For lore and extras, please peruse under the cut below!
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Helthune was born shortly before the Snow Elves, who were faced with extinction from the Nords, were forced to live underground with the Dwemer. Due to the harsh conditions, torture, and experiments, her growth was stunted at a young age. She also became unable to speak and was rendered partially blind, forced to rely most on her hearing as well as signing. It was during the War of the Crag that she was able to escape into Blackreach, where she survived largely by herself for thousands of years. Driven almost mad by the loneliness and the hostility of the Betrayed that flowed into Blackreach after the disappearance of the Dwemer--for whom she still harbors a strong hatred for--, Helthune managed to stumble across a series of unused and unknown tunnels. She explored them out of curiosity, and eventually arrived at Darkfall Cave, where Gelebor and the Chantry of Auri-El were located. Noticing she wasn't as far gone as the Betrayed, he took her into his care. Helthune, who has no other family left and believes they were all slaughtered or turned into the Betrayed, thinks of Gelebor as her father and is much happier living within the Chantry.
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❆ Helthune makes a few appearances in my fanfiction, Petrichor, in Chapter 17, Darkfall, and Chapter 19, Cascade.
❆ Her sign language is based off the Falmeric language, which her and Gelebor created after he took her in.
❆ She enjoys sketching the ancient ruins a lot and often asks Gelebor for more supplies to do so.
❆ Hel's flower crown is made with nirnroots, coda flowers, and hanging moss.
❆ Her eyes are compared to kunzites.
❆ She's left-handed.
❆ Helthune played a much bigger role in the original one-shot iteration of Petrichor, where she was discovered by Vigdis and Serana and helped lead them to the Elder Scroll located in Blackreach. Due to significant changes to the story during rewriting, her larger part was ultimately cut out.
❆ Due to experimentation and torture by the Dwemer, Helthune no longer remembers her original family.
❆ She once had to kill out of self-defence. The memory still haunts her.
❆ If she were gifted with a dragon name, she would be called Faskodhaan; gentle, snow, light.
For information on other OCs, you can find them under Senu's Skyrim OCs! If you'd like to see fanart of Helthune, browse her tag on my blog!
My first ever fanart of Helthune by the wonderful @thordagdason!! This was such a lovely surprise and I'm so happy to have art of my baby. She deserves it all <33 Thank you again my friend!!!! ;w;
Helthune LOVES to sketch and draw!! She's ALWAYS asking Gelebor for more charcoal and parchment, which sometimes proves somewhat difficult to obtain. I imagine that she would also get into sewing and knitting and crocheting if she had the tools for it. And she would be an EXCELLENT bookbinder, or potter. She's very much a hands-on crafty type and is happiest when she's creating something!