Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-14011542-20131009214425/@comment-75.93.73.84-20140414034049

I have three characters I'm kicking around at the moment, each a different race with different motivations.

Dreyas - a female Dunmer warrior/sellsword, aged late 40s. Originally from Morrowind, she found herself orphaned at a young age and took up mercenary work once her combat skills were up to par in her teens. While hardened from a battle-worn life and capable of morally questionable actions at times, she is a fairly honorable and kind person. The sellsword life led her all across Tamriel, until she happened to get caught by those Imperials going in to Skyrim...

Felix Maeldoi - a male Breton conjuration mage/spellsword, aged mid 30s. Once a member of a prominent family of nobles in High Rock, Felix had to flee Evermore in 4E197 once the authorities discovered his shocking secret; he had been the culprit behind several grisly murders of young women in and around Evermore for almost 5 years. The victims had nothing in common beyond being women that were in young adulthood. They were also complete strangers to Felix, so he was free to kill at his own leisure with nothing linking each crime. Felix carried out the murders seemingly at random and for his own amusement, drawing satisfaction from taking the lives of those helpless to defend themselves.

Once an eyewitness testimony brought his actions to light, however, Felix managed to outmaneuver his pursuers and disappeared into Hammerfell. Without the presence of the Imperials or Aldmeri Dominion, Felix was free to travel Hammerfell without fear of pursuit, and spent the next few years making the most of his exile by adventuring the province far and wide. He also began to curb his murderous appetite by putting the blade to the various bandits and fugitives he encountered instead of helpless young women. While still a deeply warped mind, Felix managed to keep himself on the right side of the law and formed many friendships with fellow adventurers all across the region.

One day in 4E201, Felix found himself overwhelmed by unprecedented numbers of bandits near the Hammerfell/Skyrim border. Near death, the Imperial Legion steps in to save him just in time...only to arrest him for illegally crossing the border, and for alleged ties to the Stormcloak insurgency that had been toppled nearby...

Ra'hazim - a male Khajit thief/warrior, aged early 40s. The leader of a Khajit caravan that is decimated shortly before the events of the game. In the process of attempting a large-scale smuggling of illegal goods into Skyrim, one of the rear guardsmen betrays the group, and tries to kill all the other merchants while making off with all the caravan's gold and whatever goods he could carry. Ra'hazim manages to kill the traitor, but only after he slaughters all of his fellow merchants, and to find himself at the mercy of the passing Imperial Army...