Gerilus Minasus

Current Location and Title    Temple of Kynareth, Priest

Gerilus was a Street Vendor in the Imperial City, he grew up in Chorrol
was doing well in his business 

Felina a Breton had set up a stand across the pavillion from his stand.  Over a period of about 6 months they had become close and he courted her and the were engaged

On the night of their engagement party he was walking her home and they were attacked, when he awoke Felina was gone

He searched and searched and finally after about 2 weeks he came across a drunkard who had witnessed the attack from his hiding place near the docks

It was vampires.

He continued his search taking interest in every vampire sighting everywhere.

He recieved word that a vampire clan had been discovered near Steadhelm and a female matching the discription of Felina had been seen

He went to Steadhelm and hired a group to help him locate the vampires

They found them in a nearby cave and they were discovered and attacked, most of Gerilus' party was killed but he and a few others made it out, indeed it was felina who was with this clan

He returned to Cyrodiil and sold all his possesions, he made it his lifes work to learning all he could about vampires, searched out the most knowledgable wizards, priests and educators.

He also hired many enchanters and mages to make for him a gem to capture the essence of a vampire and hold it captive

He decided to stay in Steadhelm and moved their joining the Temple he stayed and worked on his plan, he was able to get a workable gem
(He had a home with a secret basement where he did his work)

And thats were the player comes in:

Upon entering Steadhelm if you speak with any of the guards they will tell you of recent vampire attacks and ask you to report to Gerilus

Gerilus will tell you of the vampire attacks (he does not mention his story at all) and asks you to search around for them, they usually attack at night

If you accept, when you are outside in the evening (around 9) you will hear a scream and the guards running toward the north of town

As you approach you will see a guard fall to the ground, the vampire will notice you and attack you

Kill him and check his body, nothing.. but then before you have time to do anything else another vampire attacks you

Kill him and you will see a third up toward the north gate coming toward you

Kill him as well, check the body and you will find a note addressed to Gerilus

The note will read... If you want to meet me come just north outside the north gate the following evening and its signed by "M"

Take the note to Gerilus and he will confess to you after some proding about his delima he will ask you to find Felina and bring her back.  If you agree he will give you 3 special soul gems.

The next evening you go out expecting to meet this M and you are ambushed by 3 more vampires, kill the first 2 and the 3rd appears and attacks

Fight him and after he has been beaten down a bit, he will enter dialogue, begging for his life (unlife) as he can sense you have the gems and does not wish to be trapped.  He will give you the location of M and Felina.

you can let him go and return to his master M or you can kill him, in which case his essence gets sucked into the gem

you track down the location (Nohrgirm Tomb )  when you enter you meet only briefly by Macares Dren (wizard) he mentions something about leaving him alone and disappears

If you remember the Nohrgirm Tomb  once Dren leaves a wall moves revealing a giant stone golem and a mirror, defeat the golem and go through the mirror.  this will take you to a catacomb labyrith (spelling)

you will fight your way through some vamps and through a maze of rooms with some nicely done traps (sacarrows handy work) (i'm sure he could dupicate it in ES4)..... and eventually end up in Cedrics Masuleum where you will see Dren(the wizard)  falling to the ground dead near a tall figure

Dialogue (hasn't been detailed)  fight and kill vamp (sucking essence into gem)

search body find key 

leave Cedrics and return to Gerilus, tell him what happened and give him the gem and tell him of the key and no Felina

He will tell you about an earlier venture to Norhgirm were he discovered a doorway which he could not enter

Go back to Norhgirm and find the doorway open and go down, the vamps in will attack including felina kill them but not her.

Suck her undead soul into the gem and return to Gerilus
(Gerilus will send others to retreve her body)

He will thank you and give you a nice fat reward (had not decided what yet)

He will also ask you about a cure for vampirism.  At this point if you have done the vampire quests in MW you know that it can be cured and offer to do it for him(gerilus) in which case a shrine would need to be made for Molag Bal (didn't need to do this part in ES3)

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If you haven't done those quests he will tell you of his research and give you clues of where to go and what to do...go from their

It was at this point is where we were going to introduce the Cerro Vampire Clan.... if you remember from MW Molag Bal had to request permission to give you the cure and he is not so willing this time and thats were the Cerro came in

(The story for the Cerro was that they had been watching you the whole time) The Vampire "M" was one of their greatest enemies and from the point of killing him they became interested in persueing you as an agent for them to help discover a remedy for their condition)

Thats bout it

I still plan on using this in ES3 but I need to rework the Cerro Clan as "someone" was attempting to make it more than what I originally intended and I was going right along with it with the impression that it was what the Core Group wanted  :) 

Bob






