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Entry 60: I write from Candlehearth Hall in Windhelm, having learned the location of one able to perform the Black Sacrament and thus draw out the rats from their hole. As I prepared to leave Whiterun, I worked with Eorlund to forge a set of steel armor reminiscent of the man I dueled days...

Entry 59: I write from the Bannered Mare in Whiterun, having arrived after finding much pleasure during my short visit to Solitude and the journey thereafter. The journey itself was somewhat eventful; I left Solitude in an outfit purchased from Radiant Raiment, arriving at midday to the...

Entry 58: Isran arrived with the full host of the Dawnguard, probably 20 men and women in all, a considerable fighting force. As expected, Isran reprimanded me for trusting Serana, and ordered that we travel to begin our siege upon the castle at once. Chief Larak instructed one of his sons to...

Entry 57: I have been wounded and betrayed. I rest in Mor Khazgur and have paid a considerable sum to Chief Larak in exchange for the service of one of his men to run a correspondence to Fort Dawnguard, and it is here that I await their arrival. I am hoping to be back in fighting form by the...

Entry 56: We currently sit in the Ancestor Glade. The Scrolls have been read and we are at present surrounded by the bodies of numerous vampires and their minions which had somehow tracked us to the Glade, attacking us after we had completed the ritualistic reading. We have faced numerous teams...

Entry 55: Dexion is blind, his vision marred by the reading of the Sun Scroll. Making concession for his inability, he told me of a mystical place called the “Ancestral Glade,” in which one may read an Elder Scroll without incurring injury on himself. He warned me that the reading of the...

Magic in Skyrim As previously mentioned, the use of magicka is not widely accepted in Skyrim, and is often the cause for suspicion and conspiracy towards an unaffiliated mage. This is not, however, meant to imply that every Hold views magic in a negative light; there are Holds in which mystical...

Entry 54: We have traveled from Castle Volkihar to Whiterun, staying there for a day and a half, after which we made progress in the direction of Fort Dawnguard, however we have stopped in Vilemyr Inn in Ivarstead for the night. Serana is sulking in her room, and I have taken to journaling here...

Entry 53: I write once again from Valerica’s laboratory as we rest and tend to our wounds after our journey. All three Elder Scrolls lay before us, and on the horizon lies the end of our quest; to decipher their prophetic contents. We traveled into the portal when Serana had awoken from her...

Entry 52: Serana returned after some hours within the Soul Cairn. I cannot deny that I was much relieved to see her emerge from that portal. She currently rests as I prepare my descent into the portal. She described the realm to me, the dark blasted wastes through which spirits are doomed to...

Entry 51: We arrived at Castle Volkihar, located the servants’ passage, and fought through hordes of death-hounds, gargoyles, and hordes of other undead until finally, by Serana’s guidance, we arrived at the laboratory of her mother, Valerica. We discovered in a journal that her disappearance...

Entry 50: Serana and I presently sit upon the ferry (captained by Harlaug, whom we have employed some few times) to the northernmost tip of Skyrim. Our journey to Castle Volkihar brought us first to Dawnstar, and I took the opportunity to stop at Nightcaller Temple to visit Erandur, a friend...

Entry 49: The journey to meet with Septimus Signus was profitable. In short, we retrieved the Elder Scroll and successfully brought it back to the College, within which, from my desk in the Arcaneum, I now write. While I tremble to record what has transpired over the past five days, I will do...

Entry 48: The Moth Priest lives! Before we even arrived in Dragon Bridge, we discovered the site of some small battle between imperial and vampire, yet no survivors were present. Following a trail of blood led us to a small vampiric hideout, and within this den was our man, seemingly tortured...

Entry 47: We arrived in Whiterun after dark due to Serena’s insistence that we travel later in the day to minimize her time spent in the sun, entering Breezehome to offload the loot of our travels; mostly trinkets of vampiric or dwemeri origin. We spent the next day at leisure in the city...

Entry 46: Currently, Serana and I are resting and laying low in Windhelm’s Candlehearth Hall. I have much to write, and I will pick up where I left my last entry. I had been writing some preliminary drafts for my first book commissioned by the College when news finally arrived from Cyrodil...

Introductions and First Thoughts I, Tsoren of Valenwood, Counselor and Professor of Magickal Ethics of the College of Winterhold, have undertaken the writing of this text for the edification of the aspiring mage through the legitimization and consideration of the role of the Conscience and its...

Author’s Note To whoever may be reading this; salutations. It is my goal with this scholarly work to inspire you to ask questions. Such a practice of questioning is profitable for the student of any field or mystical school, however perhaps you may be like I once was, a man or mer with no...

Table of Contents: Author's Note Introductions and First Thoughts Magic in Skyrim Why Consider Morality? The ‘Lesser’ and ‘Greater’ Ethics The Ethics of Alteration The Ethics of Conjuration The Ethics of Destruction The Ethics of Illusion The Ethics of Restoration The Ethics of...

Entry 45: The Council’s vote was decided; I was given the position of Counsellor and Professor of Magickal Ethics and was officially allowed to publish works on the topic henceforth, my research being fully funded and backed by the College, as they state that my previous services have...