My new character is a Knight Templar, so i figure he got into a "theological debate" with a couple of Tribunal Temple ordinators and was shipped back to Cyrodill from Morrowind before he had an "accident" in the ministy of truth.
Anybody else come up with a reason for your character being in jail at the start of the game?
Perseus really took it hard after losing his post in the Imperial Legion, and became a beggar on the streets of Bruma. He couldn't pay the fine when he was arrested for trespassing, and the rest is history...
*My female Breton battlemage was arrested because she got into a quarrel with an Altmer over who was better at using magicks (my Breton is just as condescending and haughty as the Altmer are) that resulted in them challenging each other to a duel which was promptly broken up before crap went down.
*My female Nord mage was arrested because one day she was so homesick for Skyrim that she ended up getting herself overly drunk and underestimating her own strength. She ended up doing damage to the pub establishment because her drunken self was showing off her magic skills, but she couldn't afford to pay back the owner and refused to work to pay off the damage. She almost got into a brawl with the owner (who was an orc--talk about a near mess right there), but it was promptly broken up when the neighbors complained to the guards about the racket. Because this was her fourth offense of this type of conduct, my Nord got arrested.
For my parody character, who is also a female Breton:
*She got arrested for littering. XD
Hyde: I'll live inside you forever! Jekyll: ...Oh crap.
My Imperial Male was in jail for insulting all the counts and countesses of Cyrodill, then grafiting bad rumors about them on the exterior castle walls for all to see.
My Breton Male was in jail for accidentally magically assaulting a young Aragonian boy, and it was labeled a hate crime.
and finally...
My Imperial female was in jail, because she tried to break out her girlfriend from prison, and ended up getting arrested herself.
My dark elf got into the dark magic and led her to joining the vampires and becoming a murderer. after she escaped, she went right to where vampires were known to congregate in the empire, became one, and went on a murderous rampage of arena combat and dark brotherhood assasinations. while working up the mage's guild missions and working for count hassildor, she was cured of her vampirism and became her quest of redemption to right her past wrongs.
My Dark Elf (female) was thrown in the pokey after having a huge party at her house in Anvil. The Imperial Guards got complaints from people as far as Bravil and ended up arresting her for disturbing the peace. It was a great party though. Legendary. Residents all over Cyrodil wrote stories about it. There were also rumors that during the party she hooked up with Seridur, but she later denied this saying that she would never in a million years hook up with him.
My male Imperial was stalking Countess Caro and got caught in her bedroom one night.
My female Imperial asked an undercover Imperial guard if he was "looking for a party." He agreed to pay her 500 gold for "a good time" and she was promptly arrested.
I was a Dark Elf Female and her story was that she was a dominatrix and had services all over Tamriel and finally made her way to the emperor's sons and accidently killed them and was on the run until the guards caught me for tax evasion.