phantur Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 My idea: You are in Solitude, a beggar living off the garbage and rotten food of the ill-fated city. Alone and shunned by all those you love. It is raining. You are cold, hungry, and sick. You know you don't have much time to live. Before now, you've held yourself back from delving into that dark recess, the place where morals means nothing and survival everything. But you can feel the void growing larger, threatening to swallow you up. You have two choices: kill and steal or die in the gutter you call home. All of a sudden, you hear a faint ring, the sound of metal on rock, a sound you have longed to hear day to day. You look up from your bare, scarred feet and see a few gold coins. Your eyes widen. "You can take that and live for another week... or you can come with me and live forever with our Mother." Your head whips upwards only to see mere nothingness. Your shoulders slumped. Your mind has finally snapped apparently... "I see you've made your choice" the voice comes back again. Before you can move, you feel something shoved into your hand. The voice speaks one last time, a name. You spin around and see the edges of a dark cloak turning the corner. Looking down at your hand you see an iron dagger with a strip of parchment wrapped around it. "We will find you." You whisper the name the mysterious figure had given you. Determination and understanding sets in. You look back down to grab the coins in order to get a meal before you must do your deed only to find nothing. Curses... you have no choice. You get up. You have your target. It's either his blood soaking into the ground or your withered body becomes a feast for the Skeevers. You start walking towards the Blue Palace. You've seen this person before and know who he is. How hard could it be to kill a bard? "Hail Sithis." ---- Just my idea for a Dark Brotherhood start. :) Since, in Oblivion and Skyrim, quite a few of the Brothers/Sisters were picked up off the streets. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pikoso26 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Youve been working as a pleaser of the elderly women in exchange of money for your services. Then the greybeards summon you and you automatically learn levitation, fly up to high hrothgar and lvl up to 80 in full animal print speedo gear cause you just got sexier and you know it. Jks, love this idea, maybe not that many start positions, since its a lot of work I imagine, but maybe 3 or 4 extra different beginnings would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aokami Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 (edited) As for alternative starts... that i approve areFortune hunter; Your parents were killed, and you as a child taken into the custody of the group responsibal for this atrocity... they taught you how to kill your targets, how to survive... so good indeed that when you had the chance you killed them all... thereafter you fled the lands to skyrim to start a new life... filled pockets with gold and the best armor and weapons you could have with skills to use them you venture forth into the lands of skyrim... Landowner; your father is the owner of a farm and you see yourself grow up there... you learn how to fight with weapons from one of his hired guards... Although you arent the greatest warrior, your fathers money will keep you alive until you have prooven yourself... and you can always return home... to tell of your heroic deeds. Witch... You are a child raised by a witch in the wilds of skyrim... with you staff or orb and your robes being sent by your mother to investigate the vision she had... Bandit; You are part of a small group of bandits in skyrim, as most people become, as the 'system' deems them 'unfit' to live in their society... this also happened to you. You saw your siblings die of sickness and hunger... while the lord and ladyships lived in decadence... You saw your father being executed... and the people around doing nothing... you saw your mother die, weakened by all the misfortune that befell her and your family... when the guards tried to take your only keepsake of your brethren you killed them all with your bare fists... running away you met bandits who amused themselves with you until you killed one of them... instead of killing you their boss made you one of them... giving you a place to live...although you are only a rookie, you have your knife, your ragged leather armor, your bow and arrows and the will to do what must be done... Slave; this one kinda reminds of the normal start... but as an alternative you could be a captive somewhere else while the dragon hits helgen... but i am not sure about the details... how old would you be, what would be your reason for being enslaved, how long were you a slave, what kind of slave are you... Edited January 6, 2012 by Aokami Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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