I know I have a few. Character ideas which I came up with out of nowhere but I was too busy with other characters. I usually have around seven or eight characters, but will play 2-3 of them at a time, as in visiting each character at least once every two days.

For example, I have Devarri the Dark Elf (known as the Pale Elf), a level 103 who's not had a challenge in too long, sadly. I'm finishing off quests and objectives before settling into Heljarchen (or however you spell that damn snow-hole) and adopting some kids and retiring. Then I have Skall, a straight-up warrior-Nord who's pretty early-on, character wise. He's gonna be played on for a while. Then there's the sneak-thief Erelias, still a lot to do on him.

As for my on-haitus characters, I have Calain, an Altmer Samurai who's halfway through Dragonborn and the Main Quest, he's not been played on for a while. One day... Then there's Torz Ra-Hukt, my Stormcloak Orc who's like Level 2, but I do like him so he'll get some gametime eventually. Then there's Boden, my Breton battlemage who I've not touched in close to three months. He's level 22, and I do like him, but eh, don't have the drive to continue him right now.

And I've made an evil Imperial Vampire-Mage called Victoria, but she's got literally zero minutes of game time yet, LOL. She was created out of a moment of inspiration. And I like the concept well enough to keep her for a future adventure

No, afraid not. I spend quite a bit of time creating a character and working out the role play for them before I commit 3 months of my free time to them, so none on standby for me.

That happens to be most of my saves, actually. Alois, my main non-Dragonborn character tends to be my go-to save when I play Skyrim. I lost count how many time's I've restarted his save file. It's easier to remember how many times I actually finished his RP. (Three, once as a false Dragonborn) Since I got the PC version I've played him three times and the most recent one is the one I'm planning to take to the end. The others were either corrupted or I had too many mods I didn't want anymore but was stuck with. I think I might have a problem with not letting things go.

Anyways, for characters on hiatus I do have Ruben, a Breton priest(?) who I was supposed to save for TES VI but since his situation is a bit unique I'm trying him out in both Skyrim and Oblivion. I play his Oblivion incarnation a lot more than the Skyrim version because he seems to be invested in that province due to all of the adventuring he's done there already. While the plan was to abruptly tear him away and plop him in a new time period (again) it just feels...wrong. I guess I want a bit more closure for him first (even if it's not what my Dragonborn--the one behind Ruben's time-travel shenanigans--wants).

Then there's Germain, my first Dragonborn character outside of my Khajiit sorcerer in a very long time. I'm slowly making progress with him, but I find it hard to connect with him given how little he's developed. He just needs a good hook, I guess. And then there's the whole problem with me having an unusual aversion to the main quest. I want to play through it, but at the same time it makes me feel...upset? Annoyed? Before it was only the last parts of the main quest (everything after beating Alduin on top of High Hrothgar except for Season Unending, especially Sovngarde) now I just can't stand it, period. I think I just got through Ustengrav yesterday.

I also have a bunch of other characters in the same universe as Alois and my Khajiit Dragonborn Assa that I haven't played much even though they're not really "done" yet. I only went as far as getting them to a certain level so I can put them up in the Shrine of Heroes for summoning with the Familiar Faces mod. They're probably not going to be played ever again.

Not many at the moment. Most of my "on hiatus" characters seem to be piling up in Morrowind and Oblivion, rather than Skyrim.

I do have one character I'm eager to play, though. Her name is Flaenia Severia Gratius. She's a descendant of Severia Gratius from Bloodmoon. I recreated Severia Gratius in Oblivion (another "hiatus" characters, co-incidentally) and so I thought it would be a neat idea to put a descendant into Skyrim. I plan to take her through the Imperial side of the Civil War.

Dawngaurd has made me want to create my first-ever Elder Scrolls vampire, to go through the Volkihar side. I don't have any solid ideas for the character yet. I also have an Orc mage in mind. I'd use an alternate start mod to begin in an Orc Stronghold. Beyond that, no idea.

yeah I got characters on the back burner. ideas for characters on the back burner. and characters I just lost focus with but haven't decided to retire yet.

A lot of my characters go on hiatus, all of my characters start with "Was born here." and other than that their background is a giant blank that gets filled in while rping them.

Gilliam actually got out of hiatus recently, he had not been rped in game(a lot of rp in skype with a friend) for around two years already, back on my Ps3 days. Thanks to so many mods!

Duncan is in hiatus, did not get played much, although what I rped was nice. I have mostly been playing his oldest brother, Wulvar.

*checks saves*

100+ saves, say around 5 for each character. And I'm only roleplaying Wulvar, Urso and Gilliam. The rest are in hiatus.

I do it all the time. Characters keep bubblling up out of the boiling cauldron that is my mind.

Anissa, the Bosmer hunter, at about level 12, is spending some time waiting around in a rustic cabin. She will eventually proceed with her very non-MQ life. Theodus, an aged Breton, is hanging around the College, thinking about going to visit Azura's Shrine, and worrying about getting blisters from the holes in his socks.

Bettilda Elfbane (about level 20) has business to handle for Meridia, for the Dawnguard, and for a certain lady in Riverwood. So, what is she doing? She's busy building a house. See, my characters can be "on hiatus" even when I'm actively playing them.

Yep. I have some characters from Oblivion whose Skyrim games are on hold while they’re back home in Cyrodiil. That’s Jerric the battlemage, Darnand the mage, Lildereth the… Lildereth, and Abiene the healer.

Then there are the new characters who are paused at the very start of their games. A Forsworn squad leader, a Hold guard, a Divine fire warrior with some personal issues, a hand-to-hand Khajiit who so far in development just looks cool, a feral werewolf, the leader of a splinter tribe of orcs, and an itinerant alchemist. When I get an idea for a character I like to create them so that they have a face I can remember. It can be a long time before they actually get to play.