Interesting Characters

[Wraith_Magus]

There's also Castlejoy, house Percy, (which appears nowhere in the UESP) which is an independent county whose lord is a Sheogorath worshipper... might be... interesting. (Playing this one for a little bit, I think that this house always starts with a lunatic lord, but he had otherwise really good stats. That is, patient, just, brave. With no children or wife, I had TWO possible marriage candidates in the game. One was a non-nedic child, and the other was my own lowborn courtier. Deciding to take matters into my own hands, I presented a debutant. I got a lowborn genius (!) skilled thief who, because of my lunacy, hated me -66, and had cruel, dishonorable, reckless, and "I will totally murder you" written across her forehead. Deciding that I may be crazy, but my children won't be stupid, I married her. I'm keeping that save for trying out later.)

I wound up just plain going for a character editor character, and made myself house Traven in a single-county independent realm. (You might recognize the name from a more famous Breton, "Hannibal Traven"... Kind of wonder why the mod devs didn't use that one, and instead went for names of characters that never appear...)

 

[Onebitsoul]

There's also Castlejoy, house Percy, (which appears nowhere in the UESP) which is an independent county whose lord is a Sheogorath worshipper... might be... interesting. (Playing this one for a little bit, I think that this house always starts with a lunatic lord, but he had otherwise really good stats. That is, patient, just, brave. With no children or wife, I had TWO possible marriage candidates in the game. One was a non-nedic child, and the other was my own lowborn courtier. Deciding to take matters into my own hands, I presented a debutant. I got a lowborn genius (!) skilled thief who, because of my lunacy, hated me -66, and had cruel, dishonorable, reckless, and "I will totally murder you" written across her forehead. Deciding that I may be crazy, but my children won't be stupid, I married her. I'm keeping that save for trying out later.)

I wound up just plain going for a character editor character, and made myself house Traven in a single-county independent realm. (You might recognize the name from a more famous Breton, "Hannibal Traven"... Kind of wonder why the mod devs didn't use that one, and instead went for names of characters that never appear...)

I remember Traven!

I almost always go for the ruler designer, unless I really want to play as a specific dynasty. A good example of this are the Septims.

 

[Karzan]

There's also Castlejoy, house Percy, (which appears nowhere in the UESP) which is an independent county whose lord is a Sheogorath worshipper... might be... interesting. (Playing this one for a little bit, I think that this house always starts with a lunatic lord, but he had otherwise really good stats. That is, patient, just, brave. With no children or wife, I had TWO possible marriage candidates in the game. One was a non-nedic child, and the other was my own lowborn courtier. Deciding to take matters into my own hands, I presented a debutant. I got a lowborn genius (!) skilled thief who, because of my lunacy, hated me -66, and had cruel, dishonorable, reckless, and "I will totally murder you" written across her forehead. Deciding that I may be crazy, but my children won't be stupid, I married her. I'm keeping that save for trying out later.)

I wound up just plain going for a character editor character, and made myself house Traven in a single-county independent realm. (You might recognize the name from a more famous Breton, "Hannibal Traven"... Kind of wonder why the mod devs didn't use that one, and instead went for names of characters that never appear...)

Hannibal Traven is awesome, so I'm totally with you.

In addition, despite the team saying they aren't drawing completely from ESO, given the time period, they did introduce some ESO characters. While, sadly, you can't start the game as him, I found Emeric Cumberland. He's a courtier in Wayrest, so you'll need to start a game and give him land.

Faharajad and the Flame-Hairs are in it, too, but I know next to nothing about them.

As for the Sheogorath Lunatic, write up a description for him and I'll pop him in.

 

[Wraith_Magus]

A little background on house Percy of Castlejoy...

Castlejoy, if you are having trouble finding it, is on the Southeast coast of the Bay of Farrun, just south of Farrun, itself. It's on the western side of the Kingdom of Jehenna, which is along the Skyrim-High Rock border.

The baron is oddly named "Percival Percy".

The house is actually derived from House Bracques (petty kings of Evermore), where the current baron's great-grandfather, Baron Percival Bracques (both families have similar cross-like CoAs, but house Percy is drained of color) apparently had an affair to create an illegitimate child, Maurice Percy. Percival Bracques was a branch of the family, and only controlled a single castle in Heldorn (two counties south of Castlejoy), so the legitimate child took that castle, and his son rules it at the first bookmark.

Percival Percy is the son of Sebastien Percy and... an unkown woman. Sebastien has a wife listed, and Percival is legitimate, but not the son of Sebastien's wife. Sebastien and all other ancestors of Percival Percy are all Eight Divines worshippers. (Maybe this was some sort of Daedric interference?)

In terms of situation, as I said before, there was only one available Sheogorath worshipper to marry, and she was a random lowborn character in my own court, with the only other daedra worshipper in range being a 10-year-old orc girl Malacath worshipper in Orsinium. You are a single county with 40 cash, negative prestige after getting married to a commoner, only a castle in the province, and the castle having nothing but a small hall, a low pallisade, and a ditch who is surrounded on 4 sides by worshippers of the Eight Divines. Evermore to the south is 3 counties, and Farrun to the north is 2 counties, and both will gleefully Inquisition your lunatic duff. The other two are controlled by brothers of one another, house Jardinier, which is also interbred with house Bracques, as well.

(After playing for a bit, a fair bit of warning: freakin' EVERYONE is interbred with EVERYONE AND THEIR DOG in High Rock... Expect the whole freakin' province to jump into any war you call, and for your own allies to sit it out because they're allied to your enemies, too.)

A final thing of interest, though: House Jardinier has 6 nephews and nieces that are all different adult Daedra worshippers in their ranks, but all of them love their Divines-worshipping uncle, and despise you because you're a lunatic, so don't bother inviting them.

 

[Wraith_Magus]

Speaking of "everybody and their dog will gang up on you", Direnni is seriously in trouble, as they start off surrounded by Bretons. Within a few months of starting the game, they get attacked by several different people claiming a county on holy war grounds, and the whole of non-Orsinium High Rock is invading a couple months later thanks to intermarriage.

 

[Tristanxh]

Sadly, I never played Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, but one would assume you could find some info on the wiki pages for it, or on the wiki pages for the MMO. Still waiting on some of you enterprising guys to come up with interesting characters of your own, which I can add to the first post. I am not well-versed in ESO, but I know Emeric Cumberland, King Faharajad, and Korunn Flame-Hair are important.

You can get Daggerfall free at http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Files Bethesda published it as open source at 10 year anniversary.

 

[AdamantineFist]

Speaking of "everybody and their dog will gang up on you", Direnni is seriously in trouble, as they start off surrounded by Bretons. Within a few months of starting the game, they get attacked by several different people claiming a county on holy war grounds, and the whole of non-Orsinium High Rock is invading a couple months later thanks to intermarriage.

Actually, swearing fealty to Wayrest can save your butt on that one. I've found that the whole republic thing means they can't revoke your titles (or don't because low CA, can't remember which), leaving you free to expand at your leisure underneath the banner of Wayrest. Once the realm is weak and you've grown in strength, you can declare an independence war on your liege.

 

[Mich333]

There's a baron in the Pale who's dynasty's name is Black-Briar

 

[Onebitsoul]

There's a baron in the Pale who's dynasty's name is Black-Briar

Yeah. And when making a custom Nord character, the name generator sometimes spits out Black-Briar. Even Septim sometimes I think, if you're Imperial.