The black lion

Chapter 1

Karloh had been lucky... Or unlucky, depending on how you look at it, to be the younger brother of the mythical last Dragonborn.

While they both only found that out when they entered adulthood, Karloh always lived in his brother's shadow, more talented, taller, better looking, more everything really, and on top of that his brother turned out to be the mythical hero destined to save them all.

While Karloh was just that Khajiit Ohmes-raht who struggled to live up to his older brother.

But of course, none of that means he had a bad relationship with his brother, gods no, they loved each other as much as brothers can love each other, his brother never made him feel less and was always there to support him in everything, and when he was declared Dragonborn, Karloh was by his side from start to finish fighting side by side against everything and everyone.

But his brother was gone.

After they went to Solstheim and defeated Miraak his brother said he should go north to Atmora, as always Karloh was ready to follow him, but his brother asked him to stay, that Tamriel still needed a hero.

So his brother went and left him behind.

Karloh respected his brother's will and protected Tamriel, and the gods know that it was not an easy task, it seems that Tamriel cannot go a year without someone or something trying to cause some chaos, Karloh was not as powerful as his brother, but one does not become the Dragonborn's companion without being forced to become powerful on his own.

Karloh let out a heavy sigh of exasperation, this was not supposed to happen, not at all... But he had to have guessed, shadow magic is unstable and can turn against its user.

A few hours ago Karloh was studying shadow magic, more specifically the work of Azra Nightwielder. He wanted to study the possibilities of accessing other universes through the famous Shadow Gates, but something happened and a hole made of shadows appeared right in front of him and absorbed everything present, including him.

Now he finds himself in some forest that is definitely not in Nirn, at first glance one would not know that, since after all he is surrounded by a forest that would not be out of place in Cyrodiil, but for a wizard as experienced as Karloh it is easy to see the difference.

The main thing is magic, Nirn has magic everywhere and as an Archmage Karloh is able to feel it like someone feels the air brushing against their skin, and just as someone can feel if the air is dry, damp, cold or hot, with magic it is the same.

And the magic around him right now definitely doesn't feel like Nirn's, and in fact it doesn't feel like that of any Daedric plane he had previously visited, and Karloh is one of the few who can say he visited more than one Daedric plane in his life.

There is also the small problem with conjuration magic, at first Karloh simply tried to transport himself home, which was not possible, for some reason he was trying to cast the spell, but it never activated.

Wanting to see if it works, Karloh tried to teleport about only ten steps, which worked without a problem, then he tried to conjure some creature, and it was also impossible.

He can't conjure anything, conjuration magic became extremely limited, he can still use it to conjure himself at a distance, but only on this very plane and for some reason he can't conjure things from other planes to this one.

So, in short, he has no way to get back home by his own means, which forces him to look for some solution on this plane.

So he immediately did the logical thing, he used the levitation spell and rose into the air, Karloh had copiously ignored the Levitation Act and as soon as he learned to use this spell he didn't stop doing it no matter how much some people told him it was illegal, it's not like they could put him in jail for it, at most they fine him and most of the time they would turn a blind eye, after all no one would want to put the Dragonborn's brother in jail.