User blog comment:Tholanar/What really happened during the time of TES V?/@comment-173.76.82.69-20130123043850

You all comfy? ok, here it goes...

in the fianl hours of the great war in cyrodiil, I lone horseman stole from the imperial city with an infant child. The rider was given 2000 gold to take the son of a rich imperial family to high rock and raise him as his son.

As the child grew older, his prowess in the arts of hunting and sneaking were noted by those in his village. At 16, the child and his "father" was forced to flee when the Aldmeri dominion came to the village in search of them. apparently the courier that had carried the gold ratted out the two after all this time, hoping for a reward. The Horseman who once saved the child, was forced to take his "son" back to cyrodiil, reluctantly.

When the two arrived in bruma, they saw the husk of a once proud city. The houses lied unkept and in shambles, the old mages and fighters guild buildings were now treated as flop houses for travelers to the city, and would be home to the two fugitives for a long while. The Boy continued to use his skills to earn money for the two, while the Horseman acted as a courier.

some years passed, the now 25 year old man who had been spared from the Thalmor so long ago had managed to continue to survive and even thrive in his environment. The many had become influential in Bruma, and was liked by many. he was believed by some to embody the true imperial, one opposed to the Aldmeri dominion, yet also unexcepting of groups like the stormcloaks. He had heard enough of the stormcloaks to know he did not like them. He saw how these people who claimed to fight for freedom persecuted and antagonized those who did not help their cause, and how they were so unaware that they were infact help the thalmor by occupying legion forces in skyrim.

one day, the old horseman fell ill, and died three days later. before he died, he told the now grown man everything, of his family, the fighting, and the lies he had told him. The man, who was 28 by now, set out to join the Legion in skyrim. upon crossing the border, he crossed paths with the people he so hated, the stormcloaks.

He traveled with them, but had not been allowed to leave the groups sight as they thought him to be an imperial agent. When they were caught, the imperial assumed that he was a stormcloak sympathizer. After escaping helgen, he went to join the legion, and vowed to Kill Ulfric Himself, one way or another.