Lore:Sun-in-Shadow

was an Argonian slave who lived in   on  . She was mostly disconnected from the culture of her race, and leaned more towards the culture of her   slave owners, which she was born into. She was ambitious and calculating, like many of House Telvanni's Dunmer members.  As a result, her fellow slaves referred to her using derogatory terms such as "smoke-scale" and "elf-heart".
  
History
Sun-in-Shadow was ambitious and sought to elevate her position from that of a slave. She studied magic in secrecy, and had potential that surpassed even some Telvanni mages. Therana, a recently elected Telvanni Councilor, noticed Sun-in-Shadow's prowess, and sought to exploit her for her own benefit.  Sometime in  , her opportunity to use this upstart came, as the Argonian sought to earn her freedom and become a hireling of House Telvanni. 

Despite being discriminated against due to her existence as an Argonian, Sun-In-Shadow sought to rise up through the ranks of Great House Telvanni, and enlisted the aid of an adventurer to take advantage of Therana's interest in her magical capabilities. The magister wanted to expand her territory of   into the area around the ruins of  , a cursed   associated with Sheogorath. Sun-in-Shadow asked the adventurer to retrieve the   from the ruins for Magister Therana, who couldn't do so herself due to the fact that Zaintitaris belonged to House Redoran at the time. The house-less adventurer retrieved the artifact from the ruins, and in return, Therana sponsored Sun-In-Shadow as a Hireling of House Telvanni. 

While she was enslaved, Sun-in-Shadow caught the eye of a male Argonian named Eoki. He dreamt of escaping Vvardenfell with Sun-in-Shadow and living blissfully with her among the  , but Sun-in-Shadow's ambitions laid with House Telvanni. However, Eoki had grown on her, and she wanted to try freeing him from his enslavement to Magister Otheri. Sun-in-Shadow intended to accomplish this through means culturally accepted by the  , but this was put on hold as the Great House watched her closely. She sought to purchase a plot of land north of Vos to sell to Councilor Firuth in exchange for a sponsorship, but even this goal had its roadblocks. First, the land that Sun-in-Shadow was interested in purchasing had to be earned, as the landowner's son was kidnapped by lustful Winged Twilights and whisked away to the nearby Daedric ruin,  . Regardless of the obstacles set before them, Firuth saw the deal as a bargain and agreed to sponsor Sun-in-Shadow, allowing her to rise to the rank of Retainer. 

Unfortunately, Sun-in-Shadow would face roadblocks in her rise up the social ladder, for the more conservative members of the Telvanni Council (namely Magister  ) saw the circumstances of her birth as a blemish within the Great House, and sought to deny further advancement with the ranks. As a result, she resorted to subterfuge to eliminate the opposition. Sun-in-Shadow offered a batch of poisoned Marshmerrow Cakes to Gothren's Mouth with the intent of killing her.  The plot succeeded, but Magister Gothren was offended by this, and suspected Sun-in-Shadow was the culprit. He kidnapped her, and as one of the most powerful mages in Tamriel, an adventurer was forced to cooperate to free her. Gothren desired  's secret Dwemer research and the adventurer complied with his request. 

While Sun-in-Shadow was imprisoned, her plans to free a handful of slaves were set back, as the cave they took refuge in collapsed. Eoki became impatient and angry, and decided to take the matter of his freedom into his own hands. He contacted the  , a gang of abolitionists led by the   Khartag. He then enacted his plan to free slaves in the Glass mines of Vassamsi, and flee with his brothers in bondage to  . Vassamsi was a place where Magister Gothren sent slaves who displeased him. It was a brutal and often fatal place to be assigned. Eoki took Sun-in-Shadow along with him, intending to show her the horrors that took place there with the hope that her eyes would reopen to the reality of slavery. Sun-in-Shadow would not return to Black Marsh with Eoki, but she cared immensely for him. She was faced with a choice: she could allow Eoki to flee to Black Marsh with the slaves they rescued that day, or she could return Eoki to   and keep him for herself. 

What happened to Sun-in-Shadow is unknown, but she continued her studies with the goal becoming a magister of House Telvanni.  According to Divayth Fyr, she betrayed most of her allies. 

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