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Hello there!

I'm new on this wiki forum, but I've been reading through the numerous pages of this immense work regrouping TES lore informations since quite a few time now. The reason is that I've developed a passion for this universe (by playing the games from TES III) and I have the project to create something based on it.

It's a roleplay video series, recorded with Skyrim SE, (the type Rycon do, for he is the most known, I think but there is a tremendous lot of creators on youtube). I've come with a story line, a character and some ideas of sequences and so far I've been writing some key resources from which the story depends on (like letters, journals, notes, etc...).

But my problem here is that english is not my native laguage and I was a bad student in english school (I'm french). And my objectif is to release my content in both french and english (I record my footages within the game which is set in english and add french subtitles to my videos, and when resources are needed, like notes, letters, journals..., to guide my story line I write them in both languages).

I don't know if anyone here will be interested in helping me out by reading what I've written so far and correct or modify what doesn't work in my texts. But heck, I'm posting it anyway and if my writings are crap (and I'm sure It has a lot of flaws) and nobody come to suggests rectifications, so be it.

I want to thank you in advance for going through the reading of my post (I will do my best to produce understandable content).

Good day/night.

ps: I also see this work as a mean to improve my skill in foreign tongues.

First, we have a diary entry of an old lost journal :

This fragment is dated 7th Mid Year 4th Era 201

Grand-father,

Today I fell like a wretched man.

This city, the ornaments, the influent people attending Blue Palace's court. A scene where every individual face is a comedy of manners. Everyday since the last 15 winters I see this spectacle, yet it seems that loathsome Solitude is increasingly tainting my heart now. I'm an animal in a cage, an exocitic specimen  exhibited at a fair and left to endure boredome and idiocracy.

Not long ago, while at home trying to forget this world with my readings, come the bards' songs  lyrics echoing from the college yard sang with milky voices, then their pompous mimicries, a sight urging me in a deep state of despair. I left sanity boundaries. I needed a dose. I ran to find Grim, and absorbed much more than usual. Too much skooma deprived me of the euphoria, the alchemical relief. I became sick and I ended like a trash in the gutters.

Father would have kiled me, had all his children mattered to him.

A greedy father, a concupiscent mother, an incestuous brother mating with his two year old youger sister. I wonder why I haven't the capability to hate them. Them, beating my soul each day, making me insidiously weak. Instead, I'm angry with myself ! My spirit is mutating. Never will I be worthy of the far shores.

I lament that I cannot listen to you telling about the myths and the tales of our ancient people. Do you remember the nights, we were all surrounding the fire, burning wild. I loved that moutain, standing in the shadow of its stretching giant sisters, hidding Macer and Secunda. The stars gleaming brighter in that unearthly darkness, driving the spirits toward the far shores.

Your teachings allowed me to discover liberty. From here it seems faraway, nothing but a fading illusion. I feel like an illusion too.

And in second place we have a contract letter :

This hereby agreement involve the Blackblood marauders company and its leader, Captain Hargar, designed as the employee and the agent A.O, designed as the employer.

The individuals aforementioned adhere to the following obligations :

-Captain Hargar and his crew commit themselves to remove X, son of Y, residing in the city of Solitude, north territory of Skyrim, and to convey him alive to the port of Windhelm.

-Agent A.O, in payment for their services, agree to hand over "Fair Stendarr" as well as the integrity of the cargo wihtin its holds in addition with the amount of 5000 septims in coins, of which one third is paid in advance.

These are the terms that are presently established at the Candlehearth Hall in Windhelm, on the 5th day of Sun's Height, 4th Era 201, setting up the contract which in agreement to, the employer and the employee affix their signatures below :

Signature 1

Signature 2

That's it for now. 