» Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:34 pm M'aiq is wondering, but what is your chracter's backstory?
Here is M'aiq's current character's backstory:
Merildor was born in the Summerset Isles, the sole child of a smith and and his wife, the owner of a small shop in Alinor. Having always had a sense of adventure, Merildor was not content to live a simple life, and joined the Aldmeri army at a young age. There he trained as a soldier, preferring solid, two handed weapons.
After a few clashes with bandits, he began to show promise as an pyromancer, and was offered a role as a battlemage. Seizing upon the opportunity, he threw himself into his training, hoping to one day make a name for himself.
His efforts soon caught the eye of the Thalmor, who conscripted him from the army and taught him the art of espionage. After a few years, he was installed as an undercover Thalmor agent in the Imperial City along with a handful of other promising young recruits. For nearly twenty years he flourished in the city, gaining the approval of his superiors and being handed ever more difficult tasks. He was eventually tasked with assassinating the daughter of a court noble, and to make sure to incriminate the noble's rival.
Having been tasked with assassinations before, Merildor began to scope out his target. He attended balls and the court, learning all he could about the girl. It was here that something he did not expect happened - he fell in love with the target, whose name was Carmen. It soon became apparent that the girl had fallen for him too, but he knew his duty and organised for the assassination to take place.
Alone with the girl on her father's balcony, incriminating evidence placed and the guards paid off, he knew the time had come. About to push the girl off the balcony and to her death, he realized he was never going to do it. Confessing to the Carmen that he had been instructed to kill her, he convinced her to flee with him. They slipped out of the city and disappeared.
They took up life in a small coastal town. There he returned to his father's smithing trade, and Alana started life as a herbal alchemist. They had settled for only a few years before word reached the town that the Aldmeri had gone to war with the Empire. Merildor immediately took to convincing the local Legate to enlist him in the town militia. He had no great love for the Empire, but he convinced the Legate that his training and magical capabilities would be invaluable in defending his home.
Four uneasy years passed, the war progressing further and further into the Empire. Eventually a local troupe of bandits fell to the town and was only just repelled. Merildor convinced the Legate that, if the Dominion attacked, they would need support to defend the town. He left for the Imperial City in the hope of convincing the Empire to station a force in the area.
He reached the Imperial Cityl and immediately headed for the Imperial Army headquarters. He petitioned for support, but as an Altmer, was only ridiculed and sneered at. He did, however, catch the attention of one man. A young Legate by the name of Tullius saw the value in taking a force to the area and agreed to organize for a unit to be dispatched to fortify the town.
Merildor joined the unit as it left the city, urgent to reach his home. Two days' march from the town, Tullius called a halt, and refused Merildor an audience for four days. When he finally emerged from his solitude, Tullius informed Merildor that he had been ordered to stand down, and that no aggressive troop movements were to be made against the Dominion. Confused and furious that support would not be coming, Merildor stole one of the soldiers' horses and made for his home town.
He saw the smoke before he saw the town. The entire village had been burned to the ground, corpses littered around. He found his wife, dead with a Elven dagger in one hand and a sweetroll in the other, by their house, an Dominion sword sticking out of her chest. He could still feel the heat pouring off the ashes of his house; the Dominionhad been gone a day at most. A small force, but enough to overpower the town.
After burning his wife and what remained of the villagers, Merildor's thoughts turned to avenging his wife and home. He followed the tracks north, consumed by hatred and grief, aiming to hunt down those who had taken everything from him and die destroying them. As he neared the Dominion's campsite, a Khajiit merchant told him of a peace treaty between the Empire and the Aldmeri Dominion.
He realized that was why Tullius had been ordered to stand down: with peace negotiations taking place, the Empire had avoided souring the treaty by strengthening its borders. Enraged that the Empire's meek concession to the Dominion in the White-Gold Concordat had cost him the support he needed to save his village, Merildor determined that the Empire would pay for its cowardice and the Dominion force for the destruction of his home.
For the next two decades, Merildor tracked down a group of Aldmeri Dominion soldiers. He learned that they were a small group of Thalmor agents. He followed them across Tamriel and began assassinating them, one by one, earning a reputation amongst the Thalmor as a traitor and a killer. They began to hunt him. Pursued across the continent, Merildor continued to exact his revenge on the members of the Thalmor troupe.
Having narrowed down to the final member of the original force, he learned that the final target was serving as a captain in the Thalmor Embassy in Skyrim. Pursued by a small group of Thalmor agents, he turned north and headed for Solitude.
He arrived in Morthal with the Thalmor only a few hours behind. He begged Jarl Idgrod Ravencrone for protection. With no great love for the Thalmor herself, Idgrod hid Merildor under her bed and waited for the pursuers to arrive. With the Thalmor distracted by questioning the Jarl, Merildor slipped out and made for the embassy.
Upon arriving, Merildor found a gap in the roof and silently worked his way in. He dropped into an empty bedroom and crept through the building, searching for the captain. He found his way to a door and slowly opened it.
Two Thalmor warriors stood in the room. Seeing Merildor, they both ripped swords from their scabbards. Merildor began to cast firebolts to strike them down when suddenly doors started slamming all through the embassy. Hearing shouting and weapons being drawn, he darted out of the room. Sprinting down the corridor, he pulled up as four Thalmor emerged at the other end. Turning on his heel, Merildor saw more soldiers emerging from every door and up the stairs. His pursuers had beaten him to the embassy: the building was a trap.
Cornered, Merildor lashed out with magic, spraying the room with lightning. With so many Thalmor throwing up wards, he had no hope of holding his own, and was quickly overpowered by the soldiers.
The Thalmor dragged him to Solitude and to the newest Solitude Jarl, Elisif the Fair. They requested permission to publicly execute the traitor in the city. Having recently lost her husband to Jarl Ulfric Stormcloak of Windhelm, Elisif informed the Thalmor that she wanted no more death in the city, and that the prisoner was not to be executed. The soldiers decided to transport the traitor to the Summerset Isle to be made an example of.
Three Thalmor agents were assigned as a prisoner escort and began the trek south. As they neared Skyrim's southern border, they were ambushed by a small force of Stormcloaks. The Thalmor were killed and Merildor dragged back to the main Stormcloak camp. Before Ulfric could see the prisoner and decide what was to be done with him, warning horns sounded and Imperial soldiers poured into the Stormcloak camp, capturing most of the Stormcloak soldiers, including Ulfric, and Merildor.
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