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 Destroys the Dark Brotherhood - 07/01/2021In which the Dragonborn hunts down the sword of Red Eagle; and in which she helps orphans of Riften by taking out their abusive caretaker, but in the process, comes to the attention of the Dark Brotherhood, for whom this does not go well.
- In Which the Dragonborn Quests to Repair the White Phial - 06/30/2021In which the Dragonborn quests for ingredients to repair the White Phial; in which she kills two dragons, one of which was Nahagliiv; and in which she amuses herself with Zelda easter egg gear!
- In Which the Dragonborn Meets the True Leader of the Greybeards - 06/29/2021In which the Dragonborn meets the true leader of the Greybeards, and learns from him how she can actually learn the Dragonrend Shout needed to defeat Alduin; and in which she resolves some side quests and picks up a bunch more to boot.
- In Which the Dragonborn Goes to Avanchnzel - 06/28/2021In which the Dragonborn fulfills the request of a desperate Argonian, and returns the mysterious Lexicon to the Dwemer ruin Avanchnzel.
- In Which the Dragonborn Becomes Thane of Riften - 06/27/2021In which the Dragonborn becomes Thane of Riften, and in which she is given a mysterious object by an Argonian who begs her to return it to Avanchnzel.