Shenner Playthrough

Shenner
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 Finds a Mask and Rehomes Some Nords - 08/23/2022
    In which Shenner spreads the word of Ashfall's Tear, and helps them recruit more worshippers; retrieves the Mask of Vivec; and aids Bujold's tribe of Nords in retaking their lost home of Thirsk Mead Hall.
  • In Which Shenner Investigates a Cult and Black Books - 08/18/2022
    In which Shenner infiltrates the Tribunal Temple, gains access to the worshippers there, and directives to aid them from their matriarch; goes to meet Neloth at Tel Mithryn; goes with Neloth to retrieve a Black Book from Nchardak; and is ordered by Hermaeus Mora to bring him the secrets of the Skaal.
  • In Which Shenner Quests Around Solstheim - 08/14/2022
    In which Shenner cleanses the remaining All-Maker Stones on Solstheim; rescues Baldor from the Thalmor; learns how to forge stalhrim and make netch leather armor; hunts for the Deathbrand armor; and slays multiple dragons.
  • In Which Shenner Starts Cleansing All-Maker Stones - 08/11/2022
    In which Shenner slays a dragon at Saering's Watch, learns the Word of Power she needs to cleanse the All-Maker Stones, and proceeds to use it to cleanse the Wind Stone and break Miraak's control over the Skaal village.
  • In Which Shenner Stops an Assassination and Finds Miraak’s Temple - 08/08/2022
    In which Shenner thwarts an assassination attempt on Councillor Morvayn, and is granted citizenship in Raven Rock and Severin Manor; and in which she quests into Miraak's temple with the help of Frea of the Skaal.

Screenshots

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