I've decided to write out a more detailed character profile later, since I'm very excited to jump into the game with her. I also started work on her diary, which you can read what I have so far on here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NBr_np-qgcq2RnyL94MK4BNQxpBI31apB7MpCG_CSJA/edit?usp=sharing

You can comment if you like, to give feedback of whatever you like. I've been using an actual travel diary app (since I can't find any normal diary apps that fit my needs.) where I just took a screenshot of the website, cropped it a bit, and then popped it in a google doc. As such, you'll be getting updates by every two pages.

And yes, those drawings on the first chapter are mine. :) I do feel like Kiahni's nose looks crooked...but, oh well.

Hehe, glad you like it. It's a first for me, as well, so I hope it'll turn out to meet my expectations for it. For now, though...well, we'll see.

Hello! I know this is an old topic, but it's my topic and I feel a good reason to revive it with an update so I'm doing so. It's been so long since I've read the rules I don't recall what they said about this specific instance, but I don't think I would care in this instance. I find it difficult to simply reappear without re-introducing myself, and it doesn't seem right to do it anywhere else than here.

It's been a little over a year since I all but disappeared from here, although I wouldn't blame anyone if it went unnoticed, as I hadn't been here long in the first place. My disappearance is largely attributed to the fact that I haven't been playing Skyrim almost at all, as well as some personal matters that, while maybe not resolved, have become less intrusive on my former life. As of late, I've been experimenting more with Skyrim, although I think I changed computers sometime between the last time I was here and lost all my mods. I have gotten a significant portion of them back, or at least the ones that feel important. I'm still tweaking, though.

That said, I'd like to resume roleplay in Skyrim, although I had barely skimmed the surface of it before. It might be a while before I can start in full since I've been using the mod Take Notes! Journal of the Dragonborn! and it's nearly impossible to configure completely with a controller, and I recently injured my right (dominant) hand and therefore the doctor advised me to not use the mouse with my right hand. I've been using the left instead for browsing the web, and a controller for most games. It has been a few weeks since the injury, however, and I believe I will be able to resume use of my right hand in full very soon. Until then, however, I find it difficult to re-immerse myself in roleplay with Skyrim without the use of the mod, as it had been my main channel into immersion. Moreover, the minimal roleplay I have done after my disappearance has really been practice more than anything else, and I've been playing with an amnesiac character (I know it's cliche! Hush!) simply to practice the act of thinking like a character in general and not a player, something I'd always struggled with.

However, I think it's time to remind myself of who Kiahni is and what she stood for. And along those lines, I'd like to join this community again. So I guess this is a long way of saying I'm back, reviving this topic, and I'd like more feedback on Kiahni as I continue to update and mold her. I still have a lot of questions left unanswered, mainly about the lore, as I have barely plaid vanilla Skyrim at all before modding it and jumping into roleplay. I suppose I will get to them when I get to them, though. For now, I have decided to transfer the diary over to Take Notes! Journal of the Dragonborn!, although it will likely still be in roughly the same format. I cannot insert pictures, but I don't see why I can't edit in pictures later.

For now I don't need anything, but I'm just about to read through this thread and Kiahni's WIP profile in more depth, so I may be back within the hour. I simply wanted to get this out there before I decided against reentering the community. It's hardly anything against you all, I simply find it difficult sometimes to traverse social situations such as returning from a year-long absence. Heaven forbid I join the army...

That was a joke, my friends, in case you're just as clueless as me about such things. :)

Thank you. :) I'm pleasantly surprised to find you still remember me, if vaguely. I've re-read over Kiahni's doc as well and I believe my first priority should be changing the title to better suit my needs. It says 'build' but I mean 'profile'. I believe we discussed this before here, although it might've been someone else. If you happen to know how to edit thread titles, the knowledge would be greatly appreciated. :)

Secondly, I think I'd like to post an actual topic for her profile, as while I'm still tweaking it I don't find anything inherently wrong with the core of it. Although I had originally planned to re-write the core information to be more succinct, I now find this rather unrealistic for several reasons, the main being that I have possibly never written anything that was truly succinct before. I will likely be collecting pictures on my first run-through and then posting that shortly. I'll have to redesign her, as again I have moved computers since my last visit, but I think I can get fairly close to how she was originally imagined.

Lastly, for now, I had thought that my questions would be centered around lore...but looking at my work closer, it seems that the gameplay will actually be much more difficult to enact. I suppose what I'll be seeking would be advice, not necessarily answers, so while each numbered inquiry will begin in question format, you'll quickly see that it'll turn into a paragraph as I work my crooked magic to make everything entirely longer than it should ever have to be.

1.) Given Kiahni's incredible respect for nature, how should I go about playing this in the world? I have it clearly outlined that I would perform some sort of ritual at the body of anything I kill or hunt, which seems to me like it would be quite the challenge, if a welcome one, as it would truly make me feel hesitant about killing something, from a player's perspective, if I knew that I would have to sit through a ritual afterward. However, I am more concerned about the nature of the ritual itself. I don't just want to sit there for several moments before continuing on. The closest thing I could imagine with my limited experience in the game is perhaps meditation in the religion mod, but I haven't had time to experiment much with that just yet, so I don't know the limits of meditation. Can you do it out in the open, such as by the corpse of a fallen enemy in the woods? Or could I find something simpler--perhaps a spell I can cast that might make sense immersion-wise?

2.) I use Alternate Start, as I am sure is not uncommon around here, so I suppose I was wondering where Kiahni should start? I was thinking the Salmon Shack added in an alternate start expansion of the same name, which is essentially a shack by the ocean just outside Solitude if I remember correctly. It is quite far from the beginning of the main questline in Helgen, which I actually quite like as I want Kiahni to have time to wander a bit and come into her own before she is thrust into the storyline, but I wonder if it too far. Obviously, she'd eventually pick up on rumors of dragons in Helgen and grow curious, and likely be drawn there...But given that I am never using fast travel and that I am using several survival mods, perhaps it is too much distance. I also want to ensure that by the time she starts the main questline, I am entirely comfortable with the use of INeed, Frostfall, and the like, but not so much so that it becomes an annoyance. I also need to think of a reason why she's suddenly so far from where her journey had started, closer to her old home with her father much farther East than Solitude. I was thinking I would start playing her less than a week after she'd burnt down her home and left, and I don't think she could have traveled that far on her own in a week. Any suggestions?

3.)How feasible is it to play the game without ever amassing large amounts of money? I do not believe Kiahni would want to hold onto money for long, especially in large quantities. She's not opposed to handling it in small amounts, maybe less than 5,000 gold at a time, although even that would make her a bit antsy. Even still, she'd rather craft everything she can on her own. Thoughts?

I think that's it for now, but as always I could be back for more soon.

Brief update, but really this is more of a bump than anything else.

I've re-created Kiahni and while she looks a bit different than she had before, I can't quite remember her old appearance well enough to remake it accurately. I'd like to start but I'm still debating the question from #2 in the post above. If anyone has any ideas, feel free to let me know. :)

Oh, and while I am moving the journal in-game now, that doesn't mean that I won't be sharing it as I go. I'll also still be using roughly the same format described in her old journal with the narrative and typical entry types and what not.

I've changed my mind about the diary after having some issues with sharing it the way I'd like to. Instead of the in-game diary, I'm switching back to the online diary.

I've also updated said diary here with a sort of introductory chapter in narrative format. I also added page numbers so I can easily reference certain chapters. The new chapter is on page 3. ^.^

I've decided on a scenario; I think I'm going to go for "left for dead". It seems like the most fitting, honestly, as Kiahni is still pretty naive about the world around her, given that she has little experience with it. 

Anyway, enjoy the new chapter! More updates hopefully soon. :)