Gyllerah Playthrough
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| 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.
- In Which Gyllerah Becomes an Antiquarian and Stops a Necromancer - 11/18/2022In which Gyllerah joins the Antiquarian's Circle in Solitude; hunts for crafting materials in Hjaalmarch, the Rift, and Greenshade; and in which she stops a necromancer from ascending to lichdom at Lost Prospect Mine.
- In Which Gyllerah Visits Blackwood, and Also Fights the Schemes of Nocturnal - 11/14/2022In which Gyllerah visits Blackwood; and in which she and K'sragi witness the death of Ritemaster Iachesis and must work with Darien, Leythen, the Psijics, and Razum-dar to gain the help of Clavicus Vile and Mephala against the schemes of Nocturnal.
- In Which Gyllerah Meets Another God of the Tribunal - 11/10/2022In which Gyllerah returns to Morrowind in search of crafting caches, and finds more than she bargained for: a plague, a massive bandit camp, signs of outlaws infiltrating Mournhold, and the attention of Almalexia, one of the living gods of the Tribunal.
- In Which Gyllerah Returns to Morrowind and Fights a Dark Anchor - 11/09/2022In which Gyllerah and K'sragi quest into Matus-Akin Egg Mine in Morrowind; and in which Gyllerah hunts artifacts and treasure, and visits Morrowind once again, helping locals in Ebonheart resolve a dispute and then fighting off an Dark Anchor attack.
- In Which Gyllerah Visits Mephala’s Realm, and Also Morrowind - 11/06/2022In which Gyllerah and K'sragi must rescue Darien Gautier, champion of Meridia, from Mephala's realm in Oblivion; and in which Gyllerah visits Morrowind in search of rare ingredients and materials.
Screenshots
Gyllerah’s screenshot galleries can be found on the Gyllerah Screenshots page.