The Wailways of Old Cyrod, A Text By Scholar Medeliu Hammar

Of all the grandeur projects of the Reman Dynasty, perhaps none are more forgotten than the wailway endeavours of the early Colovian barons. It's easy to see why history only pays them a passing glance of course, as alongside such splendor as the mananauts and Secundan colonization efforts the wailways are fairly mundane. Still, the establishment of the wailways, and fails of such, show an important side of the Cyrodiil under Reman.

The concept of using rails and carts to transport goods and people had already existed at the time, mostly seen in the mining industries that existed at the time. However, it was only under the grace of Calonius Attecus, Lanius Attecus, and Armando Attecus (the fabled "Three Triplets of Sutch"), were these concepts applied to the outside world. Myth holds that the three had fell drunkenly down a mineshaft, into one of the carts, which proceed to roll them to the entrance mostly unscathed.

From here, the three developed the idea of a large scale version of such a system, with some variation. Iron rail was to be placed by a series of hyperaurbic pylons, which would be followed by a so-called "serpent engine", a complex magimechanical device capable which would melt frost salts, the magickal release of which would generate enough force to move the engine, pulling along any carts, and generating steam as a byproduct. Appealing to their father, a well established Baron of Sutch, as well as other benefactors, including (supposedly) Reman himself, the triplets endeavored to establish or otherwise sell the idea of several wailway lines, including ones stretching as far as Pyandonea. In the next twelve years, laborers would endeavor to set up two basic lines, the Sans-Mundic, and the High Cyrod.

Unfortunately, the project failed for the sheer lack of public interest. The death of Kurtha-khul, the sole funder of the Sans-Mundic Line, left one half of the triplet's business in shambles before it was even completed. The High Cyrod on the other hand, opened to general suspicious. With the turning of mechanisms, and the frightening blasts of steam, the wailway appeared to possible passengers as some retooled dwemer artifact, and suspicious outweighed curiosity. The wailway simply ran out of money, with the Attecus triplets in a debt they would struggle to pay. In the end, the pylons would be removed and sold, and all but one of the serpent engines destroyed. The sole survivor, the SAC Flying Colovian, would be displayed in the back corner of the Imperial Museum, until it would be gifted as a peace offering to an unsually eager Sotha Sil, during the establishment of the Septim dynasty. Its current location is believed to be somewhere in the Telvanni lands, studied or laughed at by eastern scholars.