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chap 4

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the skyrim oc ask game: 11 for yiri, 12 for faelen, 14 for madlen, 18 for llarelis

ahh ty for the ask 🫶🫶 love talking about my skyrim babies

11. If they are a magic user, what is their favorite school of magic? Do they have a natural talent for magic, or does it require diligence and study?

yiri's favourite school of magic is illusion magic, and it is the one she is most skilled in. while adept in destruction magic, she isn't a fan of violence and prefers to either defuse fights or distract enemies from her presence using illusion spells.

she does have natural affinity for magic, one she discovered at quite a young age, but her early lessons with jouane were essential in helping her hone her craft and control it. i think there are mages out there with a greater level of natural talent, but yiri is able to stand out among them thanks to her dedication and diligence.

12. What are their prejudices? What groups have they come to think of as ‘other’? Mages? Nords? Elves? Lollygaggers?

growing up, faelen would hear stories about the Five Year War between the bosmer and the khajiit. many of these came from his father, with faelen's paternal grandfather having fought in the war. as a result of this, i think he had a dislike for the khajiit for quite some time. since leaving valenwood, though, faelen has interacted with all sorts of people from all walks of life -- including khajiit. because of this, i think his anti-khajiit sentiments have softened over time and now he really has no quarrel with them.

he does not care for those who hunt people down over their faith (including the thalmor, obviously, but also including groups that chase daedra worshippers) or immutable aspects of their identity. being a werewolf, he dislikes the vigil of stendarr and the silver hand. with that being said, he fell for a vigilant, so he doesn't view individuals from these groups as inherently bad, though he may think of them as being either naive and misguided or ignorant and backwards.

14. Who is their mentor? Who do they go to most for lessons?

madlen has had several mentors over the course of her life, including @born-potty's OC kai, who taught her about tracking & hunting & all that good stuff. big love 🫶

her mentor in the thieves guild is brynjolf hehe :3c she goes to him with all sorts of stuff and credits much of her success within the guild to him.

someone else she goes to for lessons is maramal -- a little surprising, perhaps, given that she's a thief and a criminal. she is, nonetheless, drawn to mara, and has gone to maramal a number of times over the years for advice, especially (but not only) in matters of love.

18. What is their stance on taking a life? Do they kill without a second thought, in the name of a god or daedra, or do they adhere to pacifism?

llarelis is sooo pro-murder. never mind killing without a second thought, half the time she kills without a first one. she's always been partial to a good stabby stabby, but these days her killings are all in the name of sithis and the night mother, both of whom she reveres. she is big on ritual killings and what not, all done to bring glory to them.

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“Can I buy you dinner?” Normally Orion would have refused outright, but it was their last night on this space station before they took the stellar train to travel onward. It couldn't possibly hurt to flirt a little longer. After all, Orion was literally never going to see Yiri again.

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[bysithis]

7, 26, and 36 from that oc list! Any oc you feel like talking about <3

thank you so much!! <3 i'll answer for yiri, as she's my newest character and so the least developed.

7. What non-combat skill do they excel at?

for the most part, yiri is a very regular sort of person with a very regular sort of background; she is one of four children and the only daughter, so when her mother died a few years ago she took on a lot of the household chores. as such, she's pretty good at running a house. cooking, cleaning, caring...--she's got some pretty complicated feelings about all that, but she certainly excels at it.

she comes from a family of farmers, so she's also good at tending to crops and has a way with animals.

for a few years, she learned magic from jouane manette. illusion and alteration are among the schools she is most familiar with.

26. Do they enjoy the cold Skyrim weather?

she does, yes! all in all, she loves life in skyrim. she loves the wildlife, the sweeping landscapes, all of it--and that love extends to the cold. in truth, she does prefer the warmer summer months, but she finds the cold bracing.

36. What is their opinion on draugr?

yiri has yet to face any draugr in battle; she respects them and the role they place, but i think when she comes up against one herself, she won't hesitate to put a firebolt between its eyes! that said, i think she'd probably prefer to leave skyrim's ruins well enough alone and let the dead rest.

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[bysithis]

3, 4, 7, 15, 16, dealer’s choice of oc(s)!

hiiii!! thank you for the ask :3

3. What are their religious affiliations, and how does their worship (or lack thereof) affect their day-to-day life?

madlen: madlen, like her mother before her, has a healthy respect for kyne; when out hunting, she makes the time to ask for her blessing.

however, being a romantic at heart, she was always more drawn to mara out of all the nine divines. her parents loved each other very much, and often thanked mara for the blessing of their union. that rubbed off a little! with all that being said, she can't exactly steal from people in a mara-honouring way, so her reverence for the goddess doesn't have a massive impact on her day-to-day life.

finally, being a thief, madlen has a respect for nocturnal, too - even more so if we're dealing with a version of madlen that becomes leader of the thieves' guild and joins the nightingales. such an arrangement she would see as more of transactional relationship than a matter of faith or religion.

faelen: - i hadn't really given much thought to faelen's religious beliefs before receiving this ask and it sent me down a massive y'ffre/hircine wormhole lol. i think at one point in his life, faelen lived in valenwood and, as many bosmer do, worshipped y'ffre. i think in particular the storytelling aspect of y'ffre would have appealed to faelen.

during this time, when hunting, he might have asked hircine for luck now and then, but never took it further than that. i think he had a healthy respect for hircine, as well as a fear of him, but also a curiosity he tried to shove down deep inside.

in the end, that curiosity would become too much to bear. faelen became deeply intrigued by hircine as a patron of shapeshifting. this was discovered, and he was warned against pursuing such interests. when he didn't, he was cast out of his clan.

now that he lives in skyrim and is a werewolf within the companions, faelen is now free to worship hircine - and does so diligently.

4. Do they believe the College of Winterhold caused the Great Collapse? If no, what is their theory?

yiri: - unlike many of her fellow nords, many of whom brought up the great collapse to dissuade her from going off to join the school, yiri does not harbour suspicions about the college. after reaching winterhold and speaking to its locals for herself, include a number of staff and students, she cemented her already held belief that the college was not responsible for the great collapse. as for what was behind it, she isn't certain - some powerful storm, perhaps? or a number of storms over the years, wearing down the rocks? she doesn't claim to have definite answers but can't find a compelling reason as to why the college would have done something like this.

7. Do they regret journeying to Skyrim? Or, if they were born in Skyrim, do they wish they could leave?

madlen: - skyrim is her home. granted, her life hasn't all been sunshine and rainbows. but she knows these mountains, these forests, these people. knows them and loves them, and wouldn't ever want to give them up.

faelen: - while he misses valenwood greatly, faelen has come to love skyrim, in spite (or perhaps because of) its many differences. furthermore, he enjoys the acceptance he has found within the ranks of the companions, and wouldn't discard it so easily.

yiri: - by and large, yiri loves her home country. with that being said, she definitely hungers to travel and see other shores. i don't think she would ever leave for good, but she would love to get out there.

15. How do they feel about consorting with daedra? Do they collect their artifacts? Are there some they would never interact with vs. some they would consider calling upon?

madlen: given her relationship with nocturnal, madlen clearly has no issues consorting with daedra... within reason. there are a great many whose worship she frowns on. others she wouldn't mind interacting with beyond nocturnal include azura, hircine, and meridia. with all that being said, she is not interested in collecting their artifacts.

faelen: similarly to madlen, faelen doesn't mind interacting with some daedra (namely hircine), even if he has no particular interest in gathering their artifacts. i think his list of 'acceptable' daedra is a little broader than madlen's - including herma mora, for example.

llarelis: as you might expect from a sithis-worshipping murderer, llarelis really doesn't care. she'd call upon any, if it suited her, and so long as it didn't risk her standing with sithis/the night mother.

16. What are their opinions on the civil war? Do they support a side or leave them to their own devices?

both madlen and yiri are young nord women who no doubt grew up surrounded by strong nord sentiments. at this stage in her life, madlen has travelled around enough and met a great enough variety of people that she really has no time for the 'skyrim for the nords' mentality; so, while she isn't part of the imperial army, that's definitely where her loyalties lie.

yiri grew up very sheltered, no doubt surrounded by the 'skyrim for the nords' type rhetoric, and didn't really have enough experience of the world to speak up against it. with that being said, during her journey north to winterhold, she had to pass through windhelm, and was very disturbed to see how the dark elves and argonians were treated. i think that sort of radicalised her, forcing her to reckon with the inevitable outcome of the 'skryim for the nords' type sentiments. as a result, she definitely leans towards the imperials.

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Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Gradient Yiri, 2023