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 Learns More About How to Defeat Alduin - 06/26/2021In which the Dragonborn returns a sword to Mjoll the Lioness, and brings icewraith teeth to Marise; in which she charges the Warped Soul gem for Arniel; and in which she rejoins Delphine and Esbern and learns what she'll need to do next to destroy Alduin the World-Eater!
- In Which the Dragonborn Catches a Murderer - 06/25/2021In which the Dragonborn catches a serial killer in Windhelm, acquires a particularly tastily enchanted weapon, and may finally have exercised the ghost of the dragon Carl!
- In Which the Dragonborn is On the Road - 06/24/2021In which the Dragonborn goes hunting for items for Riften’s wizard, a new Word Wall, a fabled White Phial, and the beginnings of clues about why young women are being killed in Windhelm. And also kills her first Ancient Dragon.
- In Which the Dragonborn Marries Her Favorite Housecarl - 06/23/2021In which the Dragonborn marries her beloved Lydia in Riften, and the happy couple does what they do best for their honeymoon: visiting dungeons and killing draugr! How romantic. <3
- In Which the Dragonborn Goes to Ansilvund - 06/22/2021In which the Dragonborn goes on more quests for the College of Winterhold, because apparently the Arch-Mage still has to go fetch everything for these people? And in which she kills another Elder Dragon, and learns how to turn iron into gold.