killer, after all. She is considerably hardened by the time she spent surviving on the streets as a child, and she ended up killing the son of her employer - a Daggerfall noble who took pity in her - after he made a move on her that she didn’t appreciate. Ellinor has a knack for magic that was honed by the Dark Brotherhood, and she fights with an axe. There’s definitely a fair share of anger and bitterness build up inside her.

[andauril]

Cheeva!!

B A S I C S

full name: Cheeava 

gender: cis-male

sexuality: straight

pronouns: he/him

O T H E R S

family: Lledana Hladu (adoptive mother), Kesjara (biological mother, deceased), Looks-Into-Sun (biological father, deceased), Zulanabi Ashtebal (ancestral relative, adoptive), Saryn Hladu (grandfather, adoptive, deceased), Mesile Hladu (grandmother, adoptive, deceased), Bresith Hladu (adoptive uncle, deceased)

birthplace: Thorn, Blackmarsh

job: Shadowscale, assassin

phobias: killing people he cares about

guilty pleasures: sweetrolls, drawing

M O R A L S

morality alignment?: chaotic neutral

sins - lust/greed/gluttony/sloth/pride/envy/wrath

virtues - chastity/charity/diligence/humility/kindness/patience/justice

T H I S - O R - T H A T

introvert/extrovert: extrovert

organized/disorganized: organised

close minded/open-minded: open-minded

calm/anxious: calm

disagreeable/agreeable: agreeable

cautious/reckless: reckless

patient/impatient: impatient

outspoken/reserved: outspoken

leader/follower: neither

empathetic/unemphatic: empathetic

optimistic/pessimistic: pessimistic

traditional/modern: modern

hard-working/lazy: hard-working

R E L A T I O N S H I P S

otp: Cheeava x Knows-Many-Secrets

ot3: none

brotp: Cheeava & literally every other young member of the Brotherhood because they all like him, Cheeava & Lucien Lachance

notp: Cheeava x Lledana Hladu 

[andauril]

Lledana Hladu

B A S I C S

full name: Lledana Hladu of Great House Telvanni

gender: cis-female

sexuality: heterosexual, demiromantic

pronouns: she/her, they/them

O T H E R S

family: Ahabani Hleveran (ancestor, deceased), Raishiwi Sarellith (ancestor, deceased), Zulanabi Ashtebal (ancestral relative), Saryn Hladu (father, deceased), Mesile Hladu (mother, deceased), Bresith Hladu (older brother, deceased), Cheeava (son, adoptive)

birthplace: Sadrith Mora, Morrowind, Vvardenfell

job: formerly priestess of Azura, formerly Knight of the Nine, asassin, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood

phobias: being burned alive

guilty pleasures: blood, challenging contracts, experimenting with new spells/magic

M O R A L S

morality alignment?: lawful evil

sins - lust/greed/gluttony/sloth/pride/envy/wrath

virtues - chastity/charity/diligence/humility/kindness/patience/justice

T H I S - O R - T H A T

introvert/extrovert: introvert

organized/disorganized: organised

close minded/open-minded: close-minded

calm/anxious: calm

disagreeable/agreeable: disagreeable

cautious/reckless: cautious

patient/impatient: patient

outspoken/reserved: reserved

leader/follower: leader

empathetic/unemphatic: unempathetic

optimistic/pessimistic: pessimistic

traditional/modern: traditional

hard-working/lazy: hard-working

R E L A T I O N S H I P S

otp: Lledana Hladu x Lucien Lachance

ot3: none

brotp: she doesn’t have friends

notp: none

[andauril]

Zulanabi

* She’s to become the next Wise Woman of the Urshilaku. 

* She deeply mistrusts House Dunmer and thinks that they’re fools and idiots at best. 

* Mar-Ei had to reign her in several times because otherwise she might’ve insulted Almalexia to her face and that would’ve been dangerous to say the least.

* She’s an ancestral relative of Lledana Hladu through her sister, Raishiwi Sarellith, but would never recognise that relationship because she refuses any association with House Dunmer n’wah.

* She lost part of her memory after she escaped from Coldharbour and spends much of the Bleakrock, Bal Foyen, and Stonefalls storylines very confused.