Lore:Veiled Heritance

The Veiled Heritance was a covert group of  i nationalists formed in   in response to the rise of Queen   and the  .   Vehemently against the young queen and her   and   allies, they sought to depose her and appoint their own regent, the Veiled Queen,  . 

The Heritance consisted mainly of disenfranchised veterans and youths. Many more traditional Altmer despised the Dominion due to their feelings of racial superiority and disliked Ayrenn due to her unorthodox wanderings as a youth, and as such the Heritance enjoyed widespread support. The group's main presence was on  , and their base of operations was a ruin on   known as the Veiled Keep. Recruits would be taken to the island to train and pledge their   to the Heritance. The group were aligned with   due to Estre's secret worship of the Prince, although they eventually fell under the sway of  . 

Timeline
The opening act of the Heritance's rebellion was the attempted assassination of Ayrenn at   at the beginning of her island-wide coronation ceremony. Following the plan's failure, the Heritance attempted to disrupt Ayrenn's journey several times, going so far as to bind the ancestral spirits at  . The Heritance was driven out of  ,  , and ultimately   when Estre's treachery was revealed by the  . The group grew more desperate as time went on, making various nefarious alliances (see below). With the Heritance largely subdued, Estre offered her own soul to Dagon in return for Daedric support. After desecrating the shrines at  , Estre entered the city of   and opened   within the walls. Dominion forces successfully closed the gates, and Estre was killed during a final confrontation in the  .

Despite being defeated in Summerset, the Heritance had already spread to mainland  , where they continued to attempt to collapse the Dominion. They were quickly driven from the capital of  . After the death of   following his attempt to usurp Ayrenn's throne, the Heritance captured his body and stole the   from the Dominion vaults in  . Naemon was resurrected as a lich, and began the attempted corruption of the whole of  , planning to transform it into a dark domain known as the  . This plan was ended following the death of   during a sea battle and the destruction of Naemon's lich at  .

The shattered Heritance then retreated underground, where they continued to use their local connections on Auridon to facilitate smuggling. Despite their defeat, the group still posed a serious threat to the Dominion, as revealed to the new   during the  . During this vision, it was revealed that the Heritance would rise up after the Dominion's collapse, if the Khajiit had been left without a Mane. It was foretold that   would betray Ayrenn and deal her a fatal blow, while the   and   invaded the former Dominion territories.

In death, Estre's soul was claimed by Molag Bal to be eternally punished for her failure. Many Heritance members suffered the same fate, forced to fight alongside her on the  . 

Alliances
The Heritance sought alliances with several enemies of the Dominion:
The     were perhaps the Heritance's most important allies, and raided important coastal locations across the Dominion. Sealord Malleroth of the Maormer High Command promised Estre the post of Viceroy of   should she aid the Maormer in conquering the  .  The Sea Vipers, however, desired to conquer the coastline of  .
The   attempted to aid the Heritance by landing troops and supplies on Auridon, but were driven off.
The Heritance tricked the   of  s into signing a largely unilateral contract, which theoretically allowed the Altmer to use them as soldiers and labor. The brief alliance was ended after local authorities investigated the goblin cave and alerted the goblin chief, Koth.

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