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re: Valkynaz Valrizs

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Name:

Valrizs

 

Age:

Ageless

 

 

Birthsign:

 

[REDACTED]

 

Profession:

Valkynaz of the Dagonite Court (currently on hiatus)

 

Appearance:

 

Tall, rather muscular Dremora Lord with gaunt, predatory facial features. His otherwise dark skin is interwoven with intricate crimson patterns. Valrizs ‘ long, backswept horns are visible testimony to his formerly high standing among the otherworldly nobility of Oblivion. He prefers to wear black robes of Daedric origin, mixed with pieces of infused Ebony armor and accentuated by red  glowing sigils as well as the demonic heraldry of the nightmarish Deadlands. On top of the already supermundane nature of his attire, Valkynaz Valrizs uses highly personalized enchantments on his clothes, armor and weaponry, focused on strengthening his magicka reservoir as well as his physical prowess in combat. He usually wields a Daedric mage staff fashioned from the fiery blood of his home realm itself, molded into shape by the Dremora’s own hands and cooled in the hostile environment of the Akaviri Kamal’s dreadful glacier dominion during a transliminal incursion.

 

Background and personality:

 

Valrizs is supposed to be a cruel entity. His ambition allowed him to climb up the strict Daedric hierarchy established and followed by Mehrunes Dagon’s infernal Dremora legions. Since he first rose from the blazing creatia which fills the burning oceans of the Deadlands, he killed, raped and maimed to conquer his enemies and thereby his place among the diabolic denizens of the Void. Yet even as a lowly Churl, barely dry from the endless Waters of Oblivion,  Valrizs strongly believed in kynship and loyalty among the members of his clan.  As brutal as he was to outsiders, as comradely he acted towards his Kyn. 

 

As a grunt, the Dremora has proven himself on the battlefields of a thousand crossdimensional wars. He marched side by side with his Kyn to carve what soon would become the pocket realm of the Havoc Wellhead into a disputed border reality. He was at the frontlines when Dagonite forces took back the Infernace from insurgent Flame Atronachs and even supported his Kynreeve in the slaying of the guileful Flame Monarch Iya-Roht on top of the Magma Citadel – a deed rewarded with the promotion to Kynval, the closest equivalent the Daedra have to the mortal knights of the Tamrielic west.

His new position came with equally new responsibilities. Kynval Valrizs was given command of his own Dremora unit, which he lead into the Soul Cairn to establish a staging area for the invasion of over a hundred Mephalan satellite planes, taking them out in a preemptive strike. Valrizs learned not to directly charge into battle, but to utilize small unit tactics. With not only his own mortal form at risk of disintegration, he began to develop a less direct approach in dealing with the enemy. It was also during this period, that Valrizs started to specialize in the use of spells rather then blunt force. He learned much from the Xivilai Lyrcess the Kynreeve attached to his unit as arcane auxiliary. Although stubbornly independent minded, the Daedric warlock came to respect Valrizs after some time of shared combat experience in the twilight realms orbiting the Spiral Skein. 

 

After what was planned to be a swift and utter victory over Mephala’s arachnid host turned into a lengthy war of attrition, with two equally infinite and immortal forces pitted against each other in a seemingly cosmic deadlock,  it fell to small squads of elite Dremora commandos to turn the tide in Mehrunes Dagon’s favor. In the end, the breakthrough at the Pitch-Black Lattice was possible thanks to a small number of daring and unorthodox missions behind enemy lines, in most of which Kynval Valrizs prominently participated. 

Despite Valrizs’ best efforts and his overall successes during the extramundane crusade, the Xivilai Lyrcess was soultrapped and abducted by a powerful Dridrea Matriarch when cut off from the rest of the unit by hordes of rabid Daedrats unleashed unto the Dagonite legions to cover the Mephalan retreat to the Fortress Realities on the inner periphery of the Spiral Skein.

 

Fate gave the Dremora knight little time to dwell on the loss of the Xivilai he considered his Kyn. The casualties of his clan were great, with many a Daedra sent back to the Waters of Oblivion to regain tangible form. Uplifted to the rank of Kynreeve and thusly promoted into the exclusive cabal of Oblivion nobility, Valrizs was given command of greater and greater numbers of Dremora warriors and auxiliary troops recruited from lower orders of Deadland creatures.

As an officer, Kynreeve Valrizs continued to distinguish himself in the ceaseless wars waged between the Sixteen Void Princes and their fiendish vassals. It was he who led his clan and a dozen more into the Woodland Abyss, burning down the Eldritch Analects Hermaeus Mora hid there in the between-spaces beyond Fyrian Geometry. It was he who darkened the Echo Stars stolen away by Azura and trapped on the Gloomy Firmament folded into the ceiling of her pompous throne room It was he who raided Sheogorath’s Madhouse and released  insanity incarnate into the Slipstream between the Mundus and Oblivion, preventing mortal void travel along seventeen mutually exclusive timelines from the Dawn Age far into the Fifth Era as well as isolating the schizophrenic realms of the Shivering Isles from their numerous client spheres.

The title of Kynreeve followed the title of Kynmarcher, and the title of Kynmarcher followed the title of Markynaz, right hand of the clan’s Dremora Lord, Valkynaz Zyrquam, known to Kyn and foe as the Burning Blight since the Rape of the Star-Orphanage at the Refracting Maze’s summit. 

 

It was at the Sapphire Vortex, after ten thousand and none unyears of faithful service, that Valrizs finally claimed the clan for himself. Following the defeat of the Lazurite Terror, champion of a semi-Daedric civilization of polymorphic, hyperintelligent gemstones dwelling in a pocket realm ascendant to Peryite’s lowest pits, Markynaz Valrizs slew his victorious clan leader in single combat, knee-deep wading through the liquefied insides of the Lazurite commander. Later, Valrizs stated that Mehrunes Dagon himself revealed this destiny to him during the heat of battle, and that he took command by savoring an honorable bloodlust, holy to the Dremora of the Deadlands. Unknown to many, Valrizs contemplated this final step to  revolt, to join the supreme echelons of the Dagonite Court a long time before, and even longer after. Zyrquam was offered  a post as Markynaz and second-in-command by his better as soon as he reformed, but the deeply wounded and furious Dremora Lord declined, leaving clan and Kyn behind to journey to the farthest reaches of the Deadlands and create a new clan of loyal servants from other exiles and ambitious warrior nobility he offered greatness in return for their binding oath.

If Valkynaz Valrizs had any regrets about this turn of events, he never showed or shared them, instead kicking off the Blackfire Campaign – the unscrupulous invasion of the Kamal nation on the Akaviri continent, exploiting one of many metaphysical loopholes in the makeup of the Aurbis. On the material world of Nirn, Valrizs tasted the souls of many a mortal, basking in his triumphs over the Kamal, and in turn learning from their victories. The Blackfire Campaign instilled the newly crowned Dremora Lord with a healthy respect – some even go so far to say fascination – for all mundane things. In the end, the Snow Demons of Akavir closed and sealed the last Oblivion Gates in their frozen lands, and ended the Campaign.

 

Out of respect for mortality grew the obsession to test his warriors and himself against the denizens of the material plane.  Again and again Valkynaz Valrizs led small raiding parties across the barriers between the spheres of existence, fighting various forces in the Mundus, from the tundra of Skyrim over the deserts of Hammerfell to the jungles of Valenwood and the swamps of Argonia. Between these incursions, he studied the holy texts of his Prince, meditating over Mehrunes Dagon’s true place in the Aurbic Wheel.

His personal philosophy was challenged by the believes of a quirky mortal plane-traveller going by the name of Navradas Taryl, a wizard of Great House Telvanni, one of the Dunmer noble houses ruling the Tamrielic province of Morrowind. At first annoyed by the insolent Dark Elf, the Valkynaz ordered him killed and his ashen skin fashioned into a banner to fly among many others on the top of his dark tower. 

The Dremora Caitiff carrying out the order failed, and was instead soultrapped by the mortal wizard, who thereafter returned his disembodied captive to Valrizs’ tower itself. This show of great arcane strength and equally great eccentricity made the Dremora Lord take actual interest in the curious Telvanni, granting him the audience he was pestering the Kyn about for weeks. To the outside world, little is known of what was discussed between Navradas Taryl and Valrizs. Yet when the Dunmer left the Bloody Orchard – the throne room of the clan’s Valkynaz – he was not only alive and in one piece, he also radiated excitement and plentiful glee.  The unlucky Caitiff, on the other hand, had to endure severe punishment after his vestigial spirit had been extracted from the Dunmer’s soulgem.

 

In the military engagements to come, the Telvanni was allowed to accompany the clan’s forces, and even travel with the entourage of Valrizs, what undoubtedly granted him unique insights into the Daedric  art of warfare. The Dremora Prince sailed with his armies and the mortal observer to countless planes, always waging the never ending war in the name of Mehrunes Dagon, Daedric Prince of Destruction and Revolution. As the objects of their respective counterpart’s curiosity, Navradas and Valrizs established a rather odd, yet firm relationship. Before the mortal wizard left the Valkynaz’ host, he was even named Kyn of the clan by Valrizs himself. 

Oblivion’s psychedelic fever dream of history did not stop for one Mer. War continued to rage across the infinitude of planes sprinkling the Void, and spilling out to other parts of the Aurbis whenever the opportunity arose.

 Molag Bal’s Planemeld presented Mehrunes Dagon’s armies with such an opportunity. When the Dragon Fires in Tamriel’s Imperial City died, and the Dark Anchors fell, Dagon’s forces pushed through the newly teared wounds in the skin of the world and invaded on multiple fronts across the central Nirnian continent. 

Valkynaz Valrizs led the charge to sack the Summerset Isles, homeland of the magically inclined Altmer, sworn enemies of all the Daedra and in their unchanging ways an affront to the Lord of Destruction. Yet in the ruins of the once proud Altmeri city of Skywatch, Valrizs finally met his own conquerer. 

 

A mortal champion cleaved through his inner circle of Dremora nobles, slew the allies he had among the Altmer, and sent him back to Oblivion with a battered army and no tribute for Mehrunes Dagon. It was none other then Zyrquam, now Valkynaz of a newly founded clan, who confronted the defeated Valrizs and had his last surviving warriors banished to the Waters of Oblivion, where they and their fallen brethren were trapped in non-corporeal form to pay for the humiliation at Skywatch.

Valrizs only barely managed to avoid such a fate. Only a coward would not try to make up for the shame he brought to his loyal Kyn and himself, and to make up for it, he had to be free. In this hour of great need, the fallen Dremora Prince fled to an unaligned Outer Realm, hounded by his merciless rivals. He could impossibly remain in Oblivion. No plane was too far removed, no sphere too obscure to hide from the wrath of Zyrquam and his clan of pariahs. Both Dremora Princes were ready to sacrifice everything to regain their standing. Zyrquam currently had the upper hand, so it fell to Valrizs to make a most unorthodox decision: He reached out with his magic and contacted the Telvanni Navradas Taryl, asked the last of his Kyn – a mortal nonetheless – to summon him to the Mundus.

Navradas agreed.

 

Religious beliefs:

 

He respects Mehrunes Dagon as his most supreme commander, worthy of worship to a certain extend. His only true faith is the sheer principle of Destruction and Revolution everything related to Dagon stands for. Even if that means to turn his back to the Deadlands for a while. Valrizs deeply contemplated Dagonite philosophy and always searches new ways to express its essence.

 

Childhood:

 

Foolish mortals…

Noteable relationships:

 

Telvanni Navradas Taryl – The first relationship Valrizs began with a mortal and which exceeded rape and torture. Navradas still is one of the closest confidants of the Dremora in exile.

 

Telvanni Shelonah Serven – A young mortal woman of mixed Dunmer and Altmer heritage, apprentice in the Great House Telvanni (Central Morrowind chapter). After a rough start, she came to respect Valrizs, and he is utterly fascinated by her.

 

Redoran Thovasi Roran – A Redoran noble daughter given into slavery by her father, a high ranking politician in Blacklight, to gloss over some ugly questions regarding her maternal heritage. Thovasi is Shelonah’s girlfriend, and observed Valrizs advances with utmost caution, always  protective of Shelonah. She serves the Central Morrowind chapter of Great House Telvanni as Warden since she was granted freedom.

 

Telvanni Cernon - After a few difficults in the beginning, he started to respect and to like this alchemist.

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