We all know what the main quest of the game is, and for those who dont I wont spoil it.

However, does your character have their own questline which is vital for them to complete?

For example, my character Jessie, is a famous treasure seeker and her main quest is the umbacano(?) Questline. I think this suits my character perfectly and im still not near completing it due to my no fast travel rule.

What about your character?

I have many character that either never do the Main Questline or leave it for very late (last).

Some have their focus around other questlines.

Sometimes there are back stories. Like a vampire that wants to take down the Dark Brotherhood by becoming their leader (there is acutally a back story on this in game, but I don't think I can mention it in this forum).

There are also some personnal quests. My current character is an alchemist but never buys alchemy equipment. So is hunting for a Master Level set. That has become very frustrating by the way. She now has a complete Master level set except the Mortar and Pestle but hasn't found one in vast numbers of Necro and Conjurer dungeons.

My characters main quest is pretty simple, become a rich and powerful man. And he will do anything to archive that. He makes potion and sell them. He kills for profit and steal when he needs to.
Yea, he is a cheap bastard too

Get laid.

Well basically all he wants to do is survive.

Savlian I am Intreaged by you alchemist quest. My character is a novice alchemist keen to learn more, so is also trying to get into the arcane university. Where primary did you find the master set?

For the master, I don't believe they even sell them in vendors (in vanilla at least). Your best bet would be searching Necromancer and Conjurer dungeons and hope you get lucky with the random loot and I believe its level 16 or 17, likely the latter, when it starts appearing in the loot.

Yes Master level doesn't exist in stores or any particular place in the game. Only random loot, more likely in places where you'd expect magic loot.

It was very frustrating for this character when she had a full expert/master level set an only a Journeyman Mortar and Pestle. Because she could easily afford to buy an expert mortar and pestle. But she continued looking and finally found an expert level mortar/pestle. But now she has has Master level for every thing except the Expert Mortar/Pestle for ages. She gone through dozens of likely dungeons sometimes several times (because loot respawns) looking but cannot find one.

This is the general forum so I can't be specific on locations but there is on dungeon that has several likely chests in the first zone with few enemies, and she's been in that every three days or so with no success.

Oh, and like the OP I tend to make the Collector quest a focal point with pretty much every character.

Im trying to collect all 10 of the Aylied Statues before I move on, mainly for the bonus he promised.

A bit off topic but are there ONLY ten statues in existance? Because I would like too keep one for my house

You can always steal them back after you sell them to him.

Does he not lock them in his cabinet?

All of my characters have personal, hand-made main quests.

One of my recent characters started the game in the Arena Bloodworks. She was a slave and her main quest was to earn her freedom. She was not allowed to leave the Bloodworks until she reached the rank of Grand Champion. She finally left the Bloodworks at level 19. She used her earnings to buy a boat and to set sail around Tamriel and, as of this writing, has not returned.

Another character arrived in Anvil to search for a lost sister. This was something I did a couple of times in Morrowind and enjoyed it greatly. I would first create a near-copy of the character I planned to play and then I would select an exterior cell at random and drop the character into the game world (trying to avoid accidentally seeing the cell co-ordinates). If all goes well neither my character nor myself knows where this lost sister is located. I played for over 100 hours once in Morrowind without finding the sister. My second time through we discovered her at about the 30-hour mark, I believe. We discovered the sister in Cyrodiil after about 45 hours. We usually take any side quest we happen to run across while searching for the sister.

With my current character I plan to do the main quest for the first time in five years. My character's name is Uriele Astire and she's the daughter of Helena Astire, a clerk who works behind the counter at the gift shop in Shezrie's Pell's Gate village mod. Her mother, who wanted a son, named her after the Emperor. Uriele has grown up around the exhibits depicting Cyrodiil and has spent hours daydreaming about being an adventurer. At the game's start Uriele tells her mother she is leaving and sets out for the Imperial City. Once there, she gets drunk for the first time and takes an ill-considered swing at a guard who told her to lower her voice in the Market District. This of course landed her in jail. Before her hangover is over who should appear in her jail cell but the Emperor himself. He recognizes her from his dreams. He informs her that she is actually his illegitimate daughter. Jauffre informs her she has a half-brother by the name of Martin and sends her to find him. Over the course of the main quest a mild sibling rivalry will develop between my character and Martin. He will plan to do some of the quests alone but he will be upstaged by his half-sister, who will rush off and do them herself. At the end, they will fight over the Amulet, each one wanting the other to live. Martin, that sneaky bastard, will svcker-punch my character and, while she is doubled over, will snatch the Amulet away from her. After it is all over Uriele will travel back to Pells Gate to confront her mother over a few details her mother conveniently neglected to mention.

yeah I usually always invent my own main quest for each character I make.


wraithslayer... I go round ayleid tombs releasing the dead from their tomented limbo state (can work KotN into this)

Ranger... patrol a certain area hunting goblins

Bandit hunter... patrol a certain area hunting bandits.

usually find some way to work a few apt side quests into them, ie my current ranger herbalist took the mirili ulven ingredient collecting quest in SI. Also shivering isles is not another dimension in my games, I imagine its blackmarsh, and when I go there I travel south to leyawiin first and vice verca when returning.

He does, but in the final quest associated with him, you can get the key to open the cabinet.


That is brilliant! I will have to try that. I just went and did it for the character I started the other night.

Something I did with my character Teresa was to roleplay that she is an Ayleid. An orphan from the streets of the IC, she never knew her real parents, and only suspects her true origins. But the Ayleid ruins called to her, and she could keep from exploring one after another, trying to unravel the secret to her identity.

I only play one character but my character has their own back story and ultimate goal.

Soren's main quest starts the moment he leaves the boat that was docked in the harbour. He had affiliations with the Dark Brotherhood since childhood due to his father's temporary membership and close friendship with the Listener at the time. When Soren arrived, he was stopped by Imperial Legionaries who had his father in custody and after Soren went to jail and escaped, he had proof that Phillida was the one who executed his father and mother.

So he has a personal vendetta against all the Imperial Legionaries and with all of his prowess with blades, sneaking, and magicka, Soren goes on a systematic execution of all the Imperial Legion captains throughout Cyrodiil. He has no interest in Jauffre or the Oblivion gates and only wants payback. And another side quest, he wants to find Zoe who went missing since his journey outside of Cyrodiil.

My character was sent back in time by the Crimson Emperor, Titus Mede, to crush all possible political opponents beforehand and solidify his grasp on the Throne.

He was a Marauder lord and his biggest political enemies were the sixteen Bandit Princes and their allies, the Guild of Necromancers and Pottery Makers.

My character doesn't have a main quest. To me, that implies completing something and being done. My character's story is a neverending one of survival in a beautiful but dangerous land. Said another way I suppose, she lives her life - and being an elf, it is likely to be a long one if she survives.

my current char is on an anti-magic crusade - i'm playing permadeath with no fast travel etc, also i'm using no spells except racial powers, so only potions and rest for healing,
the goal is to wipe out the entire mages guild, obviously i need to level some key skills and power up before i can risk city attacks, but it won't be long now....

Keep in mind that in the universe of Elder Scrolls potions are magical.

I'm playing a 'no magic character' right now myself (with Oscuro's and Martigen's mods, no less) and it's tough. No potions, no scrolls, no spells, no enchanted weapons or armor, no Alchemy, no Sigil Stones and no fast travel (which I view as a form of magic). It's slow. Tonight I spent an hour and a half just clearing out the first level in Vilverin. I'm posting right now because I had to take a break from it, lol. *wipes perspiration from brow*

I can't imagine playing permadeath on top of all that. That's got to be brutal. My hat's off to you.

i enjoy picking flowers too much to give up alchemy,
let's just say i'm okay with... organic magic...

Currently Jessie is focusing on getting her education to better herself in the arts of alchemy, alteration and illusion, so she is working her way through reccomendations to get into the Arcane University, as her mother, who was also a raider, was a master of all three.

Helena doesn't have a main quest as such, she's just living life in Cyrodiil. However, she is trying to further her skills in Restoration so she can open the first hospital in (possibly) all Nirn.

I agree with Helena's thinking. Buffy's just trying to live her life as well. She does have what I suppose could be called intermdiate objectives (although she is easily distracted). It took great effort over a long time to get a good University education. She now seeks to improve her skills and recruit aid so she may help free Kvatch. I would not be surprised if she then becomes interested in trying to help Savlian Matius rebuild his city after that. Who knows? She has so many things she wants to do:

- Visit the province of Valenwood and learn more of her people that came from the Strid River Valley.
- Visit Skyrim and learn more of the ice dragon spirit that is bound to the paladin that travels inside her.
- Visit Morrowind because she has heard so much of it. The only other mystic archer she has ever met lives in Morrowind.
- Determine if goblins really are cave mer by trying to join one of their clans.
- Become a Knight Arcana for her guild of mages.
- Go on a cruise from the Imperial City to Anvil.
- Matchmake her friend Mazoga up with her friend Agronak gro-Malog.

Unfortunately, the list of things she wants to do grows faster than she can accomplish them.

No "main quest" for my current character, either. Having said that, though, there are a handful of questy things that she's been intent upon completing:

-Gaining entrance to Arcane University, though that was wrapped up long ago. She *is* a Mage, of a sort, but goes her own way in the actual practice of her craft.

-Daedra research. While not so much interested in becoming a worshipper/follower of any particular Daedric prince, she does travel about Cyrodiil in search of their elusive shrines, in order to interact with the followers and perhaps even the Princes themselves, if they're willing. This is still an ongoing process for her. She gets distracted a lot, too.

Heh, Buffy's quirky logic in seeking out Daedra Lords was that, since that gate at Kvatch was the work of Mehrunes Dagon, she figured maybe one of his fellow Princes might be able to help sort out how to close the darn thing.

Eileen hasn't actually seen an Oblivion gate yet, but if she's going to be thorough in her studies, I suppose she'll eventually have to follow her leads on Dagon, and...

bliviongate:

But, like I said... she's been distracted. A lot.