A/N: A little follow up from house of horror! I always do feel bad for killing that one priest, but also the mace of Molag Bal is pretty cool...
Prompt: Powers of Darkness
Usually once turning away from doing something it tends not to come up again, unfortunately in this case that is the opposite of what happens. Having been tasked with finding a Briar-Heart for Master Neloth that brings Farkas and I to the closest Forsworn camp we can find. In that camp we not only find the forsworn Briar-Heart we were looking for and promptly take the implanted heart for the crazy old Dunmer wizard as soon as the Briar-Heart is dead for good this time, we also find a priest of Boethiah who had been captured and seems close to death. Upon finding him I’m reminded of what Molag Bal the Daedric Prince of Domination, one of the few evil Daedric Princes said to me in that abandoned house in Markarth shortly before I ran screaming for the door that I should look for a priest of Boethiah who had been using the shrine in Markarth for his own sacrifices as Molag Bal would like to deal with the treachery of the Priest himself, and if I cooperate I will get a reward. The old priest asks for our help and being one to rarely if ever turn away from rewards, at least on my own accord uncoerced, I agree and we escort the old man back to Markarth. Farkas whispers to me on the way that he has a very bad feeling about this whole situation. Of course he does, who wouldn’t have a bad feeling about a situation where the powers of darkness are at each other's throats? Still, he goes along with things though upon reaching the house decides to stand guard by the main door, leaving the Priest and I to go down to the basement. Once in the basement the old man is trapped in the same cage I had been stuck in the last time I was down here when he attempts to go through his rites one last time. Molag Bal laughs in his face and a rusted mace that had been sitting ceremonially on the altar flies through the air and lands in my hand. The Prince of Domination tasks me with killing the priest with the mace. I don’t want to kill him, Boethiah seems like a much better Prince than Molag Bal, even if they are not as situationally kind-hearted as Azura, and so I tap the priest with the mace as lightly as humanly possible to not hurt him. It seems Molag Bal anticipated that, as the moment I touch the priest with the mace he collapses to the ground, dead as a doornail…that’s not ideal. With the priest dead the cage retracts and Molag Bal congratulates me, naming me one of his champions and the rusted mace I had been holding transforms into a clean if terrible looking weapon- the Mace of Molag Bal. This is why one never accepts quests from morally questionable not exactly godlike beings, and especially never from ones who the powers of darkness hold allegiance to. No cool looking mace is worth the work, the bloodshed, or the mildly traumatizing haunted house adventure. I’d rather get into another drinking game with Sanguine…at least the sanguine rose is useful…
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