#oc: the qyruath vitreous

[ansu-gurleht]

i can’t remember if i decided ku-vastei goes to akavir or not. like not initially of course bc like. first she settles down with ashiri-khaan and has hla-eix, and then she goes to black marsh to fight off the daedric invasion, and then she gets lost in oblivion for like a hundred years or some shit, then she’s the qyruath vitreous for like another 50 years, then i guess maybe when the actual qyruath vitreous lets her go from mantling him he drops her off in akavir for some reason? and she has to find a way back to tamriel to find hla-eix again? idk seems a little convoluted, it’s not like the qyruath vitreous doesn’t know hla-eix and ku-vastei are from tamriel and not akavir, unless he doesn’t have control over where he drops ku for some reason

#oc: ku-vastei #oc: hla-eix #oc: the qyruath vitreous #oc: ashiri-khaan

[vosh-rakh]

vitrify

These wastes of earth are choked by wastes of sky, each pulling the other apart by the smallest hairs, and the world tumbles overhead. Hla-eix has prepared for this, having spent time in the ashlands of Morrowind, and tightens her scarf and scrapes sand from her goggles with a single motion. If it were up to her, she wouldn’t be out here, but Hammerfell is as distrustful of magic as ever, so teleportation was out of the question. The old ways of a dead world have forced her to cross the Alik’r Desert in the middle of a sandstorm, but such ancient traditions have always held her back. This is nothing new.

But there is something new: a sound, amidst all the roaring of the wind, almost like a frail brook, babbling discordantly. Hla-eix is certain the desert hasn’t made her mad just yet, so she pursues the sound.

And then she trips over its source.

Hla-eix tries to catch herself but the wind pushes her over, crashing into the dune she was climbing. She picks her head out of the sand, wipes furiously at her goggles, and looks for the cause. At first, just a dark shape sticking out of the sand. Then, she realizes, a dark shape with bright red eyes, staring at her, its mouth opening and closing like a dying twitch, screaming gibberish through a tortured throat.

Hla-eix spins around on her knees to get a better look at it. It’s a person, alright. A dunmer, by the looks of it. She casts a spell, a purple spark illuminating the eyes of her goggles for a moment, before there is suddenly silence. The sand that was carried by the storm falls to the ground like snow. She casts another spell, illuminating the small sanctuary she’s created for herself and the mer.

“You alright?” Hla-eix tries to ask, before realizing her voice is muffled by her scarf. She pulls it down and raises her goggles. She repeats the question, her voice and vision clear now.

The mer’s mouth moves, wide like his eyes, wide like he’s screaming, but even in this quiet space, it’s faint, unintelligible. Hla-eix leans in closer.

He grabs her by the straps of her backpack, his eyes like hot coals pressed into her scales. He desperately tries to be heard: “...the vision…fades…the pupil is closed, fails, bound tight to the mutation, to the home...the strained eye, spreading itself over paper like mercury...stretched thin and membranous over and over unto itself until it is dry and torn like a sailor’s flag forlorn...it...fades…”

Hla-eix clocks him in the face, knocking him out. She sits back on her haunches and her muttered question echoes in the magical bubble, unanswered: “What the fuck?”

#tes #tesblr #my writing #oc: hla-eix #oc: the qyruath vitreous #dunmer #argonian #dremora #daedra #daedric prince #demiprince #hammerfell #alik'r desert

[ansu-gurleht]

oh fuck i just realized: how does “water is memory” tie into the qyruath vitreous’s sphere of forgetfulness???

#oc: the qyruath vitreous

[ansu-gurleht]

hla-eix remembers basically nothing of her mabrigash childhood prior to being taken in by the argonians. she mostly remembers her mother ashiri’s face and partially her voice, but she doesn’t remember ku-vastei’s. she knows what she’s supposed to look like based on sketches of the original an-xileel kept by the current an-xileel, but she still doesn’t really recognize her when they meet in the spiris, since the act of being the qyruath vitreous for a hundred years somewhat mutated her appearance

#oc: hla-eix #oc: ashiri-khaan #oc: ku-vastei #oc: the qyruath vitreous

[ansu-gurleht]

the qyruath vitreous’ true form looks like if zoidberg was a dreugh

#oc: the qyruath vitreous

[ansu-gurleht]

i think ku’s physical changes as part of becoming nerevar also dissipate over a few years after she defeats dagoth ur. but then when she’s mantling the qyruath vitreous she starts to change again, her scales becoming dark gray with the occasional red, and her horns become bigger. plus for a while after she demantles him she can still kinda shapeshift her hands into crab claws and manifest tentacles from her back

#oc: ku-vastei #oc: the qyruath vitreous

[ansu-gurleht]

i bet after her stint as the qyruath vitreous ku is left with very little of her memories, and when she returns to nirn she’s 1) probably a vestige now, 2) her memory of her old life is largely inaccessible to her, and 3) she’s still kind of half-mantled with the qyruath vitreous. those last two things slowly start to wear off, as hla-eix tries to get her to remember more of who she was and is, and the qyruath vitreous starts to take back his full power. but even after all that, she’s never quite the same as she was before. unlike some of her false-starts throughout her life, she really ends up being the more spiritual kind of person she always wanted to be, mostly owing to the fact that her spirit’s gone through a lot

#oc: ku-vastei #oc: the qyruath vitreous #oc: hla-eix

[ansu-gurleht]

OH while ku is the qyruath vitreous she finds out (while quam is fucking about on nirn) that mehrunes dagon is his dad and she tries to ask quam about it next time he dies and reforms but, since she’s the qyruath vitreous, she just fucking forgets about it before she gets a chance

#oc: ku-vastei #oc: the qyruath vitreous

[ansu-gurleht]

here’s how the qyruath vitreous came to be:

hermaeus mora and mehrunes dagon had a fling, dagon left a part of himself with a part of mora, that part of hermaeus mora that would become the qyruath vitreous was basically like “i see that sheogorath keeps stealing souls from me. they clearly should belong to me bc of their passion for knowledge but sheogorath is like ‘lol they can’t sit still, forget shit all the time, and are so ~RANDOM~, sounds like easy pickings’ and i fucking hate that guy he’s always doing shit like that. i’m going to exist purely to spite him and give people with those traits a better afterlife” except at the time none of this had happened and the world was barely formed so he had to bide his time until these things came to pass, but by that time he’d mostly forgotten those grand ambitions bc of course he did, he’s made of the stuff he’s lord over. also the better afterlife he envisioned, surprise surprise! actually still sucks bc of course it does

#oc: the qyruath vitreous

[ansu-gurleht]

the qyruath vitreous is more or less the daedric demiprince of adhd. which makes quam the mortal embodiment of adhd

#oc: the qyruath vitreous

[ansu-gurleht]

i just realized ku is technically sheogorath’s champion since she did the quest with the fork of horripilation to get the spear of bitter mercy (the best spear i could find before dlcs). so i wondered what all daedric quests she did.

she definitely did mephala’s when she joined the morag tong. she did azura’s bc she was already kinda working for her and also to try to cleanse herself of sheogorath a bit. she did dagon’s for the razor, which he stole from her after her little attempted coup in the deadlands later. she may have done malacath’s, which really kissed qismehti off if she did.

otherwise, mehti definitely became malacath’s champion, either by doing his quest or by somehow proving herself more worth it than ku after she did it. she also became boethiah’s champion for goldbrand. she was also “kinda” hircine’s champion, since she got some of his artifacts during bloodmoon, and also was a werewolf for a little while. ku still ended up with a spear of bitter mercy, but mehti had the spear of the hunter.

ku also kinda ends up a “champion” of the qyruath vitreous much later on, but it’s hard to say if demiprinces really get champions or not. she literally was the qyruath vitreous for like a century so it’s hard to say if that even counts

also, nobody worked with molag bal at all. all the incarnates reviled him so much they didn’t even considerate. probably desecrated his shrine, too. one of the few things you could get mehti, ku, and llethym to all agree on without much mediation from malcius

#oc: ku-vastei #oc: qismehti gra-lubakt #oc: the qyruath vitreous #oc: hlaalu llethym hlaarothan #oc: malcius

[ansu-gurleht]

plus doing so would have made him a bit too close to being a full prince in his own right and the whole aurbis collectively shouted “NO”

#oc: the qyruath vitreous

[ansu-gurleht]

also i think while on nirn during one of quam’s cycles of memory loss and remembering he’s like “fuck my deadbeat dad dagon who was never there for me. i’m going to carve him out of my protonymic with his razor” but it doesn’t work bc that’s exactly the kind of revolution that makes him like his father

#oc: the qyruath vitreous

[ansu-gurleht]

ooh wonder what tqv’s dagonic warrior/revolution form would look like

#oc: the qyruath vitreous

[ansu-gurleht]

i’m calculating my major ocs handednesses and disabilities and i get to the qyruath vitreous and i’m like. well he’s very ambidextrous bc he can have as many arms and appendages as he would like... and he has some kind of divine dyslexia plus his whole memory thing, but at this point does it count as a disability, or just him sort of existing as a conceptual embodiment of those things?

#oc: the qyruath vitreous

[ansu-gurleht]

morakynd

#oc: the qyruath vitreous