Technically my custom-theme oc pages can be viewed just fine on mobile, but they open in the browser and can get covered up by the 'join now' banner, so here's a more summarized version that will stay in the app. The TES ones are organized by instance (you can tell which ones I've thought about more than others), the more detailed pages in my theme are linked in the headers, and individual character pages on Toyhouse are linked by the character's name if they have a Toyhouse page.
Characters on this list, especially in the Other section, are subject to change because I like making characters more than I tend to stick with them unless I have a particular narrative for them.
Ebonsong
Erlind Ebonsong Vaurane
A half-Breton werewolf and devotee of Mara. A mage, scholar, smith, swordsman, and reluctant Dragonborn with a resting angry face and shining smile. Slowly learns to present as open and friendly even when holding secrets close to their chest.
Pronouns: they/he/she (tends more toward they/them later on)
Age: turns 37 the Hearthfire after Alduin attacks Helgen
Factions: College of Winterhold, Bards' College (somewhat), Companions, Dawnguard (adjacent)
Role: Primary protagonist
Nathari Goldentongue
A werewolf of the Reach, daughter of a Markarth noble and willing-trained tool of her Matriarch. Cunning and clever with more impatience than she acts on and a difficulty being honest when so much hinges on showing the right - false - face.
Pronouns: she/her
Age: turns 34 right before Alduin's attack
Factions: The Forsworn (kind-of), Dawnguard (adjacent)
Role: Secondary protagonist
Larus Ambereye
A young Nord vampire who never had a chance to be anything other than a killer who thirsts for the power to be unshakable. Finds love in a surprising place that in time gives him the will to bend his fate.
Pronouns: he/him
Age: numerically 26 when Alduin attacks
Factions: The Dark Brotherhood
Role: Tertiary protagonist
Volgash Gra-Dushnikh
A child of the Legion in an unexpected way, who knew what she was before anyone else did. Dedicated to magic and knowledge almost above all with a soft heart and lots of enthusiasm.
Pronouns: she/her
Age: turns 22 in the spring before Alduin's attack on Helgen
Factions: College of Winterhold, Dushnikh Yal
Role: Tertiary protagonist
Fjora at-Trevaia
A clever, intelligent young woman who is noble in every way that counts and also by blood. Fascinated by alchemy, anatomy, psychology, and all ways that people work, and fully aware of the social implications of who she loves.
Pronouns: she/her
Age: turns 34 the winter after Alduin's attack on Helgen
Factions: Bards' College, Imperial Legion (by proxy)
Role: Tertiary protagonist
Vezha Gro-Dushnikh
A Legion veteran discharged for a wound caused by a mage whose daughter is becoming a powerful mage. A man who really just wants to retire but fears that if he stops fighting he'll fall apart.
Pronouns: he/him
Age: turns 53 the month after Alduin's attack on Helgen
Factions: Dawnguard, Blades (possibly), Imperial Legion (formerly)
Role: Tertiary protagonist
Janora Viario
A product of the sack of the Imperial City during the Great War who seeks revenge against her Thalmor father on behalf of her Imperial citizen mother. Passion is reserved for focus, but what awaits when the duty is complete?
Pronouns: she/her
Age: turns 27 the winter after getting caught in Helgen and witnessing Alduin's attack
Factions: The Thieves Guild, The Nightingales
Role: Tertiary protagonist, may be demoted to supporting character and getting her own spin-off later instead?
Aicarya Silinor
A woman who thinks for so long that she is the last remaining Blade, only to find that not only are there two others, there is also once again a Dragonborn to serve, and her long waiting undercover in the Thalmor finally has served some purpose besides not being able to let go of what once was. Perfectly happy to let her cousin's daughter kill him and perfectly happy to help the girl in her revenge mission.
Pronouns: she/her
Age: was a Blade during the Oblivion Crisis
Factions: Thalmor (undercover), Blades
Role: Supporting character
Veran of Alcaire
A bitter man who clawed his way to masculinity with struggle and difficulty, only to fall in love with the most doomed of priests and go mad from the grief as he aged.
Pronouns: he/him
Age: was in his thirties during the Oblivion Crisis, is now ageless
Factions: Blades
Role: Only occasionally appears in Ebonsong, has one fic of his own (as of 5/12/26)
Ad Delirium
Alvaren Moorston
A farmer who became a knight's follower who took on the identity of the knight. Sacrificed to Molag Bal by the Worm Cult and awoke in Coldharbour with the body he'd always wanted and hadn't realised until then. Grows into friendship and then love with the vampiric count of Crestshade, willing to turn Oblivion inside out to save him.
Pronouns: he/they
Age: was in his thirties before the Planemeld
Factions: Daggerfall Covenant, Mage's Guild, Fighter's Guild, Antiquarian Circle
Role: Only appears in Ebonsong once so far but has his own writings in Blood, Frozen and Aflame
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[An Ebonsong Nerevarine is very slowly in the works. Her name is Melyne but that's most of what I know about her so far.]
Dancing with the Dead
Ahsan at-Idris
An archaeologist adventurer with ties to the Antiquarian Circle and the Sentinel School of Julianos, come to Skyrim for a mild change in career now that he has recovered from an injury that kept him desk-bound for some years. Unfailingly curious and determined, he is willing to at least try to find the silver lining of most situations, but the return of the dragons is a difficult one to turn positive. And that's without taking into consideration the highly depressed vampire who seems to share the same strange abilities he's just discovered in himself.
Pronouns: he/him
Age: 38 when he discovers in Helgen that he's soulbound to Nisimar
Factions: Explorer's Guild, Bards' College, others tbd
Role: Primary protagonist
Nisimar Sailen
A knight-conjurer of House Redoran with a poor relationship with his father and a need to prove himself. His arrival in Raven Rock after many years studying in Blacklight prove to solve old problems at the cost of his comfort, and a letter from a strange and unusual friendship opens up a world of darkness that he must find a way to make peace with lest his goddess abandon him from the self-loathing. And then there's the dragons!
Pronouns: he/him
Age: about 100 when he arrives in Solstheim
Factions: tbd
Role: Primary protagonist
Faolaine
A woman of the Western Reach who was just a farmer and a mother until vampires attacked her family's homestead, leaving her as the only survivor by dint of not being home at the time. A woman absorbed by vengeance and the ache for what used to be, afraid to love again lest she lose it all again.
Pronouns: she/they/he (mostly she/her)
Age: turns 32 in the summer before Alduin's attack on Helgen
Factions: Companions, Dawnguard
Role: Secondary protagonist
Other Material: Faolaine's Journals - AO3 | Tag (chronological) | Toyhouse
Lion Flower
Laurelia Aeliana Aldmeri
The last princess of Summerset, saved from the Thalmor's execution of the royal family by the whim of a justiciar and sold into domestic servitude. Picked up by a rebellion and trained in combat and diplomacy before the rebellion is caught, flees to Hammerfell and then Skyrim in the aftermath. Seeks to use the power and notoriety of the role of Dragonborn to burn the Thalmor to ash and reclaim her father's throne, through the throne of the Empire if she must.
Pronouns: she/her
Age: turns 185 just before Alduin's attack on Helgen
Factions: Thieves Guild, Blades
Role: Primary protagonist
Kaivis Silverclaw
A woman who would have been the court mage of Chorrol were it not for some jealous fellow apprentices framing her for the murder of the previous one. Shed her name and status and fled into the countryside, hoping to regain some influence and status in the Imperial Legion in Skyrim, hoping to use that influence to clear her name.
Pronouns: she/they
Age: turns 41 in the autumn after Alduin's attack on Helgen
Factions: Imperial Legion, Blades (possibly)
Role: Secondary protagonist
Sunsteel and Roses
Khayal at-Nimat
A paladin of Tava, come to Skyrim on a pilgrimage to see how other cultures worship the Goddess of the Winds and write an academic novel about it. Finds that there is much more going on than they ever could have expected, both in Skyrim and within themself.
Pronouns: they/them
Age: turns 32 in the spring before Alduin attacks Helgen
Factions: Greybeards, Blades (possibly), Dawnguard
Role: Primary protagonist
Satyana Adlathil
A courtesan, born and raised in Windhelm by a single father, sent to the Bards' College in the hopes that she could have a better life than he did. Discovered the world of politics while training at the Temple of Dibella in Markarth and followed her passion for art into a new road with the hope to purchase a house in Whiterun for her father to live out his age in warmth.
Pronouns: she/her
Age: turns 109 in the winter before Helgen is destroyed
Factions: Bards College
Role: Primary protagonist
Other
Some of these may appear in other stories in the background or as cameos.
Arist'ai Khrisafen
An alien Jedi Knight with a master who sees what may be, trained from long exposure to behave as if they know the same. A diplomat more than a warrior, with a mind to follow twisted trails of thought and emerge victorious and with a signed treaty.
Pronouns: they/them
Age: about the same age as Obi-Wan
Material: WIP - As the Stars Burn, a no-Order 66 Prequels AU, not posted anywhere yet
Teithor Morevel
A child who by rights of biology should not have been born, become a warrior that cannot die. Chainbreaker and wraith, burnt hollow by vengeance and seeking only respite and peace.
Pronouns: they/them
Age: would be 120 during the time of the Planemeld
Material: No current fic, but is the rewrite and update of an old Minecraft oc, so their tag might have some of those old things in them.
If you are reading this… then fate has finally brought the right eyes to these words.
I have fled.
Not out of fear, but out of knowledge. The future is a cruel thing to witness when you are powerless to stop it. The Feywild will one day be swallowed by a darkness so deep that even its oldest magic will tremble before it.
I have searched every path. Every spell. Every bargain.
No matter what I did… the outcome remained the same.
My mother, Baba Yaga, foresaw it long ago. I refused to believe her. I believed I could outsmart destiny.
I was wrong.
I cannot stop what is coming.
But perhaps… the ones I touched can.
During my travels I searched for those who might carry the strength the future demanded. Yet everywhere I looked, corruption had already begun to take root. The world’s champions were already twisted by ambition, pride, or fear.
So I turned to the young.
Children.
And the decision nearly broke me.
How could I burden innocent lives with such a fate?
For a long time I did nothing. I simply wandered, helping where I could. Then I encountered a desperate woman—human, frightened, and alone. She believed her unborn child would be rejected… perhaps even killed… because the child was not a pure elf.
I calmed her. I comforted her. I promised her everything would be alright.
And then I did something unforgivable.
While she slept, I cast my spell upon the unborn child.
Ambrosia.
Into her soul I wove courage… conviction… and the strength this world will one day need. But magic always demands a price, and I fear the cost of what I did will follow her all her life.
When the spell was complete, I left the mother somewhere safe until the enchantment faded.
I never saw them again.
The second child was different.
A small blue boy whose name I did not yet know. Fate whispered that his path required suffering… confusion… and contradiction.
So I cursed him.
Or rather… I made him believe he was cursed.
I twisted his mind so that he would think he could only speak lies. The weight of that belief would shape the choices he made and the roads he walked.
His name was Satyana.
I know he will not survive what is to come.
But the threads of fate required him.
And I hate myself for it.
After that… I could no longer bear to manipulate strangers’ children.
So I committed the greatest sin of all.
I had one of my own.
A tiefling boy.
Perfect.
Beautiful.
My son.
Zarathos.
Yet even as I held him, I knew the truth. I could not raise him. The future demanded he walk a lonely road. I gave him only one gift—the ability to glimpse the three souls whose deaths will shape the end of this story.
Perhaps… if he is clever… he will find a way to change what I could not.
Leaving him behind was the hardest thing I have ever done.
The final child came from a coven that worshipped the moon.
Selûne’s followers.
Even writing this fills me with dread. The gods hate the one they call the Destroyer, yet their hatred only fuels the catastrophe they fear. If they had simply left fate alone, perhaps none of this would be necessary.
But gods rarely know restraint.
In that coven I found a child still sleeping in her crib.
A tiny girl.
Her name was Ayla.
She was so innocent that my hands trembled as I worked.
To her I gave the gift of healing. The strength to mend what others break… and to hold together the fragile bonds between those who must stand against the coming dark.
Four children.
Four pieces on a board none of them chose to play upon.
I have left the fate of the Feywild… perhaps the world itself… in their hands.
And still, the visions show things I cannot understand.
The Shaper.
The Anomaly.
Their meanings remain hidden from me.
If you are reading this… then the threads have already begun to tighten.
Where do the characters fall for sexual and romantic attraction? If in a relationship, who has more experience?
Yoinking this question from @sulphuricgrin and @yewphoric because I think it'll be fun! I'm putting most of them behind a cut because I have a lot of ocs.
Ebonsong
Erlind
Erlind is pansexual, demiromantic, and polyamorous. They also have very bad self-esteem for a while and grew to believe that it was impossible for people to be attracted to them, in addition to having basically no libido between finishing puberty and starting to realise that their earlier belief was incorrect. They generally have a difficult time distinguishing deep platonic affection and romantic love, which in addition to various traumas makes it difficult to be in a relationship, but the sex workers in places where they linger give them the practical experience they otherwise would be too hesitant to seek out. They don't really experiment with the polyam portion of their orientation in actual relationships until they realise they've fallen in irreparably in love with both of their best friends and both best friends are also in love with both them and each other.
Nathari
Nathari is also pan and polyam. You will notice a pattern with that combination and my ocs. She is generally confident in her attractiveness and ability to seduce somebody, but has issues with keeping secrets largely due to her situation. This will cause at least one notable problem. She does however lean towards attraction to women, and tends to have only one partner at a time for simplicity. At the time of my most recent WIP Wednesday (upon her arrival to Markarth), she's only had one serious partner and probably only a couple of dalliances. There's a lot she knows in theory but hasn't enacted.
Larus
For a bit, Larus was my only straight oc. This is no longer the case; he's...demiromantic but extremely touch-starved and affection-starved, and while the one person he ends up with in canon is a woman, he wouldn't actually care if that person was a man or not. He has no experience before her, at least not in relationships. He's had opportunity for sex; living for several years as a mortal (willing) servant to a coven of vampires offers plenty, but as far as I know he never accepted and they never pushed. I know very little about what he gets up to between his first introduction and the second time we see him, so this may change.
Janora
Janora is asexual greyromantic in such a way that she focuses more on revenge and the art and game of the heist more than romance and while she's not opposed to seducing a mark or the occasional dalliance she doesn't seek it out; she just doesn't care enough. She has...a little bit of experience, but it's far from extensive.
Volgash
Volgash is asexual demiromantic, and I don't tend to think about what she has going on in that regard largely because I haven't planned out much after she leaves Dushnikh Yal and in Dushnikh Yal most of the people that are around her are family in some way or another. One of @fallen-chances's ocs (adapted into Ebonsong) is endgame for her, but she's probably a virgin up until whenever they do anything - her passion is for magic, not silly physical things.
Fjora
Fjora was at one point straight and then a budding plot point made itself known and now she's bisexual. She's women-leaning at least a little bit from how her narration goes, and I think she tends to prefer her men softer as well. She has had some experience, but like most of the other Ebonsong characters usually has much stronger interests to hold her attention than wanting to have sex. She does however know several neat recipes for aphrodisiacs and abortifacients, if anybody needs those.
Vezha
Vezha is solidly asexual. He has had sex once, on a whim, and that's how Volgash happened. He, literally, does not give a fuck. I don't know if he's sex-repulsed or not, and I don't yet know what he thinks about the one-night-stand that led to Volgash as far as.....how it went. He's glad he got a kid out of it, event itself aside. He might be homoromantic? I will have to find out.
Aicarya
Aicarya is a lesbian, was very happy when she finished her transition to the point that that was why she had sex for the first time, and has been alive long enough to have been a Blade during the Oblivion Crisis. Purely for that, she's probably the one of all my ocs who has the most experience.
Lion Flower
Liana
Liana is nebulously queer in some capacity. She is annoyingly close-lipped to me about who she's attracted to, why, for how long, and what she does about it. One of these days I will learn and then I will have a good answer, but for the time being I have no clue and I'm mad about it.
Kaivis
Kaivis is bisexual, has a decent amount of experience probably, and tends to attract people who are then surprised by her skill with magic in the bedroom. She and Erlind could compare notes about the use of telekinesis at the very least, though she's a lot less reckless than Erlind is with her own self.
Sunsteel and Roses
Khayal
Khayal is - for the time being - pansexual, demiromantic, and polyam. They're a Paladin of Tava and are not sworn to celibacy, though I do feel like they've considered it a few times just for the sake of it? They don't feel very strongly about sex and relationships as a realistic concept for themself just because they have other things they care about more, though they do enjoy matchmaking and reading about romances. This may change, but also when we see them in Sunsteel and Roses they're on a specific pilgrimage of their own devising and having dalliances doesn't really help much when writing a book about the worship of Tava and her variants.
Satyana
Satyana is by virtue of her profession the only oc other than Aicarya who could claim to have the most experience...theoretically. She is also pan, demi, and polyam, and she is a courtesan. Unfortunately for her count of experience, however, she's one of those courtesans who become very popular because of how expensive everything is, most of all having sex. She spends most of her work time playing music, dancing, and playing board games - or doing some other kind of art - instead of laying with people. She is a hopeless romantic, though, and it is going to be very fun writing her and Khayal becoming a couple.
Other
Faolaine
Faolaine is technically a shelved oc, since her fic is up on the shelf for later, but she's also my default pan/polyam and she has a pretty good amount of experience; she was married for a good few years and since then she does not consider it any sort of insult to her wife and husband's memories to visit sex workers. Coming back to human form from a full moon makes those visits even more likely than they otherwise would be, largely from the adrenaline.
Zahra
Zahra is a lesbian and possibly also some form of ace; she's very devoted to her profession as a priest of Tu'whacca and that doesn't really serve very well as a good field for dalliances. She's certainly not opposed, and if another woman shows a similar passion as she does - or at least isn't grossed out at all - she'll be glad to consider a tumble.
Ahsan
Ahsan is another of my default pan/polyam, but he's rather more flirty than most of my others. He doesn't keep track of his experience - not that many of the others do either - but he has a fair amount for being an adventurer with a specific interest in delving into ruins for artifacts; he can pull off the armoured knight look and the cozy professor look, though not at the same time. We'll see how that translates further when I actually do his playthrough and write his journals.
Alvaren (Ebonsong Vestige)
Alvaren is pansexual greyromantic; he has no qualms about seeking out sex workers and paying them very well but it's not something he'll do in every city he visits, especially during the events of ESO's main story. He falls in love twice that I know about - once before he became the Vestige, with the guy who he took the identity of when said guy died, and once afterward with the particular vampire count who he eventually marries. There is another canonical relationship that led to...problems for people a few generations down the line, but I don't know the situation of it.
Veran (Ebonsong Hero of Kvatch)
Veran is pansexual and polyamorous. He's rather reserved and so doesn't have a ton of experience, especially compared to Martin Septim, the former Champion of Sanguine, but he learns quickly. Post-Crisis and until he grows too old and crazy, he is married to Baurus and an oc named Narina (who is the adopted sister of my Nerevarine, who I don't have enough information about to share yet) and some combination of they three have a son in addition to the daughter Veran has with Martin.
So I might be writing another fic in addition to Ebonsong? Maybe? Perhaps? At some point? I only just made the character on the right just now so we'll see, but brain gave me a title, so.....some initial thoughts:
Sunsteel and Roses would follow the story of a paladin of Tava from Elinhir, who left the temple with the blessing of the high priest on a pilgrimage to see the ways that Tava is worshipped throughout Tamriel. Their name is Khayal at-Nimat and they are genderfluid; their parents were the first they told upon discovering this, and said parents were accepting at the outset.
Shortly after arriving in Skyrim with plans to visit the Temple of Kyne in Whiterun and see if he can visit the Greybeards, Khayal comes across the still-smouldering ruins of Helgen and sets her pilgrimage aside to do what he can to help.
It also follows the still-very-unknown story of Satyana, a bard-turned-courtesan who trained both in Solitude and Markarth and is currently somewhere as the most prominent courtesan quite possibly of that whole city. She's running from something and might be using a false name, but I finished her design about half an hour ago so there's a lot that I still don't know about her yet.
The world of Sunsteel and Roses will use the same lore as Ebonsong, just with Khayal as the Dragonborn instead of Erlind and various other things adjusted to make the story distinct. Both Khayal and Erlind will show up as cameos in each other's stories, especially since I don't intend for Khayal to do the Companions storyline.
Courtesan, Bard, Artisan, Daughter of Twilight. Devotee of Dibella and Azura, child of more than her mortal mother, graduate of the Bards' College and former acolyte of the Temple of Dibella. Beauty, strategist, subtle advisor. Makes use of her many talents and skills to dance along the sociopolitical webs of Skyrim's capital without falling.
Secondary protagonist of of the yet-unstarted Sunsteel and Roses, in which her role is mostly yet to be determined. She seeks true love without much direction or action and has found renown with ease.
Height and Body Type: 5'8 and softly athletic
Posture and Gait: Walks upright, with shoulders back and a bit of a superior attitude
Dominant Hand: Ambidextrous
Deities: Devotee of Azura and Dibella, reveres Zenithar
Occupation: Courtesan, Bard
Affiliations: Bards' College of Solitude, Temple of Dibella
Personality
Like many born under the sign of the Lover, Satyana is passionate and a romantic at heart, which is what led her to become first a bard and then a courtesan in the first place. She's prideful and confident, with a subtle but vindictive temper and deep sense of justice. She loves to tease and has a broad sense of humour that occasionally clashes with the proper and aloof act she puts on.
She loves to make art of many kinds, even if she's not particularly good at it, a calculating mind, and will absolutely pamper anyone she's deemed worthy of it.
gotta love it when you have a character who kinda....just exists?
Like, politically-active Dunmer courtesan in Solitude is a really neat concept but she doesn't really have any particular backstory that led to that
and while there absolutely could be Backstory Things, she doesn't want to tell me any of them
I also don't really know what narrative role she'll play in Sunsteel and Roses, but that's a later-me problem, in comparison to the fact that I'm trying to give all of my ocs with pages actual proper backstory summaries
