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Name: Arnskar Veilblade

Age: 27

Homes: None (during initial travels), Breezehome (after Thaneship in Whiterun), Lakeview Manor, High Hrothgar

Titles: Thane of the 9 holds, Harbinger of the Companions, Archmage of the College of Winterhold, Master of the Thieves Guild, Listener to the Night Mother, Dragonborn Hero of Skyrim, Tribekin of the Riekings, Skaal-Friend, Blade, Stormcloak Officer

Arnskar was a nord wanderer who travelled Tamriel with his mother, a Talos priestess, and father, a retired soldier for Windhelm's guard, most of his life. He was a proficiant hunter and skilled archer, but one day shy of his 27th year, after a particularly long hunt for food in the Cyrodill woodlands, they too hastily made camp without proper precautions and bears had broken through their camp and his mother was hideously wounded, losing her arm and sight. They rushed her to the Imperial City and to a healer where they spent the next few months. However, with a signing of the White-Gold Concordat and the banning of Talos worship, they were only given the minimal treatment, not wishing to be associated with "heathens" as they were seen.

After months of her mother being in pain and his father at her bedside, Arnskar went to get food for them both. When he returned, he found his mother with her throat slit, her Amulet of Talos broken into pieces, his father on the ground mortally wounded with a dagger in his back, and a bloody handed Thalmor assassin. Arnskar fought off the assassin and sent him running. His father remained alive long enough to say his dying words, pleading him not to live in grief but to live his life to the fullest and most importantly, to be a good man. He took their bodies to a remote part of the forest and buried them before going to the place he knew his home yet had not been to since early childhood: Skyrim.

Arnskar knew the Thalmor were hot on his trail so he had to move quickly. He'd managed to get across the border into Skyrim and made it as far as Darkwater Crossing, where Imperial Soldier were fighting men with blue gear and bear symbols amongst them. In a crossfire of arrows, Arnskar was hit in the knee and passed out through pain and exhustion. When he came to he was on the back of an Imperial cart. Destination: Helgen.