Alarrah Playthrough
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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.
Also, several of the initial posts here are actually links off to Twitter threads, which I created backdated WordPress posts for here. This was for organizational purposes, so I could apply location and other tags to those threads! And also to make it easier to list 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.
- One other thing I’ll say about playing Skyrim tonight - 05/03/2021A second Twitter thread from May 3, 2021, in which I talk about differences in play experience between Skyrim and turn-based combat games
- WOO I actually did combat successfully! - 05/02/2021Twitter thread from May 1, 2021, in which I finally make it to the Guardian Stones and to Whiterun, and deal with the romantic triangle in Riverwood
- I have become a console gamer! - 05/02/2021Housemate Paul got me a Nintendo Switch! So I'm having barrels of fun playing Animal Crossing, but also Skyrim!
- Today I got the add-ons I ordered for my Switch - 04/28/2021Twitter thread from April 28, 2021, in which I am still not ready to leave Riverwood, but discover that I need the Invert Y setting, and how to take screenshots
- Further adventures in learning the Switch - 04/22/2021In which I lament being very bad at the game controls, even as I derp my way into Riverwood
Screenshots
Alarrah’s screenshot album can be found on the Alarrah Screenshots page.
Additionally, prior to when I started documenting Alarrah’s run in WordPress, I had several tweets of hers with screenshots, as below:
- One more round of Skyrim shots, featuring Alarrah! - 05/22/2021Brief Twitter thread from 5/22/2021, featuring a few Alarrah screenshots.
- Two more awesome auroras near Riften! - 05/22/2021Tweet from 5/22/2021, in which I gush more over auroras near Riften!
- More of Skyrim Being Pretty - 05/22/2021Tweet from 5/22/2021, in which I gush about auroras near Riften!
- And now, time for some screen caps off the Switch! - 05/22/2021Twitter thread from 5/22/2021, in which I share some screencaps off the Switch for both Skyrim and Animal Crossing.
- Skyrim Action Shots! - 05/16/2021Brief Twitter thread from 5/16/2021, in which I share some action screenshots of Alarrah killing a dragon at the Western Watchtower near Whiterun.