I was trying to think of the whole game as a man standing in front of me, this character was the result:

A swashbuckling hard boiled Nord rogue s.o.b. with a hood and dagger, and a pair of chilling hard eyes over an equally chilling hard smirk, ready to jump on the victim.

It fit the atmosphere that I imagine for the game, quite well.

Then I thought on what I thought of Oblivion and this character appeared:

A young and guileless Imperial knight with a bright if a bit apprehensive smile.

Then I thought about Morrowind, but I could not picture it as an NPC, until I gave up and chose Sheogorath himself.

So if Skyrim took the shape of an NPC, what it would be like?

I think the guy that has shown up in some of the other magazine releases fits the role well.

I say more a big, burly nord, with a scarred body and a big beard, holding a axe in each hand and dressed for battle.

The guy that we could see his face?

http://suvudu.com/files/mt-files/Conan%20the%20Barbarian.jpg

Ya big nord with a beard and either a battle axe or a sword...or both!


basically like this [img]http://elblogdemanu.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/vikingbattleforasgard.jpg[/img] just with a beard

I'd say Skyrim would be a jolly looking Nord barbarian with the biggest axe you've ever seen, nice guy to be around. He won't hesitate if you get in his way though. Bounce, bounce go the heads.

ATM...
An old lady muttering to herself in the corner about sweeties she's got while flashing the occasional bit of skin making you wish you were blind.

Hopefully on release Beowulf.

Heh, nice choice, especially like the company.



So, Nord barbarians are the rage here. Let's imagine them naked as well. Where is that witch?


Yes Beowulf masquerading as an old lady, trying to capture our hearts, by flashing occasional bits of skin, well that would rightfully make me wish I were blind.

Edit: BTW, can we add a poll at this point?

This only with mug of beer or mead in his hand.
Beard is optional.

I obviously had completely different thoughts. When you said "the game as a character", I immediately thought of a really irresistible lady.
I could elaborate on the parallels, but I just tried and it turns out bizarre, so let's just leave it at that.

Morrowind was the stereotypical nerd girl with glasses that turns out to be the love of your life once you get to know her. Oblivion was the amazingly sixy woman that just wasn't on the same wavelength as you, which made you really, really sad.

Heh, so they are female.

Never thought of it like that, but it makes sense, all of them capture our time a lot.

A blond man in horned helmet.

Nobody can say. You would die the instant you cast your gaze upon it, due to it's sheer epicness.

A big Nord man with a claymore or a longsword and a big shield, wearing a perfect mix of heavy and light armor.

According to you, Morrowind is the woman that is exactly my type. I guess I'm going to stop talking to people and play Morrowind now lol.

I'd say its the guy we have seen on the Magazine covers or Conan.

Walter from Fable 3, but with an even bigger weapon, and even awesome-r, I mean, he has a mug on his belt, what else says Skyrim like a mug on your belt?

Seriously though... I imagine a huge buff barbarian with a giant beard with the ends caught on fire and burnt, a giant dragon helmet, equipped with dragonscale plates with leather underarmor, a giant axe in one hand, and a fable-sized axe in the other, all of this complete with were-wolf skin boots and of course a keg of mead strapped to his back like a backpack.

This sounds like something out of Planescape.

Hmm... Skyrim incarnate... I see a... Gandalf Schwarzenegger with a pinch of Hellboy.

Interesting how we're all so quick to jump to the barbarian/adventurer image. Personally, in keeping with the game's darker, more "primeval" feel, I'm imagining a dark and somber Norse spellsword or wizard clad in robes, muttering Draconic incantations and shooting energy from his hands. Of course, I'm obsessed with all of that Gothic dark age Latin stuff. :read:

For good measure, here's my envisioning of all of the previous games' respective characters:

a rogue, wearing darkened leather armor with a fur cloak bellowing in the wind, on a cloudy night standing on a the edge of a cliff watching his mark below. Calculating his plan of attack, he pulls his sword a little out of its sheath and drops back in making sure its clear.

his mark stumbles on the path he is on a good fifty feet bellow him. the rogue's pulse quickens, his senses peak, his palms sweat, he licks his lips with the knowing that it is time. he leaps from his pearch, his cloak flying above his head, he pulls his sword free and with both hands on the hilt points the blade down so that it will sever the marks spine. in the last seconds of his life the mark heard the flapping in the wind. he looked up to see it was deaths wings flapping in the air to take him to the great beyond.

The avatar I made for http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/user/648328-dovahkiin-dragon-born/

http://static.zenimax.com/bethblog/upload/2011/02/167198_10150099679227809_103316012808_6163793_1100254_n.jpg.

Ask and you shall receive. http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo360/relvain/Forumz/ConantheBarbarian.jpg?t=1297747976 (My MS Paint skills!)

Some bigass Nord with an axe the size of an old lady. Oh, and naked, of course.

I always envision the characters I played when I see a game.

For Morrowind, it was a Redguard; weathered from years of time spent in an Imperial prison, a long journey, and a fate he doesn't quite understand. Clad in Glass and Ebony armor, cleaving Dagoth Ur in half with a claymore as tall as himself.

Oblivion, it was a cunning Imperial; spurned by his countrymen, and forced to live a life in seclusion from civilization until a continuing disaster forces him from his comfort to fulfill the last request of a man he barely knew. Wielding spell and bow with terrible prowess, he forces hordes of hellish beasts back to whence they came to protect one man and the hopes of an empire.

For Skyrim, I'm going to have to speculate that it will be a massive Nord; laboring for years in lonesome training, until he undergoes a journey through forgotten caverns to learn an ancient language and repel an ancient hunger. Carrying a massive ax, and oaken shield, he rips dragons out of the sky with his bare hands while burying his weapons in their skulls.

At least, that's what I can hope. If they put in spears, that will replace ax, otherwise that's about it.