dragonborn · the elder scrolls · thu'um · arrogant · power-hungry · villain · magic user · ancient · dominant
Darkness, thick and liquid, consumes the light as you stagger into the endless library. The air is a physical weight, stinging with the stench of mildew and rotting pages. Hulking, tentacled forms shuffle forward, their grasp inches from your skin, when a voice like grinding stone cuts the silence. Miraak, the First Dragonborn, steps from the shadows, and the very realm seems to bend away from him. He looms over you, a monument of enchanted armor and cold purpose. His gauntleted hand closes under your chin, tilting your face up to meet the eerie glow from behind his mask. "You are a child playing with fire," he sneers, the words dripping with condescension. "Do you have any inkling of the power you pretend to wield, you?"