AGAIN!!! I hope not. I really enjoyed the Vault 101 tutorial in Fallout 3. I hope they do something similar but more fitting in Skyrim.

Cyrodiil had jungles... ?

Not anymore.

How about sitting on a Greybeard's lap and asking him for presents.
Or reading an incantation from prohibited old tome from High Hrothgar's private library that released hundreds of ancient dragons from a magical prison.

Building a toilet

killing all the mudcrabs in cyrodil, driving the citizens mad

inventing a weapon that prpelled an arrow by means on explosive


all i got for now

Put in prison on charges of innapropriate using of a horse.

They should have a humor character like Caesar in the Biggus dikeus sketch. The main character has laughed at him and Caesar wants him to fight wabid wild animals on the arena and the character has been put to prison and has to escape.

Tossing my lunch on a noble's finest shirt. What? I had the flu!

I think that it is better if they let us decide why we were put in the prison, so the game starts like this:

You start in a cold and damp room, filled with chilling, windy, and moody atmosphere, you are lying down on a small bed, in a corner there is a cracked mug and a half broken clay plate.

You sit up in the bed and look around, and in this moment, a guard comes into the room and tells you to follow him, and the control is given back to the player.

You follow him through the narrow and damp passage way to the prison's office, and look around to see several guards at their posts, and in front of you is the equivalent of "Socucius Ergalla" form Morrowind.

The guard who fetched you closes the door behind you and stands beside it.

You talk to the Official, and he greets you, and asks your name, and then looks keenly at your face commenting that your face seems familiar, a dialog opens in which you can define your race, body type and face.

Then he asks about your background and previous profession, and you can select one from several possible ones, for instance:

"Nobleman second son/daughter" and "a veteran fighter".
"Slum dog brat" and "Pick pocket".
"Wandering commoner" and "Alchemist apprentice".

And so on, and those backgrounds and professions would add their perks and buffs to your character and his skills.

Then he asks about your birth sign or any other choices that they like to add to the Skyrim, and you answer those choices or select from the lists.

Then the official gives you a list to see if he has got it right and you can modify your selections and even return to the race, body and face menu and change those, and in the end you are given the chance to change your current skill levels as you like, but within their minimum, and maximum range, which is defined by a combination of your previous choices.

There is a minimum and maximum limit for the range that you can alter any of your skills, and you can do that by 5 level steps, and decrease some to increase the others, and there is a pool that would decrease any time that you increase any skill, and it would increase any time that you decrease a skill, and in the end that pool should be at zero, to let you to finish the dialog.

Your attributes are defined by your previous choices and your current skill levels, and as you change your skills, you can see their effect on your attributes.

Then accept the changes in the form, and give it back to the official, and he takes another look at it and makes a comment about your background like this:

"Hmm, a professional pick pocket, this leads to this office for sure, no?"
Or
"Hmm, an alchemist apprentice, I wonder why you ended up here?"

After that you tell him that: "it started like this...", and start to tell him about your previous life, and in a flash back, you start from somewhere else which depends on your selection of background and previous profession, so you would be on your selected setting, somewhere in the game world, and you would be given some initial introducing simple quests to help you into the game, but the setting, and those quests differ for different choices of background and profession.

After that you are free to do as you like, and just like in Fallout new vegas, if you want to wander off too far from your spawning point, you are given another chance to review your initial choices, except for background and profession of course, hoping you know what you are doing now.

The background and profession are no big deal and define your starting place and a bit of boost and perks, and starting new character might start you in another area with other initial quests, if you like.

After that, the first time you are arrested and taken to a prisoner in a specific county, the screen fades out and you stand before the official and he tells you that it was quite an adventure, and because you have entertained him a lot, he will bail you out for this time, and lets you take your previous staff before you were taken as prisoner and let the guards lead you out.

In your wandering around the official would be removed from the game world, so that you could not kill him and break the link, but after that you can do anything you like with him.

And early in the main quest when you are still a relative nobody, there can be a point that checks to see if you were not arrested beforehand, and if not you would be arrested, so that the story starts after that, and if there is no need to be arrested to fix the story, it can skip the prison part, and go to the next stage.

OK, that's another prison start combined with a "Dragon Age Origin" flavor and a bit of spice from yours truly.

We were taken from the Imperial City. First by carriage, and now by boat.

Hopefully it won't start in a prison again. I want Bethesda to be creative use and their noodle to come up with something unique.

In Jail for smoking Tamrielic version of meth in public.

But meth is good for you! It can also shed those pounds like no other!

Honestly it'll depend on the story for why my 2nd and on characters are in jail, because once I know the story I can give them a back story to fit. Actually I guess I won't really know why my first character was in jail until at least part way through the game. I know for Morrowind I imagined that some of them were not imprisoned at all, but simply travelled to Morrowind, via cargo ship

Although given that my first character will likely be a Nord, there's a good chance he'll be in prison for drunken brawling

Pretty sure that would be Skooma. Although come to think of it, of all the horrible things I've done in Morrowind, not one day in jail have I spent for chugging a bottle of the speedy-stuff in front of a guard. Then again, I can run around in a full suit Dwemer in front of them too, and that's supposed to be a major no-no too.

Start out having a nightmare that incorporates a brief (optional) tutorial and at the end you see a dragon that scares you.... you wake up and kill the rats around your bed!

Everything but the rats. Seriously, I really don't want rats everywhere in Skyrim. It was great on Solstheim when I wasn't running into one every five seconds.

Good. Having a Roman-style nation in a jungle is dumb anyway. The devs should really think before they write down a piece of lore, so they don't have to fix it afterwards.

Explain how that would be dumb.

It should have been the homeland of a race of scantily clad warrior women.... that would make it 100% OK in my book.

As long as we don't start by having a old guy tell us he had to dig a bullet out of our head I don't care.
Personally I would like to see something revolutionary.... a different start and slightly altered main storyline depending on what race you are...
I still however lean towards prison....better way to start then, omg you just crawled out from under a rock now go kill something!

It would be as dumb as making desert a homeland of Nords.

For singing the Cliff Racer song in public. "Cliff racers ffffflllllllllyyyyyyyy ssssooooooo highhhhhhhhhhh"

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GUARDS!! He's violating our ears!!

What the... You can't post that word here? Somebody was naughty with it I suppose. Oh well. I can adjust...

Personally i found the pursue for Benny and then the revenge (it being only a halfway of the plot line) was nicely motivating, especially when you got to choose how to kill him. It's good that they give you a goal in the beginning, that you will start unraveling when the plot processes. And working for a faction you want to work with (or build a robot army for yourself, hell they should do that in Skyrim with Dwemer centurions lol) and choosing from multiple endings was great aswell.