place. It is a full set of traditionally styled orsimer armor that originally belonged to a chieftain of a clan in the Velothi mountains, bested in challenge of combat and thus inherited (and resized by the orsimer forge-mother to fit a dunmer) by an Ashkhan of an Ashlander tribe in the Stonefalls, whose life Aryon saved when he was an apprentice. It is composed of a series of narrow overlapping plates lashed to a cloth backing, providing a far greater range of movement than other makes of armor. It is far lighter-weight than the bonemold I have been wearing, and Aryon assured me that the orichalcum alloy is more durable than almost any other material, even ebony. The

suit is ornately filigreed and decorated, very cleverly so in the places where material was removed and rejoined to make the armor smaller.

I have been writing this en route to Sadrith Mora - I caught passage on the last trading vessel out of Tel Vos’s port as it returned to Sadrith Mora.