I'm under the impression that we only recently escaped captivity... unless we're playing it like we've been together a while after escaping and have acquired some fresh equipment since being stripped and strapped.

Also, I don't think destruction magic 'can' be 'silent' XD

And he recently tated that he was calling for new characters to be of one of the human races, since there's already 2 planned Elves and an Argonian XD but who knows, he may accept it anyway :D