Niamh's Adventures in Nirn..., This is a thread featuring a digest of stories about... Options

[PhonAntiPhon]

NIAMH.
But first, who is she?
Well she's a character who I have been acquainted with for a very long time, and with whom I have travelled across many worlds.

She's a Wood-Elf, in Nirn terms - of about 30. She's very much her own boss, and not a terribly pleasant individual. She is, to employ a cliche, "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". She's a hard drinking, promiscuous, authority-hating rebel with baggage enough and troubles enough to fill a volume of psychoanalysts' shelves.

She's maybe 5 feet 8 inches in height, very slender, with pale skin and long black hair and dark, chestnut eyes in deep sockets. She had a predilection for body-piercing and a bad-attitude to personal hygiene. She's a thief and an assassin and pretty much anything else that will garner her gold and a thrill.
In the Nirn universe - (Cyrodiil) - she lives principally in Bravil, but has a shack on the waterfront outside of the walls of the Imperial City, although she spends much of her time in a rather dysfunctional relationship with Jo, one of the local "courtesans", who you will not be reading about on here(!).
In Morrowind she was a loner who pretty much stumbled upon a destiny of sorts more by simply being in a certain place at a certain time than by design; whilst she arrived in Skyrim confused and somehow "altered", more feral and wild, as part of a story arc that started in Cyrodiil and ended back there amidst death and heartache.
Since then she has had a second chance, but is squandering it, reverting once again to type...

Throughout her adventures in Nirn - Morrowind, Cyrodiil, and Skyrim, her character has evolved and changed. She's taken on aspects of each of these variants to become something "other" than what she started as; more rounded, but far more complicated. The ultimate expression of that is in the world that she now inhabits - Varrius, a world created for her specifically, with it's own story arc and characters.
Anyway, that's by-the-by, for the nonce, this thread will have various stories and vignettes that I have written involving her, and the characters that she has interacted with, during the time that she has inhabited the Elder Scrolls universe.
(Only some of the stories are on here, as this is a 13-rated forum, and not everything I write is... suitable. For stories not on here, do feel free to visit Niamh's blog, in the signature.)

I hope you enjoy her stories, it's gives me a lot of pleasure to write them.

This post has been edited by PhonAntiPhon: Jan 19 2013, 04:22 PM

[Colonel Mustard]

That was an interesting snippet, but I found the style had me lost. It initially started off like it was somebody talking about Niamh, but then it transititioned to your standard third-person narrative and it was never quite clear where (or if) there was supposed to be a break. Left me kind of confused, in the end...

[PhonAntiPhon]

That was an interesting snippet, but I found the style had me lost. It initially started off like it was somebody talking about Niamh, but then it transititioned to your standard third-person narrative and it was never quite clear where (or if) there was supposed to be a break. Left me kind of confused, in the end...

Ah Well, the reason is that it was originally purely a character update on the "other" forum. I never intended to do anything else with it so it wasn't written to a narrative convention.
Turned out I rather liked it so l decided to just port it warts and all. The transition point should probably be made a little clearer but essentially it's an update with a preamble.
I just thought it had a certain charm was all.

[Colonel Mustard]

That was an interesting snippet, but I found the style had me lost. It initially started off like it was somebody talking about Niamh, but then it transititioned to your standard third-person narrative and it was never quite clear where (or if) there was supposed to be a break. Left me kind of confused, in the end...

Ah Well, the reason is that it was originally purely a character update on the "other" forum. I never intended to do anything else with it so it wasn't written to a narrative convention.
Turned out I rather liked it so l decided to just port it warts and all. The transition point should probably be made a little clearer but essentially it's an update with a preamble.
I just thought it had a certain charm was all.

Ah, right. I guess that makes sense, but was kind of confusing; makes me think a little bit of District 9 where the opening of the film is done like a documentary but when it switches to a normal (albeit awesome) movie style you end up being a bit lost and thinking 'what kind of documentary is this?'

I liked this wee snippet; you did a great job of building atmosphere and hinting at Niamh's past and emotional baggage. And I know that that off eye has been mentioned before; any chance we can get the story behind that one?