#only the two droris are blood related

[dawnguard-dumbass]

i purposefully wrote drori the 1st and skyrim drori to be similar bc they're distant relatives but i had the sudden thought that wouldn't it be so cool if my three Vestiges were matches to my three Dragonborns?

Drori Oreles the First is obviously related to Drori Oreles of the 4th era, she's even named after this distant relative of hers. Drori the 1st starts the family trend of joining the Morag Tong. They both lost their lovers to unfortunate circumstances, the difference being Drori the 1st never gets over Veya and other Drori does learn to love again.

In a way Ciielyn can be traced to J'rrdna, as J'rrdna's best friend Irwaas is her distant relative. Narrative-wise they both struggle with familial identity as Ciielyn is kicked out of her home in her teens and J'rrdna was abandoned as an infant. They even both find their home within the Thieves Guild eventually. Their difference being Ciielyn was an assassin first and never again feels truly alive once she stops killing, but accepts that feeling like she has a home is worth sacrificing that for. J'rrdna, on the other hand, is reckless and wild and promises her soul to nearly every Daedric Prince in the hopes of feeling like she truly belongs. She only sobers up when her adopted sister dies young, leaving behind a niece and nephew with no family other than J'rrdna to raise.

And the last connection would be Zwo'ro and Kirsen, although I'm not sure how to connect them yet. Zwo turns her back on the others and joins rank with Namiira which means she becomes a part of the Dro-m'athra. Without any children and her soul forever corrupted in servitude to a Daedric Prince, I'm not sure how they'd end up connected. Perhaps just in their stories; Zwo was lawful good and did everything to be an upstanding person, but the problems with being a Vestige and everything else became too much. She was slowly broken over time. Kirsen's story arc is wholly about her being a good person still, despite who her father was and despite being a lycanthrope and despite every hurdle of hers that makes it hard. Zwo would make a good cautionary tale in that sense, the Khajiit who made being Good so ingrained in her being that when she did have to make bad choices, it destroyed her.