Tell tales of epic adventuring, Giant slaying, Dark Brotherhood Contracts, or show how drunk you are! In /r/TheSkyrimDiaries, you can make your story your way. Well, with the exception of a few rules. This subreddit is similar to /r/TheFalloutDiaries but...in Skyrim. So yeah.

In this subreddit, we all live in the same universe, so please pay attention to these rules.

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RULES

1. This is a page showing the months and days in Skyrim. You must follow the current date with Skyrim's day and month. The year is 4E 202.

2. You may not be anyone major. (Ulfric, General Tulius, etc.)

3. You may not live in the ingame homes (Breezehome, any house from Hearthfire, etc.) Though you may build your own home or live in caves and whatnot. Additional info about houses here

4. You may not be Dragonborn, though you can learn shouts from the Graybeards.

5. Factions (Stormcloak, Imperials, Bandits, Dark Brotherhood, etc) are present, as are all major members, but you may not kill anyone too important or have leader rank. You may create your own faction and be leader of it, but run it by the mods first.

6. Not really a rule, but you're permitted to use weapons outside of The Elder Scrolls as long as they fit in with the lore.

7. No ingame companions (Lydia, Uthgerd, etc.) though you can create your own companions.

8. Traveling to Solstheim is permitted. (No other island travel is permitted, though you may begin your story in Solstheim and travel to Skyrim, or begin your story in the ocean travelling to such places)

9. (Stole this one straight from /u/VoltageEclipse) Any post/comment not in character must begin with [M] or [META]. If you're in the middle of a comment thread, you don't have to continue with [M] for that thread.

10. You may fight dragons, but no important dragons. (Alduin, any other named dragon that I forgot the name of, etc.)

11. You may see the Dragonborn in your story, but you may not talk to him. He may assist you, but he may not be a main character.

12. You must use in game date. (ex. 17th of Last Seed, 4E 201)

13. You may not attend any event the Dragonborn attends (Whiterun Tower, retrieving The Horn, etc.)

14. No special items (Dawnbreaker, The White Phial, Wuuthrad, Chillrend, etc.)

15. We like to have fun here at /r/TheSkyrimDiaries and I hope you have fun too. This is a rule you MUST follow:

Have lots of fun.

Lore

The year is 4E 202. Dragons have returned to Skyrim, people are fighting just to survive. Where are you? What are you doing? You may use carriages to get around from place to place. You may own a horse and you may name it whatever you please. You may include a game shot of what your character looks like to you, but it is not required. As I said, you are not allowed to kill any important members of any factions, though you may join and meet the major factions/important faction members. You may encounter other characters in your journey. You don't have to talk all medieval like, but don't use words that they wouldn't use. You may be any race in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Subreddits we like:

/r/TheFalloutDiaries

/r/Skyrim

/r/gaming

/r/RadiationSprings

/r/LifeasanNPC <-- Go check these guys out.

/r/AssassinsofSkyrim

/r/ThievesofSkyrim

/r/MercenariesofSkyrim

/r/theobliviondiaries

/r/DestinyJournals <-- This sub is new, go show them some love! :D

/r/movieSALE <-- These guys are new as well, go give them a warm welcome!

I'll add more when I think of them.