I want to get a taste of all the different systems (stealth, fighting, magic) so I'll probably go with a variant of a battlemage to get a feel for the game mechanics first of all.

Maybe a Redguard Paladin? Ever since D2 I always think of an African guy when I think of Paladin and Paladin when I think of battlemage. Samuel L Jackson in that Star Wars movie might have something to do with it too.

Gonna be a guy with looks so like Dorian Gray that every female that sees him gets weak in the knees, a ladykiller he will be.

Big nord knight type, blonde haired-golden boy as per usual (and now I'll fit right in!), followed by a khajiit thief. Possibly have a dunmer assassin (or a nord one just for the kicks of a big guy trying to be sneaky).

Magic mixed with stealth, IIRC Nightblade is kind of the idea.
Dunmer probably.

My planned characters so far are:

Name/Gender/Race/Class/Alignment (in terms of how I roleplay the character)

Elise/Female/Imperial/Knight/Good

Trema/Male/Imperial/Sorcerer/Evil

Ayame/Female/Dark Elf or Imperial (undecided)/Assassin/Neutral or Evil (undecided)

Gwendolyn/Female/Nord/Spellsword/Good

Probably a Breton, some kind of balanced class like Bard or Nightblade.

Dunmer Ranger as always Named Aetos.
or
Nord Warrior specializing in light(or medium armor if implemented) and blades and axes. Named Greywulf or Greyback.

A Khajiit Warrior variant. Likely joining the Fighter's Guild, if there is one. Keep it simple, and fun. Likely will make a character for the Main Story that I feel is fitting.

Dunmer custom spellsword/assassin that I always end up playing.
I simply like casting fireballs one moment and start slicing my enemy into bits the next. And a kleptomania is pretty much a mandatory trait for any RPG hero. Admit it , it just isn't a proper RPG if you don't steal everything you can get away with.
And I like the way you can become a quite effective jack-of-all-trades in the ES games, it means I don't have to roll five different characters to be able to do everything in the game.

Eh I'll be a Altmer spell/night-blade, depending on how the stealth system is fleshed out.

With the addition of dragons... Most likely new races.... But most likely a god worshiping, true at heart imperial named Barus. (I have many accounts and Barus is my favorite NPC. DUH!)

I'm going to do what I always do. Play as the race of the province. And as a warrior/archer. So this time I will be a Nord, warrior/archer..... At least as the first one, after that I'll probably have a million other characters doing a million other things.

A Nord bard :violin:

- Nord, male.
- "Good" and righteous alignment, in the sense that I won't be a [censored].
- Traditionalist and anti-imperial, if possible.

My first char is always an evil Assassin type with kleptomaniac tendencies :whistling: ( i really hope we get a critical backstab included for suprise insta kills)

This Character will always be looking through peoples houses and shops for nice shiny things, and won`t think twice of murdering someone if discovered..

2nd Char will be an Evil Mage with a consuming lust for power, world domination and deep frying things :drool: .

He will infiltrate the Mages guild while working to his own agenda. Another ruthless type.

I think my first character will be a hot rogue. She will only care about money, if the price is right she will have no problem killing people.

Gonna make a regular Ruben "Rooster" Cogburn.

I'm always a rogue variation of some sort, it depends highly on the game, and I'll see as the release date draws closer and I have more information to work off of.

Ideally I would be a Diplomat,, focused highly in mercantile, speech-craft, and various magic skills, and stealth skills that allow me to turn the tides of any situation to my advantage subtlety but make more adept at city life then in the wilderness. However, for this play-style to be enjoyable there must be a very good interactive AI system with either a lot of multi-pathed quests within the cities, or a great deal of procedural generation involved in Guild inter relations and reputations. This ideal situation is something that is asked for every game, promised by almost every RPG, and NEVER delivered. As such my hopes remain, but I have no illusions, and will likely not play this character.

My next character type would therefore be a thief, very similar skill-sets, but with a focus on illusion, alteration, lockpicking of course, and sneak. My goal in this character type being wealth development, and discretely learning, about the society I live in, and the people I steal from. Ideally such a system would have an immersive and advanced economy to deal with, another promise often paired with Radiant AI, and similar concepts, but once again never delivered. Of course, that's not necessary, I would play a thief so long as there was set valuable loot in some areas, be it castles, wealthy residents, powerful mages, city vaults, or ancient towers of some sort for me to attempt to steal from. Finally assuming they fail at this as well, and make all loot leveled as in Oblivion, or god forbid make the lower leveled items "replicas" until you reach the appropriate level, I will be forced into my final option...

The assassin... The direction that all games are taking, combat orientation, where your character must fight to progress, and inability to fight means certain death. This character role is apparent, a few key weapon skills, short-blade if available, and if it provides any perks to sneak attacks, otherwise, long blade or bow. Alchemy for poisons, sneak to aid in the attack, and illusion of course as a final measure. Anything else is dependent on the game. At the very least though, if the game is reduced to this level, it must have a competent assassination skill, I want to feel accomplished when I take some on out silently. Artifacts such as standing directly in front of someone in sneak and not being seen must disappear, use of shadows, and having to be quiet must be emphasized, the ability to slowly get rid of indications of using illusion spells the higher your level must be optional. The game must allow for the illusive one shot one kill, rather by default when attacking someone in sneak in their sleep, or rather its purely an effect of an increased critical damage. If these elements are included I can at least walk away mildly satisfied...

If they fail at all of the above... I'll just switch to two worlds II... Smaller studio, more focus on the hardcoe Euro gamers, and much more receptive to fan feedback, unless proven wrong in this game. That would be a sad transition though given how pathetic the first game in their series was....

I'll be continuing my tradition too: the first character I play is always a male thief/assassin Khajiit. Background I have yet to decide on, same as personality as I develop that while playing the game.

But I do know that as soon as we figure out how to decently retexture characters I'm changing my guy's fur to look like that of a snow leopard so I can fit in.

Orc Barbarian. My first character for MW/OB and for Skyrim as well.

Altmer, mage using no normal weapons (only magika).

Well I'm usually Malik Hunding the Redguard descendant of Divad Hunding, greatest Ansei.
I used to run around with my modded robes, scimitar, and Dwemer goggles to make me look like a desert nomad, but I'm not sure that'll roll very well with immersion looking like that on top of High Hrothgar.
So I'll go for something more like a Breton Nightblade, descendant of someone important in the Elder Scrolls lore.

Someone who does not like their health to go below half.

So, to say, an aggressive stealth based character. Surviving from the Black Marsh or Morrowind through their sneakery.



Or a Nordic/Imperial all out warrior/battlemage/sorcerer general berserker type. Native or invader, respectively.

I just do it as I go, I am not going to intentionally make him good, evil, thief, etc. But he usually ends up on the good side since I cannot over-come my own morality and perform particularly evil deeds without regret throughout the rest of the game.