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A light armour wearing mage, who also uses one handed.

Vampire and master from the start. Will wear the vampire royal armor, shrouded hood (will be the hood shown), thieves guild hood (for the light armor complete set, won't be visible on the character), a circlet (again wont be visible), possibly vampire gloves and boots depending on the look. I'm able to wear three head pieces due to a glitch with the thieves guild hood and vampires, it allows you to equip multiple headgear. Not going to be overpowered as the armor rating will be low (even at high levels I'll limit the AR to 450 ish).

Uses one handed in one hand and destruction in the other, harkons sword fits this build perfectly. Haven't taken any magicka reducing perks, the character will rely on magicka regen and a huge magicka pool. When I reach higher levels enchanting will help reduce the magicka costs.

Strongly uses conjuration, the raise undead spells and the soul cairn conjure spells. Strongly uses destruction, I might make the character exclusively use frost and shock magic though, fire seems so against the vampire side of the character.

Will be highly intelligent, power hungry and unpredictable. May have a few allies, but realistically most of them are expendable to him. Will join the dark brotherhood for the enjoyment of killing, possibly the thieves guild and complete the vampire questline. Openly mocks any gods and pretty much does what he wants. Not going to buy any houses, relies on the equipment he has on him, doesn't collect any items.

For race I'm thinking altmer or dunmer.. Both are classic for 'evil' mages. Dunmer removes the fire weakness, but I quite enjoy having the weakness, fits the vampire character better IMO. Altmer for obvious mage reasons and I quite like the height, I also feel being altmer fits the description of the characters behaviour above.

Thoughts?

Need a name for the altmer, needs to be sinister and powerful.

Any ideas on the equipment worn would be good, anything that would go well with the royal vamp armor and shrouded hood.

Also does the royal vampire armor look good with the shrouded hood? Not in a position to test this out at the moment.

I don't understand threads that include "this is my character he is a (insert archetype) who uses (insert skills)."

It's like, good for you. What kind of opinions do you want? I would tell you that limiting yourself like that is stupid. My character can do everything. All other characters are meaningless in the eyes of Garm.

Just thought I'd share, it's not nearly as worthless as your comment.

I limit my character so there is challenge, for me having a character that can do everything in a roleplaying game is 'stupid'. You don't have a unique character, you just have everything, boring.

I also couldn't justify doing all four guilds with one character, they conflict too much, another aspect of your character I see as 'stupid'.

dude a high elf. any one else. high elves just are stupid. use a dark elf. looks cooler

Honestly, if you're going to go Destruction based as offense, go either. Altmer gives an awesome bonus to Magicka, while Dunmer gives the bonus to Destruction.

I'd pick Altmer, faster, better magicka and DAT RACIAL.


Ruk has a point though. Any race will be suited to any play style. You can roll Redguard and still be a decent mage through proper leveling.
But you shouldn't limit your character unless you are a straight RP player. Other skills can be super handy in unique situations.