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Our journey begins at the character selection screen, where I am greeted by...



...this. I'm not about to pass up the chance to run around Skyrim as a disembodied head, so I quickly enter a name after carefully observing the other new species variant - by which I mean reading the fairly terribly formatted description for an elf with wings.



This seems oddly appropriate.

I'm playing the Live Another Life mod (one of the three or so I added intentionally), which allows you to bypass the long-ass intro sequence and get straight into the adventuring fun with the grace of one of Skyrim's deities, Mara. It also gives you options to start as various types of person - merchant, miner, sailor, etc. I chose the "surprise me" option, and landed myself...



...in a shipwreck. Mara's sense of humor knows no bounds.



At least there's some loot, including the unpictured corpse of a deceased Thalmor agent.



I finally manage to escape the ship, and set my sights for land.



Our hero begins the long.... swim? toward shore.



I find some barnacles on another abandoned boat. Mmm. Barnacles.



I immediately start my adventure by making enemies with the local wildlife. Hey, they bit me first.



I find some oysters and immediately harvest the shit out of them. Oyster meat, horker tusks, and barnacles - part of a nutritious breakfast.



Shortly afterwards, I am attacked by some wolves on fire. Again, Mara's humor knows no bounds.



HEEEERE'S JOHNNY!



The results of my slaughter. There is blood everywhere.



I involuntarily relieve some more of the local wildlife of their organs, bones, tusks, etc.



Oh hey, it's a little enemy crab, that's neat. I think I'll just...



...I'm pretty sure crabs don't have that much blood.



Our hero randomly goes bald upon equipping an iron helmet. How exciting.



Not even the babies are spared from my executions.



Mmm. Tastes like blood and cruelty.



I run into some chauruses (chaurii?). Obviously, they're early-game enemies, so dispatching them with my axe should be no problem.



4 deaths later, I manage to escape into the ruins of Saarthal by abusing the hell out of the early-game restoration spell. Now, maybe I'll be able to grind a couple of levels off of leveled zombies and escape these blasted insectoids.



DAMMIT.

Anyways, the next update should have pictures scaled to a slightly less obscene size. Also, more of them.

Blurred lines are areas of disputed territory, white dots denote major cities. There are minor cities and towns all over the place, and as such I have not drawn them.

Recent Events:
The year is 1386. The Reign of Siegfried the Third, King of Toast, may he rest in peace, has ended, and power has passed to his stepsister, Mia. There is currently a small uprising going on with the city-state of Kelperia declaring independence from the monarchy. There are also, of course, pirates, who are inhabiting the island marked in purple on the map. It is widely suspected that they may begin raiding again now that King Siegfried is dead. All that aside, things are peaceful in the Kingdom of Toast.

In the merchant state of Bolgaria, things are chaos as usual, as yet another motion for the Council of Merchants to fund some sort of legal system has been turned down in favor of bribes from various guilds of thieves, murderers, and mercenaries. Everyone continues to question just how the few cities and towns left are still standing.

On the Islands of the Twins, monks attend to the occasional pilgrimage group or tourist. Otherwise, they live a life of prosperity and calm, for even nature dares not threaten the islands protected by the demigods.

Everything else is no-man's-land, full of ogres, experiments, madmen, and Mary Sues alike.

Things You Need To Know:
The world generally works with a societal system based on eye color. Red eyes < blue < green. Any other color is extremely rare in anything that might be called civilization.

Eye color also typically denotes psychic capability as such:
Red: Physical (telekinetics, lighting shit on fire, etc)
Blue: Mental (mind control, telepathy, etc)
Green: Mechanical (building and repairing machines of both an artificial and organic nature)
Anything in between is usually a combination of both abilities, but is slightly weaker.

Name:
Gender:
Color:
Everything after this will be tweaked to fit the setting. Tweaking will be done via PM so I don't accidentally piss anyone off.
Backstory:
Equipment & Inventory: max of 5 objects
Psychic Powers and/or Mutations:

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