Pestilence and disease for this character concept, then, are a means to an end rather than the end in and of themselves. I worship Peryite, yes, because sometimes the world can only be cleansed by disease.” Oh, proper ones curl their noses, but it's pus that drinks foul humors and restores the blood. Kesh the Clean summarizes it fairly nicely: “He is the pus in the wound. Yet he's also the Prince of natural order and the hard truth that comes with how the tools he employs bring about that about.

I mean, we immediately associate him with disease and pestilence and it's easy to end there. Peryite, the Taskmaster and The Blighted Lord, is quite a tricky Prince to understand. So I'm kind of picturing my honourable Redguard making a pilgrimage to find the Crimson Ship and gaining Peryite's attention by doing so, then given a new purpose on the road to attonement by that Prince. We get from The Only Cure quest in Skyrim that the Afflicted Refugee would have died from the plague had he not Peryite's protection, which sort of infers that carrying a disease while being a worshipper of the Taskmaster renders one immune to it's effects. Things get hazy here, but somehow the character gains the attention of Peryite and becomes his emmisary, and part of that deal means they have to carry a visible sign of Peryite's protection. Playing into that Redguard sense of honour and cultural shame they felt, I'm picturing a character driven by redemption. I quite like the idea of a character being maybe one of the guards of a port city in Hammerfell who turned the Crimson Ship away on that day which would become the Day of Shame for the Redgaurds, and being profoundly moved when word came back of the final fate of the Kothringi aboard. Later, all the Kothringi aboard were found dead as told in the book Pirates of the Abecean. This ship, loaded with Kothringi refugees fleeing Blackmarsh and the Knahaten Flu, was turned away at every port. I'm ironing out the backstory details, but I'm thinking I'd like him or her to be connected to the Crimson Ship and the Day of Shame.

Time for a new one, then, stamina-based and a way of incorporating necromancy, Peryite, and Redguard honour into one character. I just don't get on well with magicka characters. I was inspired by all the Peryite-themed items in the Crown Store, and at the same time realised I had made a mistake with my Necromancer character which ended up straying from what I had planned. Similar idea to DB's Character Chat: Taladran Sarethi, this format seems ideal to brainstorm a character in the very early concept stages.

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