Allena Benoch Allena Benoch was a Bosmer blademistress , master of Valenwood Fighters Guild and a member of Imperial Guard . History . Early life . Just like her ancestors , Lady Benoch took to the bow in her early years . She mastered the skill by the age of fourteen and had joined a hunting party of her tribe as a Jaqspur , a long distance shooter . During the Black Year , when the Parikh Tribe began their rampage through southeastern Valenwood with the aid of Altmer of the Summerset Isles , Lady Benoch fought the battle to keep her tribe ' s land . By the age of sixteen she had killed her first mer , whom was nothing more than a blur on the horizon where she aimed her bow . It meant no more to her than shooting an animal . That summer and fall she killed countless more invaders . However , that winter Lady Benoch experienced her first close encounter , her first time to look in a man ' s eyes as she spilled his blood . A scout from the Parikh Tribe surprised her while she was on camp watch . Young Lady Benoch panicked and tried to string an arrow when her opponent was just a half yard from her . The Parikh scout struck first with his blade and Lady Benoch fell in shock . The scout assumed that he had drawn blood and Lady Benoch had fallen dead . But as soon as he had turned away from her she rushed at him and wrestled his blade from him . She stabbed him many times beyond counting and stopped only when the next watch came to relieve her . There was not a whole piece of the scout remaining — she had literally cut him to pieces . Now aware of this deficiency in her education , Lady Benoch began teaching herself swordmanship at once . Adventurer years . There was no place in Valenwood to learn using a blade . The Parikh Tribe had also finally succeeded at driving Lady Benoch ' s tribe away . As much as it hurt there was nothing to be done , so Lady Benoch went north and met the Redguard s of Hammerfell . Under the tutelage of Warday A ' kor , Lady Benoch studied all sorts of weapon wielding , eventually excelling at the art . Lady Benoch became a freelance adventurer afterwards , traveling through the wilds of southern Hammerfell and northern Valenwood . By this time Lady Benoch owned an enchanted daikatana , made out of Daedric metal . It wasn ' t an Akaviri daikatana , since she couldn ' t afford one of them . One day she took up the quest to get the gold back that some Orcs had stolen from a local chieftain in Meditea . She went to look for them in one of the dungeons of the local countryside . There she met few overgrown rats and giant spiders , but she was veteran enough to deal with them with ease . The problem came when she found herself in a pitch black room surrounded by the Orcs , but surprisingly took down all of them with only a few swings of her sword , remembering a lesson Master A ' kor had given her . Late life . Lady Benoch became the master of Valenwood Fighters ' Guild after she had won a duel with a former master , who was told to be a stooge inserted by Jagar Tharn . However , two years later the guild was disintegrated . She first came to the Emperor ' s attention when Lady Benoch had protected Queen Akorithi of Sentinel from a Breton assassin , who was rumored to be hired by some noble of Daggerfall . Lady Benoch also married her servant Urken , who had been serving her for eleven years . She herself admitted that there was no one else who knew how to care for her weapons as well as him . After that Lady Benoch served the Emperor in the Imperial Guard and was employed in many secret missions around Tamriel . She often had to travel from one side of the continent to the other . Another significant deed of Lady Benoch was killing the Emperor ' s bastard Calaxes , who had hoped to revolt against the Imperial rule and establish a theocracy over the Empire .