9 Chapter 8
Unlike Windhelm and Riften the Falkreath is a tiny and, frankly, backward city, with a population barely reaching 5000 or maybe 6000. It is hard to tell as there is no official census and I am just estimating it by comparing the size of the city to Helgen and other settlements that I saw.
In this almost sleepy stronghold of civilization in the middle of an evergreen forest, life goes on at an extremely slow and measured pace and after a week of living in one of the taverns, I can safely say Falkreath - it's just a big village where everyone knows everyone, and where nothing interesting happens for months.
Falkreath appears as a remote province, hardly worthy of attention. But that's exactly why I stayed here for so long, the lack of hectic city life attracted me, there is no large family that would hold with an invisible hand the throat of power over the local
crime and business, there are no big gangs, there are no dark guilds, there is nothing here that would be worth attention, and what is there already belongs to the jarl and
his yard.
But the past week was not spent in vain with me trying to count every resident when No. A local sawmill located by the side of the river that flows on the edge of the city was one of the places where I spent all my days making some cash and practicing magic during breaks.
And what did I learn in this week of training? Is that I suck and if not for blind luck I would have died long ago. Yes, I can create firebolts and ice spikes, when I just started I was missing my targets more than 9 out of 10 times, and now only accuracy has risen to 6 misses out of 10.
Thanks to some unknown reason my accuracy greatly increases with lightning. It was dangerous in my hands. Especially dangerous with the water around. Someone may
point out that it is not surprising, lightning is an electrical spark discharge, and
electricity, in turn, is a stream of charged electrons that will follow the path of least resistance that water provides. Right? Fucking wrong!
I created magical lightning. Magic converted into lightning is only possible due to different laws of nature, hence it should not behave like lighting from an entirely different universe.
-Infuriates! - Who said that the atoms in Nirn in particular and in the Aurbis as a whole at least somehow correspond to the atoms of my old world? Who did the research, and collected empirically proven observations and statistics? Who? Nobody? Ah, nobody.
According to the lore or better says according to the history: there were great
spirits, and one of them persuaded the others to create Nirn. Among them, there was a group led by Magnus that left before finishing. However, before that Magnus created the diagrams and diagrams needed for building the world, but in time he realized that they would have to give up a high portion of their power to create.
Hence he and his followers now known as magni-ge run away creating sun and stars, which are actually holes in the etherius/sky that allow magic to reach Nirn, which in essence is radiation, power, the essence of this spirit that pours from it into Nirn. The remaining spirits led by seven out of the eight strongest of them gave the lion's share of their power and finished the creation process.
Continuing the history lesson - Aurubis, the universe created by this process, as it is now, is divided into three parts and is a wheel. Axis - mundus, he is the plane of mortals, he is also Nirn and his satellites. Wheel rim -this is etherius, the spokes are the planets of eight deities, and all afterlife realms are located there. And the free space between the spokes, the rim, and the axle is Oblivion, a space that is filled with many planes of Daedra princes and Emptiness.
And if you do like Vivek and go beyond the limits of the Aurbis, then you can see that yes, the universe is a wheel, it has the shape of a disk and is divided into parts, just like a wheel. And now I need to remember the structure of the cosmos of my past world ... oh yes, no one does know it, but the best guess is that it is forever expanding in all directions spot of outer space.
Even the usual comparison of the two worlds has fundamental differences, what
talk about the laws of physics and chemistry, if they exist at all since the Aleids
proved that if you have Chim-El Abadal, you can create your own Tower and twirl the whole continent of Nirn as their want. Literally asserting the reality that the owner of the Tower wants. And Tyber Septim confirmed this a second time, capturing the White and Gold Tower and turning the tropical Cyrodil into what is around now.
Yeah, that is, in other words, chemistry, and physics in Nirn with enough magic, and
sometimes without it, just because of the concepts, can be bent at any time.
As an example of manipulation of concepts without magic - mythopoeia, it is enough
to a huge number of people and mers to believe in gods, as these gods either
will be created according to their faith, weaving into the fabric of reality, as if they always existed, or old ones are changed to fit new currents of faith.
Alessia has already done this by creating the pantheon of the Eight in Tamriel. But it is a mixture of the gods of the Mers and Humans. As an example of a wild mixture - Alduin was in the myths of the Merethic era, and he was not
a son of Akatosh, then Akatosh, as a god, did not exist at all, but in two hundred
the forty-second year of the first era, Alessia, having created a new religion, created Akatosh, who was a mixture of Aldmeri Auri-El and Nord Alduin. Here you and "I am Alduin, son of Akatosh!". Briefly about how you can turn the universe
without magic, for dummies.
And the question, even a whole series of questions generated by this revelation: do I breathe ordinary O2 or a mixture unknown to me at all? And acceleration in free
falling is anywhere close to ten meters per second? Or is it the local iron
ferrum or another unknown metal, which is simply called iron by the locals, and
So many questions that you simply can't answer.
-Argh! - a stone in the hand that was picked up from the shore from anger was squeezed and thrown back into the water. I was furiously infuriated by the situation when my knowledge alone, directly contradicted others and were both true at the same time.
- Why is everything so difficult? Yhan my thoughts were stopped by a new sound.
Grrrrrrrr! no, it wasn't a wild beast, just my hungry stomach.
Eh, some food would be nice, - my stomach growled like a wounded bear, signaling that It would be nice to throw something at him. Wow, heavy brain work eats up as many calories as a good workout.
Smiling at my thoughts, I turned towards the sawmill, and to the narrow path that led to it, and on which there were now two: a girl from one of the sawmill workers and a new employee who apparently noticed a child wandering where it was not necessary. Since I am going towards the town I can accompany her.
-Hey, little lady, - I turned to the girl and she, having heard me, broke away from the flowers. at the edge of the path, and looked at me.
- Ah, crazy mage! - they recognized me, but the way she called me was jarring,
I'm not insane, I'm just emotionally venting my frustration out loud.
- Do your parents let you roam here? - in the meantime, he approached her, and the Nord, whom he spotted at the very beginning stopped, watching me and the girl, the right thing to do in his position.
-Dad is at the sawmill now, I brought him food and asked him to play here, he knows, I often play here, - well, at least one parent is aware, it's already good, but still leave too far from the city, even if there are even barely a hundred meters to it.
-Hah, I think you've played enough here, let's go to your dad.
-But I just got here! she whimpered in frustration, even stamping her foot.
-What if I show you magic? - when dealing with the children you just need to give them a new toy and divert their attention.
-Magic? - she immediately changed her mood to fully interested. -
-Can you really it to me exactly?
- Yeah, as soon as we come to your dad.
- Ok! - She was delighted and took off from her place in the direction of the standing Nord.
And I already breathed a sigh of relief, as something wrong caught on my eyes, at first I did not understand, and when I realized it was too late to do anything, events took off. That Nord who had been looking at us all this time, froze in place looking towards the running girl, and a second later a growl escaped from his throat, quickly losing any humanity.
Here he stands like a statue, and the next moment he rushed to the girl on the go, losing his appearance of a man, becoming covered with black fur, and changing into a large and insane werewolf, with yellow eyes full of animal hunger.
His hind legs are tensed, he is ready to jump, he pushes off the ground, and he makes his first centimeters of the jump in the air.
As if looking at time-lapse filming, I watched how the distance between the danger-conscious girl and the mad servant of Hircine swiftly decreases, and I'm too far away to help, get the girl out of the way of the claws and fangs that are already reaching for her defenseless body. In a slow world, I am watching a tragedy that hasn't happened yet.
-No! - Adrenaline, it had to be adrenaline hitting my head, otherwise I can't explain my immediate reaction. I couldn't reach the girl, she was too far away from me and too close to the beast.
But my magic could. The bright, thick, and dangerous lightning bolts fell from my hands thrown forward, and each of them hit the target. Right into my chest, and right shoulder from the power of my magic, even the huge carcass of the werewolf shuddered and was thrown away from the girl. I'm sure if he wasn't in the air without support under his paws, I could have never thrown it away with the usual "Lighting bolt".
- Run to your daddy, girl! - I shouted to the girl and she, coming out of a frightened stupor rushed away screaming and sobbing. Meanwhile, the werewolf rose from the grass, where a second earlier it knocked down. He got up and stared with his eyes burning with rage exactly at me, forgetting about the girl.
I knew what would happen next. I knew. And surprisingly, he wasn't afraid.
- Come and get me, bitch! - this infuriated the already enraged werewolf and he rushed at me.
I was only annoyed that I had left my sword in the tavern. With bare hands and almost exhausted magicka against a werewolf? It will not even be a hassle for my opponent.
-Oak-flesh.- Yeah, I don't have enough Magicka after the training for stone flesh and I need to preserve some strength for an attack.
-Grrraaaaa! - with an open mouth full of sharp fangs and dripping saliva he attacked. Werewolf front paws extended toward me with a dozen razor-sharp dagger-claws and that was the last thing that I saw before throwing myself into the arms of the beast with flashing lightning in my hands.
