The Song of Pelinal The Song of Pelinal is an 8 - volume book . The parts can be read as follows : In , all eight volumes can be found , in order , on a bookshelf in the Temple of Mara in Riften . This book series also appears in , but with different titles and slightly different content : Content . Below is the full text of every book in " The Song of Pelinal " series , as it appears in . " Volume 1 : On His Name " . " [ Editor ' s Note : Volumes 1 - 6 are taken from the so - called Reman Manuscript located in the Imperial Library . It is a transcription of older fragments collected by an unknown scholar of the early Second Era . Beyond this , little is known of the original sources of these fragments , some of which appear to be from the same period ( perhaps even from the same manuscript ) . But , as no scholarly consensus yet exists on dating these six fragments , no opinions will be offered here . ] " That he took the name " Pelinal " was passing strange , no matter his later sobriquets , which were many . That was an Elvish name , and Pelinal was a scourge on that race , and not much given to irony . Pelinal was much too grim for that ; even in youth he wore white hair , and trouble followed him . Perhaps his enemies named Pelinal of their own in their tongue , but that is doubtful , for it means " glorious knight " , and he was neither to them . Certainly , many others added to that name during his days in Tamriel : he was Pelinal the Whitestrake because of his left hand , made of a killing light ; he was Pelinal the Bloody , for he [ drank ] it in victory ; he was Pelinal Insurgent , because he gave the crusades a face ; he was Pelinal In Triumph , as the words eventually became synonymous , and men - at - arms gave thanks to the Eight when they saw his banner coming through war ; he was Pelinal the Blamer , for he was quick to admonish those allies of his that favored tactics that ran counter to his , that is , sword - theory ; and he was Pelinal the Third , though whether this was because some said he was a god guiser , who had incarnated twice before already , or that , simpler , he was the third vision given to Perrif , anon Alessia , in her prayers of liberation before he walked among the quarters of rebellion , is unknown . " Volume 2 : On His Coming " . " [ Editor ' s Note : Volumes 1 - 6 are taken from the so - called Reman Manuscript located in the Imperial Library . It is a transcription of older fragments collected by an unknown scholar of the early Second Era . Beyond this , little is known of the original sources of these fragments , some of which appear to be from the same period ( perhaps even from the same manuscript ) . But , as no scholarly consensus yet exists on dating these six fragments , no opinions will be offered here . ] " [ And then ] Perrif spoke to the Handmaiden again , eyes to the Heavens which had not known kindness since the beginning of elven rule , and she spoke as a mortal , whose kindle is beloved by the Gods for its strength - in - weakness , a humility that can burn with metaphor and yet break [ easily and ] always , always doomed to end in death ( and this is why those who let their souls burn anyway are beloved of the Dragon and His Kin ) , and she said : " And this thing I have thought of , I have named it , and I call it freedom . Which I think is just another word for Shezarr Who Goes Missing . . . [ You ] made the first rain at his sundering [ and that ] is what I ask now for our alien masters . . . [ that ] we might sunder them fully and repay their cruelty [ by ] dispersing them to drown in the Topal . Morihaus , your son , mighty and snorting , gore - horned , winged , when next he flies down , let him bring us anger . " . . . [ And then ] Kyne granted Perrif another symbol , a diamond soaked red with the blood of elves , [ whose ] facets could [ un - sector and form ] into a man whose every angle could cut her jailers and a name : PELIN - EL [ which is ] " The Star - Made Knight " [ and he ] was arrayed in armor [ from the future time ] . And he walked into the jungles of Cyrod already killing , Morihaus stamping at his side froth - bloody and bellowing from excitement because the Pelinal was come . . . [ and Pelinal ] came to Perrif ' s camp of rebels holding a sword and mace , both encrusted with the smashed viscera of elven faces , feathers and magic beads , which were the markings of the Ayleidoon , stuck to the redness that hung from his weapons , and he lifted them , saying : " These were their eastern chieftains , no longer full of their talking . " " Volume 3 : On His Enemy " . " [ Editor ' s Note : Volumes 1 - 6 are taken from the so - called Reman Manuscript located in the Imperial Library . It is a transcription of older fragments collected by an unknown scholar of the early Second Era . Beyond this , little is known of the original sources of these fragments , some of which appear to be from the same period ( perhaps even from the same manuscript ) . But , as no scholarly consensus yet exists on dating these six fragments , no opinions will be offered here . ] " Pelinal Whitestrake was the enemy of all elfkind that lived in Cyrod in those days . Mainly , though , he took it upon himself to slay the sorcerer - kings of the Ayleid s in pre - arranged open combats rather than at war ; the fields of rebellion he left to the growing armies of the Paravania and his bull nephew . Pelinal called out Haromir of Copper and Tea into a duel at the Tor , and ate his neck - veins while screaming praise to Reman , a name that no one knew yet . Gordhaur the Shaper ' s head was smashed upon the goat - faced altar of Ninendava , and in his wisdom Pelinal said a small plague spell to keep that evil from reforming by welkynd - magic . Later that season , Pelinal slew Hadhuul on the granite steps of Ceya - Tar , the Fire King ' s spears knowing their first refute . For a time , no weapon of the Ayleids could pierce his armor , which Pelinal admitted was unlike any crafted by men , but would say no more even when pressed . When Huna , whom Pelinal raised from grain - slave to hoplite and loved well , took death from an arrowhead made from the beak of Celethelel the Singer , the Whitestrake went on his first Madness . He wrought destruction from Narlemae all the way to Celediil , and erased those lands from the maps of Elves and Men , and all things in them , and Perrif was forced to make sacrifice to the Gods to keep them from leaving the earth in their disgust . And then came the storming of White - Gold , where the Ayleids had made pact with the Auroran s of Meridia , and summoned them , and appointed the terrible and golden - hued " half - Elf " Umaril the Unfeathered as their champion … and , for the first time since his coming , it was Pelinal who was called out to battle by another , for Umaril had the blood of the ' ada and would never know death . " Volume 4 : On his Deeds " . " [ Editor ' s Note : Volumes 1 - 6 are taken from the so - called Reman Manuscript located in the Imperial Library . It is a transcription of older fragments collected by an unknown scholar of the early Second Era . Beyond this , little is known of the original sources of these fragments , some of which appear to be from the same period ( perhaps even from the same manuscript ) . But , as no scholarly consensus yet exists on dating these six fragments , no opinions will be offered here . ] " Pelinal drove the sorcerer armies past the Niben , claiming all the eastern lands for the rebellion of the Paravania , and Kyne had to send her rain to wash the blood from the villages and forts that no longer flew Ayleid banners , for the armies of Men needed to make camps of them as they went forward . . . . [ and ] he broke the doors open for the prisoners of the Vahtache with the Slave - Queen flying on Morihaus above them , and Men called her Al - Esh for the first time . He entered the Gate at . . . to win back the hands of the Thousand - Strong of Sedor ( a tribe now unknown but famous in those days ) , which the Ayleid s had stolen in the night , two thousand hands that he brought back in a wagon made of demon - bone , whose wheels trailed the sound of women when ill at heart . . . [ Text lost ] . . . [ And after ] the first Pogrom , which consolidated the northern holdings for the men - of - ' kreath , he stood with white hair gone brown with elfblood at the Bridge of Heldon , where Perrif ' s falconers had sent for the Nord s , and they , looking at him , said that Shor had returned , but he spat at their feet for profaning that name . He led them anyway into the heart of the hinterland west , to drive the Ayleids inward , towards the Tower of White - Gold , a slow retreating circle that could not understand the power of Man ’ s sudden liberty , and what fury - idea that brought . His mace crushed the Thundernachs that Umaril sent as harriers on the rebellion ' s long march back south and east , and carried Morihaus - Breath - of - Kyne to Zuathas the Clever - Cutting Man ( a nede with a keptu name ) for healing when the bull had fallen to a volley of bird beaks . And , of course , at the Council of Skiffs , where all of the Paravania ' s armies and all of the Nords shook with fear at the storming of White - Gold , so much so that the Al - Esh herself counseled delay , Pelinal grew furious , and made names of Umaril , and made names of what cowards he thought he saw around him , and then made for the Tower by himself , for Pelinal often acted without thought . " Volume 5 : On His Love of Morihaus " . " [ Editor ' s Note : Volumes 1 - 6 are taken from the so - called Reman Manuscript located in the Imperial Library . It is a transcription of older fragments collected by an unknown scholar of the early Second Era . Beyond this , little is known of the original sources of these fragments , some of which appear to be from the same period ( perhaps even from the same manuscript ) . But , as no scholarly consensus yet exists on dating these six fragments , no opinions will be offered here . ] " It is a solid truth that Morihaus was the son of Kyne , but whether or not Pelinal was indeed the Shezarrine is best left unsaid ( for once Plontinu , who favored the short sword , said it , and that night he was smothered by moths ) . It is famous , though , that the two talked of each other as family , with Morihaus as the lesser , and that Pelinal loved him and called him nephew , but these could be merely the fancies of immortals . Never did Pelinal counsel Morihaus in time of war , for the man - bull fought magnificently , and led men well , and never resorted to Madness , but the Whitestrake did warn against the growing love with Perrif . " We are ada , Mor , and change things through love . We must take care lest we beget more monsters on this earth . If you do not desist , she will take to you , and you will transform all Cyrod if you do this . " And to this the bull became shy , for he was a bull , and he felt his form too ugly for the Paravania at all times , especially when she disrobed for him . He snorted , though , and shook his nose - hoop into the light of the Secunda moon and said , " She is like this shine on my nose - hoop here : an accident sometimes , but whenever I move my head at night , she is there . And so you know what you ask is impossible . " " Volume 6 : On His Madness " . " [ Editor ' s Note : Volumes 1 - 6 are taken from the so - called Reman Manuscript located in the Imperial Library . It is a transcription of older fragments collected by an unknown scholar of the early Second Era . Beyond this , little is known of the original sources of these fragments , some of which appear to be from the same period ( perhaps even from the same manuscript ) . But , as no scholarly consensus yet exists on dating these six fragments , no opinions will be offered here . ] " [ And it is ] said that he emerged into the world like a Padomaic , that is , borne by Sithis and all the forces of change therein . Still others , like Fifd of New Teed , say that beneath the Pelinal ' s star - armor was a chest that gaped open to show no heart , only a red rage shaped diamond - fashion , singing like a mindless dragon , and that this was proof that he was a myth - echo , and that where he trod were shapes of the first urging . Pelinal cared for none of this and killed any who would speak god - logic , except for fair Perrif , who he said , " enacts , rather than talks , as language without exertion is dead witness . " When those soldiers who heard him say this stared blankly , he laughed and swung his sword , running into the rain of Kyne to slaughter their Ayleid captives , screaming , " O Aka , for our shared madness I do this ! I watch you watching me watching back ! Umaril dares call us out , for that is how we made him ! " [ And it was during ] these fits of anger and nonsense that Pelinal would fall into the Madness , where whole swaths of lands were devoured in divine rampage to become Void , and Alessia would have to pray to the Gods for their succor , and they would reach down as one mind and soothe the Whitestrake until he no longer had the will to kill the earth in whole . And Garid of the men - of - ge once saw such a Madness from afar and maneuvered , after it had abated , to drink together with Pelinal , and he asked what such an affliction felt like , to which Pelinal could only answer , " Like when the dream no longer needs its dreamer . " " Volume 7 : On His Battle with Umaril and His Dismemberment " . " [ Editor ' s Note : This fragment comes from a manuscript recovered from the ruins of the Alessian Order ' s monastery at Lake Canulus , which dates it to sometime prior to the War of Righteousness ( 1E 2321 ) . However , textual analysis suggests that this fragment actually preserves a very early form of the Song , perhaps from the mid - sixth century . ] " [ And so after many battles with ] Umaril ' s allies , where dead Auroran s lay like candlelight around the throne , the Pelinal became surrounded by the last Ayleid sorcerer - kings and their demons , each one heavy with varliance . The Whitestrake cracked the floor with his mace and they withdrew , and he said , " Bring me Umaril that called me out ! " . . . [ And ] while mighty in his aspect and wicked , deathless - golden Umaril favored ruin - from - afar over close combat and so he tarried in the shadows of the white tower before coming forth . More soldiers were sent against Pelinal to die , and yet they managed to pierce his armor with axes and arrows , for Umaril had wrought each one by long varliance , which he had been hoarding since his first issue [ of challenge . ] . . . [ Presently ] the half - Elf [ showed himself ] bathed in < nowiki > [ < / nowiki > Meridia n light ] . . . and he listed his bloodline in the Ayleidoon and spoke of his father , a god of the [ previous kalpa ' s ] World - River and taking great delight in the heavy - breathing of Pelinal who had finally bled . . . [ Text lost ] . . . [ And ] Umaril was laid low , the angel face of his helm dented into an ugliness which made Pelinal laugh , [ and his ] unfeathered wings broken off with sword strokes delivered while Pelinal stood [ frothing ] . . . above him insulting his ancestry and anyone else that took ship from Old Ehlnofey , [ which ] angered the other Elvish kings and drove them to a madness of their own . . . [ and they ] fell on him [ speaking ] to their weapons . . . cutting the Pelinal into eighths while he roared in confusion [ which even ] the Council of Skiffs [ could hear ] . . . [ Text lost ] . . . ran when Mor shook the whole of the tower with mighty bashing from his horns [ the next morning ] , and some were slain - in - overabundance in the Taking , and Men looked for more Ayleids to kill but Pelinal had left none save those kings and demons that had already begun to flee . . . It was Morihaus who found the Whitestrake ' s head , which the kings had left to prove their deeds and they spoke and Pelinal said things of regrets . . . but the rebellion had turned anyway . . . [ and more ] words were said between these immortals that even the Paravant would not deign to hear . " Volume 8 : On His Revelation at the Death of the Al - Esh " . " [ Editor ' s Note : This is the oldest and most fragmentary of all the existent Pelinal texts . It is , however , likely closest to the original spoken or sung form of the Song , and therefore has great value despite its brevity . Strangely , it appears that Pelinal is present at Alessia ' s deathbed , although he was killed by Umaril earlier in the saga ( years before Alessia ' s death ) . Some scholars believe that this fragment is not actually a part of the Song of Pelinal , but most accept its authenticity although there is still much debate as to its significance . ] " " . . . and left you to gather sinew with my other half , who will bring light thereby to that mortal idea that brings [ the Gods ] great joy , that is , freedom , which even the Heavens do not truly know , [ which is ] why our Father , the . . . [ Text lost ] . . . in those first [ days / spirits / swirls ] before Convention . . . that which we echoed in our earthly madness . [ Let us ] now take you Up . We will [ show ] our true faces . . . [ which eat ] one another in amnesia each Age . "