I'm new to the whole fantasy type world of magic and goblins and whatever. My first RPG was Fallout 3 so yeah that sums me up pretty well

Now..

Who has the knowledge and the patience to write out what the characters are in the game?

I'll do a small template

Wood elves: passive, good at archery
dark elves: a bit evil
daedric: wat
talos: wat

etc etc

Who knows the most?

...um, what?

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Skyrim exist so we don't have to do this. I know it's not complete yet but as you can see from their Oblivion pages it WILL be pretty thorough eventually.

By the way, Daedra can be thought of as "Demons," they inhabit the world of Oblivion, and can only be conjured in this plain for a short amount of time.

There's a lot of books in the game you can read, too.

Altmer- useful
Breton- semi useful
Dunmer- useless
bosmer- useless
orismer- useless
imperial- extremely useless (please don't pick this race)
khajiit- useless (unless you're a cat-lover)
argonian- useless (unless you have a fetish for lizards)
redguard- useless (unless you want to be black)
Nord- useless

Later on, you are put at a disadvantage if you pick any other race other than Breton and Altmer..

This is exaggerated, of course, but still true

to people unfamiliar with dungeons and dragons and potions and [censored], skyrim is extremely confusing. i dont know what half the people/creatures in skyrim are. the first time i saw a dark elf i started swinging because he looked evil. well apparently they arent.

Why would someone even buy this game if they didnt know, or even like Fantasy? Did they think this was a Viking game where you fought ancient dragons?

Really!!!

because a lot of people were raving about it before release so i bought it. theres no other good games out at the moment. mw3 is aids and battlefield 3 is getting slow.

i really enjoy skyrim. im level 20

but its confusing as [censored]


plus, fallout was awesome but it didnt have magic potions and magic and all that fruity stuff

I didn't realise that the Argonians 10x Health Regeneration was useless. Same goes for Dark Elves being able to stomp on Dragons, and Nords being able to take on Draugr without a care in the world, nevermind having an awesome Crowd Control ability. It's funny because High Elves are actually worthless, especially on higher difficulties, because magic is gimped (at least when it comes to dealing damage).

People who have no idea what they're talking about are adorable.

Do what this person said. Also, read everything that can be read in the game. Or talked to.
Skyrim is very complete in its portrayal of the mythology, so newcomers can understand what everything is through talking, reading, and inferences of those two.