I have made more characters in Skyrim than Nazeem has been to the Cloud District. Some of those characters were just "experiments" while others stayed with me for a while. A few were created with the sole purpose of me exploring a specific built and a handful were actually very well-thought-out. Some of these characters are still very much "alive" in fanfics I'm working on and there are a few that I keep creating over and over again because I really appreciate them. I just wonder what you can tell me about your characters. I always love reading what other people come up with - especially now since I could really use some new ideas.
Recently I've made a male Orc character loosely based on the protagonist of the Berserk manga, Gatts. He wears no armor and uses all three crafting skills. He never runs from a fight and the only real precaution he takes is dual casting stoneflesh and courage on himself and his follower respectively before entering combat. I am very pleased with the simplicity of no armor and just wearing regular clothes instead of walking around in a tin can 24/7.
My main character has a pretty deep background in my mind. Much of it is small stuff that adds layers to the RP IMO. He is an assassin/thief type character, but one that uses his "skills" to shape history as he sees is right. The decisions he makes when killing/stealing are done to shape the future for his family. While he completed the College quest line and has Brelyna as his wife, she is truly the Arch Mage of the college. While not true in game, it is part of my RP. We also own and run Heljarchen Farm with our two kids, so she is kept busy and doesn't question the things I do, only knowing that I provide for the family. He joined the Imperial's fight, but as part of the RP does the quests when he sees a need to fit the outcome to what he sees as the right thing. When interacting with characters, I have two sets of gear. 1 to conceal my identity behind a mask and 1 that is truly my char. I've done some of the main quest as well and part of my RP with the wife is that when I'm off committing acts in the night, she believes I am studying with the Greybeards. She doesn't need to know what I am really doing or that as the Dragonborn it doesn't take excess studies for me to learn the Way of the Voice. I use Secarius' Refuge and Aemer's Refuge mods as a bugout location and an assassin home respectively to put another layer to it. The family know of neither place. It's little things like these that keep me interested and coming back. If I didn't put the time into the RP of it, I would have put the game down long ago.
Well the most obvious character I fall back on is my fan fic girl Wyldfyre. I have written so much about her that she has become like another part of me. She pretty much is me with a little bit of evil on the side. My other favourite is Shadow. She is possibly my feral evil twin. She always joins the Dark Brotherhood and likes to collect daedric artifacts. Perhaps she is the side of me that stays hidden. That part of me who thinks of a Witty retort after the conversation is long over. The part of me who wants to tell that difficult customer to fluff off. Both girls are mainly archers. Plus a little bit of one handed with a sword. I tend to grow attached to my characters and recreate them time and time again. Although now that I have skyrim on PC I have a few new ones. My pure Mage, a loner who mostly uses destruction( specifically fire runes) is fast becoming a favourite as I find that style fun and challenging.
I've had a few consistent characters over the years. Kalin (Of High Rock) was my bookish breton pure-mage. She had slipped the borders of Cyrodiil and headed to Skyrim to seek admittance to the college of Winterhold. A grand adventure to escape her wealthy, overbearing father and the life he intended her to live. Her academic pursuits eventually lead to the study of vamprisim and undeath as a cure for mortal disease. As a cure for mortality itself. Mastering the condition; ridding it of the blood-thirst, was only a mater of study, surely. Naive and idealistic, she eventually infected herself over the course of her studies. Expelled from the college, she hid in plain site in the holds of Skyrim. Using her mastery of restoration, and what wealth she had acquired, she posed as a healer and guardian of the poor. She would fill their bellies with food. Give them lodging on cold nights. Mend their wounds with her magic. Cloth them, give them shoes. Teach their children... They became her chattel; unwitting and adoring. When, on occasion, the body of one of the cities unwanted turned up frozen in the snow.. Few seemed to notice. The transient poor live and die beneath the notice of their "betters". The perfect prey for the urban predator. Even as she glutted her unending hunger on the blood of those that depended on her she convinced herself it was for a greater good. A grand study. The death of death itself. Her books grew dusty on the shelves. Her research journal sat unused on her writing desk.
My latest character is based on a build called "The Fearmonger". I have chosen to be an Altmer Male rather than a Dunmer, personal preference. I also have an Altmer female mage, that started out as a spy for the Thalmor. She sided with the Empire, and defeated Ulfric. Her primary mission was to create chaos, but when she joined the Empire in the civil war, and took on Ulfric herself, she was notified that she was going off her designated path. Also, since she has decided to become dragonborn, she has cut her ties with the Thalmor. When she cut a swath through the embassy, she became the hunted, and hated enemy of those she used to serve
