Ignoring all of that though there was the dreadful absence of knowledge that comes after the game to deal with as well. It's kind of funny really. Back during my previous life I didn't know the future either but after getting a taste of what prescience is like it's kind of dreadful considering what unknowns could come from the future. The elder scrolls six hadn't come out yet when I died so all I had to go off of was was five. Assuming the timeline hadn't shifted because of my interference that meant I had at most four more years before my knowledge of the future starts turning into knowledge of the present and then out of date.-
I shook my head to clear it of these thoughts and got out of bed. Ulfric had breakfast prepared for us before I had finally gone to the docks and got a replacement fur outfit from the Argonian mage. Now it was time to head out for Yngol's barrow. I couldn't wait any longer in the city or there was a fairly good chance Aela would reach the place first which would be awkward as hell.-
She merely had to hunt the troll causing problems, drop off proof and then head for the place after all. To be fair she was also on foot so she'd take longer than me on mount but the idea was the same. Once I left the city I summoned my toad and headed north following the great white river. The road was well maintained for the first few miles as the steadings were located this way but soon enough the roads simply stopped having any signs of maintenance. Snow had frozen to the stones and dirt was mixed in along with whatever else had been collected over the road in who knew how many years.-
The toads clawed feet dug through this ice layer without much trouble and let us make good time. The journey was one that would take a full day to complete so we only just arrived as night fell. The outside of the barrow had an ancient crumbling frozen stone archway entrance leading to a clearing with an altar for offerings. Behind that was the cave entrance that the barrow was built inside of. The place was clearly abandoned though as snow covered most of it and the altar was barren of anything at all.-
Yngol may not have been totally forgotten by history but no one came to honor him either. I cleared an area after desummoning my toad and got to work setting up a campsite. I started by using [shape stone] to roll the snow and debris to the side leaving a nice flat clean spot. I then used the spell to fix the crumbled stone walls that encircled the entrance and extended them up and back to create a sort of dome over the whole area. I reinforced it with some pillars and rolled out a fur roll which was my bedding.-
I then stacked up some wood in a pile and set a fire. I set up my cooking pot over the flames and got to work making rice as I chopped up the ingredients for curry. Once the rice was done I set it to the side and got the curry going. While that cooked I meditated on words of power. After my bond with Lokjun had settled my learning speed with words had jumped forward greatly so I now had a four, three word shouts. [Unrelenting force], [whirlwind sprint], [clear skies] and [fire breath].-
I also had more than two dozen single words usable in a shout as well. My speed at learning new words was also becoming faster and faster with each word I add. I had gone from almost a week per word to a mere two days. By my estimation I would be able to lower this time to a day or less once I crossed forty or fifty words learned. My status panel reflected this increasing mastery of the dragon language as well.
{Name: Alexan
Age: 15 years, 10 months, 13 days
Race: Nord/Altmer
Strength:24(average adult is 10)
Dexterity:21(average adult is 10)
Constitution:33(average adult is 10)
Intelligence:30(average adult is 10)
Spirit:57(average adult is 10)
Magicka: 726/726
Skills: English(mastered), Tamrielic(mastered), Dovahzul(59/100), Alchemy(68/100), Sneak(52/100), Speechcraft(85/100), Smithing(51/100), Enchantment(67/100) Mysticism(60/100), Destruction(67/100), Restoration(60/100), Medicine(79/100) Alteration(60/100), Illusion(60/100), Conjuration(60/100), Cooking(95/100), Swordsmanship(99/100), Archery(26/100), }
An impressive status to say the least. Especially with how ridiculously high my stats were. That part was honestly a compounding matter in truth though as my own maximizations plus what I got from my bond with Lokjun pushed my stats into superhuman territory.-
The really crazy part though? This was the same sort of result people without these things have achieved before. None ever did so naturally mind you but this sort of thing is not unheard of. You just had to look back at the legends of this worlds past to find plenty of examples of people just as ridiculously capable. Tiber Septim, Potema, Miraak, Pelinal Whitesrake, Syrabane, Nerevar, the list was quite long. Unnaturally powerful people just sort of popped up periodically here.-
People could also reach quite far through pure effort as well. A good example of that was Galmar who I sparred with not long ago at all. His strength and constitution stats had to be in the mid to late teens for him to match me so well. That ninety nine skill with my swordsmanship was not a joke. I was nearly at the point of being able to use my sword as easy as breathing, instinctively. I barely even needed to think about how I was going to move before my body was already executing it. Despite that he actually got a bit of sweat from me.-
He would have lost if I hadn't called it to an end but that wasn't the point. The point was that he actually managed to give me enough pressure that I was sweating. I was glad I branched out so much considering that. If I didn't have my magic or shouts I'd be panicking something fierce right now. I only had four years in theory to prepare for giant, heavily armored, flying, thu'uming lizards with attitude problems. Admittedly the She` hai would let me possibly contend with them just by itself but I didn't want to merely be able to match them, I wanted to kill them.-
Killing something is considerably harder than merely defeating it. Especially in the case of things like dragons when you weren't a dragon yourself. Just swordsmanship definitely wouldn't cut it but with magic, swordsmanship and the thu'um I was hopeful I'd give those lizards nightmares once they started coming back. The thu'um I could grow steadily with meditation but my magic was meeting blocks which was why I was out on this journey.