Dragonborn Saga

or a long time.
She knew about his whole situation with Gallus and Karliah and convinced him that she could offer him protection if he was at her service in the underground world.

Still, Mercer was reluctant to go against Jon Dare.
Despite Jon being a junior to him and previously a member of the guild, he is now a giant and with a lot of power backing him up.
Mercer researched Jon for the past two years before the appearance of the Dragons and tried to come up with a single-man heist in the Dare Tower but that was an impossible plan without the Skeleton Key.

At some point, Mercer actually lost the Skeleton Key for at least 3 years, and recently did he recover it.
According to what was told to him, Aedric and Daedric Artifacts have wills of their own and sometimes can choose to appear and disappear.
Mercer really panicked when the Skeleton Key disappeared but a year ago, it emerged from the shadows right in front of his eyes.

He knew it.

The Key calls to him, it wants to be with him.

They have a connection.

Nocturnal is the lady of shadows and two of her Artifacts are simply the most incredible tools any thief can have.
One is the Skeleton Key which can unlock anything in the physical and mental aspects and the second is the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal, a mask which its wearer can be forgotten from the memories of all those who know them.

If he was after anything now, it is the Cowl that would make him disappear without anyone knowing who he ever was.

But the Cowl is currently lost and if he wanted safe passage away from Jon Dare’s influence, he would need to rely on Maven, or better, rely on the Arch-Wizard by her side, Mecinar.

Mecinar and Mercer met on a few occasions and they managed to strike a good deal together to solve each other’s problems.
Mecinar seemed interested in and terrified by Jon Dare and for some reason, he refused to speak about that thing that terrifies him but at the same time, he wanted to get rid of him almost as much as Maven, and thus the two of them got to work together.

First, Mecinar asked Mercer to lead a small band of thugs and capture a living Vampire.
A dangerous task but with the Vampire situation happening around Riften, Mercer managed to ambush a Dawnguard caravan that was transporting a captured Vampire from a fortified carriage and brought him to Mecinar.

As for the next step of their plan, it was to capture or kill two figures that would lead Jon Dare to fly in rage and go to a place where they will lay a trap for him.
Those two figures they are after were Jullanar and Karliah.

Jullanar is known to be one of Jon Dare’s women and a very close person to him.
The reason why she could hang around anywhere around Riften is that she is something of a monster herself.
All the Dares are monsters by normal people’s standards and that’s why it had to be done where they least expect.
That’s why Mercer led Jullanar to the Snow Veil Sanctum where Karliah was hiding in order to assassinate the two.

Jon knew Mercer would try to assassinate Jullanar and warned her of the possibility.
He also gave her enough items to kill Mercer and blow him to dust along with Karliah whom she met once before in Morrowind.
(When Jon was returning to Skyrim, Jullanar traveled to the Morrowind to aid the Old Woman of Mournhold as a Dare Mercenary.)

What Jon didn’t expect was the involvement of Arch-Wizard Mecinar and Maven in this affair with Mercer.
It was as if all the scum whose names start with the letter M decided to work against him all at once.

Mecinar and the Maven’s Mercenaries attacked Jullanar in the Snow Veil Sanctum and tried to capture her.
Even with all the preparation she had on her, Jullanar was cornered badly and couldn’t defend against an Arch-Wizard for too long.

The attacks all came from behind as Mecinar, Mercer, and Maven’s Mercenaries were following her with all sorts of tactics.
She managed to easily drop a score of them but whenever she kills one, two would come at her.

There, she ran into Karliah who found out that the back exit of the Snow Veil Sanctum was also surrounded by Mercenaries.
With the Evil M gang closing on them from all directions and Mecinar almost about to lay his hand on them, Jullanar dejectedly used her last card that she never imagined she would need.

An Escape Scroll.

She could take Karliah with her before the two got captured and the moment they emerged, they were in Honeyside Manor in Riften.
With her terrible injuries, Jullanar refused to go anywhere other than the Thieves Guild.

She needed to tell Jon.

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