tamriel dawn's beauty' in the language
of the altmer ordaz of god the dragon's
tongue is the kannan upon which all the
Elder Scrolls games take place home to
many diverse races and even more
conflicts Tamriel has been host to many
adventures you've experienced Tamriel in
your own way but want to learn more
about its story well to get to the heart
of the story you have to go back to the
beginning
sanguine my brother to best understand
the history of this ancient order dear
brother you have to understand how this
cult of assassins came about the Dark
Brotherhood has been mixing murder with
business for centuries
bringing a swift death to even the
mightiest of emperors the story of their
origins however starts much earlier in
fact to understand their story you have
to go back to before the beginning back
to a time before men and elves bloody
Tamriel with their wars before de drie
ignited chaos before aedra assisted in
the creation of our planet for before
there was time and space
there was the void simply put the void
is a cosmic realm of utter nothingness
this is the domain of citizen dark
brotherhood lore citizen the void were
presents before all things who is cities
you ask some call him the dread father
it was his terrible love that gave birth
to the Dark Brotherhood so very long ago
now this Sith is neither a draw or
Daedra according to ancient writings
Sith is predates the creation of both
groups because of this the Dark
Brotherhood worships ah--this as the one
true God the one who existed before all
others it was in fact his chaotic nature
that caused the reaction that led to the
birth of the aedra and the Daedra and
the aedra later created mondays and in
turn Tamriel
yes sit this one the spark that ignited
creation the Dark Brotherhood often
depicts synthesis a skeleton due to his
association with death however some say
he is as formless as the boy he
represents Sid this is considered the
embodiment of everything evil but at the
same time he is described as being
nothing at all
avoid Citiz is appeased through death
and other acts of suffering and strife
he brought about our existence after all
and what is existence if not a conduit
for suffering living each day for
survival the dark brotherhood may call
him father
but synthesis a father not many would
keep even so civis is revered in the
brotherhood and accredited for bringing
the cult of assassins into existence
through his prophets the night mother
the night mother is the Dark
Brotherhood's on the holy matron she
guides our actions just as the dread
father cities once guided earth
according to dark Brotherhood legend
Sith is visited a dark elf woman in her
bedchamber and begot her five children
two years passed as the children grew
older one night the Dark Elf woman heard
the voice of sittest
Ziff is wish to be reunited with his
children but he needed her help that
fateful night she murdered her children
and sent their souls straight to the
void straight to their father when they
learned about what the Dark Elf woman
had done the people of the village
rallied against the woman for such an
act was considered incomprehensible and
one night of vengeance they descended
upon the woman killing her and burning
down the house in which the atrocity
took place and that was the end of the
story or so everyone thought a little
more than thirty years later a man heard
a strange comforting voice inside his
head
just as the dark elf woman claimed to
hear the voice of sitteth inside hers
the voice identified herself as the
night mother and named of the man
listener the first of many sweet mother
sweet Mother's and your child unto me
for the sins of the unworthy must be
baptized in blood and fear all across
the Empire everyday people beseech the
night mother and through the power of
sitteth the night mother hears their
prayers for murder the night mother
speaks to only one member of the Dark
Brotherhood the listener of the black
hand and when a lady speaks death
follows the position of listener is the
highest rank a Dark Brotherhood assassin
could ever hope to achieve the listener
is the only member of the Dark
Brotherhood who can hear the voice of
the night mother who speaks for SIF is
so being chosen as a listener is a
sacred honor
aside from communing with the night
mother the listener also leads the black
hand the black hand is the ruling body
of the Dark Brotherhood it is made up of
one listener and four speakers four
fingers and a thumb if you will unlike
lesser organizations like the mole
racked on the dark Brotherhood's
assassin seemed to be everywhere at once
and this is attributed to the speakers
of the black hand
each speaker operates her own Dark
Brotherhood sanctuary sanctuaries are
the Dark Brotherhood safe houses
scattered throughout Samri L hear
members of the guild find rest in
between man hunts while in a sanctuary
members of the Dark Brotherhood trained
in the arts of stealth and assassination
often exchanging fighting techniques
since the sanctuary is won by a speaker
who is in direct communication with the
listener and interns ah--this this is
also the place where members pick up
assassination contracts once a citizen
of Tamriel has been marked by the dark
brotherhood there is nowhere left to
hide the Dark Brotherhood will send as
many assassins as it takes until the
contract is carried out and the soul of
their victim is sent screaming to the
void
and thusly we arrived at the lifeblood
of the Dark Brotherhood the murderers
and cutthroats despite the fact that the
Dark Brotherhood operates more like a
cult than an actual guild its lower
ranking members must still follow a very
strict set of rules these rules are
handed down by the knight mother herself
to keep her children safe the five
tenants the five tenets are as follows
tenets one never dishonor the night
mother to do so is to invoke the wrath
of civis ten and two never betray the
dark brotherhood or its secrets to do so
is to invoke the wrath of C this tenet
three never disobey or refuse to carry
out an order from a Dark Brotherhood
superior to do so is to invoke the wrath
of C this tenet for never steal the
possessions of a dark brother or dark
sister to do so is to invoke the wrath
of Cygnus tenet five never kill a dark
brother or dark sister to do so is to
invoke the wrath of civis they had
already been operating in the shadows
for centuries and now the dark
brotherhood was ready to show Tamriel
just how far their black hand could
reach in the third era year 41 Tiber
Septim Zaire Pelagius the first was
assassinated why praying to akatosh in a
temple of the one the dark brotherhood
left their calling card and it was that
day that the whole of Tamriel learned to
fear what they believed to be the single
most powerful Gill to ever play come on
des anyone can kill but to kill an
emperor one who is anointed by akatosh
himself that is the work of gods after
the assassination of Pelagius the first
the dark Brotherhood's influ
grew drastically especially in the
regions of high rock and hammerfell
where they had a safehouse in almost
every town in City by commanding fear
the void would swell with souls as the
Dark Brotherhood carried out countless
assassinations for almost 400 years
trouble would eventually emerge from the
inside of the shadowy organization when
a vampire member named grey wynn claimed
to hear the voice of synthase when began
a crusade against the dark brotherhood
purging it of all non vampire members
vampires have always made up a sizable
portion of the dark brotherhood their
dark gifts of agility make them
particularly suitable for stalking prey
greywind saw himself as the purest of
life takers so he started an
organization out of the dark brotherhood
and coined it the crimson scars his
attempt at Reformation failed when a
member of the Crimson scars betrayed him
to the black hand who swiftly retaliated
and murdered the Crimson scars the
ultimate fate of grey hwon and his
supposed sanctuary remains unknown to
this day after recovering from the
crimson scars the dark brotherhood
believed that they were ready to take on
the only people dangerous enough to call
their rivals the mole rock talk by
attempting to gain a foothold in Vardhan
fel the brotherhood were encroaching on
the territory long serviced by the morag
tong an assassin's guild even older than
the brotherhood itself their aggressive
expansion was repelled fiercely by the
Tong effectively pushing the dark
brotherhood out of Orden fel the dark
brotherhood did not go quietly however
before their retreat they promptly
assassinated the leader of the mole rag
Tong although the rest of Tamriel was
theirs for the taking
Vardhan fel belonged to the morag tong
the dark brotherhood will go on to
encounter many more threats at the
closing of the third era they will near
extinction when they are infiltrated by
an assassin of assassins the dark
brotherhood did recover but only to be
thrown into chaos again when the Great
War ravaged their sanctuaries
however they are never pulled out from
the roots and like a weed the dark
brotherhood always manages a comeback
dear brother only said this really knows
what is in store for this cult of
misfits but this one suspects that evil
always finds a way
Tamriel prays and the void answers
civets indirectly brought the denizens
of Tamriel into existence does he not
have the right to take us out again even
if that means death at the hands of a
Dark Brotherhood assassin most civilized
cultures actively disregard status and
His Dark Brotherhood most cultures not
all