Finds-The-Way Playthrough

Finds-The-Way
Finds-The-Way in Riverwood
Playthrough Info
Game Skyrim Anniversary Edition
Race Argonian
Playthrough Dates 7/8/2023-8/23/2024
Platform PC, Steam Deck
Language German
Difficulty Adept

This is the page for my ninth Skyrim playthrough, for the Argonian character Finds-The-Way, who was a thief and 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 few goals in mind:

  1. Running with no mods whatsoever, just so I could have Achievements–not a thing I’ve been able to do before
  2. Playing in German!
  3. Running the Thieves Guild again
  4. Playing the Dark Brotherhood, finally

Finds’ playthrough concluded on 8/23/2024. Her posts are not yet done, though, and I’ll be working on getting those caught up, since she did have a complete playthrough. Until then, her playthrough will remain in the Current section of the Skyrim playthroughs on the site.

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 also cheerfully claimed to have relatives working at the Riften docks. Who most likely conveniently “died” the first time a dragon strafed 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 is Revealed as Dragonborn - 07/20/2023
    In which Finds-The-Way retrieves the Dragonstone from Bleak Falls Barrow; helps Whiterun fight off a dragon attack, and is revealed as Dragonborn; is proclaimed Thane of Whiterun, and receives Lydia as her housecarl; and thwarts an assassination attempt on the Jarl, and gains the Bow of Shadows from the would-be assassin.
  • In Which Finds-The-Way Finds Her Way Out of Helgen - 07/12/2023
    In which the Argonian Finds-The-Way escapes a dragon attack at Helgen, and is recruited by the Jarl of Whiterun to recover a Dragonstone from Bleak Falls Barrow. New playthrough, featuring running in the German language! Expect a lot of language geekery and very long compound nouns. This is a mod-free playthrough, and I will also be tracking how many Achievements I rack up, since I haven't done that before in Skyrim.