yaermina:“Sal-Wei, known early in life as Sneers-At-Masters or possibly the Face-Stealer, was a powe
yaermina:“Sal-Wei, known early in life as Sneers-At-Masters or possibly the Face-Stealer, was a powerful Argonian mage and Wizard of House Telvanni.” “It may seem strange to the layman that a former slave was drawn to such an isolationist and xenophobic faction, but her confessed reasoning was simple: the fruits of ambition and the promise of power.” “This persona of bluntness and brutal directness she showed to the world hid an undercurrent of brilliant tactics and insight that allowed her to remain undetected as a threat and kept her work unsullied from rivals … [it] was also [one] that ultimately kept her locked in her (still notable) rank of Wizard and made her research so difficult for historians to find.”“The wizard’s exact focus in the arcane is still mostly unknown. Remains of experiments were found upon excavation of her tower, although they were too badly damaged to determine what they were … [or] why they were there. … One paper recovered was of previously unexplored design, a combination of Restoration and Alteration magics … Arcane University scholars have speculated it to be Ayleid in origin.” “With this discovery in mind … Sal-Wei [is] theorized to have connections to lore of [a coastal town] … as the bogeyman ‘Face-Stealer’, a being that attacks and twists the flesh of hapless travelers and fishermen … [and is] warded off by torchlight.”“[Sal-Wei] disappeared around the time of the Argonian Invasion. … Whether she perished with the majority of her House or managed to slip away under guise of innocence is up to debate.”-Historian Demetrius Flarelli, ‘A Field Aflame: The Lost Faces of Telvanni Magecraft’, 4E26 -- source link
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