Character: Brónach New Canon Point: post-Dawnguard and Dragonborn DLCs, post-Civil War (Stormcloak victory) Synopsis: Civil War Stormcloaks Dawnguard; sided with the Vampires Dragonborn
Joined the Stormcloaks after defeating Alduin as the ceasefire negotiated to deal with Alduin ended. Stormcloaks due to the Imperials being too involved with the Thalmor. She fought in multiple battles to liberate regions and holds, leading the men into battle from Whiterun all the way to the final battle at Solitude where General Tullius was slain at her hand.
Fate was very much not done with her, and upon returning to Whiterun an orc asked her to join the Dawnguard, an ancient order of vampire hunters. She went with him to their fort, even went off on a quest to ask what a group of vampires in Dimhollow Crypt were after.
She found Serana there, an ancient pure-blood vampire, and an Elder Scroll. They left to Castle Volkihar and Serana's father Harkon.
Brónach accepted the gift of his blood to become a vampire and all that followed including locating a Bloodstone Chalice that had her attacked by those who wished to overthrow Harkon as well as abducting a Moth Priest so he could read Serana's Elder Scroll.
The Elder Scroll revealed visions of a weapon called Auriel's Bow and that two more Scrolls were required, Dragon (already possessed by Brónach) and Blood.
The Blood Scroll was found in Oblivion, in the hands of Serana's mother Valerica, in the Soul Cairn. They fought a dragon to reach Valerica who named Brónach Vanquisher, but they did gain the Scroll and learnt that Valerica wouldn't leave Oblivion until Harkon was dealt with.
Unfortunately reading the first Scroll had blinded the Moth Priest, so Brónach left to the Ancestor Glade to figure out another way, experiencing visions herself of the Bow and that she must complete the Tyranny of the Sun - a prophecy of day and night becoming one - before Harkon. The Tyranny was revealed to have been created as revenge on Auriel by one of the last living snow elves (who themselves became the Falmer) since Auriel rebuked him when he was turned into a vampire. Possessing Auriel's bow, he only needed the blood of a pure vampire to complete the Tyranny.
Serana, of course, was in danger thanks to him, so Brónach killed him and took the bow.
Returning to the castle, the pair killed Harkon together.
(Brónach very much cured her vampirism after this.)
Instead of retiring, enter: the cultists.
Shouting about Miraak and pretenders, Brónach killed them, took a letter about all that business, and set sail for Solstheim where the Dunmer lived amongst the ash and the local Skaal people were building a great temple to Miraak, completely lost to his will.
Alongside a local woman, Frea, they searched his temple and found a strange book that transported Brónach elsewhere where Miraak bent her to her knees to show he was alive and that he would return soon. They took the book back to Frea's village in hopes of stopping him.
As she set about freeing the people of Miraak's influence, Brónach sought the help of a Dunmer wizard to find more of the strange books in ruins. Books belonging to the Daedric Prince Hermaus Mora. He of forbidden knowledge. Eventually upon reading them she was transported to Apocrypha where she found the counterpart to one of the books she had read and Hermaus Mora himself appeared to teach her the second Word of Power to the Bend Will shout that she had started to learn after finding the first on her travels. She would only learn the third in exchange for the 'secrets of the Skaal'.
The Skaal shaman (Frea's father) agreed. He read the book when Brónach returned. Hermaeus Mora killed him. But he did teach Brónach the third Word of Power so…
Knowing all the Bend Will shout, Brónach tamed Miraak's own dragon and flew to his temple where she fought and killed him, and at last the Last Dragonborn was dead, unable to threaten Solstheim again.
(Also there was her, roaming Apocrypha to gain hidden knowledge because one would think she would know better but no, she does not.)
Key Character Developments:
More paranoid than she was before given that there's a hell of a lot more she's been exposed to, sorry about that. She knows truths about her world that aren't commonly known such as the Falmer were once snow elves since the Falmer are literally considered to be a beast race, and that's hard for her to accept and to deal with. She was a vampire for a while and even if that hasn't physically happened to this body, knowing that she did it is going to be difficult for her to accept and deal with.
There was that time she strolled through a place worse than the Fade so she might be screaming more than a little about it because how does one deal with Apocrypha?
Learnt more about the nature of what it is to be the Dragonborn from the supposed last Dragonborn before her who happened to be a dragon priest which...does things to a person's mental state, and really, she wasn't that great to begin with. When the killing blow was struck, she claimed his soul and since a violent shout is taken into a person, and that you certainly don't claim Alduin's soul, knowing that somewhere she has Miraak, the Last Dragonborn and a Dragon Priest's soul and understanding within her is going to be a terribly bitter thing for her to swallow in all honesty.
Currently she has nine shouts, I'd like (if possible) for her to learn a tenth/final shout which is learnt as part of the Dragonborn quest; Bend Will. Having limits on it is totally cool, especially with dragons since Thedas dragons and Skyrim dragons are both extremely different creatures.
Guess what Thedas did you think the deranged philosophy chats were bad before, oh just you wait, they get much much worse now.
Auriel's Bow! Auriel's Bow carried by Auri-El aka King of the Aldmer aka Infinite Looping Time. The bow carried into battle against Lorkhan in the ancient and mythic times! She held it! The most important bow ever to be fired in the whole of history! No equal in craftsmanship and the comfort and honour she will take in knowing that she has this bow is enormous, I think it'll settle so much inside her, honestly, even not physically having the bow but just the knowing. (This bow is the bow that fired Lorkhan's traitor trickster heart right off and away to form a goddamn mountain so I mean...this bow is basically the most revered bow you could ever imagine to an elf.)
She really does have more reason to sit down and prove that she can be part of getting this whole war thing done because look she fought in a civil war and won it so maybe listen to her? (Or not, whatever floats your boat.) But it'd probably be a good thing for her to have been part of these other fights where she's had real tangible wins rather than just the chewtoy of destiny as much as she's been previously, at least as far at the civil war goes.
canon update; Brónach
New Canon Point: post-Dawnguard and Dragonborn DLCs, post-Civil War (Stormcloak victory)
Synopsis:
Civil War
Stormcloaks
Dawnguard; sided with the Vampires
Dragonborn
Key Character Developments: