Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-26446054-20160726121851

Skyrim broke free from the Empire in the fourth era, though damaged from the beasts who lay waste to fields and towns mercilessly; they were driven back by the Dragonborn. Unfortunately, he is no more, gone like all old mortals.

A fairy-tale hope had risen in people at the sight of such a noble and powerful character. Perhaps he would be the one to take up arms and destroy the elves trying to control Tamriel.

Such wishes were rejected.

War was going to break out, and it was clear that it would create a golden age for the Altmer and any of their possible allies. Nothing would stop the mages focused on the demise of Imperials.

A worker in the Imperial government thought otherwise. Every being on Tamriel could die or be banished, and elves were certainly not gods. They too relied on the same things as men: government, supplies, social structure.

Imperial scholars and all sorts of specialists started working on the secretive "Shadows", a name given to what would be a group of infiltrators. They would work on breaking apart the Thalmor reign into a mess of disorganised states, hopefully buying time for Cyrodiil.

First, they sent out requests to the Dark Brotherhood, certain mercenary groups and looked into their own military.

One man proposed raising a child purely for the Shadows, which at first caused an uproar of anger and disgust. That would surely damage a person to the point of insanity. They consolidated, however, and found that with certain limits, this could be done.

Years passed. The elves grew and prepared.

A young man, sixteen years of age and turned into a war machine, was ready himself. Whispers had spread through the Imperial capital of the Shadows, but nothing was leaked that could harm the project.

Soon enough, Teneberus Marex would meet his other Shadow companions of different backgrounds, who would swear allegiance to the Empire.

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Rules

1. Typical stuff, no metagaming, mary sues, etc.

2. You can actually be on the Thalmor's side, but they don't have a dedicated force like this, so it may be a little harder.

3. You can be a politician if you ask me about it in chat.

4. Don't force subplots into this (plot other than the mission of taking down the Thalmor), ask me first either in a post as OOC or in chat.

5. I'll be the "raised-for-war" kid, but don't worry, I'm not going to try and be the main character or something.

6. The Shadows are spies and assassins, meaning you do have to have at least one combat skill, and at least one stealth skill. Magic is allowed, but no pure mage/fighter/thief classes.

7. Ask me in chat if you want to be a non-standard race (mixed races are allowed, I'm referring to snow elves, dwemer and such)

8. Don't be silly plox

9. My word is final.

10. I may add more rules, but the very vast majority here are good at RP, so I don't think I'll need to.

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CC:

 Name: 

Race:

Gender:

Age:

Skills:

Class: 

Equipment:

Appearance:

Weaknesses: (at least one)

Background: (How did they get into the Shadows? What was their past life? Were they psychologically affected by the training?)  