Lucid
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I've decided to build my first Nord character. Elven stealth-archers are my RPG bread-and-butter, but I force myself out of that comfort zone every now and then. Here's what I'm thinking:
Name: Ysela Stillgaze. A female Nord - youngish, from a humble home, little exposed to politics and current events. Despite (and sometimes owing to) her naivety she will be very charming and persuasive with high speechcraft skills. As she is forced to mature quickly on the roads in Skyrim she will become very well read and self educated.
Combat: Her primary skills will be one-handed, blocking and light armor. She will use archery for ranged attacks but I will probably not use any archery perks.
Magic: She will practice Restoration magic after meeting Danica Pure-Spring, feeling it is a school that should be embraced by Nords (given their warring natures). At later levels she will also take up the Illusion school. NO Destruction, Conjuration or Enchanting, though she will use beneficial enchanted gear that she finds. I'm not sure where's she'll land on Alteration.
She will see the value in Alchemy but have a mistrust of potions she doesn't mix herself, so she will make her own restorative potions. Probably low level since I don't intend to do many perks there either. No poisons.
Game play: She will join the Companions early. I don't know how far she will go in that questline because she will be conflicted by their neutrality on the civil war. She will have Stormcloak leanings, feeling that Ulfric is a proud and honourable Nord - at least initially. It seems to her that the Companions are turning their back on Ysgramor's legacy in Skyrim and that things have become too complacent and comfortable in Jorrvaskr.
She will take her Dovahkiin destiny very seriously. She will seek to find all word walls and unlock all shouts. She will likely join the Blades, she will be suspicious of their historic loyalty to the Empire but will share their dislike of the Thalmor.
She will pray at shrines of Kynareth and Talos. No jobs for or goodies from Daedric princes.
No stealing, no murder, no unnecessary brawling, no initiating conflict or aggression.
She will have an inherent distrust of all non-humans but will have some guilt about it. She will seek out to befriend and understand people of other races, though she will never be truly comfortable with them.
Thoughts? Any obvious holes in this?
Name: Ysela Stillgaze. A female Nord - youngish, from a humble home, little exposed to politics and current events. Despite (and sometimes owing to) her naivety she will be very charming and persuasive with high speechcraft skills. As she is forced to mature quickly on the roads in Skyrim she will become very well read and self educated.
Combat: Her primary skills will be one-handed, blocking and light armor. She will use archery for ranged attacks but I will probably not use any archery perks.
Magic: She will practice Restoration magic after meeting Danica Pure-Spring, feeling it is a school that should be embraced by Nords (given their warring natures). At later levels she will also take up the Illusion school. NO Destruction, Conjuration or Enchanting, though she will use beneficial enchanted gear that she finds. I'm not sure where's she'll land on Alteration.
She will see the value in Alchemy but have a mistrust of potions she doesn't mix herself, so she will make her own restorative potions. Probably low level since I don't intend to do many perks there either. No poisons.
Game play: She will join the Companions early. I don't know how far she will go in that questline because she will be conflicted by their neutrality on the civil war. She will have Stormcloak leanings, feeling that Ulfric is a proud and honourable Nord - at least initially. It seems to her that the Companions are turning their back on Ysgramor's legacy in Skyrim and that things have become too complacent and comfortable in Jorrvaskr.
She will take her Dovahkiin destiny very seriously. She will seek to find all word walls and unlock all shouts. She will likely join the Blades, she will be suspicious of their historic loyalty to the Empire but will share their dislike of the Thalmor.
She will pray at shrines of Kynareth and Talos. No jobs for or goodies from Daedric princes.
No stealing, no murder, no unnecessary brawling, no initiating conflict or aggression.
She will have an inherent distrust of all non-humans but will have some guilt about it. She will seek out to befriend and understand people of other races, though she will never be truly comfortable with them.
Thoughts? Any obvious holes in this?
