Simply put, what would your character be in today's world, here on Earth that is. I'll kick this topic off with both of my current characters.

http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad208/xenaclone/Photo-0049.jpg without a doubt would be some sort of emergency personnel. Maybe a policewoman or an EMT. She would be the one who shows up when you call 911.

As a http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad208/xenaclone/armor_stand.jpg in the land of Nirn, Dyan puts the laws of the land first, and any personal feelings she has about situations gets pushed aside. As she travels Cyrodiil, she will ALWAYS come to the aid of an NPC who needs help. :angel: If there's an NPC walking along the road, for instance, she will travel along with him or her (assuming we're not talking beastfolk or orcs, that is), because she sees it as her responsibility to come to the aid of these somewhat defenseless (clueless) travelers if need be.

She plunders dungeons frequently. Not for fame, money, or ego, but because she sees it as HER responsibility to "rid the lands of evils". She also frequently gives money to those underpaid Imperial Guards (I pretend it's not a "bribe" lol).

So if she were on Earth in today's world, I think she would feel most comfortable dealing with the stress of emergency situations. She would raise in rank, to the point she'd be perhaps a police sergeant, or the one in the ambulance who monitors patients, making sure they live, etc.

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http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad208/xenaclone/view.jpg, on the other hand, is the complete opposite of this. As a Chaotic Evil vampire assassin, she does whatever she wants to do, as long as it benefits her and only her.

Truth is, I don't really like Kate very much. If she were a living person, she'd be the type of gal I'd be wary of. Something about her would make me nervous. She's like that girl in high school back in the day who

My spellsword character... A combat physicist like Gordon Freeman :teehee: Seriously, a scientist. Her interest in magic is mostly academical, so science would be right up her alley.

My assassin character would do the same job as in TES, just change bows to rifles :hehe: Or possibly a mercenary.

I'm trying to imagine Wild Elf in the Real World. There aren't many places she could avoid being arrested and "helped." Imagine a feral, mute person, armed with a bow and poisoned arrows, making a living in the forest and never visiting "civilization." There may be a few people like this remaining in remote parts of the Amazon rainforest, or somewhere in a Pacific island jungle. (I'd like to believe that there are, anyway.)

I wonder where a Khajiit will fit in today's time? :blink:

Aravi's kind of an explorer/vampire hunter. I'm not sure what occupation that would translate into.

*EDIT: Anyone says zoo... :stare:

i think i have a problem, cause my charater is an argonian, but seen in social status he is a priest or a pilgrim in real life

Teresa would live in Alaska. She would be a bear-viewing guide, bringing people and animals closer to together. Perhaps an eco-terrorist on the side.

I knew Arum's as soon as I read the first post. He'd be in the armed forces. Fiercely loyal to his colleagues but conflicted about his motivation for fighting. He'd rarely be at home, and 'home' would keep changing anyway as he finds himself unable to stick to one place. The army would suit him perfectly.

As for Rayn, I really don't know. I've never had a character more suited to Cyrodiil. But I'll try and place her. She's a Mage's Guild member and very good at enchanting, so perhaps some sort of crafts-person. Modest lifestyle- home is the waterfront shack, and she doesn't have an awful lot of money to spare. All of her money is tied up in the things she owns, and this is mostly the things she's enchanted. I think I've got it now. Rayn, if she lived on Earth now, would own a small clothes shop, full of the things she'd made herself. Perhaps a wedding dress shop, even. Each wedding dress would be unique and special and this is where all the money goes. (which ties to the enchanting thing, plus the money thing.) I think I've done quite well placing her.

So I've got a soldier and a bridal shop owner.

Good thread! :foodndrink:

I can't even begin to fathom what any of my characters would be like in the real world. Just growing up here would make them completely different people than who they are in Tamriel.

That's just not my roleplaying style. My characters are 100% intended to fit into Tamriel. They just wouldn't work in the real world, so I can't even begin to imagine it.

Lothran? In this world?? :ahhh:

Seriously, I have no idea what he would be here. Bored probably :lmao:

Uh, this is why we spend time with them there, isn't it?

Let’s see.

Abiene is a healer. In our world she would be a pediatric oncologist.

Darnand is a mage. He would be a particle physicist.

Lildereth the Bosmer hunter would serve in the military. She would tell us more about it, but then she’d have to kill us.

Jerric would probably be a longshoreman between bouts of incarceration. But maybe in our world he would find the right school and get a decent education. Then he would be a teacher, coach, and extreme sports enthusiast.

This is an interesting thread!

Damn, I didn't get to finish the OP before disaster struck here at work! Oops.

http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad208/xenaclone/view.jpg, on the other hand, is the complete opposite of Dyan. As a Chaotic Evil vampire assassin, she does whatever she wants to do, as long as it benefits her and only her. Although I must admit Kate is becoming attached to her DB guildmates, and will probably .

Truth is, I don't really like Kate very much. I created her, true, but that doesn't mean I have to like her. :nope: She would NOT be my friend, or even somebody I aspire to hang with as an acquaintance.

If she were a living person, she'd be the type of gal I'd be wary of. Something about her would make me nervous. :confused: Is it her Mona Lisa smile? Is it her habit of snickering at things that aren't funny? She's like that girl in high school back in the day who..ya know...you just could never trust, but you couldn't put your finger on why. She wasn't popular. She wasn't a priss or a prep, but something about her made you always think twice. :unsure: You weren't sure if she went around talking behind your back, :whisper: but you also MADE SURE not to get too close to her. :cold:

But if she were in the modern world, what and who would she be?

As a person of high intelligence, an introvert, and a loner, I see Kate as some sort of high-tech criminal. Not a low-life who steals to support a drug habit, or prosttutes herself, but more of a behind-the-scenes thrill-seeking criminal. She would be smart enough to work in some sort of high-tech industry, but like a hacker, she'd waste this talent on criminal efforts. She wouldn't be a computer hacker, though.

She would probably be involved in identity theft. Credit card schemes, that sort of thing. The kind of stuff they sometimes do stories on Dateline NBC about. She'd have all those gadgets, like the ATM card reader thingie that's used to steal people's bank codes after they get money from the machine. She'd make false IDs and have dozens of identities. She'd happily dumpster-dive behind Macy's or some rich person's house, in an effort at stealing unshredded papers containing credit card and social security numbers.

And just like in the game, Kate would spend HOURS waiting to get that perfect shot (scheme). she's very patient and focused, even if she is quite evil about it.

The money would be good, but that's not what she's after. She's after the thrill, the challenge, and the LOL moments when she knows she's really screwing somebody over from afar. And her home would be nice, but not too nice. Her car would be nice, but not too nice. That's not what Kate is about. Her home would be spacious and dark, largely undecorated because she's not very organized in her personal life. Kinda like a modern version of Bleak Flats Cave, she'd probably live in some area (like a loft or a warehouse) which is not really supposed to have occupants living inside it!

And she'd mostly affect others from afar. That's how she fights in Oblivion: mostly from afar.

She'll attack with her poisoned bow & arrow first, and usually let a zombie do the rest of work! Invisibility and such. It absolutely ROCKS playing the part of Eradi~Kate.:rock: I love outsmarting NPCs and some creatures when I'm with her. But she's a con-woman. I don't like her. And I'm not sure if she likes me either.

a Khajiit? well there are cat-nuns in dr Who:P
something like that?:P

To know my character in the real Earth, I have to write some history (for as a conservative Altmer he knows his history)

The elves originate from a planet in a far away galaxy, that has long been lost.
They called themself the Aldmer.
They left because their sun went supernova, in search of a new home.
They came to earth on their space-ships 1.200.000 years ago.
These first settlers were very presveratice as only a few 100 of them had survived and they were holding the last remaining archive of a billions year old civiliasation.
They build a tower-city and lived there quite long. this was the city we in myths know as atlantis. (yes the mythes are right there was such a land once) though the myths have been exaggarated as with all that would not be understood by primitive races.
Around 500.000 years the magnetic poles changed, flooding atlantis. However the aldmer saw this coming and relocated to madagascar well before.
Sadly they could not bring the entire archive with them, as the city was litterly build around it.. however many data was copy'd to the new archives on madagascar.
Madagascar, or as they call it "summerset isle"

In the last 700.000 years the aldmerians had been conservative.. and repopulating, their numbers were now a stable 5 million, but this forced relating caused a change in some of their ways.
Even though many wanted to conserve what they were.. it was no longer possible.. as none of them ever had seen the old world from where they come, and the archives were now incomplete leaving room for argument.
This causes the first emigration waves between 500.000 and 480.000 years ago.

The conservative way "preserve all that we can, we are ALDMER after all" This was original the biggest faction untill the aylids were destroyed.
One small group stayed on madagascar, build new towers, even a magical island, and many other wonders that were replica's of buildings and technology they once had on atlantis and the old world, They were peacefull, and preservative, all they wanted was to left alone. they became the altmer. that is the race I belong too.
But the bigger part felt that this preservative way was to riskey, and a more active aproach was needed. While largely conservative, they became imperialistic believed all means were justified to preserve their race. They quicky looked in the remains of atlantis to harness whatever technolgy left they could and when parts of their lost world came near the earth they even went to great lenght to aquire those too.
The knowhow to build all of this was namely lost in the destruction of atlantis, but they still know how to maintain and use them. and with it they enslaved early man, and build an empire all across africa (or tamriel as they called it)
Their empire has lasted nearly 465.000 years.. they were the Aylids.
But clearly we the altmer were right, as they went under by their own doing.. for the technology had lasted long.. but slowly it broke down after thousands and thousands of years of use.. and while most still worked.. the humans saw a change to revolt and took it. The aylids were so powerhungry, getting much offspring was not their priority. this caused the numbers of protoman grow a lot faster than those of elves.
The aylids tried to kill off many of them by the harsh slavery, but in fact it allowed man to evolve faster than normal.. as only the smartest would be the most usefull slaves to the aylids and only the fittest would survive it.
and even though still VERY VERY VERY primitive, some 8000 years ago, mankind started to revolt against these aylids starting in egypt and slowly taking more and more... of their lands learning from the spoils of war to build a civiliazation for themselves, till the aylids lost their last kingdom about 1600 years ago.

The Green way "live with the planet" this was the second biggest fraction about a third of the size of the conservative path, and judging by presentday living races the most succesfull one.
some young aldmerians saw the destruction of atlantis as a sign to leave behind the old ways and instead build a new life. Back to the wild, start from scratch..
They all adapted to the lands they came to live in on their own, unique way, they have little left of original aldmerian culture of knowhow but instead have new culture and knowhow.
Some left for the rainforests in the amazonian.. they became the Bosmer
Some left for the icy lands of europe, they became the felmer
Some left for the far away polinesian islands and they became the Sheomer

The felmer later suffered invasion of Neaderthales, or proto-nords as we call them first they lived at peace, but a war broke out between them and about 3000 years ago and in todays world the felmer driven to near extinction.. some of them may still live hidden, but their once unique way of living has mostly been whiped out.

The Science way "matter over mind" This was the smallest of factions, They did use the technological background of the aldmerians, but shed of the mental part they sought control on a different way..
The most ovious one of these races went to live in the mineral rich lands of the kaukassians in the middle east, that they call morrowind, they became the dwemer or dwarves. Ironic that their downfall was when they tried to harness one of the greatest mental powers to power their new robot and because of lacking understanding of this power it backfired. had they be more spiritual they would probably still live today.
The less ovious were the orsimer, they in fact were the most neutral of the factions.. though they focussed more on genetic research than usuable technology. Fitting in fact in between the green and science path. however their science backfired too,
After their wrath by accident changed 3 chimer in gods rather than dunmer, they wanted to become Gods themself! this forced them to take ever more risk in their research ending in a big accident 240.000 years ago, causing a genetic corruption of all the orsimer, changing them into orcmer as the accident did activate some ancient genes that lay dorment in every mer-genome. transfering them to an earlier more barbaric mutelated shape.

The remaining story of the mer, concludes with the 2d emigration wave... around 310.000 years ago at the hight of the aylid empire, an argument arose amongst the remaining altmer on Madagasgar.
some of them saw the succes of the aylids and the other emigrated groups, and wanted to use their methods too, the altmer, succesfull in preserving their herratige as the last bastion of a lost world, the least corrupted one..
wanted nothing to hear of it. this clash between conservarive and progressive caused a second wave of altmer (they were by now no longer called aldmer... a name they now preserve for the original imhabitants of the old world and atlantis who knew fully the old ways) moved of the island.
They were called the chimereans identical to altmer at that time, where the other races already started their fysical change due 190.000 years of seperation.
These chimerians could not live with the wild tribes, to much cultural gap had grown between them.. and the aylids would welcome them, but they would not be able to gain any power, as the aylids already had noble houses of their own.
no, the tecnological lands of orsimer and the dwemer proved most useful allies, and of those two the dwemer the most as they only were interested in the mountains, leaving most of tha chimerian pencsula free to take.
They too moved to morrowind, but they settled on the flatlands shimerean peninsuala, near the red sea, they are the legendary race of the gold fleece but it does not come from real gold.
They had gold skins, like the altmer and the aldmer had. and the myth is has been lost is true somewhat..
For they lived on the plainlands from presentday european russia, to the plainlands in iran.. but they too made mistakes..
Above anything more than the other races they wanted power.. they installed noble houses like the aylids, but they also learned to make armour off the land like the wild tribes.. and they were very fond of ANY unortodox science they could get.
for this reason they stole some of the genetic machines of far away orsimer.. but their king proved more skillfull and set the device to autodestruct... changing their skins and eyes forever..
hence the gold fleece was lost... as the chimer changed into the dunmer and now are black. three of them however did manage to inhale so much of this energy they gained importality and became changelings, able to change shape as they like, the ultimate product of genetic science.. with a land in ruins, these three formed the presentday dunmer empire.. this big change happend 210.000 years ago..
The accident left their thirst for power somewhat tempered, though not completely.. as we can see by their slavery system, and the recent events in morriwind under the nevarine.

Timeline :
-1.200.000 years Aldmer arrive to Earth
-500.000 years destruction of Atlantis, relocation to Madagascar
-500.000/-480.000 years : 1st emigration wave, foundation of the ogrimer, dwemer, sheomer, bosmer, felmer
-497.000 years : founding of the Aylid empire in africa
-300.000 years : 2d emigration wave, chimer move to morrowind
-220.000 years : Chimer became dunmer as a result of stolen orsimer technology backfiring.
-180.000 years : genetic accident changes orsimer into orcmer
-8000 years : Start of the human revolts
-3000 years : Neaderthales, or protonords invade europe
-2300 years : Fall of the Ice-prince, end of the felmer rule over skyrim
-2000 years : start of the first era
-1600 years : Final destruction of the Aylid empire
-400 years : destruction of the Dwemer

we now live in an earth about 12500 years in our past.
The empire we see now, is in fact before it's time and a result of the interferance the elves brought.
It is located mosty in africa..

The remains of the Neaderthales (or proto-nords) live in the far away continent of europe, that is still in an ice age.
they call it skyrim.

In this herratige my char has a pink skin, he therefor is an OUTCAST amongst altmer, he should have been killed in the eugenics-programm.
So his parents must have been somewhat progressive altmer, not as conservative as altmer normal are.
His parents would have been of a noble house, but of their decicion they now emigrated to live in the kingdom of man.
As an result my char, is way more conservative than his parents.. even while he may be not race-pure, he REALLY loves elves.
though he also feels connected to all other elves.
He hates al man-races, and the empire above all.

In the real world he prolly would be an african warlord/resisstance leader, tring to rally his fellow mer to restore the aylid empire, and overtrow western dominance.

(please response to my latest post, it took me quite while to think all that story up;))

It is a long read but do and say if you like it!

Yup, that makes sense.




I wanna say there are still "mountain men" who live completely in the wilds of America where I'm from, but truth is Wild Elf sounds even wilder than them.

What about glargg? Your other character is glargg, right?



Ummmm...zoo?

:bolt:

Naw, just kidding. Maybe he'd be in a freak show? The Incredible Cat Man? I dunno.



:) Yea, that's a toughie! A lizardman in today's world. Zoo?





Aww.....I just was in the Appalachians this weekend and saw a few wild black bears for the first time. From the safety of my car, of course.

Hey what about Saya?



AWESOME! I imagine I'll be making both combat and non-combat oriented characters in Skyrim. :celebration:




Dang, I was hoping you'd be more definite. The reason I started this thread (one of the reasons) is it helps me get to "know" some of other people's characters a little better, in a different way than reading the Where is your Character now? thread. .




BIG LOL!

I agree...there are elements of the Atlantis story in TES for sure. Thanks for sharing, that's quite a lot of text, but I'm also a mega-typer in some of these threads myself.

On Crimewatch...

oh and about the lizzard-priest (still waiting for a responce to my piece of writing art;))

[img]http://www.blindloop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/LizardPeople.jpg[/img]
something like this?

and real life khaiit :
[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2198/2368865627_45847c6a91.jpg[/img]

ps : yeah I mixed many old legends in with TES lore, liked it rene?

Saya would probably be a goth model, and the new lead singer for Nightwish. Of course she would also remain what she currently is. A magician with a tendency to dabble in necromancy.

oooooo she'd be a good goth model, too!

Wow, Renee, this is tough!

Muse ~ She'd probably be a business owner. An alternative type store focusing on the mystic, herbs and magic.

Per'Zia ~ Hmmm ... No zoo for her! Probably a master thief. You know the ones that suspend themselves from the ceilings to pluck just the right shiny.

In today's world? Derelas is still trying to figure out his place in Tamriel!

However, if he were more agreeable, I think he would do great as a detective. He's great at noticing all the little details. :twirl: