dont personally like the animal race aesthetics so i wont play as them.

so with that in mind, which of the other races would you regard as great for a stealth/archery/dual-wield/light armour character?

ps. for the pedants out there, count animal as including reptilian in this topic.

Bosmer...especially if you're taking archery.

Bretons

Dunmer or Bosmer. I am biased toward Dunmer, but it is your choice.

Dunmer for blades, Bosmer for archery and stealth.

Elves are animals though?
I hunt them like they are anyway.

So yeh...

Well, my main char is an imperial assassin, daggers inside, bows outside (stealth/archery/dual-wield/light armour character). I find 'Voice of the Emperor' handy when I get into tight situations (ea accidentally use a shout instead of silent roll and attract every single bandit or whatever or stuff like that). But this skill is a mere bonus.

But I don't fit my char to certain skills or playstyles. If it would fit in the story I create for my char, i'd easily enough make a heavy armored, two-hand wielding badass Altmer with no magic skills. So to me, there is no *best* race for certain playstyles.

I play a female Altmer Rogue (with a bloody hand symbol in her face, she joined the DB as fast as possible!) and she's as overpowered as every other race would be

With other words: Play what you like the most, simple as that.