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Character Building Event: Factions

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  • Mason
     
    April 13, 2014

    Welcome to our newest character building event! This one is potentially very interesting, we're going to be taking a look at some of the various factions discoverable in the Elder Scrolls series and creating builds to reflect their skill sets and history in Tamriel.

    To keep things more creative for this event you must select a faction that isn't actually joinable in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Inspiration should be taken from lore or your own experiences in previous games.

    There's a huge amount of creative freedom here; when looking back over the past few games there have been many amazing factions that either haven't been joinable (The Black Worm), not fleshed out properly (Order of the Rising Sun), or existed so long ago they're now only hinted about in books.

    What would it now mean to be a member of these factions in Skyrim? How would they react to being Dragonborn and what shouts would they use? How would they interact with the new joinable factions? What equipment and weaponry would they use?

    Rules and Requirements

    • Your chosen faction must exist within ES lore and be 'unjoinable' in Skyrim.
    • Completed builds must be submitted on or just after the 15th May 2014. Builds posted before this time will be excluded from the event.
    • To deter poor entries your build must contain 1200 words or more.
    • All builds are still subject to normal group guidelines.
    • Your build must range between level 40 - 55. No more, no less.

    Resources

    UESP - Factions  Looking for inspiration? This is the perfect start and also confirms what a faction actually is.

    Faction Build Example 1

    Faction Build Example 2

    ALL builds created as part of this event will be placed into their own unique rank in the character building group and sorted in 'Hall of Fame' format. I will be available over private messaging throughout the whole event and while I won't help you write your build I will happily steer your build in the right direction if you need me to.

    Confirmed Participants

    Please remember that your own choice of faction will possibly restrict other peoples options. Only confirm if you know that you're going to put in the effort...

    Shinjin & Lozhar - Knights of Iron
    Sage - The Dreamwalkers
    Chris Diokno - Order of the Dragon
    Dragonborn - The Imperial Cult
    Celtic Wolf - The Silver Hand
    Deathmetus - Forces of Order
    Thiago daLuz & Lord Plagus - Order of the Hour
    Nebula, Emer & Tae Rai - An-Xileel
     Hermaeus Mora & Akandra - The Great Houses
    Toxic Reaper - The Blackwood Company
    Henson & Matt Feeney - Order of the Scarab
    Oneness & Hainesy - Cult of the Ancestor Moth
    Sean - The Dragon Cult
    Darth Nihilus - Ordinators
    Raidriar Never Dies - The Berne Clan
    Maiq the Liar - Thalmor
     Clyde Melson - The Knights Mentor
    Sinistas - Knights of the Thorn
    MummaCandy - The Renrijra Krin
    Haunted Napkins - The College of Whispers
    Acuo Dancer - The Glenmoril Coven
    Miraak - The Rourken Clan
    Billy Mays -  Cyrodiil Vampyrum Order
    Alastor - Quarra Clan
    Albino - Order of Diagna
    Wintermute - The Beautiful
    Elie - Ash'abah
    NobodyBeast - The Kynaran Order
    Elysium - The Order of the Lily
    Roninberg - The Synod
    Terrence Ribblett - The Black Bow Bandits
     The Lord Archcanon - Census and Excise

    NOTICE!

    This event has officially closed as of the 3rd of June at 12:47 AM EST.

    Any submitted build after this point will not be included in this event or be listed among the other participants that took part.

  • Sinistas
    Member
     
    April 27, 2014

    Looks like doing an event for my first build was biting off more than I could chew.  Got to level 20 or so and realized that while the RP was decent, the gameplay was pretty bland.  Rather than half-ass it, I'm bowing out.  Better to admit defeat than post something subpar!

  • SpookyBorn2021
    Member
     
    April 27, 2014
    Ah it's a shame I've really been exited for this contest but I doubt I'll be getting anything decent up in time for the end. I'm not quitting but I probably won't have anything in time for the contest after the contest however is another story.
  • Sinistas
    Member
     
    April 27, 2014

    Thanks Ben!  I tried to break things up a bit, and began a new character in my usual playstyle to run concurrently.  Turns out, with more focused RP, it's been my favorite playthrough in a long time, and that's my focus now.  Already in the mid 30s, which is an anomaly, given my constant restart-itis!

  • Wintermute
    Member
     
    April 27, 2014

    fIn Oblivion and Skyrim, "Faction" in the game data is used to categorize NPCs, largely for disposition purposes. Most of them aren't what we would call factions in everyday language, but they're useful categorizations in the game data. For example, "Two Handed Trainer" is obviously not a faction, but the game uses it to tag the NPCs in game that train Two-Handed.

    I would say that a particular tribe of Orcs is probably a faction. But tribal Orcs in general would probably not count unless you can make the argument that they have some sort of unity by that name.

  • Sinistas
    Member
     
    April 27, 2014

    Would an Orc from a specific stronghold count, then?

  • Seth Clough
     
    April 28, 2014

    May be a little late to the party, but I'll do my best! 

    Man does being a full-blown Nerd-with-tons-of-ideas-in-my-head rock!

  • Alastor
    Member
     
    April 28, 2014
    Reached Lvl 30 over the weekend and I'm loving the build. It'll be a fun write up. How's everybody doing so far?
  • Lozhar
    Member
     
    April 28, 2014
    Level 28, Shinjin is level 35... It has been a very fun playthought so far!
  • Chris
    Member
     
    April 28, 2014
    Level 28, almost 29. I have Flame Cloak already, as you can tell my my preview pic

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