He got caught with under an ounce of medical-grade grass.

(Assuming the game opens with your character about to be executed)

After a successful day of hunting in the Northern part of Skyrim, Draugr was well into his long journey home. A group of hooded men appeared out of the forest and surrounded him. They demanded he hand over all of his goods. Draugr retaliated - he had too many valuables on him. Other than some gold hidden in his boots, Draugr would lose all of his hunting gear, valuable armour, axe, blades, and shield among other items. However, Draugr knew he stood little chance against the men that surrounded him. He tried bargaining and even sympathizing with them, but the men had none of it. Draugr was attacked. After a surge of adrenaline he managed to attack one of the men with his one-handed axe. Draugr was knocked unconscious with a blow to the head. After what felt like seconds, Draugr woke up with his head in a guillotine. A list of his crimes were read to the small gathering of people around him: murder and high treason. Draugr was dumbstruck: he remembered doing neither.

I was an unlucky nord who was sneaking around where he/she shouldn't be, but since my sneaking skill is real bad someone saw me and i ran away and came into a room and decided to close the door and wait to see if they would pass by since it was a dead-end anyways only to find out it was a prison cell that i locked myself in and here i am. poor poor me.

Edit: then i got unlucky with those violent guards who beat the living [censored] out of me till i couldn't remember my name or what i looked like so i had to look into a mirror and try to remember if i was a man or woman and what i looked like, and probably just think up a new name.

Murdered some random priests.

My Redguard youth comes from an old, noble family centred around the Imperial-leaning progessive south of Hammerfell. Due to a tragic history of unfortunate events, combined with a new and bitter feud with a powerful family of Sentinel aristocrats with political connections in High Rock, my young noble Redguard has had to flee the Hammerfell he so loves, taking refuge across the border in Colovia and the Gold Coast (being pro-Imperial and knowing Cyrodil well, the Imperial province is his natural sanctum).

However, heartbroken by homesickness, he returns to Hammerfell in disguise and, hardening his resolve, humbly petitions the rival family for a return to good graces between the two clans. They, clinging to their ignoble rivalry and exploiting a suitable opportunity to eliminate the future head of the family they detest, purchase this young noble's imprisonment from the local authorities, and, for a little more coin, have the Empire ship him away far enough to avoid any future trouble. With the turmoil along Tamriel's southern and eastern coasts, the noble is sent to the frigid prisons of Skyrim, in utter despair. He knows not that a life of imprisonment is not what awaits him...

Eidolon will be framed for a series of murders commited by a powerful necromancer called Nerastarel(a name a few might be familiar with).

My character was accused of esponage against Skyrim after serving as an agent of the empire to investigate rumors of insulation as well as whispers of a 'Dragon Born'. However his position was tipped off to a local warlord by a mysterious along with a cell of "co-conspirators caught with him after a mishap (long story). Now Jaq Draco the agent is stuck in a prison with a moody Nord, a gloomy Dunmer, a odd Khajiit, and a boastous High Elf, these characters being some of my roleplays in mind with many not taking part in the main quest.

Levitating after the Levitation Act was passed

My character ( a nord swordsmen/forester) was out hunting in the woods when the soliders of a local lord find him and accuse him of being a spy (we are in a civial war afterall) he is then arrested under martial law and sentenced to death

• Selling yellow snowcones
  
• Writing my name in the snow
  
• Claiming that rainbows are actually bridges
  
• Charging inflated prices for natural spring water when it was actually melted snow
  
• Threw a scimitar at the king while yelling neener neener neener
  
• Claiming that dragons are really just like dogs
  
• Speaking in only nonsensicle Oblivion dialogues
  
• Claiming that mud crabs are cute!
  
• Using fast travel
  
• inventing a gun

Eh, there are more, but they jst opened the Ark and the Nazi's are going to melt! Man that made me so scared when I was a kid!

Oh, and now for the really obscure....

Kidnapping the leader's nose for the revolutionary forces, trying to get it to the necromancers for reincarnation, only to have a wolly mamoth squish it!

one of my previous characters finaly lost it and killed a lot of people so was punished by the nines by being dumped in a prison cell 200 years in the future

My character was arrested for being nvde in public. He tried to explain that he is the leader of a freedom fighter group rebelling against the Dwemer constructs that took over the world and he traveled back in time to Skyrim to stop the discovery of the technology that will allow the constructs to be built, and the time-travel device does not transmit anything on the user's person so he ended up nvde at the end of the 'trip'. Unfortunately, no one believes him and he is being put to death for being either criminally insane or stupid.

terminator much? :rofl:

5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 counts of LOITERING!

my characters were put in jail for some form of treason......

He was drunk one night and got into a fight with his brother because he couldn't control his rage, he killed him and was caught by the guards. He was his last remaining family member and only friend. This explains why he's in prison and why he has no family or friends.

Assuming that there is a civil war going on between those supporting the Empire, and those against it, I was a member of a small guerilla force fighting against Imperial Soldiers from a hidden base somewhere in the forest. We were considered heroes at the local towns, and to make a statement, they hunted us down. They caught us and executed the rest, I am the last, and am waiting for my execution. However, one of the guards, a secret member of the Blades, noticed a tatoo on my left wrist, written in the tongue of the dragons. I didn't know what it was, for I had had it since I was a child, before my village was burned down in a forest fire. The handful of survivors suspected the Empire was involved, because the village had long opposed their rule, but in reality it was caused by dragons seeking to kill the last of the Dovahkiin, my parents and me, but I was able to escape. I now grudgingly agreed to the Blade's request, biding my time, waiting to escape and seek revenge on my captors, but I did not know of the fate that would await me.

My Khajiit was captured trying to defend his wife from guards who were attempting to arrest her for mauling an orphans face off. He later found out that she was an actual lion. He has never felt so betrayed.

Justifiable Homicide.


I think I just got an idea for a new character!
The first character I ever played in The Elder Scrolls series was a Nord, which I may carry on that tradition. But perhaps an Imperial, who moved(or whose ancestors moved) to Skyrim before the Empire fell and got caught up in a hate-crime. His family is murdered or is missing, and he kills all of the involved parties.

I always play good guys though... I just... can't be a bad guy... I've tried. Because in most games to be a "bad guy" you have to be an obnoxious moron to qualify. Can't I be consumed in vengeance or anger... (fallen to the dark side!!!) and not be the obnoxious punk riff-raff? :bonk:

Because, every Protagonist is the reincarnation of the one before. That person has to hear the music about any wrong doings in the last game.


That, and bethesda wants him there.

well atleast nobody said they were caught in the king or queen's bed chambers.....

or if they did I didnt read it.....

My charachter is an altmer, and the same as the champion of cyrodill arested for being beleived to be loyal to the empire

I'm a dragon.

Breaking and entering........mostly breaking.

My character works on a family farm. His father 'owed' money to someone who started threatening him. One day when returning form the fields my character finds his mother and father badly beaten and his sister taken until the 'debt' is paid. My character is angered and tries to get his father to go after them but he won't he says 'that they are to strong, people should know their limitations, it will take a few months then we can pay'.
My character is still angry and despite his tender years takes his father sword and a hunting knife and goes after them. When he finds them he is quickly over powered and then ring leader takes him to his sister. He says 'now I'm going to really teach your family a lesson' and using my characters knife he kills his sister! He smears some of the blood on my character and forces the knife into his hand and leaves him for the guards.

This leaves my character in prison, guilt ridden and at least to start with, not wanting to take on huge responsibility like being a Dragonborn!