Lucilla CapreniaDisciplined,
courageous, and utterly committed to the service of the Empire and
Battlespire, Lucilla Caprenia is one of the new characters you will meet
as part of the upcoming Waking Flame DLC. Learn more about this
battlemage in training in this Meet the Character.
I hereby request consideration for provisional deployment and special training on behalf of Potential Lucilla Caprenia.
The
need for more experienced battlemages in the field during the Three
Banners War has far outstripped the Battlespire’s current reserves and
diminished the fortresses readiness to dangerously low capability.
Without the Empire’s support and a steady supply of new recruits, our
current objectives will not be achieved before attrition forces us to
fully retreat to the Spire.
We must make better use of our
current crop of Potentials, both to relieve our overstretched
Battlemages and to better prepare the apprentices for their trials. We
cannot sustain the usual casualty rates and expect our numbers to hold.
Allowing worthy Potentials to gain practical experience outside of the
Spire is the only way to improve their odds of survival without
compromising the value of fully commissioned Imperial Battlemages.
Lucilla
has been a model apprentice since her conscription at the age of six,
half the standard years of those identified with the makings of a
Potential. And she was head of her class before she turned seven.
Despite numerous provocations by members of her cohort, whose pride
could not bear being overshadowed by a child, Lucilla has never once
retaliated, and her record remains free of demerits. She has
demonstrated a level of discipline most veteran soldiers cannot muster,
even from an age when keeping her hand out of the cookie jar would be a
high standard to uphold.
Lucilla has earned top marks in each
of the schools of magic, magical and martial warfare, and contemporary
studies. She took first place for single combat in the Potentials Battle
Tourney three years running, won the Spire Council’s Commendation for
Spellcraft last year, and earned an Imperial Medal of Valor for
defending her classmates from rampaging atronachs during a botched
summoning exercise six years ago. She banished four of them herself. Had
we allowed it, she very well could have completed her trial before
reaching adulthood.
Lucilla’s admiration for the ideals of the
Empire we all hold dear borders on worship, and her commitment to our
mission to restore it is unquestionable. Traits that are becoming harder
to come by in an age where, for most of our recruits, the Empire exists
only in books. Lucilla longs for a return to the glories of the Empire
with a passion that might rival some of you on the Council who had
actually served while that august institution still existed. My only
concern for Lucilla is that her devotion lacks a critical eye, blinding
her to the hard choices required to maintain order in such a vast
Empire. Ending the Three Banners War will require a great amount of
sacrifice and she is not yet prepared for the harsh realities of war.
I
fear we have done her a disservice by keeping her within the
Battlespire all these years without opportunities for deployment or
advancement. Most of our recruits have plateaued in development before
their trials due to our inability to embed them in Imperial Legions, and
Lucilla reached the apex of what can be learned within these walls
years ahead of them. She is one of the most highly trained Potentials in
the history of the Spire, but no amount of preparation can replace real
experience. It is time we rectified that.Should the Spire
Council grant this request, I would ask they assign Lucilla to me during
my next deployment. It is of a sensitive nature and her fierce loyalty
should be an asset in maintaining secrecy.
Battlemage Martus Tullius
You
can meet this earnest and eager trainee yourself when you explore the
Dread Cellar, one of the two new dungeons coming soon as part of the
Waking Flame DLC. Find the original article here.
Now you know everything there is to know about the Dread Cellar dungeon in ESO (Elder Scrolls Online), happy hunting!