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(Sorry for any inconsistencies in lore, etc.)

The majority of my redguard's (Adrestia) whole family were loyal soldiers in the Imperial Legion, so when he came of age, he obviously enlisted. He despised use of magic, as his family before saw it as a cheap tool, and the only real weapon a soldier needed was a sword. He truly showed his redguard heritage, and soon rose through the ranks of the Legion at a relatively young age. However, this all inevitably changed during a battle of the Great War, in which virtually all of his fellow Legionaires were killed by elves. He survived by faking dead after being struck in the face by a glancing fire spell, leaving him both unconscious and with a vicious scar on his face. The Legion assumed everyone on the Imperial side of the battlefield was dead and didn't even sift through the dead. He woke up later, his face scarred and charred by fire, to the sight of dead elves and Imperials. His psyche was instantly shattered, and he developed some kind of PTSD/schizophreniac-esque disorder after seeing the sight and from then on, something changed in him. He donned the armor of the fallen (elven and human) and proceeded to spend months afterwards attacking elf encampments and such out of pure revenge. He was after a certain target; the elf commander who lead the attack on he and his men months prior. Nothing, not his family, or even his wellbeing was on his mind, and he eventually found his target after more months and years (past the Great War) living in the province of Cyrodiil. He found the elf's home, and after forcibly breaking in, found only the elf's children and wife. Adrestia's rage brewed on and he killed all four of them. When the deed was done, his mind conflicted itself. He was once a proud soldier, yet now he was reduced to killing the innocent. They were elves, but they were innocent. He didn't seek revenge now on that elf; he had overdone it. He needed to leave Tamriel, yet did not want to bring the blade to himself. He resolved to being a hermit and dying alone in the far north region of Skyrim. During all of this, his mental battle with himself (the side that relishes killing and the side that relishes nobility) is constantly raging. While trying to sneak into Skyrim, he is captured at the border, and out of further shame for the elf family's killing, keeps quiet about his earlier enlistment with the Legion. They pick up stormcloak captives on the way and then the game starts. Adrestia seeks to kill and be evil, yet seeks to be just and heroic.