Name: Tayla Follain
Alias: The Death Stalker
Race: Altmer, technically
Sub-Race: An ancient lycanthrope. Not connected to the Companions in any way. Dragonborn
Age: She estimates her age to be around 2000
Gender: Female
Birthplace/Hometown/city/region: Born in the Sommerset Isles, she does not recall where
Residence: Solitude
Alliance/Faction: None
Superiors?: None
Rank: None
Allies: lycans
Enemies: The Draugr, the undead. She hates anything that does not die when it should
Reason for Alliance/Joining: N/A, may change
Sexual Orientation: Pansexual
Romantic Relations: None at the moment
Familial Relations: Family is dead
Friends: None
Enemies: None
Servants/Followers/Housecarls/Underlings:
Pets/Animal Followers: Bog, a six foot tall white wolf, he is almost as old is she. The two can communicate to a minimal extent
Mastered Skills/Specialties: Smithing, One Handed, Destruction Magic, Heavy Armour
Proficient Skills: Archery, Restoration, Lockpicking, Speechcraft, Alteration
Main Weapon(s): Dawnbreaker, Dragonbane
Secondary Weapon(s)/Tools: Ebony sword with a flame enchantment
Armor: Full Daedric armour
Clothing: None
Accessories: None
Other Inventory: None
Powers/Special Abilities/Curses: Dragonborn shouts: Full Soul Tear, Full Unrelenting Force, Full Fire Breath, one word of Frost Breath, two words of Storm Call. She can become a large white Werewolf once a day, enhancing her hearing, vision, smell, and stamina. She can prolong it using the Savage Feeding perk that she has acquired, meaning she doesn't have to feed on humanoids in order to continue as a werewolf.
Power Drawbacks/Limitations: When in werewolf form, she is particularly vulnerable to attack against skilled opponents. Fighting Style: Destruction magic in the left hand and a one handed weapon in the right hand. Hack and slash
Weaknesses: She can be inattentive in melee combat, allowing opponents to land blows she has the ability to stop. She does not feel pain, which has almost killed her in the past.
Personality: She is impatient and curt with those she does not know. Generally, she prefers to avoid new people and keeps to herself. Up until recently, she lived alone in a cave she cleared of Draugr, but the escalating war has drawn her out of her seclusion. Bog tends to stay out in the wilds unless she calls on him (which she does by howling). Many of Solitude's people are wary if not openly hostile to her, as one of the residents discovered her lycanthropy and exposed her. They believe her to be a threat, but are too afraid to kick her out. She finds the existence painful but tolerates it for the sake of her curiosity. Once she befriends someone, which is rare, she is very loyal and devoted, almost leaning on codependent. Due to her inability to relate to others, most of her existence has been a lonely one.
History: Hers was a story that started before Tamriel history. Somewhere around the time when the Aldmer finally split off into significantly different races, Tayla was born. She was the product of a very odd union between an Altmer woman and an Nord man, something that was seen even at the time as an abomination. Though she looked mostly the part of a regular Altmer, with some softening to the sharpness of her jaw as the only evidence of her mixed blood, she was harshly treated by her adoptive Altmer tribe. Her father had died of unknown causes not long after her birth. Originally he had come to Tamriel, at the time solely inhabited by the mer, from Atmora, a far off continent. His expedition had served the purpose of seeking new land. Unfortunately, his vessel had crashed on the rocks of the northern part of Skyrim, near what is now Dawnstar. There, he was saved by a passing group of Altmer, who found him to be more of a curiosity than a sentient bieng. He would eventually be taken back with them to the Sommerset Isles. There, he met Tayla's mother, a mer who actually treated him as an equal, rather than an amusing pet. The two fell in love, and that would lead to Tayla, as well as what her mother suspects was an honour killing of the Nord man.
Being the permanent social outcast, Tayla learned to fend for herself early on. She taught herself the craft of smithing, something she found far more rewarding than any other trade or activity. She quickly became proficient at it. She also learned to entertain herself outside of the company of others and found a great deal of comfort in the wilds surrounding her home.
When she was about 30, still very young for her kind, her mother revealed to her that she was dragonborn. Upon inquiry as to how that came to be, her mother informed her that she and her father had prayed to the great god Akatosh, for some way for their daughter to be accepted as she was, long before she was born. In answer, he granted Tayla the soul of a dragon. At the time, this was extremely important, as the Isles were bombarded by dragons wishing to see the end of the mer. Upon this revelation, Tayla set out to slay the dragons of the Isles.
In this, she would find great trouble. Though she was an excellent dragonslayer, she was extremely incapable of learning dragon shouts, a disability that she fought for years. Eventually, she mastered Unrelenting Force and Fire Breath, and those would do her well in her hunts.
Upon returning one crisp morning to her mother's small encampment, Tayla found her dead. On the walls of the hut were the words "You will never be welcome". This was the last straw in what had amounted to a lifetime of bullying. With the force of the dragon blood inside her, she blew apart the little village, slaying every resident in mere minutes.
As the rage receded, and she realized what she had done, she ran. With what gold she had saved, she bought a rickety ride to Valenwood, away from the memories of her horrendous childhood. For a while, she found peace, but it was not long before bounty hunters from the Isles came for her. Again she had to run. This time, she fled across Tamriel to Morrowind, where she would remain until an chance encounter with a Daedric Prince would lead to even more trouble for her already confusing and jumbled life.