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Name: Orpheus (not his true name)

Race: Imperial

Age: Around 70

Backstory: The child who would one day be known as Orpheus had an unhappy childhood. Born in Cyrodiil, his parents were not fond of him, and always preferred his brother. However, Orpheus and his brother got on fine together. One day, Orpheus and his brother were out playing together, when his brother fell out of a tree and broke his neck. This killed him instantly. Orpheus was distraught by this, but was also overcome with a severe hunger. Thus, he attempted to eat his brother, but after taking the first bite, was overcome with such revulsion that he blanked the incident from his mind. Although he would be reminded of what he had done in years to come, he would never remember it.

When he grew up, he shunned himself from the Imperial legion, preferring instead to stay at home with his wife and children. For the first time in his life, he was happy.

However, life was hard for him and his family. They were always poor, only just managing to scrape by.

As he grew older, and his children became adults and had children of their own, his wife grew sick. He spent more of his time looking after her, and getting her things she needed, sometimes via banditry. During this time, he was injured in the eye. As it turned out, he wasn't the only member of his family who had turned to criminality. His eldest son had joined the Dark Brotherhood. When his son's wife found out, she gave him an ultimatum: leave the group, or she would leave him. He left the group.

However, it turned out that that was not the best plan he could have come up with. You see, the Dark Brotherhood does not take kindly to people who abandon their cause, and so they sent assassins to kill him and his entire family.

Orpheus, who had been out trying to find legitimate work as his conscience troubled him, came back to find his entire family dead, even his two year old grandson. However, the ones responsible for the murders were still there. Unsheathing his sword, he slaughtered the entire attack force.

With his entire family dead and nothing to lose, he abandoned his birth name as it meant nothing to him any more. Then he crossed the border into Skyrim, as he knew that was where his son had gone to join the Brotherhood. However, he was caught in a battle between the Imperials and Stormcloaks and arrested. When he woke up on a cart, he realised he was being taken to Helgen, for excecution. "Now I can see my family again," he thought.

As it turned out, fate had different plans for him.