Songs of the Return , Vol 2 Series . This book is a part of the " Songs of the Return " series . Content . Our great lord Ysgramor , the harbinger of us all , did then send forth his two beloved sons ( with him the only other survivors of the brutalities of Saarthal ) to seek out the bravest warriors of the land and mount the great return . Yngol and Ylgar , they were called , and they were known among Atmora as fine warriors with bright eyes and dawning futures . Yngol , the Elder , was the brave strategist , bringing his learnings to bear on the battlefield that his enemies would be defeated before they even know the battle had begun . Ylgar , the younger , was possessed of an unwavering spirit that drove his singular prowess to overwhelming feats in war . Together , the mind and the arm , they were capable of sowing a destruction most thorough and glorious to any for who stood before them . Before they parted ways to gather their crews , the two clasped arms and necks in the old fashion and laughed at the heavens for their stories to come . Young Ylgar than took the massive shipyards of Jylkurfyk at the southern point and commissioned two ships for himself and his brother . He would command the Darumzu , and his brother the Harakk , thus carrying the names of the two favored stars of their heavens . The shipmakers spirits had been suitable filled by Ysgramor ' s tales of the savage elves , and they set about to birth ships that befit their noble homeland . Arrangements having been made , Ylgar set forth to the academies of honored soldiers , seeking out his most trusted friends and advisors to join him on the venture of the Return . By now the stories of the new land to the south were spreading before him , and the mere emergence of his presence was enough to cause the finest warriors to lay down their present undertakings and follow him . So was he able to call to his side the great Shield - sisters , Froa and Grosta ( who thought and spoke as one ) , and they brought with them the wise war - teacher Adrimk , who first taught them to dance among the blades . She in turn mustered all the students at her command , whose names were not yet made , but some of whom would one day be known : Hermeskr ( Who Threw His Shield ) , Urlach ( Who Breathed Fire ) , Ramth the Greater , Merkyllian Ramth , and the Far - Sighted Uche , who would see the first of many dawns . On the Day of Final Passage , when the many - oared fleet would last see the distant green summers of Atmora , the brothers were near in their father ' s wake as the freshly joined Five Hundred would eagerly press onwards toward Tamriel . Ylgar would see his well - minded brother smiling from afar across the waves , and they shouted war - cries to each other , longer for the soon - day when their assembled crews would draw the treacherous elf blood into the ground which they would now claim for their own rights . But Kyne ' s ministrations are not to be taken lightly , and though her blessings gave wind to drive those brave sailors to their destiny , so too did her mighty tears fall to drive them apart . When the Storm of Separation first arose , young Ylgar had no fear , for his crew was strong and able , and their ship drove true through the forest of swells as though pulled by the rope of fate . When the skies cleared and Ylgar glimpsed again , with new eyes , the land of his past and future home , he knew his brother ' s vessel was not with his horizon . The Darumzu , arriving late , drew forth onto the sands and Ylgar rushed to his father to seek word of his brother . The great Ysgramor , harbinger of us all , wept for his lost son , and sought comfort in the arms of his only remaining joy . The crew of the Harakk became the first deaths among the Five Hundred and Ylgar , so enraged with love for his brother that his crew would soon be counted as the first among the many noble and honored names in The Companions .