My name is Lasak Khatzag. I was born on 11 Last Seed 2e563 to an Iron Orc maiden. I never knew my father; he died defending the Exarch’s Stronghold from bloodfiends according to Shaman Lashburr Tooth-Breaker. After his death my mother moved to the city of Belkarth and worked at the Trader’s Delight Bazaar. She unfortunately died giving me life. As she had moved out of the Valley of Scars the clan refused to take care of me.
Being a friend of Adele Barbe, the owner of the Trader’s Delight, the Nibenese Imperial scholar Phrastus of Elinhir adopted me and I grew up at the Domus Phrasticus.
Since puberty I have known I was different. Invoking the name of Malacath at a way shrine would enable me to travel between any shrines I previously visited. However, I never tried to invoke any of the Divines of the Cyrodiilic Pantheon. I also found a miniature way shrine in the basement of the Crossroads Tavern and Inn. Small enough to be stored in a backpack. A Redguard, Kasura, told me there is an urban legend about it: using it I could teleport myself to any homestead I own from anywhere on Nirn! If you believe the legend. Curiouser and curiouser because I know I can! Into my backpack it goes.
For my fifteen-name day Phrastus was able to persuade Chieftain Braadoth to give me a tamed Welwa. I nicknamed him »Gibber«.
While I was locating the other wayshrines in Craglorn I met a Templar living near the Hel-Ra Citadel. I asked if he could train me, and he accepted. After a couple of months, I left as he started to be too friendly with me. I continued my training on my own and with the help of the Iron Orc Shaman. I would have liked to have some training from my “father”, but he had been recalled to the Imperial City by the Empress Regent Clivia Tharn.
Then one morning I woke up in the Direnni Tower on the isle of Balfiera.
Edited by ZOS_Kevin on November 7, 2024 11:09AM During the afternoon of Loredas, 6 Sun’s Dawn 2e578 a big piece of Aetherius fell to Nirn. It was the first major piece of Aetherius to fall on Nirn in more than five hundred years. It scattered around the world as millions of shards. It was rapidly documented by Lady Cinnabar of Taneth in her pamphlet Aetherial Fragments that "... when three shards meet, they re-form into a silvery prism by unknown process and confer the power unlocked by the merger to a nearby being." The Order of the Black Worm, commonly known as the Worm Cult, reappeared in Tamriel shortly thereafter and some of its members are avidly searching said shards.
In the last week of First Seed 2e579, an arcane explosion occurred in the Imperial City — a night of storms, and trembling terrain. They named it the "Soulburst". That day Emperor Varen Aquilarios disappeared without a trace. His wife, Clivia Tharn, ascended to the Ruby Throne as Empress Regent under the guidance of the Necromancer Mannimarco. Ushering a time of increased instability within the Empire of Cyrodiil which finally grew into “The Three Banners War”.