Depending on who you ask it might send you to Windhelm or Solitude before redirecting you to Helgen itself. You then can ask people or barkeeps about rumors of Helgen. For instance, in the Alternate Start I mentioned about being left for dead on the side of the road (random spot in Skyrim), the premise is that you and some friends were thinking about being adventurers before the attack and heard of something in Helgen.

It made for a good origin story in my head.īasically it puts Helgen as a 'rumor' at the end of your starting quest. That became the premise of my character, that she would become a powerful sorceress on her own and show those assholes at the College that they shouldn't have turned her away. My goal was to join the College, but I couldn't pass the first test.

I chose a Bar Patron one outside of Winterhold, and it gave me a few coins and clothes. Other Starts will give you different starting equipment or factions, which is pretty cool. From there it begins as normal.Īlso note, with Alternate Start, you can also do the standard intro if you chose 'Capture while trying to cross the border'. In the cave are both Rolaf and the Imperial Guy (forget his name) and they are down wounded. At that point you're given a choice to warn Riverwood or investigate a cave (the one you exit in the standard opening). You have to search the debris for signs of what happened and find a journal. As you walk up to Helgen, the Dragon attack is just finishing up and you see the aftermath after the dragon flies off. How does it handle getting you on the main story quest? I guess I wouldn't really need to ever do it, but I was planning on using it once I've finished all vanilla+dlc content.Basically it puts Helgen as a 'rumor' at the end of your starting quest.

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