User:TheRockWithAMedicineCupOnHisHead/Sandbox

TheRockWithAMedicineCupOnHisHead/Sandbox
TheRockWithAMedicineCupOnHisHead/Sandbox in her opening appearance in Arena
Race	Altmer	Gender	Female
Resided in		Cyrodiil
Appears in		Arena

History

Early Life

Nothing is known about Ria Silmane's upbringing, except for that she had an altmer sister, who, at some point, married into the Estacirce Family of Summerset.(UOL: Loranna's RP: Ted peterson's posts)

Ria Silmane likely attended the Battlespire as a battlemage, eventually becoming an administer of that Imperial Battle College(Jump Note: According the Battlespire Athenaeum, it was customary for all candidates for the Imperial Battlemage of Tamriel position to have been an administer of the facility.)

Elder Council

Ria Silmane was once a powerful sorceress and one of the Elders on the Elder Council. Ria was the senior apprentice to the Imperial Battlemage of the Elder Council, Jagar Tharn, and viewed politically as a worthy successor to Tharn should he ever retire from office. Sometime before or during 3E 389, the Eternal Champion, ward of Talin Warhaft, was summoned to court to learn the ways of sorcery under the tutelage of Elder Silmane.

Imperial Battlemage of Tamriel

When Jagar Tharn announced to his Emperor that he was going to take a leave of absence to pursue "magical studies", Emperor Uriel VII was troubled by the absence of his Imperial Battlemage from court, but understood the importance of research for those whose vocation was the study of the mysteries of magic, and so accepted Tharn's request, asking only that Tharn appoint someone to replace him in his duties as Imperial Battlemage while on leave. Tharn appointed Ria Silmane as his temporary replacement, this choice was fully approved by the Elder Council. For several months, Ria Silmane would sit as the acting Imperial Battlemage of Tamriel, governing the nine provinces.

Elder Silmane would attend the Mid Year's Festival, where she would see her student for the last time before her death. Retroactively, Ria would decide later this festival was where the evil took form in her master; which holds some truth, it was here where Talin Warhaft would regale to the Crown Princess, Ariella Septim, about a time in his youth: when a compatriot of his used an illisuary transmorph spell to change his appearance into that of another. This anecdote inspired Tharn to do something similar... To remove his Emperor, whom he was terribly jealous of, and take his place.

Imperial Simulacrum

When Jagar Tharn enacted his plan to usurp the throne from his Emperor, entrapping Uriel and his Imperial Guard in a timeless extra-dimensional prison, Ria Silmane had discovered Tharn's betrayal, but was captured before she could warn the Elder Council of Tharn's teachery, ending with her former master murdering her, destroying her corporeal form using the Staff of Chaos. However, using her powers as a Sorceress, she clung to unlife, though the pull to the afterlife was strong, she managed to resist death's final door for a near decade as a ghost.

It was put out publicly that a plot against the Emperor had been unmasked, with the supposed chief conspirator, Ria Silmane, facing summary execution. Among the court, it was said that Jagar Tharn retired from public work when he took his leave earlier in the year, and did not return despite his apprentice's supposed conspirings. The public at large believed the man had simply disappeared, leaving the realm without any Imperial Battlemage for the duration of the Simulacrum.

When Elder Silmane had disappeared, her friend and tutee, the Eternal Champion, was the first person to notice and begin an investigation. Apparently the Champion had gotten too close, for they were ambushed by agents of the Emperor and thrown into a prison cell deep within the Imperial City sewers.

From her grave, the specter of Ria Silmane would spend the next decade playing an unruly game of chess against her former master, using the living as pawns to enact her goal of restoring the rightful Emperor.

Ria's first recruitment was King Eadwyre, of the Wayrester Septim Dynasty, who had been visiting the Imperial City. Ria came to him in his dreams (by way of a Dream Bridge), and filled him in on the nefarious simulacrum plot devised by Tharn. Eadwyre agreed to help his kin get back on his throne. And Ria told him of her selected champion, who would be their best hope of stopping Tharn... Her former student; who possessed great, albeit untapped, potential.

Eadwyre reached out to Queen Barenziah, who had been a resident of the Imperial Court and told her of what he had known about the Tharnatos Plot.

• Apparently Tharn had kept a secret diary with all his schemes written in, which Barenziah Llethan discovered, and which would presumably have been how Ria discovered the gold being laundered in the Imperial Sewers.(OL: Barenziah's book)

Fate

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However, her ghost appeared to King Eadwyre (of the Septim Dynasty) in a dream and revealed to him that the true Emperor had been kidnapped by Tharn and imprisoned in an alternate dimension.

Ria kept her spirit bound to the mortal plane via her magic; yet her magicka reserves were constantly draining, limiting the time she had left. Ria could still cast magic, but it drained her energy even further. She aided the Eternal Champion in escaping the Imperial Prison by opening a Shift Gate and tracking down all eight pieces of the Staff of Chaos. She did not have a corporeal form, and she communicated largely through dreams and visions.

She used up the last of her magicka by using a spell of altering which altered the appearance of the Champion so that the guards posted outside the Imperial Palace would be fooled, by doing this she sacrificed herself to ensure that Jagar Tharn would be brought to justice.

See Also

• For game-specific information, see the Arena article.