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My god, we've got a master necromancer! Did you realize this thread was rotting for like 3 months already?

Anyway, I just had some really random ideas in a bout of insanity, so I might as well write them as a wall of text

In my idea, there is no need to add all sorts of extra people that don't appear in the game, although there is need for some lore twists. The dragonborn will complete quests in this order: Dawnguard (vampire side), College of Winterhold (CoW), Dragonborn, Main quest. The civil war and dark brotherhood(minor involvement, its just that the emperor must die) questlines will play out without the dragonborn’s involvement, but its effects and the effects of his actions will affect each other.

All characters are warped to make the story much more dystopian.

Dragons:

Dovahkiin is now a really awesome guy, his dad was a half Nord half Altmer and his mom was a Breton, his blood gives him OP abilities such as massive magic resists, extremely buff arms and much more magicka. He’s actually a dragon stuck in a mortal body cause Akatosh screwed up (on purpose). He doesn't start with nothing, but he has a daedric longsword (lost longswords mod's daedric longsword, one handed), he knows the three expert destruction spells (incinerate, thunderbolt, icy spear) and can cast lightning storm one handed. He has slick skills that allow him to dodge around easily even in heavy armor. His sword deals massive amounts of extra lifeleech plus flames and electrical, plus it can summon 3 fire wyrms to fight for him. He is actually more powerful than Harkon in his vampire lord form. Did this so I can skip all the unnecessary questing and grinding, after all it’s not a bildungsroman story.

Alduin is just a derpy, overworked dragon who thinks it is his job to rule over all of mundus with him as the dragon king of all mortals. He is cloaked by poisonous mists and meteors fall when he is enraged.

Odahviing is a lightning based dragon, who is the second most rebellious among Alduin’s generals. He uses a unique lightning breath attack and a storm call permanently follows him around. He can also use drain vitality, marked for death, fire breath, ice breath, ice form and unrelenting force.

Paarthurnax is the “good” dragon. He’s weak and old, but he knows much, including many shouts lost to the passage of time. His true desire is not to help the dragonborn, but to destroy Alduin.

Durnehviir is an undead dragon who simply teaches the dragonborn soul tear and guards the soul cairn.

Civil war characters:

Ulfric is a racist and nord supremacist. He simply uses Talos worship as an excuse to fight and he actually has designs on the throne of Skyrim. He uses an Ebony sword with lifeleech to fight, dual wielding it with his axe in his left hand.

Tullius is a self concerned general who wants to control Skyrim through his legion. He is not adverse to taking bribes and he brainwashes all his legionnaires into mindless killing machines. He uses an elven sword of chaos and damage stamina.

Ralof is the finest killing machine of the Stormcloaks. He carries a dwarven warhammer and wears Stormcloak officer armor instead. He also has a backup Nordic dagger and a hunting bow. He can take a massive amount of punishment.

Hadvar is an unyielding legionnaire who now wears the heavy armor instead. He dual wields two flaming imperial swords and is skilled enough to deflect arrows and spells with his weapons.

Galmar is a Talos die hard who works with Ulfric as he believes Ulfric will restore Talos worship. He uses a headsman’s axe slathered with the blood of his enemies and tons of poison to kill his way through everything.

Legate Rikke is a brainwashed legionnaire of Tullius and his lackey, she is just as evil as him. She uses an elven mace of paralysis to brutally beat her enemies to death.

Dawnguard characters:

Harkon is the ruler of the volkihar, he is a misguided vampire who believes that blotting out the sun is in the best interest of the vampires, believing as well that sacrificing his daughter is the only way. He is not as unkind as in skyrim

Serana is Harkon’s daughter, a powerful necromancer with command over dark forces (she can dead thrall and uses icy spear/thunderbolt/blizzard in battle). She is more or less self concerned and she is pretty irritated initially with being stuck with the dragonborn (Harkon forces her in this edition), although they become friends later. She uses a stave of ice storm and has a stalhrim dagger of frost and lightning.

The dawnguard are a bunch of anti vampire genocidal maniacs who believe that their system of justice is the only real one. Isran is completely consumed by his lust to kill vampires, Celann just hates them with passion, Durak has his legit reason, Sorine is completely mentally insane (but intelligent), Florentius is schizophrenic and Gunmar is the moderate one.

Lord Harkon’s court are just extras with supporting roles.

Here's a brief exposition

First episode (night time, to make it cooler):

The dragonborn walks along a cobbled path when he encounters Ulfric being ambushed by imperials. He attempts to ignore them until they take down Ulfric and give chase to him, where he kills a whole lot of them, but they threaten to shoot him full of arrows and he surrenders, follow the in game story till helgen (the captain took his sword). Cue Alduin, then the dragonborn ignites his binds and runs through the whole place UNBOUND, following Ralof, who he follows into the keep, where they meet the captain, who draws the dragonborn's sword to attack him, except that it summons 3 fire wyrms that consume her, then flies back to the dragonborn's hand through telekinesis on the dragonborn's part. The dragonborn manages to escape helgen and it ends with him looking at Alduin fly away, as he journeys to whiterun through the night, eventually reaching it and sleeping at the inn (skip riverwood for the sake of epicness). Meanwhile, Ralof reports to Ulfric, who is back at windhelm.

Second episode:

The dragonborn wakes up at the inn in whiterun, then he proceeds to see the jarl, who directs him to farengar. He eventually recovers the dragonstone and you all know what happens next, he kills Mirmunir with lots of fancy magic and learns the first word of unrelenting force, which, unlike in game, is powerful enough to send enemies staggering back large amounts, as Paarthurnax watches silently from afar. Paarthurnax requests the greybeards to call to the dragonborn to teach him the second word of unrelenting force, which the dragonborn can use to crack walls and knock people over, following which he undertakes his journey to high hrothgar, the episode concluding as he journeys to ustengrav and open its doors. In the backdrop, Ulfric continues to train his men for an assault on korvanjund to retrieve the jagged crown, as the scenes cut to Tullius, who does the same.

Third episode:

Lots of slick killing action as the dragonborn powers through tons of undead (10 times more than the game) to retrieve the horn of jurgen windcaller, he reaches the end and finds the note, as per the game. He locates delphine, who directs him to kill sahloknir, which he does with brutal efficiency, this time, he is observed by Alduin, who remarks to himself that there is a threat and that Odahviing had to be awakened. The dragonborn then makes a detour to gloomsbound mine to collect some ingots (not shown) after speaking to delphine. He is shown working hard at the forge for a small scene, before he goes to solitude and passes Malborn a full set of daedric plate, minus the helm and his sword. The episode ends the thalmor embassy.

Fourth episode:

Dragonborn goes through the thalmor embassy as per the game, killing all the thalmor inside except for elenwen, who left, after retrieving his gear (the daedric stuff). He finds what he was looking for and grabs all the documents, then exits the embassy. The dragonborn makes a detour to meridia's temple, where he retrieves dawnbreaker after an epic showdown with Malkoran (who casts blizzard, icy spears and wields a stalhrim dagger, his shade uses incinerate and firestorm). He takes the dawnbreaker out of the temple, where he is approached by Durak to join the dawnguard (Dawnbreaker is buffed so it turns all undead caught in its radiant light into dust). The dragonborn reluctantly agrees as he departs for fort dawnguard.

Fifth episode:

Arriving at fort dawnguard, the dragonborn discovers that they are ultra anti vampire bigots who wish to completely kill every last vampire in existence. He rather unwillingly goes to dimhollow crypt to investigate, making a detour to the lord stone, which imbues him with more power. The dragonborn goes into dimhollow crypt, where he again just blasts his way through all the enemies in slick style. It ends with him finding Serana, a powerful vampire necromancer sealed within a monolith, who directs him to escort her back to the Volkihar castle. Meanwhile, Ulfric assaults Korvanjund concurrently to Tullius’ assault and it turns into a 3 way battle between the undead, the stormcloaks and the imperials. Hadvar is part of the imperials here, he wrestles for the crown with Ralof, ending with the crown breaking. The two factions each attempt to get back the other half. The dragonborn escorts Serana grudgingly, cutting to some scenes where he kills bandits, thalmor and some other hostiles. Harkon (who is no longer as diabolical as the in game version) greets him after he brings Serana into the castle, where he accepts the vampire blood, intending to use the immortality it will give him for greater purpose. The bit on the bloodstone chalice is skipped, then Harkon sends the dragonborn to the CoW for information regarding a moth priest. It ends after a conversation between the dragonborn and Urag (the dragonborn masquerades as a student to gain the trust of the mages.)

Sixth episode:

The dragonborn recovers the second elder scroll for Harkon, who has secured a moth priest to read it (Dexion is captured by another vampire from Harkon’s court, not the dragonborn, to expedite events). The contents of the scroll are revealed and the dragonborn has to find the last scroll, whom he does with Serana, where they journey into the soul cairn. The dragonborn kills the keepers in the most badass way possible, subjugates durnehviir without killing him and durnehviir teaches him how to tear souls (the full shout). The dragonborn also gains the summon Arvak spell. The dragonborn steps back into mundus, the elder scroll in his hand, where he returns to Harkon and Dexion reveals how to read the scroll. This episode ends with the dragonborn reading the scroll in the ancestor glade, pinpointing the bow. Meanwhile Tullius manages to trick Baalgruf into allowing legionnaires into whiterun, while Ulfric prepares to assault it.

I’ll have to think of how to continue from here, also how to flesh out the CoW and Dragonborn DLC characters…