Incorporating Fragment One Translated and With Commentary by Florin Jaliil Introduction: Writing the biography of anyone is a challenge. Usually the problem lies in assessing one’s sources, comparing prejudices of one chronicle versus another versus another. There is but one record of the man called Topal the Pilot, the earliest known Aldmeri explorer of Tamriel. Only four short verse fragments of the epic "Father of the Niben" have survived to present day, but they offer an interesting if controversial look at the Middle Merethic Era when Topal the Pilot may have sailed the seas around Tamriel.