Live Another Life provides an alternative means to start the game for those who do not wish to go through the lengthy intro sequence at Helgen. You will be given the opportunity to choose your race and then choose a new life for your character to lead. A wide variety of choices will be available. What you choose will have a lasting impact, so choose carefully or the gods may forsake you again!
The main quest will also start if you join the Civil War, complete the first two missions for your chosen side, and then get sent to Whiterun. Once there, you'll find Whiterun closed. If you manage to bribe or persuade your way in, the next guard you pass by who delivers the line about Helgen being hit by a dragon will resolve the beginning portion. Otherwise asking them what they mean by dragons will get you pointed toward Helgen and you can proceed from there.
Alternate Start Live Another Life Skyrim
Alternate Start replaces Skyrim's traditional, carriage-bound introduction with a brief quest in which the player wakes up, stuck in a prison cell, and speaks to a statue of Mara that offers them a new life. The player is given many options with different starting points: being part of a faction like the Mages' Guild, arriving by boat at a city, being left for dead in the snow, or even owning a farm near Rorikstead that does not exist in the normal game.
Instead of the usual start, players are thrown into a damp, flooded dungeon in the remote wilds of Falkreath hold. Teetering on the brink of their mortal life, they are greeted by a statue of Mara that gives them a second chance at life.
Redux SE is a lesser-known, lightweight alternative that adds not only a short-stringed alternate start but also its own original parallel to the main quest. The mod essentially sidelines the dragon crisis away from the gamer's critical path and provides a roleplay-friendly alternative.
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