The Elder Scrolls Adventures : Redguard : The Origin of Cyrus ! The Elder Scrolls Adventures : Redguard : The Origin of Cyrus ! is a comic book that came with . It is available for download for free as a pdf . It details the early life of Cyrus , as well as his journey prior to the events of . Content . The Story Thus Far . . . . Now : A man called Tiber Septim seeks to return the glory of the Cyrodilic Empire , which has lain dormant for four hundred years . He will usher in a new era , the age of the Third Empire . The Empire ' s former subject - lands have tried to resist this change , but , one by one , they have fallen . All of the human kingdoms are now under Septim ' s rule : Skyrim , High Rock , and Hammerfell , the homeland of the Redguards s . It has been conjectured that , had they not weakened themselves in their civil war , the Redguards could have halted the Empire ' s progress : that , united Hammerfell would be invincible . Alas , with the death of their High King , the Redguards ' long - divided camps , the Crowns and the Forebears , went to war . In the end , it seemed like the Crowns would keep the throne for themselves , but the Forebears , beaten and willing to try anything , invited the Empire ' s forces into Hammerfell to help them . The Empire made short work of the Crowns ' dimished forces , defeating them at last on the island of Stros M ' kai . Then : In their youth , Cyrus and Iszara lived in Sentinel , capital of Hammerfell . Though it was traditionally a Forebear city , the High King of the Crowns sat in its palace . This was a troubled time , with talk of open rebellion in the air . With the Third Empire suddenly stirring on the borders , Hammerfell ' s breaking point was near . As a Forebear secession loomed , and their old conquerors began to surround them , the Redguards prepared for war . Page 1 . Dylxexes the Younger , of the First Era , states quite clearly that an adventure can only truly begin three ways : by death , by slur , or by letter . To begin without one of these is to be relegated to the states of an indiscretion or , at best , an escapade . Properly then do we embark , our foundation laid with the last , and best , of the three : the letter , invariably the most seductive catalyst of all - - - , and thus the most powerful . Page 2 . Especially if it concerns the blood . Written without flourish in a hand well - known . " Cyrus - " I hope this letter finds your hands , friend . My latest travels have brought me to Stros M ' Kai and no one here has seen your sister for three month ( covered ) I fear the worst I ( covered ) obliged to stay for ( covered ) weeks I will ( covered ) at ( covered ) Draggin Tale Inn , ( covered ) ould you return , " " Tobias " Brennan : " " It ' s getting a bit rough out there , sir . . . ? " " Cyrus : " " Cyrus . " " Brennan : " " Of course , perhaps we should wait , then , sir Cyrus . Until tomorrow when the Iliac is more cooperative . " " Page 3 . Cyrus : " " No we go on . You were paid double to make sure . " " Brennan : " " Fine . Wet gold spends as well , I suppose . " " Cyrus : " " Who ' s guiding the ship , captain Brennan ? " " Brennan : " " Eli , the good water - logged lad . Boy needs a bit more weight anyway . " " Cyrus : " " Stros M ' Kai by morning , captain . " " Brennan : " " Of course , sir Cyrus . But tell me , why all the hurry ? " " Tobias : " " Why the hurry , laddie ? " " Page 4 . Tobias : " " The seas wait long and you ' re a little short yet for a marine . " " Cyrus : " " You mean pirate Tobias ! " " TobiasL " " I guess I am a bit far from father ' s fair Skyrim , ain ' t I then , even with her colors raised . But it ' s called foreign relations in better quarters . " " Shipper : " " Captain . " " Cyrus : " " It ' s called desertion and mercenary work and I want in . I can fight you ' ll need me . There ' s a war on every coast these days . " " Iszara : " " Cyrus ! " " Page 5 . Iszara : " " Cyrus , we have to go . " " Tobias : " " Bye , then lad . . . " " Cyrus : " " G ' bye captain Tobias . . ! " " Tobias : " " - - I can see the lines forming from here ! Next I ' m ashore we ' ll talk about your enlistment ! " " Iszara : " " Must it be a Nord Cyrus ? " " Cyrus : " " Half - Nord , and he ' s neat , Iszara , I like him . " " Iszara : " " He ' s artless and we only have twenty minutes . " " Cyrus : " " We ' ll go the back way . " " Page 6 . It is opening night and their fathers fared well . The crowd is large and loud with laughter - - A testament to his wit and skill : A Crown playwright in a Forebear city , and he ' s bringing down the house . Sentinel belongs to him . - - There is a clamor for hours - - - - All the stage swords and flash - - . . Wherein the High King , ever a Crown , pays heavily for his faults - - - - Political , ancestral , and otherwise - - - - And the Forebears are shook with smiles - - - - In love with the thing . Page 7 . The stick about the head of the enemy , relentless . In the center , though , the dead serious heart of all comedy , the point - - All too often , like this night , missed completely . Only an unbridled and open loyalty could have produced such as this is - - - - The belittled king - - - - So utterly beloved . So there is their father ' s real triumph - - A celebration of a Crown by the very city that hates him - - A jester ' s best parabola - - - - A satire refracted - - - - Of fools only to the foolish . For Cyrus the only glittering things are the swords . For Iszara . . . . . . The male lead - - . . . Clad in Forebear stripes - - - - His foot in the ass of the High King ' s horse . His name is Hakan and they will marry . Page 8 . Cyrus : " " My hurry needn ' t concern you , captain . " " Brennan : " " I ' ll hazard it ' s the Civil War , or the Empire . " " Cyrus : " " I don ' t care about either . " " Brennan : " " Trouble in the Heartland , that ' s my guess , anyway . . . " " Cyrus : " " If it suits you . " " " " No one has seen you sisters for three months . " " S ' rathra : " " < Your sister ' s disappearance draws a shudder > " " Cyrus : " " I need a ship . " " S ' rathra : " " < The port is full of them and S ' rahtra ' s name goes far towards the price of passage . > Cyrus : " " Money too . " " Page 9 . S ' rathra : " " < Keep Duadeen ' s Retainer . It ' s a family affair , after all . > " " Cyrus : " " We haven ' t spoken in ten years . There was trouble . " " S ' rathra : " " < Tell S ' rathra , why did you never mention your sister before . . ? > " " S ' rathra : " " < What kind ? > " " Cyrus : " " I killed her husband . " " Invariably the most seductive . Especially when it concerns the blood . Thug : " " Ey , it ' s the Redguard - - ! Where ' re you goin ' ? We leave soon . " " Cyrus : " " Tell your lord I respectfully decline his offer . " " Duadeen : " " Tell him yourself . " " Cyrus : " " Duadeen . I must away elsewhere it seems . . . " " Duadeen : " " I have a signature somewhere - - - - that says otherwise . " " Page 10 . Cyrus : " " My sister ' s gone missing . " " Thug : " " Is that all . . ! ? " " Duadeen : " " Too open an excuse , and unlikely . Thugs musn ' t have ties to anything but ink and the glimmer of gold . A sister ' s so domestic . You forget the general mystery of dangerous men . " " Thug : " " Aye . Mercenaries don ' t have families . " " Cyrus : " " Then you won ' t be missed . I ' m ready to kill you all . " " Duadeen : " " That would be redundant . Men , let him through . Don ' t come back to High Rock , Cyrus . " " Page 11 . Cyrus : " " I can ' t ever come back to Hammerfell , Captain . " " Tobias : " " Eventually , lad . " " So begins the mercenary translation Though they do not scare him , he waits mostly in hush , silent except to confirm orders . They whisper more than he would have thought . And they take what gold they can - - Somewhere the Emperor is waiting to clear his throat - - The whole of the world is in turmoil it seems - - - - And everyone needs a few extra swords . Cyrus : " " . . . Who do they want us to kill ? " " Tobias : " " Ach . . ! Probably someone who ' s dead , already - - . They work wherever they cann - - - - In Argonia , saving diplomacy ' s fools - - - - Some dignitary sent to make a hasty alliance against the inevitable Imperial Expansion . Tobias : " " I ' m bettin ' they ate ' im days ago . " " Page 12 . For years the cat ' s assassins - - - - Doing whatever dirty work is required of them . Cyrus desperately trying to displace the guilt of the past in the bloody deeds of the present - - Tobias : " " Morrowind ? You ' re outta your mind - - ! " " Assassin : " " Oh , boy . " " S ' rathra : " " S ' rathra thought you ' d like a change of pace . . . " " Tobias : " " No , more like getting bored of our little band - - - - Time to get rid of them . " " S ' rathra : " " < Exaggeration . > " " Cyrus : " " I ' ll go . " " Assassin : " " Forget it , Cyrus ! " " Tobias : " " He ' s right , lad . You don ' t know Morrowind - - The place is . . . Weird - - " " S ' rathra : " " < Weird is relative . > " " Page 13 . They lose to fear - - - - For it is Morrowind . Land of the Dunmer , the Dark Elves . . . The object of the raid is , for S ' rathra curiously sentimental - - - - Free some kinsmen from a slaver camp paid for by his own wealth . The camp to be found near Tear , southernmost of Morrowind ' s horrors . Just above the swamps of Black Marsh - - - - In the land of ash . Tobias : " " We could turn around . " " Cyrus : " " Where ' s the money in that ? " " Page 14 . Slavemaster : " " ( Dunmeris ) " " Page 15 . Slave guard : " " ( Dunmeris ) " " Dunmer slave : " " ( Dunmeris ) " " Tobias : " " Hell . " " Slave guard : " " ( Dunmeris ) " " Page 16 . Slave guard mage : " " ( Dunmeris ) " " Cyrus : " " No ! " " Page 17 . Slave guard mage : " " ( Dunmeris ) " " Page 19 . Something is surpassed in that moment . From then on he will work more or less - - - - alone . resolute in the mad rush to that which he cannot yet name . Brennan : " " Sir Cyrus ? " " Brennan : " " The Island ' s in sight , sir Cyrus . Let ' s let the boys get some sleep . " " Brennan : " " Stros M ' Kai ! Jewel of Hammerfell ! Glad to be back ? " " Cyrus : " " I will be , if I find her . " " Hakan : " " Have you found her , then ? " " Redguard : " " No . " " Page 20 . Redguard : " " Yes . There , Hakan . " " The weddings seems , to Cyrus - - - - A whole country ' s sigh of relief - - - - Though he knows both families have names of little consequence . But wit Hammerfell on the brink of Civil War : A Forebear is taking the hand of a Crown in the capital city ! And though everyone knows there is nothing prophetic about the union - - - - Nor in its sight shall the kingdom take measure - - - - For to perhaps similary align within against the enemy without , there is still genuine and heartfelt cheer in the crowd . It ' s almost as if such ceremony must take place for the full regret to come later - - A brace for the kingdom ' s shame , a single bright spot to look back on - - - - in the wake and lamentation of the end . A happiness invented - - to give the grieving , later , more sorrow still . Page 21 . The joy lasts but few seasons . Initially all is well , with Izara only moving to an estate across town in the merchant quarter . Close enough that Cyrus can still keep her company . Though she is happy with Hakan - - - - he is often gone . Training with the Forebear underground . Everywhere , a louder talk of trouble . Of Sentinel ' s secession . Izara ' s distress begins to slow . She and Hakan are wise enough - - - - not to mention the matter to her father when they visit . Page 22 . His own patriot shade runs deep . Cyrus doesn ' t care , and hassles his brother - in - law to no end to show him the sword tricks that have been learned while preparing the hidden militias . More exciting than working the harbors , that ' s for sure , these rumors of war . Hakan takes notice and confides in his new student the true nature of the Forebear cause . Hakan : " " We are the righteous foundation upon which this country rests . And we have too long suffered its weight . " " Cyrus ' father : " " Where did you hear this ? " " Page 23 . Cyrus ' father : " " And why would you shame your ancestors so ? We are Crowns , Cyrus , and the weight they speak of is the king , a noble burdern to be sure . " " Cyrus : " " But you make fun of the king in everything you ' ve written . " " Cyrus ' father : " " Son . My mockery of him is the mockery of the mockery of his enemies . " " Cyrus : " " So the Forebears are right in nothing ? " " Cyrus ' father : " " In complaint ? Yes . In demand for rapprochement ? In some cases . In secession ? Never . It is not the way for us . And it will not be the way for you . And if the king is challenged we - - I , you , your sister , others - - shall rise alike as he to meet it - - - - for we are Crowns alike as he . Naha ' mei dogo ra gada lohne trai , sura . " " Cyrus : " " What ? " " Page 24 . It meant , ' the Forebears know their place , Cyrus . ' And it will be the last time he is unclear . He writes it in a night . . . It is an epic of the Ra Gada - - the ancestors of the Forebears - - from whom the Redguards got their name - - A bloody and thrilling account of that holy invasion , where the Ra Gada drove the Orc s from Hammerfell to make way for the King and his royal family - - A story three thousand years old - - Wherein the Forebears are cast rightly in the roles of heroes - - - - Stalwart first Champions of the throne , and the King ' s finest , best men . And where the king is a man worth fighting for . There is none of the comedy for which the author is known , only a celebration of the truth of old blood - - - - and the lines they have since established . There is no subtlety in the message . Just admonition from an honorable past . Page 25 . The shortest work is the widest seen - - and it has immediate effects . The Redguards are reminded of when they stood together against the unknown . And with the Empire as close as Sancre Tor , and even bending the Nord King to their will - - - - The Redguards wonder when Hammerfell ' s time will come . Baron Volag , hold of Sentinel ' s outlying territories , and the chosen spokesman of the Forebears , strikes an accord with the King . With the Crowns . Some say it is an ephemeral truce - - That will last only so long as the old feelings stirred by an embroidered history stay strong . But it works for a measure - - - - and the militias disband to join Volag ' s men in the plains of the Dragon Stand . And for those who do not go , it turns bitter . A slow rot that realizes it ' s been made to marry the devil ' s own daughter . Page 26 . A celebration of the playwright is held , and the Crowns and Forebears attend in equal numbers - - Drinks and laughter and the sense of something lifted - - Cyrus is drunk to here . In such good spirits that he mentions nothing about Hakan ' s strange absence to Iszara . Indeed , a rock that ' s been lifted . And the snakes have scurried out . Hakan : " " Tukta - mab ' ro G ' ye no lo ' igra . " " ( Tukta - mab ' ro = Storyteller , G ' ye = fabricator , no lo ' igra = deceiver ) Hakan : " " Liar . " " Iszara : " " Hakan , not this - - " " So it begins - - Page 27 . The civil war they thought suppressed , embodied now in the drunken youths before them . In this one duel they see the inevitability of what will come . In each champion - - - - the armies they will stride with . Sooner or later everything brought to stave off this fate . Will be cut down . Page 28 . Run , he thinks . It ' s all he can think . Tobias : " " . . . Ach . . . Get on , then . . . Cyrus : " " I can ' t ever come back to Hammerfell , captain . " " Tobias : " " Eventually , lad . " " Next issue : The search for Iszara begins !