Arceuthinus said:
I'm using the "Alternate Start" mod with the game beginning with a shipwreck off Dawnstar. My character was brought up in coastal [High Rock or Hammerfell]* by a single Nord parent, hearing and reading tales about Skyrim, and got a ride on a merchant vessel to Solitude, which crashed on the rocks due to the lighthouse being out (in my RP, I'm acting as if Jaree-Ra pulled his stunt at the start of my game and my character was on the ship). He lost everything in the wreck and worked the mines and smithy in Dawnstar until he was able to afford armor and find work taking contracts for the Jarl.
*I'm used to pen-and-paper RP in a fictional world me and my friends made, and am trying to develop RP characters in Skyrim better according to TES lore- so I'm not sure where Nord merchants would likely be. I doubt they would be in Morrowind, since there would be little economic reason to go there.
First off I really like that you're including in game events in your backstory, that's really cool.
So if I understand correctly this is a Nord lad who wants to go back to Skyrim and is now starting at rockbottom. He wants to fight for nobility and money and all that good stuff, but he's not necessarily a hero.
Sounds like he wants to experience the 'true' Nordic life that he's missed but feels like he needs to experience, especially if he's been brought up hearing stories of heroes in the land. So maybe his quirk could be overcompensation in some way? He needs to slay every bad guy, down every pint of mead, be as Nordy as a Nord can be because he's self conscious that he's not. This could lead him to all sorts of bother, and definitely an identity crisis or two - what if he doesn't align himself with the Stormcloaks, what does that make him?
You could also take this character down a dark path if general mercenary stuff gets boring. Becoming ultra Skyrim for the Nords or maybe even the opposite, killing others for being more Nordy than him, or because they're less than Nordy than him as they're pathetic or weak.
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I'm using the "Alternate Start" mod with the game beginning with a shipwreck off Dawnstar. My character was brought up in coastal [High Rock or Hammerfell]* by a single Nord parent, hearing and reading tales about Skyrim, and got a ride on a merchant vessel to Solitude, which crashed on the rocks due to the lighthouse being out (in my RP, I'm acting as if Jaree-Ra pulled his stunt at the start of my game and my character was on the ship). He lost everything in the wreck and worked the mines and smithy in Dawnstar until he was able to afford armor and find work taking contracts for the Jarl.
*I'm used to pen-and-paper RP in a fictional world me and my friends made, and am trying to develop RP characters in Skyrim better according to TES lore- so I'm not sure where Nord merchants would likely be. I doubt they would be in Morrowind, since there would be little economic reason to go there.
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First off I really like that you're including in game events in your backstory, that's really cool.
So if I understand correctly this is a Nord lad who wants to go back to Skyrim and is now starting at rockbottom. He wants to fight for nobility and money and all that good stuff, but he's not necessarily a hero.
Sounds like he wants to experience the 'true' Nordic life that he's missed but feels like he needs to experience, especially if he's been brought up hearing stories of heroes in the land. So maybe his quirk could be overcompensation in some way? He needs to slay every bad guy, down every pint of mead, be as Nordy as a Nord can be because he's self conscious that he's not. This could lead him to all sorts of bother, and definitely an identity crisis or two - what if he doesn't align himself with the Stormcloaks, what does that make him?
You could also take this character down a dark path if general mercenary stuff gets boring. Becoming ultra Skyrim for the Nords or maybe even the opposite, killing others for being more Nordy than him, or because they're less than Nordy than him as they're pathetic or weak.
