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 Goes to Valthume - 07/06/2021In which the Dragonborn goes to Valthume to defeat an ancient evil there—and gain another word of a Shout to improve her knowledge of the Voice.
- In Which the Dragonborn Hunts for Crimson Nirnroot - 07/05/2021In which the Dragonborn hunts through Blackreach for the rare crimson nirnroot, and in which she returns to High Hrothgar to enlist the Graybeards to arrange a peace conference to stop the war.
- In Which the Dragonborn Takes on Alduin, Round One - 07/04/2021In which the Dragonborn has her first confrontation with Alduin the World-Eater, after which she pursues a plan that will require her to do something equally astonishing: putting an end to the war in Skyrim.
- In Which the Dragonborn Discovers the Oghma Infinium - 07/03/2021In which the Dragonborn fulfills her obligations to Septimus Signus, only to come to the attention of the Daedric Prince Hermaeus Mora; and in which she does a great deal of expansion work on her houses.
- In Which the Dragonborn Hunts for an Elder Scroll - 07/02/2021In which the Dragonborn goes questing for an Elder Scroll, which leads her to talk to a mad mage, explore yet another large Dwemer ruin, and plumb the mysterious depths of Blackreach.