Here is my first rough draft attempt at actually scribbling out a back story. Usually I just think a little bit about it in my head then play a game. This time I wanted to get a tiny bit more detailed.

What do you think of this? Any suggestions or comments are welcome. Just getting started, this may be all I need to keep me immersed with this next play through (my second).


My dad was a traveling Breton bard. While in solitude he seduced my mother with his silver tongue and she became pregnant. She was an imperial and an arcane maester for imperials stationed in Solitude. Maesters aren't allowed to have kids she was going to abort me, but he convinced her to have the baby. In return, he had to promise to raise me. Somehow he did raise me and we traveled together. He would enter archery tournaments to try to make some extra coin but rarely won anything. At least his bow was good for small game and he taught me how to use it when I was old enough. A bow and blade were handy on the road. Besides women, his weakness was stealing (another good reason to keep on the move). He got greedy and tried to steal from a vampire which ended up killing him.

Distraught, alone and somewhat curious about my mother, since we never traveled back to Solitude, I worked my way back to Solitude to find her. I did find her and she crumbled under years of regret for not helping raise me, accepting me and helping get on my feet in solitude. She helped me find some of my arcane skills during our brief year together. She was also killed during the Nord raid on Solitude when they killed the king.

Distraught yet again, I decided to go back to my Breton homeland (where we had traveled the most) and try to make a yet another new life. Maybe be bard like dad, I wasn't sure. Unfortunately I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and captured while trying to cross the border out of Skyrim. The imperials captured the nord leaders nearby and assumed I was part of their band. Then the game starts. Being captured and going through the game beginning fuels a fire in me to seek revenge against the Nords for killing my mother and indirectly getting me involved with the fiasco at Helgen.

Themes for immersion choices in game: Hates Nords, Hates Vampires, Has dad's gene and likes to steal, like gold, likes bling, but feels guilty about it. Luckily lots of Nords around to steal from and no guilt stealing from them