Beginning Again With a Favorite Character?

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Kohlar the Unkilled

Time for some ale
Lately I've been contemplating bringing Kohlar the Unkilled out of retirement. Then I thought, why not just start over? It's been so long now, but Kohlar was the first character to play through the entirety of the game, and I made decisions that are inconsistent with what I now feel he would've done. I was still mostly unfamiliar with the lore, implications of certain actions... plus he's done pretty much everything.

Have any of you been fascinated enough with one of your character idea's that you've replayed the same character more than once? I'll be coming back to Skyrim soon, (still enjoying Oblivion right now), so it should seem somewhat fresh, and this time I can truly do the character justice. :beermug:
 

hershangames

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Well as some may know, I'm obsessed with Hershan. It used to be just a name I used for all games, bit ever since Skyrim he took form, he developed a personality. I'm on my third playtrhough with him and once I get out of this airport and get some shut-eye I'll start the fourth.

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Mr Forz

I'm helping. Mostly.
Of course. Only have two characters. I make slight changes depending of what I'm looking to try out in terms of gameplay but I'm too attached to both of them, to start anything new. On one playthrough my mage character had its skin turned to blue-ish when trying out a pure cryomancer spec.

Thell rarely changes though. He depends of the mods I install.
 
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Wildroses

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Oh man, I thought I was the only person who did this. I replay my characters all the time. Sometimes I'm just bored when they become too powerful or rich and the challenge is gone (Swanhilde Silver-Blood was re-started for this reason). Sometimes I regret some decision I made early before I had figured out every aspect of their character and feel I had made a roleplay mistake. Having a character take a house in the wrong area, do daedric quests or specialise in skills which don't make sense with their backstory and morals are common reasons.

Sometimes I just had an absolute blast playing the character and simply want to play them again. This can be interesting thanks to the random aspects of Skyrim.

The first time I played my Thalmor defector who stayed in Stormcloak controlled areas she was sent to Anslivund quite early her Ghost Blade and Transmute Ore spell became important parts of her playstyle. When I played her again she never got sent to Anslivund, so she couldn't make easy cash with iron into gold and she kept replacing her sword.

Darkling became even more interesting after getting rockjoint early in the game. Darkling was a vampire's ex-thrall and was terrified of all people so she wouldn't go near them ever. But thanks to a mod which makes being sick really bad news I had no choice but to spend a week in a bedroll in Darkwater Crossing. So my people hating character was being nursed back to health and learning to trust a small group of NPCs, which led to her doing their quests, which led to her going to Windhelm to deliver a letter and meeting Sofie as well as suddenly having Sondas wanting to marry her, and then she had a small family she wanted to live with, keep happy and protect. She still avoided most people out of pure fear, but man she was fascinating to play when she actually found a few people she loved. Next time I replayed her I made sure she got sick near Darkwater Crossing again.
 

dunklunk

You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die.
I dunno, Kohlar. I've RPed my Khajiit two or three times and even put him in my fan fic, but another playthrough? In the huuuuuuuuuge sandbox that is Skyrim?! Ye gods, I think my wife would actually leave me if I played through it from the beginning. :confused:

btw, named him Doonkur. ;) See how close that is to dunk (forget the lunk)? May the Way of the Ale guide you to yet another playthrough. :beermug:

Doonkur's beginning his war cry as I type. :eek:;):D:beermug:
 

Kohlar the Unkilled

Time for some ale
This is all very encouraging. I desire a continuity between the first playthrough and the next, so it's not just a do over. Am I making sense? Basically, old Kohlar will be reincarnated for a purpose, so the story continues. I believe I've worked out a way to accomplish this. All I'll say at this point is that Akatosh will be involved. :beermug:
 

Mytheos

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This is all very encouraging. I desire a continuity between the first playthrough and the next, so it's not just a do over. Am I making sense? Basically, old Kohlar will be reincarnated for a purpose, so the story continues. I believe I've worked out a way to accomplish this. All I'll say at this point is that Akatosh will be involved. :beermug:
Absolutely reincarnate him. Failure is not an option and he was brought back to fix things he failed to do and balance what was unbalanced. Maybe you were too good or too bad?

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Kohlar the Unkilled

Time for some ale
Here is the storyline justifying Kohlar's reincarnation. Lore buff's take note.

A great golden dragon radiant like the sun, seeded my dreams with images that I experienced as memories. Impossible memories. First, I saw myself as I was when I was younger, standing aside a fallen man in red robes at the top of a mountain. Silas Vesuius. Silas the maniac at the shrine of Dagon the vile, his face imploded by a blow from my mace, Ale Smasher. Yet that's not how it happened; unwilling to do Dagon's bidding I gave Silus his life, his face quite intact. I can recall the events clearly, yet the dream goes on.

Next, an assassin in shadows. Emperor Titus Mead II lay dead in a spreading pool of blood. The Dark Brotherhood? Impossible. I thwarted their operation in Skyrim. Their lair was burnt to the ground and no one survived. I made sure of that. ...The silhouette of an unknown heir mounting the throne- Then the dream changed.

I saw myself as I am now, old, grey, bent by the weight of time. Nightly, I circumnavigate the perimeter of my hall. So it was now, in the dream. From a lofty perspective on a star-lit night, I watched impotently as a red-robbed figure materialized seemingly from nowhere behind me. The blade struck true and I was dead. A familiar blade- it can't be. Vision faded and blackness encompassed all.

Something was very wrong. This was not Sovngarde. No ground beneath my feet, only the lights of Aetherius. Again, the golden dragon- the avatar of Akatosh! This has happened before, I realize now. Akatosh had bestowed upon me the blood of the dragon. A saintly women in white approached. Al-Esh; Saint Alesia. I knew her as Paravania, the Lady of Heaven. She was my lover.

She handed me a glorious ruby-red amulet. Swimming within it's facets were the faces of emperors. Tiber Septim; resplendent in war. Pelagius the Mad; looking on vacantly. Uriel Septim VII; a knowing smile upon an old face. Martin Septim; different somehow... Martin looked at me from within the stone, right into my soul, and his face contorted with tears and despair.

My breath left me with fervent suddenness, and my skin felt afire. Fear as I had never known paralyzed my bones, and my eyes could not comprehend what they saw. Glowing molten rock as far as I could see, towers of flame, the very sky ablaze with malevolent fire. Wretched creatures feasting on corpses; corrupted men unrecognizable in horrid disfigurement shambling aimlessly. This is what the world would become, but how? The Oblivion crisis was averted. Wasn't it?

In a horrid flash of comprehension, I understood. I've been allowed many lives, by the grace of Akatosh. It all hinges on me. It always has. I've been shown what should've been. I've been shown my own death, now inevitable, by the hands of my choices in this life.

I awoke with a gasp, fully out of breath. Everything I've built is but dust in the hands of fate. Will I remember anything of this life? I think so, if only in flashes of imagination. I've had those all my life, and it's no wonder. For I am no mere mortal. My incarnations are the stuff of legend. In this era I am called Kohlar the Unkilled, and the God's have use for me yet.
 
I never understood peoples obsessions with their OCs or how someone could play the same character over and over again - until I played Skyrim and created Serah Estiph, my Bosmer battlemage and first Skyrim playthrough. Now I get it.
I plan to do a few more things with her, the last of which being the Dragonborn DLC. Then she'll be reincarnated for another playthrough.
If you're wondering why I'm doing the Dragonborn DLC last, it's so I can have Serah finally decide to become the Champion of Hermaeus Mora - under one condition. He start her life over again.
She will have, by then, already done him a few favors. And who else would know how to restart a life but the Daedric Prince of Knowledge? :p
So no, Kohlar, you're definitely not alone in that. Being as Serah was also my first playthrough I would need to start her story over again anyway - way to many bugs, glitches and things that just don't make sense for her character to have done in this one. :)


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hershangames

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[emoji122] [emoji122] [emoji122] [emoji122] [emoji122] [emoji122] wow, best dragonborn explanation ever. Pretty good introduction, might do for quite the interesting playtrhough.

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