Alarrah Playthrough
| Alarrah | |
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| Playthrough Info | |
| Game | Skyrim Special Edition |
| Race | Bosmer |
| Playthrough Dates | April to July 2021 |
| Platform | Nintendo Switch |
| Language | English |
| Difficulty | Novice |
This page is for the thoroughly documented saga of my very first playthrough of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Even though this is a ten-year-old game, I finally played it for the first time in spring of 2021 when I got a Nintendo Switch.
And, being me, I decided to document my playthrough in depth. This turned out to amuse a lot of folks who follow me on social media as well as on my annathepiper.org blog and its Dreamwidth mirror. More than one person decided to play Skyrim again because of my reminding them of the fun they’d had before. And at least one person also started playing it on the Switch for the first time! This page is dedicated to all of you!
Note that a lot of my initial sessions with Alarrah started as being documented on Twitter and Facebook first–before I got detailed enough with them that I shifted over to posting blog posts on WordPress instead, because that was easier for me to write up.
She is named for a character in my Rebels of Adalonia books, Valor of the Healer, Vengeance of the Hunter, and Victory of the Hawk.
Alarrah’s Backstory
As Alarrah was a Bosmer, I decided that her backstory for how she wound up in Skyrim was fairly straightforward: she fled Valenwood to escape Thalmor persecution. When I got to the point of running the Dawnguard plot, I decided as well that Alarrah never knew her parents and grew up alone.
Playthrough Posts
Here are all of Alarrah’s playthrough posts! These are listed in descending chronological order. Note the pagination controls; you can use those to page through to subsequent posts.
Several of the initial posts in this playthrough were initially links off to Twitter threads, which I created backdated WordPress posts for here. Once I deleted my Twitter account, I reconstructed the threads locally in the posts to maintain what I’d tweeted at the time. This also let me add location and other tags to those threads, and made it easier to list the posts of Alarrah’s playthrough the same way I’ve done other playthroughs since.
You can also browse Alarrah’s posts via her playthrough category link.
- In Which the Dragonborn is Reminded of the Main Plot - 06/16/2021In which the Dragonborn kills her second Dragon Priest (by which I mean, really actually going back to finish off the first one); in which she goes to Riften, rescues Esbern from the Thalmor, and learns she’s on tap to save the world; and in which she kills her first Elder Dragon.
- In Which the Dragonborn Goes to Volskygge - 06/15/2021In which the Dragonborn gives her favorite housecarl a break for once and has Jordis the Sword-Maiden work for her name; and in which the Dragonborn takes Jordis off to Volskygge, to kill bandits, draugr, and a Dragon Priest.
- In Which the Dragonborn Goes to Geirmund’s Hall - 06/14/2021In which the Dragonborn and her housecarl head off to Geirmund’s Hall, to get the second fragment of the Gauldur amulet—and in which the Dragonborn is followed by more floppy dragon corpse!
- In Which the Dragonborn Does a Whole Lot of Things Actually - 06/13/2021In which the Dragonborn acquires her second Aetherium shard and her fifth thaneship, along with Proudspire Manor in Solitude; in which she acquires and builds the start of Heljarchen Hall; and in which she keeps having dead dragon surprises.
- In which the Dragonborn Investigates the Arkngthamz Ruins - 06/12/2021In which the Dragonborn explores her first Dwemer ruins; in which she fights her first Falmer; and in which she aids the ghost of a dead adventurer in the quest to further her research about the ruins of Arkngthamz.