A Life of Strife and Struggle

 is a book in.

Content
Notes for the personal memoirs of King Laloriaran Dynar, "Last King of the Ayleids"

Structure: ten chapters as traditional, one for each of the Ten Ancestors

Chapter One: Struggles of the Late Ayleid Period (263-331)

— My father humiliated by the Alessia

— Nenalata as a vassal-state to the Empire of Cyrodiil

— Wrenching transition to a slave-less economy

— Forced adoption of Alessia's Eight Divines

— I don the Crown of Nenalata

— Rising sense of futility and doom

Chapter Two: Alessian Order, Ayleid Disorder (332-371)

— Coup d'Etat in the Imperial City

— I swear fealty to the Emperor

— Theocracy in Cyrodiil

— The Ayleid Pogrom

— The vassal-states dwindle

— Nenalata stands alone

Chapter Three: Tears for Lost Nenalata (372-374)

— Ultimatum from the Emperor

— Debate with the Intransigents

— Last hours in Nenalata

— The turbulent trek from Cyrodiil

— News of the massacre of the Intransigents

— Nibbled to death by Goblins

Chapter Four: Refugees on the Bjoulsae (375-452)

— Welcomed by the Direnni

— Displacing the Orcs, founding a city

— Bisnensel-by-the-Lake

— Detente with the Bretons, armistice with the Orcs

— Disturbing news from Cyrodiil

Chapter Five: Menace of the Primeval Seekers (453-460)

— The pernicious cult of Hermaeus Mora

— Strange rites, persistent visions

— High Priest Uluscant asserts his authority

— Murder in the night

— Flight of the royal family

Chapter Six: Sanctuary Among the Direnni (461-477)

— Balfiera Island

— Ryain,Aiden, and Raven

— At War with Skyrim

— Tactician and Strategist: I find my true calling

— Hoag Merkiller defeated

Chapter Seven: Approach of the Alessian Horde (478-479)

— Rumbles from the Heartland

— We find Breton converts to Alessianism

— Scourging of the missionaries

— The Alessian Horde marches west

— The fall of Craglorn

Chapter Eight: The Mustering of High Rock (480-481)

— Envoy to the Vassal Kings

— Aiden reluctantly signs the Rights Charter

— Making legionaries out of farmhands

— The Horde swarms into High Rock

— Atrocities of the Alessians

Chapter Nine: The Battle of Glenumbria Moors (482)

— Opening skirmishes

— We present the lure

— Faolchu takes the bait

— Charge of the hidden knights

— Conjured creatures of Corvus and Calani

— Rout of the Alessians

Chapter Ten: Return to Nenalata (482-484)

— Pursuit of the Alessian Horde

— Extermination in Craglorn

— The Maruhkati Martyrs

— Return to the Heartland

— Lured to Nenalata

— Molag Bal's Insidious Trap

— Prisoner in Coldharbour

Plenty of time in here. Just hope they don't take away my writing materials. Could even Dremora be that cruel?