#sithia

CHARACTER: Sithia

⚔ FLAWS

moody | short-tempered | emotionally unstable | whiny | controlling | conceited| possessive | paranoid | lies | impatient | cowardly | bitter | selfish | power-hungry | greedy | lazy | judgmental | forgetful | impulsive | vengeful | stubborn | sadistic | petty | unlucky | over analytical

♛ STRENGTHS

honest | trustworthy | thoughtful | caring | brave | patient | selfless | ambitious | tolerant | lucky | intelligent | confident | focused | humble | generous | merciful | observant | wise | clever | charming | cheerful | optimistic | decisive | adaptive | calm

CHARACTER: Cyn (Sithia’s modern version, as a separate character because they’re a little different, Cyn’s experiences not being quite as painful, and not being Dragonborn means she lacks the will to power)

⚔ FLAWS

moody | short-tempered | emotionally unstable | whiny | controlling | conceited| possessive | paranoid | lies | impatient | cowardly | bitter | selfish | power-hungry | greedy | lazy | judgmental | forgetful | impulsive | vengeful | stubborn | sadistic | petty | unlucky | over analytical

♛ STRENGTHS

honest | trustworthy | thoughtful | caring | brave | patient | selfless | ambitious | tolerant | lucky | intelligent | confident | focused | humble | generous | merciful | observant | wise | clever | charming | cheerful | optimistic | decisive | adaptive | calm

Meet Cyn:

For this I’ll focus on three of the biggest differences between Sithia and the version of her rampaging around in Fallout 4.

1. Cyn’s upbringing wasn’t as twisted and harsh, due to the lack of Dark Brotherhood. She actually had a childhood, unlike Sithia, and was a wee bit older when she first killed. But she was still trained to kill in her work. The ‘canon’ female Sole Survivor was a lawyer. Cyn has the certificate, but that’s actually her cover. She was an assassin/secret agent, although I’m not yet sure who she worked for.

2. As required for her work, Cyn is a much better shot than Sithia. In a world with guns just stabbing people isn’t going to be good for her survival, especially when there’s enemies out of reach or safer to kill at a distance (like Super Mutant Suiciders).

Serana is definitely not mine, but I guess it’s true that there are things unique to my interpretation of her in Doom Driven. So, three things:

1. Serana’s sworn two blood oaths so far (only to feed from Sithia if she’s willing, and never to lie to her) so that Sithia will trust her. As far as I know, blood oaths are not part of Elder Scrolls lore, but I’ve based them on how Serana says ‘by the blood’ and ‘by the blood of my ancestors’ in game, and there being power in blood, especially in the blood of a Daughter of Coldharbour. It remains to be seen in Doom Driven what happens if a blood oath is broken, only that it’s unpleasant.

2. That she studied magic her mother couldn’t teach her at the College of Winterhold, before she was vampired. And her addiction to stamina potions while away from the watchful eyes of her mother. In game, stamina potions aren’t addictive. I don’t think any potion is, but it made sense to me that there would be consequences to messing with powerful things. Especially when those powerful things are potions that renew your energy and presumably provide a rush and remove the need to rest. That sounds potentially pretty dangerous to me.

3. Because she’s a Daughter of Coldharbour just being near an Aedric shrine is painful, and touching one gives her a rather nasty burn akin to a brand. Again, the closest thing in game is where Serana says ‘I still kind of get a chill just walking by a temple. Can’t imagine going in one.’. But there is also the detail in ES lore about how Molag Bal created the first vampire, which included a drop of his blood. I take that to mean Serana has his blood in her veins, even if it’s just a drop, and that’s enough to make Aedric influences hurt her.

This seems to have turned more into an explanation about why there are those things about Serana in Doom Driven, so here’s a bonus fact for Sithia:

Likes:

Shouting her enemies off long drops. If they survive she does her best to put them out of their misery.

Dislikes:

Thanks! Now, let me see… Three facts about Sithia:

1. While Sithia thinks she’s a terrible shot and doesn’t carry a bow for this reason, it’s more to do with being raised by a Khajiit who was a gifted master archer. She’s… not, her talents lie elsewhere. Rasha couldn’t teach her something that came naturally and had no patience with her perceived failure. She holds herself to his standards, so isn’t actually as bad as she thinks. Not great, but not that bad either.

2. Sithia trained herself to use a sword by practicing with one on Skyrim’s bandits, Forsworn, wolves, bears, trolls, giants… And on dragons, the reason she upgraded to a sword. Before that she specialised at stabbing all the things with her dagger. She’s very good at stabbing things. Rasha had no complaints about her skills with daggers. Those he had her assassinate might.