#where I get this quest pass out and end up back in markarth

[beckiboos]

I have two questions regarding your Skyrim OC Calliope if that's alright. (Super new to Tumblr so idk the etiquette yet, sorry!)

1. You have a screenshot with earmuffs on with her and they are so adorable, which mod are they from? I so need them in my game too!

2. Do you have a backstory for your OC? I tried to use Tumblr search function to find out more but it hasn't helped me turn of a post of yours and it's kinda confusing

Anyway thanks for your time!

Awww thank you and welcome to tumblr! Always happy to answer asks that's what its there for. Firstly earmuffs! Lots of items and lots of colours

Secondly I don't have a backstory post so that's why you couldn't find it so I guess this will be it! Lol no one has asked her backstory before so this has been all in my head until now

Calliope is a breton born and raised in High Rock. Second child of a minor noble family, her elder brother stood to inherit the family estate and she from a young age wanted to study magic. She and her brother didn't get along very much and they played awful pranks on each other. Her mother and father were ambitious types but focused all their attention on their son. They let Calliope study magic to keep her quiet and thought a talent for magic and good education will get attention at court and she will attract a advantageous marriage to further their ambitions.

Calliope when she came of age then studied with the court wizard and worked her up until she got the rank of apprentice at around 26. However this is where her families plan sort of fall apart. During a masquerade Calliope caught the eye of a new handsome courtier she didn't recognise and had a passionate one night stand with him. Unfortunately for her he didn't disclose the fact that he was married and they are caught by his wife. His wife demands to her family she be removed from court or she reveals the whole scandal to the court and her families reputation will be ruined.

So her family thinks its best for Calliope to leave High Rock until the scandal blows over and continue her magical training. She is sent to the College of Winterhold in Skyrim. Her aunt Collette organises a place for her there and that's where I start my game. The cherry on top of it all is the slighted wife of her tryst heard she was going to Skyrim and just for good measure put a 1000 gold bounty on her in every hold in hopes she'll get killed by bounty hunters or get arrested.

How she meets Taliesin from that location is because when doing a training exercise for Arniel (in Immesive College of Winterhold mod) where she has to dive in freezing cold waters to fetch a crystal. She is quite sensitive to the cold and she passes out returning to the college from the ocean (frostfall) and a mysterious "Rider" picks her up and leaves a note on her saying they took her with them and dropped her off at their destination. They took no payment only hoped that she would surive and maybe show the same kindness one day to a stranger who needs it. She wakes up in an inn in MARKARTH (worst city EVER) so with no money and no equipment she has to walk back to the college avoiding guards and bounty hunters and the wilds of Skyrim. Going past Falkreath she meets Auri and Lucien and while heading back to the college via Whiterun (for some jobs for gold and gather supplies to survive the cold) She meets an insane sounding Thalmor surrounded by bodies covered in blood bleeding out and delirious. Remembering the note and pay that kindness forward, she decides to save his life and that's pretty much where I started posting a lot of screens of Tally and Calliope. I love them and am having lots of with playing their story.

Ohhh that was long sorry 😂 The Dealing with backstories mod helped me a lot setting up this backstory for her, its a very fun mod with consequences in your game and for your character. I do recommend that it's become a staple starting new games and characters for me. Hope this wasn't too long. I'll tag it long post anyway

[ms-katonic-of-tamriel]

Harry Potter as the Dragonborn

I don’t really want to write this because JK Rowling is... *handwaves*.  But I got bunnied for it.

Starts at end of GoF because that’s right before the entire series goes to shit.  Harry sees Cedric killed and is convinced he’s going to be next, and then time stops and this mysterious glowing woman who introduces herself as Mara tells him to follow her if he wants to live.  So he does, and she takes him to Skyrim, telling him he will be safer here than he ever was at Hogwarts.  He finds himself on the side of the road in the Jeralls, freezing in his school uniform, and then the Legion pass by.

And here the defining theme of the story becomes clear, namely that Skyrim is messed up in a lot of ways, but one thing everyone with any honour is agreed on is that children should not be fighting.  And Harry was always small for his age, is 14, about to turn 15 in a month or so, and does not remotely look like a grown-up.  Meaning the Legion take one look and instead of flinging him on the cart with the prisoners are all ‘how old are you? where are your parents? what are you doing out here??’  On hearing the answers are ‘14, they’re dead, I don’t know where I am’, Harry ends up riding behind Hadvar on his horse, and sent into the guard tower while the beheadings happen.  Hadvar explains about the war and the Stormcloaks and Empire, and after hearing the Stormcloaks don’t just want the Thalmor out of Skyrim, they ultimately want everyone who isn’t a Nord out of Skyrim, Harry, who just spent his entire childhood listening to Vernon ranting about immigrants and dropping ethnic slurs after a few drinks, and then getting to Hogwarts and having to deal with Malfoy on a daily basis and Voldemort on an existential one decides against ever joining them.  And then the dragon arrives.

The entire theme is Harry turning up as a fourteen year old, and every single adult with honour and morals just stopping to ask if he’s all right.  The main quest gets very interesting indeed, but he’s not alone because Harry will meet Lucien Flavius early, the two of them hit it off because Lucien reminds Harry of Hermione, is more than happy to be de facto adult to stop Harry getting shipped off to the orphanage while simultaneously letting Harry lead the way, and has both knowledge of this world and money, neither of which Harry really has to start with.  We could even add Inigo or Kaidan as someone who can actually fight - Kaidan easier to introduce than Inigo. Maybe Inigo leaves his cell to track Harry down, although even Inigo has to admit Harry wasn’t the one he shot.

Arngeir and the Greybeards are sympathetic but agree the dragon blood makes you restless and can’t be contained for long, only guided, and it is their duty to guide a Dragonborn - they do give him the horn retrieval quest but advise him to enlist help.  Delphine is all ‘are you kidding me?? They gave the dragon blood to a kid? Well, I suppose we can’t be choosy. Your friends can fight, right?  We’re killing a dragon.  You can stay out of the way.  When it dies, you can take its soul.’ Harry dislikes her on sight.

A trip to Markarth results in Harry getting arrested, and on confronting Madanach without a wand, Madanach takes one look and is all ‘wait, how old are you??’ and promptly rethinks his entire approach. And then he gets a look at the scar and is all ‘er... do you realise you have a fragment of someone else’s soul in that thing?’ Harry did not realise that but it dawns on him that it makes so much sense.  “Voldemort left part of his soul inside me??”

“It, er, would seem so.  Who’s Voldemort?” Harry will never get used to a world where people have never heard of Voldemort.

“He’s an evil wizard from back home. He killed my parents and gave me this scar - except the curse backfired and killed him.  I’m not sure why, but maybe left his soul in me?  Can you fix it?”

“Sadly no... but I bet my sister could. All right. Listen. Never mind our previous disagreement.  Neither of us want to die in this prison, right?  I’m going to destroy all these confidential documents, then you’re going to wait here while I take care of business. And then we’re getting out of here, and we’re visiting my sister and she will sort out your little soul problem.”

Cue an escape that is less violent than it could have been what with Madanach staying by Harry the whole time and shielding him, and once Harry gets his gear back, he’s calling Lucien on the resonant sphere, and soon his mates are there as well, all of them hanging out at Hag’s End looking around very uncomfortably. That doesn’t change when they meet Keirine either but there’s too many Forsworn around for combat to be an option. Fortunately Keirine is as good as her brother’s word and is able to soul-trap the fragment out and heal Harry’s scar up.  It’s still there but a lot fainter and Harry feels lighter for having done it and realises this lot can’t be all bad.  Keirine and Madanach invite them all to stay as guests, and Madanach asks more about Voldemort, eventually getting the entire story off Harry, plus all sorts of things about the wizarding world in general. Why, Harry isn’t sure... until a few weeks later when Madanach sends him a letter to visit and Harry arrives to be introduced to Madanach’s youngest daughter Eola and her new boyfriend Cicero, who are going to go on a mission to the wizarding world and track down this Voldemort guy for you, Harry. What, you thought stopping him was all down to you.  Kid, you’re very talented but you were completely reliant on that twig to even cast a spell until you landed here, and you’re fourteen.  Killing evil liches is not a job for a kid but these two are old hands.  (Cicero at this point squeals ‘stabbing!’ and Harry decides to leave them to it.)

Cue sideplot where Cicero and Eola go to Hogwarts, intercept Umbridge who arrives at the same time,  kill her and steal her paperwork which is easily forged so it’s got Eola’s name instead of Umbridge’s, and Professor Eola Umbridge is all set to infiltrate with her teaching assistant Cicero.  No one is really fooled by Eola’s accent or by her claim to be Canadian, but seeing as they were expecting a Ministry plant and are getting a competent combat teacher instead, no one is actually complaining.  Because Cicero and Eola are actually competent, three books get condensed into one year as Dumbledore finds out Harry’s not a Horcrux anymore and these two can track down the others easily enough and Eola can soul-trap them safely thanks to the ritual Keirine taught her.  Bonus DADA lesson involving Eola stressing the need to cope without your wand and not to underestimate non-mages and Mr Malfoy, would you like to help with a demonstration. Just cast a spell at Cicero, anything you like.  Needless to say, Cicero dodges it, drops and forward rolls, tackles Malfoy, gets the wand off him and pins him down in a headlock with a knife at his throat in about ten seconds. Draco is shrieking like a baby but the rest of the class is delighted. This particular plotline ends up with Harry being invited to Madanach’s again a year later only to see Voldemort’s head on a wall and Madanach proudly asking if that was him. Harry’s not sure how to react but yes, it is.  Eola’s got letters from Ron and Hermione too, who she ended up working with after they kept trying to foil her evil plans *eyeroll* seriously Harry, what is it with you people and expecting teenagers to hunt down dangerous lich lords.

“Look, I’m literally having to hunt dragons because no one else can kill them permanently.”

“Only because no one else can do that soul-taking thing on them.  If a competent adult could do that, they’ll be retiring you, kid.”

Speaking of which!  Solstheim is horrifying, Apocrypha worse, but on first meeting Miraak, Miraak gets halfway through “WHO ARE YOU TO-” before stopping and examining Harry closely in silence, before realising that a) Harry’s Dragonborn and b) he’s fifteen. Which is young even by Atmoran standards. Cue a few questions from Miraak who listens carefully and hums to himself before telling Harry that as a gesture of good faith Harry’s friends will be released from the mind control, and that Harry should return to Raven Rock and wait for a week, not opening the book again. Miraak needs to research something first.  “But if you see everyone released from their labour early, I have found what I was after and you may return to speak with me again.”

“What- what are you after?”

“I wish to know about the potency of dragon blood.  Mora knows my own and has bound it to his realm.  But he doesn’t know yours at all.  Lend me a little of yours and I can be free without needing the shrines.”

“What are you going to do when you’re free?”

“I don’t know,” Miraak chuckles.  “Perhaps I shall rule all Solstheim again.  Or perhaps I shall investigate that little civil war over on the mainland. Or perhaps I shall deal with the World-Eater who I hear is troubling Keizaal once more.  Forgive me, krosis, but I do not think it is a fitting job for a fifteen year old boy.”

“I’m not scared of Alduin!”

“Niid?  You should be.  Regardless, I can sense your strength as Dovahkiin.  It is not enough.  They are not training you properly.  Do you even know the full fire breath shout?  No. You do not.  My immediate path is clear at least.  Alduin has returned.  A Dovahkiin is required to deal with him.  The one Vus has is not going to manage alone.  I will return, train you properly, and then we will fight him together, yes?”

Harry is immediately mistrustful, but on the other hand Madanach has so far proved reliable and he’s heard reports the Reach is quieter these days, less Forsworn attacks. It likely won’t last, but Madanach did cure his scar so there’s that.  Still, Miraak is Dragonborn.  So Harry agrees and Miraak hands the book back to him and tells him to read it again to leave. 

True enough, Lucien emerges from somewhere inside the temple, looking mildly traumatised and far from being shackled to a stone, it turned out he was in a bedroom in the Temple, remembering a voice saying ‘this one is too delicate for manual labour, I shall keep him in my Temple, awaiting my return’.  Lucien is a bit weirded out, and poor oblivious Harry has no idea what’s behind that. Inigo and Kaidan’s raised eyebrows and odd remarks also go right over his head and he has no idea why Lucien’s blushing.

Miraak keeps his word, releases everyone else after three days and Harry visits him again.  A short ritual later, and the First Dragonborn is free, and keeps his word regarding training Harry.  Even if Lucien is blushing constantly and Miraak keeps smiling at him and paying him extravagant compliments and offering to keep him warm.

Meanwhile Sirius and Remus aren’t letting this stand, and the Last Marauders manage to find a way to Tamriel, possibly with insider assistance from Eola.  Sirius and Remus are explicitly boyfriends.  None of this Remus/Tonks rubbish.  The two of them cause chaos all over Tamriel (Night to Remember is involved) until they finally track Harry down and reunite.  Sirius ends up as Harbinger of Jorrvaskr and lives there with Remus, who thanks to Aela, now has control over his beast form, and they both decide Skyrim is a better home than England. 

TL;DR - Alduin is defeated by Miraak and Harry working together, Miraak Bend Wills the Blades into sparing Paarthurnax, and ends up as Archmage of Winterhold, because not even the College is mad enough to put the teenager in charge.  Harry is surprised to see Miraak and Lucien having private conversations with each other, and a few public ones over dinner enthusing over ancient Nordic history, and next thing he knows, Lucien is moving in to the Archmage’s quarters.  It falls to Kaidan to break the news to Harry that same-sex relationships are a thing.  And suddenly Harry has questions about Sirius and Remus too.

Harry splits his time between Jorrvaskr and the College, training in magic and the Thu’um, and determinedly staying out of the politics, even when Lucien discovers a sentient Dwemer ruin, at which point Harry realises Lucien is in fact not normal at all but a deranged little man who just marched an army of Dwemer robots on Windhelm along with Miraak and several mind-controlled dragons.  It did sort the war out, granted, but Harry wishes his friends were, well, normal.

Harry returns to Hogwarts to take OWLs, which he passes with flying colours thanks to all the lessons from Madanach, Keirine, Sirius, Remus and Miraak, and then rejoins for his sixth year.  With no Voldemort, he’s never going back to live with the Dursleys... and for the holidays, Miraak and Lucien pick him up with Sahrotaar and Relonikiv, much to everyone’s horror, apart from Ron who’s very impressed.  There is much posturing between Miraak and Snape, and for that matter Dumbledore, who Miraak loudly greets with ‘ah, so this is the man that thought destroying a dangerous lich was best served by grooming a teenage boy for the job’.  Awkward.

Romances - Ron/Hermione still a thing, but Ginny’s gone off with Luna instead.  Luna’s trans.  So are McGonagall and Snape.  Harry... Harry went vampire hunting with Sirius and Remus, and developed a crush on Serana.  She patted his cheek and said he was very sweet but a bit young.  Harry’s determined to come back when he’s twenty one and sweep her off her feet.  It may work yet.

Lucien’s parents eventually meet Harry and spoil him rotten.  Lucien’s letters apparently won them over before Harry ever set foot there.  Harry’s now got more parental figures than he knows what to do with, what with Lucien as his foster-brother, Inigo and Kaidan as his unofficial brothers, Sirius as his official legal guardian and Remus as official step-guardian, and now Uncle Miraak too, and then there’s Madanach and Keirine who send regular birthday gifts, and occasionally prank gifts to Draco.

Praise be to Sheogorath, the epilogue never happens, and kids with unimaginative names like Albus never grace this earth.

[curechocolattymilk]

Skyrim OC Questionnaire

Saw @jessaryss​ ‘s questionnaire in the tes tag & decided to give it a whirl w my current Dovahkiin!

BASICS

Name: Jeer-Tei Perdes

Race: Argonian

Age: 26-28??

Pronouns: He/They

Eyes: Turquoise-ish

Hair: Red feathers

Skin: black/super dark green?? idk i was playing around w a race menu mod w this lad

Height: 5′7″ - 5′8″ (A bit on the short side for an Argonian)

Weight: 153 LBs

General Physique: Probably average? With a bit of beef since they swing around battleaxes/wear heavy armor

Tattoos, WarPaints & Scars? I’m just plopping down a screenshot bcus i suck at explaining em. Can’t see his scars on this one but they have three long ones over their left(?) eye

Yes I went edgy color scheme with him. No, I have no shame

ABOUT

Dragonborn: YES / NO

Werewolf/Bear or Vampire?: Werewolf time (yet to find a good werecroc mod tho :c)

Occupation: Adventurer, Thief, Listener, Arch-Mage, Harbinger, Mercenary, soon to be Legion solider, all-around bastard

Guild Association(s): TG, DBH, Companions, College of Winterhold & I believe that is it bcus i went back a couple saves in hopes to avoid a CW bug & lost a bit of progress in return oof

Favoured Weapon Class / Type: Two-Handed, Battleaxe

Favoured School of Magic / Type: DESTRUCTION. Tei loves himself some Fire n Lightning. The fire shout is his most used lol

Heavy Armor? Light Armor? Robes?: Heavy Armor

Place of Birth: Unsure still but I’m thinking of having them not have a Hist-connection/not hatching in Black Marsh? Seems like an interesting route but who knows

Place Where They Were Raised: Hammerfell till their teens (Tei was adopted), then they wandered around for a bit w a group b4 landing in Skyrim

Current Location: Since last save? Ivarstead I think

Education / Place of Study: He’s well-read/educated! Mostly learned the smithing trade under his family in Hammerfell, but snuck into a few academic courses during their travels in Cyrodil

Any Teachers / Inspirations? Tei has an elder brother who helped teach him the ropes of adventuring/survival. He helped kickstart the Argonian’s adventure drive.

PERSONAL

Patron Deity (if any): Mora & Hircine I’d say? He doesn’t really worship any of the Nine, though he acknowledges all of them.

Political Alliance (if any): They could care less for the warring factions, but the civil war is starting to inconvenience him, so for the sake of choosing a side & getting it over with, they joined the Empire. (The recruiters were closest & Tei really didn’t want to travel aaalll the way to Windhelm...never really liked the place anyway) Don’t expect him to be extremely loyal/treat them or the Dominion w any respect though lol

Strongest Skills: If going off ones that reached 100: Two-handed, Heavy-Armor, Destruction, Smithing, Speech, Archery

Strengths: Can take a hit physically; Pretty stealthy despite their armor type; Pretty much fearless, will take you head on

Weaknesses: Has piss-poor sense of direction when it comes to Dwemer/Nordic ruins; Pretty much fearless, not much of a danger sense so they can get pretty fucked up; Can’t tank spells that well, despite being Arch-Mage; Doesn’t have an issue following their Draconic or Werebeast nature/Can’t control nightly transformations

Spouses? Flings? Lovers?: Rumarin is their hubby. Though Tei & Ru are discussing among themselves about opening their relationship & adding Kaidan to it, if the warrior comfortable with the idea.

Thaneship (and of where?): Yes; Solitude, Whiterun, Dawnstar, & Falkreath. They’re worming their way into every hold they can though

Most Difficult Quest They’ve Been On? The whole Dragonborn quest was definitely a challenge he completed out of spite for Miraak. However, the Blood of Kings (3DNPC-Slight spoiler warning for the end of this quest? Maybe?) quest fucked w them a bit more mentally. Tei likes to act big & tough but having to acknowledge he’s the only one who went through/remembers all that did mess with them a bit. It’s hard to explain those dreams/nightmares.

Jail Time? So far? Just Cidna Mine because of the Forsworn Quest. Tei is pretty good at not getting caught/using his connections to get away with things.

Largest Bounty Held? I want to say around 5000+? Again, it was Markarth, they did not go down w/o a fight after that false accusation.

How Much Gold Are They Typically Carrying? Too much idk what to spend it on

How Do They Get Gold? Stealing, well-paying jobs, selling treasures they looted from tombs or found in dungeons, that sorta deal

Are Werebeings and Vampires Vile Creatures or Simply Misunderstood?: Simply misunderstood! Until you attack him then it’s game over for you. bud.

Do They Actively Hunt Dragons?: Not really, in a turn of events regarding this character. Part of it is because I just can’t find any spawning vanilla-wise post-Alduin, but for an in character explanation, Tei does feel a strong kinship with dragons. They won’t hunt them/kill them unless it’s a well-paying job/they challenge him first. Which...the latter happens often in the form of Assaults (Deadly Dragons is one fun mod). Hell, Tei refused to kill Paarthurnax. He respects the Dovah, even if he disagrees w the passive way of thinking, & goes to them often to meditate or talk. Not that anyone needs to know that.

Goals In Life? Honestly? Probably boost themselves up the ranks/collect more powerful artifacts for his hoard. If there’s a powerful figure he can challenge he will do it Figuring out how to turn into a dragon would be cool too, i guess

Deepest Regret?: Not hanging out with their kids (Ram-ku & Chases-Starlight) as much. They visit when they can but the urge to travel/explore can keep them away from home for a bit. So everytime they head back to Proudspire/Lakeview they have a ton of treats/toys/daggers to give the two.

Greatest Hope?: Not a shared fact with anyone, but deep down Tei does wish to retire comfortably, he jokes with Inigo that such an idea sounds boring but honestly? They wouldn’t mind it.

Most Embarrassing Moment: Rumarin caught him playing with the dog’s rope toys while in Werewolf form once. The High-Elf refuses to let Tei live it down

Flaws: They don’t really pick up on how rude they can be at times, or maybe they do & just don’t care.; Lack of personal danger-sense in battle/thrill of the kill can often lead to Tei getting some serious injuries if he’s not careful, his continued mastering of Restoration is from licking his own wounds. Sorta ironic considering he fusses over close teammates not being careful after opening up some more.

Fears: After the whole Blood of Kings debacle, Tei developed a deep fear of losing the reality they’re in/losing their loved ones. Alduin may have been defeated but the idea that any & all progress or events he went through can just be taken away regardless sticks with him. It may or may not drive his need to take out anything they deem as a big threat/challenge.

What Makes Them Happy?: Playing with their kids is a big one, Tei always makes times for games. Other than that it’s finding new discoveries/techniques about destruction magic or soul gems, reading a good book (or being read to, if he feels like asking Rumarin), being with his family in general, or going out for a hunt in their werebeast form.

Hobbies: Playing the lute, building his hoard some dragon behaviors just stick regardless of the body you’re in, smithing/creating little decorative daggers, treasure diving

Favorite Locations: Throat of the World/Paarthurnax’s Library (Mod), Lake Ilinalta, Apocrypha

Favorite Holds: Falkreath & Solitude

Eating Habits?: They’re not picky, but tend to prefer raw meat. It’s not an uncommon sight to see Tei just up n swallow a salmon whole while he’s swimming to catch the group some dinner.

Can They Cook?: they leave it to Rumarin if at home/the elf is traveling with them, but they can do it decently enough.

Favorite Food: Tei would kill for Ru’s seared-slaughterfish dish

Favorite Drink: Shein/Velvet LeChance

First Thing They Do At A Tavern?: Ask around for bounties/buy some food for the road

Sleeping Habits?: Due to the beastblood, Tei is very restless when they sleep, often tossing & turning. Ru holding them helps a bit, but on days where he travels, Tei just stays awake until he passes out in an inn/at camp from exhaustion seeing as they don’t toss around as much then.

Cities or the wilds?: The wilds

Pet Peeves?: Being stopped for bounties of like...5 gold. Like dude fuck off or he’s going to make that bounty go higher.; Followers bunching up/not letting them pass, Tei has places to be guys; Also really hates being grabbed/touched unless its close friends/family

Describe Their Bedroom or Home: Their bedroom is rather neat & tidy, same as any personal forge or storage room. Alchemy/Enchanting areas, or any place of study you should watch your step. Especially in the Arch-mages quarters, that place is a total mess.

How Would A Stranger Describe This Person?: A short-tempered, apathetic asshole through & through most likely.

Someone Close To Them? A snarky arse who actually is a bit of a softy with some rough edges. Tei’s no goody-two-shoes, & tends to tease, but he’s not cruel either, y’know?

How Do They Deal With Anger?: He tries to avoid lashing out at others unless they caused it. Usually cools off from big episodes by working at the forge, doing a big bounty or two, or using their Thu’um somewhere till their throat hurts.

How Do They Deal With Failure?: Tei gets broody, frustrated & fidgets with his claws/tail/feathers a lot. Over the years of their adventuring they understand failure is a fact of life, but that doesn’t mean they can’t get upset about it. Don’t take it to heart if they snap at you during this time, they don’t really mean it & just are mad at themselves

How Do They Deal With Loss of a friend or someone close?: Not horribly bad but also not in the best way, they immediately put walls up & avoid conversation for a good while, maybe even leave for a few days. While slowly working with this with the help of Ru & Inigo, Tei doesn’t like being seen in a vulnerable & would most likely brush the event off as “shit happens.” However, it’ll eventually get too much. A good example would be when they lost most of the Brotherhood due to Astrid’s betrayal; Tei would brush it off constantly if it was brought up, pushing it down. One day though, it hit him full force while prepping for a contract, he’s grateful it was just Rumarin there when it happened.

Go Into The Bandit Filled Cave To Retrieve The Lost Amulet For Some Simpleton, or Tell Them Nah Bye?: Depends if they pay well or if Tei can get away w keeping the item, but it’s mostly “Lol that sucks bro”

Opinions on Daedra?: He only respects/likes two (Hircine & Mora), but will shimmy up to the other princes for their artifacts

Companions / Followers

First Follower: Rumarin! Found the dude by accident while running around & immediately fell for the snarky fucker.

Have They Stuck Around?: I mean, the two did get hitched. Rumarin mostly stays at home with their kids now-a-days, as Tei is chasing after more & more dangerous “prey”

Something The Look For In A Follower (or do they hire anyone without question?): Hold their own & does what their told, mostly. The former is the proving factor for him (except in the case of Lucien...but they’re paying to tag along so I guess they can stay)

Followers Over The Years (or whatever amount of time): Rumarin, Zora Fairchild, Gor, Anum-La, Skjarn (but only once), Inigo, Kaidan, Lucien, & Hoth.

Fourth Wall

Any Must Have Mods To Play This Character?: Anything to help boost Argonian experience (Amazing Argonian Traits/Feats, Horns are Forever, Digitigrade Khajiit-Argonian Raptor, Bigger Argonian Tails....We need more Argonian mods), Ordinator, Apocalypse, Wildcat, Deadly Dragons, Real Bosses USSEP, Ultimate Combat SE, TK Dodge, Shout Overhaul. And while you don’t need it to play Jeer-Tei, the Racial Body Morphs SE is fun to help diversify everyone’s height! Until you realize you’re short as hell to most of your party.

Random Screenshot / Drawing: Here’s Kaidan & Rumarin stealing the bed in my bugged saves, gotta redo Kai’s quests again for this tho. F

Level?: 91 I think? First character where I grinded up via Alchemy & Enchantments for perk points for a good while. (Also started out as a light armor build but I quickly decided, “lets become a sneaky tank build!” mid-gameplay) I used to have the People of Skyrim mod on as well, which spawned waaay too many dragons (im talkin about none of them landing even after their hp hit zero bcus the ai got bugged w the amount spawning) & bandit mobs, so that helped too lol. Eventually disabled it though bcus my old laptop was struggling. 

Serious RP or Thomas The Tank Engine Dragons, Fart Shouts, and Kawaii Cat Girl Mods?: Serious RP, though I may add some sillies later

[fus-ro-dammit]

TELL US ABOUT YOUR OCS MOM

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i included the links to my aesthetic boards for them, i love them all so much

Ok Khianna is my dunmer hero of Kvatch, she was arrested for accidentally killing someone after a group of men attacked her cause she’s a dunmer. She fell in love with Marty Boy and after he died, she ascended to the mantle of Sheogorath and then found out she was pregnant. She gave birth as Sheogorath, and their daughter was named Rikh’aash (more on her later). She’s a devout worshipper of Boethiah and is a mage, using primarily fire magic.

https://www.pinterest.com/roscoe810/aesthetics~-the-elder-scrolls-ocs/khianna/

Volkaalë is my beautiful Altmer baby, she’s one of my favorites. She was part of a wealthy and well known altmer family back in the Summerset Isles, and her parents arranged a marriage between her and the son of another family. While they were courting, he was really kind, but after they were married, he was an asshole. Very abusive, incredibly unhealthy, and so she ran away. She ran into the imperial ambush while she was trying to flee to Solitude. She avoided going to Balgruuf about Helgen for the longest fucking time because she wanted to keep a low profile. Accidentally got roped into the dark brotherhood, but she enjoyed the family aspect of it, and the money didn’t hurt. Once she knew she was safe enough to do so, she went to Balgruuf and effectively started the main quest. After the failed fight w/ Alduin at the throat of the world, she knew she needed help, so she went to Solsthiem to recruit some folk and accidentally started the Dragonborn DLC. She and Miraak made a deal, cause she had met Herma Mora before and she wasn’t a fan, so if he helped her with Alduin, she would free him from Apocrypha. She has a thief build and uses dragonbone daggers and the shrouded armor.

https://www.pinterest.com/roscoe810/aesthetics~-the-elder-scrolls-ocs/volkaal%C3%AB/

Eleuin is my bosmer, she and her twin brother (the hok) were arrested for stealing, as they both live on the street after their parents were killed. Her brother went to Kvatch and then saved it, and she went to Cheydinhal. They met up again and she met Martin, and they then separated again, she met Lucien after she (regretfully) killed a man after he caught her trying to steal some food. He took her in and she grew very close to him and Vicente. Lucien cared for her very strongly, and she accepted an offering of vampirism from Vicente against Lucien’s suggestion. After his death, she killed everyone in Applewatch in a fit of rage. She met back with her brother and Martin (brother and Martin were smoochin), and helped them to close the Oblivion gates. The brother and Martin knew that they would likely die before the end, so they requested that Eleuin marry them after the battle of Bruma. She was gravely wounded in the final battle and woke up about a month later to find Martin had disappeared and her brother had become Sheogorath. She was alone. Flash forward 201 years, and she was traveling south from Morrowind through Skyrim to Cyrodiil, desiring to revive the brotherhood in Cheydinhall. She was then captured in the ambush, and on the way to Whiterun, heard of Aventus Arentino, and then due to her killing Grelod, she was reinstated to the brotherhood, where she reunited with Lucien as a specter. She uses shortswords and the Blade of Woe after she was gifted it again.

https://www.pinterest.com/roscoe810/aesthetics~-the-elder-scrolls-ocs/eleuin/

Naryñia is my gal, I adore her. She is a dunmer of House Telvanni, the niece of Neloth, and a very high figure within the Morag Tong. Her sister died when they were very young, she drowned after a storm sprang up while they were swimming in the ocean near tel mithryn. She grew very bored with the technical legality of the murders within the Morag Tong, and after days on end of prayer to Mephala, decides to sail to Skyrim. She kills Grelod as a challenge to the Brotherhood, and forms a strong sisterly relationship with Astrid upon meeting her. She is sent on a contract to Riften, and meets Brynjolf in the marketplace the day before completing the contract. They have a verbal debate, both being intrigued by the other. The next day, she goes to Goldenglow Estate and ruins Brynjolf’s attempts to complete his contract, kills Aringoth, and burns the estate to the ground. Mercer is obvs pissed, and the guild and the brotherhood meet up and discuss jurisdiction and shit. Mercer decides that Nary is a threat, and takes her to Snow Vale Sanctum. She comes back with Karliah, stabbed, pissed off, and ready to fucking kill Mercer. As the chamber filled with water after killing Mercer, she goes into a panic attack due to PTSD from her sister’s death. After Brynjolf and Karliah get her out, she shouts for Odahviing, revealing her role as Dragonborn to the duo. Brynjolf and Karliah try to hunt her down to ensure she is ok and they find her in Blackreach, continuing research on crimson nirnroot cause she’s a lil fuckn nerd. She is a mage, using primarily shock magic.

https://www.pinterest.com/roscoe810/aesthetics~-the-elder-scrolls-ocs/nar%C3%BFnia-telvanni/

Rikh’aash (we’re back to her lol) is a half dunmer, half imperial DemiPrince. She was born in New Sheoth, and was raised by her mother and Haskill. She was very adventurous, and often popped over to other Daedric realms to visit her aunts and uncles (except molag bal, we hate molag bal), but she always wanted to go other places. She and Khianna got into an argument, and she yeeted herself out of New Sheoth, landing on Nirn almost on top of the imperial ambush. I like to think that, as Akatosh!Martin would never intentionally put his daughter through something like that, he was aiming for a soldier to become dragonborn, but Rikh’aash landed on him and she accidentally became dragonborn. After escaping Helgen, she was ecstatic, and spent about a year just travelling. I haven’t developed much of her story yet, but I know that she meets Erandur and they form a strong father-daughter bond, and I know she grows very close to Teldryn Sero. https://www.pinterest.com/roscoe810/aesthetics~-the-elder-scrolls-ocs/rikhaash/

My newest gal, her name is T’Savi, she’s a suthay khajiit, so she’s cat... but tiny. She’s also gonna be my youngest character, being about 14 ish. Based on many different charts on khajiit forms, suthays go to about the elbows of normal nords. So they smalllllll. I don’t have much backstory on her, I just made her like… two days ago. I think I’m gonna have her originally be part of a trading caravan, I’m not quite sure how she gets looped into the main quest, but I want her and Brynjolf to have a very paternal-child relationship, because I adore the idea of Brynjolf taking in a young, child ldb, especially since Bryn often possesses the one brain cell shared by the thieves guild, and would be very upset at the idea of Mercer sending this infant cat alone to an island with many many trained mercenaries.

https://www.pinterest.com/roscoe810/aesthetics~-the-elder-scrolls-ocs/tsavi/

Vallitha and Lysabyth sort of go hand in hand. Vallitha is another altmer, she was the daughter of two thalmor generals who tried to remove the forsworn from the reach. They were killed, and Vallitha was basically adopted by the forsworn. She was raised with the ideals of the reachmen, and became a briarheart. She was raised alongside Lysabyth’s parents, and after their death, took her in. Despite her and Lysabyth’s parents growing up together, she and the girl took on a sibling relationship, rather than a maternal relationship. Due to all Vallitha’s time in Markarth, she became friends with Ondolemar, who secretly supports the reachmen’s efforts and the two often compare contrasting life stories. During the Cidhna Mine quest, she instructed Lysabyth to run and hide to escape capture. Lysabyth was found by Ondolemar, who escorted her back to Druadach Redoubt, and was kept safe on Lysabyth’s command. Lysabyth’s parents were very close with Madanach, and she is expected to inherit the reign of the forsworn after Madanach passes. Lysabyth begins at age 15, and at 17 becomes the dragonborn, and fulfills my dreams of kicking Ulfric in the dick in a siege of the Forsworn and the Empire on Windhelm. Vallitha is a necromancer, and uses fire magic, and Lysabyth uses duel war axes.

https://www.pinterest.com/roscoe810/aesthetics~-the-elder-scrolls-ocs/vallitha/

https://www.pinterest.com/roscoe810/aesthetics~-the-elder-scrolls-ocs/lysabyth-woodhart-valakh/

Karellia and Azæzel also go together. Karellia is half bosmer, half maormer. She is a werewolf, and has been for a long time, she was turned by a rogue werewolf who also orphaned her. She lives in the icy caves north of windhelm, near septimus’s outlook. She hunts and eats stormcloak patrols, and was tracking the stormcloak group that was apprehended by the imperial ambush. She was also caught, and after her escape, began heading back north where she was kidnapped by a group of vampires. Azæzel is an altmer, and was merely a traveling mage and alchemist who accidentally wandered into Dimhollow crypt, where he met Serana. He led her back to Volkihar, where he joined the coven there as a vampire lord. Karellia was held captive in the cattle pens. He and Serana pitied her, so they set her free and blamed it on the rogue vampires conspiring against the coven. Karellia went back north, to her cave, where Serana and Azæzel later found her, and recruited her to help them kill Harkon. Karellia is a master archer, who wears primarily simple leather armor. Azæzel is a mage, who uses the magic of nature to control Spriggans to fight alongside him.

https://www.pinterest.com/roscoe810/aesthetics~-the-elder-scrolls-ocs/karellia/

https://www.pinterest.com/roscoe810/aesthetics~-the-elder-scrolls-ocs/az%C3%A6zel/

[ladyartemina]

Follower Dialogue

Original: ghartokpadhome

Copy and fill out with what your character’s dialogue would be if they were a Follower in the Elder Scrolls!

Stolen From: dolorousheart

Eveyne | Artemina — Huntress | Assassin

Initiating Conversation:

“And you are…?”

“Where’ve you been all my life, handsome.” — Male

“And here I thought my day couldn’t get any better…” — Sarcastically

“No, Arcael Apothecary doesn’t do deliveries. You’ll have to pick it up yourself.” / “Arcael Apothecary burned down with the rest of Helgen, so you’ll have to go elsewhere.” — Post Alduin’s return

“Can I help you?”

“If you want somebody dead, send a courier to the Arcael residence like everybody else. Otherwise, you’re on your own.”

Exiting Conversation:

“Later handsome.” / “May we meet again.” —Male

“Another time then.”

“Goodbye.”

Asked to Wait:

“Oh! No problem! My life revolves around you, you know.” — Sarcastically

“Don’t keep me waiting.” — Male

Spoken to whilst waiting:

“Forgot something did you?” — initiating conversation

“Aren’t you a sight for sore eyes…” — Male, initiating conversation

“Good, I was getting lonely.” — asked to continue following

“Or leave, that’s fine too…” — Conversation exited without being asked to follow

Asked to move/interact:

“I can do that!” / “That doesn’t look too hard.” — Command given

“Anything for you, handsome.” — Male, command given

“How about…no.” / “Even I’m not that talented.” — Command denied

“Here you go.” / “*bows* My Lord/Lady…” — Command completed

Asked to trade items:

“Whatever you need, handsome.” — Male

“I guess what’s mine is yours.”

“Just remember that I’m not a housecarl. I’m not sworn to carry any of your burdens.”

Dismissed:

“Aw, you’re leaving already.” — Male

“On to brighter horizons?”

“Remember me fondly…or don’t…it’s up to you really.”

“I understand. Should you need me I’ll be back/here in Helgen/Whiterun.” — differs between pre and post-Alduin

After Dismissal:

“Have I not stricken the fear of the Gods in you yet?”

“I’d follow you to the end of Oblivion.” — Male

“What do you say? How about we make the Gods regret bringing us together?”

Combat:

“We’re not alone.”

“Queue the enemy…” — Initiating combat

“Oh dear…you think you’re threatening.”

“I hate those foul beasts.” — after killing a wolf

“I’m still here, and you’re…still not dead.”

“Bye, bye…” — before casting invisibility

“What’s with you conjurers and your wolves!?” — In combat with conjurer

“I’m…sorry…” — Defeated by enemies

“And I thought diplomacy was my strong suit.” / “Was surrender too much to ask?” / “That fool didn’t stand a chance.” — After enemy’s defeat

Other Dialogue (Specific cities, locations, situations, etc.)

“Solitude…where the people where false smiles while they spout patriotic nonsense…” — Solitude

“Now if only the Jarl would make her own decisions, this place might be in good shape…” — Solitude, The Blue Palace

“I considered studying here, but Ma would have never allowed it.” — College of Winterhold

“Anything that isn’t nailed down is subject to disappearance. Keep that in mind, would you?” — Riften

“Oh, how quaint…” — Dwemer Ruins, upon seeing a Falmer camp

“I’ve never liked these places. The constant clanking puts me on edge.” — Dwemer Ruins

“Do try not to set off any traps while we’re here. I don’t fancy scraping you off the walls.” — Nordic Ruins

“I never thought I’d find a place more corrupt than Riften, but this place takes the cake.” — Markarth

“I don’t know about you, but stone beds don’t strike my fancy.” — Markarth, Inn/Bedroom

“We shouldn’t stay here too long. This city will suck the color from us too.” — Windhelm

“Don’t worry, they know me here.” — Whiterun/Helgen

“I can think of several things to do if we stay here tonight.” — Male, any inn

“I’ll do a lot of things, but wolves are where I draw the line.”

“Children are off limits…Geez, I may kill people for a living but I have standards.” — When asked who she won’t kill

“Who needs sunlight anyway…” — When entering a cave

I feel like she’d be a good fit as a multi-layered and multi-quest companion—kind of like Serana. You think you’re signing on with a cool huntress who drops witty one-liners, but really, you’re running around with a self-loathing assassin with mommy issues.

The longer you run around with her, the more she opens up to you—as long as you cycle through her slowly building dialogue options. Eventually, you get the chance to pass a difficult speech check (made easier by allure/persuasion) and she’d give up being an assassin. This would spawn the quest to kill her mother and free her of those binds. She’d briefly leave your service to mourn, but she’d find you 48—in game—hours later in Whiterun. This would also open her up as a marriage candidate.

[teronap]

So my friend apparently beat Markarth...and the people actually won.

Friend: So I'm the Ultimate dick in skyrim

Friend: ULTIMATE

Friend: DICK

Me: wtf did u do?

Friend: K, so I'm in Markarth right? Doing the Cidna Mines quest

Me: right

Friend: So I start of, do my thing, firstly using my PRECOGNITIVE ABILITIES so SAVE that girl who initially gets murdered from dying. She gives me a necklace, some gold, and becomes a permanent resident of the Silver-Blood in, and everyone thinks I'm cool

Me: I'm worried as to what you've done

Friend: So then I just go about the Mission as normal, talk to the people get the evidence, Clean out Nepos' house of people because it's right next to mine so I could just blow a wall out and get free additions, and Nepos is a dick anyhow,

Me: ok

Friend: Threw their bodies on the fire just for good measure

Me: lol

Friend: So then the guards go to arrest me.

Me: oh no...

Friend: Here's where dickishness number one begins

Friend: Instead of outright surrendering like a dumbass, I kill the 3 guards, getting NO ADDITIONAL BOUNTY thanks to the preset arrest from the quest, and loot my dead friend Eltrys, the note guy.

Friend: HE HAS INSANE LOOT

Friend: Like gems, the key to his room, and cash

Me: omg

Friend: easy 800 gold

Me: dafuq

Friend: Plus I pick up a guard armor so I can disguise myself and break into the Dibella shrine and steal a gold statue (Another side quest). SO I do that

Me: Oh jeez...

Friend: When I exit the temple, I pawn the statue to the beggar degaine, making a not to replace the statue later because I'm a nice guy and they literally are everywhere if you know how to look (Plus there's a quest for Dibella that gives you good favor with Senna, the priestess who you meet during the Sanguine quest

Me: yeah, i know that

Friend: Then I Talk to the first guard I see, who, predictably, says he's going to arrest me for conspiracy with forsworn. After I'd passed all my stolen good to lydia, I Excepted

Friend: Once in cidna mines, I decided to steal EVERYONE'S skooma and shivs, and then beat borkul the beast in hand to hand combat using ARMOR SPELLS (Totally not cheating)

Me: where does it end?

Friend: So then I talk to madanach, kill grisvar in ONE HIT thanks to BOUND SWORD,

Friend: And we all escape

Friend: When we get to the end, I talk to madanach after strategically moving slowly backwards, so I've lured him down the ramp at the end and given the other members of the Forsworn enough time to get AWAY from me, and OUT of seeing range

Friend: He gives me the Old Gods Forsworn armor, and at the very end of the Dialogue, I stealth murder his ass.

Friend: Then, I hit the wait button

Me: you are truly the king of dicks

Friend: And wait approximately 3 hours

Friend: I then take Madanach's gear and note, exit, and talk to Thonar, who gives me the Trust of the Silver-Blood Family in the form of his Family Ring.

Me: oh no...

Friend: The Forsworn, meanwhile, must have missed Thonar, as they are out of the City, sitting comfortably in Druadach Redoubt, which fyi, has now become NON-HOSTILE to me because they believe I SAVED MADANACH.

Me: (facepalm)

Friend: So any kill Briarheart missions can be done by waltzing in their, and pickpocketing the Briarheart's Briarheart which INSTANTLY KILLS THEM

Friend: But back to the Present,

Me: wtf...

Friend: It's night time, and very few guards are around. So what do I do?

Me: oh no...

Friend: Stall Thonar, just till the cost is clear,

Friend: Whip out the Ebony Blade,

Friend: And murder his Ass.

Me: yep

Me: you win

Me: you win the award

Friend: I take his gold, the treasury safe key, the gold IN the treasury, have left the Silver-Blood Family WITHOUT MONEY or SLAVE LABOR TO MAKE MONEY, left the forsworn leaderless, and, for good measure,

Friend: Used Dead Thrall on Madanach

Me: ...

Me: (clap)

Friend: Oh and I threw Thonar of the Markarth Bridge with the waterfall, into the depths below.

Friend: So now Markarth is truly safe and secured.

Friend: No Silver-Blood,

Friend: I theoretically control the Forsworn,

Friend: and I'm loaded,

Friend: and no one is any the wiser

Me: you've done it, you've truly done it. You've done that which none had ever thought possible

Me: You've beaten Markarth

Me: good show sir, good show

Me: you win

Me: (clap)

Friend: Plus I'm going imperial, so the Jarl bends to me