Blind Shali

Character Name: Shalia

Nickname(s): Blind Shali, the runaway

Race: Altmer

Sex: Female

Age: 46

Birthplace: The town of Olmond in Alinor, nestled in a cove north east of Lillandril.





Height: 6’ 9”

Weight: 200lbs~

Eye Color: Orange in her remaining left eye , cloudy white false right eye

Hair Color: Black (dyed)

Hair Style: ) medium in length, and combed back

Facial Hair: N/A

Skin Color: Golden

Build: Mostly athletic, a little extra weight

Distinguishing Features: Her false eye.



Profession: Mercenary Sailor,

Skills: Light Armour Use, One-Handed Weaponry, Blocking and Parrying

Magic: She has a basic working knowledge of destruction spells, namely flames, though she primarily uses this spell to make fires, rather than for combat conditions.

Training: In her years she’s been trained at quite a few things. Being an Altmer of decent caste, she has had etiquette training, so she can handle nobles quite well. Beyond that, all of her training are things she can use on a boat. Boat maintenance is her main field. She’s also trained in navigation using celestial charts, weather prediction (though given her history this is dubious at best)

Other Abilities: She’s quite good at table top games and gambling.

Apparel: Shali wears a kind of customised studded leather armour, made by an armour smith from Solitude. With the majority of the armour on the middle layer, just over her underclothes, it is covered, by another two layers of clothing, the top layer being a sea blue padded coat. Over the coat is a leather bandolier with pouches across the chest, fastened with a belt buckle. She also wears protective leather gloves. Though it would appear that she has a bottle of spiced rum on her belt at all time, it actually functions as a water proof container for her identification papers, and references from her former employers. Shali also has a glass eye, in the place of her right eye that has been enchanted with Night Eye, giving her decent vision during the night.

Weaponry: Steel War axe and shield

Other Equipment: in her personal inventory, she usually has some small bottles of potions (such as health potions, resist cold and a couple of water breathing potions) for emergencies. She also has a couple of bottles of hoarker oil, made from the blubber of hoarkers, which is used to help things burn easier in wet environments.

Companions: N/A



Affiliation: Though she’s not officially employed by the East Empire Company, she does have some friends with them. Beyond that, Shali is independent.

Religious Belief: She worships the nine divines, but she’s not overly religious and she doesn’t openly worship anything.

Sexual Preference: Heterosexual

Relationship Status: Single

Personality: Shali is a ferocious woman, somewhat of a wild child, compared to the usual young Altmers. She can be angry, and lethal. She is not afraid to get bloody, and push herself to the limits when it comes to defending herself and her boat. Despite this, she is fuelled by survival, and if a fight is neither worth the risks, or seems foolhardy, she is unlikely to go through with it.

She is incredibly hard working, and hardly ever complains, unless she feels she is surrounded by inexperienced and stupid crewman. She enjoys the freedom away from her homelands, which she hasn’t returned to since she left. As such, she has never taken a job to Alinor. She despises the Thalmor, given her experience with them, and it won’t take much to push her buttons when it comes to them. She does not see the Thalmor as honourable; due to the fact they do not allow people to be free (due to their stance on Talos worship, as well as some of their views on the Alinor.)



Born in Olmond, Shalia as she was named grew up in a somewhat privileged household. Shalia would’ve been expected to grow up into a fine Altmer lady, who would’ve been married off at the first opportunity. Though, things were not meant to be, when Shali grew into a defiant woman, who refused to follow her family’s wishes. She had grown with big ideas of pushing for change in Alinor, like many of her generation. She pushed and pushed against the rules and guidelines, until her father, a member of Olmond’s governing body, had to sign a warrant for her arrest.

As Shali realised her fate, she turned on her heels and fled in the opposite direction. She fled onto a departing trader boat, having convinced its captain to allow her to travel with them, offering to work for free.

With that, Shali was gone, never to return to her home, and sailing towards Cyrodiil and her family began to refer to her as ‘the runaway’, forever cursing her for bringing shame to her family. Penniless and alone, Shali ended up in Leyawiin. Without any experience in, well anything, she had very little choice but to become a labourer in the shipyards. It was here she would build her wealth and her experience in ship maintenance. With money behind her, she settled down for a few years.

After building her skills, she took a job on a trading vessel as a sailor and began sailing up and down the coast of Tamriel. Life was good for her, or at least decent. She enjoyed being on the ocean and working day to day. It was a fantasy that wasn’t to last however.

When they were sailing off the coast of Elseweyr her boat wound up in the mother of all storms. The boat was thrown about like a toy in a child’s bath. The masts were snapped like twigs as the wind battered them from every side imaginable. With the masts down, and half the crew injured from either debris or just simply being tossed around, the ship was in danger. Unfortunately, nothing was coming to the ships rescue, and eventually the boat capsized, throwing everyone on deck into the ocean.

Waking up on the shores of Elseweyr, Shali found herself captive of Khajiit smugglers, who saw the ship get destroyed and wanted to make money off the wreckage. Unable to gather her strength to fight her captors, Shali was taken to their camp, where she was forced to repair their ship, which was damaged in the storm. Biding her time, Shali waited until they let their guard down. She then stole an axe and a shield, and fled.

It took her about a month to make it back to civilisation, after spending many weeks utterly lost.

Eventually she’d make her way to a coastal town, where she offered her services to the East Empire Trading Company, as a mercenary as they were the only ship hiring. Without money, she had no other choice, and began working for the company on a temporary basis.

Two more years passed, and Shali was back in Leyawiin. Still armed with the axe and shield she had stolen from the smugglers, Shali became known as something of a blood thirsty corsair. Around this time, Shali had been working on a boat stationed in Leyawiin for about eight months. She was working on the boat, preparing to lead when a family of imperials came running onto the dock, followed by the Thalmor. The father, begging for the life of his family, fell at Shali’s feet, asking to be allowed on board to get away from the Thalmor. She learned that they were trying to arrest him for worshipping Talos, and with that information, she told them to get on board, and told the ship to get moving. Shali stayed on the dock, as the Thalmor arrived. She attempted to delay them as much as possible, using her heritage, to distract them. But as they noticed the family aboard the vessel, they began moving towards the boat. Shali quickly cut down the nearest Thalmor soldier, and began attacking the next two.

Once the ship was moving however, Shali turned and raced along the dock and dived onto the anchor chain. The captain cursed Shali as he pulled her up onto the vessel along with the father of the family. It was then a volley of arrows was fired at the ship from the docks. Shali had lifted her shield just in time as two arrows hit the area in which her chest had been beforehand. Unfortunately, an arrow past the shield and hit her in the eye, sending her to the ground. Since that day, Shali has had a personal grudge against the Thalmor, as they cost her her eye.

As a result of the arrow being fired at her, Shali’s eye had to be removed to stop infection and for a time, she reluctantly wore an eye patch. She began to feel as though it made her look and feel too much like a pirate, and as soon as she could, she got it replaced with an eye made with polished cloudy glass.

Eventually the ship with the Imperial’s family aboard made it to Solitude. After paying what he could, the man made his way to one of the villages in Skyrim to vanish out of the Thalmor’s gaze. Shali and the crew of the ship, sold the vessel as soon as possible, and too split up. Shali spent the money, commissioning a set of armour from the blacksmith in Solitude, and getting her eye enchanted before finding herself working for the East Empire Trading Company yet again.

This employment was short lived, as the ship hit a storm that had the ferocity of the storm Shali had experienced. Once again, she found herself shipwrecked. Luckily for her this time, she managed to remain conscious in the water, and was able to get onto some of the floating debris and cling to the netting, drifting to safety. She eventually was rescued by a fishing vessel and taken to a port on the coast of High Rock. As a result of this incident, Shali began to refer to herself as one of the unluckiest sailors in all of Tamriel, making sure to sail only during fine weather. She also began to refrain from sailing on large vessels in fear her luck might spread to the ship and cause a third ship to succumb to another dreaded storm.