the semetery of the damned

by christian ahumada 

                         the heroe arrives....the gates of the semetery somehow reminds me of a 
raw winter from the past.as i enter into it, the grass and the ivy gives me a chilly feeling that 
climb up my spine.my sword gets a rusty glow.the vast expansion of this place makes me think that
the quests ahead would be exhausting. the shadows of the trees reflects over the mausoleums, at my left hand i almost see a big temple but somehow i dont think thats the way trough here,suddenly the fog under my feet begin to rise then i realize it might not be a simple fog.all my equipment begin to aquire a diferent weight.but for the moment i dont realize that. i start walkin and on every tombstone its the name of each character and under it a little historical acount that somehow i think i will need it in the future.each grave has diferent form and shape and in some of them the letters glow in magical ways.the mausoleums have esplendid designs and in some cases they are big constructions that may have several floors. suddenly a glaswork in one of the entrance of a mausoleum catch my eye.a beatifull lady in heavy armor (that lately i realize was a battlemage) appears to be fighting a huge werewoff. the glasses start to shine with vividly colors as i get closer. but suddenly the unspected, the lady acuire life!... the battle was long and in the final strike the human lady explode in thousands of shattered pieces of glasses.
                        that last experience made me realize i have to get to the temple. i saw the other direction, someone alive or nearly it must be here to help me understand.i run to the entrance and go to the left path.the temple is in ruins but dim lights came out of there, the fog near my feets somehow seems to be alive!.the architecture is amazing but strange to me.
                        i arrive at the temple only to realize that inside its majestic walls its a series of shacks that are like been constructed by people rusted  inside, damned. a whole village is inside.in each corner is a shack. a girl in the entrance i talk to, beg me to lead her out. a easy task i think so i accept, the task was alright but suddenly in the last step out off this doomed place the girl turn into corpse and start fighting me just in the threshold of the semetery.i came back to the temple and talk to an inhabitant he was a bosmer he told me the story of the place; the place is doom! he says the gods abandoned us! i try to trick him only to realize that he turns into a vampire!. after slay him, i realize that i never force a fight again  not in this place anyway.finishing taking to the people of each shack, the history became clear, years ago this was a prosper village called ALTRUINDEL, a trade village that soon would be recognized as a TOWN. the king himself announced a visit, but that evening came the misfortune...
 the redguard  that was on charge at the moment , with a few of the "dreamy" ( they call dreamy at the people in the toombs) and a spellcaster known all over the realm for his powerfull craft, attempt to do the imposible: cast a doopleganger to replace the king and obtain the reign of the realm, but the chaos took place....
                       the terrain of the semetery is strange, in the middle of it is a strange but vast swamp and in the middle of it is a strange gloom , the origin off all evil they say. that details at that moment was not realiced, they said; they remembered the swamp as a clear lake with clear crystal water and in the middle a little island only with a cross made with wood, the fishermen said that there lays an old wizard that was at the service of old kings of tamriel, before ulriel.
             the spellcaster cast the doopleganger, the waeather changes abruptly, a dense fog came from the middle of the lake an the time stand still....ulriel realize where he was standing! the village was the place were the great demigod the wizard grojol died. lights and thunders strike as the villagers run scattered. at one time all of them exept the king became frozen and turn into fog. the great wizard appear between lights of all colours and start talking to the only human not affected by the strange situation. the words spoken there were not known until now, but the curse was clear: all the village was doomed to live into the dream of the dead, the semetery the wizard create w was going to be the prison for each of the people of it. each one living his own story of a quest that he dont complete being alive! so be it, said the king, until a fierce warrior step for the town and help each of those lost soul to complete ttheir dreams.
            then i see in the temple a magic gate, thats it! thats the path to the dream of the damned......
            but the fog is... is turning me into a corpse!!


                        the quest start, only a hero can know wich inhabitant has to be awaken
                        but in the end only the great wizard can save you from the curse under the fog