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Thank you for the kind words! They're very much appreciated and I'm glad you like Balroth as much as I enjoyed putting him together. I knew what kind of person I wanted him to become at the end of the ride but not quite how we'd get there when I started writing his history, so the major plot points of his life were decided more or less organically as I encountered them by asking myself how someone with that kind of upbringing and childhood would react to trauma. I'm glad the sheet's length wasn't a problem for you. I've had people complain about that to me in the past. 

And yes, I did mean horsehoes. I'll rectify that in a bit.
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I love when ideas just flow like water. Vasora was much the same for me; Minus refinements and editing, I wrote her out in a sitting. I have a similar writing process where I have an idea of who my character eventually becomes, but there's steps to get there that are a lot more easily handled if you start from the beginning and work forward in time. You did a great job!

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Thank you all for the critiques and pointers, I'll get to working on my CS right away. As I've said before I'm not actually very familiar with TES lore and places, and I forgot to read the bit about Solstheim being given away to Morrowind by the High King. 

I usually prefer to start with a foundation and then flesh my characters out through RP, but these pointers help greatly in that regard. And yes, while they are fun reads usually, I don't think EVERY character has to have some kind of trauma so I didn't give mine one. I did have snippets in there which were challenging him, but I'll elaborate on them now.
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No worries! Trust me, I've spent an unhealthy amount of time scouring Wiki articles for fact checking purposes myself, so I know it can be a bit daunting. My advice is to read up on locations and organizations as they come up.

And I agree, I kinda realized how silly abundant trauma can be in roleplaying when every single character has their entire family merc'd. It's fun to mix it up once in a while.