The Warp in the West ( Book ) The Warp in the West was written by Ulvius Tero , and describes the event of the same name . Ulvius Tero is a Blades archivist who cataloged these reports . This event is an example of a Dragon Break . The book itself describes this Dragon Break on the Iliac Bay region . Summary . This book details a curious chain of events in High Rock , involving the resolution of the territories of Daggerfall , Wayrest , Sentinel , and Orsinium . Wars and strange plights happened through 3 days and many people don ' t recall the 2nd , in which massive territorial and political changes occurred . Content . Secret : For Your Eyes Only . Let me offer my congratulations to Your Lordship for your recent appointment as ambassador to the Court of Wayrest Your Lordship asked me for a review of existing Blades accounts from 3E 417 concerning The Warp in the West , and for a summary of the current state of affairs there . Since Your Lordship was in Black Marsh serving in the staff of Admiral Sosorius at the time , you probably know of these events only from Imperial proclamations and Chapel declarations , which identify this period as the ' Miracle of Peace ' . During the ' Miracle of Peace ' , according to official accounts , the formerly war - wracked Iliac Bay region was transformed overnight from a patchwork of squabbling duchies and petty kingdoms into the peaceful modern counties of Hammerfell , Sentinel , Wayrest , and Orsinium . The ' Miracle of Peace ' , also known as the ' The Warp in the West ' , is celebrated as the product of the miraculous interventions of Stendarr , Mara , and Akatosh to transform this troublesome region into peaceful , well - governed Imperial counties . The catastrophic destruction of landscape and property and the large loss of life attending upon this miracle is understood to have been ' tragic , and beyond mortal comprehension . ' In as much as this account confirms and validates the current borders of these counties , and identifies the rulers and boundaries of these counties as ' ordained by the Nine ' , the ' Miracle of Peace ' serves Imperial objectives of peaceful consolidation of ancient petty states and sovereigns into manageable Imperial jurisdictions . The other remarkable features of these events - - mass disappearances , armies mysteriously transported hundreds of miles or completely annihilated , titanic storms and celestial phenomena , apparent local discontinuities of time - - fit comfortably into the notion that these events are part of a vast , mysterious divine intervention . However , this is only the public account of these events , and , as you may suspect , it conflicts with many other accounts . In short , while this explanation suits Imperial policy , it has little historical validity . Your Lordship should know that the Blades have concluded there is no plausible historical account of these events , and despairs that a plausible historical account shall ever be produced . The Blades have concluded that a ' miracle ' occurred , insofar as the events are inexplicable , but the Blades strongly doubt the miracle was of divine origin . There is good reason to believe that the ruling families of the four modern Iliac Bay counties had forewarning of the event . There is also some evidence that some of these ruling families may have been directly or indirectly responsible for the event . We do not know the exact sequence of actions that produced the event , although we are confident that the ' Totem ' artifact was involved , and that a Blades agent was involved in employing that artifact . We unfortunately lost contact with that agent immediately after the event ; his report might have gone some way to resolving the contradictory and paradoxical accounts of the event . The Blades have on file few reports from agents dating from the " Warp in the West " period . Most of our agents were lost in the initial dislocations , and others were lost in the confusion after the event . I present a few of these reports to give you a general sense of their limitations , including the report of your diplomatic predecessor , Lord Strale . You will have had access to other private and rumored accounts of the period . I believe you will agree that these documents raise more questions than they answer . The Report of Hammerfell Agent ' Briarbird ' . ' I was on assignment in the Alik ' r Desert , a few miles south of Bergama on the 9th of Frostfall . I was encamped , as it was still early morning , when I felt the ground shake so violently , I was thrown to the ground . Dazed , I was aware of a great roar of a sandstorm , which alarmed me , as I had been on a high dune and had seen nothing like that on the horizon . It was on me before I was even on my knees , burying me and my camp . When I crawled my way out of the sand , I realized that I must make haste and get to Bergama as soon as possible , as all my food and water had been swept away . The sun was just rising as I began , like I said . When I reached Bergama , it was nightfall . The town was in chaos , filled with the soldiers of Sentinel . The Lord of Bergama ' s fortress was in ruins . There had been an attack , but no one had seen it , only the invasion that followed it . The soldiers of Queen Akorithi of Sentinel refused to be interviewed about how they had accomplished this sneak attack , but I came to learn that the whole of northern Hammerfell now belonged to them . Even stranger , I discovered that my walk from sunrise to sundown had not taken me not one day , but two . It was now the 11th day of the month , not the 10th . I had lost a day somewhere , and so apparently had everyone else . . . except Akorithi ' s soldiers , who somehow were aware of the correct date . I since have concluded that they had received advance warning , and so were better prepared to deal with the strange confusion of time and dates associated with the Warp . ' The Report of High Rock Agent ' Graylady ' . ' I was , at the time of the Warp , undercover as a witch in the Skeffington Coven of Phrygias , in central High Rock . In order to give my report , I had volunteered for an expedition to gather supplies , which would allow me the freedom to reach my contact in Camlorn . I was traveling north - east along the foothills of the Wrothgarian Mountains , on the 9th of Frostfall , when I felt a great heat behind me , like a fire . I turned , but I regret to say I cannot tell you what I saw . The healers tell me my eyes were burned out of my sockets . I think I must have fallen into a state of semi - consciousness , for I distinctly remember falling as the ground seemed to give way beneath me . Then there was a series of explosions in the distance , to the south , and I heard high whistling noises that were getting louder , coming closer . I had my shield with me , and fortunately anticipated that volleys of some sort were falling from the sky . Though I could not see them , I could hear them coming from a distance away , and was able to use my shield to block them from striking me . The assault stopped suddenly , and I could smell smoke . I learned later that most of the forest of Ykalon and Phygias had caught fire , in an inferno that started further south in Daenia and the Ilessan Hills . Fortunately , I kept my bearings , and moved north , finally reaching a temple in the wilderness where my wounds were healed , as well as they could be . It was there I learned that there had been a three - way clash between Daggerfall , Wayrest , and Orsinium not far from where I had been , and that the land midway between their kingdoms had been decimated . ' The Report of Ambassador Lord Naigon Strale . ' His Imperial Majesty had sent me on a delicate errand , the details of which I cannot convey in this unsecure report , but my official capacity was to be the Emperor ' s ambassador to the court of Wayrest . From there , I was to meet with an old friend , Lady Brisienna , who was already in the vicinity . Forgoing any attempt at stealth , I was on an Imperial barge , sailing westward on the Bjoulsae , the morning of the 9th of Frostfall . I remember it was a slightly chilly day , but the sky was very blue . ' We had just passed the delightful riverside village of Candlemass when the captain sounded the alarm . There , in front of us , was a colossal wall of water , at least thirty feet high . It smashed our barge to splinters before any of us had a chance to react . I woke up on the shore , having been rescued by one of my servants who had miraculously not lost consciousness . He and I and one other man were the only survivors . I thought at first that it was suspiciously similar to what happened to another agent of ours in High Rock but a short time before , where a freak storm had shipwrecked him in the Iliac Bay near Privateer ' s Hold . Furious and determined to see if similar forces were at work , I began a quick march to Wayrest . The march , however , was not so terribly quick . The villages all along the Bjoulsae were on fire , and battles raged between the orcs of Orsinium and the soldiers of King Eadwyre in the formerly independent principality of , just east of Wayrest . I am an accomplished mage , and quite able to defend myself , but it took the better part of a week to make it those few miles to Wayrest . Eadwyre of Wayrest and his queen Barenziah were celebrating their great victories when I arrived . By then , I had gathered the barest facts of the matter , that simultaneously there were seven great battles in the Iliac Bay , and no one could describe them at all , only their bloodsoaked aftermath . To summarize : on the 9th of Frostfall , there had been forty - four independent kingdoms , counties , baronies , and dukedoms surrounding the Iliac Bay , if one includes the unconquered territories of the Wrothgarian Mountains , the Dragontail Mountains , the High Rock Sea Coast , the Isle of Balfiera , and the Alik ' r Desert . On the 11th of Frostfall , there were but four - Daggerfall , Sentinel , Wayrest , and Orsinium - and all the points where they met lay in ruins , as the armies continued to do battle . I was determined to find the truth from the King , even if I had to be a most undiplomatic diplomat to do it . Eadwyre , though a generally jovial sort , had blustered , saying he did not want to give out military secrets . The Queen , ever calm with those unreadable red eyes of hers , told me , ' We do not know . ' I think it is safe to assume that Barenziah did not tell me everything , but the facts of her story - which I later verified after pointed interviews in Daggerfall , Sentinel , and Orsinium - was that they had learned that a certain powerful , ancient weapon was going to be activated . I shan ' t give the name of it here . Out of fear that it would be used against Wayrest , the King had attempted to buy it from the young adventurer who had discovered its . Eadwyre believed , as it turns out quite rightly , that other powers in the Bay had also attempted to win ownership of this device . What happened then , as Barenziah said , ' We do not know . ' The morning of the 9th and the morning of the 11th somehow merged through some sort of Warp in the West , and Wayrest found themselves at war . Their land had expanded three - fold , but they were under attack by Daggerfall to the west , Orsinium to the east , and Sentinel to the south . There had been no time to understand what had happened , the King said . They had simply reacted , sending their armies to defend their lands against these enemies whose kingdoms had also gained great territorial advantage . The battles continue on , now months later , as I return to the Imperial City to make my report . What more do I have to say ? They are bloody , violent clashes , as is always the case with modern warfare , but I have been to the blackened , desolate no - man ' s land between the four remaining kingdoms . No mortal army caused that devastation . I can say that the force that shook the Iliac Bay on the 10th of Frostfall 3E 417 was infinitesimally greater than the power these mighty kingdoms are wielding today . I can say that there were other strange events on that day which kept the kingdoms from breaking free of the Empire , and accomplished likely more besides . And I can say there is nothing left of it - this power , this weapon - in the Bay . The Warp that it created swallowed it up . ' Current Political Affairs in the Iliac Bay . Almost twenty years have passed , and the region , though transformed , has stabilized . There are no more disputed territories , and the kingdoms of Daggerfall , Wayrest , Sentinel , and Orsinium hold their new borders in relative peace . Wayrest spreads across the eastern coast of the Bay , stretching from the land formerly called Anticlere to half of Gauvadon . Eadwyre has passed on to his ancestors , leaving his kingdom in the hands of his daughter , Elysana , who has two children by her royal consort , and seems likely to hold her father ' s lands . Your Lordship may also choose to communicate directly with King Helseth and Queen Barenziah in Mournhold . Their primary preoccupations are , of course , with Morrowind ' s affairs , but they may still have useful observations upon Wayrest ' s ruling families and political environment that may aid you in your understanding of the court of Queen Elysana . King Gortwog of Orsinium controls much of the Wrothgarian Mountains as well as the profitable rivercoast of the Bjoulsae . He persists in his demands that Orsinium be recognized as an Imperial province separate from High Rock . The Elder Council treats Gortwog as a recognized king , and collects taxes directly from Orsinium , but officially Orsinium remains a county of High Rock , though technically it spans both the provinces of High Rock and Hammerfell . Sentinel has gained the most land , sprawling across the entire southern Iliac Bay from Abibon - Gora , beyond the Dragontail Mountains , to the edge of Mournoth , Orsinium ' s territory . Queen Akorithi at her death left her enormous kingdom to her only surviving son , Lhotun , who is now surely one of the most powerful kings in Tamriel . Daggerfall is still ruled by the Breton King Gothryd and the Redguard Queen Aubk ' i . Their land now encompasses all of western High Rock , from the border they share with Wayrest at Anticlere to the east , to Ykalon to the north . They have four children now , and are much beloved in their realm . If there are other repercussions of the mysterious Warp in the West , they have not yet come to our attention in the course of twenty years of observation .