You could be a runner for the Black Horse Courier, but get taken by a couple Mongoloid thugs and a guy in a flashy outfit who puts a crossbow bolt in your head then buries in you in a shallow grave outside of Clearsprings.......
As per tradition, Skyrim will have to start off with our character in prison. What are your thoughts on the reason for us being in jail this time around? I heard a theory that the main character will be a prisoner of one of the armies of the civil war.
Perhaps the gods have place you here so that we may meet? As for what you have done, it does not matter. That is not what you will be remembered for.