http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Ramsay_Snow

As I play this game, I'm always simultaneously thinking of Game of Thrones and how the two worlds might interact, even coming up with ways to realize and roleplay those characters in Skyrim. So, after putting much thought into the logistics of the Bastard of Bolton being a Skyrim citizen, I've come up with a somewhat structured basis for who he is and how he fits into the world of Skyrim, I'm also looking for feedback from those who might be better at this sort of thing.

Ramsay Snow (Skyrim version)

(Character information)

[events pre-Skyrim]
- Bastard son of a lesser Jarl, whose Keep is located in the mountains between Winterhold and Windhelm.
- Savage and cruel, torturing and terrorizing local innocents for his own sick amusemant. In his early-mid 20's
- Silver-tongued - very sly and deceitful, a "skilled" hunter.
- (warning: graphic, but necessary to understand the character) Inseparable from his childhood companion Reek, a filthy, foul-smelling and demented manservant to Ramsay. Reek gleefully engages in Ramsay's sick games without hesitation, which include abducting peasant women from local farms and settlements and releasing them naked into the Bolton mountains, where he gives them a day's head start before sounding the horns and hunting them down with his pack of feral hounds. After he catches them (and he always does) he and Reek take turns [censored] the girls and flaying the skin from their bodies before slitting their throat. If they manage to give him good sport, he slits their throat before flaying them. After they are finished, the women are fed to the hounds and if she managed to please Ramsay, he will name a pup from the next litter after her. It is unknown if Ramsay corrupted Reek, or if Reek corrupted Ramsay.
- His father is off filling a position of command in Ulfric Stormcloak's rebel army, though his father has expressed his contempt for Ulfric in the past, viewing him as an unfit leader.
- Months earlier his Father's true born son was thought to be slain by Imperial scouts, though they were Eastmarch thugs hired by Ramsay to carry out the treacherous deed disguised as Imperials.
- Because of this, he is left as temporary castellan of his father's Keep, as well as protector of his lands.
- During the time of his Father's absence, Ramsay and Reek become more brazen in the fulfillment of their leisurely activities, going so far as to kidnap the daughter of Dawnstar's Court Wizard, indulging in their morbid practice before hanging her from a tree along the road to Dawnstar, skinless and dripping with blood. This prompts Dawnstar and Winterhold to lead a combined force into the Bolton Mountains to bring Ramsay to justice.
- Ramsay and Reek are ambushed in the forests by Dawnstar-Winterhold men while indulging in one of their victims. In a moment of desperation, Ramsay switches his fine clothes for Reek's rags, giving him the signet ring passed down from his father and all the other trappings that one would use to identify Ramsay Snow. Giving Reek his horse, he sent him riding for the Bolton Mountains for help, though he was swiftly shot down by enemy archers before making it out of the forest, as Ramsay planned. Believing that they had killed the Bastard of Bolton, Reek (really Ramsay in disguise) is taken into custody and brought back to the Dawnstar dungeons for questioning and imprisonment.
- Some chain of events leads to his release from the dungeon, though no one knows that he is really the Bastard of Bolton (his crimes/atrocities aren't known outside of the North, nor is his appearance), believing him to be a lowly serving man who simply followed orders.
- Plans on sabotaging the Stormcloak movement

(Gameplay guidelines)

- NO MAGIC USE. Ramsay possesses some skill with a longsword and war axe, as well as an adeptness with the bow and arrow, though he's an arrogant, over-confident psychopath.
- Eat at least twice a day, though more often than not you overindulge, as Ramsay's nature would likely lead him to be a gluttonous pig.
- NO FAST TRAVELING
- Sleep at night (maybe, sometimes you will be up all night )
- Probably hates every race that isn't a Nord. Almost thinking of not acknowledging that there are beast races...
- ???????????????


Now always comes the hard part, I have no idea what to do with him once I'm actually in game. Hopefully some hybrid ASOIAF/Skyrim fans wouldn't mind adding their insight into bringing this character to life inside of Skyrim?

hmmmmm, some of it sounds tricky to do without mods, but I would pick a follower to 'be' Reek and travel with them at all times, and maybe hunt and kill travellers on the road (couriers and stuff).

Can you really talk about [censored] here?

Very good idea about Reek, and yeah, I foresee a lot of this being difficult/implausible without the use of mods. If only I could run this on PC, I'd never get off the game..

The problem is, once Ramsay starts the game, at least in my outline, Reek's already dead...but that could change. Maybe he'll get his own Theon and carve him into a Reek.

I don't know, I didn't mean to break any rules, it's actually part of a character's background from a VERY popular book series. Thought it would only serve to cheapen his character's horrifying nature if I didn't include it, otherwise it's just "Yeah, yeah...another pseudo-bad boy :eyeroll:"

I'm not encouraging or agreeing with it in any way, but you don't have to read the thread. Hopefully, those who are fans of the series/are aware of the character will appreciate it.

That could work. God, those ADWD chapters are so painful to read :c. But yeah, you could get another follower. They should use a bow, and probably be a housecarl. I mean, Theon's a ward and I don't think there are many Jarls who have relatives that can be recruited as followers.

I know what you mean, I had always assumed Theon was dead and when I realized who it was in Reek I, my heart sank. I have an odd fascination with the Boltons though, despicable as they are.

Definitely adding that to my list of ideas in word.

Maybe making him a Breton noble rather than Nordic would explain the lack of acknowledgment in-game of him being related to a Jarl.

I like that, a Breton who was raised in the North of Skyrim, as cold and savage as any Nord could be, though resentful of never being truly accepted by the Nords and being disregarded by the inheritance of his Father. Hmmm.

He's a level 3 Nord in my game right now, debating between Nord and Breton. I like that Nord carries over the idea of 'Northmen' from ASOIAF.