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 Buys a Horse - 07/16/2021In which the Dragonborn buys her first horse, and then uses it to travel to all the holds she’s thane of, as well as carrying out duties for both the College of Winterhold and the Dawnguard.
- In Which the Dragonborn Slays Lord Harkon - 07/15/2021In which the Dragonborn and her Dawnguard allies are victorious over the vampires of Castle Volkihar; and in which the Dragonborn takes some downtime to check in with various houses before going home to her family in Whiterun. <3
- In Which the Dragonborn Acquires Auriel’s Bow - 07/14/2021In which the Dragonborn, in two long, long sessions of play, makes it through the Forgotten Vale and finds the Chantry of Auri-El, where she defeats Vyrthur and acquires Auriel’s Bow. Includes screencaps!
- How the Dawnguard plot should have ended - 07/12/2021In which the Dragonborn’s player has some opinions about how the Dawnguard DLC should actually have ended!
- In Which the Dragonborn Seeks Auriel’s Bow - 07/12/2021In which the Dragonborn and her vampire ally Serana continue the quest to find Auriel’s Bow, which leads them to an Ancestor Glade… and then to one of the last surviving Snow Elves in Tamriel.