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Chapter 221: To The Skaal Village

A/N: The Extra that was promised came amidst salt and smoke. Only smoke though!

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Outside Fort Frostmoth, it was about sunset and I was following Alina to where Wulfur and the rest were. What I didn't expect to see is some Redoran Guards were here too.

"We were taking permission to make our people camp in the area, Wulfur checked the two buildings in the Fort and found it all good. The Guards of House Redoran are only here to monitor us." Alina reported.

"Good. They can't let some group of outlanders stay in the Fort next to the town even if it some old ruins now."

"You see value in that place?"

"Yes, it has its own dock and it is easy to defend. If we used the ash to make some Roman Concrete and reinforce the fort and rebuild the walls then this will be our trading post from now on. Once Raven Rock gets back on the map, the East Empire Company won't be able to make a comeback here." I said.

"I see! The position is indeed good and easy to defend."

"Still too early for us to get anything done that early. We need to ask for it right after the Third Phase."

"You are the Boss."

Indeed I am.

After a bit of inspection, I finally met with Wulfur.

"What do you think of the Hammer?" That was what I asked right when I saw him.

"Incredible!" He said.

"And the Enchantment?"

"Awesome!"

"What is that about?" Alina asked.

"The hammer Wulfur Acquired is the 'Champion's Cudgel'. The hammer features Imperial symbols on the sides of a very block-like head. Below that, there is a section of the handle wrapped in crimson cloth. About an inch down after that, there is a steel band and the rest of the handle is wooden, with a steel pommel on the bottom. The head is shaped like a normal hammer, with a small crown of spikes on the top. The Enchantment itself is called the 'Chaos Damage' enchantment. It can cause a chance for each element of Fire, Frost and Shock to do damage."

"The Three?"

"Yes."

"Amazing. It has the same personality as Wulf." Alina said.

"Yes, I think so too." I agreed.

"Hey, what is that about?" Wulfur seemed to feel like he was being ridiculed.

"For the Blacksmith who can't decide which weapon that suits him and prefers an eating fork as a weapon, this enchantment is as chaotic as you are, bro." I broke it down to him.

Wulfur seemed upset but deep down he knew it was logical. This airhead is actually pretty good with weapons to the point that he can't decide what is the best weapon to use. I forced him on the idea of Warhammers and he seems to have stabilized on it too.

"Is there a place I can rest around here?" I asked.

"Go on the ship. We are staying the night in the fort."

"Manage the situation then, join us for dinner."

***

I went back to the ship and asked for an empty cabin and a tub. Alina and Jull joined me later for a bath.

I started discussing the matter regarding my cultivation with them, they were both interested and asked a lot of question.

"What we reached here is a grey area that even Nurina can't teach us about. The risk is removed for now and I don't really feel anything dangerous so I will begin teaching you as soon as we get back to Winterhold."

"You may want to delay it for a bit, the raid on Japhet's Folly is supposed to be the core of your attention." Jullanar said.

"Oh, right! Then after the raid then."

I still needed time to check how the Acupoints and the Meridians in their bodies look like. They are both females and Jull is a half-Elf so I need to understand the differences if there are any.

I kept discussing with them most of the theories around the matter while washing each other and they were really helpful. Alina's understanding of Mysticism and Jull's sense to Magic are really good.

In the end, my mental exhaustion made my brain feel like dying.

"Come, have some rest." Alina pulled my head to her chest. I didn't resist and offered let myself get pulled.

"Boob sandwich!" Jull didn't let the chance go and the other side of my face got some boobs too.

"What a heavenly sight!" I couldn't help but praise and surrendered to the heaven I found myself in.

They kept like this for a while but the girls were silent. I looked up there and understood why.

"You two need to stay away from Nurina and Faralda from now on." I separated the two girls from their ears and they did willingly with cheeky smiles on their faces.

"Come on, Jon. We didn't do it last night."

"Yes, Wulfur took you and even Bjorna was upset."

The two girls learned how to trigger me and they started to act accordingly and put me under their charm. I frankly was in the mood since I saw them kiss each other.

"Okay, don't blame me for what is going to happen when you seduce me." I carried both girls on my arms and stepped out of the tub.

With my newly acquired breakthrough, I activated the 'Third Eye' and looked through the walls of the ship. It was much easier than any time I ever used it before and it was not that hard at all. I looked at our cabin and teleported the three of us in an instant.

"Whoa!"

"Amazing!"

I inner-cast the teleportation spell and moved like that, the girl's were easily impressed. I put them on the bed and we started having sex with no holding back.

***

Two hours passed and I was finally done. The girls were sleeping on the bed with all kinds of pleasure fluids all around the place.

"I warned you, guys." I said and lied between them.

Alina climbed on my chest and looked at me in the eye.

"You really show no mercy when you get horny." She remarked.

"Your first time?" Jullanar asked her.

Alina nodded, "Yes, you always told me about how messy it can get."

"Sorry about it." I smiled wryly.

"If not for Elishka when he gets like that, I may have lost my mind from the pleasure." Jull said.

"Elishka, huh? You sure have a lot of girls here and there Mr. Boss." Alina said as she got on top of me and pressed her nails on my chest.

"I hope it doesn't cause you annoyance."

"Not at all! I am not some idiot girl who gets jealous over her man. As the most beautiful girl in Skyrim or maybe all Nirn I don't have anyone to be jealous of. There is only one Lady Boss and that is me." Alina said and played with her hair.

"Okay, okay! You are the Lady Boss."

I was a bit worried if things will turn into drama but gladly it didn't. I don't hide my outside affairs from them at all, they actually know about every girl I slept with other than them. I don't like to do so unless necessary like Elishka whose relationship with me is actually special to me or someone like Vittoria who needs to be kept as my little bitch in the East Empire Company.

I actually limited all my relationship to Alina and Jull as they are my family that needs my full attention. I know there sexual preferences and I always pleasure them to the best of my ability. Alina may like it sensual but she always someone who likes to be kissed and hear nice words during sex, while Jull is cowgirl who loves to be on top every time.

I find it disturbing that Little Jon got too wild for the girls to handle, I am thinking of making some new way of Sex Magic using the new Cultivation technique but I have no idea how that would ever work. I heard stories about it from my past life but I am not even aware of what the basics are. I guess I will research more but later.

Back to the present, I took the girls once again to the tub and started cleaning once again. This time we finished quickly and went to be.

***

Next Morning, I woke up late which is rare but I still got up and went outside to the deck.

"Morning, Boss."

"Morning, Captain Ongeim. How is the work on the excavation site?"

"We just got started this morning, the workers are a bit lax but still manageable."

"Good work, I'll bring the gang and come to see how things are going."

The excavation in Kolbjorn Barrow is important and needed a lot of hands to be done. With the request of mining resources in the area got granted from Raven Rock, we shouldn't be wasting any time.

After breakfast, I took Nefertiti, Alina, Jull, Wulfur and Bjorna to Kolbjorn Barrow that was buried under ashes and started observing the work. An hour passed and we started to think of something to pass time with.

"Should we visit the stones of the All-Maker? It would be fun to go there." Bjorna asked.

"I would say we go to the Skaal Village." I said.

"You want to go there?"

"We need some miners for the Stalhrim after all, the Skaal know the mountains like the back of their hands."

This was my plan to get closer to the Skaal, hiring some of them to Mine Stalhrim won't go against their rules or traditions. These people are well connected to the land of Solstheim and to their God, the All-Maker.

The All-Maker is an interesting deity. Unlike the pantheons of other cultures across Tamriel, the All-Maker is the sole deity in the faith of the Skaal, giving the faith a unique monotheistic quality. I like the idea of the All-Maker as it carries the same principles on how I view what God should be, a sole almighty deity.

For the Skaal, the All-Maker is the source of all life and creation. When a creature dies, its spirit returns to the All-Maker, who shapes it into something new and returns it to Mundus. The concept of death as an ending to life is unknown to the Skaal. Rather, death is seen as simply the beginning of the next stage of an endless journey.

The Skaal believe in a metaphysical being called the Adversary who is always watching, and that he delights in tormenting the All-Maker and his chosen people. He will steal away the gifts of the Skaal unless they can go on a pilgrimage to keep the gifts.

The All-Maker is solely worshipped in Solstheim by the native Nords as all the other Nords are mostly followers of the common pantheon. He bestowed six mystical stones on Solstheim that would keep his presence and blessings in the land, these are the Tree Stone, Sun Stone, Beast Stone, Wind Stone, Earth Stone and Water Stone.

These Stones give various gifts to those who meditate to them, a blessing or an ability of sort that can only be used one time then one should meditate again to gain it.

[A/N: I have changed some of the All-Maker Stone powers but they are still in the same category they are about like the Beast Stone that conjures werebears can be turned to Animal Allegiance for example.]

If one analyzed these gifts, one can gain an understanding that they have some representation to some Aedra and Daedra like Akatosh and Hircine.

It gave me have an idea of what is the real aspect of the All-Maker may really be but that's a discussion for another time. Right now, we rode our Flame Horse Atronachs and headed to the Skaal Village.


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Chapter 222: A New Possibility

The Skaal village was just to the North, taking the way there required us to have some good men to accompany us as the road was filled with all sort of beasts Solstheim has to offer.

The first thing we came across was a swarm of Ash Hoppers, pesky creatures were really large and made a strong scent every time I burned one of them. What made the problem go away was Alina in a weird way. We spotted a strange Spriggan that is known as the Burnt Spriggan. Spriggans are tree spirits that take the form of female humanoids and this one was a variant of the normal Spriggans found around the tundra of Skyrim, this one had a burnt wood scent and appearance.

Alina stepped forward and told everyone to stay behind as she approached the Burnt Spriggan alone, Jull was worried over Alina and kept her crossbow at hand. When Alina approached the Spriggan she started talking to it in a language I didn't really understand but I knew what it was right away, with her title as the 'Daughter of Kyne' Alina at least should have these powers to talk in the Spriggan tongue, a language that can be used to commune with Animals and calm them.

Just as she exchanged a few words with the Burnt Spriggan, it walked into a tree and Alina turned around with some heavy expressions.

"Did something happen?"

"Nah, it is just that poor child, it has lost some of its sense when it became like that." Alina said.

Oh!

"So, what did you talk with it about?"

"It will clear our road of any animals and guide us to the Skaal." She said.

"You are a wonder, girl." Jull patted Alina to comfort her a bit.

"Indeed it is amazing, I was always afraid of those Spriggans when I was young but now I can just ask Sister-in-law to deal with them. That old fool won't have to beat me up again." Wulfur said as he remembered a memory we both shared.

"Old fool? What is that about?" Bjorna asked.

"Back at Riften, there was that Old Man that Jon spent time with, a worshiper of Kyne who taught Jon how to hunt and fight after aunt Hilda visited seven years ago." Wulfur said.

"Yeah, we once went on a hunt near Shor Stone and stumbled upon a group of Spriggan and a lot of Wolves, Wulfur almost pissed himself and was about to harm the Spriggan but the Old Man talked to the Spriggans like Alina and solved the situation, we got beaten mercilessly afterward." I continued the sad story.

"I really want to meet him now, we can hear some embarrassing stories about your past." Alina said.

"I am going to spoil it for you here and now, they mostly end up with us beaten up or hanged on some tree." Wulfur said.

"I think you spoiled the embarrassing part." I said.

"Wait, wasn't that the fun part?"

"No."

Wulfur completely worsened our image in front of the girl but whatever.

"The Old Man was a fanatic of Kyne but he is a kind person. I will have to pay him a visit with you guys one day."

From that point onward, the road was cleared from the swarms of the Ash Hoppers, Alina was being guided by the Spriggan in a way I didn't understand but it seemed to be a Telepathic link of a sort. The Spriggans has the ability to control wild creatures and are really beautiful to look at, this is all due to them being associated with Kynareth, the lesser aspect of Kyne.

From now on, the only headache in the road was the wild Ash Spawns.

***

Along the way when we left the Ashlands to the Snowlands, we stumbled upon some Nord hunters in winter gears.

"Well met, kinsman."

"Well met, travelers. Coming from Raven Rock, aren't you?"

"We are indeed."

"And where are you seeking north?"

"The village of the Skaal, we are traders as you can tell."

The hunter looked at the carts that were being pulled by some horses and nodded.

"I'll guide you there, still, can you help me with a game?"

"What's your game?"

"A fierce stag over these trees, it needs some men to trap it and I am short on men but if you can help me…"

While the man was talking, Jull reloaded her crossbow and shot a bolt that carried a cold sensation towards the trees.

*Swoosh*

*NEEEAH*

A high pitched shriek of death sounded from a beast behind the trees, the accuracy was simply… crazy.

"If you are ever short on men, seek out a girl, that's how things get done." She said and acted cool and mighty.

The man looked at the trees and narrowed his eyes, one of his mates came a second later shouting that the stag was killed.

The man looked at Jull in awe.

"This is a masterful shot! By the All-Maker, I have seen nothing like it!"

The man kept going up and down about Jull's shot until he calmed down and agreed to take us later to the village.

***

"Thank you for your trip all the way here, we rarely get traders and are ever grateful for your visit." The Chieftain of the Skaal welcomed us in her Great Hall.

"It is alright. My men here will oversee the transactions and will take more requests to make further trades."

"To be honest, we heard about the new traders arriving at Raven Rock and were about to send a small caravan for resupplying but that is really a pleasant surprise, remind me again, the Dare Dragon Group?"

"Indeed. We are allies to the Sky Fire trading group and I am a Firemane descendant but I tend to keep that knowledge a secret."

"Oh, I understand I understand. The mainlanders tend to act strangely when they deal with the Clans."

"It is true."

The Sky Fire Company is the Firemane's trading front and has a very well known name. Chieftain Fanari Strong-Voice of the Skaal welcomed us right away when we proved to be related to them.

"So, what is the purpose of you young ones coming all the way here? You must have something you are looking for." The one who asked us was Storn Crag-Strider, the Shaman of the Skaal.

"It is indeed true, we are after the Stalhrim in the mountains up north and wish to buy some from the Skaal, we heard that by the Laws of Solstheim, only the Skaal has the right to mine in the North." I said right away.

I didn't intend to hide it from them at all.

"Strange! The mainlanders were never interested in the Stalhrim since two hundred years ago? Is there any events on the mainland that requires it now?" Chieftain Fanari wondered.

What a sly question! Are they trying to bargain for the price?

"Not really, I was just looking for materials that can strengthen the Frost Enchantments and my research led me to the Stalhrim, I heard that it is as hard as Ebony and as beautiful as Glass. Now that's something I would love to see." I replied.

"It is indeed beautiful and sturdy. If that is what you want then we will provide you with what you need. Still, it will take us three weeks to cover an equal amount of Stalhrim to the supplies you brought."

"I don't mind, I have around the same time to stay in Solstheim anyway. In the meantime, I was interested touring the land and meeting the oddities of it. What piqued my interest the most is the famed Stones of the All-Maker, I really would love to visit them and see if I could acquire a blessing?"

"You wish to get a blessing? That's odd for an outlander! You believe in the All-Maker?" The Shaman asked me.

"I do have an understanding of the All-Maker and recognize the power he gives the land."

The All-Maker is a mysterious deity revered as the Wellspring of Creation. The All-Maker could be a deity from the Atmorans or branched from the animal deities of the Atmorans that the Firemanes still consider sacred. Either way, they share similarities with each other and derive from the ancient Nords, reverence for the All-Maker is now nearly extinct except in the Skaal village which preserved the ancient beliefs throughout the ages, and modern scholars have learned of the All-Maker through their eyes.

All life flows from the All-Maker like a great river, and, in time, this river flows back to its source. The spirits of dead creatures return to the All-Maker, who shapes new life and returns it to Mundus. Death, then, is simply the beginning of the next stage of this endless journey. However, each life is a gift given in the great wisdom of the All-Maker, thus each one is very precious and sacred. Even the snow is viewed as a blessing for the shelter it can offer and for allowing hunters to track prey.

The All-Maker favors those who hone their skills, and disfavors the greedy and lazy. The six All-Maker Stones of Solstheim are viewed as representations of the six aspects of nature, the six great gifts of the All-Maker—flora, fauna, the sun, the earth, water, and wind. The stones are believed to be conduits by which the All-Maker's power flows into the world.

In opposition to the All-Maker is the 'Adversary', an equally enigmatic opposing force which works to corrupt the dominion of the All-Maker. The Skaal believe the Adversary takes delight in tormenting and testing them.

I said it once before that I know more about the All-Maker that what the Skaal may tell.

The 'All-Maker' is another aspect of 'Anu' and the 'Adversary' is clearly 'Padomay'.

From the Myth Creation of Lorkhan and Auriel, it was mentioned that Auriel was created by Anu-el which is the spirit of Anu, or Anu the Everything, which is thought to be the quintessential form of Stasis, the anthropomorphization of one of the two primal forces. The other is Padomay, also called the Darkness, which is the quintessential form of change, the one whose spirit is Sithis that created Lorkhan.

If one looked closely at the Six Blessings that can be granted by the All-Maker, one can find the characteristics of the other Aedra that got created after Auriel.

These Six Blessings can be obtained from the Six Stones of the All-Maker, the only problem is that the powers that can only be used for one time and only can be acquired again by getting another blessing.

I discussed my General Knowledge about the All-Maker with Storn Crag-Strider, the Shaman, and didn't mention anything disrespectful like my own understanding of the All-Maker.

"If one wants to acquire a permanent blessing from the All-Maker, one must perform a Pilgrimage to the Six Stones." The Shaman gave me a pleasant surprise.

"A Permanent Blessing? Is that possible?" I asked.

"It is, do you know the difference between a Blessing and an Agent?"

"Yes, Blessings are mostly temporary while Agents are a higher and a better form that is considered a sort of a Divine Protection."

The only Agents that appeared in the Game are the Agents of Mara, Dibella and some other Daedra.

"This is possible to acquire by a pilgrimage to all the Six Stones." The Shaman confirmed.

This is truly marvelous! The possibilities if we acquired those Agents are amazing!

"Honorable Storn, I am listening."


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