Thanks! Nothing pleased her more than returning to the orphanage and killing Grelod. At first she wanted to slit her throat without being seen but then changed her mind, so Sybil's face was the last face which Grelod saw.

I finished the DB years before, yes, it was with Aard, but he was a completely different character than Sybil, he was a part of the DB because he earned well, he didn't particularly care for their members or the Night Mother.

Thank you! I expected that the quest will kick in once Grelod is dead but as it turns out, one has to actually talk to Aventus to start the quest and then it automatically finishes as you tell him that Grelod is dead. So that was the real reason for traveling to Windhelm, because I expected that Sybil will be snatched away in her sleep already in the Ratway.

Though she's been around for a while, I've never properly introduced her.

Full name: Ameena Souissi

Nickname / Name in game: just Souissi. Since her youth she prefers to be called by her surname only

Race: Imperial

Gender: female

Age: 35

Birthsign: the Atronach

Class: rogue

Main skills: Block, Conjuration, Light Armor, One-Handed, Speech

Place of birth: Waterfront, Imperial City

Home: none

What she does for a living: her main source of income are valuables found when adventuring, occasionally she'll accept a job that befits a mercenary

Factions: none

Companions: occasionally

Love interests: none yet

Eyes: brown

Build: slim

Physical Appearance: here she is

Weapons of preference: shields and axes

Clothing: light armor

Mental Profile/Personality: she's a former highwaywoman and smuggler, who's trying to change her life to better ways

Dragonborn: no

Biography/Life History: Souissi was born in Cyrodiil, her mother was an aspiring Imperial conjurer in the Mages Guild, while her father was a Redguard sailor and was more often on high seas than at home. When her mother passed away after a long illness, Souissi was taken with her father on the ship, where she found out that he is in fact a pirate and a smuggler, not a sailor on a merchant ship as she had believed. Having not much choice, she followed in his footsteps. After some years on the ship the entire crew was caught close to Morrowind's coast while smuggling skooma, and both Souissi and her father were arrested.

Elderly members like her father were sent to prison, but young members were sent to work on a plantation of some wealthy Dunmer noble. After two years Souissi managed to escape and not knowing what else to do, she continued her career as a highwaywoman. Despite attempting to find her father in prisons all across Morrowind, she's never heard of him again, neither she's met anyone that'd know him.

When her exploits became too well-known and she became interesting for the authorities, she escaped from Morrowind by boarding Orphan's Tear, a smuggler ship. Familiar with the coast, Souissi helped smugglers avoid dangerous areas and seeing that they could profit from her, they asked her to join the crew. After a few years of smuggling illegal goodies between High Rock and Morrowind, Orphan's Tear was attacked by the Imperial Legion and wrecked at Skyrim's north coast.

While Souissi was on a hunt for food, the crew of Orphan's Tear was found and killed by the Imperial Legion and Souissi decided that it's prime time to try and change her life and make a living by some more honest profession. Since then she's been traveling over Skyrim, exploring dungeons of all kinds, and making a living by selling found valuables. Most of the time she travels alone, but occasionally she tolerates a company of some follower. Yet her favorite follower remains her flaming wolf, which she can summon at will.

Aw damn, she doesn't know what happened to her father. That's so sad. Well, it's good she's been added into this thread. Good to have for referencing purposes, and all that.

This had a long time coming, but tonight I decided to finally make the jump. I'm playing Skyrim again. :v At first I was going to pick up an old save where I left off, but I decided to ease into it again with an old favorite of mine.


Name: Alois Durant

Race: Breton

Gender: Male

Age: 24

Sign: The Lord

Birthplace: Skingrad, Cyrodiil

Class: Spellsword

Physical Appearance: Yeah - Ingame

Eyes: Dark Blue

Build: Athletic with a bit of cushion

Weapons of preference: Swords. The more magical the better.

Mental Profile/Personality: Generally loud and friendly. Tries not to life get him down too much, and does his best to make sure others feel the same way.


Biography/Life History: One of three heirs to a long line of Cyrodiilic heroes. His family doesn't have the prestige it used to, even though his parents were instrumental during the Great War. Though they were never outright shunned, his family was always treated with suspicion. Especially his mother and eventually his siter.

Even within his own family he was never the favorite, his mother taking his sister aside to groom the family's next matriarch, and his father--originally a knight from High Rock--would spend his time imparting the intricacies of High Rock society to his brother. Not really having a head for politics and a tendency to get into trouble, it's no wonder he ended up joining the Fighter's Guild while his sister was sent to study with the Synod. Soon after their mother disappeared, his brother and father moved back to High Rock. He chose to stay, leaving him alone with the house and many bitter memories.

Eight years later his sister came back from the Imperial City with a few new trinkets and a proposition: sell the house and move out to Skyrim with her and join the College of Winterhold. The thought troubled him at first, since she made the decision to sell their mother's house without any input from their father and brother, but the thought of finally leaving Skingrad County to see more of the world was appealing. Eventually he caved, and the pair set off for "the arse end of Tamriel", as his sister put it. He got the feeling there was more to her decision than disagreeing with the Synod's practices, but he shut it down quickly.

Alois was about to find more excitement than he bargained for.

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: Nov 15 2018, 01:42 AM

Nice! He totally resembles that drawing. The drawing looks more demonic though. Interesting that his sister, who seemed to have a superiority about her, comes back to fetch Alois so they can both go to the College.

He is a Spellsword yet he merely joined the Fighters Guild in his backstory, does he already have knowledge of spells then?

Kinda. The family line is particularly talented with magic, the founding matriarch being a master wizard, and his mom was a battlemage in the Legion, so he ended up inheriting a few useful tricks but little else. Just some things to give him an edge in a fight and keep his insides where they belong. The other, bigger, brainier magics are beyond him. For now at least.

Working on my next character, and really enjoying RaceMenu for the special edition. Adds a ton to character creation! Anyway, here is the work in progress:

Linnèa, daughter of Kirin and Lydia.

Nice. I've never tried Race Menu, I've got a couple other mods I use. But honestly, i mostly use them for females in this game, to get rid of that "scowl" face that's so persistent. With males I usually stick with vanilla stuff, except extra beards / hairstyles.

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This post has been edited by Darkness Eternal: Nov 17 2025, 01:34 AM

Nice work on Raven's background, DE!

Thanks Acadian!

I worked on Draken’s profile even more. There were major changes. I’ll post it later on!

I’m spending time reading all these pages! So many awesome characters!

It was fun to read your Raven profile, DE. I'm looking forward to Draken's!



Good to know that there's RaceMenu for SE. As much as I look forward to playing it, I'm not thrilled about starting from scratch with mods.

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This post has been edited by Darkness Eternal: Nov 17 2025, 01:35 AM

Name: Celeste Yael

Created: 6:03 pm, February 25, 2020

Platform: Xbox, transferred to PC

Status: Wanders, but not lost.

Race: High Elf

Gender: Dame

Age: 25

Birth Sign: Unknown. She was not created through Character Creation Overhaul.

Home: She stays in Arcadia's Cauldron mostly. Otherwise hasn't got a home yet

Spouse:

Home Country: Summerset Isles

Faction and Rank or Guilds(if none, tell us what they do for a living):

Faction Description:

Class: Healer / Illusionist

Class Description: Celeste will focus heavily on healing spells, so she can heal those she travels with.

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Dragonborn?

Dead is dead?

Major Skills: Alchemy, Restoration, Illusion, Blade

Minor Skills: Literacy, Horsemanship, Enchanting

Spells: Fury, Heal Self

Physical Appearance: I greet you

Eyes: green (I think)

Build: slender

Weapons of Preference: She prefers not to use weapons, but does carry knives just in case.

Clothing: her attire will probably be robes and light armor pieces. It'll be important that Celeste be agile.

Miscellaneous: Celeste Yael is my first character for the year 2020. My plan is to eventually do all those side quests none of my others have done yet. I used a picture of Steffi Graf to create Celeste. Celeste looks nothing like Steffi of course, but I used that pic to "aim" towards.

UPDATE, Jan 2024: Celeste's game started on Xbox but got moved to PC. She never did pick up any quests 'others didn't get to'. Nowadays she's pretty much a straight up Healer, and Alchemist.

She has some sort of confidence in her personality. She is intelligent. She is very much a gatherer, always picking ingredients. She is also not so good at defending herself, not yet, anyway. As her magic improves, this shall change, of course.

She is mostly vegetarian, but will occasionally have fish or chicken. Eggs are always okay, as well as cheese. She's not a milk-drinker though. 🍼

Bio / Backstory: Celeste comes from the Summerset Isle, and has an academic background, with some very weak combat
training.

This post has been edited by Renee: Jan 10 2024, 12:53 AM

Considering their long life span, aren't High Elves at the age of 25 just out of diapers?

Welcome Celeste!

Celeste curtsies

You know, I have some real problems with the supposed long lives of elves. Think about it. If they're supposedly living so long, why are they sometimes so short of wisdom?

Renee: That's because for the first 200-years or so they are still in their teenage stage. As we all know teenagers' brains aren't wired right. They're all hopped up on hormones. Well that's what Kaleah tells me anyways.

:blush: Okay, fair enough.

For a moment I thought her spells included Furry. Which gave me a very different idea from what you probably intended.

She has pigtails. Too bad you cannot do alternating colors per tail. Otherwise she could be an elvish Harley Quinn (she'd be Chaotic Neutral then though).

Celeste does look like Steffi Graf. It is nice to have an idea to aim for, rather than just a vague idea of "I want to look good".

Honestly, Celeste is going to wind up on PC, I think. She wants to wear stunning-looking robes, nothing which appears in the vanilla game. Maybe we might even have a look at ghastley's apparel, although she'll not want anything too revealing.



Aw, why thank you. I was gonna use Taylor Swift, but at the last moment I remembered Steffi's roundish, somewhat elfish-looking face. I already used Taylor long ago for the original Lady Saga.