Ashoshah Playthrough

Ashoshah
Screenshot of Ashoshah from the login screen of ESO. She is a Khajiit with dark fur with white highlights, and streaks of blue and green dyed into her mane. She is wearing dark gray armor with blue and brown trim.
Playthrough Info
Game Elder Scrolls Online
Race Khajiit
Class Arcanist
Playthrough Dates July 2024, in progress
Platform Steam Deck, macOS

This is the page for my fourth Elder Scrolls Online playthrough, for the character Ashoshah of the Khajiit.

I began this playthrough in July 2024. As with my first three ESO playthroughs, Ashoshah’s run will be primarily on the Steam Deck, but with action on the Mac if I want to run group activities with my guilds, or if I just feel like being on the Mac instead.

Ashoshah returns to my naming scheme of naming characters after ones I’ve personally written–although the character she’s named for is not yet in published work. I chose the name here because I thought it would work well for a Khajiit.

The main goal for this character is to run the Dark Brotherhood, and accordingly, start her off as the kind of character who would in fact join the Brotherhood to begin with. She is also my first Arcanist, so I’ll be exploring how that character class works with her.

Ashoshah’s name is pronounced a-SHOW-sha. I will probably frequently refer to her as Ash, once she reaches a point where she either claims that nickname for herself, or someone gives it to her. And I will most definitely be regularly calling her Murderkitty. ;D

Ashoshah’s Backstory

Ashoshah is the child of ciphers who’d been living in Apocrypha, in Cipher’s Midden. But the realms of Daedric Princes are perilous, and her parents were slain when she was young. In their desperation to save her life, they flung their young child through a portal in an instinctive attempt to get her back to safety. But rather than sending her back to the company of other ciphers, it dropped her instead back into Elsweyr.

The traumatized child, babbling about Apocrypha and her parents being killed by monsters, soon wound up in an orphanage in Rimmen. No one believed her story, including the headmistress of the orphanage, who soon restored to drugging little Ashoshah to shut her up at night after hearing the child have one too many nightmares. Mostly with moon sugar–but sometimes with diluted skooma, never much, as the crafty headmistress was not going to waste too much of a valuable substance on a crazy little ja’khajiit.

Ashoshah soon learned to doubt whether her time in Apocrypha had even been real, and furthermore, to fear any hint of the otherworldly in her existence. She grew dependent on moon sugar to sleep, and accepted keeping her mouth shut and obeying the orphanage’s headmistress without question as the price of keeping a roof over her head and having a place to sleep. Most of her waking hours went to toiling at the headmistress’s orders, learning how to craft basic items, which she was then made to sell. Sometimes, she was sent out to pickpocket hapless citizens on the streets. As long as she caused coins to keep flowing into the headmistress’s pockets, she was allowed to stay under her protection.

But Ashoshah, of course, had to grow up. And the longer she stayed dosed with the sugar, the shakier her grasp on sanity became. Her nightmares eventually began to return, bringing her visions of Apocrypha, and of the Tide-King, Hermorah, floating in its skies.

One fateful night, when the headmistress’s patience with her grew thin, the older Khajiit lashed out at Ashoshah–and the younger Khajiit instinctively reacted with a burst of arcane power that sent the headmistress flying into the wall. The collision didn’t kill her, but it scared her half to death, and provoked her into attacking Ashoshah in earnest. She drove the younger Khajiit out of the orphanage, screeching at her to never return on pain of death.

Shaken to her bones, scared of what she’d just done, Ashoshah fled. She spent many weeks wandering Tamriel, surviving as she could on the streets of this or that city, until at last a mysterious hooded figure offered her a message from an unknown benefactor….

Playthrough Posts

Here are all the posts about Ashoshah’s playthrough! These are dynamically updated, so a new post should appear here when it goes up. They’re listed in descending date order, so the newest posts should always appear first. Also, note the pagination controls after the first five posts. You can page through to see the older ones.

  • In Which Ashoshah Flees Coldharbour and Joins the Brotherhood - 08/02/2024
    In which the Khajiit Ashoshah is ambushed and sacrificed; wakes up in Coldharbour, and must join forces with Lyris Titanborn and the Prophet to escape; finds herself on Khenarthi's Roost and aids Razum-dar in solving several crises there; flees, traumatized and in the grip of skooma withdrawal, to Anvil on the Gold Coast; and comes to the attention of the Dark Brotherhood, who set her to the task of slaying a local noble.

Screenshots

Ashoshah’s screenshot galleries can be found on the Ashoshah Screenshots page.