• name: Ghost/Ghost of Death (real name Dil)
• race: Nord
• class: warrior

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skill list

• one-handed
• block
• heavy armour
• smithing
• speech (intimidation)
• *alchemy; Ghost only has a basic understanding of this, so this skill will be limited.

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Dil was born and raised in Cyrodiil. His parents were diplomats working for the Imperial Legion. They were assassinated for opposing the Thalmor with their ideals when Dil was barely able to walk. Thus Dil was orphaned, but taken in soon by a kind Imperial soldier, the person who would name him Dil. The Imperial man raised him, sent him to school, and taught him the traits of a soldier's life, so that Dil might one day follow in his surrogate father's footsteps. Dil had a decent childhood, never proposing any opposing ideals to the Legion, though always feeling a certain aversion to the Thalmor.

When Dil turned eighteen, he and his Father felt it was time for him to join the Legion. He was, however, refused, on grounds of his long-deceased parents' anti-Thalmor ideals. Since Dil was a well-trained warrior, he was expected to rise in ranks fast. Some Legion authorities believed a high-ranking Legionaire with such a background might prove a threat to the validity of the peace treaty. Thus, a year later Dil left the Imperial City and his father to build a life of farming elsewhere.

Dil set up a farm close to a small settlement not too far from the Imperial City. He often exchanged letters with his father and visited regularly in the years following his departure.

When Dil was about twenty-three years of age, he met an Imperial woman who would soon become his wife. Shortly after they got a son. Fast-forward three years, Dil received a letter telling him of the death of his surrogate father. Dil, not having been informed of the how and why, travelled to the Imperial City to find answers, only to find no Legionaire authority could tell him anything.

A lower-ranked Legion soldier, and old friend of Dil's father's, told him that before his death, Dil and his father were brought under the attention of the Thalmor. In Dil's absence, his father had brought to attention certain morally questionable things the Thalmor had done. Though he had never told Dil, his father had quit his Legion service some months ago. The Thalmor soon learned of Dil's father's ideals. Of course, they were ruthless in their treating of their opponents, and so Dil's father was murdered, while trying to keep the Thalmor Justiciars from finding Dil.

Enraged, Dil soon visited his old home, finding the place had been ransacked. He found that many of the letters that he had sent his father had been taken, suggesting the Thalmor were close on his heels. At once, Dil left to his farm so that he could warn his family and leave Cyrodiil for Skyrim. But when he arrived home, he found he was too late. The place was ransacked, and he found his wife and son dead.

After having sent out a search team, only a small party of Justiciars were still present at the farm. Dil, in a blind rage, promptly killed all of them, piking all of their heads upon sticks for any to find.

Saddened and enraged, Dil carried his wife and son's bodies all the way to a creek nearby, a place all three loved and often swam in during the summers. Here, Dil buried the bodies. Desperate and confused, Dil returned to the farm, where he found the search party had returned. These Justiciars, he, too, all slaughtered and mutilated. Dil then gathered his most practical and prized possessions, before he would set the farm on fire and leave.

For months, Dil wandered the wilds restlessly, killing any who opposed him, collecting meager bounties, and, most of all, searching out parties of Thalmor Justiciars, whom he would all slaughter and mutilate. During this period, Dil took up the name of an unknown solitary bandit named 'Ghost'. Having operated a while under this name, he grew tired of Cyrodiil and the memories that ever haunted him there. Still bitter, he bought a horse and left for Skyrim, where he would be caught off guard by a group of bandits, and left for dead.

[At this point the game starts with the Alternate Start mod's start of 'Attacked and left for dead']

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extra notes

• although by blood mostly a Nord (his mother a half Nord-Imperial, his father a Nord, but both having had Imperial upbringings), Ghost does not hold true to his Nord ancestry and does not care for his Nordic background at all. He is, and has always felt like he was, an Imperial with all his being. Thus, he does not acknowledge Talos as a god, either.
• despite having been refused Legion entry, Ghost remains loyal to the Imperial Legion, and will stand with them if necessary.