This is precisely what I like to see.

How long did it take you to trace your line? I have given it some time but a lot of the archives can be very confusing and contradictory.

I must say the depth to your character is truly inspiring.

Thanks for your post

Eh, they're cool but I wanna play as a foreigner. I'm gonna be half Dunmer and half Breton (as in, I'll be a Dunmer with pale, almost caucasian skin). So I'll use swords, but have more of a focus on each of the schools of magic.

Thanks.

Well the reason I got that far back is that my great great great grandfather or something was a Danish Priest in the seventeen hundreds, which made it natural for him to marry into the remains of the Norwegian nobility. That made it quite easy to follow at least the nobility threads backwards until the ynglinge sagas (those are quite unreliable). But my non nobel ancestors were are hard to find. I think I used like half a year researching. My most interesting finds is that I am a descendant of Godwin of England (De facto ruler of England for some years during the Viking ages), and the Gyllenl?ve family of Norway.

I am quite the freak when it comes to creating fictional storylines for my characters, so it will probably be a lot more complex.

:)

Do you think they will allow you to actually make half-races this time?

Imagine a Argoninan/Khajit!

Well being from north/eastern Europe and looking pretty "nordic" tough i am not , i do sympathize to Nords.At the same i hate stereotypes that's main reason i will be making not a burly warrior , but medium sized agile scout.
With imperial spy and assassin background.I want to make pretty mature character about ~38 years old blue/gray/green eyes with gray/blond hair.

As for Anime bashing you are very mistaken not all anime's are crap like Naruto,Bleach or One piece that's total crap.
There are animes that i consider far superior to any movie or tv series for example "Monster" "Berserk" "Serial Experiments Lain" and Death Note is very good thriller tough i hate art direction.

I wasn't bashing Anime...I dont know anything about it really. All those names you said means nothing to me. As I said I respect your right to enjoy whatever you like but please refrain from being the catalyst to another argument.

Thanks

If there's a lot of racial diversity and segregation I want to play as a non-skyrim race. I want to feel oppressed in my journey.

I doubt it. It's just more numbers to test and all. But it would be awesome at least if you could be half man and half elf.

By the way, try making a pale Dunmer with dark eye sockets. Looks badass

This,


And this.

My first play through will be a bread and butter Breton spellsword type. He's an adventurous type so he'll eagerly looking forward to wander the gorgeous landscapes of Skyrim and the culture, traditions and lore of its people, but since he's a hesitant type and prefers to keep to himself most of the time, he's going to feel a little bit aggravated and uncomfortable at first to mingle with the local people (not the least their drinking habit and general loudness). But he'll learn to cope with that, and surely he'll find himself quite a few Nord buddies eventually. Besides, the ladies there are quite a looker, so s'all beeewbs geeeewd :disguise:

But really I'm pretty dead set that my ultimate character will be another one after that, which is a dual-wielding, psychotic/perma-stoned hardcoe skooma addict/possible cannibal Khajit berserker/marauder, who's day-to-day modus operandi is essentially being THE ultimate scum to the folks of Skyrim. A barrage of obscenities hurled at their kin would be the least of their worries.

With the change of the character creation portion, from many (confusing) scrolling bars to selecting pre-set parts, I doubt we would have the same liberty of colours we had in Oblivion.

In all elder scrolls series, I;ve akways played Breton. This time, for the first time, I'm undecided. Imperial sounds amazing to me for this storyline, and Nord sounds good too. I'll see when its time. It will be between Imperial and Breton.

PS Hopefully, Skyrim won't be a "Norse thing". It will have its own unique twists. It's one thing to be influenced by a culture, and another to totally recreate it. I mean imagine all Imperials wearing Togas in Oblivion.

I will continue the saga of my Bosmer Ranger (Third game and going strong), a seasoned woodsman and expert in the art of subterfuge. Clad in glass armor, with an unmatched accuracy with a bow.

I'll probably play a Nord after that, for the lulz.

I second the foreigner ideas, something seems enticing about being a stranger in a strange land.

Thats a fair point: "I mean imagine all Imperials wearing Togas in Oblivion" but you did have an arena! lol
I would like to see influence but not to define the game.

With the racial diversity in TES I dont think it will. Norse isn't to much of a reference to Norwegians more to the clutre behind the old gods or "Norse Gods" warriors Known as Sword Norse. I do think the game will be influenced but with the right amount of TES added in.

I mean could you imagine going to the Nords home land and it looking like http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.state.gov/cms_images/india_tajmahal_2003_06_252.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3454.htm&usg=__gwPnYOWEy8Ewc9X-sbvISMyPMpI=&h=307&w=300&sz=13&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=2v0u5pv3ZHgKlM:&tbnh=160&tbnw=164&ei=XJtSTa66BoGHhQf-8YDaCA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dindia%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1298%26bih%3D662%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=139&vpy=114&dur=97&hovh=227&hovw=222&tx=108&ty=158&oei=UZtSTc2XD5G1hAej7cDKCA&esq=4&page=1&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0

Nah, my first character will be a Dunmer. Probably a battlemage or spellsword.

My first character (and usually main character) is always Dunmer, not too sure why, but I just like them. Hoping to have their coarse voices back in Skyrim though, instead of sounding like all the other elves.

I'm still undecided whether to play an Imperial or an Argonian, assuming that I like the feedback here on the forum and actually decide that the game is worth buying, and not just another mindless "hack & slash" adventure with a few all-but irrelevant "RP" trimmings so as not to scare off the old fanbase completely.

A smooth-talking Imperial "dabbler" in various disciplines (including Archery and Enchanting), but master of none, was a fitting description of my first MW character to complete the MQ. HIs initial meeting with Dagoth Ur, I could picture as "Hello, Mr. Ur, I represent the Imperial Census and Excise Bureau, and I understand that you've been dumping ash without the required Imperial permit". The heavy nerfing of enchanting, and the need to put 20+ arrows into an opponent at higher levels, made the character concept relatively pointless in OB, although I certainly tried.

An Argonian should already be pretty close to "Dragonborn" anyway, right? He or she is already reptilian. I enjoyed playing an Argonian spear-hunter in MW, but the conversion of the "beast races" into nothing but "people with monster masks" in OB made them depressingly uninteresting to play. Obviously, the spear presented another obstacle.

The ONLY character race that I could never bring myself to play in either MW or OB was a Nord. Both Orcs and Nords in the earlier games seem relatively "barbaric" and "simple", but at least the Orcs aren't outright boastful about how stupid they can be. Skyrim was my absolute LAST choice for where TES V should take place, so if I really don't expect much from it, maybe I won't be totally disappointed.

10 lbs? No [censored] you're having problems dual-wielding them! I hope duel-wielding 2-handed battleaxes (Like you attempted to do) isn't in! A proper 1-handed axe weighs between 2 to 4 lbs. A scottish claymore weighs 5 lbs. The single-bladed battleaxe linked in your first post weighs just over 2.6 lbs.

Yeah the OP sounded kinda like a jerk

Also, i will eventually make an axe wielding Nord Barbarian

But my character will be more Celtic Based, So a Breton Ranger (hunter) or a Breton Fighter

*Sigh*

Yes, I will play a Nord warrior and it will rock... but this topic is... arrogant.

In addittion, keep in mind that Nords are not vikings, not any other germanic folk.




Saidin FTW!

LOL.. that's all I'll say to that


But on topic, I will be playing 2 characters. My main guy will be a Dark elf assassin who is an expert marksman and takes people out from the shadows, rarely being detected unless it's unavoidable.. his name will be.. Dominus!

My other guy will be the guy I actually do the main quest with and will be a nord barbarian, smashing his way through everything... his name will be.. Atlas!

I'll probably make a magic guy to at some point.

SAIDIN!!! :mohawk:

I will be making Raminus, a proud Imperial fighting for southern-european inspired imperial peace and civility in the face of saxon-inspired roudy anarchy. :rock:

Just teasing you Scandinavians/Saxons/Germanics, but hey, if you get to roleplay with a race kind of based on your culture, than so can us southern Europeans :teehee:

As usual, I'm going to be playing an altmer mage with as much fire magic as I can learn.

Vikings are boring.

I will continue to play my half Nord/ half Bosmer. He is a master with the bow and axe, an experienced woodsman and hunter.
Moved to Skyrim because everyone in his hometown, Bruma, talked about it.
Never gave him a name, though, but I'll surely name him this time!

A unit of weight in TES III is somewhere in the approximate range of 1/4 pound. Those 30-weight warhammers in MW would weight in the neighborhood of 8 lbs. That's still a bit too heavy to be practical in real combat, but "doable".

My first character will be a Nord Barbarian type character. He will be called Jynthor Warsmith, he is a great smith and is a badass, that's how he got the title Warsmith. He will use a two handed axe or Claymore, and a minimal amount of armor. I will make him more detailed once I know how the game starts of course.
One day I will also make a Nord Shieldmaiden.