Mists on the Mountains

Extended Author's Note

AN: Feel free to skip this extended author's note. I'm providing a little context for new or returning readers..

When I first began writing this story the year was 2011. I was just a kid who was utterly obsessed with Skyrim. As a longtime Oblivion fan I was rocked by a game that was so much greater and it easily became my favorite game of all time. I wrote this adaptation on and off until 2014 on Fanfiction.net when I lost a whole chapter of work due to technical problems. This combined with college, the death of my grandfather and general life issues, prompted a writing hiatus from which I never returned. Flash forward to 2023 and a lot has changed. I've been married for seven years, have two kids, with one more on the way, while working as a Pastor (three full years!). I've moved twice, worked plenty of jobs and watched the world change around me.

When I picked up Skyrim again in 2023 on a whim, I was drawn right back in. It was like a home I'd never left. So, I went back to the old story I'd written on and reread it. While I cringed a whole lot at some early chapters, clearly I was in the stage where I would rather die than write the word "said," I was impressed by the heart and ideas I had. So, feeling I owed the kid who wrote it, and anyone left from the old days who still has the story in their subscriptions, I decided to pick it up again. I've edited these early chapters, rewriting some extensively, and I'm powering on to new content as well. I've improved so much as a writer since then (see my Fallout work on my Fanfiction.net account https://www.fanfiction.net/~koboldlord)  for a better take on my current abilities) and I'm really excited to take my decade of improvement and apply it to this old passion project. Who knows, maybe I'll write that trilogy (Dawnguard and then Dragonborn) after all. While the original, unaltered version of this story, along with authors' notes that are no longer applicable, exists on my computer as a monument to what was, this new version will remain the only version viewable online. I'll be trying to get a rewritten chapter up once a week for the first 18 chapters and maintain a similar pace for the new content. We'll see however. My dad encouraged me to also publish on Wattpad, a site I don't think existed back when I started, and I'm looking forward to the new audience here.

Mists on the Mountains is part narration and part novelization of the Skyrim main story. We'll see Hammel Greymist wrestle with being Dragonborn. However, other OC's, most based on my siblings' characters from the old days, will have plenty to do as well. This is a story beyond the Dragonborn himself, with POV's from these other characters alongside beloved NPC's like Aela the Huntress and Lydia.

If you are reading this story for the first time, welcome. I hope you enjoy it. If you've been waiting for a decade for an update, welcome back my friend. It's good to see you again. Sorry for the long wait.

-Alec