Ok. So I have had the hardest time picking a race that suits me. Mostly because I don't know much about them. So I'm going to tell you a bit about myself. My preferences, my personality, and a bit about me.

If this thread goes as well as I hope it will, I insist that others use my template or come up with one of their own and hopefully we will get some good answers.

If you are going to answer for me, I would appreciate it if you were to give a brief summary as to why it matches.

Here goes.

Preferences

Appearance: I would prefer Man, I don't mind Mer, I would rather not be a beast folk. I have been going with Nords because I am tall, fair haired and I can handle cold temperatures pretty well.

Preferred weapon: If I were to choose only one, I would go with magic. I like using everything. I typically don't use two-handed Melee weapons and staves.

Preferred armor: I can't decide between heavily armored or just magical robes. Sometimes I mix the two like a Vigilant of Stendarr.

Preferred skills: A bit of everything. If I were to choose only one type, I would go with magic.

Personality

Social Standing: Please don't take offense. To be honest, I think a lot of people are pretty stupid. I keep to myself most of the time because of this. The few friends I have I am loyal to, but I don't get along with many people, and I believe they don't get along with me either, and I'm fine with that.

Behavior: I am very stubborn and hot-headed. If someone makes the mistake of pissing me off, they will regret it immediately. At the same time, I don't like confrontations and typically try to avoid them if at all possible. On a good day, I am pretty irritable and I can go into a rage over anything.

Activities: When I enter Tamriel, my goal is to try and do everything. I am curious at any given time, I check every nook and cranny, and I will clean out a dungeon of anything valuable as long as it's not too heavy. Nothing is off-limits, and nothing within those ruins can scare me away.

History

While I'm still young physically, I feel like I'm an old man on the inside. When I was a child, I have been through enough traumatic experiences to last a lifetime and it turned my once playful spirit into a bitter and cold one. I have no regard for the lives of others or my own, and I just want to live the rest of my life in peace, and if it isn't peaceful I will fight my way through until I find it.

Thanks guys! I appreciate any answers given to me.

While being of one class is not limited to one specific race, as in you could have a Nord mage even though Nords are stereotypically more of a barbarian class, the human race most associated with magic are the Bretons.

If you like Nords, you should continue playing as one and make them a mage of some sort, or spellsword or battlemage if you would prefer to go for a mix of weapon and magic.

We did have a pretty famoushttp://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Shalidor! And he studied pretty much everything. While reading Grongar's post he did remind me a bit of Shalidor.

Based on your topic I'd persoally build some kind of intellectual nord battlemage. I'd use either magic robes with other pieces of heavy armor, or all heavy armor with a hood. Off hand always with a magic, right hand switches between one handed and another spell. I'd definitely join the college of winterhold as everyone there seem to be thinking that everyone else is an idiot, so you'll fit right in. Joining anything else can be explained by you not actually caring for the guild and it's goals, but for extending the pool of information that may lead you to sources of power.

As I read the first post, believe it or not the race that jumped strongly to mind was Altmer. Independent, anti-social for reasons bordering on elitism, age does not matter much to them because they can live so long, magically inclined, possessed of typical elven curiousity. . . .

Dunmer Nigthblade