![]() Once there, he regained possession of the sword and would not relinquish his grip. ![]() He was chained down and brought back to Castle Sathil on Solstheim. Elhul Sathil had been the one to recover it, and had been driven into a killing frenzy. Without Umbra stabilizing the sword, it drove whoever touched it insane. The sword had already been retrieved by the minor House Sathil eight years previous. However, when Sul and Prince Attrebus Mede arrived at Scathing Bay on Vvardenfell in search of the Umbra Sword, it was nowhere to be found. Hierem had promised use of the White-Gold Tower to separate Umbriel from Vile's realm, but Vuhon first went north to the ruins of Vivec, fearing that the Umbra Sword may be used to trap Umbra. The city of Umbriel was called to Tamriel circa 4E 48 by Chief Minister Hierem and the An-Xileel, who had gotten in touch with the city via the Hist, who in turn had made contact with the related sentient trees which ran the ecosystem on Umbriel. Vuhon then began to call himself Umbriel, and ruled the floating city. Umbra fused with Vuhon and placed their joined soul into the new ingenium. Umbra agreed, and the two created Umbriel, a floating city powered by souls. Umbra took them captive, and in return for his life Vuhon promised to build a new ingenium, which would tear a piece of Vile's realm away and let Umbra "escape", in a sense. That day came when the ingenium was destroyed Umbra threw the sword to Mundus, while at the same time Sul and Vuhon, two Dunmer responsible for the ingenium, were sucked through into Clavicus Vile's realm. Casting a fortune, Umbra learned that the rift would one day become wide enough to throw the Umbra Sword through, lessening the threat posed by Vile. In the early Fourth Era, Umbra was attracted to the influx of souls coming from the rift in the realm caused by the first ingenium, which held Baar Dau aloft above Vivec City. Using his stolen power, Umbra was able to conceal himself in one of the cities at the edge of Vile's realm, fearing that Vile would return him to the sword. The Prince did not want Umbra to escape with his power, so he changed the walls of his realm, essentially trapping Umbra there. Umbra took the form of a dark being, in the shape of a man but with eyes like holes into nothing. Once the sword arrived in Vile's realm, Umbra escaped and cut away some of the Prince's power for itself. However, the sword eventually found itself in the hands of Clavicus Vile. It is unknown if the Hero went through with the prince's request to return the sword, and receive the Masque in return, or if the Hero kept Umbra for themself. Barbas, Vile's Hound, advised the Hero against bringing him the sword, foreseeing that it would bring ruin to the Prince. In 3E 433, Clavicus Vile sent the Hero of Kvatch to retrieve the Umbra Sword. She became bloodthirsty, and began calling herself Umbra after the sword. Sometime after the events of 3E 427, the sword was discovered by a Bosmer named Lenwin, from the small settlement of Pell's Gate in the Heartlands of Cyrodiil. The sword came into the possession of Torasa Aram later that year, and was put on display in her museum in Mournhold. At his request, the Nerevarine bested the Orc in mortal combat and claimed the Umbra Sword. The Orc's only desire was to die in battle, but no foe could defeat him. In 3E 427, an Orc warrior who went by the name of his sword, Umbra, was spotted in the mountains outside the settlement of Suran on the island of Vvardenfell. The sword is also known to have the ability to absorb the health and stamina of those it strikes. It has been reported as a black and silver claymore, a jet black longsword and as a black sword emblazoned with red markings. The Umbra Sword has the ability to change shape, but it is always in the form of a bladed weapon. Umbra then slowly takes control of the wielder. The sword took on a life of its own, remaining hidden until a worthy wielder was found. Naenra was executed for her evil creation, but not before she hid the sword. However, Naenra (sometimes accredited with being Sheogorath in disguise) supposedly tricked him, as the piece of Vile's power imbued in the sword became a sentient being which called itself Umbra. Naenra created the sword but it was unstable, requiring Vile to give the witch a piece of his power to be imbued in the sword in order to stabilize it. Sometime before 2E 582, the ancient witch Naenra Waerr created the sword at the request of Clavicus Vile, who wanted the sword as a tool of mischief which would send him souls from the mortal realm. ![]() The Umbra Sword is a Daedric artifact designed with the sole purpose of the entrapment of souls. ![]()
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