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Ysmir Wulfgar, High King of East Mereth

High King Wulfgar

High King of Skyrim
Høykong av Østmereþu

In office:
4E 203 17 Rain's Hand - Present

Preceded by: Office Established
Jarl of Eastmarch
Jarl av Østmark[/i]

In office:
4E 203 17 Rain's Hand - Present

Preceded by: Ulfric Stormcloak
Personal details

Born: 4E 163 16 Sun's Dusk (40)
Kynesgrove, Eastmarch
Race: Nord
Class: Tongue, Battlemage
Identity: Avatar of Shor
Spouse(s): N/A
Children: N/A

Wulfgar of Kynesgrove, also known as Ysmir Wulfgar, Wulfgar Stormblade, and the Dragonborn, is a legendary figure of East Mereth. As the Dragonborn, he defeated Alduin the World Eater and put a stop to the Dragon Prophecy, he helped Miraak, his kinsman and the first Dragonborn to mantle Hermaeus Mora and become the New Guardian of Knowledge and Gardener of Men. As a spell-sword and mercenary, he aided various factions in Skyrim in their own quests, eventually and as one of the oldest supporters of Ulfric Stormcloak, he helped the Nordic Rebellion reach its victory in Solitude, only to see its partition between quarelling holds. As the first High King of East Mereth, Wulfgar protects his new Kingdom from the enemies in the South, West, and East.

Wulfgar is in reality a divine entity and quite possibly one of the most powerful beings in Mundus. As Dragonborn, he is Shezarrine, an earthly manifestation of Ysmir and an avatar of Shor, the God-King of all Nords. He holds mastery of the Tongue and is seen as the Thur of all Dragons after his victorious battle against Alduin. His ascension to the throne marks a restoration of an ancient Nordic practice of crowning Ysmir -the Dragonborn- their kings, a tradition that was stopped upon the defeat of Jurgen Windcaller in the Red Mountain.


Early Life

Wulfgar was born in Kynesgrove, a settlement built around an ancient site of the same name in 4E 163. His early life was spent in the chaos of the final years before the Great War. Like many other Nords, he fought an Ice Wraith on the Serpentstone Island at the age of sixteen (4E 179). At the age of Seventeen, despite his parents' demands to the contrary, he left Kynesgrove on a pilgrimate to Winterhold. Upon arriving in Winterhold, he spent five years in the College of Winterhold. In his years of study in Winterhold, he became an Adept in Destruction and Alteration, an apprentice in Restoration, and gained minimal knowledge in Alchemy and Enchanting. He left the College with high honors for a Nord, and returned home to Kynesgrove. Wulfgar joined Eastmarch's Guard Force in 4E 185, a year after returning home, due to becoming disillusioned with the quiet life he had returned to. Wulfgar originally apprenticed under Wuunferth the Unliving, a master of Necromancy and destruction for a year, before officially joining the guard force.

When Ulfric Stormcloak returned home in 4E 196, Wulfgar had already made a name for himself as a warrior and a healer. He was one of the original seven that Ulfric decided to train in Thu'um upon his ascension as the Jarl. Of the seven, Wulfgar was the only one who saw any success in that short time, for reasons that would become obvious later on.

The Rebel

Wulfgar was one of Ulfric's original contingent of guards when he traveled to Solitude to challenge High King Torygg to a duel. He fled Solitude alongside his liege when Torygg perished, and upon the declaration of war by Jarl Ulfric, he performed as one of his highest commanding officers. He was originally named Stormblade due to his use of magic to increase his swinging speed and coating his sword with shock and frost. He fought in multiple strategic battles in Whiterun, Hjaalmarch, Eastmarch, and eventually The Rift before he was finally taken captive alongside Ulfric Stormcloak, Ralof of Riverwood, and multiple other high-ranking Stormcloak officials near Darkwater Crossing and shipped to Helgen to be executed.

The Dragonborn

Wulfgar's execution was postponed indefinitely when Helgen was attacked by a Dragon only moments before the Headman's Axe would be brought down on his head. The Dragon's attack resulted in the first instance of Imperial and Stormcloak cooperation -or at least, a semblance of it. While fleeing the carnage of the Dragon's attack, Wulfgar and Ralof met with Hadvar, an Imperial legate originating from Riverwood similar to Ralof. The trio fled Helgen by using its keep's underground tunnel system, and brought back news to Riverwood. As Whiterun was a neutral hold, neither Ralof nor Hadvar could operate under their army's orders, and as such each returned to their army's capital. Wulfgar however decided to help the Hold. He was dispatched to Whiterun to inform Balgruuf -the hold's Jarl- of the dragon attack.

Balgruuf dispatched his newly-instated state operator to a nearby Nordic Ruin in the Bleak Falls Barrow to recover an artifact for his court wizard. Wulfgar dwelled into the ruins and killed his way through Frostbite Spiders, bandits, and later Draugr -ancient Nords owing allegiance to the Dragon Cult- until he confronted the Draugr Wight Guardian of the Stone in the Barrow's hall. He fought the Draugr Wight, a magelord trained by the Dragon cult in the Tongue and magic. His verbal spar with the Guardian nearly caused the hall, built deep inside a mountainous cave, to cave in on them, but he succeeded in defeating the guardian and recovering his stone. Upon returning to Whiterun, he noticed the Western Watchtower being attacked by a Dragon in the distance, and he aided the Whiterun Guardforce in their battle against the Dragon Mirmulnir.

During the battle, as the resident Tongue, Wulfgar engaged the Dragon in a verbal spar that shook the earth and the skies, and while the dragon was quite amused at this upstart mortal attempting to spar with him in his own tongue, upon defeating Mirmulnir he absorbed the dragon's soul. As Wulfgar returned to Whiterun to report to Balgruuf of the victory, the Greybeards spoke for the first time in two eras, calling upon the Dragonborn to attend High Hrothgar.

Wulfgar returned to Whiterun with words of victory. He refused the title of Thane in Whiterun, instead deciding to keep Whiterun in blood debt, before leaving Whiterun. He returned to Windhelm to report to his liege of Whiterun's debt to his person, and aided Galmar Stone-Fist -Ulfric's second in command- and a vanguard Stormcloak unit in a mission to Korvanjund, the last resting place of old High King Borgas from the first era. There, he, Galmar and Ralof first slaughtered their way through Imperials and draugr, and eventually were forced to -once again- join forces with Legates Rikke and Hadvar who had come to Korvanjund to recover the Jagged Crown after their spies had informed them of its Location. The five fought the undead form of High King Borgas and his army of tongues in the throne room, and Wulfgar snuck the Jagged Crown away under Stone-Fist's command while the battle was ongoing. Upon returning the crown to Ulfric, the Greybeards called upon him again.

Not wishing to risk the wrath of the most powerful tongues in Skyrim and encouraged by Ulfric himself, Wulfgar traveled to Ivarstead and climbed the Seven Thousand Steps to High Hrothgar. There, he was recognized as Ysmir, Dragon of the North by the Greybeards after he demonstrated his innate ability to learn Thu'um without training. He was dispatched to recover the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller, an artifact that had apparently stored the Voice of countless Tongues who had come to challenge Jurgen in his hermitage. Wulfgar traveled to Ustengrav in Hjaalmarch and fought his way through necromancers and draugr, but to his surprise, the horn had already been taken. Hoping to find the horn for personal use, Wulfgar returned to Riverwood where a note in the Horn's place suggested its new owner was living in. There, he discovered the last surviving Blades. Wulfgar traveled with Delphine, a blade officer, to Kynesgrove, his own home, and witnessed the resurrection of Sahloknir by the same black dragon he had saw in Helgen. Wulfgar sparred with the dragon verbally, and was finally successful in bringing it down. Upon absorbing his soul, Wulfgar received the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller from Delphine who later reported that she had her suspicions on who the responsible party for the return of dragons were and would contact him later if those suspicions bore fruit. The Dragonborn returned the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller back to the Greybeards who confirmed his identity as the Dragonborn by engaging in verbal spar with him. The Conversation between the Dragonborn and the Greybeards was, like their summoning of his person, heard all across Skyrim in the form of a week-long storm that put the province into darkness.

Recognized as Ysmir, Dovahsebrom, Wulfgar of Kynesgrove received the four Greybeards' understanding of the Way of the Voice. Disagreeing with their ideals of non-interventionist pacifism, Wulfgar left High Hrothgar, planning on returning to Windhelm and the war. In the eleven days it took for him to reach Windhelm from Ivarstead, however, Wulfgar suffered eleven consecutive vivid nightmares. As he arrived in Windhelm, he asked for the help of his old trainer Wuunferth the Unliving. The two's scrying revealed the source of Wulfgar's nightmares to be in Solstheim. Left with no choice, Wulfgar would travel to Solstheim through the Windhelm docks. He spent seven weeks in Solstheim. He was attacked by a pair of Miraak's cultists while resting in the Retching Netch. Incapacitating the two, he interrogated the latter -who had not succumbed to her wounds- and discovered that Miraak had been responsible for the attack on him. Deducing that this Miraak was likely responsible for his nightmares too, Wulfgar spent the next two days interviewing the people of Raven Rock about a 'Miraak'. Correctly discovering Miraak was an ancient Draconic name, Wulfgar attempted to investigate one of the Guardian Stones of Soltsheim; that is to say the Earth Stone, the closest to Raven Rock.

Near the Earth Stone, Wulfgar met the Telvanni magelord Neloth who -after pointing out that Miraak had had to have died thousands of years ago- pointed him towards his old Temple. Wulfgar trekked to Miraak's temple, witnessing seventeen dragon corpses on the path of temple -corpses clean of their skin in the same manner that Mirmulnir and Sahloknir had turned to upon their final death, before hearing a slightly modified version of the infernal chants he'd heard in his dreams:

"Here in my temple, here in my shrine, that you have forgotten. Here do you toil, that you might remember. Here you reclaim, what faithless minds have stolen. Far from yourself, I grow ever nearer to you. Your eyes once were blinded, now through me do you see. Your hands once were idle, now through them do I speak. And when the world shall listen, and when the world shall see, and when the world remembers, that world will cease to be.""

Wulfgar, along with Frea of the Skaal -the only other non-enthralled person in the temple- trekked through the temple, killing their share of Cultists and putting countless Draugr to final rest. Eventually, their search led them to a Black Book: Walking Dreams.

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