Gyllerah Playthrough

Gyllerah
Screenshot of Gyllerah from the login screen of ESO. She is an Altmer with auburn hair in short braids and hazel eyes, and she is wearing the Wolfcrown of Solitude, blue and gold armor, and a greatsword on her back.
Playthrough Info
Game Elder Scrolls Online
Race High Elf
Class Templar
Playthrough Dates September 2022, in progress
Platform Steam Deck, macOS

This is the page for my first Elder Scrolls Online playthrough, for the character Gyllerah of the High Elves.

I began this playthrough in September 2022, not long after acquiring my Steam Deck. Gyllerah’s playthrough alternates between the Steam Deck and my M1 Mac, depending on what I’m feeling like playing on at any given time.

Gyllerah is also my first official High Elf alt (Luciriel in my Skyrim Together playthrough kinda doesn’t count, even though she existed first, since I’m not doing actual story or RP with her), and named after an elf character created in the backstory history for my Rebels of Adalonia series.

Gyllerah’s Backstory

What I know about Gyllerah prior to her starting in Balfiera is this:

She came from a minor diplomatic family stationed in Elsweyr, just high up enough the Altmer social ladder that she had a pretty good idea of how to function in diplomatic capacities, though she was arguably not really upper-class/noble herself. I retconned this in to help explain Gyllerah’s affinity for Khajiit, since my housemate Paul, with whom I’m frequently playing ESO, runs a Khajiit as his main.

It is possible that Gyllerah started exhibiting inborn abilities that would have guided her to joining an order of Stendarr. However, she never got the chance–because she became a victim of the Soulburst.

This rattled her memories around fairly significantly. Her memories of her childhood and adolescence are dim at best, though she managed to retain some functional skills, enough to let her defend herself when she dropped into the cells in Balfiera.

Her perceptions of the flow of time–and perhaps even her place in time–are disrupted. This is my headcanon for how I can play things entirely out of chronological order in ESO! For example, how I can run the entire Summerset plot, meet and befriend Razum’dar, and then see Raz much later on Khenarthi’s Roost and he doesn’t know me at all.

As I’ve proceeded through play, and in particular with ESO’s Main Quest, I’m using that as the headcanon to explain Gyllerah growing more stable in her place in the flow of time–since I, as a player, am trying to be more conscious of playing things closer to a canon chronological order.

Playthrough Posts

Here are all the posts about Gyllerah’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.

  • ESO catchup post: Gyllerah in March - 12/02/2024
    Varying up my usual posting format because I'm so super behind on doing my playthrough posts. This one is an overall summary of everything Gyllerah did in Elder Scrolls Online for most of the month of March. Most significantly, features finishing off the Wrothgar plot and running Maelstrom Arena for the first time!
  • In Which Gyllerah Gives Aid at Graystone Quarry - 10/30/2024
    In which Gyllerah recovers Uzdabikh's Helm for the House of Orsimer Glories; recovers an allegedly enchanted whistle; and aids Clan Tumnosh at Graystone Quarry after an accident injures their chieftain and several others.
  • In Which Gyllerah Fights Werewolves and Cultists - 10/17/2024
    In which Gyllerah helps the Wyrd Sisters save Deleyn's Mill and their Wyrd Tree; stops werewolves from infiltrating Aldcroft; assists the Lion Guard forces in fighting werewolves in Camlorn; and helps King Kurog in Orsinium by stopping a threat at the city's temple to Trinimac.
  • In Which Gyllerah Quests in Wrothgar and Destroys Azandar’s Adversary - 09/13/2024
    In which Gyllerah witnesses King Kurog taking the defiance of one of the Wrothgar chieftains very badly; quests into Rkindaleft, and investigates the strange feral Orcs there; encounters Hermaeus Mora again in the Vile Manse in Reaper's March; and assists Azandar in the final defeat of his personal adversary.
  • In Which Gyllerah Quests in Wrothgar - 08/26/2024
    In which Gyllerah follows up on what she's learned of Winterborn Reachmen threatening merchants traveling in Wrothgar; ventures into Orsinium in search of an Orc merchant who'd sold out to the Winterborn; helps an Orcish chef create several of her dishes; aids the forces of King Kurog in their siege at Frostbreak Fortress; and quests through Old Orsinium, where she helps the last survivor of an ancient order carry out a ritual to maintain a pyre to Malacath.

Screenshots

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