Today is the beginning of the new you.

One month ago you made yourself a promise: you were going to turn your life around. You were going to get a real job, stay out of jail, and not get into any more trouble with cults. Nobody thought you could do it; they said your questionable reputation, lack of any useful skills, and flagrant alcoholism would always hold you down.

But you had a plan.

You were going to start over, far from home. You pawned off your belongings, withdrew the rest of your inheritance, and narrowly managed to buy your way onto a merchant ship bound for Cyrodiil.

And now you have arrived, alone and penniless in a foreign country. Rounding up to the nearest week, you’ve been sober for an entire seven days. This is your chance to be whatever you want to be. Whoever you want to be.

You think you’ll start with a new name. Something less ethnic, maybe suitably Imperial, to fit in in your new home.

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36 Responses to “Prequel: Begin”

  1. Wow, the site looks absolutely fantastic! I was wondering how it would work with all the text and spoilered images, but looks like it all worked out great

  2. Time to re-read the whole thing! I kind of waited a bit for Kaz to un-scale all of the images, but now I have no excuse. I fully anticipate picking up all sorts of things I missed on the first go.

  3. GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS NEW READERS
    IF YOU WISH TO READ THE BEGINNING OF PREQUEL COMPLETE WITH THE USER SUGGESTIONS AND DISCUSSION AND STUFF, SIMPLY GO HERE: http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?37468-PREQUEL

    From there you can click the Next button to go to the next story post, just like you can here. OR you can just read through the thread.

    Kazerad edit: some people were getting confused by this post and not knowing if they were supposed to read at the link or not, so I moved it down on the comments a little. For anyone wondering, Liquid Dinosaur’s link goes to the original forum thread, before the whole story was copied to this site.

  4. I haven’t played oblivion, but a lot of friends recommended this comic so I am looking forward to reading this :D

    • same here, im thinking of getting oblivion because of this comic.

      do i have to play the first ones to understand the story? or what

      • Not at all. The most you’d get from playing all the games is knowledge of the lore, culture, etc. Otherwise, each game can be played standalone, with its own story.

  5. [...] It’s also got a lovely little sketchy occasionally animated cartoon style that is really a joy to look at. It’s not the most complex story so far, but each update is a fun or an excruciating read depending on how well you deal with embarrassment humor. I recommend it heartily, start at the beginning! [...]

  6. [...] feline troll and a fan of anthropomorphic fauna insufficient to sate your furry desires? Consider Prequel, an interactive comic using characters, species and settings from the Elder Scrolls video games [...]

  7. Benjii

  8. “Salusa”

  9. RETROACTIVE ANIMATION!

    At least I think it is…

  10. I tried to “Enter my name” in IE and Firefox and in both browsers got a “Internal Server Error” redirect. I’d love to see what this is about but it appears the link or script is broken.

    • stick with it, the site seems to have gone down at some point today, It was up just a day ago. Maybe he’s posting an update, i’m not sure, but the comic is worth waiting for.

  11. alright
    so this confirms katia
    1. has done somthing illegal, and somthing bad inuf to end up in jail(likely involveign a pinnaple)
    2. has had some contact with a cult, just wonderin which one/

  12. when is the next update?

  13. “You think you’ll start with a new name. Something less ethnic, maybe suitably Imperial, to fit in in your new home.”
    See anything wrong here Kaz?
    I’m not expecting to go to sleep anytime soon. Still a little bit tweaked off the coffee. So I’m just going to look through each and every page and search for every single typo you have ever made.

  14. Katia Managan is by far the best looking khajiit I’ve seen……..but shes an idiot

  15. And thus began the adventure of a lifetime. :’)

    Godspeed, Ja’khajiit.

  16. When I first came to the website, it was in the middle of the second dream sequence, after the king went into really scary mode, and it kinda looked to me like the adventure had finished, with evil prevailing. like, It was a reeeely scary thing dominating the page, and a link for new readers.

  17. Homestuck is better.

    • Homestuck is not better. Got boring after it got to the part where it introduces problem sleuth. Problem Sleuth was very irritating and annoying.

  18. And so begins the greatest and slowest updated webcomic of the Internet I know of.

  19. I just found a link to a page of this today and decided to read it, and have inhaled the entire archive. It’s given me the feeling mspa stuff has given me, and stuff like RubyQuest. I’m now a dedicated fan and just wanted to say that this story is one of those ones that change you as a person after experiencing. It’s, kind of silly but I’m kind of stunned and emotional, but I know it’s in a good way.

  20. Soovana Sotonaya lives again!

  21. Wow, an MSPA style adventure comic in the world of the Elder Scrolls games? This is going to be great :D ! Now let’s get readin’ !

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