User blog comment:Anonnnomoose/Character's backstory?/@comment-204.237.73.212-20110925202034

Back-story: Isaak A. Runner, born of Imperial father Artemis Runner and Nord mother Eiruki Runner was born of Cyrodill and was a seemingly ordinary child. Isaaks father was a high ranking officer in the imperial army and his mother was a Nord refugee who spent most of her time maintaining her husband’s equipment. When Isaak became of age he volunteered himself into the imperial army. His agility and self discipline helped him excel in combat earning reputation among his peers. “Hey, your pretty quick for a Nord boy Runner ha ha, pre short too” one Imperial would shout. “Ha ha, only thing that boys runnin from is his roots” would shout another. By the time Isaak was 24 he had already been to hell and back. “When you’re fighting in the imperial army, you don’t keep friends long” A phrase often spoken by Isaak. Constant fighting had taken its toll on his mind; he had become seemingly cold, calculated and merciless. He had forged himself a reputation for seeing people as tools or obstacles, often being perceived as void of any emotion. He had gotten in trouble a year earlier for public disturbance when he beat a man, whom he believed to be withholding information regarding the death of a young boy, to death in the centre of a busy town square. A year later, The Imperial army had announced that Artemis Runner’s Platoon had gone missing. They had been sent to the border of Falkreath Hold to negotiate the life of a prisoner being held in the Skyrim province and had not reported back in over a month. Isaak was chosen to take a small group of men to check on the state of affairs at the border. Isaak was hesitant to accept the assignment, he did not want to leave his mother alone with no husband or son to help around the house but he had little choice. After about a week’s worth of travel through harsh terrain and the occasional skirmish with rebels. Everyone in Isaak’s crew had made it to the border with few injuries. Upon arrival Isaak was attacked by the Nord men at the border. Isaak’s men were swiftly eliminated and Isaak was left out numbered. he was apprehended but before capture he had killed several of the Nord men. Isaak had learned that the army he had risked his life to serve for so many years had delivered him to the Nords as part of the negotiation, and that his father was killed during the process of his own capture. The prisoner was a noblemen who had strong ties with the higher ups in the imperial army and had bribed he imperial army to his aid. The Nords demanded Isaaks mother Eiruki be delivered to Falkreah Hold within the month. She had been wanted in Skyrim for cowardice and war crimes before escaping to Cyrodiil. Skyrim accused Cyrodill of harbouring a wanted criminal and had commited an act of war by doing so. They demanded that her and her son both be given to Skyrim as an apology and that they would be risking a war by not doing so. Eiruki committed suicide in world of her husband’s death and Isaacs capture and the body was sent to Falkreath Hold as proof. Isaak, plagued with the deaths of his mother and father now faces death row. Charged with, murder as well as being pinned with his mother’s crimes, Isaak seemingly empty outlook has become filled with anger and hate. He was betrayed by his father’s people and captured by mothers. His cold and calculated mentality has been fuelled and relit with a thirst for blood. Skyrim is now on the brink of civil war, and Runners death draws near. Should he care that those who betrayed him are now at risk of losing control of the nords, maybe he should be concerned with the nords, a people close to him but demanded the life of his family.... or maybe, just maybe there is more than civil war to worry about.