#ri'saari

Archer: What are your character’s special skills?

Lyrra is a spellsword. She was briefly part of the Imperial Legion but she didn't feel like it was her path in life. She has a special focus on Mysticism and Restoration magic in addition to Destruction. She's skilled in one-handed, and she crafts her own chitin armor pieces.

Ri'saari is skilled in all things stealthy. She is deadly silent and light on her feet. While not the most headstrong attacker, she can slit someone's throat before they even realize she's there.

Nireya is a highly trained, highly skilled illusionist. She was trained by the Thalmor, and now uses the skills she was taught to evade them. Very few people know what she actually looks like. She changes her face depending on the time and place.

Crowe is an archer, hailing from Valenwood. Even with her disability she rarely misses a mark. She also had to learn stealth, living a nomadic lifestyle and looting abandoned villages since childhood.

Barbarian: What does your character fear? Do they face their fears, or avoid them?

Lyrra fears the unknown. She throws herself into work because she doesn't want to think about the future. She barely sleeps because of the dreams she keeps having, and the paranoia that someone is out to get her.

Ri'saari likes to think of herself as fearless, but truly she fears loss. The loss of her mother was her breaking point. She takes this fear out on other people in sadistic ways.

Nireya fears liars, ironically. She has seen firsthand how the Thalmor can manipulate people, and she hardly trusts anybody because of it. She is certain she is being tracked, watched, followed, and she doesn't want to fall for a trick, or put her family in danger.

Crowe has faced a lot of things and lived to tell about them. Dragons, Daedra, vampires, werewolves, untold horrors, Mikael the bard. After all of these and more, she still fears one thing the most: closeness. All of her relationships have an air of frailty, like she won't let anyone too near her heart. Most of the people she's been with haven't actually seen her face. When people express an interest in her that goes even slightly deeper than surface level, she can't help but run away.

Battlemage: What is your character’s educational background? Are they generally intelligent? In what ways?

Lyrra was raised in Cyrodiil among other displaced Dunmer. She was taken in by the Legion as a teenager and mainly trained in battle tactics, but she does read on her own. She is intelligent, but still young. She has a knack for combat strategy and healing in particular.

Ri'saari is not exactly book smart... Nor is she entirely people smart. She is highly skilled at what she does, and commands respect for it. Most people never hear her speak, as she prefers silence. But those that do hear her speak sometimes wonder... does she have any thoughts in her head..?

Nireya is highly educated. She studied in the Summerset Isles under the Thalmor, and has mastered Illusion magic. She is highly skilled in all of the arcane arts. After fleeing the Thalmor, she pretended to be a novice and trained with the College of Winterhold, quickly advancing among their ranks as well. She has studied magic, politics, history, and now has an interest in Elder Scrolls.

Acrobat: What keeps your character going? What are they in this all for?

lyrra is so tired. she didn't ask to be some prophesied warrior! she doesn't want to go questing across vvardenfell and beyond. she was abandoned as a baby, and grew up with stories of the tribunal like everybody else, but as she got older something started nagging at her, that something was wrong. the feeling got so strong that, when she arrived back in morrowind, she couldn't ignore it any longer. her journey is mostly a quest for truth, and to make that voice in her head go away. but she doesn't have to like it!

Witchhunter: What is something people don’t know about your character?

crowe and brynjolf actually briefly considered marriage. he's secretly kind of a traditional guy. crowe thought it might help her blend in, now that she was thrust in the spotlight as some "savior of tamriel." they decided that it wouldn't work, though, and their relationship has been a little tense ever since.

Spellsword: How does your character feel about themself? How is their sense of self preservation? Their ego?

crowe has no sense of self preservation whatsoever. that's why she keeps being labelled a hero: she keeps doing crazy things, expecting to either die, or... not die, and do something else. she has never had a plan for the future, because she can't fathom surviving that long, despite having persevered for over 50 years. she is confident in her abilities, but she doesn't particularly like herself.

Monk: What was your character’s childhood like? How was their family?

nireya was born to two thalmor agents in the summerset isles. she was gifted in illusion magic from an early age, and the thalmor controlled every aspect of her life, training her as a spy. she wasn't treated very well, but she was led to believe she was doing the right thing, and that the thalmor had her best interests at heart. it wasn't until her assignment in skyrim, to oversee and prevent the execution of ulfric stormcloak, went awry and she discovered her talents as dragonborn that she realized she would be taken advantage of by the thalmor, and went on the run. until then, she didn't question her upbringing at all.

Assassin: Does your character have a dark side? Have they committed any crimes? If they began their journey in prison, how did they end up there?

ri'saari is an assassin and thief. growing up in the imperial city, her mother was very poor and very sick, and ri'saari learned that she could provide for her this way at a young age. she started out by luring men and women away from taverns with the promise of cheap sex. she would then rob them of everything they had on their person. if they resisted, or fought back... well, that's when she started killing. it was out of self defense, she told herself, but each time, she got better at doing it. quickly, quietly, hiding the body, the works.

when her mother passed away, she found out the healer that was supposed to be treating her was giving her placebo potions. they were paying him all this time and the potions didn't do anything. that was the first time she killed someone outright, out of anger.

she ended up in prison because of a heist gone wrong. she was stealing cargo from a ship docked in the imperial city, when she was caught by none other than the ship's captain. luckily, they threw her in the wrong cell, and she escaped with the blades.

she ventured away from the imperial city after this, and after a murder she committed outside of bruma, lucien lachance found and recruited her. she has been living in cheydinhal since.