The Champion of Cyrodil, Catherine Lightbringer had very humble beginnings. Her parents were petty thieves, Arnora Auria and Jorundur. Arnora and Jorundur were suprised when they had Catherine. They knew a baby would only slow them down so they hired a nanny and left the babe in Kvatch.

Catherine never really knew her parents as the City was her parents. Savlian Mattius was her father figure. When she was young he would always ruffle her hair and give her a septim when she was good, when she was bad she would tell her what she did wrong and tell her a tale about the nine Divines on why the gods disapproved of it, Because of this she became very religious.

She learned she had an affinity for magic when she got in a fight with a kid that would pick on her, she nearly blasted his eyebrows off. The mages guild taught her how to refine her arts she learned how to give and take life with equal efficiency. Savlian taught her to use her gifts only to defender herself and to help the less fortunate. She found she had an affinity for illusion and restoration. She was also good at drain and damage and absorb health spells for self-defense.

One day she was in the imperial city to buy some ingredients for alchemy, when she saw two people fighting some guards when one of them were stabbed by the woman, she look oddly familiar. Catherine ran over to the guard to try and heal him. The guards came in and arrested Christine because she matched the description of the woman. Now she finds herself in prison only able to cast the simplest of spell. She was probably drugged.

What do you guys think?

you may want to move it to the art & fan fic section, i had mine deleted for putting it here, an admin told me to move it...



(I am not an admin, just trying to be friendly :wink_smile: )

I like the backstory of how she grew up and ended up in prison. I do have a question for you however; if you know that she is the Champion of Cyrodiil, is her game not simply marching her through a script? If that is your intent, so be it, but have you considered letting her chart her own course? I would love to see her reaction upon returning to her town of Kvatch, but if we know she is already to be the Champion of Cyrodiil, her path and choices have already been made for her.

You might consider getting to really know her while she is in the prison, then trying to listen to her and guide her with the gentlest of hands so that the path she follows is hers.

My approach is to provide a fairly detailed backstory up until the game starts. Then I like to see my character choose their course. Because you are posting this in the gameplay forum (not in fanfic), I presume Catherine is a living breathing character to play, not simply the Champion of Cyrodiil writing her memoires?

Or, your approach to RP may be just as valid, but different than mine so feel free to ignore this. :tongue:

Yes man ftw
i have seen alot of these posts so i thought it would be ok

Acadian
I just thought she would be a righteous priest and she would be a great champion of cyrodil. I might try your method because you are the one who made me want to role play. i might try your way. how do you usually get to know your characters

oh yeah and as for hers stats should i pick the magic skills as majors or do they level too fast

If I were setting up this character, I would definitely set Restoration and Illusion as majors, given that they are important to the character (plus you get a head start on them.) I would set one other skill that the character was going to use -- perhaps a fighting skill? -- as a Major, and then fill the rest of the Majors with slow-use skills that you don't plan on using.

Any skills that level quickly, like Alchemy and Sneak, I would definitely set as Minors.

It takes a bit longer to train up skills from minors, but the result is a stronger character. And you can then control how high your character levels by deciding when, and how much, to train your "low-use Majors."

Thanks glargg, ok so does anyone know where i can get the miscellaneous dlc because they beth store is down so is there another way or am i just screwed

I’m afraid my own experience regarding getting to know your character may be of little utility; I only play one character and attribute any success we’ve had to luck and magic. I guess, however, the conventional wisdom for those of us who play ‘travel with your character’ instead of ‘become your character’ is to ‘listen’ carefully for hints and clues from them. Use a gentle hand and pay attention to what they notice and how they react to differing things they encounter.

As far as major skills, you will get as many answers as there are players. I pick majors based purely on two considerations:
1. How fast my character levels. When considering magic skills, the relevant considerations for me are that restoration and destruction both level slowly. All the others level too fast for me to consider as major skills.
2. How high my character levels. Here, I’m simply referring to selecting a handful of majors to never touch, thereby capping my character’s top level.

As far as DLCs, I got SI (I know it's an expansion, not a DLC) from a disc called Shivering Isles. I got KOTN and the rest from a disc called Knights of the Nine Oblivion Downloadable Content Collection. I got both discs from a game store several years ago. Not that the KOTN DLC disc does not include Battlehorn Castle since that DLC came out after the disc.