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Fill: Damn Witch-Elves 2/2

[(Anonymous)]

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Galmar stood, and paced the room like a caged animal for a long minute, occasionally stopping to finger a weapon or shield on a plaque, before he took a deep breath and turned to face his wife.

"You truly need to know, don't you?"

Rozenn nodded once.

"Alright, fine. Although I'm not happy about this. I don't think you should know about these things," Galmar said, returning to the bed, and sitting, stretched out beside Rozenn, wrapping an arm about her and pulling her close against his side.

Rozenn let herself fall against her husband, resting her forehead on his shoulder.

"This is nice," Galmar commented.

"Tell me!" Rozenn barked irritably.

"Alright, alright! Damn uppity Breton."

"I love you, too, Bear Man," Rozenn murmured.

Galmar chuckled and settled back. "Hwæt. Listen. In the Great War against the Aldmeri Dominion, Ulfric and I fought in the Imperial Legion. We saw many battles, much bloodshed, and terrible waste of life. But such things happen in war, these things each man and woman can deal with in their own way. If they are not natural in the everyday, they are certainly natural to war, and if you cannot deal with them the war deals with you."

Rozenn squeezed Galmar's waist. Galmar made no indication that he felt it.

"What was unnatural in the Great War was the Altmer themselves. Those damnable, thrice-cursed witch-elves were the most unnatural fighters I have ever seen. An honourable enemy attacks with blades and shields. Maybe flames and icy spears, if they are so inclined."

"Not so the Dominion?"

"Not so the Dominion. Those witch-elves were necromancers. They attacked us with Bound weapon in one hand and in the other a spell designed to turn out fallen against us. I remember one vicious encounter, where few Imperials fell, so the Dominion warmages felled their own to raise against us.

They killed their own brothers-in-arms so they could bring their corpses to bear on us like they weren't Shield-Brothers, but simply weapons, or fodder for our artillery: things to slow us down or frighten us.

Ulfric wonders sometimes why I am so staunch in my support of him. Of course I believe he will do right by Skyrim, but also I cannot bear the thought that if the Dominion takes us for soldiers, will they see us as more useful dead than alive? I cannot trust another mage having seen what they did to our dead and their own, wife. It - it isn't natural."

"Nor is it right. Necromancy is a simple thing to do, but so difficult to do it right. It is a branch of magic I am unfamiliar with by my own choice. But not all mages are necromancers, and not all necromancers are evil, Galmar," Rozenn replied, hugging him for all she was worth.

Galmar nodded. True enough, I suppose. But I will never like it."

"You don't have to."

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A/N: Yeah, so like I said, this came out of nowhere. Why I'm angsting away so much I will never know. I also don't know if it fits within lore, but it seems like the sort of the Thalmor soldiers would do. Let me know if I got it glaringly wrong, please? And also if I got it right

OP Re: Fill: Damn Witch-Elves 2/2

[(Anonymous)]

Eek! Poor Galmar. In the game it seems so normal (I never gave it a second thought till I had Serana as a follower and the dead guy she resurrected was following us around moaning - shiver), but necromancy would be really, REALLY freaky and traumatic on a battlefield in real life.

Incidentally, that Hwæt made me grin with glee.

Fill: Damn Witch-Elves 2/2 A!A

[(Anonymous)]

It is fairly normal in-game, but I'm playing Oblivion at the same time and that game is so dead set (no pun intended) against necromancy that I figured it would be the kind of thing to freak out someone from such a soldierly background. And it *is* the sort of thing that would bother a culture that puts such high value on valour in war and honours their dead so well as the Nords.

I love Hwæt, myself :) I got so amused by Seamus Heaney translating it to "So" for his version of Beowulf. It's such an Irish way of starting a story.

Re: Fill: Damn Witch-Elves 2/2 A!A

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it's a funny word. It doesn't technically translate to "listen," either.

And yeah, it would sure as hell freak ME out. I spent large chunks of the Dawnguard questline muttering "Falmer are bad enough when they're alive, STOP DOING THAT, woman!" under my breath. And that's in the game. The visceral wrongness of reanimated dead bodies IRL, especially during an already horrific war, would be off the charts. I'm glad he has Rozenn to point out that not all mages are necromancers and not all necromancers are evil, though.

Re: Fill: Damn Witch-Elves 2/2 A!A

[(Anonymous)]

It is a fun word to play with :)

Falmer are bad enough when they're alive, STOP DOING THAT, woman THIS Oh, my Divines, THIS. And she's *on* our side. I shudder to think what it'd be like for soldiers seeing their comrades' bodies turned against them - and then turned into glowing ash piles that they wouldn't be able to bury properly.

Me too, OP, me too. :D

Re: Fill: Damn Witch-Elves 2/2

[(Anonymous)]

Hwæt. Writernon, I SCREAMED. I love you so much. (The rest of the story was wonderful as well, of course. It did a lot to justify what I've always felt was an uncalled-for prejudice against mages. But... Hwæt. YES.)