Does anyone RP a lineage of Characters throughout the series

Post » Mon May 07, 2012 3:42 am

So when I saw the Quakecon demo of Skyrim I remembered just how awesome Oblivion was and got all back into TES. However I decided to change things up and bought Morrowind and began playing as a Nord 100% warrior named Jormundur. I admit that I didn't get that too far into it (made it to Caldera before no longer playing :shrug:) Disheartened, I bought Oblivion off my friend for cheap and thought "hey why not make a character that is the son of Jormundur?" And henceforth came Jormundur III. Then i came up with an even more brilliant idea, "Le gasp! I can have my secessionist character be Jormundur V?!?!? And then I really got into it, I started fleshing out a regular story for everything and the personalities of each and what happened between the games and such. It is all pretty long but in case anyone was interested I put the bios of each Jormundur (including II and IV) in this spoiler...


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Jormundur: A commoner of Whiterun, his name of an ancient hero did not fit him. He was not prideful but wished he could be someone more dignified or well known. He found his job as a miner demeaning and was spiteful and bitter to his family. Looking for a better life, he decided to move his family to Bruma to become a lumberjack. His house was robbed by a man who was too quick for him to catch. Out in the woods he actually found the thief and struck him down. Unfortunately a travelling merchant saw him and had him arrested. He could not prove that he was a thief and was sent to jail.
Age 31: Became the Nevarine! Travelled to Akavir and never heard of again.
(Warrior, a noble man of virtue)
Jormundur II: Strongly disliked his dad for being so spiteful of him and his family and that he abandoned them. At age 13 he learned that his dad was the Nevarine and that he left his family for Akavir. Angry at his dad and his glory seeking, he made a deal with his brother-in-law and moved the family to the whole group’s farm east of Bruma.

Jormundur III: Had the same spirit of his grandfather and was very interested in his epic adventures. He clashed with his dad who was so negative of Jormundur and his glory-seeking. During a prank war with his favorite cousin, he accidently burned down the farm. It was the last straw and Jormundur II kicked him out. He quickly joined a gang of highway men but saved himself by surrendering to the Imperial Legionaries who were sent to eradicate the group.
Became a vampire and hid it for a long time (actually not a cop-out on bridging the 200 year gap, happened while I was still wondering how I was going to do this in two generations). After many years of being the undisputed Grand-Champion and Grand-Master of the Fighter’s Guild, he once saw the reflection of himself in a river after just drinking the blood of a young boy. Disgusted he finally sought out a friend in the mage’s guild for a cure who then recommended him to Count Janus Hassildor, who then recommended him to a group of witches who finally gave him instructions on what to do. After months of searching, they found the ingredients and Jormundur was cured!!! Elated he almost immediately began to court the daughter of the old owner of the Gray Mare whom he always had a secret love for. Finally he was able to retire in peace.
(Crusader, slightly “darker” than his predecessor with a slight temper, but still no murderer or thief.)
Jormundur IV: Good-looking, rich, and famous; Jormundur IV was the JFK Jr. of his world. He had tons of girlfriends but thanks to his servants he managed never to get them pregnant. After many years of this lifestyle he finally married a woman bard just as promiscuous and wild as himself. Sadly however she was unable to have children. After sometime a DB assassin came for his wife for events that she was on the run from. Jormundur IV fought the assassin and rendered him nearly immobile, just as he came up to finish him off, the assassin threw his knife in his last breath into Jormundur’s brain putting him into a coma. For 18 years he was in this state until a mage finally healed him. When he awoke he learned that his wife had died from another assassin while watching him in the very room he woke up in. He was getting old and his father pressed him for an heir of their lineage. Depressed, he had hot, loveless six with many women eager to get with him until he died of old age.

Jormundur V: never knew his father personally but learned all about his lineage’s history. People told him how great his grandfather was and that his great-great grandfather was a man called the nevarine and considered a provincial hero in a place called morrowind. Without a father figure, Jormundur grew up rowdy rebellious and such even if he loved his mother. He left the house at 18 to join the fighters guild where he met friends. The group decided to journey to Skyrim to fight for its independence however the imperial legion caught them on the border and imprisoned them for suspicion. Once one of them admitted to their intentions they were sentenced to execution for treason against the empire. Jormundur was scheduled to be one of the last.
(Warrior, the darkest one of the bunch, still good but has quite the temper and serves the efforts of the Nords rather than what is right.)

Has anyone else done this before or planning to? It actually makes thing more interesting than you may first think. :wink_smile:
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Austin England
 
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 11:30 am

Thats very interesting. I've never really thought of my character having a son or daughter, usually I make a cheap exuse for them staying alive (This time its Vampirism >.>).

Opens a new door for me. Im brainstorming a family line now. ;)


EDIT: One thing was strange to me though, if Jormundur II hated his father, why would he name his son after him?
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 1:32 pm

Thats very interesting. I've never really thought of my character having a son or daughter, usually I make a cheap exuse for them staying alive (This time its Vampirism >.>).

Opens a new door for me. Im brainstorming a family line now. ;)


EDIT: One thing was strange to me though, if Jormundur II hated his father, why would he name his son after him?

Haha I actually thought of that too, I just came up with that his wife thought they were sorta obligated to do it... he was a national hero and all... :-/

And glad to of been a source of inspiration! :)
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 5:51 am

Yeah. My Lycanthrope characters survived by the time of Skyrim because they willingly traveled to Hircine's realm. And when they are in a Daedric Realm, they do not age. Now, my vampire characters were born with vampirism by suspected Daedric pact. They are of Cyrodiilic bloodline and will travel to Skyrim to get involved with politics after the Empire crumbled.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 9:12 am

I've never doen a dynasty, though I might at some point. Its an interesting idea, but I prefer stand-alone characters or playing the same character. My main is female Dunmer, and i've grown realy attached to her.

If you play through Morrowind first with a Human/Khajiit/Argonian, or start Arena with a young Mer and then play Morrowind, then age isn't a problem thanks to being the Nerevarine. As i'm sure people are sick of hearing, thats what my character has done. Started Arena at sixteen and was in her fifties (roughly the equivilent of a human in their early-mind twenties for a mer since they stay in their prime for most of their first centuary) when she caught corpus and took Divayth Fyr's 'cure'. Physically she won't have changed by Skyrim. Being a Dunmer, however, a lot will have happened to have chaged her personality aside from all the hero stuff. Including a hatred of the Argonians, and a fondess for the Nords for letting her people have Solthiem.

The 'tough' part is linking the games, and its actually pretty easy, stats dealt with by codes and mods. Arena to Daggerfall? You are the Emperor's trusted Agent because you saved him. Daggerfall to Morrowind? I chose to give the Mantella to free the Underking, therefor betraying the Empire and earning a prison cell for a decade. Then, she was sent to Morrowind to fulfill the Nerevarine prophecies. Morrowind to Oblivion? When all was said and done the Nerevarine and Hortator titles are just that, and had no real bearing once Dagoth Ur was gone. Being blocked from all avenues of helping her people with her title and popularity, and by the same Councilors who had supported her, she also recieved countless Tong contracts against her and it became too dangerous to stay in Morrowind. She spread the rumor of a trip to Akavir, and then hightailed it to Cyrodiil to start her life fresh. Just make up a reason for her ending up in the cell, and you have Oblivion set up. As for the Emperor not recognising her for the Eternal Champion, who says he doesn't? He is just unwilling to show such familiarity in front of his Blades.

Skyrim will be easier still. Part of the Nerevarine prophecy declares him/her dragon-born and could simplyhave more than one meaning. It's over two-hundreds years later, so fame and recognition are unlikely to be an issue. I plan to start off at level 1 again, after a hundred years without fighting (except perhaps the odd arrow used to scare bandits off her farmstead). I plan on saving this playthrough, with this character, until after I get to know Skyrim more first however, so I can soak up the lore, and finish up everything I want to see her accomplish in Oblivion first.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 6:36 am

Just to make sure, you realise MW and OB are only set a few years apart, right? Jorundur I would have to be pretty old in MW for it to make sense.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 10:47 am

I make separate characters AND also characters that have 'done it all' so to speak. I find the separate characters to be funner to RP. I like to think of it as a Soul Lineage. The Heroes Souls are recycled. There is more than one in case there is need but they all are different and the same. CHIM souls...omg what did I just make...hmmm are all the heroes of the scrolls a part of the a lineage of Souls that are in a constant state of CHIM....must ponder...screw Biology test....
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 12:56 am

Well my Breton in Arena had a half-brother Orc in Daggerfall. He also had 2 sons: 1 Dark Elf in Morrowind and 1 Imperial who went to Oblivion. Strangley they are all named Weslor (a family name :P ).

I think my Nord in Skyrim will be related also. ;)


But from the start my idea was that they they all shared a mother who was a protitute and named all her sons Weslor. But that idea was just so stupid and the age difference was to big.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 12:27 am

I'm actually doing a dynasty too! A whole line of Imperials, that is. My Morrowind main char, Flunius Magnus, is the uncle of my Oblivion character, Arelar Magnus. I still need to make a background for my Skyrim character, but it will be the son of a man and a woman who are both family of my Oblivion or Morrowind character, so to say, the lineage comes together 200 years after in one child: Dragonborn! They're all gifted in the magic schools of destruction, alteration, conjuration and restoration. Most use heavy or medium armor (Morrowind), or no armor at all (oblivion). They all use blades too, long blades in particular.

Of course, I also play some other characters. At the moment a dunmer called Midaves Urelnim in Morrowind. I use him to kill time until Skyrim hits the stores.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 12:57 am

Just to make sure, you realise MW and OB are only set a few years apart, right? Jorundur I would have to be pretty old in MW for it to make sense.

This is indeed true, 5-6 years (5 since I think the events in Morrowind could and should very well take place during more than a year) apart to be precise.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 2:06 am

Yep, I RP and entire dynasty, a family of Dumner to be exact. My Daggerfall character is the son of my Arena character, and my Morrowind and Oblivion characters are brothers, the sons of my Daggerfall character. And my Skyrim character will likely be a descendant of that family.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 12:14 am

Reymas Ashborne is a Dunmer born between the forbidden union of an Ashlander priestess and a noble Tribunal Lord. As a royal-blooded Dunmer, he is predicted to live between 300 and 500 years. In the events of Arena (3E 389) he was around 23, which means he was also integral in the Warp in the West (3E 417 - Age 51), the Red Mountain events (3E 427 - Age 61), the Oblivion crisis (3E 433 - Age 67) and even spent some time in the Battlespire.

But now he is an aging hermit, having left his life of adventure behind to settle as a refugee in Eastern Skyrim. The cool air does his brittle bones good and the isolation of the mountains is a welcome respite from his tiresome past life as warrior, thief, assassin, hero and villain alike. To think one person could have had such a full life, even several centuries-worth.

But wait...who's this come rapping at his door? Imperial soldiers? What could they want with him? Oh well, I'm sure it's nothing...

Yeah so I play as one character, considering the lifespan of the Dunmer, and for Skyrim he is now an elderly man in his 3rd century of living, and he wants nothing more than to live out his days in his peaceful mountain cabin. Something tells me he won't have that luxury just yet. He's rusty, and will have to re-learn much of his old knowledge. But if nothing else, he is a survivor...
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 11:41 am

Just to make sure, you realise MW and OB are only set a few years apart, right? Jorundur I would have to be pretty old in MW for it to make sense.

Really? I could of sworn that I read somewhere it was 34 years... time for research! I'll edit this post with my findings. :read:

EDIT: 6 year difference, DAMN! Hmmm... Jormundur was in jail for a long time so Jormundur II can still of been angry at him in his childhood and Jormundur III heard of the events of TES3 when he was 15 years old and still fulfill the events of the Oblivion Crisis at 21! Whew! Close one. :turned:
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 12:44 am

This sounds really interesting, sadly due to all of my characters sixuality it can't happen, unless of course I make up some of my own lore and say that...I don't know, the gods/deadra/whatever granted my character a child from the heavens due to his deeds that is infused with his and his husbands blood or something.
It is something to ponder, I might just make something like that...hmmm time to start brainstorming I suppose.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 7:02 am

double post! :brokencomputer:
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 8:02 am

Wuuutt... ALL your characters are gay?
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 12:35 pm

Wuuutt... ALL your characters are gay?

Of course :P
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Post » Sun May 06, 2012 9:10 pm

I did. I made my Arena and Daggerfall character the same person, and my character in Morrowind his son, and my character in Oblivion was my Morrowind character's son. In my Morrowind backstory I decided my character was 32 and did the dirty 12 years before in one of the places he was assigned to in the Imperial Legion. So ya, my Oblivion character is pretty young compared to him. Due to my Oblivion character becoming Sheogorath and busy having fun in other ways I decided to start a new family line in Skyrim.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 9:24 am

I did. I made my Arena and Daggerfall character the same person, and my character in Morrowind his son, and my character in Oblivion was my Morrowind character's son. In my Morrowind backstory I decided my character was 32 and did the dirty 12 years before in one of the places he was assigned to in the Imperial Legion. So ya, my Oblivion character is pretty young compared to him. Due to my Oblivion character becoming Sheogorath and busy having fun in other ways I decided to start a new family line in Skyrim.

Gahh.. is the CoC becoming Sheogorath canon? because... that's.... just.... dumb. THERE I SAID IT! Shoot me!
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 12:20 pm

I do. My khajiit in morrowind had a bastard son a few years back. Which is what starts in ob. Depending the time between the two games there might be another.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 4:28 am

Gahh.. is the CoC becoming Sheogorath canon? because... that's.... just.... dumb. THERE I SAID IT! Shoot me!

*Shoots*
Its sort of difficult to say, since this is TES so all we know is that while all the events did happen we don't know if the CoC did all of them, we just know that he/she became the CoC, but I do think that It is rather accepted that he/she did become Sheo since it was a rather big DLC, but thankful as I said before this is TES so what is Canon is up to you.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 9:18 am

Azurkal has been reborn again and again. His consciousness differs from his lives and experiences within those lives. He started as a Great Dragon, but that life died in myth and lore, maybe to become a man by choice, able to weave his spirit into a man, to rise when turmoil is at it's peak. For when the world of mortal men need a hero. And he may not know it, for he chose to live as a man, not the being of wisdom spanning several life times. He may be a simple adventurer, washed ashore without memory, a prisoner that knows not why he is locked away, but when his true calling presents itself he comes to, truly awake once more. Even if his kind were gone, hunted down and slain by men, Azurkal's love for mankind and their great potential gave him a greater calling. Sometimes he would be a famed hero who's actions were as waves that rippled across far and wide, always coming from a humble beginning or a life of misfortune and ill deeds. He lives as a man, in mirror image, so as to understand them. Alduin's return is bound to awaken Azurkal once more, and through the flesh and bone of a man, the soul of the once Great Dragon will burn once more.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 8:26 am

I do this, with several characters. Each one has sires that carry on either the name, or the family talents (marksmen extraordinaire) through the series. I enjoy it better this way, makes the character immersion better with a little homemade backstory.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 8:44 am

The lineage approach is definitely a cool approach I like that. But it won't work for the way I play, as I like to create different races between the series and sometimes I will start another new game. In fact I am seriously considering creating 3 profiles and start a different race/class for each one obviously and take turns playing each of them. I expect to eventually like playing a certain one better and end up devoting all or most of my time on that one.

But I guess if you want to get real serious about rp'ing you could create sibling characters and have a way to make a game story for each of them following their own path through world.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 1:44 am

Yes; I played an Orc in Morrowind named Loryama gra-Uzgul, and then made her goth-y cousin, Ozyna, in OB. Going to make a descendant of their family for my first character in Skyrim.
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