Starlock wrote: »

Yeah, I consider relations to some extent or another for my characters when I've developed them a bit more. In some cases, it's impacted their overall narratives.

My poor Altmer mage keeps finding men he likes, who then become unavailable (Indaenir), sacrifice themselves (Verandis), are beyond reach (Divayth Fyr) or straight up die (Iachesis). His love life has been so melodramatically awful that I'm pretty sure I'm just going to create an Altmer magica templar who is going to be his husband.

My ne'er do well Khajiit was certainly crushing on Razum-dar, who she currently believes is dead following events in Reaper's March. That led her to pick up healing magic, which is always an awkward thing for her to do as a serial murderer. That serial murdering was in part inspired by another PC and she considers her a mentor.

Ilsabet wrote: »

When I create characters and their backstories, I intentionally avoid connecting them to established families or really anything identifiable in-game, unless it's something really vague like my Dunmer DK having been a student at Shad Astula before the Akaviri war or my Altmer sorc being from Alinor. I think I like to start with a relatively blank slate as far as background significance, so my incipient hero is just whoever she (or he) is and becomes who she's going to be on her own terms, and it has nothing to do with being a Telvanni or Queen Ayrenn's sister or the former spymaster of the Abah's Landing Thieves Guild. It also means I don't have to care about running into lore conflicts (Queen Ayrenn doesn't actually have a sister) or inconsistencies in character behavior (nobody's going to treat my character like royalty, and Ayrenn isn't going to talk to me like we've known each other all our lives). It also helps keep the Mary-Sueishness down if I'm not making myself into a princess or some hottie's wife or something.

With all that said, my character's journey can definitely involve making connections with NPCs, to the extent that the game (and my headcanon-friendly interpretations of what happens in the game) enables. I should point out that I don't RP with other people, and the writing I do about my character's story revolves around what actually happens in the game. So while I take a few creative liberties here and there, I'm not out to create entirely original fiction where I can do whatever I want.

So my main character is from a nameless little village near Aldcroft, but not actually from Aldcroft, and that's why nobody in Aldcroft recognizes her or cares who she is. She was just a regular girl living a regular life who got thrown into something bigger and made the most of the potential she started out with. She's made many friends along the way, and most significantly developed feelings for Darien that have remained strong throughout all of the ups and downs of her (and their) journey. She's never going to marry him, because that's not a thing that could ever actually happen, so it's something that's mostly internally important to her and that gives me a reason to write philosophical journal entries about quests that relate in some way to love and relationships.

Ilsabet wrote: »

I'd consider making characters that were related in some way if it were physically possible for them to interact. But since they can't be online at the same time, I made their stories all independent.

I could see matching up with other people's characters, but that would need to develop organically in-game or be something we planned out ahead of time for new characters. So far there haven't been any opportunities for me to do that, which I'm okay with.

kadochka wrote: »

Kierro wrote: »

My Argonian isn't related to any of my other characters, though I have thought about making another Argonian. I'd make them either a Tem or Sorc. The Argonian alt would be a Tree-Minder, Pak-Seech, who also has a master-apprentice lover relationship with my main Argonian, Spells-In-Shadows.

Aw, sounds sweet!! Hope it turns out how you'd like!