Shenner Playthrough
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| Playthrough Info | |
| Game | Skyrim Anniversary Edition |
| Race | Nord |
| Playthrough Dates | 5/17-11/19/2022 |
| Platform | PC, Steam Deck |
| Language | English |
| Difficulty | Adept |
This is the page for my sixth Skyrim playthrough, for the character Shenner of the Nords, played more or less concurrently with the playthrough for Faanshi of the Khajiit.
I began this playthrough not long after starting to play Faanshi. And unlike all my previous playthroughs, the main difference here is that it didn’t start on the Nintendo Switch. I got Skyrim running on my old PC, an HP Elitebook that dates back to 2012 and which has an Intel HD 4000 graphics card in it.
The game is barely playable on this box, playable enough that I proceeded with Shenner’s playthrough, and documented what challenges I’m finding with that in conjunction with the opportunity to finally use mods and run the Anniversary Edition!
But happily, I then acquired a Steam Deck, as well as my new M1 Mac, with a Windows 11 VM on it, and I used those to continue Shenner’s playthrough to completion.
Shenner was also my first Nord alt, and named after a character I played for a few years on Star Wars MUSH. That character was a brash redhead, which I tried to recreate with this version.
Shenner’s Backstory
Pretty bare-boned backstory overall, since when I started Shenner, I didn’t expect to get far with her.
Her rough backstory, though, was this. She had a sister who went to Cyrodiil to get married, and Shenner journeyed down there for the wedding. But she was extremely dubious about her sister’s husband, and all the more so as she discovered the man was an abusive asshat. She publicly confronted him, and by “confronted”, I mean, “damn near killed him in public for daring to lay a hand on her sister.”
Shenner was called off, however, by her sister. And only then did she learn that her sister had ambitions to raise her social station, and was absolutely using her husband as a stepping stone on her way up out of their family’s prior rural existence in Skyrim.
Rejected by her sister, Shenner angrily set out to return home–only to be captured at the border and accused of killing her sister’s husband. Little did she know that her sister had in fact killed the guy, and spread the word that Shenner had done it instead, as the most likely suspect.
Playthrough Posts
Here are all the posts about Shenner’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 Shenner Saves a Moth Priest for the Dawnguard - 10/11/2022In which Shenner frees Serana in Dimhollow Crypt and returns her to her family home at Castle Volkihar; recruits members for the Dawnguard; meets Serana again, and goes with her to rescue a Moth Priest and recover a crossbow schematic.
- In Which Shenner Marries Rulnik and Joins the Dawnguard - 10/05/2022In which Shenner and her loyal companion Rulnik go to the Temple of Mara in Riften to be wed; and in which Shenner then visits Dayspring Canyon to join the Dawnguard and help them in their fight against vampires.
- In Which Shenner Returns to the Mainland - 09/27/2022In which Shenner helps an old scholar investigate Vahlok's Tomb; tries but fails to defeat the ghost of a frost giant; and returns to Skyrim with Rulnik and Gogh, and checks back in on her adopted children at Lakeview Manor.
- In Which Shenner Slays Ildari Sarothril - 09/24/2022In which Shenner invades Highpoint Tower and confronts Ildari Sarothril, Neloth's former apprentice.
- In Which Shenner Finds a Briarheart for Neloth - 09/18/2022In which Shenner distributes her hard-won loot across several of her houses; fights the Forsworn at Lost Valley Redoubt, and observes a briarheart for Neloth there; and returns to Tel Mithryn on Solstheim, where she is tasked to take out Neloth's nemesis Ildari Sarothril.
Screenshots
Shenner’s screenshot galleries can be found on the Shenner Screenshots page.