Mariber Sicarius

**Mariber Sicarius** is from Bravil and is the second and youngest child of Count Morros Sicarius and his wife Reynis Hlaalu. His older brother is General Kaillus Sicarius, a legate and general of the Imperial Legion.

Mariber is an Ascended Immortal; because of this he has the title of Deathweaver. Due to being son of Morros Sicarius, he was also the Duke of Morahame, a title usually conceded to second sons of the Sicarius family. He is one of the major POV characters in the books.

## Appearance and Character

Mariber has an unremarkable body, neither plump, thin, nor muscular. He has pasty skin and a pallid chest, which is soft and hairless. Mariber has short, strong fingers. He has a plain face, with a soft beard and ordinary, with his only noticeable feature being his strange eyes, darker than the night, like two abysses. The color is so dark some have called it to be dark-bluish.

Though his brother had the most charisma, when Kaillus left for the Imperial City, Mariber made many friends in Bravil, and was well-liked by the household of Morahame, and among the guards of Bravil, as well, surprisingly, as in the Eastern Blackwood, where the Boiche acknowledged his respect for their laws. However, he was intensely disliked by Callistus Therin.

## History

### Early life

Mariber was born as the second son of Count Morros Sicarius and his wife, Countess Reynis Sicarius, in 4E 198, during the last days of the Emperor's reign. He had one older brother, Kaillus. Within a fortnight of Mariber's birth, Reynis and Kaillus took the child sailing through the Larsius. Mariber was free spirited and adventurous in his youth.

Mariber was knighted when he was eighteen, and he was sent to Morahame to learn the duties of tending for a stronghold.

## Recent Events

### *The Covenant Wars: Legendarium*

#### Stand of Solitude

In 4E 224, a royal command from the Elder Council sent Mariber and his brother, Sicarius, into a mission to liberate Falkreath from the rule of an outlaw group that belonged to the rebelling Nordic clans that would later join to become the Covenant. After three months of planning with cartographers and his group of rangers, Mariber executed an ambush that closed the gates of Falkreath and trapped the rebels inside. Kaillus brought his force and razed through the city. Briefly after the combat, Mariber found a man attempting to escape with a dark blade. Unceremoniously killing the man, he took the blade to himself. That same night, when one of his subordinates suggested that they should return to Cyrodiil, Mariber was led by a strange impulse to execute him for treasonous statements.

On the success of their mission, they were told to succour Solitude in the north. As they travelled northward, they were ambushed by the crew of the Dublin, who returned from an assignment on land. Having sustained losses, and with Kydonius Therin having joined their party, they received orders to stay in Morthal for the moment, and were welcomed by a clan of marshmen.

During their stay in Morthal, a marshmaiden by the name of Rilana entered Therin's tent and begged him to allow the marshmen safe passage to Cyrodiil, where the war would not break. Therin would not give up the leverage of having northern civilians among them, and denied. Due to Mariber having disagreed, Rilana stole into his tent later that night, possibly influenced by the dark weapon of Mariber, and they had sex. The next day, hearing that Markarth was with danger of siege, he asked for leave to Therin, who commanded the campaign, to assassinate the Bandit King who made his way there. He asked, however, that should he succeed, he would be given leave to stay in Morthal and rule that settlement in name of the Imperial Legion. Though Therin mocked him for it, he agreed, and Mariber went south to Markarth, promising Rilana that he would return for her.

Mounting ambush at the cliffs about the Gates of Markarth, he became ever more impatient and anxious to complete the assignment so he could return to Morthal. In his isolation, the Ebony Blade started to draw effect on his mind, causing him to have hallucinations and vivid dreams. With the Ebony Blade suggesting that Therin may have took Rilana for himself during his absence, he grows furious and rides back north to kill Therin. Though Therin had gone to conquer central Skyrim, he murders the marshmen and part of the Imperial Legion there stationed. At last he confronts his brother, who was in Morthal, and flees. As he flees in the middle of a fire that broke out, a tower of stone crumbles upon him, supposedly killing him.

#### Refuge of Bruma

When Quintus Petreia journeys into Oblivion to find Gaiar Alata and is defeated by the demons that control the place, Mariber is brought as one of their slaves, and using his Ebony Blade, kills the Grandmaster.

### The Covenant Wars: Raze of the Bandit King

Finding his way back into Nirn after four years, the outnumbered Mariber winds up in Bloodlet Throne, the last refuge of Sabrina Arana before her death. He kills all men stationed there, but is ambushed afterwards by surviving Nimaltese in his way to the Reach. Despite rescuing her, the remaining survivors of the Fall of Nimalten take him captive. Delirious from having been killed by the Nimaltese and returned to life, he calls out for Kaillus Sicarius.