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Profile: Grigori Storm-Song

  • February 25, 2015

    Name: Grigori Peleides

    Age: 30

    Race: Imperial

    Gender: Male

    Birthsign: The Serpent. "Those born under this sign are the most blessed and the most cursed."

    Brief History

    Grigori Peleides was born to a man named a hero during the Great War, Branik Peleides. Unfortunately, Branik was changed after the war and became abusive. At the age of 19, Grigori fled with his sister, Laira. They met up with a traveling group of performers who took them in. They spent several years living and traveling with the troupe until Laira told her brother about her desire to join the Imperial Legion. Eventually he relented and agreed to go with her to join. They decided to join in Skyrim, fearful that their father might be able to find them in Cyrodiil.

    Appearance

    Skin tone: Lighter skinned than most Imperials, but still tanner than most Nords. Possibly suggesting mixed blood.

    Height: 6'0"

    Weight: 167 lbs

    Equipment: Grigori typically favors lighter armor. This was drilled into him during his days spent living with a traveling troupe. He even dislikes how heavy the fur clothing in Skyrim tends to be, though accepts it for practicality's sake.

    He is most heavily trained in the use of long and short swords. He has basic legion training, so he has a passing familiarity with group fighting, but he is most comfortable fighting by himself. He spent much of his time with the troupe dueling, both show dueling and legitimate dueling.

    He is fairly skilled with bows as well, though he is out of practice.

    General Information

    Place of Birth: Unknown, though he was raised in the Imperial City.

    Education: Rather typical early education, but his education during his later teens/early 20 years was unusual, living with a traveling troupe. He experienced many different cultures, though never truly studied them.

    Family: Branik Peleides, father. Laira Peleides, younger sister. Mother unknown.

    Hobbies: One of the troupe's leaders, Aelere, gave Grigori lute lessons. He kept up this hobby for many years. Dueling is another hobby he occasionally indulges in.

    Flaws: Grigori is a skilled swordsman and, despite his early childhood, socially capable. However, he has a tendency to keep certain emotions inside, such as self-doubt and fear. This began when he took on the responsibility of caring for his sister in their travels and essentially being the 'leader.'

    He does not necessarily fear his father anymore, though he fears contact with him would bring something repressed out of him.

    Personality: Grigori tries to give off a carefree personality and this is true at times. His time spent with the troupe gave him a perspective that made problems always seem very fleeting, so he can often take problems in strides if they can be solved leisurely.

    However, he is also fiercely protective of his sister, to the point where he worries he will eventually become as controlling as their father.

    Grigori secretly enjoys public praise, a fact he learned while performing, and is fascinated by heroic stories. His original plan was to travel Tamriel writing and performing similar stories. He relented due to his sister's desire to join the legion, though she did try to convince him to travel on and do it anyways.

  • Member
    February 25, 2015

    I dig. Awesome header art in particular. I was totally expecting a Redguard, so I was surprised, too. Also, I stole that tag first, homes.

  • February 25, 2015

    Yeah, I love the pic. I had to edit it a bit, since the guy had a holstered gun. Way too proud of myself for successfully removing it without it looking like absolute shit.

    Believe me, I was surprised too. Grigori easily could've been a Redguard, his race honestly isn't that important. He's Dragonborn and that honestly encompasses his entire being.

    Original pic:

    Would've been frustrated if I couldn't remove that gun and title.

  • Member
    February 25, 2015

    Ooh, ambition and a hero complex. This will make for a dangerous Dovahkiin indeed.

  • Member
    February 25, 2015

    Very smoothly edited, though.

  • February 25, 2015

    Yeah, I haven't made him in-game, but I intend to. Probably won't make a build out of him though. My only regret is I can't do an interview with him (but a second Charon interview will suffice!).

  • Member
    February 25, 2015

    Why can't we interview him? Because he's Dragonborn? We could catch before that...

  • February 25, 2015

    Ehh, he's just not that interesting before he's Dragonborn. Being Dragonborn is the source of almost all of his conflicts and struggles.

    I'm working on another character you might like, she's eligible for an interview. But I still need that one killer trait, like Charon's odd fanaticism and Grigori's inferiority-arrogance complex.

  • February 26, 2015
    I would love to try out a similar roleplay to this one myself. I love the heroism coupled with the partially flawed personality - when people can work flaws into their characters it really adds some realism to them. Gregorio might also make an interesting build as well, if you do that sort of thing.