So like the past three games you have been a prisoner/slave (idk about arena i never played)... What about in Skyrim what happens then, because bethesda seems to like making their free roam rpg games so that the character are always in a bad postion in the begging (excluding FO3)...

waking up from a blow to the head, mild amnesia, surrounded by dead comrades, with one left barely alive able to speak vaguely of what happened before dying.

Werent you a Blade in Daggerfall?

Dazed, you hear the wind ringing in your ear, and wings... you slowly regain consciousness and you're watching Skyrim from a thousand feet up in the air. Long enough to see towns/forests/shrines/peaks.

You're then thrown into a nest full of bones and you realize that a dragon was carrying you all the way to its nest to feed its welps. You fend off some of them with the weaponry you find laying around. Some more eggs start hatching and you're surrounded by the beasts.

At this point, you hear a call to arms and a bunch of Axe-throwing Nords decimate the welps. They save you, talk to you for a while (character creation) and end up telling you you need to flee because the dragon will come back.

As you make your way out of the nest and into the harsh cold of the mountain, you look back and see the enraged dragon spew its flames into the air.

Cut to black: TES: Skyrim written in flames

I thought that you were in a prison or dungeon and then something happened and then you had to get a staff and let out the emperor

A blizzard howls as you clutch your rags, one of several slaves in the rickety wagon cage. In the corner across from you, children huddle together for warmth.

You peer through the wooden bars. Weeks ago you could have broken them, but now your strength is spent. The pack dogs pant, surging onward with another crack of the whip.

One of the barbarian slavers is eyeing the young bosmer girl beside you in the cage. She couldn't be more than twelve. He's looking hard. Then the horn sounds.

The warriors descend swiftly upon the unsuspecting barbarians, but are they really here to free you, or just another band of raiders? Blood sprays as one of the slavers crashes into the side of the cage, his body slumping down. If you're quick, you reach for the key ring at his side....

....otherwise you wait. The battle is over in moments. One of the nord warriors walks up to the cage. There's a strange crest on his briast plate. It looks faintly familar. His raises his axe. The lock bursts off the door with a clang.

The tattoo on your arm - the one you've had since childhood, but never understood - He knows what it means. Your father had the same tattoo....

Choose one: nature takes you down while you're traveling, evil takes you down while you're traveling, blow to the head, been captured for some reason

Alternatively, it can be something new an interesting (I can't think of anything =/).

I like this aside from the tattoo thing and the children, because I'm quite confident any children would be immortal.

hmm.... all intresting theories but knowing bethesda you wont have any past at all

I personally like the same based situations we end up in. Why would you like to change the game series you love to play? I personally think this threads topic is selfish. Thats just me though

The series hasn't always started with you in a prison.

If this thread is selfish so is any other thread offering feedback.

selfish? i never said that i didnt want it i was just wondering what you guys thought... Idk how its selfish either

You wake up outside a tavern that you were recently thrown out of while in a drunken stupor.

How many stories in Skyrim should start, big or small.

prisoned for public urination, then a dragon attacks the town in which you reside and blows a wall in your cell

not sure about the wall blowing up, but you should be imprisoned for public urination



or you could have been taken captive during the oblivion crysis, you awake in a dremora cell and you manage to escape to some portal

Wake up in the gutter in a pool of your own vomit.

Also someone has pissed your pants.

Revenge shall be yours.