Finds-The-Way Playthrough

Finds-The-Way

Playthrough Info
Game	Skyrim Anniversary Edition
Race	Argonian
Playthrough Dates	Started 7/8/2023
Platform	PC, Steam Deck
Language	German
Difficulty	Adept

This is the page for my ninth Skyrim playthrough, for the character Finds-The-Way, Argonian, and likely thief and maybe also assassin.

I began this playthrough on 7/8/2023, as part of verifying whether my base Skyrim game was still okay after a disastrous attempt to recover Harrowhark’s playthrough. But I went ahead and decided to play her, with a couple of goals in mind:

Running with no mods whatsoever, just so I could have Achievements–not a thing I’ve been able to do before
Playing in German!

Finds is definitely going to join the Thieves Guild, and I will be putting heavy consideration into running the Dark Brotherhood with her, due to the Shadowscales angle I’m working into her backstory.

Like Ysani before her, Finds is named (indirectly) after my character Wayfound from my days on Two Moons MUSH.

Finds-The-Way’s Backstory

Very rough idea for Finds’ backstory is that she’s marsh-born, from a very remote tribe that hasn’t had a Shadowscale born to them in a very long time. But she was born under the sign of the Shadow, and her tribe’s Hist realized she would have to go to Skyrim to find the Dark Brotherhood to receive training there.

As a cover story, she’s also going to cheerfully claim to have relatives working at the Riften docks. Who will very likely conveniently “die” the first time a dragon strafes the place in her run!

Playthrough Posts

Here are all the posts about Finds-The-Way’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 Finds-The-Way Becomes a Nightingale - 11/27/2023
In which Finds-The-Way reforges the Gauldur amulet; destroys a Golden Saints bandit camp near Karthwasten; slays the mad conjurer Thoron in the Solitude sewers; robs Mercer Frey's house in Riften; and is sworn to the service of Nocturnal as a Nightingale. Contains the surprise death of a named Solitude NPC! And also, a surprise extra thief in Riftweald Manor!
In Which Finds-The-Way Becomes Arch-Mage, and Thane of Hjaalmarch and the Pale - 11/11/2023
In which Finds-The-Way recovers the Staff of Magnus and uses it to slay Ancano, and save the College of Winterhold; quests into Runoff Caverns to shut down a malfunctioning Dwemer weather machine; battles necromancers at Fort Snowhawk; discovers why a house burned down in Morthal, and stops a vampire plot; kills a giant for the Jarl of Dawnstar; and becomes thane of both Hjaalsmarch and the Pale.
In Which Finds-The-Way Acquires Mehrunes’ Razor and Azura’s Star - 11/05/2023
In which Finds-The-Way acquires the pieces of Mehrunes' Razor, but is forced to kill Silus Vesuius to claim it once it's reassembled; acquires and cleanses Azura's Star of the soul of the necromancer who'd tainted it; and quests into Mzulft to discover the location of the Staff of Magnus.
In Which Finds-the-Way Becomes Thane of Haafingar and Saves the Gildergreen - 10/28/2023
In which Finds-The-Way slays dragons, a giant and some vampires; recovers lost artifacts from the bottom of a spider-infested cavern; helps create a new Gildergreen for Whiterun; reveals their Guildmaster's treachery to the Thieves Guild; buys Proudspire Manor and becomes Thane of Haafingar; acquires the hilt of Mehrunes' Razor; puts the Pale Lady to rest in Frostmere Crypt; defeats Seducers bandits near Windhelm; and recovers the Ring of Pure Mixtures and the White Phial from Forsaken Cave.
In Which Finds-The-Way Saves Dawnstar, Catches a Murderer, and Robs a Museum - 10/18/2023
In which Finds-The-Way saves the city of Dawnstar from a plague of nightmares; discovers a helm when questing in Yngol Barrow; catches a murderer rampaging through Windhelm; quests into Snow Veil Sanctum and learns of her Guildmaster's treachery; robs a Dwemer museum to get a rubbing for translating an important journal; and agrees to accompany Karliah back to the Ragged Flagon to present that journal to the Thieves Guild.

Screenshots

Finds-The-Way’s screenshot galleries can be found on the Finds-The-Way Screenshots page.