#Llethri Releth Moon-and-Star

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I love the idea of Nerevarine teldryn that I’m gonna work with it. he was one of the failed incarnates and failed solely on the basis of being a young child at the time. Didn’t stop him from trying to follow Llethri though, when he appeared before the Urshilaku claiming to be the one true Nerevar. Teldryn was much brighter and lighter then, even though he envied Llethri. He wanted to follow him though despite the fact he was a kid with play-armor and play-weapons and yet an odd aptitude for fire magic. He wanted to prove himself and earn his markings as a great warrior to his tribe if not the Nerevarine then surely the young bright eyed yet unexpectedly powerful sidekick. Llethri would protect this kid with his life and didn’t doubt his skill for a moment but he would very quickly become a liability precisely because he was so young and inexperienced even if he would protest and beg to prove himself. Llethri would try to let him down easy but this would be met with stubbornness, to which Llethri in an act of concern would as sternly as possible tell him that he’s too young, that he would end up hurt or worse and he simply isn’t ready or even armed properly. That he doesn’t know what he’s getting into. That he would hate to have the mark of letting a child die on his conscience. That maybe when this is over Llethri will come back and if he’s more experienced and older then he will bring him along on some light ruins exploration, because he was to the belief that field experience was the best teacher but what he was doing was simply far too dangerous.

To which Teldryn would protest that he was tired of being treated as if he was incapable just because he was a child, that because he’s a child it seems like nobody is even giving him the opportunity to surprise them, that he won’t be their little baby forever and he wants them to give him the chance at least once. To which Llethri empathized, dear gods he did, but this child before him was just that. A child that thinks he’s more experienced than he actually is, surely skilled but not enough just yet. He was scarred less whether from battle or through the scarification the Ashlanders practiced, especially when compared to others even slightly older than him. Llethri just wanted him to understand that he doesn’t doubt the boy’s skill but this is way above his current skill level. But this was a child with the spirit of fire within him who refused to back down and Llethri had to pretend that that little shadow wasn’t tailing him in the dark.

Llethri felt that the boy was going to follow him no matter what he did, and he wasn’t going to demand he basically be imprisoned or monitored whenever he visited where the Urshilaku were camped. This does mean we get some very tense moments where Llethri has to step in and make sure that this little guy doesn’t get himself steamrolled while also proving that he was right and he in fact wasn’t yet ready, even if he promised hey, I’m learning, I promise I’m learning and getting better. And Llethri didn’t want to treat him like a liability but he was in a position where he had almost no choice. This child although quite skilled was still not his equal and was more likely to get killed or even catch corprus. It was only when this child was faced with the fact that Llethri was right head-on that he, terrified now, agreed to let Llethri bring him back home and to stay put. For now.

It wouldn’t be long until he was compelled back to wandering.

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I think it’s very interesting how Samael and Llethri are polar opposite characters.

Llethri is gentle and hyper-empathetic, he will refuse to disobey his moral compass for any reason what so ever and he even feels immense guilt over whenever he’s had no choice, over the people he’s killed and the people he’s let die because he couldn’t save them. Combine this with Nerevar’s memories and Nerevar’s emotions and no wonder why he’s a saint. He’s gentle with every aspect of Vvardenfell, even the land itself, and even though the prophecy states that he would not be from Morrowind he is, he was born and raised on the mainland and could as a result argue that he is technically true to the prophecy cos he isn’t from Vvardenfell specifically. He is intensely loyal to every single individual that has ever crossed his path and earned his reputation not just through being the Nerevarine, not just through combat prowess, but through his sheer kindness. He is the archetypal true hero. Oh and despite their opposites Samael is ABSOLUTELY Llethri’s baby and it shows.

Samael however is the opposite. He is cold and even cruel, he is completely unempathetic and even unfeeling 99% of the time. He is completely amoral, someone could be being accosted by a thief in the street and he would simply watch or look away not because of bystander syndrome but because if he intervened that person would become a liability, and it would give him unwanted attention. And why should he intervene with something that is going to happen again somewhere else where he wouldn’t be able to step in? It’s too much energy. He is also casually a cannibal — it isn’t exclusively his diet obviously, but if there’s a fresh corpse he will eat the heart primarily because he is a werewolf. He doesn’t feel bad for anyone he’s killed whether or not they’re a contract for the Brotherhood or not, even though it does haunt him. Even his own husbands would say that he isn’t someone you’d want to get along with, especially when they’ve watched him get close to his Brotherhood targets just to establish himself as the only person they could trust before spilling their blood with the Ebony Blade. Yet despite this, despite everything, Samael loves his husbands and his kids but they’re probably the only people he truly genuinely cares about with some very very rare exceptions. He’s a true anti-hero.

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sweet boy Llethri. btw. yes I’m going through screenshots cos I can’t sleep and just posting my boys.

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🎶 you are my daaad! You’re my dad! Boogie woogie woogie! 🎶