Vignar Gray-Mane

Tragic, of course.

But, well. Fires go out. Others ignite. Skjor inspired many with his life. Perhaps his death can continue to inspire.

My advice? Don't overthink it. Fight well and the rest takes care of itself.

When you get to be my age, you don't remember why you did much of anything.

Only that it happened.

They used to be something. Nowadays they just squabble amongst themselves.

Take my advice and keep away. You look too smart to get caught up with this bunch.

Aye, with a certainty.

It was Talos that helped us win back the city. I'm as sure of that as the sun rising in the morning.

Might even build a new temple and put Heimskr in charge of it. Hah! I bet he'd like that.

Well, first an' foremost there's repairs to make an' wounds to heal. Folks are depending on us getting the city back in working order.

Once things settle down, I'll be lookin' to recruit more guards for the city, then shore up our stores of food an' water.

The Empire might try an take the city back, or worse, we'll get a visit from a dragon. We've got to be ready for both.

Aye, we used to be fast friends, though it was long ago.

We were two of the city's oldest an' most-respected clans, an' we could trace our histories all the way back to Ysgramor's companions.

But then Olfrid got rich an' decided he an his kin were too good for us simple, backwards Nord folk.

When the troubles began, he took the Empire's side. We haven't spoken much since then.

Aye, they're an old clan like ours, but they cast their lot with the Empire when the uprising began.

Olfrid Battle-Born made his money from farming, an' got himself some new friends among the Empire's nobles.

Now he's in the Emperor's pocket like the rest of 'em, with no regard for honor an' tradition.

We've got an old saying -- the Gray-Manes have lived in Whiterun since the first snows fell in Skyrim.

Well, maybe that's not entirely true, but our clan's got a long an' proud history in this hold.

We respect the old ways, the Nord ways, an' a Gray-Mane has worked the Skyforge since before the time of my grandfather's father.