With my newest character I decided to roleplay more and play "immersively" (eating, sleeping, little fast travel, etc.) as well as playing Dead is Dead. However, I'm not going to be doing the main quest at all. Instead, I'm giving my character his own personal main quest, the search for his father. I'm going to do other quests too, obviously, but I'm going to build up his main quest through roleplaying and questing, we'll see how far he gets before he dies. XD I'm curious if anyone else is doing this sort of thing. If so, I'd like to hear about it. Post some info about your character and quest.

Name: Tamrin
Age: 20ish
Race: Redguard
Class: Warrior/Hunter (Light armor, axe, dagger, shield, bow)
Pic (You can't really tell from the pic, but his skin's a bit light for a Redguard and his hair has a goldish tint):
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4972/screenshot16b.png

Story: (Note: I'm not a lore buff, so don't yell at me if this drags the lore in the mud. )
Tamrin is a bit of an oddity, a Redguard born of a Nord father and Redguard mother. Tamrin's mother was a decently succesful merchant in Hammerfell. His father was a poor Nord servant who his mother had a brief affair with. As soon as Tamrin was born, his father was dismissed from her servitude by Tamrin's mother and left Hammerfell, Tamrin doesn't remember him at all. Tamrin's mother raised the child for a while, but couldn't stand the constant reminder of her affair. Tamrin was sent off to live with an aunt and his mother moved and remarried. Tamrin didn't hear much about her, but apparently she had been sailing between Hammerfell and Solstheim, peddling her wares. Shortly before Tamrin reached advlthood, his mother moved to Skyrim. Tamrin, now a young advlt, resolved to find his mother. He traveled across Hammerfell into Cyrodiil and then north to Skyrim, but he was waylaid by bandits shortly after crossing the border and was left for dead, with everything he had taken, in an old abandoned prison. Tamrin was not dead however, and he has resumed the search for his mother.

People who've explored Skyrim sufficiently may be able to figure out who I'm intending his mother to be.

Interesting quest idea! And a right smart looking chap.

My character (first) is ignoring the main quest for now (she did the first couple of bits because it just seemed...common courtesy, I suppose). She's far more interested in improving her magic than caring what some old dudes on a mountain have to say. She doesn't believe in fate, so she's in no rush to get there.

EDIT: She's an orc mage. Some screenies linked in my sig.

Nice shots. I especially like Lantern and Standoff. it kind of gives me an idea too, I'll right journals for my chara, that oughta be fun. Too bad we don't have an ingame journal mod like in Oblivion yet.

EDIT: Btw, does anyone know if there are any alternate start mods? If Tamrin dies early and I make a new RP character, I don't want to have to go through the opening yet again.

I don't roleplay, but I am on a quest to find armor with the Waterbreathing enchantment.

I'm doing something similar with one of mine. She's a young Dunmer from Cyrodiil, named Brianna (not a good Dunmer name, I know). Her family moved there at some point (I'm not a detail guy); they're basically Imperials. Her parents were recently killed in an accident. A rather mundane one, but she's not above embellishing the tale of it with sufficiently tragic details for sympathetic effect. Finding herself on her own, she developed several vague goals. She has ambitions of becoming a great spellsword. To facilitate this, she wants to attend the college at Winterhold, and maybe join the Imperial army, but she doesn't really have any clear long-range goals. As a side quest, she thought of visiting the Dunmer colony in Windhelm. Most of her extended family stayed in Morrowind; perhaps some of them are in Skyrim now as refugees. Not that she'd know what to say to them; she's aware of what the "true" Dunmer think of Imperial Dunmer like her. In her less charitable moments, she thinks that volcanic devastation serves them about right. Anyway, she crossed the border into Skyrim at exactly the wrong place and time.

I am avoiding the main quest like the plague. She's been kind of spinning her wheels, gaining experience (lvl 15), but I think it's about time for her to get her butt to Winterhold. After that, I will probably do the Imperial side of the civil war. Maybe not right away. She likes to wander around and follow every little path to see what's at the end of it. More often than not, it's someone/thing she has to kill. Which she's gotten rather good at. She's been attacked by bandits seeking revenge, two DB assassins, and Thalmor Justicars. She spent way too much on some Dwemer equipment, which is why she's questing instead of attending college; she's not sure how much she'll need for spell books.

I am making very light use of fast travel, usually just to get back inside a city that is already visible in the distance. My main skill rule for her is no smithing. She eats and sleeps, and has developed a taste for Nord ale. She sneaks when it seems wise to do so, and uses a bow the same way. She discovered she has a talent for picking locks, but she's not really the thief type, despite what the Nord guards think. She had a brief fling with Faendal, but that ended, and now she's teamed up with Jenassa. Oh, and she's the Thane of Falkreath, which is where she and Faendal were running around together.

Amazing,Intresting and always fun to hear about peoples own adventures
And is your characters father in the game? x) will you pretend that someone is his father?

No alternate start that I know of.

I'd like an ingame journal feature too...I'm too lazy/busy to do one out of game. :B And thanks for the compliments!

Warning! Spoilers!

C'mon. With all the immersion-obsessed people on this forum, I refuse to believe that I'm the only one doing this.

Well, I'm sad to say it, but Tamrin has met his death in quite possibly the lamest way possible. He had just taken out a group of bandits near Whiterun and was heading to Whitehelm. He decided to clean off a bit, so he headed into the river and waded along it, since it was heading in the right direction. Sadly, he was looking upwards, so he didn't see the waterfall as he stepped over it and fell to his death.

I may remake Tamrin from square one simply because of how incredibly lame his death was.

There are no 'alternate start' mods out yet, as those require the CK to make. What I did is make a save just before character generation, so at least I don't have to sit through the cart ride again. I don't mind redoing the start, though, as it gives me an initial stash to sell for crafting supplies.

I don't have personal quests for my characters per se, but I do give them roles and play them accordingly. I also play Dead-is-Dead with no companions, which keeps me on my toes.

^That's a good idea. The next time I go through character creation, I'll remember to make a save.

To reach the unreachable star.

Ahahah, wow.

Seriously though this is a pretty cool idea. I've never really tried forming my own personal quests (other than short ones such as returning a fallen friends sword to their home city) but this sounds like it could be fun.

Mine is right when they start reading off names, which is almost immediately after you get off the cart. There's about a 10-second window between getting off the cart and them reaching your name, so act quickly.

trying to get all the 2920 books...but you have to do the thieves guild quests to get the last one which i think is really gay. Im not a thief, im a warrior. I should be able to just break the door of that stupid twilight sepulcher.

This all gave me an idea to do something similiar. Now if I could make a nord whos eyes did not look stupid. I swear I have made atleast 10 characters and deleted them all because once I got out of Helgen I saw how their eyes looked. WTF is with eyes!? I miss the DA creation. I always was happy with characters I made in that.

See my sig, About Me, and avatar for character info. J'derras was orphaned by the Thalmor (just about a week before the game starts) because his father had a gambling debt he couldn't pay. J'derras believes he was sent to the block by the Imperial captain because the Thalmor in Helgen payed her off to do so (a bit of convenience that the other soldiers thought I was a Stormcloak, Mara only knows why.) He escapes from Helgen with Hadvar because if it weren't for the Stormcloaks, he'd be in Cyrodiil and on a ship headed to Elsweyr.

His main goal is to fight the Thalmor at every turn, and eventually convince nations in Elsweyr that the Thalmor were the cause of the disappearance of Masser and Secunda and made them reappear in a ploy to take advantage of the Khajiit's dependence on the moons. Which will cause the Khajiit to help the Empire destory the Aldmeri Dominion once and for all.

Only lorething that doesn't fit as I can see is that a child takes the race after its mother.

Other than that it seem like an interesting quest.

Duoble post.

Ruining the Thalmors' day.

Name: Brianus Pikus Aurelius

Race:Imperial

Family background: The Aurelius famly had loyaly served the empire Since the last Urial septem, and the time of the invasion from oblivion. Though the start of the bloodline dissapeard(the champion of cyrodiil, had a throne to fill in new sheoth), his name did not. TCoC's son rose through the ranks of the legion, and eventualy became a member of the elder counsel(mainly with the help of the thieves guild.TCoC was the grey fox after all, and his family kept the ties with the guild ever since).He eventualy died, but he had Son to continue the line. He son rose through the ranks of the legion, and help'd to keep order and peace during the rise of the mead dynasty.While he didnt help the medes gain power directly, he was not considerd an enemy, and keeping the peace earned the family acolades with the new line. His son, and my skyrim characters father, earned the most respect though. He was named a hero during the great war, and shortly after its end, a general. 10 years after the war, he had a son,( my skyrim character), and died a year later.

Battlehorn castle, the family home since the OC, was a fine place for a boy to grow up, even with out a father. He got all the training and tutoring he could ever want. Though he never realy proved himself, he had acolades and ranks handed to him in the legion simply because of who he was. H loved his mother, had all the friends he could ever want, both in the castle, and in the city of choral.

Though he was high in the legion's ranks, it was well known he warshiped talos, as his family allways had, and refused to renounce talos's godship.

Upon his 17th year, things began to go downhill. His mother caught smallpox(or the tes version of it), and died, the disease took half of the staff, and half of the private guard with her. This weakend the castle, both economicly, and in its defence. Brianus was to be married to a merchant's daughter soon after. She was a few months pregnant. The night before the wedding, he got a summon from the emporor. The wedding would have to wait,as this was not something an Aurelius could decline. He arrived the next morning in the Imperial city, where he was arrested, and put in irons in the prison. The emporor came to visit him, and said " Im sorry my boy. Your family has served the empire well. But I can not have a high ranking official who disreguards the WGC. I do this with a heavy heart my boy, but its for the good of the empire. Im sorry".

Brianus spent the next 3 years in a thalmor tourture camp. They tried to break him, but he would not. One night, he had a long sought chance, and he escaped, using a tactic a family friend in the TG had taught him long ago. he returned to battlehorn, only to find it in ruins. It must have been destroyed the night he left. The corpses were left in the grand hall where they had been lined up for execution, all were still wearing the same thing they had on the night he left, including his fiancee, and the holder of his dead child.

he now hated what the empire had become. He hated the thalmor. He hated Titus II for betraying him. But he could not bring himself to hate the empire that his family had served for hundreads of years. The old empire. He vowed to enact revenge upon those who had cursed him, restore his family's name, and his own status in the legion, and the world, and to try and get the empire to be what it once was. What it was supposed to be. He just decide to head north, knowing the thalmor were on his tale, and that he needed to get out of cyrodiil. He now had the heart of talos, and he would soon find out he had the blood of talos as well.

We all know what happens when he gets to skyrim. Every thing he vowed to do is my personal quest in skyrim. I sort of change the lore/meaning of the quests in skyrim to match my personal MQ.

Sorry for the mistakes in this wall of text . Once I start going like that, I dont ever care about correctness.

you need a friend to make a mod that places your father in the game world hidden somewhere so you can really search for him.

^hm, that's a good idea. I may have to learn to mod just so I can do that.

@Cow500: Now that's what I'm talking about! I'd like to see how his quest goes. Also, I stole your sig. =P.

@Tdroid: Oh, right, forgot about that. Since I'm remaking him anyway, I may as well fix it.

@Tibs: I haven't made a Nord, but it did strike me that a lot of the human eyes are pretty weird looking.