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 Becomes Thane of the Pale - 06/11/2021In which the Dragonborn becomes Thane of the Pale by helping out the people of Dawnstar; in which she kills another giant, two dragons, and more bandits; and in which she becomes less than pleased with the Dark Brotherhood after an assassin tries to kill her.
- In Which the Dragonborn Pursues a Lost Legend - 06/10/2021In which the Dragonborn investigates the ruins of Folgunthur, in pursuit of the truth of a lost legend—and the sons who murdered their powerful father.
- In Which the People of Dawnstar Get to Sleep Again - 06/09/2021In which the Dragonborn sorts out that problem with mass nightmares the people of Dawnstar are having, so they can actually sleep again; and in which the alchemist of Dawnstar also gets her Ring of Pure Mixtures back.
- In Which the Dragonborn Hunts Basement Skeevers - 06/08/2021In which the Dragonborn does more hunting of animals and bandits, but also must hunt basement skeevers when she visits her Lakeview Manor in Falkreath.
- In Which the Dragonborn Hunts for Fun and Profit - 06/07/2021In which the Dragonborn encounters a few interesting NPCs while tromping around Whiterun and Riverwood, hunting for fun and for profit. And drops a dragon on Riverwood’s head. Sorry about the mess, Riverwood.