The vanquished spirits of a forgotten battle fought in another age have risen seemingly unbidden from the graveyard at Moffka’s Lament in south-eastern Cyrodiil. Perhaps it is the endless turmoil in this land that has disturbed their eternal rest. Or maybe it is the land itself that has roused them in response to the wounds it suffers from the Banners fruitless war.

These Orc and Ayleid soldiers are believed to have fallen in a battle for the nearby Fort Variela. That they were buried in the same graveyard appears to be a rare act of honour and grace by whomever the victor was. Yet as I approach they seem to have forgotten what animosity they had for each other and attack only me. Perhaps it is that they never did fight against each other, but together against a common, more deadly foe? Either that or there really is nothing the dead hate more then the living.

The spirits themselves return still dressed in the weapons and armour in which they fell. I wonder after my own death if I am to be risen again whether I too will appear as I died, or maybe I will rise as a shadowy ghost; anything but a skeleton, I don’t think I would enjoy that.

S.K