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夜莺：是真是假？
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夜莺：是真是假？
只要你对任何有点本事的小偷提起“夜莺”的时候，他都会当着你的面大笑。他会告诉你魔族君主诺克图娜尔手下被信以为真的复仇者只是一些虚构的角色，他们只存在于故事里，专门用来吓那些拦路贼新手，让他们听指挥。但他们真的是虚构出来的吗？或者只是理解上有误？
不少学者们对这个神圣的组织，实际上就存在于道德败坏、无组织纪律的盗贼公会之中这一点嗤之以鼻，但有证据表明，这样一个组织曾经在天际边界出现过。在这本书出版的一百二十年前，人们发现了一具穿着奇怪护甲的尸体，那护甲被描述为“午夜锻造”破烂的护甲上有某个纹章，纹章上有个鸟围着个圆圈的标志，圈里只有看不清细节的黑暗。剩下的部分和护甲都被带到了冬堡学院进行研究，但在东西在抵达的第二天就神秘地消失了。
这件护甲上的纹章在天际内流转了许多年，但对它的鉴定被证明几乎是不可能的。然后出现了个最不可靠的信息来源，一个原本在马卡斯城矿井关禁闭的犯人声称这东西是一群自称夜莺的盗贼群体身份的标识。在逼问下，犯人说夜莺是诺克图娜尔的勇士，毫无质疑地执行她的命令。他声称他的信息来源是一个在天际盗贼公会里面的人，但他拒绝说出他们的名字，所以他的故事很快被人遗忘了。
第二份证据指向夜莺直到现在还存在的证据，他们就在裂谷城外面。它是在主干道旁的一条短径的尽头发现的，那是一块无法辨别的黑色材料的界碑。上面刻着一种鸟类标志，跟在先前的黑色护甲上发现标识一样。对那些承认夜莺的存在的人来说，这是某种会议地点。而对于其他人，这个标识又被当成个恶作剧被遗忘了，或者只是盗贼公会做的一个消遣物。
最后的，但也最具争议的一份证据位于白漫城牢房墙内发现的一段潦草的文字。这间牢房先前关着一个叫做洛瑟斯的丹莫人，他因谋杀被关了进来，后来被处决了。处决完后，卫兵查看了洛瑟斯的牢房，在一块石砖上发现了一段刻上去的字：
“诺克图娜尔女士，握住我的手吧，因为我是自愿为您服务的。作为一名夜莺，我获得了重生。让我的过去回荡在我们的胜利中吧”
这是第一次也是唯一一次发现了诺克图娜尔和夜莺之间存在着可靠的联系。这个职业罪犯所写的这段文字不同寻常的本质，还有这段有关诺克图娜尔的话的言外之意，让人们对这个组织实际存在的可能性展开了讨论，一直持续了很多年。可悲的是，由于直到目前为止还是没有发现这份证据之外的任一证据，这个惊人的发现慢慢淡出了人们的视线，关于它的讨论也慢慢平息下来。
由于证据的不足，所以很难下定论。留给我们的，除了答案之外更多的是疑问。宗教和偷盗能共存吗？魔族君主诺克图娜真有目的邪恶的手下在天际内活动吗？盗贼公会真的对夜莺有广泛的了解，却依然守口如瓶吗？也许某天这些问题的答案会揭晓，但现在这个责任落在了你们的肩上，读者们，由你们来决定夜莺到底是真实存在的呢，还是它只存在于这本小说中。
The Nightingales:
Fact or Fiction?
Nightingales: Fact or Fiction?
Mention the "Nightingale" to any thief worth his salt and he'll laugh in your face. He'll tell you that the supposed avengers of the Daedric Lord Nocturnal are nothing but fictional characters who live nowhere else but within tales designed to scare young footpads into doing what they're told. But are they fictional or simply misunderstood?
While it's true that most scholars would scoff at the notion of a holy sect appearing within the normally unethical and unorganized rabble that is the Thieves Guild, evidence suggests that such a group existed at one time within the borders of Skyrim. One hundred and twenty years before the publication of this tome, a corpse was discovered wearing a strange suit of armor that was described as "forged midnight." The tattered armor bore a crest of some sort, the symbol of a bird embracing a circle of undetailed blackness. The remains and the armor was taken to the College of Winterhold for study, but mysteriously vanished only a day after it arrived.
The crest from this armor was circulated around Skyrim for years but identification proved almost impossible. Then the most unlikely of sources, a prisoner incarcerated within the mines of Markarth, claimed that it was the mark of a group of thieves who called themselves the Nightingales. When pressed for more information, the prisoner claimed that the Nightingales were warriors of Nocturnal and performed her bidding without question. He claimed his source was someone he knew within the Thieves Guild of Skyrim, but he refused to identify them by name, so his story was quickly dismissed.
The second piece of evidence pointing to the existence of the Nightingales exists to this day just outside of Riften. Discovered at the terminus of a short pathway off of the main road stands a stone of unidentified blackened material. Carved into its face is the same avian symbol previously found on the dark suit of armor. To those that subscribed to the existence of the Nightingales, this was thought to be some sort of a meeting place. To others, this symbol was once again dismissed as a hoax or simply a diversion created by the Thieves Guild.
The final, and most controversial sample of evidence is a passage found scrawled on the inside of a cell wall in Whiterun. The cell had previously been occupied by a Dunmer named Lorthus was incarcerated for murder and was set for execution. After the deed was performed, and Lorthus's cell was examined, the following was found etched into one of the stone blocks:
"Take my hand Lady Nocturnal, for it's my will to serve you. As a Nightingale, I'm born anew. Let my past echo our triumph."
This is the first and only time that a solid connection between Nocturnal and the Nightingale has been made. The unusual nature of the passage, the religious connotations towards Nocturnal made by a career criminal, kept discussions lively for years regarding the possibility of this group actually existing. Sadly, since not a single piece of evidence beyond this has surfaced to date, this exciting discovery faded into obscurity and the debate subsided.
With these scant samples of evidence, conclusions are difficult to formulate. All we're left with are more questions than answers. Can religion and thievery coexist? Does the Daedric Lord Nocturnal have active agents roaming Skyrim with a no-doubt nefarious purpose? Does the Thieves Guild have extensive knowledge of the Nightingales, but remain sworn to secrecy? Perhaps one day the answers to these questions will be revealed, but at present it falls to you, the reader, to decide whether the Nightingales are fact or merely fiction.
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