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Nerevar is the legendary Hortator and King of the Chimer from the fantasy world The Elder Scrolls.

With the aid of the Daedric Princess Azura, he rose to power over the Chimer by overthrowing the Nords.

Technically, he is not necessarily a Dark Elf in the game, depending on the player's race, but he is the reincarnation of the Chimer Nerevar Indoril.

Inspectre Ho vis hooked a finger into his watch-chain and drew out his 'Regal Chimer', the very chiming pocket-watch featured in Pooley's favourite Western.

University boys, clerks' sons, the adventurous rich and aspirational young men like Judah, Dog Fenn and Chimer apprentices bored by their work, fired by children's stories and travelogues.

All around the city, from Flag Hill in the north to Barrackham below the river, from the desultory suburbs of Badside in the east to the rude industrial slums of Chimer, people thrashed and moaned in their beds.

The chimer in the corner thrust its puzzle crown above the outwall and trapped late-afternoon sunrays in yellow-green crystals that sang loudly enough to cut through the noise of the shearing sheds down past the Ubend where the creek met the river.

Off to the north there was a long uninterrupted line of sight over to the middle class suburbs of Serpolet and Gallmarch, the militia tower of St. Jabber's Mound, the raised tracks of the Verso Line cutting through Creekside and Chimer.

The Mayor's city was full of those who took the Collective's side: in Chimer, in the industrial fringe of Lichford, areas under martial law but from which guilders, seditionists and the curious sometimes made their way into Dog Fenn or Creekside, begging entry.