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My current dragonborn is a breton who grew up in Cyrodiil. She was raised by her father since her mother did not survive the birthing process. She was very profiscient with magic espescially destruction and alteration. But she always felt too restricted by her teachers. After her father had passed away, she decided to leave Cyrodiil for Skyrim  were she could learn magic in an unrestricted enviroment. She was caught on the borders. After the events of Helgen, she went to Winterhold were she studied for some time but quickly found out that the best way to learn was to experiment on her own. She left the College but kept some contacts just in case. She moved to Whiterun and that's when she started working with the court wizard. After slaying Mirmulnir, she discovered her Dragonborn powers. She became thane and took permanent residence in Whiterun. After meeting the Greybeards and Delphine she tried to distance herself from both of them due to her disliking of both. When the war came at the doors of Whiterun, she joined the legion to defend the people of the city. Initialy, she was just a healer but she then became instrumental in the war effort. Many nords who were not sure abou their allegiance joined the legion to fight alongside the legendary dragonborn. She was on the frontline when the legion took Windhelm but refused to slay Ulfric when asked to because she did not want to give him the satisfaction. She nonetheless was a war hero but she wasn't sure that a mage no mather how powerful she was could defeat a god. When the dragons started becoming a real threat, she went back to Delphine and worked with her for a while. While infiltrating the Thalmor Embassy she was spotted and had to destroy anyone on sight. She left the embassy with a trail of ash pile behind. She had convinced herself that the Thalmor were evil anyway and that their death was inconsequential if it meant that she could stop the dragons but she was disappointed when the Dossier revealed nothing. She first discovered Alduin's origin when she met Esbern. She refused to believe it but the wall in Sky Heaven convinced her. When she was sent by Paarthurnax to retrieve the Elder Scrolls, she came across Septimus and his lockbox. Initially, she wanted to help him by retrieving the scroll but when the Abyss showed up, she left him to his fate. She would later return to him after Alduin proved to be more powerful than she ever thought. When the box, opened she did as Mora instructed and convinced herself that Septimus'death was for a greater good and that the knowledge could help her defeat Alduin. This gave Mora the edge he needed and Alva started down a dark path and would stay there for as long as Mora would need. With the knowledge, she was able to perfect her magical skills and felt ready to face Alduin. However she had to take care of Ancano before this and became Archmage after Aren's death. She then defeated Alduin but she didn't think that he was truly gone. If he came back again, she would be ready. In the meantime, she was celebrated as the archmage who destroyed  a god. But her title meant nothing. Bandits were still in every corner of the land and were still attacking her even when she proved to be more than a match for them. She only wanted to arrest them initially but then stopped caring about that. She started killing them mercilessly even when they pleaded for their lives. When she came across Azura, she tricked the prince and used Nelecar to corrupt her star. That however was Mora's plan all along. He wanted the secrets of the star and Nelacar was just a mean to uncovering them. Had the star returned to Azura, she would have blocked  Mora's access to it. Alva continued down that dark path and enventually joined the Dark Brotherhood thinking that she could destroy them from the inside but ended up taking control of the orginisation and started using it as a way to scare the people since she thought it was the only way to keep the people of Skyrim in check and sacrificed the Emperor but also frenzied Motierre which ultimately led him to his death at the hand of his own bodyguard (she couldn't bother killing him herself). In fact most of her contract were carried out using a frenzy spell and letting the target go mad and getting killed by guards. But being the head of an orginisation with only 6 members was not enough to keep order. When the Volhkihar manifested, she accepted their offer with a plan of destroying the lot of them once she was powerful enough but she ended up taking control of them as well and became feared throughout the land. She routinely uses the bow to scare the people and often leave the corpses of dead bandits in plain sight to remind the people who makes the rule. On top of that she was now more powerful than when she faced Alduin and Immortal. Nobody could stop her but her greatest nemessis was still ahead. Soon she will face him in a duel involving the Last against the First... Dragonborn.

Side note: Throughout my plathrought, Alva gradually went from lawful good to lawful Evil. All the action she took at that point were for the greater good in her mine. She was convinced that her actions were justified but Mora said multiple times throughout the game that you are not in control of your fate. This is my excuse for Alva turning evil after becoming a hero in the eyes of the people.

"You either die a hero or live long enough to become the vilain" - Harvey Dent