[OOC] The Elder Scrolls (TES) RP: "Tamriel in Turmoil"

[DeletedUser9Gh7]

TAMRIEL IN TURMOIL

"In the year 249 of the Third Era, a pretender to the ancient throne of the Camorans appeared, and with mundane and Daedric allies, stormed across Valenwood, destroying all who stood against him. The Bosmer were slow to unite against the threat, many too terrified to stand against the Camoran Usurper and some delighted that they were being freed, however violently, from the perceived yoke of the Empire. This minority grew as the Usurper's power did, and once he had consolidated his power in Valenwood, he turned his attentions northward. It took nearly two decades of tyranny before Valenwood found the strength to shrug off Haymon Camoran's rule."
―Imperial Geographic Society

Welcome to Tamriel in Turmoil! This roleplay focuses on the universe of The Elder Scrolls game series, your characters are free to travel to any region but they must do a bunch of things which we will get on soon. The roleplay will located in Hammerfell. The players were caught by mercenaries of The Camoran Usurper and meet a wood elf who helps and rescues them.

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Skills

Skills have different effects, it may be boosted when you are a certain race

• Melee- Ability to wield melee weapons.
• Block- Ability to properly block an attack.
• Archery- Ability to shoot a bow.
• Alchemy- Can be used for potions and poisons, profit can be also be made by selling
• Speechcraft- Ability to barter,taggle,intimidate and persuade people
• Destruction- Cast Deadly Spells
• Restoration- Ability to heal wounds or injuries
• Conjuration- Ability to summon daedra from Oblivion. You may bring back the dead but... Redguards won't like that.
• Alteration- Ability to alter things, such as making an armor from an aura
• Heavy Armor- Ability to use heavy armor
• Light Armor- Ability to use light armor
• Forging- Ability to forge weapons
• Enchanting- Ability to implant magic into different weapons
• Lockpick- Unlock things with lockpick tools
• Pickpocket- "Fish" some valuables off pockets

5 points is the max. skill cap

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Alright so the when choosing a race you get boosted skills every skill start in one point, if it is one point you do not need to place it at the skills part of the CS
You have 3 points that you can invest, skills will go up without being invested in if it matches your race.

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Dark Elves gets +1 to destruction and +1 to light armor +1 alchemy +1 sneak (+5 looking like a theif)
High Elf gets +1 to restoration +1 to destruction +1 to illusion +1 Enchanting (And +10 being bullied by Everyone)
Argonian gets +1 lockpicking +sneak +1 light armor (And being called lizzard by guards)
Bretib- gets +1 conjuration +speech +1 restoration
Wood Elf= gets +1 archery +1 sneak +1 pickpocket +light armor
Imperial- gets +melee +1 restoration +1 destruction
Khajiit- get 1+sneak 1:pickpocket 1lockpick +1 melee (And not being trusted due to skooma)
Nord- gets +1 melee +1heavy armor +1 speech
Redguard- gets +1 melee +1 block +1 archery
Orsimer- +1heavy armor +1 melee +1 one smithing

CS

NAME

RELIGION

AGE

RACE

HISTORY

SKILLS(You have three skills invest points)

[HISTORY

The Dice rolls will be in the first page of IC

[Pyromaniacwolf]

Currently thinking of playing a necromancer but you've worded conjuration as though it only includes Daedra summoning, does this mean necromancy isn't allowed or will it just be treated the same (but require a corpse for the magic to work of course) ?

[MarsAdept]

Here is a character sheet. I hope it is not too much trouble that I picked a bosmer to play. If it is trouble, do not feel bad. I can easily make a Breton or imperial.

Character sheet

NAME
Alias (main name she will give if asked): Rose Lily
Official given name: Nimrihill Oakgrove

RELIGION
Green Pact

AGE
a young 34

RACE
Bosmer aka Forest peoples (Wood elves to humans)

Appearance
Rose has a lean athletic build to her small frame of 5 foot 4 inches tall. Her skin is a light tan with a slight green tint to it. Her eyes are a deep honest blue and her hair is a long warm brown that she usually has pulled back into a ponytail. Sprouting from her temples just below her hairline, two bone white horns sprout and curve back over her scalp, they curve up and inwards just behind her head and split into two prongs. If measured to the top of her horns, she stands only 5 foot 7 inch high. Her horns make it hard for her to wear hats and helmets, so Rose will wear hoods or a wooden bucket when she wants to be sneaky. Rose prefers to wear leathers or other animal based cloths. She tries to avoid cotton or plant based cloths. Her habits gained from the Green pact die hard mainly because she prefers to try to preserve the pact even when outside Valenwood.

HISTORY
Nimrihill Oakgrove was born deep in the wild jungles of Valenwood to a small roaming band of bosmer. They hunted and moved with the seasons. Their main hunting grounds were deep in the woods that they rarely if ever encountered non-bosmer. The imperial legions tried to chart the woods of the area, but the giant migratory trees make it hard for those not of the native to the region. Her clan lived strictly by the tenets of the Green Pact. They defended the trees of Valenwood with their lives, they ate according to the meat mandate, and never allowed a infraction on the pact go unanswered. Because of this devotion, Nimrihill was orphaned at a young age. Her father fell in a raid against wood orcs that moved into the hunting grounds, and her mother was felled after breaking the Green Pact in grief of her husband's death. The dramatic experience of her mother's death made Nimrihill turn fully into perfecting her devotion to the Green Pact.

Nimrihill's mother had grieved about her husband falling in battle. She prayed for power, not to any divine, but to the Deadric Prince Hircine. Hircine answered by transforming Nimrihill's mother into a werebeast. Her rampage went to seek out those who killed her husband. However, Nimrihill's mother could not control herself and could not discriminate between friend and foe. Nimrihill stumbled upon her mother shortly after the transformation. Her mother spotted her and gave chase. Trying to consume her own daughter, Nimrihill's mother chased her across the forest. Nimrihill ran with all the might she could muster. Relying on the plants and trees of the jungle, Nimrihill barely stayed one step ahead of the beast pursuing her. Nimrihill was saved as she ran past her clan's hunter, who quickly moved to assist. Only after the werebeast was killed did it revert to her normal form and Nimrihill could see the monster had been her mother.

Nimrihill devoted herself to the Green Pact. She became a strong stalker and hunter. She never harmed the forest and never let anyone harm it. She made herself valuable to the clan by hunting. Her devotion to the Green Pact got her noted by the clan's shaman. The Shaman took her under his wing. He taught Nimrihill to read, use magic, and the deep stories of the clan's history. Her knowledge of Valenwood that she learned from the Shaman and her own devotion to uphold the pact caused her to begin to grow antler-like horns when she turned 14. These antlers are seen as a sign of her strong faith as neither her parents had horns, and the trait of horns is rare among her clan.

Nimrihill lived a happy life for a short in the depth of Valenwood. However her daily routine was disrupted when the armies under the Cameron Flag came marching through her woods. Her clan was all to eager to be called to serve under a Cameron, however Nimrihill was not so happy. This Cameron was calling for war. However, Valenwood was free of the Imperial Legions now. The only war now was outside of Valenwood. An offensive war was outside of the Green Pact. All Bosmer were to protect Valenwood. Doing what this Cameron asked was not right. Knowing she could never convince her clan members, she grabbed her way and abandoned her clan. She ran from everything she knew and left Valenwood even. She was going into the unknown. A new life, a new adventure, and with a new name to match: Rose Lily.

SKILLS(skill points: 3)
Archery: 2
Stealth: 2
pickpocket: 1
Light armor: 1
Alteration: 1

[The Fated Fallen]

@SantosGabriel77 Ummm.... It's a bit odd that you've listed swordsmanship as the only melee option, and racial bonuses only give bonus to one-handed

(also Bretib)

[MarsAdept]

@Pyromaniacwolf

I think you should go ahead and build a necromancer character. Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. After all what is the necromancer's master plan? Step 1: Get an army of zombies. Step 2: Do whatever you want because you have an army of zombies.

Also, you got guts going necromancer. We are starting the rp in Hammerfell. The Ra Gada (Redguard) really do not like people messing with their honored dead.

[Pyromaniacwolf]

@MarsAdept I enjoy making eviler characters, kinda felt weird in Skyrim with everyone being pretty okay with necromancy. Just not sure if i'm okay to have like, a permanent undead companion or just summoning waves of temporary undead, if I can have a permenant companion I can just deck him out in armour and dismiss him as being quiet. Seriously you can resurrect someone's husband/child/family member as a zombie and they're perfectly fine with it

Also, now to do a ton of binge reading on Hammerfell lore Or as much as I need and what an argoian born in Cyrodiil would know becaue muh immersion

[The Fated Fallen]

@MarsAdept Just not sure if i'm okay to have like, a permanent undead companion [...] if I can have a permenant companion I can just deck him out in armour and dismiss him as being quiet.

@Pyromaniacwolf

That sounds pretty awesome, I wonder if a long term undead like that would start to develop their own personality traits?

[Pyromaniacwolf]

@The Fated Fallen I mean, pretty sure the lore behind necromancy is the soul is trapped inside the body of the corpse and bound to the necromancer's will, nothing saying they couldnt develop a personality and your minions in Skyrim (who are usually freshly raised) can mutter and say stuff occasionally. TES lore is a little rusty in some areas so there could be another explanation (I don't think the Soul Cairne is linked to raising corpses?)

Edit: If anyone wants to talk character creation in PM's just drop me a message, working with a argonian from Cyrodiil and I need to explain how he gets to Hammerfell (the why is currently he spent some time working with the Worm Cult in Scourge Barrow before deciding he was getting treated more like a servant and snuck off in the dead of night before getting captured a week or so later, I believe the Worm Cult was still slightly active at that point as the wiki states they were active in the Third Era but became fully active in the late third. Unless someone has a specific date for the Worm Cult activity beginning I'm gonna go with that).

[DeletedUser9Gh7]

Conjuration, includes necromancy
I will be fixing that, But for now get a character sheet.

[MarsAdept]

@SantosGabriel77 Hey, what did you think of my Bosmer CS?

[The Fated Fallen]

Hooray for Khajiit speak! Well... She doesn't speak it naturally but people don't trust her as much if she doesn't play up to the stereotype in her line of work

Dro'isi the Smuggler

NAME
Dro'isi

RELIGION
The Nine, but particularly Kynareth for guiding her through many storms

AGE
38

RACE
Khajiit

HISTORY
Dro'isi was born in southern Cyrodill, in a village near Anvil. Her mother worked on the docks as a sail stitcher, and her Dad as a smuggler, who was always long away. The children of the pair generally spent their time being children, living up to all of the Khajiit stereotypes. But when a storm came in they would all gather and pray to Kynareth to deliver their father, the key source of income.

This devotion caught the attention of the church, who brought on many of Dro'isi's siblings to study for priesthood. Not only was this guiding troublesome urchins away from the street, but it was also a diplomatic token towards Elswyr, who would be far more likely to take the long route by sea if they felt less alien in Anvil's streets.

Dro'isi never gained any real skill of healing or alteration that is the standard for followers of Kynareth, but she did become a force to be reckoned with when it came to preaching the Nine and became a very personable individual, and in small part may have influenced further trade between Cyrodil and Elswyr through her blessings.

Of course, with this new trade came more and more crime. Soon it became harder and harder for Dro'isi's father to smuggle and make a living. A little bit into her early adulthood Dro'isi moved with a fair chunk (if not all) of her family to HammerFell, though never anywhere in particular. Dro'isi started to learn the trade of smuggling herself, and quickly found work in the local thieves guilds due to her invaluable education and literacy.

Despite the risks of the job, as well as fierce competition in these lands and seas, Dro'isi has managed well enough to make a decent living for herself and her own family and ageing mother who live in the port city of Taneth.

Well enough up until recently, however. With the conflict now plaguing the province she has been harder and harder pressed for safe work. If there's one thing to living well as a smuggler the it's less important to have friends than it is to not have enemies. So wanting to stay neutral like anyone sensible, and she [definitely wants to stay neutral in times like these, she has had to turn to more and more questionable contracts with the guild.

It doesn't take an experienced thief's gut feeling to know that there's trouble on the wind, and this kind of work can't last forever without incident.

SKILLS
- 2 sneak
- 1 pickpocket
- 1 lockpick
- 1 melee
- 2 Speechcraft

- Skooooooooma! (Gets invited to all the parties!!! Wooh!)

[DeletedUser9Gh7]

@The Fated Fallen
ACCEPTED! (Khajit has wares if you have coin..)

@MarsAdept

Accepted! Nice too see you involved The Green Pact!

[Pyromaniacwolf]

Apologies if something is off about this, decided to do the backstory at 12 at night because apparently that's when my brain decides it's best for my ideas about creative writing to show up.

Julre Tikeermus

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Apologies if stealing random art for mugshots annoys people but this looked really nice, had to use it, guy actually makes really nice art even if it ain't all ES knocknoc.deviantart.com/art/Argonian-…

NAME Julre Tikeermus

Alias/Nickname-Jul
RELIGION Daedra Worshipper- Molag Bal (also has a reverence of Sithis)

AGE 25

RACE Argonian

HISTORY
Julre Tikeermus was born in Bravil in the 3E year 224 to a pair of argonian alchemists who had moved from Black Marsh in order to sell their wares where they were needed (and for higher prices of course). Unfortunately this left his parents little time to care for Julre as their shop required either constant maintenance or restocking with potions.

As Julre grew from hatchling to child, it became clear that the argonian possessed magical abilities and so his parents quickly found him a place in the mages guild; allowing them to have a place for their child to be while they worked and and an excellent life opportunity for him. Julre took to his studies well and showed a great interest in conjuration magic; the idea of creating life from nothing or summoning it from other dimensions gave the young mage a sense of power.

While Julre enjoyed great academic success, his social situation was less enviable. Being an argonian, many races seemed to look down on him and his, from their perspective, almost alien culture; Julre would have had no qualms with this (he acknowledged the argonian culture was different from most others) but he had little personal experience of his own culture either. He had been given hist sap from a bottle to help him develop correctly , but his connection with the tree it came from was weak and his visions from it were rare, fleeting and often nonsensical. Eventually he turned to the one aspect of his culture that he would have some access to outside of Black Marsh- Sithis. True, he was no shadowscale and had been taught little of Sithis except that he was the original creator. Over the years he spent looking over what little he could find about the Dread Father he came to his own conclusion (and more than a little theory making on his part) that the Daedra were essentially the offspring of Sithis and therefore were a key part in Argonian culture. This eventually lead to Julre settling on a reverence for Molag Bal who's ideals were..pleasing to him.

As Julre grew older and his religious views began to develop, he began to feel far more comfortable with forms of magic outside what was socially acceptable. Jul's interest in necromancy had originally been a passing fancy shortly after he joined the guild but was scared off the art by the disapproving looks he earned from some of the more senior wizards and the general complexities of the magic at the time due to his limited abilities. Now however, he cared little for the sighs or mutters of his elders and the magic was simple enough to him now. Now he was a capable young apprentice nearly always seen being followed by some kind of animal he had killed in the woods which served as a pack horse for any errands he was made to make.

By the time Julre had reached adulthood, his use of necromancy was well known throughout the guild and most shook it off at this point or simply aimed a disapproving stare in his direction whenever he was around and in use of necromatic magic; truth be told he loved the casting of the spell more than the result of the spell itself, the magical energy building up in his body and being released instantly was exhilarating. For all his time in the guild,even during his initial experimentation, he had caught the eye of one of the senior members of the Mages Guild. This wizard also happened to be a member of the Order of the Black Worm (although this was obviously not information he publicly announced) and was looking for potential recruits. He found the perfect recruit in Julre. He was young, ambitious, already committed to the art of necromancy and it was no secret he felt like an outsider in both Cyrodillic and Argonian Culture. The wizard befriended Julre and began assisting him into his endeavors into necromancy, helping him go beyond raising animals to bandits and helping him master soul trapping and some basic help on enchanting. In later years he also taught him the ritual to convert soul gems into black soul gems.

Some time after this, Julre was considered competent enough to be transferred to a new guild hall in Hammerfell. The more senior wizards claimed this was to expand his world view but many did it in an attempt to curb his use of necromancy which they still, after almost a decades of Jul's use of the magic, disapproved of. Julre's main teacher however, approved of this for a different purpose; in secret he gave Julre the location of the Worm Cult's headquarter's in the Dragontail Mountains of Hammerfell where he could continue his use of necromancy among other like-minded individual and could contribute to a common goal,what that goal was they left out. Over the course of several weeks Julre and the Worm Cultist transformed a large cache of grand soul gems into black ones and concealed them in a crate. The cultist hired a smuggler to get both the soul gems and Julre into Hammerfell undetected as the Redguard were known for their intolerance to the disrespecting of their ancestors.

Unfortunatley, Julre and his cache of black soul gems were captured by mercenaries of some Usurper, Carmen? Carmund? The argonian cared little. All he knew is that he had to retrieve his cache and get them to the Dragontail mountains so he could grow his power in piece and crush all those who stood in his way. But surely a little detour couldn't hurt to find out who this Usurper is...
SKILLS
+1 lockpicking
+1 sneak
+1 light armor
+2 conjuration
+1 enchanting
(And being called lizard by guards)

[DeletedUser9Gh7]

[@everyone]
I will have my character maybe later at night or tom.
Also I think we will have a balanced group, excluding the racial racism by others.

@PyromaniacWolf
Accepted move to CS

[The Fated Fallen]

Apologies if something is off about this, decided to do the backstory at 12 at night because apparently that's when my brain decides it's best for my ideas about creative writing to show up.

@Pyromaniacwolf

:O I wasn't the only one to do that whoo!

@SantosGabriel77 I don't know if you've been in on the plotting and scheming but me and @Pyromaniacwolf have been considering backstory

What we were thinking is that my character was smuggling their character and black soul gems, and that's why they were caught. Maybe, I don't know

[Pyromaniacwolf]

Just a suggestion for @SantosGabriel77 but I think we should make a discord server just so everyone is in the loop with what is going on and so we can talk without spamming this thread with nonsense.

[DeletedUser9Gh7]

@PyromaniacWolf

Indeed. I was thinking of the same thing.
Ill make a server soon don't worry.

[DeletedUser9Gh7]

Alright so I got a discord server.

discord.gg/Qa6HKx3

Also...
@Pyromaniacwolf
The story starts 3E 252 so might wanna adjust that a bit

@The Fated Fallen

@Marsadept

@SantosGabriel77Lol
Just wait for the my IC post then you guys can post.

[The Fated Fallen]

Sooooo...

Is my post alright? If there's anything you guys should know about me it's that I pretty much only post at midnight so my posts are almost 90% garble transmission. This combined with my lack of knowledge on... Anything to do with anything *can* be an issue

And also...

@Pyromaniacwolf If my whole "Prisoners have just been bought in." thing is fine do you want to be lead in behind Dro'isi? Or if you wanted to be here prior I guess they could have rushed you here on suspicion of you being a necromancer and you arrived the night before. Who knows?

[DeletedUser9Gh7]

@Pyromaniacwolf
Your turn.

@The Fated Fallen

I tried writing late night. I though it was good. The next day I decided to read that post turns out it is like misunderstood.