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[This gameplay journal may contain occasional mild or moderate blood & gore scenes and slightly mature content in the plot.]
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I first became aware of a very severe, sharp pain in my head. Second to that was the high pitched ringing sound in my ears. For a minute or two I was unable to move, it seemed as if I was paralyzed or I was in shock. I slowly opened my eyes as direct sunlight streamed in to enhance this terrible headache. However, my eyes quickly adjusted. Next, I sat up and my headache seemed to quickly diminish. Aside from that, I had cuts, scrapes, and bruises in various places and was sore all over. But I managed to gain enough strength back to stand up. I noticed everything around me was on fire - structures barely stood and boards of wood were scattered about. It was a disaster.



After walking around some I managed to discover one of the village's gates.



I recognized this place. I thought it was Helgen, but I checked the sign at the nearby cross roads to make sure. And sure enough, it was.

I left out of the north gate, instead. To my knowledge, the south gate lead to Falkreath. I didn't particularly care to go there. I wanted to make my way to more civilized parts of Skyrim.

Immediately after leaving, a massive mountain with a beautiful stone structure came into view. I've seen it before and have heard of it. The undead live within the mountain and its tombs. I couldn't put a name to it though. Perhaps I had a bit of amnesia. I knew where I was at and how to get around, I couldn't remember the names of some places though.



I followed a road down the base of the mountain that the village of Helgen was at. I came to a crossroads once again and followed the signs to Riverwood - I clearly remembered that Helgen was in the southern part of Skyrim. I would prefer to go north as the huge city of Whiterun wasn't too far away and Riverwood was approximately halfway between Helgen and Whiterun.



The road continued down the mountain. The stone structure continued getting closer and closer, yet nothing would jog my memory as to what it was called.



At one point I accidentally lost the road. I ended up approaching the entrance to mines, mines which I had never seen before, at least to my knowledge. As soon as I approached them, another Nord opened the doors and came out, drew his sword, and ran toward me.

Knowing there was no way to escape. I brought out my greatsword - it was very heavy but had a huge blade. His sword nearly landed in my side until I managed to block it just in time with my greatsword. Quickly and with great strength I lifted the massive sword and quickly landed it on my opponent's head. He was injured but still managed to attack me. While I was in great pain I landed my sword in his neck, instantly killing him.

As the adrenalin fizzled out the pain in my side from my opponent's attack returned, but I ignored the pain and proceeded.





Not even two minutes later, I heard rapid footsteps and then barking. Before I could even turn around I felt pain in my legs as the teeth of two wild and aggressive wolves sank their teeth into me.



I managed to escape their hold, and lifted my sword and instantly killed one of the dogs as the other grabbed my leg again, in the same spot. With a quick and strong attack to the dog's rear I severely injured him, enough to land my sword in the correct position to instantly kill him, which I did.



I felt dizzy as I started losing blood, but the injuries didn't appear to be life-threatening. I took some rags I was carrying, tightly wrapped them around my side and on my legs and the bleeding stopped shortly after.

Later on I noticed the bright sun beginning to sink behind the unknown mountain..



It was about 20 minutes later that I entered the village of Riverwood. I went into the Riverwood Trader, to find two people, a man and woman, arguing. Seemingly about theives and the man's unwillingness to do anything about it. I didn't quite get what they were talking about.



When the two noticed I had arrived, they immediately stopped and the woman went to a table inside the store and sat down. She yelled across the room at me, something about his "pig-headed father." I ignored the angry woman and asked the owner of the shop what had happened.

"Oh nothing in particular, just these theives.. they made off with a certain... artifact.. gold plated.. in the shape of a claw."

I didn't know what he was talking about, so I left it at that. I had 27 gold coins in my pocket, I spent 25 to purchase two loaves of bread and a slab of meat.

After leaving it began getting dark so I made my way to The Sleeping Giant Inn.


I only had two remaining gold coins, and the innkeeper requested 10 coins each night. Unable to afford that, she referred me to Riverwood's neighboring village. This was another place which I simply couldn't find the name for. Thankfully, it took only a few minutes to walk there, so I did.





The innkeeper there also requested too much coin, but she referred me to 3 small tents for poor travelers passing through the area. I slept in one.



The next morning I asked a resident of the village about a temporary home, because I needed to sort out what had happened immediately prior to Helgen being destroyed, as I wasn't quite sure. He lead me just outside of the village walls into a very small, abandoned house with a hay bed, small dresser, and empty storage chest. It overlooked Riverwood beneath it, and even though it was exposed to the cold, it would make a nice temporary place to stay before I left for Whiterun in a few days.