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 Begins the Hunt for Miraak - 07/21/2021In which the Dragonborn acquires her final Dragon Priest mask findable within Skyrim; and in which she brings her beloved Lydia once more to follow her on her next major quest, traveling to Solstheim to seek out the mysterious Miraak and find out why he’s trying to have her killed.
- In Which the Dragonborn Hunts for Dragon Priests - 07/20/2021In which the Dragonborn goes hunting for additional Dragon Priests to take down—and by extension, additional knowledge of the words of Shouts.
- In Which the Dragonborn Foils a Conspiracy in Markarth - 07/19/2021In which the Dragonborn goes to Markarth and uncovers evidence of a conspiracy—and gets herself thrown into Cidhna Mine when exception is taken to her meddling; and in which she afterward becomes thane of the Reach.
- In Which the Dragonborn Does More Quests for the Dawnguard - 07/18/2021In which the Dragonborn quests some more for the Dawnguard, and helps them acquire a better crossbow schematic as well as a new recruit; in which she kills another dragon, cleans out a vampire hive, and finds another word of a Shout; and in which she finds that Serana no longer being a vampire doesn't mean she's any less awesome to have at your side in a dungeon.
- In Which the Dragonborn Scours the Land for Ingredients - 07/17/2021In which the Dragonborn hunts all over the land for ingredients for Ingun Black-Briar in Riften, and in which she also begins the hunt for a crossbow schematic for Sorine of the Dawnguard. With bonus additional commentary about having a horse in Skyrim!