Hi!

In Oblivion, I had a character that I loved and whose playstyle I really enjoyed. He was a necromancer/assassin and was just a blast to play with. In Skyrim however, just can't find the character and playstyle that suits me best.

I want a character that can be my main character. This means I definetly want to create his own story and make it fit to the questlines he does. Im a big roleplayer.

What I've been a big fan of in Oblivion was the Dark Brotherhood. But in Skyrim, I can't really find a good reason for my character to join them. In Oblivion, it was because he wanted to ally with Sithis so that he sends him back the souls of the people he loved and that died. In Skyrim, I don't wanna do the same thing again because thats the story of the Oblivion character. My new one has to have a unique story himself.

So I created this face which I really like:

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/3797/2012072800004.jpg

But now Im stuck and I can't seem to get started. Firstly for playstyle. My ideas:

- A knight / crusader kind of character. The problem here: Ive never played a warrior-type character in Skyrim with the reasoning behind this being that I think they are too one-dimensional to play as. There doesn't seem to be much options despite bashing and blocking. Sure you can add some archery gameplay, but still. And for magic, illusion, conjuration wouldnt fit this kind of character, alteration is unnecessary, and destruction is not needed with bow as ranged weapon. AND look at her: Can you imagine her being a strong knight that can defeat big undead monsters in melee combat?
Still, I like the looks of the heavy armors in the game, especially the female ones. And I have this idea in the back of my head of her restoring the Knights of the Nine order.
But another thing would be that she can't join the Brotherhood because I can't find reasons for this. Maybe she's a knight of Sithis but why? And this would again take out the KotN idea. Hmm..

- A mage. But I played one recently and the combat was fun, but it just got boring as the spells I got from adept on were actually worse than what I had (costing much more mana for a small extra effect) and I had no loot I could find because I didnt need weapons and armor.

- A thief. But while sneaking around can be fun at the beginning I know it will turn out to be overpowered and boring as one progresses.

Maybe it has to be a mixture of them. But I just can't seem to get this right. Heres again everything I would like to have (Im just writing down the single points, not thinking about whether they fit together):

- I wanna be a dark brotherhood member and devout worshipper of Sithis
- I want the character to be morally good, yet Im still interested in everything shady
- I want to restore the Knights of the Nine order
- I want her to be a righteous knight yet I want to use the sneak mechanics, which doesn't fit because of alignment and heavy armor (unrealistic?)
- I want a realistic medieval character, that'd mean no magic, but I think magic is needed to enhance gameplay
- I want to have the main quest as the questline that will be finished last when Im strongest
- I'm still lured by conjuration but I realized summons are not really improving my gameplay besides making it easier
- Attached to nature
- Very religious character, but I kind of want everything: The Divines for the knights of the nine revival, Sithis because it just feels right to me, and the Daedra because they're cool...
- I need an overarching unique story besides quests that keep me busy and that really give me a goal to work towards
----> One goal could be the restoration of the Knights of the Nine order. And maybe finding the relicts. But why would she wanna do that (her ancestor having been the crusader?)? Also, its conflicting with the (spoiler to main quest - not too far in though)


Can you somehow help me? Any ideas, proposals, encouragements?

That's one seriously baby faced female, not sure how you could possibly role play that tbh.

RPing a Paladin in the Dark Brotherhood? Who worships Daedra? I would just do it as you only worship the Divines (Kyne mostly or the ones to fit character style) then only the good Daedra. Reason for joining the DB could be for the greater good, but none of the missions fit. I don't know your build is odd. Are they perhaps a vampire? Or something.

Try a spellsword. Use Wards instead of shields. (She doesn't a look, build wise, as a sword and board or paladin build does.)
Its hard not to implement the use magic if you aren't a pure paladin/brute tanking character.
Your character looks like a light armored spellsword honestly, or a dagger wielder. So I'd train one-handed and sneak for the assassin/'shady' part.

You could use conjuration for weapons (I know you said it was unnecessary). If you were going to be an assassin I'd suggest at least having a dagger of some sort.
Light armor would be best but if you wanted heavy I'd suggest using the Steed Stone as it discounts armor weight.

You'd have rp the restoration of the Knightly orders.
(It'll take you a looooong time to even get close to level 60 much less 81 cause you'd have to train up all of your other skills)