Like here I would strive to be a painter, and I would probably join the Mage's guild. I would then make it my life's mission to retrieve the brush of truepaint. Sense the world can be very dangerous I would try and master archery and the sword, but I would probably rarely leave the Imperial city and the surrounding countryside.

I wouldn't tie myself down to any particular place. I'd have my bow on my back, a shortsword on my side, a dagger in my boot and I'd be off. Hunting and travelling. I love the wilderness IRL, so Tamrielic wilderness would be even better for me.

Hopefully I'd be a Dunmer, so my life would be long enough to do the above, then learn enough about magic to prolong my life (ala Telvanni).

Probably farm? Maybe be a clerk. I'm not terribly capable.
(I would have secret hero-aspirations, no doubt.)

I think trying not to die would be at the top of the list, but I suppose it wouldn't be any fun to just sit around in a city doing nothing.

I would probably be an exploring traveler, learn the ways of combat to protect myself, and a few spells just to be on the safe side. I wish in this life I could just travel the countryside, looting old ruins and exploring new places... Real life is so boring.

Honestly, I think I would be in the Shivering Isles...lol... Otherwise I'd use my feminine charms to my advantage, and work my way up the social latter as a courtesan... :wink_smile: But I'd be an educated and highly skilled lady of esteem, as well...

Well, as a retired old pirate, I'd spend most of my time drunk in a tavern in Anvil... recounting my good old days of glory.


The life of a pirate is short, and violent. When you've been a pirate long enough to retire... it's generally advisable that you do so. There's only so much looting and plundering and pillaging one can do before their luck runs out. If you want to enjoy any of your ill-gotten riches, you just have to know when to quit.

I've made my score. I've become the dread of the East Empire Trading Company and merchant ships all over Tamriel. They still tell nightmarish stories about "Iron-Beard Nels" and the crew of the "Queen Hvitir's Wrath".

But now, those days are behind me. I left my ship and crew in the very capable hands of my First Mate.

For me, it's the life of drunken singing followed by going home to tend to the wife and brats. "Iron-Beard Nels"... scourge of the Inner Sea... Demon of the Sea of Ghosts... has settled down.

Let the record show... he's loving it.

I would be a merchant if I had enough items and I would sell every kind of items but I wouldn't sell any of my books. I'd be an academic student first of course so not only can I get better in knowledge, but also because I can own a lot of my own books As a merchant I'd set up shop in my house or outside my house. Whether I have a stationary shop or I kinda carry my items with me everywhere I go for example if I haven't a home yet. I'd join the mages guild but not climb the ranks but just be in the mages guild bases to kick back and mooch off of their supplies chest for my own uses. After I get gold, I'd go buy spells to add to my spell arsenal and buy training. I'd get armor for everywhere except the helm and pick the armor that looks the coolest to me if I can afford it. For clothing, I'd get clothing for everywhere except for the skirt. For my robes I'd try to get robes that look like the robes the wraiths wore in lord of the rings and it has to be black just like the the lord of the rings ones. For weapons, I'd get a longsword silver claymore and an enchanted claymore and bow and enchanted arrows. Of course I would make friends to keep me company and so I'm not bored. Who knows? Maybe my friends and I will go on adventures to other lands but plan it right to be secure about it.

I would probably be a Nord or an Imperial, living in Chorrol. I'd own a shop or a tavern, and save enough septims to buy my own horse. Then, from the safety of the horseback, I would travel to the other towns and explore some. But I wouldn't be a spelunker. Or I might be a Breton or Altmer studying at the Arcane University. Would love that too. Maybe I would study there at my youth, then spend the last half of my life owning a tavern. Yes, that sounds nice.

If I was born in Tamriel, clearly I wouldn't have much choice as to what race I would be. Assuming my attributes are high enough to make it as a freelance adventurer, I would pursue a life in hunting down lost Dwemer and Aylied artifacts (Among other ancient civilizations.) Adventurers are in high demand, and make things easier for people who have a more set lifestyle, so of course I would try to do my part to make their lives easier as long as it goes with my personal moral code. Needless to say, I would have to be careful not to bite off a job thats more than I could chew, and stick to what I am good at. Lets just hope that I happen to be reborn there with the same skill set as I have in this world. (Thus making me sort of a fighter thief, blending stealth and acrobatics with martial prowess)

Once I have secured a large sum of money from my adventures, and am sitting on a small fortune, I will probably move to the city of Camlorn in Highrock, marry a pretty Breton lass with a pure heart, but a strong will, and settle down. If she is adventurous as well, and strong enough to be able to watch her own back, then we may continue our adventures together. We will start our family either in Highrock or the Summerst Isles in a quiet cottage next to the gentle ocean. Assuming its in Summerset Islands, I will probably continue my adventures from time to time along the topal bay, or southern Valenwood. If its in Highrock, then I will probably expand my adventures south to Hammerfell, or east to Skyrim.

That being said, I doubt the average lifespan of a feelance adventurer in Tamriel is very long. So I gotta make plans if I get crippled or cursed and forced into early retirement.

I would probably be an Aldmer and live in a house in Weye hunt down ancient Dwemer and Ayleid artifacts for a liveing and in my spare time write books of my adventures.

I used to think that I'd be a scribe since the risks aren't too great but then I remembered how terrible my handwriting is so I abandoned those plans. And without being too boring and realistic I would say that I would take any job in the cities until I had enough money to buy a crossbow (or possibly a bow, if I was confident enough), take the boat from Khuul and live as a hunter in Solstheim.

I would also consider a lot of other paths of course. One of them is becoming a guardsman in one of the more protected cities. Free arms practice, good thick walls, armor and weapons and a lot of armed men at your back. In the right town you wouldn't have too many dangerous scenarios to deal with either.

I'd like to work for the Tribunal Temple as a Buoyant Armiger. :ninja:

I think you mean "Altmer." If you were an Aldmer, the Dwemer and Ayleids would certainly not be ancient.

That is the beauty with it, i will be the last of my kind (really hated of course) but it will also be the main reason for people to buy my books......yeah i got it all figured out :tongue:


PS: ARGH totally FAIL

realistically speaking...none of us shuld be a warrior or an anything...lets be a normal person. thats wut i wuld do. i wul live in the most fortified town possible and not start crap with anyone...cuz lets face it...all of us have died at least once while playing....u only get to live once. we wuld die forreal.

Some of us might want to be warriors. In real life, maybe some are really athletic and things like that and they desire to be more adventurous, or maybe already are adventurous. That could carry over.

Plus, we die in the games because we're always made to be the main hero and given the most difficult tasks so that the game will be interesting. Very very few would ever get the chance to do any of that, and would most likely live more mundane lives. Chances are, none of us would ever be great heroes.

trust me... we wuld all die in this world of elder scrolls... it mayb ehave been posssible in real history to adventure and survive but u only had to worry about people adn real weapons. now u throw in magic and ogres and trolls. dragons, living dead. ur chances go from 10 percent to 0 real fast.

But then take into account magic and it goes back to 10 percent. Get a silver, daedric, or summon bound-weapon spell, some decent armor, and a few useful combat spells and you're ready for just about anything, as long as you have good judgment. Survivability would go up even more if you traveled with a companion or two.

If we were thrown into Tamriel then most wouldn't know how to handle a blade nor how to cast a spell, and then the quality of your equipment wouldn't be enough to save you if you faced a few bandits used to cutting throats and bashing skulls. I do think some would be able to get out of a tight spot or two, but expecting to just buy a sword and being able to go out and defeat skilled swordsmen and powerful creatues would end badly for the majority.

The question wasn't meant to ask that what you would do if you, as you are right this very moment, were suddenly thrown into Tamriel and had to live there. The answer for everyone would be the same: die. Besides the fact that the laws of the universe run under completely different rules, no one would be equipped to deal with anything, plus everyone would be a human being, and thus a freak compared to every other race on Nirn. It's too hard to imagine that.

I'm asking if you were born and raised in Tamriel, what kind of life would you pursue? The vast majority of inhabitants of Nirn are at least mildly familiar with how to use a weapon in combat and how to cast a couple of spells. They would be more aware and more cautious of the dangers of everyday life.

I was the third person to post after Velorien started this topic. I thought about what I do and enjoy in RL and my family history and answered based on what I would most probably choose to do. I would also be involved in the worship of Zenithar or his equivalent Saint/God depending upon the race/culture I was born into. Given my RL family history I would be an Ordinator if I was born into the Dunmer House culture, but I would embrace the changes to the Temple and the ability to work with my dissident relatives as a family again.

ARG!!!!! So many choices! I think I would be a dungeon delver.

Oh, sorry. Misunderstood then. If we got to grow up there then more than a few paths open. And then I might reconsider my choices too.

Then I think I might develop the hunter idea and turn it into a light or medium adventurer type. Combining bow and blade (or whatever melee weapon I would feel at home with) and ridding caves and dungeons of beasts to making a living from the loot.

And upon further day-dreaming, I'll say buying myself a ship and finding a decent crew with a knack for fighting wouldn't be too bad either. Trading most of the time, but with the option of earning some goods by paying with steel rather than gold.

Fighter's guild, making a living ridding folks of their goblin, ogre, minotaur, etc problems.

I'd probably be trying to survive the Arcane U, and busy trying to get myself a girlfriend. After graduating, I'd probably work as a reporter for the Black Horse Courier.