I've been wanting to write one of these for a while now, I had some free time so figured I would write this up today and see what you all thought of it.
I'm looking forward to any thoughts you might have on where the story should go, thank and have a nice day.
There may be romance, but I've yet to decide the pairing.
As of 9/21/16, I have fixed the grammar errors. I forgot to proofread it before posting, I apologize to anyone who saw it before the corrections.
I own nothing of the Copyrighted material present.
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From the writings of, "A Brief History", By Cossus Flavinius Vitulus, Junior Scribe of the Imperial Court.
4E 201
The Emperor Elnarel Stormcrown, an Altmer of only 80 years, along with a Bosmer, a Nord, a Redguard, and a Dunmer, escape the calamity of Helgen. While fighting on the Plains of Whiterun, the Emperor is discovered to have been the "Last Dragonborn".
The events that transpired over the course of the next year are largely a matter of speculation, though there still remain stories in Solstheim of the Emperor ending some form of mass possession of the isles inhabitants.
What is known, is that when the five emerged from their various adventures, they now composed themselves as the Master of the Thieves Guild, the Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Arch-mage of the College of Winterhold, and the Harbinger of the Companions, as well as the Dragonborn.
4E 202
The first born of Akatosh, Alduin the World Eater, was slain in the Realm of Sovngarde. The Dragonborn and company return to a Skyrim straining beneath a bloody civil war.
4E 204
After two years of war in Skyrim Ulfric Stormcloak is dead, killed by an Imperial assassin. The Dragonborn, who took up arms against both sides, claims Windhelm, Winterhold, Dawnstar, and Morthal before the Empire could reclaim them. Whiterun, having been the initial hold sworn to the Dragonborn's banner, allows for his army to begin pushing out the legion forces.
4E 205
The Dragonborn wins the war for Skyrim, after which he names Jarl Balgruuf the Greater as High King of Skyrim. It was at this point that many on Tamriel realized the Dragonborn's intention, he meant to reclaim more than just Skyrim.
4E 206
The Empire is no more as High Rock breaks away, Cyrodil falls once more into a mass of warlords fighting for control.
The Dawnguard asks the Dragonborn for aid with the Vampires in Skyrim, this leads him to discover the Vampire Serana Volkihar in Dimhollow Crypt. This leads to the discovery of the vampire Lord Harkon Volkihar, and the ancient prophecy of ending the "tyranny of the sun".
Eventually this leads to the discovery of Knight-Paladin Gelebor, at that time he was believed to be the last remaining uncorrupted Falmer. After the defeat of the traitorous Arch-Curate Vyrthur, an ancient Falmer vampire.
As a reward for his effort, Gelebor allowed the Dragonborn to claim Auriel's Bow, the weapon now synonymous with the Imperial family. The Dragonborn, along with aid from Serana Volkihar, fought and defeated the ancient vampire Lord Harkon. She would later take the cure for her affliction and fight beside the Emperor in his various conquests.
4E 207
An army from Skyrim quickly moves through and with the might of the Dragonborn at its head, the beleaguered forces of Cyrodil fall quickly. Within six months the Dragonborn takes his seat on the Ruby Throne. The Blades are re-established under their last living member, Grand Master Esbern.
His companions from Helgen, now serving as his generals and advisors, are each awarded a city in Cyrodil of their choosing.
The Bosmer, Denril Valyla, Master of the Thieves Guild, takes Leyawiin as her reward.
The Nord, Amon Frosthammer, Harbinger of the Companions, takes Bruma as his own.
The Redguard, Sambal Bailing, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, takes Bravil as his Sanctuary.
The Dunmer, Gethron Feynrel of House Telvanni, Arch-mage of the College of Winterhold, takes Cheydinhal as his Home.
Serana Volkihar, for faithful service and wise counsel, was granted Skingrad as her Haven.
4E 209
After two years of solidifying his reign over both Skyrim and Cyrodil, the Emperor sends his Blades to Hammerfell, Morrowind, High Rock, and Black Marsh requesting terms for unification.
Morrowind responds first, their terms simple, help to rebuild Morrowind from the disaster of the Red Year and guarantee the right to worship whom they please. The Dragonborn agrees, and the Dunmer join the growing Empire.
Mages from the newly founded Colleges of Magic, the replacement for the now disbanded Synod and College of Whispers, are sent to try and find a way to settle the still erupting mountain.
4E 210
Black Marsh answers the call, their demands are the end of the Dunmer slavering in northern Black Marsh, and the preservation and protection of the Hist. Again, the Dragonborn agrees, all of Eastern Tamriel now falls under the banner of the Crowned Dragon.
High Rock is the only province to agree without demands. It seems with the dissolution of the old Empires Legions, there was no standing army in the province. Banditry and supposed warlord were burning and looting the established lords, the damage was becoming crippling.
The Dragonborn agrees, sending in a full legion of the newly trained Imperial Legion. The new Legion is a cross between the ideology of the cyrodilic professional soldier, and the dedicated honor of the Companions.
4E 212
Hammerfell finally answers, they agree on the condition that immediate aid be given to their people. Due to their parting with the old empire, the people of Hammerfell had fallen into famine. There was too little viable land for growing crops to feed all the people in the province, the starving masses had the land on the brink of civil war should the leaders of the Crowns and the Forbearers continue to refuse the Dragonborn's offer.
The Dragonborn accepts, aid from Cyrodil and High Rock pours into the starving province.
4E 213
The cause for the silence of the Aldmeri Dominion is finally discovered, the provinces of Valenwood and Elsweyr are embroiled in a bitter civil war against the dominion.
The Emperor sends his Blades too make them an offer, "Swear me your allegiance, and my legions was march to your aid."
Word was received almost immediately, the rebels had all but lost, they had no choice but to agree.
4E 216
After three years of bloody war fought through the sands of Elsweyr and the living forests of Valenwood, the Dominions' armies were finally driving back to the ocean. Imperial Legions, with the help of the Hammerfell fleets, pursue them back to the shores of Alinor. The already exhausted armies of the Dominion last only four months before crumbling.
5E 1
The Dragonborn is officially crowned Emperor, and a new era is declared.
5E 20
After two Decades of rebuilding in relative peace, the Summerset Isles are once more attacked by the Maormer. The war lasts for five years, eventually the advantage of numbers takes its effect and the continent of Pyandonea falls.
The Maormer join the Empire through conquest.
5E 52
Through the Maormer sea charts the continent of Aldmeris is rediscovered, the land is horribly scarred by whatever calamity caused the elves to originally flee. Repopulation and repair of the land begins immediately.
5E 80
Psijic monks present themselves to the Emperor, they swear their loyalty to the Empire so long as one of his blood rules. The only price is that the Emperor must never try to learn their secrets kept on their isle, the Emperor agrees so long as the Psijics take up teaching in the Colleges of Magic.
5E 85
With the help of the Psijic Monks, the Red Mountain is finally silenced, now all efforts were turned to rebuilding the province.
5E 120
Akaviri refugees are found on the shores of Morrowind, they survive long enough to tell tales of a horrific war, the Kamal, the "Ice Demons of Akavir", are extinguishing all life on the continent.
The Tang Mo, the monkey people of southern Akavir whose land bordered the Kamal, were already gone. The large Island chain and dense jungles they inhabited had already been overran and purged.
The Ka Po' Tun, the tiger like cousins of the Khajiit, had been driven into the mountains at the center of their once grand empire. It is estimated only a fifth of their population survived the "Kamal Wars", as it would later come to be remembered.
Finally, the Tsaesci, the snake folk of northern Akavir, said to be man eaters and the murders of the humans of Akavir, had been swarmed after the Ka Po' Tun retreated to their mountain ranges. The refugees had been Tsaesci that had fled from a coastal village to try and escape, the starvation aboard the ship had eventually claimed most of their lives before they found land.
5E 121
The Emperor, in fear that the Kamal would eventually try to invade the Empire once Akavir had fully fallen, declared that for the first time in a hundred years, there would be war.
5E 150
The Kamal Wars were finally drawn to a close when the Emperor killed the "King of the Four Winds", the Kamal leader and the architect of the slaughter of the Akaviri peoples. The Kamal are exterminated at the wars close, a decision that is still considered controversial to this day, to prevent another similar occurrence.
Ka Po' Tun and the Tsaesci, their lands and people having been saved be the Empires intervention, join under the Emperor's banner. The lands formally belonging to the Kamal and the Tang Mo are opened for resettlement to all people of the Empire.
5E 182
Knight-Paladin Gelebor leads the few remaining Falmer settlements hidden deep in the high reaches of Skyrim out of hiding, he requests land for is people to rebuild. The Emperor answers by sending scouts to Atmora at Gelebor's suggestion. Atmora is found to be empty, the cold climate having long killed off the last remaining Atmorans centuries earlier.
The Falmer are granted Atmora to rebuild and repopulate, with this all lands and peoples of Nirn rest under the Empire.
5E 190
The Emperor take the only daughter of the High King of Alinor as his bride, the celebration lasts a fortnight across the Empire.
5E 220
Unsatisfied with the stagnation of the Empires technology, and magical advancement at a standstill, the Emperor orders the establishment of academies and institutions for higher learning run through the Colleges of Magic, education becomes mandatory for all children from age six till sixteen. It will take another ten years before the system is fully implemented.
Grants and Rewards are established for any scholar who makes an advancement worthy of note.
Funds for the excavation and research into Dwemer ruins are established.
5E 232
The methods for recreating Dwemer technology is discovered, automatons and advancements in science are quickly put into effect across Nirn.
5E 305
Vulen Stormcrown, heir to the throne of the Empire of Nirn is born.
Paarthurnax, leader of the Dragons, lands atop the White-Gold Tower to speak with the Emperor. He announces the dragons have finally been brought under the Way of the Voice, and requests to join the Empire.
Paarthurnax reveals the dragons, save for himself, have lost their immortality. In exchange for this however, Akatosh has allowed them the ability to create children of their own. The Emperor has the dragons settled on the lands of the Kamal, still largely uninhabited do it being mostly covered in mountains.
5E 408/6E 0
The Emperor Elnarel Stormcrown passes in his sleep at the age of 503, the Empire spends a year in mourning for man who united a warring world.
Emperor Vulen Stormcrown ascends to the Ruby Throne.
6E 12
Scholars at the Arcane University discover the worlds around Nirn and our own rotation around the Sun, the Emperor orders that means for travel from Nirn to its moons of Secunda and Masser be developed.
6E 60
The search for the means too travel from Nirn produce an unexpected result, a method for the production of Stalhrim is discovered. Stalhrim is shown to allow for the conduction of magic energy when molded around a filled soulgem, this allows for the soulgem to keep its initial charge after being filled only once.
Stalhrim soul-cores are soon used as a means for powering Dwemer animunculi and other more recent inventions. Stalhrim production does, however, require large amounts of fresh water, so production is heavily regulated by the Empire.
6E 108
Digital technology begins to emerge as the creation of rudimentary circuits though the combining Ebony, Mithril, and Stalhrim that, when installed in Dwemer animunculi, allow them to retain and compute information.
6E 140
The Emperor marries the sister of the Maormer King, finally laying to rest any lingering animosity from the centuries old conquest.
6E 187
The first clutches of dragonlings are born and the Falmer population has nearly settled all of Atmora.
6E 230
The Imperial legion is re-armed with Inscrolled weaponry, swords, armor, and projectile arms laden with enchantments written into their material. The recent advancement in combining enchanting with embedded digital circuits, allows for enchanters to break the rule of two. Enchantments are now only limited by the power of the soul-cores used.
6E 300
The first Aetherius fairing vessel, or "Void Ship" is created by Tsaesci and Bosmer alchemists at the Arcane University, its frame is composed of a stalhrim, quicksilver, and a Dwemer metal composite.
It takes another three years' from its initial creation before the "Ethereal Drive Core", the main means of both propulsion and the ships power, to be deemed safe for use.
6E 303
The moons of Secunda and Masser are finally reached, marking the end of the Nirnian people's restriction to their home world.
6E 305
Travels to Secunda and Masser triggers a questioning of religious teaching. The Emperor institutes several reforms in an attempt to easy a conflicted Empire. The worship of the Aedra and the Daedra are legalized, with the exception of Mehrunes Dagon and Molag Bal, are recognized as equal in the Empire.
The Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild are made official branches of the Empires government.
The three classifications of purpose, Warrior, Mage, and Thief, become a major ideological foundation for the Empires people moving forward.
6E 330
With the help of Priestess's of Kynareth, the air on Secunda and Masser are made breathable, though there was nothing that could be done for the soil. The new ship yards for the ordered Imperial Fleet, and basing stations for future ventures, were established on Secunda. Masser, was used for the establishment of research deemed too dangerous to be carried out on Nirns' surface.
6E 350
Scholars at the Arcane University establish the locations and cycles of the other five planets in the "Nirnian System". A Dunmer scholar suggests searching for star systems close to Nirns' own for possible settlement, the Emperor agrees to the initiative.
6E 357
Elbauthin Stormcrown, heir to the throne of the Empire of Nirn is born.
6E 362
The Emperor orders the newly constructed fleet of twenty void ships to travel to the various planets of the Nirnian System to investigate their potential uses. Ethereal Drive Cores at the time enabled travel from one corner of the system to the other in two weeks' time.
6E 370
Satakal, named for the sea god of the ancient Maormer's, is the closest planet to Nirn. Comprised of only water, with no visible land surfaces. The planet had no complex life, though several species of aquatic animals were discovered. Operations for stalhrim production were established, fish brought from Satakal became a staple of the Nirnian diet.
6E 385
All planets around Nirn have been explored, while there was no world suitable for large scale colonization, all of the worlds allowed for the mining of valuable resources otherwise limited on Nirn proper.
6E 417/7E 0
The Emperor Vulen Stormcrown passes from a heart attack at the age of 522, the Empire grieved for the loss of the man who brought them to the stars.
Emperor Elbauthin Stormcrown ascends to the Ruby Throne.
7E 1
The Emperor orders research begin on advancing the Ethereal Drive Core to allow travel between nearby systems.
7E 13
The new "Ethereal Hive Cores" are created, be interlaying a honeycomb pattern of Stalhrim, Malachite, and Dwemer metal surrounding charged soul-cores, the Hive Core allowed for travel at higher speeds with less worry of straining the ships available resources.
7E 230
The five nearest systems are explored and colonized, while no new advanced life is discovered, it is agreed that it is most likely inevitable. With that in mind, the Emperor orders the Imperial fleet militarized and expanded.
Scholars explain that to reach any of the other clusters of star systems around Nirn, they would need to be able to "Oblivion Jump". The power of the Hive Cores allowed for temporary distortions in the realm of oblivion, but a Prince's permission would be necessary to allow them entry into their realm of Oblivion.
7E 241
Azura, having seen the Emperors plight and the kindness his family has showed her people, offers him the use her realm in oblivion, Moonshadow. There is a condition however, to make an agreement with a Prince requires equal exchange.
Moonshadow would be open to his people for travel, so long as she was taken as his Empress.
The answer came quickly, Empress Azura and Emperor Elbauthin Stormcrown were wed that very year.
7E 300
An artifact of a foreign people is found in the Talos Cluster, the second cluster reached through the use of Oblivion Jumps, the object is nearly nine miles long and shaped similarly to an oblivion gate. Empress Azura assured the people it is not connected to the Daedra, but to alleviate panic, and to assure the Empires safety, the Emperor orders the artifact destroyed.
After two months of constant bombardment by the Inscrolled cannons of half the Nirnian fleet, the artifact breaks apart, the surrounding fleet is nearly caught in the ensuing explosion.
7E 304
Having seen the evidence of the absentee alien races clear technological superiority, the Emperor funds research into the advancement of Void Ship weaponry and on-board warding.
7E 380
The Imperial fleet is doubled in size, the retrofits to install the new improved weaponry and ward enchantments begins.
7E 493
The Empire has expanded into twenty different systems, spread out over five clusters. Population of the Empire reaches sixteen billion.
Two more artifacts are discovered, they are all summarily destroyed.
7E 506
Faelyn Stormcrown, heir to the throne of the Empire of Nirn is born. The Empire breathes a sigh of relief at the birth of an heir so late into the Emperor's life, though his wife seems to have slowed his aging, allowing a slightly longer life.
7E 529
Two more clusters, comprising nine systems are added to the Empire, another artifact is discovered and destroyed. Rumors begin to circulate of the Emperor's declining health.
7E 581/8E 0
The Emperor Elbauthin Stormcrown passes in his sleep at the age of 641, the Empire will forever mourn the death of the great Emperor's passing.
Empress Azura returns to Oblivion to claim her husband's soul, so that he might rule beside her in Moonshadow, as she did with him here on Nirn.
Emperor Faelyn Stormcrown ascends to the Ruby Throne.
8E 5
First Contact with an alien race is established with the attack on the Empires newest colony, Kyne's Garden.