Altmer wizard who joins the college.
A nord warrior who joins the companions.
Or an orc freelance mercenary.
PC?? or console??
I would do a Nord Hero... I mean totally get into it.
Main Quest , if on PC I would add in Helgen Reborn and Deadly Dragons... The Parthanax Delemia and become a Dragon Slayer.
Or you can still become a Dragon Slayer on Console.. it's much funner if you can get some of the higher lvl dragons to make the battles more intense though. So try to stretch out the MQ or don't do it til later...maybe start of with the Companions and finish that. ..Dawnguard if you have it.
Or really get into the Civil War and do that at some point it will have you start the MQ anyway...so just go with the flow.
An Orc wizard with dreams of becoming a true battlemage?
A Breton knight who always salutes human opponents before fighting them?
An Altmer barbarian berserker who who wears fur or hide armor and solves most of his problems with the largest battleaxe he can find?
Or how about the lizardman who becomes a wolfman only to eventually transition into being the hero in a tin can who saves all of Skyrim?
Or you could play a reverse joke on thathttp://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Ra from way back and be the Khajiit who thinks he's an Orc and does his best to act like one in every situation.