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trashiesttrashboy · 9 months

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I just realised I don't think I've ever actually spoken about any of my elder scrolls OCS apart from in reblogs, so here's a list of my Skyrim and Oblivion OCs with all the information I have about them.

Also, beware, the read more thingy is there for a reason (this is going to be fairly long)

First is my Oblivion OC, Valory Featherwood:

Valory is an Imperial, and grew up as an orphan in the Imperial City Waterfront District. Fortunately for him all the Waterfront residents look out for each-other, so Valory usually had a place to sleep and would often have at least one meal a day (although there was no guarantee of it being hot). He was also a beggar, and would often gather information for the Thieves Guild. Being so small meant that he could easily hide and get away without being seen.

He very quickly noticed how badly the waterfront residents were treated by the imperial watch, and how annoying Heoronimous Lex was, so he'd play plenty of pranks on Lex. Most of the pranks were harmless, but still embarrassing. As soon as Valory was old enough to be arrested, and he messed up badly enough to have enough evidence against him to make an arrest, Lex threw him into the imperial prison. He stayed there for about three years out of his five year sentence until the fateful day when the emperor would attempt to flee the city through the escape tunnel in Valory's cell.

Because he'd essentially just escaped from prison, Valory wanted to avoid the guards in case they were after him, so when he was told to deliver the Amulet of Kings to Jauffre he almost refused. The only reason he went was because of how urgent it seemed to be.

Valory was sent to find Martin after delivering the amulet, and he first met Martin inside the temple of Akatosh while the survivors were packing up what little supplies they were able to salvage. Martin stayed with the survivors at the camp until Valory had finished helping the guards.

Valory would have left after bringing Martin back to Weynon Priory, and almost did after dealing with the cultists attacking the priory, but Martin convinced him to stay and help.

Over the course of the main quest Martin and Valory fall for each other, and that results in a night of passion between the two, on the night before they left to light the dragonfires. (It's worth noting here that Valory is a trans man, otherwise what happens next won't make much sense)

After the battle against Mehrunes Dagon, Valory spent the first two days he spent lying at the base of the dragon statue that had been left behind, and Baurus had to convince him to move. Valory and Baurus spent that evening drinking in the Bloated Float, which ended up with them spending the night on the boat. Valory woke up first, extremely hungover, but once he heard what sounded like someone trying to break down a door down the hallway, he quickly woke Baurus (let's just pretend that the Bloated Float has a room with two beds).

A couple of months down the line, after adventuring with Baurus for a while so that both of them could take their minds off of Martin's death, Valory realises he's pregnant with Martin's child, but only tells Baurus who the other father is. The two agree to keep it a secret, knowing that Martin wouldn't want a responsibility as great as being an emperor to be placed on his child. Valory has a son, who he names Martin (obviously after Martin, that might change because I've not put much thought at all into the name lol), and Valory leaves him with Brother Piner and Eranor at Weynon Priory. Baurus also retires and joins the monks at the priory in order to help raise Martin. Baurus views this as the gods giving him one last chance to redeem himself.

Valory still craves adventure, but still comes to visit his son and his best friend at Weynon Priory very often. His travels lead him to Vindasel, where he obtains the sword Umbra. In order to quench Umbra's thirst for blood and souls, Valory joins the Arena, and gradually works his way up to becoming the Grand Champion, using the name Umbra as his Arena name. The Dark Brotherhood observe that he is a brutal and bloodthirsty killer, noting how efficient of an assassin Valory would be, and so Lucien extends an offer for him to join the brotherhood.

And eventually Valory finds himself thrown into prison for his crimes, but he was able to escape easily, and that's when the thieves guild contacted him.

After a few years, Valory heard a rumour about a mysterious 'door' that had opened up near Bravil, and that was the last anyone ever heard of him.

There are a few more details I want to add into Valory's story but they will come later once I've fleshed them out a bit more.

Then we have Ebony Featherwood, a descendant of Valory and Martin:

Due to Valory's disappearance, his son inherited everything that Valory had left behind, including an estate that had been built along the orange road to the north of Chorrol, the Escutcheon of Chorrol, and several horses, including a black horse named Dusken.

Ebony grew up on this estate, in Featherwood Manor. By this point the Featherwoods had become to Cyrodiil what the Black-Briars are to Skyrim. It didn't take long for Ebony to notice the way her parents treated people, and she quickly decided that she didn't want to be anything like them. She had three siblings, the oldest being her older sister, Alessavera, her older brother, Veluvius, and the youngest was her younger brother, Frivirian.

One day she was on a walk with Frivirian along the orange road, when the two got into an argument. The walk itself was intended to be an opportunity for them to talk about another argument that the two had been having, however it only made it worse. Ebony doesn't remember when the argument turned into a fight, or even who threw the first punch, just the sickening crack as Frivirian's head hit the cobbled path, and the frightened expression now forever frozen on his face.

Ebony had no idea what to do, so she returned to the manor before anyone could become suspicious. Alessavera and Veluvius saw her wandering the halls, however didn't think much of it. Aless asked her where Frivirian was, and ebony just responded that he wanted to walk some more and that she was just a bit tired. Ebony quickly decided that the only way she was getting away from this is if she ran away, so that's what she did.

She stole a set of guilded ebony armor and the Escutcheon of Chorrol, antique heirlooms that had been in the family for almost 200 years, a small amount of gold (relative to the wealth already amassed by the family), and a horse. The particular horse that she stole was her favourite, a descendant of the original Dusken, the bloodline managing to retain the shiny, jet black coat, as well as keeping the namesake.

Ebony spent the first few years as a mercenary in Cyrodiil, working for many different clients, one of which was a Bosmer named Direnin, living in Chorrol, who's Grandfather's ring had been stolen. The ring was very dear to his grandfather, the Jewel of the Rumare having been gifted to him by a Grand Champion of the Arena, and his dear friend. The ring had been stolen by a treasure hunter who wanted to use it to explore shipwrecks and other places where underwater treasure is common. He had taken it to Anvil, and Ebony had to battle with the treasure hunter underwater to retrieve it. (Yes Direnin's grandfather is the adoring fan).

Another client was an argonian woman named Nursha, who lived in the Imperial City temple district with her brother, Neethus. Neethus had developed a skooma addiction, and had been making deals with a nearby bandit gang to get his fix, however this habit had been slowly draining the gold he and his sister were earning. Eventually Nursha had enough, and refused to let him have any gold to buy more skooma. This meant that he couldn't pay the gang, and resulted in them kidnapping him. Nursha wanted to save her brother, and does have some experience with fighting, since she is a security guard at the East Empire Company Warehouse in the Waterfront District, however she knew she wouldn't be able to take on a whole bandit gang on her own. She hired Ebony after tracking down the bandits, and the two went to save Neethus.

Eventually, Ebony's mercenary work led her to take on the Dupan job with Inigo, which ended with Inigo failing to kill her in Darkwater Crossing. Ebony was taken by the Imperials after the ambush, which is how she ended up almost getting executed in Helgen.

Next is Aeleus Morrick, a Breton vampire:

I'm not sure exactly how old Aeleus would be, but he was turned around the end of the first era I think. I don't have an exact year or anything. 'In his youth' as Aeleus says it, he was extremely power hungry, and commanded a powerful undead army that would wreak havoc across the land. Although since around the time that the third era began, he got bored of the whole ultimate power and world domination thing. Instead he just settles for researching necromancy (since that's literally his special interest). He joined the Mages Guild for a while, where he was able to study and research in peace, although that came crashing down when they started cracking down on necromancy towards the end of the third era.

Aeleus joined the college of Winterhold about 150 years ago, since they are completely fine with him practicing necromancy. He did get very annoyed with many of the apprentices at the college as well as his colleagues after about 100 years, so he moved his experiments and research to a tower just south of Helgen, where he has lived for the last 50 years. He is still a member of the college, and a good few of his old colleagues still work there. Some were even apprentices at the time, but have since become powerful mages in their own respects. Tolfdir, as an example, was just an adept at the time Aeleus moved out.

He joins team dragonborn, and is basically just the anti-aging-obsessed grumpy grandpa of the group (he was turned when he was 27, but acts like a grumpy old man)

I also have Woesiira, who is honestly a bit of a Mary Sue but I don't even care, he's cool as fuck:

Woesiira is a lot like Umbra, being a deadric weapon that was created using just enough power to become sentient. He was created by Molag Bal, and his original purpose was to corrupt the just and noble into committing atrocities across Tamriel. Woesiira has two main powers: 'corruption' and shape-shifting. The corruption comes from stealing a piece of his wielder, the pieces that cause them to be good, and replace them with the cruelness that he was made from. The major flaw in that, was that Woesiira was slowly replacing himself too, until he became someone completely different. Woesiira quickly realised this, and also realised that the more he took without giving back, the more powerful he would become. So he stopped replacing the pieces that he was stealing, and stole more, often leaving his wielders as nothing more than a husk of their former selves. The shape-shifting comes from being able to change his shape to suit his wielder. While Woesiira used to favour the form of a two-handed mace, he took a great many forms:

A longsword, a battleaxe, a bow, even a gauntlet fitted for an Alfiq. Now though, he uses his shape-shifting to blend in with mortals.

When he first realised that he wasn't just sentient, but he was so much more than a weapon, he went to Molag Bal and demanded that he recognised Woesiira as his own person. Bal didn't really care about that and was fine with acknowledging that, but he was angered that Woesiira had been going against him by simply taking from people in order to turn himself into a person. For that, he imprisoned Woesiira in Coldharbour for 1000 years, until he escaped shortly before the Oblivion Crisis. He would have helped Valory and Martin, and would have likely ended up with Umbra once Valory disappeared in the Shivering Isles.

Umbra is constantly convincing Woesiira to commit crimes, especially against their 'parents' because these two are basically angsty teens lashing out at the world and you can't convince me otherwise.

The last one that is anything more that just a concept is Halfnod:

Halfnod's name was originally Hafdn, which came from the name Halfdan which is a Norse name meaning 'half dane'. Halfnod, being derived from that, would mean 'half nord'. About an hour ago his name was Hafnd, but that keeps autocorrecting to Hand so it's a nightmare to type and I had to change it.

Halfnod grew up in Riverwood. His mother was a Breton named Ysara, and his father was a Nord named Asgorn (those names are both based on the possible Arena and Daggerfall names). He is still living with his parents in Riverwood who own a small farm that feeds the village. He helps his parents tend to the crops and the livestock (two cows, two goats, and three chickens), but he craves adventure. His parents are fine with letting him go, but they want him to go with someone who knows what they're doing. That's when Ebony comes along, having just survived a dragon attack in Helgen. Ysara and Asgorn are eager to send Halfnod on his way with her, since she seems capable enough, making Halfnod her first client in Skyrim.

Halfnod is very gay for Revyn Sadri, and those two get married. Ebony would give them Lakeview Manor when they decide to settle down together, and they adopt Lucia and Sissel.

Others that are nothing more than their basic concepts are:

Ysra the Wild, a Nord werewolf and the champion of Hircine. I want her to wear the Saviour's hide because I like how it looks on her but I also don't want Sinding to die so I need to figure that out. Also I have no idea when she'd join team dragonborn or what kind of interactions she'd have with them.

Arielda, an Altmer bard who often performs at Elenwen's parties. She would help Ebony to sneak through the Embassy during Diplomatic Immunity.

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