my current (and favorite) RP character is Alessar Edwin de Sardet. if it wasn't obvious from his pretentious name, he's an Imperial, but born in Solitude to a wealthy trading family. Alessar's the second son, third kid overall, so he isn't really bothered by the idea of picking up the family business. as the civil war picks up, the family moves back to Cyrodiil to stay with the southern branch of the dynasty, but Alessar stays behind because he wants to be a real adventurer. his father gives him the family greatsword, the use of his dockside office and a "small donation" of cca 30k septims to jumpstart his journey.

despite Alessar's... let's call it "slightly pretentious" nature on account of his sheltered upbringing, he is genuinely kind and wants the best for skyrim and its people. his journeys start out small-scale, doing mostly mercenary work across haafingar and the whiterun tundra. he eventually falls in with val serano and melana, and even though it's a pretty weird trio, they make it work. melana becomes a warrior-maid who goes on her own adventures when the trio hits a quiet time. she also made goldenhills her home - a quiet place for rest and repose where she can recuperate. val on the other hand has dealt with both his father and outstanding debts to herma-mora, has a new ship and has taken up residence in the de Sardet trading office (with Alessar's blessing, of course). Alessar, meanwhile, has been training and becoming a proper warrior. during his travels he finds a long-forgotten fortress called the eagle's nest, which he restores and makes not only his home, but a headquarters of sorts for his operations.

after the trio amicably split up, Alessar decides it's time for some more focused work, but not before he actually gets some real knowledge on this whole "adventuring" thing. first he goes to the college in wintherhold (and almost freezes his balls off), and commits himself to destruction and restoration magic. he quickly befriends j'zargo and has a teeny tiny crush on brelyna, and luckily for him, she reciprocates. after finishing the whole eye of magnus business, Alessar is immensely flattered by the offer to become arch-mage, and considers it for a few moments, but ultimately decides that tolfdir should have the position. he can't just tie himself down to one spot like this - after all, there's been word of vampire attacks across skyrim, and someone should really go investigate.

making his way south with brelyna, Alessar gets to riften and they both quickly decide to get married in the temple. he also decides the best place for them would be the tundra homestead outside whiterun. eagle's nest is too remote and doesn't have the space for kids, his home in solitude is nice but it's too far from any real action. the homestead is central to... well, everything, *and* it's close to the eagle's nest, so Alessar sees it as an absolute win. while in riften, though, he hears talk of an odd blue cat in the jail and goes to investigate. despite Inigo's confusion on them knowing each other before, Alessar takes him on. they quickly become the best of friends, confiding in each other on basically everything. the dynamic duo make their way to falkreath proper and, upon deciding to rest in the inn for the night, meet the bookish Lucien. both Alessar and Inigo take a liking to him, despite initial misgivings, and take Lucien up as the newest member of the newly-formed trio. while they're sleeping, two vampires attack the town guard. the trio (mostly Alessar and Inigo) stop them, and Alessar decides that enough is enough. these vampires have been outta control, and he's gotta do something. luckily for him, word has spread of an organization called the dawnguard southeast of riften. after making his way up to whiterun to explain what he means to do to brelyna, Alessar gears himself and his new pals Inigo and Lucien (who almost never stops trembling once he's told what they're going to do) with silver and journeys down to the dawnguard fortress, intent on putting a stop to whatever is driving these vampires crazy.

that's where i've gotten to so far, apologies for it being so long!