# First Arc: Coming Together

## <span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">•</span><span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coming Together</span>

### <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">~Falkreath Pardon (Sun’s Dawn, 4E 226)~</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dreams of the Mountains</span>:</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> At some point, Nords across Skyrim (including Steinn and Ylgar) begin having dreams of a specific location in the mountains. Later, this is revealed to be Bromjunaar.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Task for Dengeir</span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: The group meets in the Falkreath Jail; Dengeir Son of Dengeir hires all of them to frame a competitor for stealing the Bust of the Grey Fox, in exchange for pardoning their various crimes.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whiterun Heist</span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: The group completes the mission set forth by Dengeir.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Steinn uses the Voice in a public enough setting for rumors to begin spreading about him through Skyrim.</span>

### <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">~The Tomb of Krosivmunn~</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mercenary Work</span>:</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The group takes a job with the Antiquarian Circle to help clear out a recently discovered Tomb north of Falkreath. They find several references to the historical figures Krohsiivmun and Ylgar the Blind.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Ylgar finds a </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dwemer Puzzle Cube</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-This cube turns out to contain a Lexicon that shows Ylgar the location of Dzurchrandzel; </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it is possible that his ability to interface with this important device and gain this information was part of his future self’s preparation in the past.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Frosnyr</span>:</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(19th of Sun’s Dawn, 4E 226) </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The group meets Frosnyr the Lucky, an envoy from the recently founded city of Bromjunaar. They travel with him briefly before </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hircine</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> compels Sabin in werewolf form to kill him (the others remain unaware of her curse for the time being).</span>

### <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">~Imperials and Stormcloaks~</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Civil War Begins in Earnest</span>: </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stormcloaks sack Riverwood, and armies begin marching.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Travel to Rorikstead</span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Curious about the city of Bromjunaar, the group begins traveling west and northward, intending to use the pass near Morthal to traverse the mountains. Their first destination en route is Rorikstead.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lund</span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: On the road, they encounter and begin traveling with Lund, a so-called Mercenary. It is later revealed that Lund is a Stormcloak agent sent to find Steinn, due to Ulfric Stormcloak’s interest in another who can use the Voice. Soon after, the group discovers that Imperials are seeking Steinn for the same reason. Steinn wishes to have no part in the war, and the group flees both forces.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Detained</span>: </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heading now to Morthal (with some hope of locating Ylgar’s extended family before making their way to Bromjunaar), the group is stopped by an Imperial Patrol; lacking the proper papers to travel—new protocols for wartime—they are taken to Fort Stormhawk.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">-</span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Escape</span>: </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ylgar is reunited with his classmate Ogzaz; the group also meets another representative of Bromjunaar, Genovos Moran. Together, they organize a revolt and escape, leaving the Fort burning behind them.</span>