Apr.2020: revising the translation of Unslaad
Feb.2020: updating the translation of Glenmoril with Aelarr
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Asterisk (*): VIGILANT original
Green: supplementary notes by homosaikou
Orange: Updates in 2022
Vigilant Characters and Backgrounds
Translation by homosaikou
Reference: UESP, FANDOM, TIL
Basic Knowledge
The story is based on the following books from TES Skyrim.
If you can read them beforehand, you will have a general idea of the backgrounds.
Myth books:
1. Aedra and Daedra
2. A Children's Anuad: The Annuad Paraphrased
3. On Oblivion
4. The Doors of Oblivion
5. Gods and Worship
6. Opusculus Lamae Bal ta Mezzamortie
7. Shezarr and the Divines
8. Sithis
9. Before the Ages of Man
10. Souls, Black and White
11. The Lunar Lorkhan
12. The Book of Daedra
13. Varieties of Faith in the Empire
14. Spirit of Nirn
15. The Monomyth
16. Words of Clan Mother Ahnissi
17. Vernaccus and Bourlor
History books:
18. 2920, vol 01- vol 12
30. The Song of Pelinal, Volumn 1 – Volumn 7
37. The Last King of the Ayleids
38. The Adabal-a
39. The Amulet of Kings
40. The Oblivion Crisis
41. The Knights of the Nine
42. Cleansing of the Fane
43. Trials of St. Alessia
44. Rislav The Righteous
45. The Dragon Break
46. Where were you when the Dragon Broke?
47. Remanada
Miscellaneous:
48. Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition: Cyrodiil
49. Mannimarco, King of Worms
50. Wayrest, Jewel of the Bay
Terminology
The Tower and The Stone
The Tower can create realities which respond to surrounding people, in order to pacify them.
The Stone is the power source of the Tower. When the Stone is lost, disturbances will happen.
This kind of relationship (of the Tower and the Stone) can also be found between Red Mountain and the heart of Lorkhan,
White-Gold Tower and the Amulet of Kings, the Throat of the World and the Cave and so on and so forth.
In this mod are the Eldergleam and the Lizard, Kyne and Kyne’s Fountain.
*The Lizard
The Lizard is the infant(or Spawn, stillborn fetus) buried under the Eldergleam. With apperances of blood and pain,
it fulfills mortals’ wishes but it turns men, who touched it, into either flesh or 'Molag Bal'.
After the bard's being possessed by Molag Bal, it transformed itself into another Stone and then collected souls and
expanded its Oblivion.
Sheogorath
Sheogorath is a symbol of Madness.
Shezarr
Shezarr, the Missing Sibling, was named as freedom by Saint Alessia. He is known as the avatar of Lorkhan,
and many of his aspects including Pelinal, Talos and Zurin Arctus. His symbolic animal is a fox.
Mara
Mara is the goddess of Love. Her symbolic animal is a wolf.
Molag Bal
Molag Bal is the Daedric Prince of domination and enslavement of mortals. He is the Lizard King.
Coldharbour
Coldharbour is the realm of Molag Bal and the belly of the Lizard.
(*) Coldharbour is the spiritual world of Molag Bal. It was being absorbed and destroyed by the Army of Order led by Jyggalag.
The time of your arrival in Coldharbour is when the Army of Order was invading/ absorbing the time layer of the First Era.
The belly of the Lizard is always in the state of Dragon Breaks.
Dragon Break
A Dragon Break is a phenomenon that involves a splitting of the natural timeline which results in branching
parallel realities where the same events occur differently, or not at all, and that raises a possibility that time can go backward.
Alessian Order
The Aleesian Order was a once-popular monotheistic religion created by the Imga prophet Marukh in the early First Era.
The Alessian Order includes many sub-sects such as the Marukhati Selective and the Holy Brothers of Marukh.
Alessian Empire
The Alessian Empire of Cyrodiil, or the first Empire of Cyrodiil, was founded by Saint Alessia in the year 1E 243
after the Alessian Slave Rebellion and the overthrowing of Ayleid rule over the land.
It was the first established human Empire within the region of Cyrod, later known as the province of Cyrodiil.
Alessia merged portions of the Nordic Pantheon, and the Elven one, into a single religion, known wholly as the Eight Divines.
In 1E 361, the anti-Aldmeri Alessian Order successfully orchestrated a coup,
taking control of the Alessian Empire and establishing the Seventy-Seven Doctrines.
The Empire decayed owing to the Thrassian Plague and Rislav the Righteous and other facts.
The Empire collapsed after the ten-year War of Righteousness.
Jyggalag
Jyggalag is the Daedric Prince of Order. Jyggalag was cursed to become the Daedric Prince of Madness, Sheogorath,
but then was released by the Hero of Kvatch.
Greymarch
The Greymarch is an event, or movement, which begins with large obelisks emerging from the ground, and the
obelisks are the source of power for Jyggalag's forces, the Knights of Order and the Priests of Order.
(*) The Greymarch is also referred to as the Army of Order.
*Silver Cocoon/ Cocoon of Order
The Silver Cocoon/ Cocoon of Order is the frontline base of the Army of Order.
It illuminates Coldharbour.
Meridia
Meridia is the great goddess of Light and of Inifinite Energies of life. She is worshipped by the Ayleids who
believe in Light and bestows Umaril the Unfeathered power.
(*) Unfortunately, Meridia’s valiant minions, the Aurorans, were annihilated by a break-in by the sneaky Army
of Order, which frustrated Meridia.
*Blood Curse
The Blood Curse is a kind of magic with blood and flesh. It does not cost any Magicka but the pain on the magician himself.
Characters
Ep1
*Templars of Stendarr
The Templars of Stendarr is composed of militants from the Vigil of Stendarr, advocating that only force is justice.They solve problems by force.
The player character learned how to use his force there.
The Templars of Stendarr take their base in the Temple of Stendarr in Skyrim. They don't identify themselves as Templars in particular but Vigilants to people.
*Altano
Altano is the souless "Bard". If possible, he leaves everything to the player character and be off work.
*Jacob
Jacob was taking charge of the case of missing prisoners in Windhelm during the GreatWar,
but he and his fellows all lost their lives when encountering the half-sleeping Lamae.
Later on, Jacob sacrificed his wife’s soul to Molag Bal and obtained a new body and continued activities as a Vigilant.
*Rahel
Rahel is the wife of Jacob.
She bore Jacob a grudge for bartering her soul. Then, she became a servant of Molag Bal but she was a bungler.
Vernaccus
Vernaccus is an incompetent Daedra showing up in the book Vernaccus and Bourlor.
Vernaccus belongs to the faction of Molag Bal.
*Balor
The name Balor comes from Irish mythology, "Balor of the Evil Eye".
*Orlando the Knowledgeable
Orlando the Knowledgeable is a very "kind" bastard. He always have his finger in another's pie.
*Anton the Brilliant
Anton the Brilliant is an admired Meridian worshipper.
Ep2
Lamae
Lamae, or the Blood Matron, is the first pure-blood vampire and the Mother of vampires.
(*)Lamae was a Nedic maiden and a priestess of Arkay.
Lamae was raped by the Bard, who had been dominated by Molag Bal.
She received treatment from the nomads but still died.
Afterwards she was revived and became a vampire as consequences of the Blood Curse from the Bard.
The Bard pierced the dagger into her heart and she fell into a sleep.
*Aredhel
Aredhel is a Vigilant and Jacob’s friend.
Aredhel promptly surrendered to Lamae after witnessing the death of Jacob and was turned into a vampire.
After that, he began to persuade those fellows to accept vampire blood.
In Ep.4, Aredhel set out to take revenge on the player character.
Ep3
*Julia
Julia was enraged by her husband, Marcus, who had a clandestine affair in the city of Markarth.
After knowing the truth, she devoted herself and her son, Julius, to Molag Bal.
*Julius
Julius set Totems of Blood Curse in the mansion after surviving the ordeal from Molag Bal,
and made people in the mansion succumb to Blood Curse.
In the end, he was killed by his father Marcus, with his little body laying still.
*Marcus
Marcus had a clandestine affair in the city of Markarth.
*Bartholo
Bartholo was sent to Marcus’ mansion as a Vigilant, in order to investigate frequent “unfotunate accidents” there.
He failed to dispel Totems of Blood Curse, with himself caught up in Blood Curse.
Ep4
*Pepe/ Pelan
Pepe used to serve Mara, as a priest of Eight Divines,
but afterwards he was deceived by the Bard to appoint Marukh as the manager of the Tower.
Marukh
*Marukh is the Imga prophet.
He sacrificed his wife Dulsa and her unborn child to the Stone in his madness.
*The Bard/ The Nameless Bard
The Bard touched the Lizard, which had crawled out of the root of the Eldergleam, and was taken over by madness,
attacked his childhood friend, Lamae, and profaned her body.
In the Bard’s flashback, the illusion of the Bard appeared in the image of Molag Bal.
The title of the song in the True Ending is “I Am Stretched on Your Grave”,
which is translated from an anonymous 17th-century Irish poem and put into music.
The song tells a story of a man who could not forget his deceased childhood friend and slept by her grave every night.
“On Your Grave” by wellman featuring Queenie & RadioZero
Link: http://ccmixter.org/files/wellman/21636
*Laza
Laza is the only survivor of the incident where the nomads were slain by Lamae.
*Jhunal the Owl
Jhunal the Owl is the Grey Owl, one of the "Jhunals" who came over from Atmora.
Jhunal the Owl deceived Laza to attack Kyne’s Garden and to catch dragons.
*Black Worm
The Black Worm is a scattered part of the spirit of Mannimarco. Sufficient parts can form the King of Worms, Mannimarco.
Melus Petilius
Melus Petilius, a knight, was sent to Oblivion by the Hero of Kvatch. His wife is Vena Petilius.
Knights of the Nine
* Each of the Knights of the Nine had a part of their souls stolen by Molag Bal.
Members: Sir Amiel Lannus, Sir Berich, Sir Caius, Sir Casimir, Sir Gregory, Sir Henrik, Sir Juncan,
Sir Ralvas, Sir Torolf
*Black Hand
The Black Hand is referred to as the five young children of the Night Mother.
It guides dead and cursed mortal to Sithis.
Alessia, Morihaus and Pelinal
*The bodies of Alessia, Morihaus and Pelinal were collected by Molag Bal.
*Varla
Varla is the son of Mary and Umaril.
He used to be a lord of Eastern Cyrod of the Alessian Empire, as mentioned in the book What Khajiit Heard.
He hunted elves under the order of the Emperor Belharza.
When he got aware of his birth, he fell into insanity.
*Ritho
Ritho is Varla’s friend.
Ritho joined Alessia’s Rebellion against the Ayleids. After the victory, he remained in the Empire and served as a knight.
He ended up himself to Oblivion for his former friends, lord and subordinates.
*Umaril the Feathered (Umaril the Unfeathered)
Umaril the Feathered was the Ayleid king with power over elves and was favoured of Meridia.
The seemingly invincible king should have no enemies but he was finally slain by Pelinal. Dammit.
*Mary
Mary is a healer blessed by Mara.
She used to be a slave of Umaril and was kept as a material of Umaril’s artwork.
Mary is Varla’s mother.
Mary was burned by the Alessian Order led by Pepe.
*Korn
Korn is the avatar of Mara as a wolf. She always accompanied Mary.
*Martha, Johan, Simon and Tlass
Martha, Johan, Simon and Tlass are from the Brotherhood in Vicn’s previous work “LST Bravil Underground”.
They were named after Martha, John and Simon from the Bible.
Johan is also called Ivan.
Simon is also called Semion.
*Slave Trader
The Slave Trader is the soul of the hero in “LST Bravil Underground”. His life ended up with writing a poem.
*???????
??????? is the avatar of Akatosh. He didn’t remain in people’s memory but the Lizard remembered it. He never sweats the small stuff.
Epilogue
Mazoga
Mazoga is a female knight from Leyawiin. She is an absolutely stunning Orc. It is said that some erotic books were written based on her as heroine.
*Ja'zhan
The Ja'zhans share the Golden Spirit, which means they have a good sense of justice, and yet they cannot resist any opportunity to steal golden coins.
*Anatomancer
The anatomancer is a serial killer, coming over from Bravil. He follows Sacred Anatomancer and divines future from the guts.
*Holy Pipers
The Holy Pipers is an extremist branch of the Templars of Stendarr. They were excommunicated by the Templars of Stendarr.
They've been kidnapping people and torturing them on suspicion of being Daedra worshippers. They are torture-obsessed.
*Chick Traders
The Chick Traders is a slave-trading organization from Elsweyr. They've been taking advantage of the Civil War and buying and selling orphans across the land. They will get annoyed with you if you mention Ja'zel before them.
*Sacred Anatomancer
The Sacred Anatomancer is the radiance of Life found in the wiggling guts by the Anatomancers, and the simulacrum of the player character.
After the Sacred Anatomancer joined the Holy Pipers through the player character, the image began to walk on his own and to change the reality.
*Bonus* by homosaikou
Vigilant a/o Revenant
Jacob: "Jacob" from the Bible
Rahel: "Rachel" from the Bible
Thorondir: "Thorondir" from The Lord of The Rings
Gwyneth: Unknown
Bartholo/ Varfolo: "Bartholomew" from the Bible. Transcribed as "Varfolomei" by Orthodox Church in Japan.
Joshua: "Joshua" from the Bible
Gwaji gro-Agnam: Unknown, an orc name
Paulo: "Paul", a Christian apostle, "Saul" in the Bible
Thingol: "Thingol" from the Silmarillion
Jericho: "Jericho", one of the oldest cities in the Bible
Aredhel: "Aredhel" from the Silmarillion
Glenmoril
*Gerhard is a male vorname of Germanic origin. It is dithematic, consisting of two meaningful constituents put together, which are 'ger' (meaning 'spear') and 'hard' (meaning strong/brave). The name is thus 'the strong/brave with the spear'.
'Lael' is a female name of Hebrew origin, meaning 'Belonging to God'. It is pronounced Lay-el.
'Noah' is the name of one of the five daughters of Zelophehad (Numbers 26:33; 27:1; 36:11; Joshua 17:3).
The prince Ja'cobee and his men were living in a Long Dream.
There are more than three "Jhunal"s.
Yelem has many other names, like Erwin Schrodinger and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The elder witches of Glenmoril used to serve a Divine.
The rift of Anequina consists of two materials, Magna Ge and Ja'bal.
Apparently, Ja'zel is not a Chick Trader.
Ja'zeri had no mother but Ja'zel is Ja'zeri's imaginary mother.
The witch hunters are pretty much like truffle hogs, locating and extracting
truffles. But they don't know they will be cooked with the truffles they found in the end.
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Also any thing happen with the knight in the dark on swears before you fight Mary? And Location of the bow of Merida saw in in the editor
She got tainted by Molag after get burned on the pyre, and became the mother of those creatures under the sewer.
There’re “Jhunal”s, at least 3 of them. They were mages from ancient Saarthal, who survived Night of Tears. One of them (Jhunal the Black) became servant (or vessel) of Hermaeus Mora.
The rest are still obscure right now, until Glenmoril completed. IMHO.
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[Updated in 2022]
The Black Owl is Orland the Knowledgeable, and a tentacle of Herma-Mora.
The Gray Owl was a boy survived from Night of Tears.
The White Owl is a familiar of Julianos.
The Gray Egg is the Gray Owl, literally.
As for Alduin pus, I haven't looked into this term in Unslaad but I will ask Vicn and reply you later.
Why did Ja'cobee end up in a dream btw? And my biggest question stands now. If Orland the Knowledgeable is the Gray Owl, who was Jhunal the Gray then? Is Jhunal the Gray the same person? So what was the deal between Jhunal (grey) and Austella about. Do you have any ideas, hints or a theory? It seems Austella (like Gehrman with his Doll in Bloodbourne) desired a substitute for someone, so she got Uliss/Urissa from Jhunal. Thanks to you I see the Owls are linked with Herma-Mora but also Jhunal the God, or did they take his name for the sake of deception? The Gray Egg hatches the Gray Owl as we see, and the bad ending tells us the LDB ends up in a nightmare (Vaermina involved? Glenmoril?), so I guess sending the doll to the future allows Jhunal to continue his research in future Unslaad or does it actually complete his research then? The Gray Owl is defeated by the Last Dragonborn with the help of Ja'cobee (whose involvement I don't understand at all) and Mnemoli the (Blue) Star Orphan (because of the Dragonbreak), but now what exactly was Herma-Mora/Jhunal/Orland up to. In the Dragonborn DLC we find out Herma-Mora's obsession with Dragonborns, that obsession is mirrored by Jhunal the Grey wanting to become a dragon. What is the real deal behind it all?
FYI, Vicn described the relationship between Alduin Pus and the whole story as 'the warping and the transcendence of space and time'.
Jhunal the Gray is a dummy, or a puppet, reformed by Orland. He used to be a boy in Saarthal.
As for the two Owls and Jhunal the Divine, u can read the book 'Act 4: The Infinite Fall' in Glenmoril. There were some mistranslations but I have corrected them in the latest update.
Sorry but I cannot tell you much more than these above at the moment.
I'm sorry but no more spoilers. :)
The origins of Rift of Anequina, of elder witches of Glenmoril, and of Ja'zeri will come out later.
IMHO, The Slave Trader might be the "player character" in LST Bravil Underground, and Laelnoah seems to be also appeared in LST Bravil (not sure if she was a vampire in LST or just the same name but different girl)
Johan (Ivan) was killed by his own brother Simon (somehow English version of LST Bravil translated to "John")
According to Ivan's note found in the corpse dump, (also English version translated this note into something totally different...)
https://imgur.com/oy27V6o
John is pronounced the same as "Johan" in Hebrew. Both can be used to refer to the same guy.
Yes, indeed. You can also find what happened to them in the book "Visions at Malada" in VIGILANT. (maybe from the 8th to 11th paragraph, I cannot recall every detail)
I thought LST Bravil was just a loverslab cringy thingy at first.
I've checked "Visions at Malada", indeed for paragraph 7, 8 and 9.