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.

  • In Which Gyllerah Discovers the Infinite Archive - 03/30/2024
    In which Gyllerah discovers danger afoot in the Infinite Archive, and is tasked with defeating rampant maligraphies; recovers an artifact of Sheogorath from the Lion's Den; and aids the Ebonheart Pact at Taarengrav.
  • In Which Gyllerah Accepts a New Contract with Hermaeus Mora - 03/25/2024
    In which Gyllerah saves legionaries from pirates on Auridon; thwarts Dominion interference with the Argonian Hatching Pools in Shadowfen; defeats Dominion forces in Loriasel; once more meets Leramil the Wise, and agrees to help Hermaeus Mora save Apocrypha and by extension, Nirn; and thwarts Daedric cultists at Alavelis, and at the Necrom Necropolis.
  • In Which Gyllerah Quests through Shadowfen for the Ebonheart Pact - 03/17/2024
    In which Gyllerah continues her quest to see the world through the eyes of the Ebonheart Pact; aids the Argonians at Ten-Maur-Wolk, as well as a rather alarming dremora she's met before; volunteers to help a museum in Riverhold regain lost mural fragments; and agrees to help an investigator with his new case.
  • In Which Gyllerah Meets Mirri and Vastarie, and Acquires a Dragonhorn - 03/10/2024
    In which Gyllerah helps a fellow member of the Psijic Order defeat his evil master's plans; helps Mirri Elendis rescue her missing brother; saves Deshaan from the machinations of Magistrix Vox; returns a relic to a High Shaman; rescues Vastarie from Coldharbour, and recovers the remains of a slain priestess; and aids Northern Elsweyr by recovering a lost Dragonhorn.
  • In Which Gyllerah Gains the Hall of the Lunar Champion - 02/15/2024
    In which Gyllerah slays the usurper Euraxia Tharn and restores the rightful heir to the throne of Rimmen; gains the stewardship of the Hall of the Lunar Champion; aids a researcher on Stros M'Kai; and helps rescue a sea captain's captured crew.

Screenshots

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