Delga Playthrough

Delga

Playthrough Info
Game	Skyrim Special Edition
Race	Orc
Playthrough Dates	October 2021 to January 2022
Platform	Nintendo Switch
Language	English
Difficulty	Adept

This is the page for my third Skyrim playthrough, for the character Delga of the Orsimer.

I began this playthrough immediately concluding the one for Merawen, with the intention of making Delga my character to accomplish two things I didn’t do with either Merawen or Alarrah:

Join the Companions
Fight the Imperial side of the war

In terms of game mechanics, Delga was intended to be a tank, specializing in Heavy Armor and Two-Handed weapons. I also envisioned her as an absolute cinnamon roll who just wanted to help everybody, which was my justification for doing every single side favor quest I could get my hands on. 😀

Those of you familiar with She-Ra and the Princesses of Power will understand what I mean when I say that in terms of personality archetype, I was very much inspired by Scorpia!

Like Merawen and Alarrah, Delga is named for a character in my writing–but a story which isn’t actually published yet.

Delga’s Backstory

An Orc character was an interesting one to think about in terms of Skyrim’s culture. There are four known Orc strongholds in the game, all of whom treat the player character like a stranger even if you’re playing an Orc. Plus, the start of the game always treats you like you’re coming in from outside of Skyrim. (Unless you’re playing the appropriate mods that let you have alternative starting choices!)

Therefore, I had to assume that Delga was from an Orc stronghold from somewhere outside of Skyrim. I also decided that she was not content with the idea of being married off as a wife to a stronghold chieftain. Which, given that I was imagining Delga as a cinnamon roll type, strongly suggests that the chieftain she was promised to was not a worthy chieftain, to the degree that Delga felt it was better for her to flee rather than to submit to being his wife.

That said, I think she was probably always a little regretful about running off like that, and probably pissing off her family. Which did inform her choices in trying to visit all of the Orc strongholds in Skyrim and help them when she could. She also tried to uphold the Code of Malacath, even though she was an Orc woman living outside her people’s normal culture. But she eventually came to some peace with it, given the whole Dragonborn thing! I suspect that she eventually got to the point of accepting that Malacath had made her what she was, and that she could never have stepped up to save the world from Alduin if she’d stayed in the stronghold where she was born.

Playthrough Posts

Here are all the posts about Delga’s playthrough! They’re listed in descending date order, so the newest posts appear first. Also, note the pagination controls after the first five posts. You can page through to see the older ones.

You can also browse all of Delga’s posts via her playthrough category link.

In Which Delga Becomes Thane of Haafingar - 12/12/2021
In which Delga becomes the latest thane of Haafingar after defeating Potema the Wolf Queen; and in which she and Aela the Huntress battle necromancers at Fort Snowhawk.
In Which Delga Interrupts the Resurrection of the Wolf Queen - 12/11/2021
In which Delga finds the second Gauldur amulet fragment in Folgunthur; in which she stops a ritual to resurrect Potema the Wolf Queen; in which Lydia volunteers to be her steward at Windstad Manor; and in which Delga asks Aela the Huntress to join her in her journeys.
In Which Delga Visits Alduin’s Wall and Becomes Thane of Hjaalmarch - 12/10/2021
In which Delga investigates Alduin's Wall with the help of the Blades; in which she battles multiple dragons; and in which she becomes thane of Hjaalmarch.
In Which Delga Becomes Arch-Mage of the College of Winterhold - 12/09/2021
In which Delga retrieves the Staff of Magnus from Labyrinthian, while her housecarl Lydia slays the dragon priest Morokei; and in which she saves the College of Winterhold and becomes Arch-Mage.
In Which Delga Continues to Aid the College of Winterhold - 12/08/2021
In which Delga finds a Synod researcher in Mzulft who knows the location of the Staff of Magnus; and in which she discovers the college in crisis when she returns, a crisis that results in the death of the Arch-Mage.

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Screenshots

All of Delga’s screenshots can be found on the Delga Screenshots page.