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Miraak returns to Solstheim and quickly jumps off of his dragon, landing before Louise and Joseph.

"By the blood covering your robes, I'm assuming the enemy isn't dead... My lord." Joseph remarks as Miraak pushes past them.

"No. They are far more powerful than I anticipated," he states, but despite his grim words he was actually grinning under his mask, excited at the prospect of a grand battle since Alduin had already been defeated.

"Should I destroy them?" Louise questions while gripping her wand tightly.

Miraak shakes his head, "Not yet. I still wish to fight," he clasps his right hand and allows his Gandalfr runes to glow. "Are the men ready?"

Joseph nods, "Ravenrock has been fortified and fully manned. No one can approach without suffering severe damage."

"Good. Let them come and meet their death. Let the new world be born in blood."

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"That's a lot of men... I thought the port was supposed to be open?" Ralof utters as the ship sails closer to Ravenrock.

"They knew an assault was coming, only a fool wouldn't prepare for it." Surtr states and eyes the walls which had many men atop them. Particularly, he was wary of the people in robes wielding wands, staves, and staffs.

"Snake! Fire those arrows and eliminate the mages!" Surtr orders Medusa who scowls at him in response.

"I thought you were the powerful 'Dragonborn', why would someone like you need me, an old crippled woman to do your job for you?" she scathingly questions.

"Cripple? Hardly! As for me? I must save my strength to face Miraak. He has millennia of training compared to my couple years." he retorts.

"Have one of your lapdogs do it then."

"There are none with your capabilities."

Medusa snorts in disdain, "I recall a saying, 'A kings people reflects himself'... What does it mean for all your subordinates to be worthless chaff then?"

"Will you not obey the word of your King?" Surtr asks with gritted teeth, finding this to be a common problem with the people Winterhold...

"I serve only myself." she states before turning and slithering away.

"Damned creature of Oblivion!" Surtr angrily growls and looks toward Ravenrock. "I will do it myself then... STRUN BAH QO!" he shouts, summoning a similar but less powerful storm that Miraak had in the earlier battle... Unfortunately, Miraak responds from the city by using the Clear Skies Shout up at the clouds, easily dispersing the storm.

Surtr was about to start shouting curses in Dragontongue at the city and lose his temper but Kunkka appears from behind and places a hand on his shoulder. "Stop, I will deal with it.

"... How? Miraak will obstruct anything you could do!"

The Admiral shows a toothy smile and draws Tidebringer. "Allow me to show you... Sputter and drown! Let the sea swallow you!" he shouts while resting a foot up on the raised area of the bow, pointing Tidebringer into the sky before bringing it down towards the city.

The ship shudders as a huge amount of water is gathered from beneath them causing the ship to sway. After a few moments of tense silence, the sea writhes with power, and a huge tidal wave appears with a roar in front of them. Its terrifying power streamed towards the fortified city much to the horror of those on the walls.

It towered at around thirty meters tall, not as high as the new walls surrounding Ravenrock, but certainly enough to crash through them. If that wasn't enough, Kunkka's Ghost Ship had hitched a ride directly atop it and was already firing its cannons towards the baffled city.

Ravenrock's mages immediately start trying to create countermeasures, but none of them, not even Miraak had expected a natural disaster like this. Worse, he didn't have any shouts that could realistically put a stop to it. Unrelenting Force may lower its damage slightly, but you couldn't halt a tsunami by punching it...

"GET DOWN!" Joseph roars from a wall, prompting most men to abandon their positions and retreat to the old walls that were higher and more durable, that or run towards the centre of the island where the water would be hard pressed to reach them.

"EXPLODE!" a voice only familiar to Charlotte shouts from the city and echoes around the area, announcing the arrival of a huge flash of blinding light that erupts in front of the wave and Ghost Ship.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!*

"WHAT IS OBLIVION'S NAME IS THAT!?" Surtr shouts, his eardrums almost bursting from the attack they just used... It was even more powerful than those explosions that friend of Michael's used in the battle to reach Alduin.

"Grab on to your hats lads!" Kunkka shouts, the initial shockwave of the explosion had knocked almost everyone over and even upturned a few of the more damaged ships. But incoming now was the secondary wave, his tsunami had basically been reflected at them and was now headed directly for them.

Kunkka tries to lower its strength but he'd tired himself pretty direly with his attack earlier, leaving them to face the wave face-on.

*CRAAAAAAAAASSSSSSHHHH!!!*

It hits the navy, and almost a quarter of all boats are immediately turned on their sides, the others just becoming completely flooded or damaged, beginning to take on a lot of water.

"BLOODY BARKEEP! GRAB THE BUCKETS! WE'LL BE BUYING DRINKS FOR THE SEA TONIGHT LADS!" Kunkka exclaims as he starts getting to work on keeping the navy afloat. Most civilian boats were completely gone already with almost no one surviving, their armour too heavy to swim in. The Dunmer boats were doing slightly better, but not by much...

"I'LL ASK AGAIN, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT IN OBLIVION THAT WAS!?" Surtr shouts again for an answer, he looks towards Rubick but just finds the Grand Magus staring in awe at the impact sight, his glowing green eyes blinking with rapt attention.