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A lot of people make multiple characters in their games, but we all have our 'canon' characters that we either used more than any other ones, or we just define as canon for ourselves. For example, though my main character is Tycane the Wood Elf in each of the TES games, he can't be the main character of my TES story for every chapter. He couldn't be the Eternal Champion, Hero of Daggerfall, , Hero of Kvatch, and Dragonborn at the same time. So I consider him to be my Dragonborn, while my other characters can assume the roles of the other Champions.
Which characters would you consider to be your 'canon character' in each of the TES games? What were they like? What kind of class were they? Post it here.

My Eternal Champion (Arena) - Valence Ulfrand
Valence was a Nord from Skyrim, who was an ex-knight gone mercenary. An unfortunate accident resulted in a dead client, and the family of the client had Valence thrown in prison despite his innocence. After being visited by the spirit of Ria Silmane, Valence jumped at the chance to redeem his failure. Valence rarely used magic, and relied on his two handed sword skills, as well as his heavy armor, to protect him.

My Hero of Daggerfall (Daggerfall) - Edfort Valencine
Edfort, or just 'Ed', was a Redguard imperial agent in the service of Emperor who ventured throughout Tamriel to free King Lysandus' ghost and to find the mysterious Mantella. Edfort was a wielder of a sword and shield, and wore heavy armor. He was also a fond user of restoration magic.

My Morrowind Character (Title is a spoiler) - Rylvyr Fanthil
Rylvyr was a Dark Elf native to the land of Morrowind, and was subject to strange dreams as a child. He was a rather poor child, but possessed high magical capability. He joined the Mage's Guild, and quickly rose through the ranks. He was eventually sent to the mainland of Tamriel to retrieve a very rare ingredient needed to perform a conjuring ritual. He was arrested, however, because he attempted to steal the ingredient from its' owner. He was sent to a mainland prison, but was eventually summoned to return to Morrowind by the order of Emperor Uriel Septim. After his adventures in his homeland, Rylvyr took to studying the arcane arts very closely, and eventually had a child named Saixer. Saixer eventually went on to become a high ranking Dark Brotherhood member. Saixer named his son Rylvyr in honor of his father, but Rylvyr II despised his father's assassin occupation and ran off to live by himself on the Imperial City Waterfront.
Rylvyr was a strong spellcaster, able to cast the most powerful destruction spells, and was also a handy user of a blade. He preferred to not use armor.

My Hero of Kvatch (Oblivion) - Varrik Ulfrand
Varrik was the son of the Eternal Champion, Valence Ulfrand, and an Imperial Woman. Varrik was more of an Imperial than a Nord, but still had an above-average strength. Varrik possessed a strong wanderlust, and when his father died fighting the Morag Tong, Varrik went on a fervent quest to slay his father's killers. This eventually led to him killing the wrong man, and he was arrested and thrown into the imperial city jail. There he met Uriel Septim and got the Amulet of Kings from the Emperor as he died, and set off to combat the Mythic Dawn alongside the Emperor's illegitimate son, Martin.
Varrik was a very dedicated worshiper of the nine; particularly Talos. After the Oblivion Crisis, he had a crisis of faith and went on a long pilgrimage, and pursued a quest to restore the famed Knights of the Nine to save Tamriel once again from destruction.
Finally, Varrik took to investigating a strange dimensional door that led to the realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness. Varrik was a sword and shield fighter with a strong expertise in restoration and conjuration magic. He specialized in combatting the undead.

As for my Dragonborn, I'm planning on using Tycane the Wood Elf (though I really don't like what they did to the Wood Elves in Skyrim, and I think I might make him a Breton instead. We'll have to see.), who uses two swords and frost magic, in addition to sneaky tactics.

Feel free to add your own

In order to contain Jyggalag's growing dominance the other princes joined up and cursed him to suffer in chaos.

What if there was a price— in order to cast the Prince of Order into utter madness, every other prince had to give up a small part of their own essence to cement the curse. This piece, thrown into the maelstrom of chaos, manifests itself in Mundus— a place where nothing is fully certain.

One small facet of every Daedric prince, colored by the madness they used to trap Jyggalag, now exists in the physical world as particular souls who are incarnated and reincarnated as the ages pass.

Por emjemplo: The 'Casandra' which appears in my signature? She is the last of the 3rd Era's assumption of Mephala in Mundus. Scheming and vindictive as the Webspinner, but tainted by Sheogorath's pleasant nuttiness.

Party on, dude.

Heh, I love Canon characters. Shame I have only one or two.

My main one, Daz-Marr the argonian. A semi-immortal (meaning he just lives forever) treasure hunter, who went through the campaign of Morrowind and After a belated episode rescuing his sister he moved to Tameriel, wound up in prison many years later and eventually went through to do the whole Oblivion Main quest line. After that he decided to venture to the Shivering Isles, to assist Sheo. Though instead of what actually happened, the spirit of Sheo merged with Daz-marr, giving him a split-personality, that faze in and out with each other.

And for Skyrim, I guess the madgod in him felt like going to somewhere colder than the Shivering Isles. And they rest as they say, is yet to come.

That's my canon character.

For Arena and Daggerfall it was two different Nords. I haven't gone into detail with who they are. For Morrowind and Oblivion my canon character was a Breton Mage/Warrior mixed class. He was called Ryan Kerr (original using my own name.) In Skyrim I will use a Breton Mage/Warrior who is a descendant of my Morrowind/Oblivion character.

Updated my list. Those are my canon characters, and when I play Skyrim, I'll assume they were the heroes of legend, not some ambiguous heroes with no insight, ya know?

I haven't played Arena, but I imagine my character being an Nord Warrior.

Daggerfall (haven't completed main quest yet): Din Blackheart, a redguard agent of the empire. He grew up a criminal and a theif before he saved the emperor's son during the imperial simulacrum. He was then recruited into the blades and has a strong sense of loyalty to the Empire. Very agile and strong (you need to be if you don't want to die in this game).

Morrowind (I'll just SPOILER everything since I'll be giving away the ending to all the games): Skyrim: Roland Frostmoon. This Nord Battlemage is a former skooma addict and thug from Bruma. He wants to make up for his past misdeeds by doing good. He just so happens to be able to shout really loudly.

My Morrowind hero was a Dunmer named Outlander, that way everyone knew his name.

The Oblivion hero was a Dunmer named Traveller, the son of Outlander, named so that Azura and many people knew his name.

Those are the only 2 elderscrolls games that I have played to completion thus far.

I only have one canon character. He's basically a dunmer jack-of-all-trades(cus he's lived so long hes good at everything).who was cursed with a recurring amnesia, conveniently he loses his memory before every new game.

If you get Skyrim will he be have been frozen in an iceberg so that the could save the day once again?

ZeRoc wrote:If you get Skyrim will he be have been frozen in an iceberg so that the could save the day once again?

Not really. He's more of a Wolverine type character. This time around he lost his memory right after the great war.

I wish my quasi-immortal character had amnesia. I now have to invent 200 years worth of memories as a mortal-turned-vampire-turned-mortal in order to pull any sense out of the creature (one can't call her a 'human' now, I'd venture).