Lore talk:Falx Carius

Reanimated or Living Falx Carius?

Is there any evidence to suggest that it was the living Falx rather than the reanimated Falx that wrote the letter and the Declaration of War? I was figuring it was the resurrected Falx because Ildari's journal describes him as being paranoid after being reanimated by the Heartstone. 172.12.96.55 01:17, 8 September 2014 (GMT)

Good call, I've shuffled it around. —Legoless (talk) 01:39, 8 September 2014 (GMT)

It's the only thing that makes any sense. I don't believe Carius actually had any trouble with the Dunmer colony in Raven Rock while he was alive: indeed, in the surviving "Letters to Selina", according to Maximian Axius, Imperial Soldiers were still escorting supply wagons to Raven Rock, and the principal problem was Riekling attacks. Also, Raven Rock was still run by the Empire at the time, in the form of the East Empire Company, although the Nords of Skyrim had symbolically asserted control over Solstheim (apparently without Raven Rock even noticing, there being no record of this in its history.) My conclusion is that Carius was reanimated completely insane: he thinks the ash spawns are his garrison: and that he has been repeatedly writing to Imperial City but none of the letters have ever reached their destination, the first two never left Solstheim (probably destroyed by whatever ash-spawn he "entrusted" them to as his messenger) and he was still carrying the third letter. And his "diplomatic overtures" to the large Dunmer presence - which now really IS "sizable", and self-governing since both Solstheim (by the Nords) and Raven Rock (by the Imperials) were turned over to the Dunmer immigrants - took the form of ash spawn invasions, which of course were met with violence, and none of his "diplomatic parties" came back "alive", so he's sent a final "diplomatic party" carrying the declaration of war... JLE (talk) 03:13, 6 June 2018 (UTC)