Hey all. So I'm pretty new to this game. I had a 40 bosmer which I considered a failure. My rp with her was all over the place. She was my first character and in 135 hours, I went through so much change that it killed the mood to Rp her..

Now doing a nord based heavily off the Green Arrow and imo I've been pulling it off so well. Lvl 21 and I've never been happier to play this. Of course I'm not purely RPing the emerald archer, but my own TES version.

Now I have 2 questions. I don't plan on doing the main quest for a long time, as I want Arjen to be well established into his new life in skyrim, and also be deep into my build. Playing the main quest at an early level was terrible my first time around and I didn't care for it at all at a low level, but when I eventually start it I don't want to accept my role as a Dragonborn...it kills the point of my Green Arrow inspired character (I dont want to use shouts at all) How would you all RP that situation? I just don't see it as realistic to reject using shouts since they are so killer in this world. Plus I know shouts are key to the main story...im not creative enough to headcanon around that.

2nd I don't own any dlcs and will probably get Dragonborn first. Reasoning? My guy fell in love with Jenassa very early on and married her. Eventually he will want to take her over to Morrowind to visit when life for them gets better. (They both still live off bounty hunts which I like to RP are more than 100 coins) but the title of the DLC much like my first problem makes me think I'll have to accept my role as the DB to start that DLC. Without dlc spoilers, can anyone confirm that? Can I run that DLC and enjoy majority of its content without that worry?

And since I'm here bonus question. Why is Jenassa running out of orcish arrows? Previously I remember hearing 3 was enough for followers to have an infinite amount. I remmeber giving Stenvar only 3 and he was good. Yet giving Jen 20-25 and she will eventually run out, and I'll know cuz she won't use her dwarven bow after. (Or any bow) She's been bow heavy with me until the enemy is close enough.

Im not sure if you are a console or pc player. If PC, there is a mod on Nexus that has an alternate life. Really good if you want to avoid being DB, you can state you dont want to earn dragon souls and such.

If you are a console player, you can just not use the dragon shouts you acquire, think of it as learning some secret language and such as your journey through the world.

Your second question, the only way I found to start Dragonborn is accepting that you are the dragonborn, there may be other ways. I could have sworn someone said that you can just jump on the ship and go. Maybe someone else can explain that.

Either way, if you have to get shouts and stuff, just dont use them. You can play the game just fine without them.

You can visit Solstheim and experience most of the content without being Dragonborn. Don't expect to be able to visit the Skaal Village, though.

If your on the PC its VERY easy to not be dragonborn. Alternate Start mod lets you start just about anywhere and not worry about dragons.

But if you have no other choice, simply don't visit the grey beards. By not going to see them, the MQ for Dragon Born DLC will not trigger. I play most of my characters as non dragonborn characters. I just RP that upon its death the dragon just bursts into flames. I don't go near word walls and if I do, I just don't spend souls on them. Its a simple... oversight if you will. I completely ignore the fact my character is a dragonborn. Its an easy mindset to get into and doesn't ruin the RP.

Lets say however you have no choice, your on the console. you had to kill the first dragon. You want to go to Solstheim. No problem. I recommend learning the first word to Bend Will on the island near the Skaal village. Spend a dragon soul on it and then use that on the stone shrines, should be five of them. Now you can sleep on the island without waking up working on a shrine. And the skaal village will go back to normal. I tried AND tested this, it works. no auto quest progression. My non dragonborn did this even. I gave her a soul through the console and had her shout on the shrines. Worked like a charm.

Point is, unless you plan to do the Civil War, you don't need to do anything that has to do with dragons. Ignore it.