I am definitely a collector.
Most of my characters like to collect Platinum/Ayield coins, while others collected swords, or wines.
What about your characters?

My character doesn't collect anything just for the sake of collecting stuff.

She does admit to a massive wardrobe of clothes and shoes that supports her changing of outfits sometimes up to a dozen times a day. I suppose some might say she collects clothes and shoes, but she does indeed use them all. In fact, her guild mates all know that when they see her disappear in a flourish of invisibility, they can expect her to soon reappear in a different outfit - with matching shoes and properly accessorized, of course. :dance:

Flowers, seeds, roots, leaves, sap, and various kinds of dust. Food. Shiny rocks and nuggets, strange crystals mounted in iron brackets. Pointy sharp objects with enchantments on them, rings that people seem to lose in the strangest places, and the stuff that dead people were wearing.

My old characters collected..

Ash'kailia, pelts and cloths for her bed, the finest ornaments and cultlery for her house in Leyawiin, scrolls, potions and Ingredients for her resturant and magical torch staves to make the place shiny.

Osmundas Hlaalu, Dunmer maidens from all over Cyrodiil kept a his house, gems, ores and precious metals he scatered across his bed and bearskin rug by the fire, and Noble rapiers to show his swordsmanship off.

Anna, the shadows and bitterness of being forsaken from her home collected in the hovel by the waterfront.

Fall from Grace the new lady, so far is just collecting pictures of beautiful views, the wonderfull people that inhabit Cyrodiil and their views.
She does however allways carry around her side kick the talking skull called Morte, her journal with a quill, her finely enchanted bodice, and a silver goblet to drink from when thirsty.

I don't really collect because of how hard it is to arrange objects, or they keep falling, etc. In MW I used to collect those great little statuettes with the ruby red eyes. Never made a pillow fort

Unique/ rare weapons and armor (especially enchanted ones), welkynd & varla stones, precious gems, weightless/ rare clothes, highly enchanted/ rare jewelry, top tier spell scrolls, sigil stones.

Nyllana, one of my latest characters (Dark Elf Female all-rounder), has the compulsive behaviour of picking up every torch she comes across. She has close to 150 of them in her Skingrad home.
I know that isn't an extreme amount but she hasn't been Dungeon-Diving alot yet. She pretty much collects all arrows she finds too.
Most of my other characters just collect rare armor and weapons, like I guess most players do.

Edit; Just thought of something: Anybody who plays this game must have at least one collection. Keys...

Ha! Yea I think all my characters collect all those keys throughout the game. Those big, flat baskets are great for keeping keys on, too, because they're easy to place on the basket.

All my characters also collect the typical gems, jewels, pearls, etc, I mean, they're not worth that much money. :shrug: I usually place them into bowls or on top of dressers. My dungeon-diving non-magic using characters also collect soul gems and Welkynd stones, and arrange them around the house. Sheesh, I sometimes get jealous cuz their rooms look fancier than mine!

Even my humble paladin can't help collect a few gems, although she only holds on to a handful. The rest she gives to chapels or sells. Dyan is more interested in collecting armor sets, enchanted swords, and other expensive melee equipment.

Heh. Nice thing about torches is that they don't weigh you down!

Let's see. Buffy has a key to the mages guild, a key to her home in Bravil, and probably only a couple more - I forget. When she finishes with one for a quest, she throws it away. The DarN Dark User Interface I use, lets her toggle tht section of her inventory from view unless she wants to see it.

Angel collects staffs. She's been thinking lately about maybe selling some of the duplicates.

all my characters collected varla stones.

My last character (R.I.P) collected empty grand souls gems and anything to do with knowledge - books, maps, notes... the kind of info, one day in the future, might shed light on some detail.

I had planned her to collect specific personal items from her targets (nobles, imperial captains, guild-masters), too. Those soul gems were to be used on their souls, and then locked away in some sort of 'Museum of the Damned" for eternity, so she can ocasionally gaze at them with burning hatred :flame: and burst into a maddening laughter at their puny non-existence. Over and over. And again. :chaos:

Planescape :hehe:

elven swords. I have about 300. Collect Mithril helms.

Both Relanna and Amarel collected the same things: keys, books and letters, and unique (preferably enchanted) items.

With Relanna, I could justify the collecting unique items as a show of power. Having a host of Daedric artifacts, along with the Staff of Worms, and various personal gifts from the Counts and Countesses of Cyrodiil made quite the impression on her guests. I'm not sure why Amarel hangs onto those things, though, since she's not the showy type. In some cases they're genuinely useful, so either she or her companions keep them close by rather than putting them on display. A few more have sentimental value: the Kvatch cuirass, for example.

As for books...well, I tend to amass books in RL, so I do it in games too. Both characters enjoy reading and the pursuit of knowledge, although in Relanna's case sometimes it turned into a show of power, again, to have certain rare or unique books out on display.

I have no idea why I collect keys. Must be my OCD trying to kick in. Either that or too much time spent playing old school FPSes as a kid.

Strong potion of spell reflection.

Why yes, I'm a collector of Akaviri artifacts.
In fact, I would be so bold as to say my collection is the most complete in all of Cyrodil, perhaps even beyond.
Except for one thing...
The Draconian Madstone Barrus' Katana.

I collect various stuff, mostly things associated with coldness, like the Mace of Winter. I also have http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1097811-collections-from-shivering-isles/page__view__findpost__p__16039285__fromsearch__1

Some of my characters collect things, some don't. My female Bosmer Assassin (Drehdwyn) collects town guard uniforms and shields. Of course, she has to kill the guards first. My male Dunmer War Mage (Dreloth Vandaal) collects Welkynd Stones, Varla Stones, Sigil Stones (only the ones he doesn't use) and http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=9412 (again, only the ones he doesn't use for enchanting-some are very useful to mages). My male Bosmer Recon Sniper (Elberond) collects Ebony arrows, enchanted or not. He never fires them, just collects them.

but... why *ebony* arrows...?

No, but in my next character I was thinking about collecting wines, cheeses (yes the ones from Border Watch) and books. Especially books.

Flawless gems, which i put in bowls all over my house.
Guard shields from every city.
Rare items which have a backstory.
Aeylid Statues
Matrices I don't plan to use from the SI, these are amazingly beautiful.... drop one and see.

In memory of his father (and teacher), Agarond. Agarond used Ebony arrows almost exclusively. Since they remind him of his father, Elberond just can't bring himself to fire them or get rid of them. So, he collects them. There are several chests in his house that are used exclusively for holding Ebony arrows.

Caiphalon, my altmer mage collects welkynd stones, varla stones, sigil stones, soulgems, books, enchanted arrows and ayleid statues. but the most important are the welkynd stones because he is born under the atronarch. he'll always take some with him while travelling around cyrodill but he uses them sparcely. he has a bow which is used more than magic because he knows he has stunted magicka. be he loves fighting mages and magic users. they make his day.

it is so sad that there is a limited amount of welkynd stones.

If you're on PC, http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=29007 might be of interest to you.

Books. My Anvil house is littered with books.
I also collect Elven and Dwemer weapons and armor, along with jewels, jewellry, wines, also daggers and arrows, but those end up being used for more practical reasons than collecting :toughninja: