» Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:46 am
I suggest doing something very different from Helena so that you can have a truly fresh experience. Try building a character as opposite to her as possible. Different race, different tactics, different social position, etc...
So far as attitude goes, I humbly submit this in the hopes that it might give you an idea about how to roleplay an evil character. My first evil character was http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/subrosa_florens/oblivion/Oblivion206.jpg. She is the daughter of a wealthy couple from the Imperial City, who made their fortune with a continent-wide shipping business (think Wells Fargo). Because of that her parents were often traveling all over Tamriel to look after the business, and were never there when she was a child. She came to resent them, and often felt that her parents did not want her. So she learned to take it out on the people around her.
Being from a good family naturally she went to the Arcane University. She seduced all of her instructors. Not because she needed to in order to pass, but rather because she enjoyed manipulating them. Except for one, Raminus Polus, who was completely immune to her charms. Because he put his principles ahead of his [censored], he is the only man she respects. In fact, she has a bit of a real crush on him.
When she graduated from university, her family secured her a position in the Bravil Mages Guild. This was not her idea, but rather because her parents know how wild she is, and they hope her uncle Fathis (the Bravil Court Mage), can keep an eye on her. Not the greatest choice seeing that Fathis is the biggest philanderer in Cyrodiil (I am basing him from mALX's Maxical fan fic - I cannot see Fathis Aren in any other way than how she wrote him.) Saya of course hates Bravil, and hates her uncle even more. In fact, she often considers her only real friend to be her skeleton Bones. She believes that it is the same skeleton that she summons every time, and that it likes her as much as she does him. She has even considering finding a way to make him permanent, even though she knows this would be considered necromancy, and get her expelled from the guild.
So basically Saya is a banol evil. Not out to destroy the world, or conquer it. Rather she has some deep-seated childhood issues and takes out her insecurity, frustration, and rage upon others. She uses men for her pleasure and throws them aside. In fact, she uses everyone and throws them aside when they are no longer useful to her. She does not feel the need to go out and murder or steal (and in fact is generally a very law-abiding person, she will not go around picking people's pockets for example, or otherwise stealing). She is willing to help other people so long as there is something in it for her. With Saya it all comes down to her, and what benefits her in the long run.
As far as things like game stats are concerned, Saya is a battle-conjurer. She wears armor, starting with Iron and then later going to a modded form of elven armor. She also uses a mace, starting with Iron, then gradually upgrading. Her favorite was the Silver, based purely on looks. Although she likes the Ebony as well. Her main tactic is to summon a skeleton to distract enemies, then move in beside her opponent and use either touch destruction spells or simply bash them with her mace. She reserves ranged destruction spells for enemies that fight at range, like archers or imps.
