"150"^^ . "engo 611 a\u00F1os. No he engendrado ning\u00FAn hijo, pero s\u00ED conozco el calor de varios sobrinos y primos que han sido criados seg\u00FAn la tradici\u00F3n de nuestro ancestral e ilustre clan: los Direnni. Pocas familias de Tamriel pueden presumir de tantas figuras c\u00E9lebres, que han soportado en sus manos el destino de muchos. Nuestros guerreros y reyes, cuyo honor y logros corren de boca en boca, se han convertido en seres de leyenda.\n\nYo nunca me he servido de la espada ni he promulgado ninguna ley importante. No obstante, s\u00ED he seguido otra de las grandes tradiciones familiares algo menos conocida: la magia. Mi biograf\u00EDa apenas presenta inter\u00E9s para la posteridad , pero la de algunos de mis ancestros s\u00ED deber\u00EDa ser contada. Ellos cambiaron dr\u00E1sticamente el curso de la historia como tantos otros de mis parientes y, sin embargo, sus nombres est\u00E1n a punto de caer en el olvido.\n\nSi nos trasladamos a \u00E9pocas recientes, Lysando, rey de Salto de la Daga, pudo conquistar a sus antiguos enemigos de Centinela por mediaci\u00F3n de la hechicera de la corte, Medora Direnni. El abuelo de Medora, Jovron Direnni, mago guerrero imperial de la emperatriz dunmer de Tamriel, Katariah, ayud\u00F3 a restablecer la paz en tiempos de gran agitaci\u00F3n. El tatarabuelo de Jovron, Pelladil Direnni, desempe\u00F1\u00F3 un papel similar en la corte del primer potentado y, adem\u00E1s, impuls\u00F3 las leyes de gremios, sin las cuales no tendr\u00EDamos las organizaciones profesionales de hoy d\u00EDa. La bruja Raven Direnni, uno de los muchos antepasados de Pelladil, puso fin a la tiran\u00EDa del imperio alessio junto a sus conocidas primas Aiden y Ryain. Seg\u00FAn cuentan, mucho antes de que aparecieran los psijic de Arteum, Raven concibi\u00F3 el arte del encantamiento al aprender a aprisionar almas en gemas y hechizar con ellas todo tipo de armas.\n\nSin embargo, quisiera relatar la historia de un ancestro a\u00FAn m\u00E1s lejano en el tiempo.\n\nQuisiera remontarme a los humildes or\u00EDgenes de nuestro clan en el peque\u00F1o pueblo agr\u00EDcola de Tyrigel, situado a orillas del r\u00EDo Caomo, que entonces se conoc\u00EDa con el nombre de Diren, y del que proviene nuestro apellido. Asliel Direnni se dedicaba a la siembra, como todos los dem\u00E1s en la isla de Estivalia en aquellos remotos tiempos. Algunas familias se limitaban a cultivar lo necesario para mantener a sus parientes m\u00E1s cercanos, mientras que los Direnni trabajaban codo con codo incluso con primos distantes. Entre todos decid\u00EDan qu\u00E9 campos parec\u00EDan mejores para cosechar trigo o vi\u00F1as, plantar huertos, atender a los animales o colocar colmenas. As\u00ED sacaban mayor partido a sus posesiones y su producci\u00F3n siempre superaba a la del resto.\n\nLas tierras de Asliel, muy poco f\u00E9rtiles, no eran apropiadas para pr\u00E1cticamente ning\u00FAn cultivo, pero en su \u00E1rido y pedregoso suelo crec\u00EDan innumerables hierbas. Asliel se convirti\u00F3 en un experto en el tema, m\u00E1s por necesidad que por otra cosa. Empleaba la mayor\u00EDa para dar sabor a las comidas, aunque tambi\u00E9n conoc\u00EDa las propiedades m\u00E1gicas que, como todo el mundo sabe, presentan pr\u00E1cticamente todas las plantas de nuestro mundo. Incluso en aquel entonces, ya exist\u00EDan las brujas, as\u00ED que ser\u00EDa rid\u00EDculo sugerir que Asliel Direnni invent\u00F3 la alquimia. Por lo que s\u00ED debemos estarle profundamente agradecidos, sin embargo, es por convertirla en ciencia y en todo un arte.\n\nEntonces no hab\u00EDa aquelarres de brujas en Tyrigel ni, por supuesto, ning\u00FAn gremio de magos , por lo que la gente acud\u00EDa a \u00E9l en busca de remedios. Asliel descubri\u00F3 la f\u00F3rmula y combinaci\u00F3n exacta de liquen negro y rastrojo que serv\u00EDa de ant\u00EDdoto para toda suerte de venenos, y la cantidad de estambre de sauce que deb\u00EDa molerse y mezclarse con hierbas estrangulantes para curar enfermedades.\n\nEn aquella \u00E9poca, Tyrigel se ve\u00EDa amenazada por peligros mucho mayores que enfermedades o envenenamientos accidentales. Fuerzas oscuras habitaban en la espesura: trols, quimeras, mal\u00E9volas hadas y fuegos fatuos, pero incluso los altmerianos m\u00E1s j\u00F3venes e ignorantes sab\u00EDan c\u00F3mo evitarlos. Algunas amenazas, no obstante, se solucionaron gracias a la mediaci\u00F3n de Asliel.\n\nUna de las historias que de \u00E9l cuentan, y que, en mi opini\u00F3n, tiene visos de ser cierta, es la de una joven sobrina que sufr\u00EDa una extra\u00F1a enfermedad. A pesar de sus cuidados, la joven amanec\u00EDa m\u00E1s d\u00E9bil cada ma\u00F1ana. Finalmente, opt\u00F3 por administrarle una bebida muy amarga. Al d\u00EDa siguiente su cama apareci\u00F3 cubierta de cenizas. Un vampiro se hab\u00EDa estado alimentando de la pobre ni\u00F1a, pero la poci\u00F3n de Asliel hab\u00EDa transmutado su sangre en veneno sin causarle a ella ning\u00FAn da\u00F1o.\n\n\u00A1Ojal\u00E1 su f\u00F3rmula no se hubiera perdido con el devenir del tiempo! Esta an\u00E9cdota hubiera bastado para hacerse un hueco en los anales de Estivalia, pero la historia no acaba aqu\u00ED. Poco despu\u00E9s, la tribu b\u00E1rbara de los locvar lleg\u00F3 a la parte baja del r\u00EDo Diren y, viendo la riqueza de Tyrigel, estimaron que se trataba de un blanco perfecto para sus saqueos. El clan Direnni, simples agricultores, poco ten\u00EDan de guerreros. Solo pod\u00EDan huir y observar a lo lejos como los locvar se llevaban lo mejor de sus cosechas una y otra vez. \n\nAsliel, que hab\u00EDa estado experimentando con el polvo del vampiro, ide\u00F3 un plan que comparti\u00F3 con sus primos. Cuando los locvar fueron avistados de nuevo, se corri\u00F3 la voz de que los m\u00E1s robustos deb\u00EDan acudir a su laboratorio. Los b\u00E1rbaros se encontraron con las granjas desiertas, por lo que asumieron que sus habitantes hab\u00EDan huido como era habitual. Sin embargo, en cuanto comenzaron a desvalijarlas, un ej\u00E9rcito invisible los atac\u00F3. Enseguida pusieron pie en polvorosa creyendo que las granjas de los Direnni estaban encantadas.\n\nComo su codicia superaba a su miedo, intentaron asaltar las granjas varias veces m\u00E1s, pero siempre se topaban con unos atacantes a los que no pod\u00EDan ver. Por muy b\u00E1rbaros que fueran, no eran tontos, y empezaron a plantearse a qu\u00E9 se deber\u00EDa su derrota. Las granjas no pod\u00EDan estar embrujadas, ya que se segu\u00EDa sembrando y recogiendo las cosechas. Adem\u00E1s, los animales no mostraban ning\u00FAn temor, as\u00ED que decidieron enviar a un explorador para que espiara.\n\nEste confirm\u00F3 que en las granjas viv\u00EDa gente de carne y hueso, altmerianos completamente visibles. Mantuvo su puesto de observaci\u00F3n mientras el resto de la tribu se acercaba por el r\u00EDo. Se percat\u00F3 entonces de que los ni\u00F1os y los ancianos hu\u00EDan a las monta\u00F1as, mientras que los granjeros m\u00E1s corpulentos y sus esposas se dirig\u00EDan al laboratorio de Asliel. Los ve\u00EDa entrar, pero no salir.\n\nComo era de esperar, un ej\u00E9rcito invisible les hizo frente y fueron derrotados, aunque, en esta ocasi\u00F3n, el explorador les cont\u00F3 lo que hab\u00EDa sucedido en el laboratorio.\n\nEsa misma noche, dos de sus hombres se aproximaron a la granja de Asliel sigilosamente y lo raptaron sin que se diera la voz de alarma. Puesto que los agricultores ya no pod\u00EDan contar con el alquimista para volverse invisibles, el jefe de la tribu pens\u00F3 en atacar las granjas de inmediato. No obstante, dado su car\u00E1cter vengativo y la humillaci\u00F3n sufrida a manos de unos simples granjeros, tuvo una ocurrencia mejor. Los Direnni siempre avistaban a la tribu cuando se acercaba, \u00BFqu\u00E9 pasar\u00EDa si en esta ocasi\u00F3n no era as\u00ED? Ya se imaginaba la masacre si ninguno ten\u00EDa la oportunidad de huir.\n\nEl explorador le dijo que Asliel hab\u00EDa utilizado el polvo de un vampiro para volver invisibles a los granjeros, pero que no estaba seguro de los dem\u00E1s ingredientes. Describi\u00F3 una especie de sedimento incandescente que hab\u00EDa mezclado con el polvo. Asliel se neg\u00F3 a ayudar a la tribu, pero los locvar, adem\u00E1s de saqueadores, eran expertos torturadores y Asliel comprendi\u00F3 que, si no hablaba, pronto morir\u00EDa.\n\nTras varias horas de martirio accedi\u00F3 a explicarles qu\u00E9 era el sedimento incandescente. Aunque no conoc\u00EDa su verdadero nombre, \u00E9l lo llamaba \u201Cpolvo brillante\u201D y proced\u00EDa de los restos de un fuego fatuo. A\u00F1adi\u00F3 que, si pretend\u00EDan volver invisible a toda la tribu, necesitar\u00EDan grandes cantidades de esta sustancia.\n\nLos locvar refunfu\u00F1aron; no solo tendr\u00EDan que encontrar y acabar con un vampiro, tambi\u00E9n con varios fuegos fatuos para conseguir ambas sustancias. Algunos d\u00EDas m\u00E1s tarde, regresaron con los ingredientes que el alquimista hab\u00EDa pedido. El jefe de la tribu, bastante astuto, orden\u00F3 a Asliel que probara la poci\u00F3n en primer lugar. Asliel sigui\u00F3 sus indicaciones y desapareci\u00F3 ante sus propios ojos, demostrando que la p\u00F3cima funcionaba. Despu\u00E9s lo obligaron a que preparase m\u00E1s cantidad. Nadie not\u00F3 que, mientras lo hac\u00EDa, iba mordisqueando liquen negro y rastrojo.\n\nLos locvar iban tomando el brebaje conforme Asliel lo repart\u00EDa. Poco despu\u00E9s, tras una muerte agonizante, no quedaba ni uno con vida. Al parecer, el explorador hab\u00EDa cre\u00EDdo que el resplandor de las velas del laboratorio pertenec\u00EDa al segundo ingrediente del bebedizo, nada m\u00E1s lejos de la realidad. El segundo ingrediente no era otro que malta roja, una de las plantas m\u00E1s comunes en Tamriel. Mientras torturaban a Asliel para que confesara qu\u00E9 era esa ceniza incandescente, este record\u00F3 que en uno de sus experimentos hab\u00EDa obtenido un veneno muy potente mezclando polvo brillante y polvo de vampiro. Le result\u00F3 relativamente sencillo robar un poco de malta roja del campamento y a\u00F1adirla a la mezcla de polvo de vampiro y polvo brillante para conseguir, as\u00ED, la invisibilidad. Tras tomarse el remedio que neutralizaba el veneno, les dio el bebedizo a los b\u00E1rbaros.\n\nCon los locvar muertos, se acabaron las incursiones. Como no ten\u00EDan ning\u00FAn otro enemigo, prosperaron y se volvieron muy poderosos.\n\nGeneraciones m\u00E1s tarde, abandonaron la isla de Estivalia y comenzaron su andadura por las tierras continentales de Tamriel. Por sus grandes cualidades en alquimia, invitaron a Asliel a Arteum, donde se convirti\u00F3 en psijic. No se sabe a ciencia cierta cu\u00E1ntas f\u00F3rmulas invent\u00F3, pero de lo que no cabe duda es de que la alquimia, tal y como la conocemos hoy d\u00EDa, no hubiera existido sin \u00E9l.\n\nSu historia forma parte del pasado. Las innovaciones de Asliel, como las m\u00EDas y las de muchos de los Direnni a lo largo de la historia, no son sino la piedra angular de las maravillas futuras. Quisiera poder ser testigo de lo que nos aguarda, pero, si puedo poner mi granito de arena y compartir el pasado con la nueva sangre de los Direnni, me doy por satisfecho."@es . . . . . . . . "De Rerum Dirennis"@de . . . . "1"^^ . . . . "25"^^ . ". Brebajes de la Tumba, en Falkreath"@es . "DE RERUM DIRENNIS By Vorian Direnni I am six-hundred-and-eleven years old. I have never had children of my own, but I have many nieces and nephews and cousins who have been raised with the tales and traditions of our ancient, illustrious, and occasionally notorious clan, the Direnni. Few families in Tamriel can boast so many famous figures, wielding so much power over the fate of so many. Our warriors and kings are stuff of legend, and it is not to dismiss their honor and their achievements to say you have heard quite enough about them. I myself have never picked up a sword or written an important law, but I am part of a lesser known but still important Direnni tradition: the way of the wizard. My own autobiography would be of little interest to posterity \u2014 though my nephew, nieces, and cousins indulge me to tell wild tales of life in the chaotic Second Era of Tamriel \u2014 but I have a few ancestors whose stories should be told. They may have changed history as we know it as dramatically as my better known relatives, but their names are in danger of being forgotten. Most recently, Lysandus, the King of Daggerfall, was able to conquer his ancient enemies of Sentinel in part thanks to his court sorceress, Medora Direnni. Her grandfather Jovron Direnni was Imperial Battlemage to the court of the Dunmer Empress of Tamriel, Katariah, assisting her in creating peace in a time of turmoil. His great great grandfather Pelladil Direnni had a similar role with the first Potentate, and encouraged the Guild Act without which we would not have all the professional organizations we have today. His ancestor, many times back, was the witch Raven Direnni, who with her better known cousins Aiden and Ryain, brought an end to the tyranny of the latter Alessian Empire. Before the Psijics of Artaeum, it is said, she created the art of enchantment, learning how to bind a soul into a gem and use that to ensorcel all manners of weaponry. But it is the story of an ancestor even more ancient, more distant than Raven I wish to tell. Asliel Direnni harkens back to the humble beginnings of our clan, in the tiny farming village of Tyrigel on the banks of the river Caomus which was then called the Diren, hence the family name. Like all on Summurset Isle in those days, he was a simple planter of the fields. But while others only grew enough to sustain their immediate kin, even distant cousins of the Dirennis worked together. They would decide as a group which fields were best for wheat, orchard, vine, livestock, or apiary, and thereby always have the best yields of any farm which worked alone, doing the best as it could with what it had. Asliel had a particularly poor farm for most kind of agriculture, but small herbs found its stony, loamless, acidic soil very comfortable. Out of necessity more than anything else he became an expert on all manners of herbs. For the most part, of course, they were used in flavoring cooking, but as you know, hardly any plant grows on the surface of our world without a magickal potential. Even so long ago, witches already were in existence. It would be ridiculous for me to suggest that Asliel Direnni invented alchemy. What he did, what we can all be grateful for, is that he formulated it into an art and science. There were no witches' covens in Tyrigel, and, of course, there would be no Mages Guild yet for thousands of years, so people would come to him for cures. He learned for himself the exact formula for combining black lichen and roobrush to create a cure for all manners of poison, and the amount of willow anther to crush and mix with chokeweed to cure diseases. There were few much greater threats in Tyrigel in those peaceful days than disease or accidental poisonings. Yes, there were some dark forces in the wilderness, trolls, chimera, the occasional malevolent fairy folk and Will-O-The-Wisp, but even the youngest, most foolish Altmer knew how to avoid them. There were, however, a few unusual threats which Asliel had a hand in defeating. One of the tales told of him that I believe to be true is how he was brought a young niece who had been suffering from an unknown disease. Despite his ministrations, she grew weaker and weaker every morning. Finally, he gave her a bitter tasting drink, and the next morning, ashes were found all around her bed. A vampire had been feeding on the poor girl, but Asliel's potion had turned her very blood into poison, without harming her in the least. If only this formula had not been lost in the mists of history! This would have been enough to make him a minor but significant figure in the annals of early Summurset, but at that point in history, a barbarian tribe called the Locvar had found their way down the Diren River, and recognized Tyrigel as a rich target for raids. The Direnni, not being warriors yet but simple farmers, were helpless and could only flee and watch the Locvar take the best of their crops, raid after raid. Asliel, however, had been experimenting with the vampire dust, and brought his cousins to him with a plan. The next time the Locvar were sighted on the Diren, the word went out and all the most able-bodied came to Asliel's laboratory. When the barbarians arrived in Tyrigel, they found the farms deserted, and assumed that all had fled as usual. As they set about stealing the bounty, they suddenly found themselves under attack by invisible forces. Believing the Direnni farms to be haunted, they ran away very quickly. They attempted a few more raids, for their greed would always eventually overpower their fear, and each time, they were set upon by attackers who they could not see. As barbaric as they were, they were not stupid, and they changed their mind about the source of their defeat. It could not be that the farms were haunted, because the crops were still being tended and harvested, and the animals seemed to show no fear. The Locvar decided to send a scout to the farm to see if he could spy their secrets. The scout sent word back to the Locvar that the Direnni farms were populated with flesh and blood, entirely visible Altmer. He continued to watch as his barbarian cohorts moved down the river, and he saw the elderly and children flee for the hills, while the able-bodied farmers and their wives went to Asliel's laboratory. He saw them go in; he saw no one come out. As usual, the Locvar were repelled by invisible forces, but their scout soon told them what he saw happening in the laboratory. The next night, two of the Locvar approached Asliel's farm very stealthily, and managed to kidnap him without alerting the rest of the Direnni. The Locvar chieftain, knowing that the farmers could no longer count on the alchemist to make them invisible, considered an immediate attack on the farms. But he was a vengeful sort, and felt he had been humiliated by these simple farmers. A crafty plan emerged in his mind. What if the Direnni, who always saw his barbarian tribe coming, for once did not? Imagine the slaughter if no one even had a chance to flee. The scout had told the chieftain that Asliel had used the dust of a vampire to make the farmers invisible, but he was not sure what the other ingredient had been. He described an incandescent powder that Asliel had mixed into the dust. Asliel, of course, refused to help the Locvar, but they were experts in torture as well as pillage, and he knew he would have to talk or die. Finally after hours of torture, he agreed to tell them what the incandescent powder was. He did not know the name, but he called it \"Glow Dust,\" the only remains of a slain Will-O-The-Wisp. He told them they would need a lot of it if they wanted to turn the whole tribe invisible for the raid. The Locvar grumbled that not only did they have to find and kill a vampire to attain his dust, but find and kill several Will-O-The-Wisps to get theirs. In a few days time, they came back with the ingredients the alchemist asked for. The chieftain, not being a complete idiot, made Asliel taste the potion first. He did as he was told and turned invisible, demonstrating that it did truly work. The chieftain put him to work creating more. No one apparently noticed that while he did, he was nibbling on black lichen and roobrush. The Locvar took the potion as he doled it out, and soon, but not too soon that they didn't suffer, they were all dead. The scout who had seen Asliel mixing the invisibility potion had apparently mistook the glow of the candlelight in the laboratory for an incandescence which the second ingredient of the invisibility potion did not possess. The second ingredient was actually dull, simple redwort, one of the most common herbs in Tamriel. When they had insisted during torture that Asliel tell them what the incandescent powder was, Asliel remembered that he had once experimentally mixed glow dust and vampire dust together once and created a powerful poison. It was simple enough to steal a little redwort from the barbarian's camp, mix that with the vampire and glow dust mixture, and create a potion that was in fact an invisibility poison. After curing himself, he gave the poison to the barbarians. The Locvar, being dead, never again raided the Direnni farms, and having no other enemies, they were able to grow more and more prosperous and powerful. Generations later, they left Summurset and began their historic adventures on the Tamriel mainland. Asliel Direnni, because of his excellence as an alchemist, was invited to Artaeum and became a Psijic. It is not known how many more of the common formulas we know today were invented by him there, but I have no doubt, the science and art of alchemy as we know it today would not exist without him. But that is all in the distant past. Asliel's innovations, like my modest ones, like the achievements of the Dirennis throughout history, are but a stepping stone to the wonders which will come in the future. I wish I could be there to witness them, but if I can only share some of the past with the children of Direnni and the children of Tamriel, then I will consider my life well spent."@en . . . "55"^^ . . . "1"^^ . . "55"^^ . . . . . "De Rerum Dirennis"@es . "1"^^ . . . "1"^^ . . "T"@es . . . . . . . . "1"^^ . "De Rerum Dirennis"@en . ". Laboratorio de campo de Sinderion, en L\u00EDmite Sombr\u00EDo"@es . . "De Rerum Dirennis Titel Autor Originaltitel Vorherig Folgend De Rerum Dirennis ist ein Buch in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim und The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion."@de . . "DE RERUM DIRENNIS By Vorian Direnni I am six-hundred-and-eleven years old. I have never had children of my own, but I have many nieces and nephews and cousins who have been raised with the tales and traditions of our ancient, illustrious, and occasionally notorious clan, the Direnni. Few families in Tamriel can boast so many famous figures, wielding so much power over the fate of so many. Our warriors and kings are stuff of legend, and it is not to dismiss their honor and their achievements to say you have heard quite enough about them."@en . "De Rerum Dirennis"@de . "De Rerum Dirennis"@en . . "De Rerum Dirennis Titel Autor Originaltitel Vorherig Folgend De Rerum Dirennis ist ein Buch in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim und The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion."@de . "De Rerum Dirennis"@de . . "De Rerum Dirennis"@en . . "1"^^ .