I...built an airship, you see. Quite a...quite a...um...beautiful craft, if I may be so...bold. Some scavenged Dwemer equip...um...parts, a few, you know...ahh...long-lasting levitation spells. Very clever...a capital idea, I know! Even hired a gang of...well, a crew I guess you'd call them. They were to fly far...to the north! Away from all this dust...to Solstheim! I paid them...paid them rather well. They were to locate Hrothmund's Barrow, and find a certain...um...item.

Oh, %PCName, the ship...well, airship...is so very beautiful. The best...most ambitious thing...that is to say...it was my, well...pet project. And it flew...so very well! Well...um...it flew, and I...um..I guess that was good enough...hmmm....