Alright, I am making a new female character which uses 1 handed weapons. Any idea what race I should use and because I am using 1 handed weapons should I pick heavy armor or light armor?

No one? No one at all can help :I?

Well, the races are close enough that it doesn't matter a whole lot. I would pick Nord for a 5 point bonus in 1H and light armor.

light armor. pick imperial.

Light armor if you use stealth, race = whatever looks cool

For 1H, Redguard is best with a 25 start, but no LA bonus. 4 races get LA 20s to start...Bosmer, Dunmer, Nord, or a lizard. Nord get 20 in both categories. No one gets a 25 in LA.

For a 1 handed character you have tons of builds.What you want a thief?or a warrior?than talk to me and i can help you.

What would be the best light armor. I don't have much experience since I only have a 2H Orc which is level 60 and wears heavy armor. So light armor is completely new for me.

I am going to be a warrior. Quiet is not really my thing

Whatever looks cool.

The trick is to have an idea yourself - What YOU want in a character. Even write a little story of that charater first and their bringing which shaped them until 16 or so. maybe she fights to avenge her murdered family, or out of naive boredom or because she had to survive on the streets all her life... Maybe she finds heavy armour and large swords too big and unwieldy for her so she prefers the light armour and short swords. Maybe she don`t like fighting face-to-face so decides to go for the archer approach.

Or maybe her Nord dad wanted a son and sort of adopted his daughter like a boy making her want to fight with two-handed claymore and even trained her to withstand war and punishing tasks to toughen her, so she`s like a barbarian of a sword wielding woman. ETc, etc...

But it`s your character and you must ultimately decide since you`re the one stuck with it for hours.

On my Orc I have a total of abut 150 hours gameplay and I realized the biggest mistakes I made on it was earlier on in the game. I put perks in the wrong places, took way too long to do the simplest of tasks. and got side tracked so often I didn't even know what I was doing half the time.

For example I have 150 hours of gameplay and I have not even come close to defeating Alduin O_O. And I saw multiple people using HA and LA but a lot of people used HA. Personally that made no sense to me. That is why I am stuck.

And no, I have not made my character a life story....yet. My Orc does but I won't go into that right now. Oh well. Any advice you have I will happily take in.