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 Joins a College and Infiltrates a Warehouse - 10/09/2023
In which Finds-The-Way joins the College of Winterhold; discovers a powerful orb in Saarthal, while also killing a powerful draugr; quests into Fellglow Keep in search of books about her discovery; learns she must seek the Staff of Magnus; learns the name of the mysterious nemesis who's been sabotaging the Thieves Guild; and pays a visit to the Face Sculptor in the Ragged Flagon.
In Which Finds-The-Way Sabotages a Meadery, Helps Remnants, and Slays Potema - 09/22/2023
In which Finds-The-Way sabotages Honningbrew Meadery for the Thieves Guild; returns the Lexicon to the depths of Avanchnzel; turns Goldenhills Plantation into a thriving farm; retrieves the Headman's Cleaver from Lost Knife Hideout; aids Remnant agents of Hammerfell in rescuing one of their own; and vanquishes the resurrected spirit of Potema in the catacombs beneath Solitude.
In Which Finds-The-Way Becomes Thane of Riften and Robs an Estate - 09/21/2023
In which Finds-The-Way retrieves the remaining lost instruments for the Bards College; cleans up a skooma problem and becomes thane in Riften; acquires Honeyside, Shadowfoot Sanctum, and housecarl Iona; robs Goldenglow Estate for the Thieves Guild; and helps a mage slay her mother before she can become a hagraven.
In Which Finds-The-Way Finds a Drum and a Very Big Hammer - 09/09/2023
In which Finds-The-Way helps Falkreath's alchemist with a skooma problem amongst the guards; retrieves a drum from Halldir's Cairn; and gets involved in lifting a curse of Malacath from the Orcs at Largashbur.
In Which Finds-The-Way Joins the Bards College and Stops a Summoning - 09/06/2023
In which Finds-the-Way acquires a farm; joins the Bards College; recovers a lost helmet; retrieves a lost verse and reinstates the Burning of King Olaf Festival; solves a mysterious death in Dragon Bridge; interrupts a summoning ritual in Wolfskull Cave; and acquires the Wabbajack while investigating the whereabouts of a madman's master.

Screenshots

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