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First of all, this was inspired by something that happened in-game: you know how, upon reaching a particularly impressive location/area, companions will cry out "Wow! That's impressive!", "By the Nine!" and so on? Well, it just so happened that Kate expressed her awe at the exact same moment Dorian stealthily dispatched a bandit as he is about to in the above drawing, so it sounded as though she was impressed by his mad assassin skillz instead.

Now, the backstory...

Dorian Valtieri talked his way into the College of Winterhold and was granted access to its resources, a privilege normally restricted to members, under one condition: that he agreed to assist in various matters the residents couldn't, or wouldn't deal with themselves. One such matter was retrieving the lost writings of Shalidor, a famously powerful mage from the First Era, which languished in a Bandit chief's treasure chest and Urag gro-Shub wanted back. Citing the importance of having a College representative present (in reality, there was a more...personal interest behind that decision), Katarina joined him and discovered a previously unknown side to the self-styled scholar. She had never seen anyone move the way he did, blending from shadow into shadow with liquid speed as he stalked his targets undetected, felling them one by one with expert slashes of his two swords. It was almost like watching a dance - a lethal dance - and Kate, who was by no means clumsy, felt as though she had all the grace of an ornery Mammoth by comparison.

One thing was abundantly clear: Dorian Valtieri was more than a mere "scholar"...

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Description
First of all, this was inspired by something that happened in-game: you know how, upon reaching a particularly impressive location/area, companions will cry out "Wow! That's impressive!", "By the Nine!" and so on? Well, it just so happened that Kate expressed her awe at the exact same moment Dorian stealthily dispatched a bandit as he is about to in the above drawing, so it sounded as though she was impressed by his mad assassin skillz instead.

Now, the backstory...

Dorian Valtieri talked his way into the College of Winterhold and was granted access to its resources, a privilege normally restricted to members, under one condition: that he agreed to assist in various matters the residents couldn't, or wouldn't deal with themselves. One such matter was retrieving the lost writings of Shalidor, a famously powerful mage from the First Era, which languished in a Bandit chief's treasure chest and Urag gro-Shub wanted back. Citing the importance of having a College representative present (in reality, there was a more...personal interest behind that decision), Katarina joined him and discovered a previously unknown side to the self-styled scholar. She had never seen anyone move the way he did, blending from shadow into shadow with liquid speed as he stalked his targets undetected, felling them one by one with expert slashes of his two swords. It was almost like watching a dance - a lethal dance - and Kate, who was by no means clumsy, felt as though she had all the grace of an ornery Mammoth by comparison.

One thing was abundantly clear: Dorian Valtieri was more than a mere "scholar"...

Credits:

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