I should be heralded as a genius because I'm able to play Skyrim while having an actual story and character arc happen in my mind.
My Skyrim character is a dunmer who was born in Morrowind in a brothel, 90-ish years before the game happens. His name is Surma (it means violent murder by the way, you'll get why I named him that soon.)
Right, so my dude, born in a brothel, raised in a brothel. He ends up working there because he has no social status, belongs to no house and has no family name (all things highly valued in dunmer society).
Then one day he gets a customer who, turns out, is a Morag-Tong assassin. (they're a group of assassins who used to be able to work within Morrowind legally, because the big families of Morrowind are always feuding between themselves, and having a group of assassins who favour no house kill your rival was better than always going to small wars).
This Morag-Tong assassin is part of a splinter group that is trying to revive the guild, after they disbanded when the Red Mountain erupted. He recruits Surma because so far their group consists of people who only have skills for straightforward killing. Surma's training as a prostitute obviously includes training in how to get people to like you and feel comfortable around you, so by training him to be an assassin as well the group expands to having a skillset for jobs that require some sort of infiltration.
Surma enjoys being a Morag-Tong assassin, because the Morag-Tong are considered a family of their own. When you join them you shed your old family name and the loyalties that came with it, and take on the name of Morag-Tong. In Surma's case he got a family name where he'd never had one before.
Things go well for a couple of decades, but then they get a contract. An important one, from a memeber of a very influental family in Morrowind. The contract is on a Telvani mage, and Surma is chosen to take it. But what their employer had failed to mention was that the Telvani mage was also a powerful vampire, and Surma utterly fails in killing them. The vampire runs away, and the employer demands the Tong punish him for his failure. Not wanting to kill him, the man who originally recruited Surma exiles him instead. Surma escapes to Skyrim, where apparently he's the Dragonborn now, and feeling pretty salty about how things ended with the Morag-Tong he joins their enemy, the Dark Brotherhood.
He focuses on what's important, worshipping Mephala and making money. It's all very therapeutic. Maybe he also ends up adopting a whole orphanage's worth of children to be trained as assassins. It's all for self care purposes. He's also totally dating Nazir. Talk about inapropriate workplace relationships.
My Skyrim character is a dunmer who was born in Morrowind in a brothel, 90-ish years before the game happens. His name is Surma (it means violent murder by the way, you'll get why I named him that soon.)
Right, so my dude, born in a brothel, raised in a brothel. He ends up working there because he has no social status, belongs to no house and has no family name (all things highly valued in dunmer society).
Then one day he gets a customer who, turns out, is a Morag-Tong assassin. (they're a group of assassins who used to be able to work within Morrowind legally, because the big families of Morrowind are always feuding between themselves, and having a group of assassins who favour no house kill your rival was better than always going to small wars).
This Morag-Tong assassin is part of a splinter group that is trying to revive the guild, after they disbanded when the Red Mountain erupted. He recruits Surma because so far their group consists of people who only have skills for straightforward killing. Surma's training as a prostitute obviously includes training in how to get people to like you and feel comfortable around you, so by training him to be an assassin as well the group expands to having a skillset for jobs that require some sort of infiltration.
Surma enjoys being a Morag-Tong assassin, because the Morag-Tong are considered a family of their own. When you join them you shed your old family name and the loyalties that came with it, and take on the name of Morag-Tong. In Surma's case he got a family name where he'd never had one before.
Things go well for a couple of decades, but then they get a contract. An important one, from a memeber of a very influental family in Morrowind. The contract is on a Telvani mage, and Surma is chosen to take it. But what their employer had failed to mention was that the Telvani mage was also a powerful vampire, and Surma utterly fails in killing them. The vampire runs away, and the employer demands the Tong punish him for his failure. Not wanting to kill him, the man who originally recruited Surma exiles him instead. Surma escapes to Skyrim, where apparently he's the Dragonborn now, and feeling pretty salty about how things ended with the Morag-Tong he joins their enemy, the Dark Brotherhood.
He focuses on what's important, worshipping Mephala and making money. It's all very therapeutic. Maybe he also ends up adopting a whole orphanage's worth of children to be trained as assassins. It's all for self care purposes. He's also totally dating Nazir. Talk about inapropriate workplace relationships.
