Just a Skyrim fanfic: Extended cut

A sick cult (Side)

(Leonidas is in Markarth at the bar and he asks the barkeep if he's heard any rumors lately)

Kleppr: Did you hear? The hall of the dead is closed. Brother Verulus isn't exactly the most popular man in town right now

Leonidas: Is that so?

(Leonidas heads over to the hall of the dead and finds a priest near the door)

Verulus: If this is about the hall of the dead, then no, you can't go in there

Leonidas: Why not?

Verulus: I can't talk about it. Rest assured, the jarl hears everyone's concerns. You will be able to visit the dead again very soon

Leonidas: If you tell me what's going on I could help you

Verulus: Well... We have been shorthanded lately... Alright. I was going to suggest the jarl hire someone else to sort this mess out anyway. We've discovered that some of the dead have been being... eaten. Flesh has been chewed off. And bones were snapped to get at the marrow inside

Leonidas: What in the fuck

Verulus: I know. We haven't caught anyone or anything yet. It's like it knows when I'm there. If you can get to the bottom of this, the priestess of Arkay will reward you. Take my key, and be careful. We don't know who or what is in there

(Verulus gives Leonidas a key, and he heads inside of the hall of the dead. But as soon as he does, he hears a voice)

Namira: Not many would walk blindly into a crypt smelling of steel and blood, but not of fear. I feel the hunger inside of you. Gnawing at you. You see the dead and your mouth grows wet. Your stomach growls

Leonidas: What you practice sickens me, demon

Namira: It's alright. I will not shun you for what you are. Stay. I will tell you everything that you have forgotten

(A figure comes out of the shadows)

Eola: You were young when you first tasted human flesh, weren't you? A brother or sister had died? An accident, of course. Then the hunger set in. Curiosity. What's the harm in just one bite, right? It's ok now. You've found a friend who understands you now. You can let go of all of that guilt

Leonidas: I am many things, but I would not resort to cannibalism even if it would save me from oblivion. You disgust me, you freak

Eola: So be it

(Eola goes to pull out her dagger, but Leonidas is much quicker and decapitates her with his golden blade)

(Leonidas searches Eola's body and finds a journal with plans to meet other cannibals at reachcliff cave)

Verulus: You've returned. What happened in the hall of the dead?

Leonidas: The corpses were being eaten by cannibals. But I killed one and found the rest

Verulus: Divines preserve you. You're a hero. We'll re open the hall right away. Here. Take this as a reward

(Verulus gives Leonidas a bag of gold)

Verulus: Arkay protect you

(Leonidas glides to reachcliff cave and finds a group of cannibals)

Hogni: You there. The draugr infesting Namira's sanctuary are inside

Leonidas: I could use a hand

Sanyon: I was hoping you would say that

Sigar: There are draugr inside. Very foul tasting

(Leonidas heads inside of the cave with the cannibals, but purposefully lets a lot of them get killed by the draugr)

Banning: Ah. Namira grants us victory

Leonidas: Oh, you didn't win

(Leonidas stabs Banning with his blade)

Leonidas: I just couldn't let the draugr have all the fun. FUS RO DAH!

(Leonidas's force shout destabilizes the cave entrance, trapping the cannibals inside with him)

Leonidas: Now. (Points sword at cannibals) Who's next?

Cannibal: What are you doing?! You trapped yourself in here with all of us

Leonidas: No. YOU'RE all trapped in here with ME

(Time skip brought to you by Leonidas painting the cave walls red with with swings of his sword)

Leonidas: What's this?

(Leonidas finds a ring on one of the cannibals)

Leonidas: I'll take this and put it around the handle of my sword as a symbol of my fury against your kind, filthy flesh eating monstrosities