#the priestess of mara who gave herself up to save skyrim? there'd be STATUES i'm telling you. songs. SONGS HE'D KNOW HOW TO SING AND PLAY

[illumiera]

thinking about her... FDB!Elentari...

she'd have to be one of the very first bretons, or a snow elf (since she does have distant snow elf ancestry on her mother's side, inheriting the pale hair, skin, and eyelashes, but none of the tolerance for the cold, poor thing).

she's a wolf priestess—worshipper of Mara the Wolf-Mother—and both this and her natural compassion would lead her to begin rebelling against the dragon cult. of course, when the Dragon War kicked off and mortals brought the first dragon down, she'd be as surprised as anyone when she absorbed the soul. she'd be quickly positioned as a figurehead of the rebellion, and much like her LDB self, she'd see it as her duty: save everyone, however she can.

but what if she accepted the Nord Heroes' pleas for help and was there that day atop the Throat of the World?

what if, when all seemed lost, after she determinedly refused to let Gormlaith Golden-Hilt die of her injuries, she sacrificed herself to enter the Time Wound with Alduin? knowing that she'd be leaving her world and her people behind, not knowing when—if ever—she'd return?

and what if she emerged four thousand years later in that same spot, exactly as the wheel turned on the Last Dragonborn... a golden-haired farmer's son turned mage and musician, who is given the name "Miraak" in another life, another universe?

#oc: elentari #miraak #skyrim #otp: i fear no fate (for you are my fate) #i've got so many AUs for these two i was bound to have to ramble about at least one of them eventually #because imagine it... #miraak (who would be using his 👀soon to be revealed👀 birth name here) would have been raised knowing of her. of course he would. #the priestess of mara who gave herself up to save skyrim? there'd be STATUES i'm telling you. songs. SONGS HE'D KNOW HOW TO SING AND PLAY #and then all of a sudden there she is... (with no clue how to speak modern tamrielic mind you...)