#volgash

[stormbeyondreality]

OC Tag Game

tagged by @nuwanders some time ago, but I was going through my drafts and now I have more ocs to work with for this!

rules: sort your OCs into the below categories and (optionally) make them in this picrew. 

tagging: @oblivions-dawn, @avantegarda, @nerevar-quote-and-star, @fallen-chances, @thediamondcityradio, and whoever else would like to!

I'm only doing my TES ocs, because if I included other fandoms and my original works I'd have too many to pick from.

Favourite OC.

Erlind Ebonsong, formerly and at least still in High Rock officially, known as Erlind Madieve, child of Lisende and Antoc Madieve, younger sibling to Coran and elder sibling to Alesinne and Wylin. Dragonborn, Companion, bard, relic hunter, and spellsword. I'm not entirely sure when I made them, but I love them dearly and absolutely both send them through a meat tenderizer and want the happiest ending for them.

2. Newest OC.

Nathari, Queen of the Reach, daughter of Jarl Igmund and his father-disapproved Reachfolk lover Esana. She's close behind Erlind on the favourite oc list, tbh, and is the one I made to satisfy my interest for messing with Skyrim's politics. She's got her fingers in a lot of pies despite only sticking within the Reach for the overwhelming most part. She's a little younger than Erlind chronologically, and was about seven when the Markarth Incident happened and her mother fled to the hills with her. (And Jarl Hrolfdir told Igmund that Esana and Nathari were killed by other Reachfolk 'as traitors' in the chaos.)

3. Oldest OC.

Vezha is the oldest out of my current TES OCs, I should specify. Both irl and chronologically, actually since he's the father of one of my others. I'm not sure when I made his original version, but he was afab and genderfluid at one point, with purple tattoos, and he was part of my previous set of story-based OCs. I don't think I ever landed on a questline for him to be the protag of, however. What I know for certain is that I liked the plot hook of his backstory notes, so I adapted him to fit into my current set and since then he's undergone some other changes as well. (For instance, he used to be Volgash's uncle and not her father, which I've kept in that because of his amnesia and context clues he thinks he's her uncle for a while.)

4. Meanest OC.

Larus. This picrew makes him look so dang young, but also if I recall my timeline correctly he is one of the younger ones in the batch. Raised in a bandit camp that really screwed up his perception of other people's worth to each other, then spent a bunch of years with a vampire den, then joined the Dark Brotherhood. He is a vampire, I just based this picrew off of his in-game preset that I haven't updated yet. He's an ass unless he wants something from you, and even then he'll still probably be an ass, just more of a subtle one.

5. Softest OC.

Okay, so this was a hard choice, considering Erlind's a devotee of Mara and makes a point of being kind to everybody that they can. However, I think this one has to go to Volgash, Vezha's daughter. She's the baby of the group, had the best childhood on a whole even considering her dad's amnesia, and until Plot Stuff starts happening at Sarthaal, she's sailing by nicely. Volgash is maybe not the nicest of my ocs, but niceties are fickle anyway and that role would change on a daily basis depending on if Larus or Janora or Nathari wanted something from someone.

6. Most Aloof/Standoffish OC.

So I think at this point I'm only missing Janora, but alas, here we get a double-Larus, with Nathari and Erlind coming up several paces behind for their own reasons. Larus was taught to believe as a kid that nobody has any worth except for how they can be useful to someone else, and that continues on into his adulthood even after the vampire den were...well, I haven't done much development of him, but at least the vampires were nicer about that.

7. Dumbest (Affectionate) OC.

This was a hard one, because a lot of my OCs are smart, and similarly they've all got elements of complete idiot, as most people do. However, I'm gonna give this to Erlind, because they're very, very, very emotionally oblivious. I don't call the romance in the fic a 'glacial slowburn' for nothing.

8. Smartest OC.

So...she may have gotten caught at Helgen, and whatever it was she did to make the Cyrodiil Thieves Guild send her to Skyrim, but Janora is very good at what she does. She can read people very well, which is only compounded by the excellent education she got before the events that caused her to join the Thieves Guild. She's extremely logical and pragmatic, which makes her a bit slow in action, but when she does something - for the most part - it's because she's thought it through first.

9. OC I would be best friends with.

So. We're going Erlind here because for one thing they're the one I know most about, but also they're the most of these OCs like me, and I think we'd enjoy rambling back and forth at each other and commiserating on having epic mothers and wonderful not-each-other best friends.

[yewphoric]

OC fact exchange!

Volgash knows that Vezha's her father, but he thinks he's her uncle because he lost the memories of meeting her mother and wasn't there when her mother brought her to Dushnikh Yal. I'm not entirely sure why Volgash or anybody else just lets Vezha assume that he's her uncle and not her dad, but they do (for now).

Do any of your OCs have some weird family situations?

TOTALLY didn't forget this was in my inbox, forgive me--

That is a funky family situation!! Poor Vezha, I hope the guy can get it figured out soon!

As for my OCs... hmm. I'm not sure anything I've got quite reaches that level of weird, but I can go over the connection I think might be the strangest!

So, Mazourkh (my Hero of Kvatch) was the result of an affair between an altmer noble and an orsimer blacksmith, who, at the time, had been employed by the family to make and upkeep their armor for them. The noble was ashamed of his 'mistake', and refused to allow this secret to get out, so he fired her and cast her out. So, Mazourkh was born in Leyawiin and had no idea (for a very long time at least, or maybe she'll never know) who her father was or his social standing.

It's a pretty standard story, but it gets weird when I reveal that her father was Anthaer Oesis. He later wed and had "proper" children, one of which defied the Thalmor and the Third Aldmeri Dominion and fled to Skyrim, having children there.....

Which makes Sheogorath Jenais' aunt!

Not that he knows that (he probably never will), but it's a funny connection to me.

[critter-in-skyrim]

OC fact exchange: Erlind, Nathari, and Vezha (and Volgash by extension 'cause she's Vezha's daughter) can all very feasibly fit on the same family tree. None of them are aware of this.

For some reason, none of my OC's have too many relatives, so I genuinely don't know what their family trees would look like (ironic, since I work on strangers' family trees all day at work).

I DO know that my OC Louis has a twin sister! She is my friend's OC Annie. Louis also has a grandmother "Oma" that is still alive.

My OC Ben also has brothers, but they are more of a "found family" situation. Connor, James, and Luke are their names! Kitschicritter, or Critter for short (my self insert lol) has a brother in Skyrim. Some of you may have met him, even. Cosnach from Markarth? Yeah... that's him. I have a lot to say about Cosnach if anyone is interested, I have so many headcanons about him...lol

[stormbeyondreality]

Bonus fun Coran fact: when my College of Winterhold questline OC (her name's Volgash and she's baby) starts there, he's going to be there as a guest speaker!

Erlind will also be there, but that's for only-Sarthaal reasons, and they won't have known that Coran will be a guest speaker, which will be fun to write when I get to that point in..............a couple of books.

So the first fact that I wanted to send is technically spoilers and while I'm not the kind of person to really care about spoilers, I also think this particular one is fun to keep as a surprise until I reveal it in-fic, so instead! Erlind is very good at magic, specifically Alteration and Restoration, but their elder brother Coran is even better such that at around the end of book 2 of my fic he's basically made bags of holding. He gives them one as an induction present when they finish studying at the Bards' College, and they might end up reverse engineering it to have different pouches and stuff, because Erlind very much likes organising things!

OOOHHHH thats really cool!!! i wish i had a bag of holding in skyrim because i cannot play without being a loot goblin. can he share pls lmfao

fact for fact: rildras sleeps with dagoth ur's mask beneath his bed. it's kept beside his indoril helm so that he and nerevar can be together again.

[stormbeyondreality]

So I'm making a new oc (ansu-gurleht is in fact the first person on here to hear about them 'cause they made a post asking about Redguard OCs) and now I'm wondering if I should make 'proper' OC introduction posts

just for the fun of it

and because I was going to make a custom lil page for them like I've got for my fics and I forgot to

[stormbeyondreality]

Inspired by my dear friend Senu Oblivions-dawn, (go ask them about her ocs!) have a list and an invitation! I present, the Primary "Questline"* Characters of Ebonsong:

Erlind Madieve - Breton Werewolf, they/she/he - Dovahkiin, Harbinger, Guildmaster of the Explorer's Society, Thane of Whiterun and Haafingar

Nathari - Reachfolk Werewolf, she/her - Thane of Markarth with aspirations to be Jarl

Vezha Gro-Dushnikh - Orsimer, any but defaults to he/him - Vampire Hunter, ex-Legionnaire, possible future Thane of Hjaalmarch?

Janora Viario - Bosmer, she/they - Master of the Thieves Guild, Nightingale, possible Thane of the Rift

Larus - Nord Vampire, he/him - Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, ex-bandit

Volgash Gra-Dushnikh - Orsimer, she/her - Student of the College of Winterhold, possible future Arch-Mage (in several years)?

And just for fun, have my Dragonborn from my other 'instance':

Kaivis - Orsimer, any but defaults to she/her - Dovahkiin, Legionnaire, Mercenary, ex-Court Mage of Chorrol

I have the most information currently about the first three, and about Erlind leaps and bounds more than any of the others 'cause they're the main protagonist.

*Nathari is not tied to any particular guild questline or anything, but she's also more involved in the main story than any of the others aside from Erlind so that's good enough.

[stormbeyondreality]

For the WIP meme, may I request "The Notes Between The Verses", sounds quite fascinating!

Also hope you are doing okay c:

I'm doing fairly chill; how're you?

The Notes Between the Verses is an upcoming little mini...series? I suppose?...of things that happen during the course of Ebonsong that for whatever reason I am not able to fit into the main story. For instance! Things that happen before Erlind gets shipwrecked! And shenanigans at the College of Winterhold! and so on and so forth.

TNBV will include things from other questline characters such as Larus, Nathari, and Vezha if there's something from them that fits the criteria - a possible instance would be a little thing of Vezha meeting Volgash's mom when they're in the Legion together.

[stormbeyondreality]

Double Speak OC Tag Game

Tagged by: @late-nite-scholar

Tagging: @maldov, @oblivions-dawn, @fallen-chances, @snowberry-crostata, and you! (if you want)

(No pressure!)

I'm just doing my Dragonborn Erlind for this one, though one of these days I really should put this kind of thought into my non-Dragonborn characters in the same continuity, ie. my Listener Larus, my Nightingale Janora, and my Mage Volgash.

1. What do they say they want? (i.e., what are the desires they put out into the world and have no trouble admitting)

It depends on who Erlind is saying it to and when. For most people, though, they'll probably say something about a good nap, a bowl of soup, a mug of mead, and a quiet evening.

2. What do they think they want? (i.e., what are the desires they keep hidden and only admit to their closest loved ones)

To the select people they consider close enough, Erlind will admit that they want someone who sees and loves them for who they are and not the mask they put on.

3. What do they actually want? (i.e., what is something they subconsciously need, but either do not realize or cannot admit it)

This question was the hardest, but after some thought...the thing Erlind truly wants, that they cannot say because they don't realise it just yet, is to love themself for who they are.