remembering just now that I need to actually work on not doing exactly the same thing at the start of every game

Sedya Neen → Attempt smuggler's cave and fail → silt strider to balmora → join mage's and fighter's guilds → do first couple of quests for them → got to caius → become blade

is the start of EVERY GAME I've played and it's bad

I should like... go to suran? or ald-ruhn?

idk...