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Child of Dusk and Shadow Ch.1

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I woke up to find myself on a sleeping pad in a dimly lighted, damp, and cold room. I was wearing a ratty shirt and pants, sandals, and wrist iron.

"Where am I?" I said as I got up and looked around. The room was tall, narrow, long, and of stone. There was a small wooden table and chair in front of me, an iron barred window behind and above me, a small enclave to my right, and then an iron barred door a few meters in front of me.

I walked over to the door and tried to open it, but it was locked. I looked down both ends of the hall that was on the other side of the door and saw several other rooms like mine. And next to the door inside the room in front and to the right of me, there was a dark skinned male with dirty white hair, red eyes, pointy ears, and was wearing the same clothes I was.

He looked at me and said, "I must surely be dead, and in the halls of Azura to look upon such a vision. You are so beautiful, my dear Dunmer maiden... One of the guards owes me a favor, you know. I could get us put in the same cell. Would you like that? You should have some fun before the end. Yeah, you heard me. No matter what the law says. No matter what they told you. You're going to die in here! You're going to die!" A heavy metal door creaked on its hinges. "Hey you hear that. The guards are coming, for you!" he laughed and disappeared back into his room.

In came a man of medium height, medium toned skin, short dark brown hair, and he was wearing some kind of armor. He stopped in front of me and said, "Good you're awake now. Everyone finds you are not guilty of the crime you supposedly committed, but this short little Nord thinks other wise and has somehow been given another week to find evidence saying you're guilty. Every one knows you're innocent though, so don't worry."

I didn't know what he was talking about or anything. "Um I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you are talking about, or who you are, or where I am." I continued in a confused voice. "Actually I don't even remember anything or even who I am."

He scratched his head with a worried look. He said quietly. "Ok I'm sorry for this. First off my name is Marcus Magnus and you are in the Imperial Prison. Second, we don't know your name, you were only referred as the "wanderer" and you were accused of robbing a store and killing the owner. But like I said, we know you're not guilty." He finished.

"No one knows what my name is?" I said shocked.

"Nope, but I can help you later on picking one. I'm going to go get the mage who arrested you and ask what he did to you and see if there is a way to get your memories back." He said, "oh and I will move Dreth to the other hall of cells, since he can be irritating to others."

"Thank you Magnus." I said.

"No problem" He said as he unlocked Dreth's door and told him to walk out. He closed the door and disappeared with Dreth.

Later.

I was sitting on the wooden chair that was in the cell trying to remember something, but didn't have any lucky doing so. I heard the metal door in the hall open and close. 'That must be Magnus' I thought. I got up and walked to my cell door.

He appeared and walked up to my door. "Ah I see you took off the wrist irons. Ok so I talked to the mage and he said the spell he used on you to knock you out was specifically made to preserve a person's memory and has been proven in the past to very affective, he also said it was made by a past Archmage also." He stopped and took a breath. "He also is very skilled in alteration, so he is going to see if he can find any memories locked in your head."


"When will he be here?" I said hoping it will work.

"To night, but only while you're asleep and don't worry I'll be here when he is."

"Of course I have to be asleep."

"Ya, but with some luck I'm sure he will be able to bring back some of your memories at least."

"I hope so."

"Well I need to go so good night and make sure you're asleep."

"I will be and good night."

He turned and disappeared. I walked over to the sleeping pad and laid down to go to sleep as I heard the metal door open and close again.
So this is the start of my oblivion fanfic. It follows my character in the game with a few changes.

One is the different starting. Instead of the emperor coming and stuff i have it where my character is accused of a crime. Still with no memories, still in the imperial prison, and of course the long insult by Dreth, and for the ones who remember it, yes my character is a female dark elf.

Oh and i actually have an explanation of the no memory issue, which is the second difference also

btw there was indenting issues

Marcus Magnus is mine
and the "wanderer" is mine

Everything else is property of Bethesda SoftWorks

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Ah Dreth. I remember that foul lout. I think everyone does. He's such a pervert to the dunmer ladies. XD
This was an interesting take on the beginning. I've always thought how interesting it would be to create a back story as to why the Oblivion Hero was incarcerated. :)