Character Backstories?

[UgTheViking]

Heh. Yeah, I used to love writing the backstories and supporting them with all the various, available mods.

I haven't done an actual playthrough in a long time but my current character is from using an alternative start mod. She is a spoiled, milk drinking, bed wetting brat who couldn't outwit a skeever and believes she should be a princess. Her grandfather is the Thane of Whiterun who declined Breezehome to have his spoiled family live in the luxury of the Bathing Beauties Luxury Suite just outside of town. (Great mod BTW) She doesn't do much besides pout and whine and make occasional trips into Riften to buy large amounts of skooma for her grandfather. (Thanks to a skooma den mod) Her grandfather , in turn, forces Brenuin to sell the skooma in the Whiterun Market thanks to the help of the mod "Your Market Stall" .

Basically, after 9 years of playing Skyrim , my character is just a mod tester for trying out all the great, new mods that come along. But it's all fun.

[Notminame]

Kiana is a half-khajiit half-dremora her father is an ancient and extremely powerful dremora named Ruin

thousands of years ago Ruin never expected to be summoned, he thought he was too powerful for a mortal to

be able to summon him, but it happened one night a highly experienced adventurer summoned him

it was an old nord with a white beard he told Ruin his name was Calder

but he didnt summon Ruin to fight for him he summoned Ruin to fight Ruin

at that moment Ruin made him a deal, he gave him a black stone and

said "If you lose the fight I get my freedom"

Ruin defeated Calder and also soul trapped him with the black soul gem

after that Ruin lived in Nirn for thousands of years

in those years he walked in the shadows and he found ways to

manipulate people into doing evil things

he would sit in a tavern disguised as a merchant and

would tell adventurers he had a quest to kill a family of vampires

only to send adventurers out to kill an innocent family

but after thousands of years doing evil he was getting tired

thats when he met Fatina, she was and adventurer and

the first time he met her she was with a group of adventurers

he manipulated the group into a suicide mission against vampires

but after they headed out he had a change of heart and decided to save them

he followed them to te vampire lair, when he got there they were already inside

he entered after them but they had already been captured by the vampires

he slayed the vampires, they were no match for his flaming sword

and he found Fatina she was the only survivor of her group

Ruin picked up Fatina she was unconscious, he took her to his hideout

he took care of her wounds and waited for her to wake up

and this was the first time Ruin felt what it was like to care about someone.

When Fatina woke up she looked up at Ruin and when she saw his demon face she screamed

but then she noticed that he had been taking care of her

she asked about her friends he said he was too late to save them

she asked why did he save her and he said he didnt know but it was the first time he did something good

after that day Fatina pulled Ruin into adventuring with her

Fatina was an eager adventurer and Ruin was extremely powerful

the two of them toghether were unstoppable

and as they bond grew stronger it started becoming more than just a friendship

Ruin and Fatina had a daughter and named her Kiana

however there is one thing Ruin did in secret he used the soul gem

the one with Calder's soul to sort of "enchant" Kiana

he didn't know at the time he was turning her into a dragonborn

Ruin and Fatina were hunted down by the Vigilants of Stendarr

the Vigilants wanted to destroy Ruin after they discovered he was a daedra posing as a dunmer

Ruin and Fatina gave Kiana over to Raven a mage friend of theirs to keep her safe

then they made a last stand in a mountain near Bruma in Cyrodiil

they were overwhelmed by the mage who fought them there who turned out to be more powerful than Ruin.

Raven the mage took Kiana to Skyrim she raised Kiana taught her to read and taught her magic.

So Kiana is a Roguemage its a mixed class thief\mage

in the story I dont make it very clear but Calder was a dragonborn so when Ruin decided to

"enchant" Kiana with his soul it made her a dragonborn Im kinda trying to make it so she isnt

blessed by the gods its more like a curse from a daedra instead.

So the main backstory here is Kiana (the character im playing now) but there are multiple characters

Ruin is a dremora who uses a flaming sword and a shock bow

Fatina is a khajiit archer who also uses daggers

Calder is a nord warrior and uses two-handed weapons

Raven is a wood elf destruction mage she throws giant fireballs and is kind of a pyromaniac

I love interlocking the stories and making everything in the same universe.

Well I guess the story was a lot about Ruin but the idea was to introduce Kiana as Im currently working on Kianas story.

Edited February 4, 2021 by Notminame

[Notminame]

Kiana always thought her father was a dunmer, thats what her stepmother told her at least, Kiana lived in Winterhold with Raven her stepmother for most of her life, because Raven was a member of the College Kiana had access to all the books she ever wanted to read and learned a lot about magic very early,

Raven told Kiana a bunch of stories about her parents, how her mother and father were brave adventurers who fought against evil and saved people, she told Kiana that her father was a dunmer and her mother a khajiit, Kiana has read a book once that sugested that khajiit cant have children with non-khajiit races, this confused her for the longest time but she just got used to the idea, and there was the story of how her parents were killed by a powerful mage,

Raven omitted the part about the Vigilants and their hunt for Ruin but she told Kiana about the mage, they dont know who he is they only know that he is exceedingly powerful probably the most powerful mage in Nirn, Raven told Kiana that she should not go after the mage because it was too dangerous,

 

At the time the game starts Kiana is 19 years old, she was camping in the forest close to Helgen when she heard a loud roar in the sky, she looked up and she saw a big black dragon flying over Helgen burning the whole city, she approached Helgen cautiously to not be seen by the dragon, after he was gone she entered the city and witnessed Helgen in ashes everyone was dead, she saw a corpse who appeared to be holding a journal that was remarkably preserved among the ashes, she took the journal and read it and it had information about a secret exit from Helgen Keep, she followed the directions on the journal and found a cave, inside the cave she found Hadvar and saved his life they went together to Riverwood and talked to Alvor who told her to tell the Jarl about the dragon, she helped a merchant in Riverwood retrieve a golden claw from Bleak Falls Barrow, that is when she saw a wall with words writen in dragon language and after she read that wall something awoke inside her and she started hearing a voice, this voice started saying things that didnt make sense at first and then it said "Kiana hello my daughter." and then it went silent, after that she went to Whiterun she talked to Balgruuf gave the dragonstone to Farengar and then she headed out to the Watchtower to kill her first dragon, after killing that dragon is when things changed, after Kiana absorbed the dragon's soul she heard the voice again but now it was 100% clear and it started telling her a lot of things so many things "Hello Kiana, my name is Ruin and I am your father."

 

After Kiana's soul was awakened by the soul of a dragon she gained the ability to talk to her father Ruin who was currently in oblivion he would then start explaining to her that he is a dremora and he is immortal but he lived the life of a mortal for a period, that was when he met Fatina, Kiana's mother he said that he truly loved Fatina that he would have done anything for her and that is why she needed to be avenged, Ruin wants to go after the powerful mage he wants to find out his name, but Ruin is in oblivion so he needs Kiana to search for the mage for him and help avenge her mother.

[varkonasnorse]

I have made 5 NPCs over the past few years basically for my own use, and I like to give them backstories, or mini-bios if you will because it describes and gives purpose to their existance. It also lets the player decide on options as to what the NPC can be used for. Reading the bio helps the player decide whether or not he/she even wants to blindly download an NPC not knowing if it can be used practically in their game. My very first follower I uploaded a couple years ago (I'll admit the bio wasn't very good) Sirin Gassil, can be found on the Nexus. After reading it, you may decide this is not what you're looking for and by-pass her, and that's ok. She is vanilla made from CK with no fancy voodoo or construction mods and pretty simple. All my NPCs are made in CK, but weapons and AI packages may be a little different. She is the only one I have distributed on the Nexus though. I don't care to upload the rest of them, but they all have bios in case I do.