Gyllerah Playthrough

Gyllerah

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.

In Which Gyllerah Seeks the Augur of the Obscure and Solves More Murders - 10/23/2022
In which Gyllerah and K'sragi recover the Augur of the Obscure, and close time breaches; and in which Gyllerah investigates deaths at Cey-Tarn Keep and helps take out a dangerous beast for the Divine Prosecution.
In Which Gyllerah Seeks a Kidnapped Bride-to-Be - 10/23/2022
In which Gyllerah and K'sragi venture into Archon's Grove in search of the missing Niralin, who had been kidnapped by werewolves; and learn from Niralin that she has reasons not to return to her less than admirable fiance, Esterdel.
In Which Gyllerah Solves a Murder at Russafeld Winery - 10/22/2022
In which Gyllerah gets her Columbo on, and assists the Divine Prosecution in solving murders at the Russafeld Winery.
In Which Gyllerah Cleans Up a Rogue Enchantment - 10/21/2022
In which Gyllerah and K'sragi visit the Proxy Queen; and in which they help a mage of the Illumination Academy break an accidental enchantment affecting his fellow students and the staff of his college.
In Which Gyllerah Discovers the Secret of a Flooded Ruin - 10/18/2022
In which Gyllerah learns of a murder in Russafeld; encounters a strangely behaving elf near the Illumination Academy; and investigates disappearances in a ruined and flooded estate, to help a nobleman uncover his family's secrets.

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Screenshots

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