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 Clears Highpoint Tower and White Ridge Barrow - 07/27/2021In which the Dragonborn defeats Ildari Sarothril at Highpoint Tower, and the Dragon Priest Dukaan at White Ridge Barrow. With a side helping of hagravens, a new excavation partner, werebears, and a whole helluva lot of spiders.
- In Which the Dragonborn Boings Between Solstheim and Markarth - 07/25/2021In which the Dragonborn journeys from Solstheim all the way to the Reach and back again, helping out Neloth of Tel Mithryn; and in which she saves the Skaal blacksmith Baldor from Thalmor, and becomes chieftain of a tribe of rieklings.
- In Which the Dragonborn Quests All Over Solstheim - 07/24/2021In which the Dragonborn ranges all over the western, southern, and eastern shores of Solstheim, cleansing the All-Maker Stones, searching for the treasure of Haknir Death-Brand, discovering rieklings, and seeking taproot to heal the withered mushroom tower in Tel Mithryn.
- In Which the Dragonborn Goes to Nchardak - 07/23/2021In which the Dragonborn goes to Nchardak, to seek out another Black Book with the help of the wizard Neloth; in which she solves the riddles of what happened to the Raven Rock Mine and General Falx Carius at Fort Frostmoth; and in which she investigates a potential assassination plot.
- In Which the Dragonborn Saves the Skaal - 07/22/2021In which the Dragonborn saves the Skaal people from the corrupted influence of the Wind Stone; and in which she visits Tel Mithryn and returns to Raven Rock to render additional help to the people there.