Good to see Claire back on PC! She has a kind look and shouldn't have troubles working as a nurse. Very creative idea, that she won't be on the front lines but instead a healer.

BTW, Acadian, I had no idea that you actually did the MQ with Mazoga (and Buffy), I thought that you advanced the MQ with the console. Always good to read something new.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Mar 6 2015, 09:39 PM

Name: Aard

Race: Nord

Age: 37

Home Town & Country: Cheydinhal, Cyrodiil

Home in Skyrim: officially none but he moved in to abandoned Hjerim after disposing of the Butcher.

Family: has a daughter that lives in the Imperial City

Love interest: Muiri (lover)

Factions and Rank or Guilds: Dark Brotherhood

Class: Rogue

Secondary class: Assassin

Alignment: Evil

Dragonborn? No

Skills and talents: Light Armor, Pickpocket, One-Handed, Sneak

Physical Appearance: That's him

Eyes: Yes, he has eyes. Blue but because of unhealthy life he has bloodshot eyes.

Build: Average

Weapons of preference: Mehrunes Razor in right hand and another dagger in his left hand

Clothing: light armor

Miscellanous: Aard is a troublemaker from Cyrodiil. Be it extortions, kidnappings, larcenies and murders, Aard is used to them all though he doesn't kill people out of pure lust, there has to be a motive for his actions, whether personal or in gold. He's addicted to alcohol and skooma.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Apr 14 2015, 10:31 PM

Lopov, nice to get some more background on Aard.

Another character who started off as a test character, but wouldn't behave.

Name: Ina

Race: Whatever Diablita is. We never found out, but assume it's some kind of elf. The game treats her as a High Elf.

Age: Early twenties. Not that it means much for long-lived elves.

Origins: Born in High Rock, heard that grandma had gone to Skyrim and was beating up dragons, so she followed.

Family: Grandmother was Diablita the Dragonborn, and her daughter Elys was her mother. Her father was a Dunmer, and she has darker skin from that side. No tail, either.

Factions: Became Archmage of the College of Winterhold just because she liked the look of the amulet, and didn't like Ancano. Weird, because about the only spell she uses is healing.

Class: Punk, which is probably the opposite of class.

Skills: Two-handed (axe) and Smithing. Improves her axe at every opportunity, and has enchanted it with Fiery Soul Trap.

Dragonborn: No. That was grandma.

Eyes: Yellow

Skin: Dark red

Build: Slender, but stronger than she looks.

Horns: Not as large as grandma's or ma's, but still growing.

Clothing: Amulet of the Archmage, and not much else. Believes that the best defense is an overwhelming offence, and doesn't even use mage armor spells.

She has Erik the Slayer at her back, and has made him a suit of ebony, tempered up to Legendary. She's built homes at Lakeview and Windstad, but not constructed the Orc stronghold she was meant to.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Nov 19 2018, 06:53 PM

Nice character, Ghastley!

I like Ina's motivation as to why she became the Arch-Mage. Her class, if it can be called a class, is unique as well.

Lol @ the Horns description!

Erik the Slayer is an awesome companion, imo. It's neat that we get to help somebody who has a dream become who he wants to be.

So many great characters (Thor a'Zeane Renee? )! Kudos to you all for giving me such a fun read! Here's hoping I can return the favor:

What is your name?
I am Sir Rugrat gro-Shurgak.
And you are indeed an orc?
Is that not oblivious? I would think that your eyes would provide an advocate answer to that quarry.
I suppose I should not even bother asking your gender.
My wealth is not under investiture, is it?
It is not.
Then I would refract from such questions.
I shall. Where were you born?
I was an infect at the time, so I do not remember. I would assuage on a bed.
I meant what country?
Oh. Cyrodiil, I believe.
You are not sure?
I am not. The circumcision surmounting my birth are mischeivious.
I see. Do you have any family?
I am the illiterate son of Lord Rugdumph gro-Shurgak of the Rugdumph Estate near Cheydinhal. I also have a half-sister named Rogbut, and a loving spout named Mazoga.
I find it surprising that the son of a lord would be illiterate.
Why? Lords have children outside the bonds of parsimony all the time.
You mean illegitimate?
Is that not what I said?
Um, yes...I suppose you did. Do you belong to any factions or guilds? And what rank do you hold therein?
I am the Grand Champion of the Arena, and a Knight of the White Stallion.
And what is your class?
Another oblivious question! My father is a lord. Can you not see a proud arithmetic when one stands before you?
I don’t mean the class you were born into. I mean your trade.
I see. You should really make a better effront to clarion your inquisitories. As I stated imperviously, I am an arena champion and a knight. I would think my trade is self-reverent.
Apologies. I shall strive to be more clear in the future. You certainly have the stature and bearing of a warrior.
Thank you.
What is your weapon of choice?
Volendrung. I was forced to surrogate it before I entranced the room.
And Volundrung is...
My weapon!
What manner of weapon is it, Sir Rugrat?
A big weapon... with a handle!
All right. Your current residence?
About one spell of every four.
No, I mean where do you live?
Mazoga and I currency habilitate in the White Stallion Lodge, outside the city of Leyawiin.
We spoke of class earlier. As a warrior do you have any thoughts on the other classes?
Thoughts?
Yes. What is your opinion of the stealthy classes, for example?
I have met a few I would consider honorific but, for the most part, I bereave them to be cowers. One should be willing to enrage in battle for what one wants.
What are your views on magic?
In the right hands I bereave it to be an indigestible tool. Unflatulantly I find it to be amused by the wrong sort of people. Necrologers and other oderous sorts.
Do you posses any magical ability yourself?
No, I have Volendrung.

This post has been edited by Destri Melarg: Mar 2 2015, 07:51 PM

That's awesome, Destri! Love the way you handled this.

I might actually steal this idea for my next character; it'll totally fit his introduction





This post has been edited by Renee: Mar 3 2015, 02:30 PM

Ghastley - Great to learn more of the Diablita line - Ina in this case.

Destri - An engaging interview with the eloquent Sir Rugrat!

Destri, I had a good laugh when reading the interview with Sir Rugrat gro-Shurgak. This is my favorite part:

I was an infect at the time, so I do not remember. I would assuage on a bed.

Name: The White Wizard

Created: 4:40 PM, March 5th, 2015

Status: Active

Race: Breton

Gender: Male

Age: 66

Sign: Mage / Pisces

Home: Mage's College or Winterhold, though he was originally from Cyrodiil

Spouse: none.

Home Country: Cyrodiil

Faction and Rank or Guilds(if none, tell us what they do for a living): Mage's College, Arch Mage

Faction Description:

Class: Mage

Class Description:

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Dragonborn? ... The White Wizard is not the Dragonborn

Skills and talents: Majors = Conjuration, Destruction, Alteration, Illusion, Restoration, Enchanting, Alchemy

..........................Minors = Horsemanship, Cooking, One-handed, Light Armor, Sneak

Spells:

Physical Appearance: Virtually an albino without red eyes. I went for everything as white as can be. I added a mod simply called Beards which gives him a beard which was in the vanilla game's coding, but not available without mods.

Eyes: Yes his eyes are kinda white, too.

Build: Like a beanpole. Skinny as can be. TWW watches his carbs apparently.

Weapons of preference: Daggars, staves

Clothing: robes

Miscellaneous: The White Wizard came to Skyrim from Cyrodiil as a beggar. He arrived with a group of others who either perished, got lost, or got captured, he's not sure. His memory blanked out, and he found himself on snowy land (in the beginning of his game), unsure where he was. Luckily, he could see the College of Winterhold located in the distance.

(We got lucky here. I used a random Alternate Start for his game, we got lucky he actually wound up near enough to the College to see the place! )

He made his way to the College, and initially played his part as a beggar in Winterhold, asking for coin and such. But this didn't last long. He was soon indoctrinated into the College, where he plans to broaden his magical horizons.

From this point on, he pretty much followed the main Mage's College quest, with not many deviations.

This post has been edited by Renee: Feb 15 2016, 08:25 PM

Pics or it didn't happen!

Nice to see another wizard on board! Will he do the CoW questline? Is he somehow related to the Grey Wizard from Cyrodiil?

Great characters! Wow!

Gotta do some reading.

Yah, this is an interesting thread to read, DE. Fun to read.

Lol you got me, Lopov. I took a lot of pixies with my new one, but haven't finished fleshing him out yet. You will see when I post some of those pics.

Yes, he is derived from the Grey Wizard somehow. He is not related to him, since TGW never bore children, but I believe he will be some sort of apprentice's son of the Grey Wizard. To be honest, I was really craving to create another pure mage type, and struggled to think of a more creative name than The White Wizard. Kept trying to make a cool name out of Isaac Newton or some other medieval alchemist / scientist-type, but it just wasn't happening.

He is going to simply do the Mage's Collage (lol). I've done this already with the original Claire Voyance on Xbox, but she wasn't supposed to be the Arch Mage. As you know, that questline moves way too fast, and then all the sudden we are Arch Mage. XD ... I wanted a more 'Gandalfy' type for this, which is who The White Wizard shall be.

This post has been edited by Renee: Mar 6 2015, 02:23 PM

I remember way back in my days of tabletop gaming I had a character named The Grey Mage in a Shadowrun campaign. He was originally a ganger named Wrecks (we all were gang members in that game), and after a particularly nasty shootout he and the rest of the crew had to lie low for a while. So they went to the countryside - Franklin, Tennessee to be exact. Folks who know their Civil War history might know the significance of that place. Wrecks found out the hard way, when he dug up the skeleton of a Confederate officer who was killed in the battle. The game master and I put our heads together, and let me do something neat. My ganger's spirit and that of the Confederate sort of merged together. Thanks to that he became a magician, started talking in a southern accent, and generally took on 'airs'. Things like bathing, brushing his hair, and wearing clean clothes. He changed his running name to The Grey Mage, started wearing a grey duster, etc... He was a really fun character.

Maybe you could so something like this with your new mage? Perhaps he is the soul of your old Grey Wizard reincarnated? Maybe he is back from the grave as a Lich? Being back from the dead can make for some really strong roleplay. Persephone is without a doubt my favorite, most long-running, and deepest character, and she died thousands of years before I started playing her. For her I actually created a new race, so that she could have corpse-white skin, and powers appropriate to being undead (like water-breathing, a frost resistance, a weakness to fire, etc...).

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Mar 6 2015, 05:09 PM

I created another character some time ago, thanks to:

1)SubRosa's helpful instructions - I skipped the entire DB questline with one single console command

2)Alternate Start - I was able to start with him on Solstheim

3)Playable Instruments - I can roleplay a bard. Thanks to this mod you can perform and thus increase your Speech skill and earn tips from audience but tips vary: from one septim to Honningbrew mead and everything in between.

I haven't written about him yet and I'm not sure how much I will but I'm adding him to the list nonetheless.

Name: Shala

Behind the name: šala means "a joke" in our language but I can't make "Š" in Skyrim so I changed it to Sh. A good bard must also be a good joker and whenever I think of his name, I think of something funny and positive.

Race: Redguard

Age: 29

Home Country: Hammerfell

Home in Skyrim: inns, abandoned buildings, under the Sun and Sky

Factions and Rank or Guilds: none yet, might join the Bards College

Class: bard

Alignment: chaotic good

Dragonborn? no

Skills and Talents: block, drumming, light armor, one-handed, playing flute, sneak, speech

Physical Appearance: that's him

Build: slim muscular

Weapons of preference: curved sword. Curved. Sword.

Clothing: tavern clothes

Playing equipment: knows how to drum and play a flute, is hoping to learn to play a lute one day. He carries his equipment in a big beige leather backpack which he also uses instead of pillow when not sleeping in a proper bed/bedroll.

Miscellanous: after performing as a street bard in Mournhold and getting involved with a daughter of a Dunmer noble who wasn't too keen on finding them in bed together, Shala decided to head elsewhere for the sake of his health. He headed north and boarded Northern Maiden, the ship of sea wolf Gjalund's Salt-Sage. They were sailing to Skyrim but were caught in ice storm - Northern Maiden was too damaged to sail on, so they had to stop at Raven Rock to repair it. Until then Shala'll try and make a living as a bard performing in Raven Rock, both in the Retching Netch Cornerclub, in the market and for the Councilor, hoping to raise spirits of depressed and moody residents of Raven Rock.

Shala is not much of an explorer and he avoid fights when possible but if he's attacked, he knows how to defend himself with his trusted scimitar, a weapon from his homeland.

Renee - Welcome to the White Beanpole Wizard! Glad to see you got the beard and whole wizard thing going with him!

Lopov - And hi to Shala as well! I love the background on his name. He looks great and I'm gonna head over to the screenshots thread to see more of him.

I love Shala's weapon preference!

Some people call Shala the Solstheim Cowboy, some call him the gangster of love...

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Mar 6 2015, 11:16 PM