Ok my Writing teacher wants us to write a book for our semester grade and it can be on anything we wanted. So I picked The Elder Scrolls and I was wandering if anybody would like to help?

So far the two things I came up with were about random adventures or to write about Mannimarco

Any help would be well appriciated and the book has to be 100+ pages

Edit: I also need help coming up with characters, the race of the characters, and their names.

100+ page book?

[censored] what class did you take

Go to the Imperial Library if you want to know more about Mannimarco

http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=72791987&pageid=r&mode=ALL&n=0&query=mannimarco

I'm in 10th grade advanced college level writing

That is the best assignment ever. Of all time. I'm jealous, the most I get to write is gloomy short stories in my (college) creative writing class. Literally, the "gloomy" isn't exaggerated, that's usually part of the assignment. My professor has issues.

Well, I'm by no means a lore expert, at least for the esoteric stuff, but I do write a lot so if you need inspiration or random tips feel free to PM me.

And seriously, 10th grade? The best I got there was to write gloomy poems. Again, not kidding on the "gloomy" part.

So is the book going to be a non-"Fiction" book about the game? As in things that actually did happen in the lore.

Or is it going to be "realistic Fiction" about the game. Like the life of a nord who lives in Skyrim?

If it is option 2, then I think it should be about an Dark Elf (name him Starle!) who lives in Morrowind, then moves to Leyawiin, hoping for wealth. While he is there, his taxes are raised, and he is denied certain services. One day, he is encountered by the Countess and she suggests that he should leave (she doesn't like Dark Elves), and he doesn't have any money, so he is tortured. Eventually he escapes, is chased by the guards and he has to travel back to Morrowind.

Well when it comes to writing the folks in the RP + FF section have a monopoly on that, I'm not kidding it borders on obsession. My personal preference would be kind of like a journal of some random adventure who is drawn into something much bigger...

Eh, over time, it's not as much as it sounds. I mean, don't get me wrong, 100 pages is daunting at first, but I once started a Morrowind character journal that averaged 5 pages per entry, so I had over 100 pages after about a month and a half.



OP, I'd recommend drafting a few original adventure ideas first, and if none of them strike your fancy, then go with Mannimarco. Search for necromancy discussions in TES General regarding the ethics and mindsets of necromancers (there have been several of them, and they've went pretty in-depth) and definitely hit up the Imperial Library and the Fiction subforum.

EDIT: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1060340-necromancy-may-be-legal-in-cyrodiil and http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?showtopic=1053562 are the threads I was thinking of. Sadly, the third one I was thinking of (and the best one) was too old and got culled.

As for names, if you have either Morrowind or Oblivion on PC, then get the Construction Sets for them. Using the CSes, you can look at giant consolidated lists of NPC names, filtered by race. You can then mix and match parts of names or get a general feel for racial naming styles to come up with your own character names. If you don't have PC games or don't want to download the CSes, then look up NPC lists on UESP.

Regarding story ideas, dunno about specifics, but two concepts I've played around with myself are 1) Setting a story around a participant in the War of the Red Diamond, or 2) Setting a story around the abandoned companion of the Nerevarine after the events of Morrowind.

It is going to about a character and his early adventuring years and then goes in depth more to a specific goal when I'm done writing it i may post a link to it so you guys can read it.

I'd try writing quests already in the games. Just take the basic idea (ie steal an elder scroll from the library), then apply your stuff. I would also have suggested making a new character for each story, but that's how she is. Just write about 3 to 5 pages per day. I don't know when your school's over, but you need time for rewriting and rewriting and rewriting, I'm sure.

The longest I've been able to keep one character's story going has been about twenty pages. If I edited that, I'd have about five pages.

I've got the main character

He is an Altmer named Ralvayne Alderi

The story starts with him eating dinner while camping outside of a town in Skyrim. Some random drunken Nord guards come to him beat him and arrest him. They then make a mistake to put him into a regular cell instead of the magicka resistent one. He blows the door off and starts heading to Cyrodill. He eventually gets there as he is a wanted man in Skyrim for killing guards. He goes to bruma and does a few days of misc. work and buys new equipment and heads out to Anvil. t


That's all I got for now and the time is 27 years after Oblivion

Have you thought about building a http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/jun98/lazy2.htm for him?