Lore:Mulaamnir

Mulaamnir
	Mulaamnir
Born	Dawn Era;
Died	2E 582; Jode
Resided in	Halls of Colossus; Elsweyr
Appears in	ESO, Legends

"Then you will die. But not before we slaughter your friends and set fire to Elsweyr. Once we reduce this land to so much ash, only then will I tear you apart. So promises Mulaamnir, whose claws have dealt a thousand deaths."
—Mulaamnir

Mulaamnir was a Dragon whose name means "Strong-Serve-Hunt" in the Dragon Language. He was adorned in azure scales, and as a storm dragon, possessed an array of lightning-related abilities.^[1]

Mulaamnir attacks the Defense Force Outpost

When Elsweyr was composed of sixteen kingdoms in the Merethic Era, Kaalgrontiid and his horde of dragons came to dominate the land and above all, sought to consume the Moon's lunar power. Mulaamnir was a massive creature, surely among the largest of his kind,^[1] and served only second to Kaalgrontiid.^[2] To stop the dragons, the Khajiit hero Khunzar-ri recruited four companions, Nurarion the Perfect, Flinthild Demon-Hunter, Anequina Sharp-Tongue, and Cadwell the Betrayer.^[3] When fighting them proved to be futile, Cadwell suggested that it may be best to convince the dragons that they were now a willing part of their plans. In preparation, Anequina attuned herself to Shadow Dance Temple, incited the moons to align to form an eclipse, allowing the Moon Gate of Anequina to open a portal the Plane of Jode, where the relic the dragons desired, Jode's Core, rested. The dragon's ambitions would be their undoing, as the dragons accessed the Plane of Jode, Khunzar-ri instead convinced them to not simply absorb the power of the core like they originally intended, but store their energy within it in the guise that they would combine the lunar power with their own.^[4]^[5] The gamble worked, and the dragons were weakened enough for them to retreat back into the wilderness.^[3] To finish the job, Khunzar-ri once again convinced the dragons to play a part of his scheme. He lured them into the Halls of Colossus, where he managed to seal them away. The Dragons would be obscured as "demons" in legends, and become the fabled "Demon Weapon". Their power would be coveted by many people.^[3]

Mulaamnir and his brothers would remain trapped in the Halls for millennia to come. When the fabled Wrathstone was retrieved in 2E 582, the Imperial battlemage Abnur Tharn inadvertently unleashed the Dragons from their containment from the Halls of Colossus. Mulaamnir was the first to fly out, and they resumed in their ancient quest for the lunar power of the Moons. The Dragons allied themselves with the forces of Euraxia Tharn, whom were lead to believe that the dragons were to be used as tools. Mulaamnir served as their contact with the Euraxians, who assumed that he was the leader of all of them, only later discovering that he answered to another dragon named Kaalgrontiid. He assisted them in battles against the Northern Elsweyr Defense Force, but only lent them one dragon at a time, and caused casualties on both sides.^[1]^[6] Following an encounter with the Defense Force at their outpost, Mulaamnir traveled to Sleepy Senche Mine and spoke to the Vestige. He revealed that the dragons viewed Euraxia as a puppet and offered them and Abnur Tharn the opportunity to leave Northern Elsweyr, else he would kill them next he saw them. When notified, Abnur noted that Mulaamnir feared them, and otherwise would not have deigned to speak with them.^[7] Using this info, Abnur and the Vestige attempted to convince Euraxia to call off her alliance, but she refused to believe them, saying that she and Mulaamnir shared a special relationship.^[8] Mulaamnir later arrived with Kaalgrontiid and Bahlokdaan during the Siege of Riverhold, flying off just before Bahlokdaan was killed. In order to agree to further cooperation, the dragons told the Euraxians that they had to eliminate the last of the Dragonguard in Dov-Vahl Shrine.^[6]^[9] When the Defense Force retook Rimmen, Mulaamnir was quick to cross Euraxia as she was no longer a use to them, and was left without their aid against the Dominion forces and the Vestige. The turn of evens resulted in her death and the return of Rimmen to Khajiit control, and Zumog Phoom's necromancers swearing fealty only to the dragons. With the Euraxians now without a leader, they allied themselves with the dragons in fear of their wrath.

Mulaamnir is empowered by Kaalgrontiid's lunar energy atop Jode's Core

As the Defense Force continued to try and thwart the dragons, Mulaamnir traveled to Shadow Dance Temple to finish them off before Khamira could attune herself to the Moon Gate, but was tricked by Abnur Tharn's illusion magic and flew off. During the battle for the Moon Gate, Mulaamnir and Kaalgrontiid flew through the gate and arrived on the Plane of Jode. Mulaamnir repeatedly held off Tharn, Khamira, and the Vestige while Kaalgrontiid fed on Jode's Core. Empowered by lunar energy given to him by Kaalgrontiid, he fought the Vestige who, through the use of the Anequina Dragonhorn, Khamira's lunar powers, and Abnur Tharn's warding magic, was able to kill him. The battle lasted long enough for Kaalgrontiid to absorb a dangerous amount of the Core's power, but was ejected from the Plane through the final use of the Anequina Dragonhorn.^[10]

The significance of Mulaamnir allowed him to be documented within the Infinite Archive in Apocrypha. There, copies of various entities were subsequently created as maligraphies, creatures composed of vivified ink manifested by stories from books, and served as mindless extensions of the Daedric Lord Tho'at Replicanum. A maligraphy copy of Mulaamnir was formed, which was destroyed by an adventurer or two who were aided by augmentations directly from Hermaeus Mora.^[11]^[12]^[13]