#dramheadcanon

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#6 [Locksmith]

Dram learned majority of his lockpicking skills from a local locksmith on Solstheim. Sure, the locksmith was briefly a thief before he gave it up to take on the family business, but the Dunmer had spent a majority of his life learning to make and break locks. It was part of the job, after all.

Apprenticing under the locksmith is how Dram made majority of his income (and kept a low profile as a thief) while on Solstheim.

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#5 [Sight]

Dram’s sight is somewhat poor, especially in harsh light. He can often be seen squinting while attempting to read signs, letters, or books.

His mother noticed it when he was young, when he would complain of getting headaches while reading. After some observation, she noted that he squinted while reading, and thus took it upon herself to order him larger-print texts so he could continue his studies.

Although his sight is not perfect, it is not a complete hindrance, and he gets along just fine, save for the occasional headache here or there.

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#4 [The Guild]

Despite bearing some injuries from his stint in Windhelm, Dram was accepted into the Thieves Guild after being given an easy task to complete. Besides, word of his talent had reached Delvin and news of a Dunmer escaping the confines of Windhelm’s jail AND dumping all the loo buckets in various places had the Guild in stitches.

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#3 [Bump in the Road]

At the age of twenty-four, Oli - now going by the name Dram for thief business - took the voyage to Skyrim, planning on joining the Thieves Guild. An altercation in Windhelm delayed his progress to Riften, but after only a week in the jail, Dram broke out and continued to Riften.

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#2 [Thief]

Oli was introduced to thievery at a young age in Riften, and was further exposed to it on Solstheim. Once he came of age, he was encouraged by the local blacksmith (quietly, of course) to take his talents to Skyrim, join the Guild there, and make himself (and his ma) some real coin.

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#1 [Origins]

Dram, known then as Oli, was born in Riften to a Nord woman and promptly abandoned at the Orphanage. The woman in question was from Windhelm, and knew that even attempting to raise a mixed-race* child would have dire consequences on her social status. Thus, she thought it best to leave him where he might be picked up by someone else.

Little Oli lived at the orphanage until he was roughly ten or eleven, in which he was happily adopted by a Dunmer from Solstheim, Sursa, and taken back to her home to grow up.

* Read this for my view on mixed race children. (Tl;dr -- mixed race children don’t have to look just like their mothers. I go with a mix of both parents due to how genetics tend to work.)