4E201 - 16th of Last Seed, Morndas
My name is Sottilde Gray-Mane and I am sixteen years old. I'm actually not a real Gray-Mane, seeing as I was adopted when I was but a baby. Both my parents passed away a few months after I was born and I was lucky enough that Eorlund and Fralia Gray-Mane decided to keep me as their own. I have three siblings that are older than me by at least ten years. Their names are Thorald, Avulstein and Olfina.
As I sit here in Breezehome, the house my parents left me, and look at the few coins jingling in my purse, know I have to make something out of myself. I cannot always depend on the Gray-Manes to take care of me. I mean, I am sixteen, and you could already consider me to be an adult. I had to earn money for myself someday, so why not start now?
Today is actually my sixteenth birthday and the day that I decided to go out and see the rest of the world. Actually, just the rest of Skyrim. I'm not really sure how that will work out for me, but where there's a will there has to be a way somehow.
First though, I pick up the iron mace and sword that I made for myself back when Eorlund taught me how how to use a forge. I also pick up my hunting bow and my iron arrows. I check to see if my Dibella amulet is still around my neck. It is the only heirloom I have left from my mother and father, apart from Breezehome.
As I opened the doors to the town, I was blinded by the sun a bit and then I headed outside Whiterun. The farms around the town are always in need of someone to help them out and you get paid for it as well. The Pelagia farm was my first destination in my goal to earn some money to buy some leather to make some armour for myself before I set out.
I will always be grateful to Eorlund for teaching me how to smith. It's another way of earning myself enough money to be able to live independently. The only thing that I needed to do is mine some ore and smelt it into ingots, then either buy some leather from Adrienne or go and hunt down wild animals and take their hides to make some weapons and then sell them to Adrienne. I decided on earning enough money to buy some leather.
There's also wood chopping if I really want to train my upper muscles. So, you see - there's no shortage of jobs I am able to find that pay money. I should be able to craft myself some armour in no time.
After picking potatoes and cabbage and selling them to Severio Pelagia, I made my way back to Whiterun and started shopping wood. I sold what I chopped to Hulda and was able to buy some leather and leather strips from Adrienne and crafted myself some leather armour. The armour offered me some protection from whatever decided to attack me on my way to Riverwood, a neighbouring village, that I decided to visit.
It was evening by the time I got everything ready to start my new adventure, so I ate a piece of bread and an apple and went to sleep.