Charwich - Koniinge Letters , v4 Content . 8 Sun ' s Dawn , 3E 412 Amiglith , Summurset Isle My Good Friend , Lord Gemyn , You must forgive me for not meeting you at the palace personally , but I ' ve been unavoidably , tragically detained . I ' ve left the front gate and door unlocked , and if you ' re reading this , you must have made it at least as far the antechamber to the east drawing room . Perhaps you ' ve already wandered the estate and seen some of its delights before coming to this chamber : the seven fountains of marble and porphyry , the reflecting pool , the various groves , the colonnades and quincunx . I don ' t think you would have already gone to the second floor suites and the west wing as you would have had to pass this room first , and picked up this letter . But believe me , they ' re beautifully appointed with magnificent balustrades , winding staircases , intimate salons , and bedchambers worthy of your affluence . The price of this property is exorbitant , certainly , but for a man like you who seeks only the best , this is the villa you must have . As you undoubtedly noticed as you arrived through the gates , there are several smaller buildings ideally suited to be guard stations . I know you are concerned with security . I am an intensely greedy man , and there is nothing I would have liked more than to meet you here today , show you the grounds , fawn on you obsequiously , and collect a fat percentage of the cost of the sale when you bought this marvelous palace , as I ' m sure you would have . My dilemma that caused my inexcusable absence began shortly after I arrived here early to make certain the villa was well - cleaned for your inspection . A man named Koniinge crept up behind me , and gripped me by the throat . Clamping his left hand over my mouth and nose , and throttling me with his right hand , crushing the soft spot on my throat just below the thyroidal cartilage , he effectively strangled me in a few quick but very painful minutes . I am currently buried in a pile of leaves in the north statuary parterre , close to the exceptional sculptural representation of the Transformation of Trinimac . It should not be too long before I am discovered : someone at my bank will surely notice my absence in due time . Koniinge might have buried me deeper , but he wanted to be ready for the arrival of his old partner , Charwich . Perhaps part of you thinks it best to stop reading now , Lord Gemyn . You are looking around the antechamber and seeing nothing but doors . The large one you took to come in from the garden is locked now behind you , and without a better knowledge of the layout of the estate , I could not recommend you attempt to flee down a corridor that might easily come to a dead end . No . Much better to keep reading , and see where this is going . Koniinge , it seems , was in a partnership with his friend Charwich to try to recover Azura ' s Star . They understood it to be in the possession of someone named Hadwaf Neithwyr , a man who conjured up the Daedra Prince Azura herself to acquire it . As Neithwyr originally haled from High Rock , Charwich went there to look for him , while his partner searched Morrowind . They planned to communicate their findings by letters sent through couriers . Charwich ' s first letter stated that he had found information that Neithwyr had a mysterious patron named Baliasir , a fact he had learned at a cemetery with a gravestone of Neithwyr ' s sister Peryra and a lycanthropic caretaker . Koniinge replied back that he could find nothing about Baliasir , but believed that Neithwyr had returned to High Rock with Peryra after getting the Star . Charwich ' s last letter was a written on his deathbed , having sustained mortal wounds from his battle with Baliasir , who it seemed had been a mighty daedra lord . Koniinge grieved for his friend , and traveled the span of the Empire to Wayrest , to pay his call of condolences on Lady Moorling , the woman at whose house Charwich had been staying . After making some inquiries , Koniinge learned that her ladyship had left the city , quite suddenly . She had been entertaining a guest named Charwich , and it was understood that he had died , though no one ever saw the body . Certainly no healers had been sent to her house on the 13th of Last Seed of last year . And no one in Wayrest , just like no one in Tel Aruhn , had ever heard of Baliasir . Poor Koniinge was suddenly unsure of everything . He retraced his late partner ' s path through Boriane and Grimtry Gardens , but found that the Neithwyr family crypt was elsewhere , in a small town in the barony of Dwynnen . There was indeed a lycanthropic caretaker , fortunately in human form at the time . When questioned ( using the technique of strangulation , release , strangulation , release ) , he told Koniinge the story that he had told Charwich many months before . Hadwaf and Peryra Neithwyr had returned to Dwynnen , intent on settling old business . As the Star requires potent spirits for power , they thought they would begin small by capturing the spirit of the werewolf they knew of in the family graveyard . Sadly , for them , their grasp exceeded their reach . When the poor caretaker resumed his human form one morning , he found himself lying next to the shredded , bloody bodies of the Neithwyr siblings . Distressed and fearful , he brought the corpses and all their possessions down into the crypt . They were still there when Charwich came , and so too was Azura ' s Star . Koniinge now saw things clearly . The letters he had received from Charwich were lies , intended to keep him away . Undoubtedly with the assistance of Lady Moorling , his new partner , he had concocted stories , including one of his own demise , to trick Koniinge into abandoning the quest for the Star . It was clearly a sad statement on the nature of friendship , and one that needed immediate correction . It took the better part of six months for Koniinge to find his old partner . Charwich and Lady Moorling had used the power of the Star to make themselves very wealthy and powerful . They assumed a number of different identities in their travels through High Rock and Skyrim , and then down to Valenwood and the Summurset Isle . Along the way , of course , the Star itself disappeared , as great daedric artifacts always do . The couple still had much wealth , but their love sadly fell on troubled times . When they reached Alinor , they parted ways . One must assume that during their months together , Charwich must have told Lady Moorling about Koniinge . It ' s pleasant to think of the loving couple laughing over the stories they were telling him about the mythical and dangerous Baliasir . Charwich must not have given his former beloved a very accurate physical description , however , because when Lady Moorling ( then under the identity of the Countess Zyliana ) met Koniinge , she had no idea who he was . It came as quite a surprise to her when he began strangling her and requesting information about her former paramour . Before she died , she told Koniinge what Charwich ' s new name and title was , and where he was looking for a new palace . She even told him about me . Given all the twists and bends the last months ' chase took him on , it was not difficult to find which palace Charwich was looking to buy , and what time his appointment was to view it . Then he had merely to arrive early , dispose of me , and wait . There our story must sadly end . I look forward to seeing you soon . Yours , Syrix Goinithi , Former Estate Banker P . S . : Charwich — Turn around now , or don ' t . Your choice . Your friend , Koniinge .