I love to RP, as do many people on this board and I'm absolutley wired about the RP prospects of Skyrim. Even now as I type this I'm riddle with ideas about characters.

However, I've pretty much, based on what I know about Skyrim to date, created my main quest character and given him a backstory, so here goes.

His name is Brajik, he's a Nord soldier who serves in the Imperial Leigon. Stationed in Skyrim. His platoon are ordered to travel to a seemingly neutral village and discover if any of the anti-imperial rebels are using it as a supply depot. On arrival, he and his comrades search the village. They find no evidence of rebels there. Brajik searches for his Commander, an Imperial (who he doesn't like nor likes him) he finds him in a house where he, and three other Imperials are interrogating a widow and her two teenage daughters. Brajik is ordered to wait outside the house. He complies, after he leaves, the commander raqes the daughters one at a time. Brajik knows this is going on and it enrages him, but his duty prevents him from preventing it. He hears the words 'Bring out the youngest' and he hears one of the soldiers doing so. He hears the widow pleading with the commander not to harm the youngest (she has three daughters) as she is only a child. Brajik's rage is now at boiling point and he storms the house, kills the three imperial soldiers, fights the commander and after a vicious fight slays him. The other Legionares force Brajik to the ground and arrests him for treason. He is quickly and unfairly tried and sentanced to death.

I'm hoping, you get to somehow choose and influence either the Pro-imperial and anti-imperial factions (your choice will decide who wins the war at the end of the game). If thats the case, I will choose the rebels and carry on fro there.

Comments and constructive criticism welcome

Yes, yes I have thought of a background for my character.
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My back story is a book, no joke it's beefy. I went all out.

It's to complicated to post a summation of it without doing it a great injustice though.

As for your story, it seems sound. It definitely brings in emotions.

For the pro-imperial versus anti-imperial stuff. Skyrim takes place in a civil war about it's future in the empire so it would seem plausible you can join a side. But the decision of your character may be iffy because everything important the hero does is canon :spotted owl:

I'm not able to imagine a background because the game doesn't have classes anymore. [/sarcasm]

I'm usually terrible at going in-depth as to the motivations, goals, etc., of my characters.

I do have some basics so that I have a general guideline to follow. (Knightly Code, Chivalry, and all that)

Although I do tend to make their backgrounds as I progress through the game. Sort of like a story that is yet to be written! :goodjob:

Not really, no. I have not met my character yet. All I know is her name is Vannora Shale-Fist and she is a female Nord. She probably got that name from being strong willed as a child and taking physical action against those who she did not like. Beyond that, I know nothing about her. I'll know her back story and who she is within the first few hours of watching her journey through Skyrim though, I suspect.

Two main reasons for that:
1. I roleplay in a third-person kind of way. I am not my character, I am watching my character journey through her life in the in-game world, and I forget that I am controlling her, so it's like being introduced to a character in a book or movie.
2. I don't want to make a backstory that doesn't fit into the game world. It would be annoying if I made a whole big backstory and had my mind set on that, only to find out that it just doesn't work for whatever reason, maybe lore issues or something, or that it would be much more interesting for her to have a totally different backstory.

My character is Othor, an evil wannabe troll who is know for stealing others' books and notes. In fact, he is so well know that a whole faction who goes simply by BGSF wants him to be taken down.

Here's my background:

A young nord arrives in Skyrim pursuing his kidnapped sister and to avenge his murdered father. He was a farmboy for all his late childhood and adolescent years, assisting his father in the upkeep of a farm near Skingrad. He does not trust elves because they currently are in control of the Empire (I heard this, but not sure if it's entirely accurate), so he will have to learn to trust the elves he meets on his journey (hopefully, you can have elves as companions). When he became a man at 18, he left the farm to pursue a career as a blacksmith and to fight with Bruma’s sect of the Cyrodiil Resistance. But now, at age 22, with his father murdered and his sister kidnapped, he leaves Cyrodiil after learning the kidnappers/killers were last seen in Skyrim. However, he soon learns of his true power and finds himself involved in MUCH MORE than just the search for his sister. Assists the rebels who are fighting the elves who took over Tamriel since the rule of High Chancellor Ocato – elves partly responsible for his loss. His favorite food is sweet rolls, dear meat, boar meat, and salmon, but considering salmon is not to be found in Cyrodiil, he has always had to purchase salmon (now, HOPEFULLY, he can catch salmon). : Believes as most Nords do in their creation on High Hrothgar (Snow Throat, Throat of the World) by Shor. So, it will be a spiritual/special journey for him to climb High Hrothgar.

Well, to put it simply

Name - Aaron Casamir
Race - Breton

He was born in a farmhouse not far from Wayrest, High Rock, to a Breton mother and Nord father. His sisters died when he was 8, his father died when he was 16, and his mother died when he was 19. After that, he left for Daggerfall to become a scholar. He became a book store assistant instead. When he was 33, he was tasked to get some books from Skyrim, while passing the border, he stumbled upon a dying Altmer noble, after the noble died in his arms he was arrested for being the most likely suspect. The wealthy family of the noble made sure he went to prison. In the climate of civil war, the prisons were getting over crowded, and Aaron was sentenced to death.

Phew.

I did have a backstory for my character, but I decided I didn't like it...I've been trying to think up another one.

This is closest to where I'm at. It'll be impossible for me to create a backstory until I actually have the game. All I know (so far) is that I want to create a Xena-type character. I tried to do this in Oblivion with Renee Gade II, but none of the vanilla hairstyles have bangs.

my back story is After the Events of Morrowind my character was frozen by a wizard while on a quest to the imperial city, by the time the ice melted he wanted some ale, he was thrown in prison for the same day...

then after escaping the events of oblivion he meet the same wizard that froze him, before getting a good blow on him he was teleported to the body of a baby in Vault 101 and started his new adventure of the Capital wasteland...

after meeting a enclave scientist who knew the secrets of Inter-dimensional traveling thus was ported to Aperture laboratories where he was forced to become a test subject and was mind [censored] by a super computer A.I. named GLaDOS. after killing the super A.I. and meeting GLaDOS for the third time he asked her if she could help him reach his own universe...

so she opened up a portal to Skyrim. After a long day of testing our Hero wanted some good old Ale. He woke up the next day in prison awaiting his execution

Oo yes.
My 'guy' actually is the same hero as the one from Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion.
Maybe Arena too but I dont know his history in that as Ive never played Arena.
Merari is an Altmer who finds himself eternally in the midst of world shattering events, a hero against will or desire.
He dies and reincarnates just to come of age when the world needs him to prevent it ending.

Throughout his fight against global machinations he slowly regains his memory. For instance he finds out that the recurring dream about being shipwrecked and ending up in a cave-like dungeon called the Privateers Hold is not just an omen, it is a memory of a past life.

His incarnations seem to make no logical sense timewise. He dies when the event he was supposed to play a role in is well and truly over, and he gets born in time to grow into the next one. This means he sometimes is born before he dies. Most people are, but most people arent in different bodies.
The Morrowind version of Merari once calculated that at that point in time no less than three Meraris were alive.
The Daggerfall one coming to terms with the effects of Numindium, the Morrowind one in the midst of the blight crisis and the Oblivion one, growin up on a farm in Cyrodiil.
Yet for him this is one continous event, each one dying and getting reborn when needed, one after the other.
He isnt happy about this either.

For once he would like a quiet life, a century away from major events either way, collecting beetles or reading and never ever having to worry about the state of the world.
But he knows that the gods have placed a great doom upon him, or maybe something beyond the gods, and that he must for ever grow up, realise he is the only one, save the day, and die.

In between incarnations he is able to retain some knowledge of past lives, subconsciously. That is why at a young age he displays a great aptitude for destruction and illusion magics.

I was planning on making a separate character to do the MQ, but I already made a backstory for my mage character and he seems perfect for the MQ, lol. I'm wondering If I should make different characters for each of the big mission paths... Like I have a Main Quest, Arena, and SI character in OB along with a Mage's Guild one and a Fighter's Guild and KotN character... Anyways...


Name - Azel Vareth
Race - Breton

Every few generations in the Vareth bloodline, a child is born with an innate & incredible gift at controlling Magicka. These individuals are called Ascendants (class name). The last Ascendant was Astor Vareth, the Arch-Mage of the Mage's Guild in Cyrodiil who defeated Mannimarco and his legion. Astor had 1 child, a girl, who to the surprise of all was not very good with magic. She made a name for herself as a melee fighter however, and was recruited by the blades. Since then the Vareth line has been connected to the Blades. During the blades extermination however, the Vareths moved north, to Skyrim.

Azel was born in Skyrim, and lived with his parents. They were still cautious however, so they lived a peaceful life outside one of the cities in a small town. Azel's parents quickly noticed his prowess in magic. Azel was taught about hs family's past, and was glad to be part of such a unique bloodline. When Azel was 18, his parents told him that they had to leave Skyrim, to go to Cyrodiil and find out the situation there. Azel was left to some friends of the family, and has been living with them and training in magic until...

... 1 month before the beginning of Skyrim. Azel is now 20 years old, and has gotten much better in controlling Magic. He makes a living by creating and selling potions, and loves to travel to unique and dangerous places to find new ingredients and train with magic. One day, he decided to go south to a small border town, to sell some potions and find more ingredients. He got there and was on his way to an inn, but heard a roar in the distance. A dragon descended upon the town, and landed on a building across the street from Azel. The dragon started attacking the town, and even though Azel put up a good fight, he could not stop the dragon from destroying the town and killing the few inhabitants there. Azel was the only one left, and passed out.

A group of (whatever the police force in Skyrim is) was attracted to the town by the smoke, and saw Azel laying on the ground. They figured out that he was a mage, and thought he was the one that destroyed the town. They tied him up, and brought him to the beggining town and scheduled him for execution. Azel had a plan to escape, but then whatever happens at the start of Skyrim happens.

That is very interesting, although I feel that the Morrowind/Oblivion Merari could have been the same one since it isn't that far apart(I don't recall how far DF and MW were).

But its your RP, and a very interesting one.

"Wake up, Dr. Freeman. Wake up and smell the ashes."

Nope. I really want to role play with my first character, but I'm not good at this whole "writing a backstory" thing... :confused:

I have a basic background. Very basic. I'll probably flesh it out later, though. About the same time I finally give me character an actual name, which she does not yet have.

Hey, a question for you all, do you guys make multiple characters that are separate from the others, or are they in the same world?

In Oblivion I have 3 characters, 1 for the Mage's Guild, 1 for the MQ, Arena, & SI, and another for the Fighter's Guild and KotN. They are supposed to be in the same world, doing their stuff all at the same time, and they just never really meet each other.

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Nope. I just create one character at a time and she goes where the winds take her. Even if it's the doorstep of every guild.

Yes.

My MQ character was an Imperial Knight (vanilla), after four years I still haven't completed the MQ with him.

Others, for KotN and Shivering Isles and many side quests include:

A Nord Slayer (CC)
An Orc Adventurer (CC)
A Breton Spellsword (VC)
A Dunmer Soul Hunter (CC)
A Bosmer Ranger (CC)
An Imperial Battlemage (VC)
And a Nord Valkyrie (CC)

By the way, CC means Custom Class and VC means Vanilla Class.

A pissed off Bosmer whose sick of the racism against him and his short buddies, he has a bone to pick and wants to start a fight with everyone.