When Jagen Shoord, Redguard adventurer and sellsword, finds out he is the Dragonborn of legend, he sets out on the adventure of a lifetime to save Nirn, drown his sorrows in mead, slay dragons of myth, and discover the wonders of Nordic tavern girls expert in polishing a weary man's sword.

When a fisherman finds a baby Khajiit in an iron helmet, he takes him home and raises him as his own. Fourteen years later, when that Khajiit finds a strange ring buried in a deer's gut he sets a course of events that changes his entire life.