It's been seventeen years after the civil war in Skyrim ended and during that time Kiva had hid herself away for fear of reckoning from her own kind. The Nords didn't take lightly to any treason and what Kiva did, if anyone found out, would be considered its own form. Traveling with her was a young man of seventeen, a wisp of a thing with dark hair and dark eyes; her son conceived on the eve of the final battle for Skyrim. Ulfric Stormcloak had taken Solitude by force with the help of the Dragonborn. She remembered the man, he was tall and well built like any nord. He had wavy light brown hair that reached below his jawline and eyes as blue as the daytime skies. He often disappeared on errands for Ulfric and would return in a matter of days if not weeks. Sometimes the man would disappear for months doing whatever it was dragonborn did. But it was ultimately this man that had saved her numerous times including one, which almost placed her on the executioner's block. During the conflict, the Stormcloak's greatest enemy the Thalmor were hunting sympathizers and it was during that time her heart betrayed her. She remembered it all too well, the stormcloaks had raided traveling thalmor groups slaughtering and capturing any elf dressed in gold armor. After releasing the Thalmor prisoners, the Stormcloaks would attempt to recruit any prisoner interested for the cause. It was during one of those those raids when she and another nord by the name of Arik captured three thalmor, who were traveling to the embassy transporting important information, that she met him. He was dark haired with amber eyes, tall and lean and she remembered the way he glared at her as his comrades shouted swears at the two nords. It was during that time she felt a strange connection with the elf, almost like a need to know him better. Little did she know he felt the same and from then on their strange relationship began. Now years later she still remembered it, their secret trysts, their meet ups, their romance all of it, including the child she bore him nine months later after the last night she saw him. Ever since she wondered what became of her Thalmor lover and prayed to the gods he was still alive.
When Kiva found out of her impending pregnancy she grew afraid and knew if Ulfric found out he would come after her. So from then on she kept her secrets her own except when the dragonborn found out. Yan became her closest friend during the conflict and when he found out who the father was, of course he wasn't happy about it, but he vowed to protect her and suggested she leave Skyrim after the victory. Yan would cover for her and tell Ulfric that she has decided to go live with a relative of his, since the sorrow of losing so many took its toll. Now she was back and wondered why. Maybe she desired to find her old lover and show him the son he never knew and introduce a father to her son. Kiva had never married and instead told people her "husband" had fallen in battle and the sorrow of it caused her to never love another again; all lies. The only positive was that Cyrodiil was more progressive than Skyrim and people there had mixed marriages and didn't mind. When her son was born, he shared the same dark hair of his father and as he got older he resembled a Breton more than anything with his slightly pointy ears, so she played it off that his father was a Breton. People didn't question it.
Now she was back heading towards Whiterun about to meet up with her past….