What's your character's backstory?

Ullrich Dufour is a sturdy Nord, born in Cyrodiil to a Nord mother and an Imperial father. His father is an ancestor of the Champion of Cyrodiil, who helped Martin Spetim in driving back Lord Dagon in 3E433.
His mother, originally from Bruma, worked as a lector at the Imperial City Arcane University. He grew up helping his father hunting and working at the farmhouse they lived between Chorrol and the Imperial City.
At the age of 17, he attended the Arcane University, where he met Kar, who became his wife.

For years, he worked for the Fighters Guild, besides his freelance work at as a hunter and fur trader.
He and Kar gathered quite some coin, allowing them to buy a nice house in the Elven Gardens District. They soon had a baby boy, Niels.
Ullrich started to take things a bit easier, and landed a job at a local bookstore. He delved into the history of the Empire and it's provinces. He read alot about Skyrim, the homeland of his grandparents.
At the age of 18, Niels joined the Legion, and was soon sent off to another province. At first he wrote lots of letters, but as the years passed by, he wrote less and less.
One day, the city guards found Kar's dead body in the Lake, with several stab wounds. They never found out who did it.
Ullrich had nothing anymore. He fell into a depression, and he soon lost his job and fell into a downward spiral, doing some odd jobs as a mercenary.
He never quit reading, though. And his favorite subject was still Skyrim. He became fascinated with it.

In 4E201, at the age of 41 he decided it was time to move on. To Skyrim, and start a new life there. After a long journey through the Jerall mountains, he crossed the border. As he wandered through a dense forest, he heard sounds of a fight in the distance. He went out to investigate it, and before he knew he was arrested by an Imperial soldier.

Am I the only one who creates a backstory in his mind?

....yep...

In the Oblivion days a similair thread had about 10 pages. Oh well.

No! I do that too. =p It creates more immersion.

However I still have to think about one...

I don't reckon so. I was forced into making one up for myself when I accidentally entered no character name and my guy is now called "Prisoner". I figure he's your usual amnesiac type, ala Leonard in Memento. This would also explain why my character keeps so many notes concerning quests and conversations with other characters on the pause screen, as well as why Prisoner has so many tatoos.

No, but unfortunately, the game doesn't really let you play out whatever backstory you want to make up.

The fact that anyone can be a guildmaster of the fighters guild, mage's guild, thieves' guild, dark brotherhood, saint of the nine, and lord of madness all at the same time kind of blows virtually any rational character motivations other than "I wanted to see and do everything" out of the water.

Lots of people make backstories for their characters. Don't get too discouraged. Most people are just too busy playing.

For a brief insight for my first character, Korst Warcry's family were a group of Nords that traveled throughout the lands of Tamriel, raised on the battlefield and bringing aid to scenarios from Daedra invasions, to simple spats between house families.

Korst had decided to return to his homeland with the whispers of civil war coming his way, only to find an agent of the Imperial Legion accusing him of treason. Now he has to deal with the civil war, his framing, and now his seemingly bound up destiny as the Dragonborn in a strange yet familiar home.

Marwen was a regular Bosmer living in the Cyrodiilic city of Bruma. He always wanted to become a mage, and was training at the Bruma mage's guild. He was in his early 20s, and did not care much about politics - he was simply a promising young mage. Marwen had one big problem though - he just couldn't stop doing Skuma.

He would go hike in the mountains near Skuma by himself, a few books and some scrolls, and he would consume large amount of Skuma. One day, in the third Century of 4E, unbeknownst to him, he stepped into the boundaries of Skyrim. He was immediately captured with a bunch of Stormcloaks and labeled a rebel.

The rest is still being know...

I started with the idea that my Nord has originally south of the border chasing fame on the battlefield from a young age. He enjoys living outdoors and so developed a keen interest in hunting, which lead him to hold Hircine in high regard; this is also the reason he willingly accepted the gift of lycanthropy, as it allows him to become the perfect hunter, even against other werewolves.

Felix Galba, Redguard

Born and raised in Cyrodiil, Felix is still a close follower of his ancestors traditions. He distrusts magic users and will often kill any he sees as a threat, whether they're hostile or not. He joined the Imperial Legion at sixteen on account of his love for the Empire and served faithfully until an incident involving High Elf prisoners of war. Against explicit orders not to harm said prisoners, Felix lopped the heads off of all five and earned a reputation as a murderer for it. Now a fugitive from the law Felix had to fight, steal and bargain his way across his beloved homeland until reaching the northern border, where a small contingent of legionnaires had set up an ambush intended for a certain Jarl...

A rough draft. I'll probably add more as I develop the character.

Damn you better not come accross Marwen in the forests we'd have to duel to death.

That's it, keep them coming! Love reading these.

This is the best part of playing an RPG. I will eventually start role-playing my character's back story into the game. For example, I will find Skuma and use it 3 times a day to play the game as a "stoner."

Or pray at the chapel 3 times a day to play as a monk.

I think it'd be pretty epic until a dragon came swooping in. Felix is racist toward Altmer but that doesn't mean he wouldn't fight alongside one against a dragon.

I'm sure a similar issue would arise after though.

"So... who gets the soul?"
"Wanna split it?"
"With a filthy Altmer like you? Have at you!"

Angroth "Deathstalker"

Despite being of Bretonic heritage, he grow up in a Barbaric Tribe. His childhood was filled with violence and crime as the life of the barbarians was to raid and plunder villages and murder its people. One day the tribes shaman discovered a powerful magical artifact in a temple they raided, with its help he killed the chieftain and declared himself rules of the tribe.

Angroth proved to be a fast learner of magical things as the shaman searched for an apprentice. The tribe transformed into a warband in search for greater magical power. Angroth, in his young ages, he was already a strong fighter with the warhammer as well as in the destructive forces of magic. He grew into a blood-lusty, power-hungry man with opportunism as only moral guidance and as the time were right, he killed his master in the sleep declaring himself chieftain and shaman of the tribe. As he attacked a major city, he was captured by the imperial army and sentenced to death.

But he escaped, and made his way to SKYRIM. He learned nothing from his past, he will always try to gain more power. He dreams being so powerful that he can gain power over the empire and therefore searches for artifacts of magic, that shall make him unbeatable and unkillable.

One day he will rally his forces again and strike against the empire, but till that day he does the same thing as ever. Murder , Theft and his Quest for greater Power.

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How can I post that the picture is visible here?

I kind of gave my woman a vaguish story. A Breton from a really long line of Bretons who was born in some backwater in northern Cyrodil, she's basically someone who just ambled through life, looking for work in different towns- a wanderer, but not one with some sort of dark and tortured past. She just likes going new places.


I had it in my head that she had accidentally crossed into Skyrim- it was never her intention to end up there, it just sort of happened. I imagine her as being happy go lucky, who takes everything in stride and the occasionally [censored]-tastic comment. End up in Skyrim, escape from dragons, and her first response is to go find work because slaying dragons is hard work and she's rather have a good drink and a warm bed. A sort of unsuspecting, oh wait am I a hero now? Crap- sort of person.

It's in my sig. I'm waiting on some patchs and mods before really playing her though, so for now I'm just kinda messing around.

That would be the most likely outcome. It's funny because I've encountered an Altmer traveling down the road near Whiterun and challenged her to a duel. No dragon attack but it was still pretty awesome.

Witold Golebiewski

He was a Polish. But he was looking for a job. So he moved down to Skyrim. But he wasn't happy enough.

The end.

Beowulf was always a warrior then one day he got attacked by a magika infected spider, giving him super powers. with a longsword in one hand, and flames in the other he took on any enemy who opposed him a the mead hall.
Beowulf was known throughout tamriel and was asked to slay the trolls all over skyrim as they were becoming a huge problem for any unwalled city, while on his way he was ambushed by the imperial legion

My first character is a Dunmer battlemage named Wintermute. (Yeah, I know it's not Dunmer.) He has some Nord blood, and is descended from Dunmer refugees. He's learning both his Nord and Dunmer roots. (Somehow he ended up looking a little Klingon, but that wasn't my intention.)
He's neutral so far in the Skyrim civil war, concentrating on learning Shouts and helping people.

Awesome backstory, dude.

Hamza Olu - Redguard

Born in Stros M'Kai, Hammerfell in the Fourth Era 156, Hamza lived with his mother, Fatima and his father Adu. His father died when Hamza was still young so to support his family, he went to work at the docks and ports of Stros M'Kai. During this time, Hamza met Saud, a Redguard who's father was an imperial who fought in the Great War against the Aldmeri Dominion, which ended with the White-Gold Concordant. Hamza, still young, did not pay much attention to the political turmoil spreading throughout the rest of the provinces. Saud and Hamza became deck hands on the ship for a local sailing merchant and traveled to other parts of Hammerfell. During his time away, Hammerfell, having seceded from the rest of the Empire, was still at war with the Aldmeri Dominion. It was when Hamza returned that he found his home destroyed and his mother arrested and executed for her role against the Thalmor, the rulers of the Aldmeri Dominion. In a rage, Hamza and Saud carefully planned to kill the Thalmor agent responsible for his mother's death. Unfortunately, while attempting to murder the agent, they were caught. Hamza escaped, Saud was killed on the spot.

Hamza escaped Hammerfell for Cyrodiil and lived in quiet seclusion for a few years. He joined a small band of mercenaries and trained under a Nord named Bjorn the Bloody, who taught him how to fight with bows, swords and axes. While in the employ of The Bloodletters, he traveled to Elsweyr, Blackmarsh and Morrowind. He left the mercenary band in Fourth Era 194 and set up shop as a free agent in Anvil. He read about the Oblivion crisis and how an Imperial swordsman named Flavius Vespucci helped Martin Septim and the Blades overthrow Mehrunes Dagon.

While out completing a contract in Cheydinhal, Hamza saw the same Thalmor agent who had killed his mother so long ago. He was surrounded by bodyguards while speaking with the Count. Hamza, now fully trained in battle and fighting, waited for the perfect moment to strike. Finding the right vantage point, which kept him out of sight, he drew his bow, aimed and fired at the Thalmor agent, killing him. During the commotion, he slipped out of Cheydinhal unnoticed. He left Cyrodiil that night and returned to Hammerfell.

Hamza settled in Sentinel and became a merchant. With the Thalmor presence lower in Hammerfell, he felt safe that he could live the rest of his life in peace. For the next seven years he practiced his trade and enjoyed a lucrative career selling swords and armor from Orsinium and Skyrim. While crossing the border into Skyrim with a shipment of goods for a client, Hamza was ambused by Imperial soldiers. He was arrested with another group of people the Imperials called Stormcloaks.

Here is where our story begins.

Author's note: I had to edit this a little, because the timeline didn't fit the first time. If you see any room for improvement, go ahead and shoot me some feedback. Cool.