thinking about replaying skyrim after a looong time has made me think about my dragonborn again! so here’s some details bc i love my dragon kid and i definitely don’t talk about her much! (somewhat long-ish post incoming!)
her name is ra’hara, born under the sign of the lady, and she’s a green-eyed pahmar-raht khajiit based off a grey tabby norwegian forest cat because they’re majestic and fluffy and beautiful, and would probably be able to handle the cold skyrim climate pretty well:
she’s big, easily 3m tall, towering over even the tallest nords and altmer, with broad shoulders and a strong, muscled frame. she wears reinforced medium armor (like, more protective than medium, less than heavy) and primarily wields a large two-handed sword but she also has skill with sword and board, knows how to handle a bow for hunting, and readily uses her claws if disarmed or if tight spaces make big weapons unusable. for her size she’s surprisingly stealthy and uses that to scout locations, plan attacks and surprise enemies.
she was born to bandaari parents in a small caravan that had specialized in traveling the northern lands of tamriel and over many generations had evolved thick, warm fur to match! her actual birth place is a temporary camp site in the snowy forests somewhere west of bruma but she considers herself a child of elsweyr first and foremost even if she’s only been there less than a handful of times visiting distant family. as a young adult most of her group, including her parents, decide to return to elsweyr and settle there as the conflicts in cyrodiil make the roads more and more dangerous for travelers, so ra’hara sets off on her own to become an adventurer, making good use of the combat skills she learned as one of the caravan guards.
a few years later, now an accomplished adventurer and mercenary in her early 30s, she gets hired by the bruma guard to find the hideout of a wanted criminal somewhere in the mountains north of the city, which results in her accidentally crossing the border into skyrim, running into the imperials (knocking out three of them in self-defense), and getting arrested and sent off to helgen, starting her on the path to become the dragonborn, etc, etc.
she takes her responsibilities as the dragonborn very seriously and travels to high hrothgar almost immediately after hearing the call, viewing it as a blessing of alkosh, though she feels no joy when hunting dragons and only kills them out of necessity. she does enjoy learning the shouts and delving into the darkest corners to find more word walls, but she spends much time meditating on the knowledge and practicing, and uses the voice very carefully especially as she grows more powerful, to avoid endangering innocent bystanders.
at first glance many believe her to be little more than a greedy, cold-blooded mercenary who will do anything for some coin, but she’s actually a very kind, friendly and just character (neutral good alignment) who cares deeply about the well-being of others and readily helps whenever she can, though she will just as readily break laws if necessary, especially morally unjust laws. she also has a great sense of humor, can be disarmingly charming, and has a lovely, gravelly singing voice with which she entertains herself on the many days spent traveling alone, singing traditional khajiiti songs and any new ones she picks up.
factions she joins are the bards college and eventually the dawnguard (though obviously i eventually played through them all lol). she also joins the imperial legion because she hates ulfric stormcloak (i don’t like ulfric) and she hopes that eliminating the stormcloak rebellion will strengthen the empire, weaken the aldmeri dominion and ultimately help elsweyr at least a little bit. she does not care for the companions and quite literally left them standing with little more than an annoyed sideways glance. (i don’t like the companions either can u tell)
she is a werewolf (courtesy of sinding, whom she spared), though she follows the khajiit pantheon and cares little for any daedra lords, including hircine.
she makes her permanent home in whiterun because the central location makes it convenient for reaching all of skyrim and to have an “address” for any letters, but due to her bandaari heritage she feels most at home on the road, setting up her little camp along the roads as she travels. she often travels with any khajiit caravan that happens to head in the same direction, to enjoy the familiar company of fellow khajiit and to have the safety in numbers.
and finally, it’s my headcanon that over time as she absorbs more dragon souls she starts growing patches of scales along parts of her body (cheekbones, shoulders, back, thighs, tail, etc) and eventually grows an impressive pair of dragon horns (cause i like horns fight me).
