Right here with ya', fellow Dark Elf.

D & D: oh how I long for those good ol' days.

I like to play the underdog.........and for me, Dark Elves in TES are underdogs.

Hated by many....liked by few, (unless you are the hero of course)......

I usually become a vampire playing my Dark Elf in TES.........which makes life somewhat.......

interesting. (I simply don't care)

I restrict myself in game all of the time to make my character believable to me.......
which makes me long for the days of Daggerfall, "weakness to this, weakness to that, can't do this, can't do that".

I make the game so difficult for myself , it becomes enjoyable......to the point of chaotic laughter.....

Which brings me to my character alignment: Chaotic Neutral.

What skills do I use? I'm never the nicest guy in the world, yet I am never pure evil.

I never go out of my way to help others, not even to benefit me......I simply don't care what the benefits are...

If they fall in my lap....then fine. Bonus!

Which is fine, cuz I fit right in to Skyrim.....even the guards look at me and make ridiculous comments, but it doesn't affect me....

People ask for help, and sometimes I stand there blankly....maybe I'll sneak back into town while nobody is watching and poison you later, but
make sure not to kill you, just to scare you a bit......or draw my long blade of death and scare a bunny away from an approaching guard,
maybe even send a shockwave across the plains in search of one of those tall, good lookn' tall guys with clubs......and I always travel alone...
Some Whiterun Jarl is supposedly still askn' for my help about some kind of big Lizard.....not sure what that is all about, after all, I simply just have to stay apart from society for the most part. Someday, something will happen where I will feel the need to somehow make it back to that Jarl and ask him if he minds me sneaking around that terrace at night just to bother the guests......He seems to not care about things like that.

Ahhhhh character concept: It's all about how you play aint it?

Mine comes from 15 years of musing from a single char I made up those ages ago, and over the years developed. infact the Present of my Char came before the Past, and with Skyrims coming I'm now alternating between Past and Future for this guy.

Inspiration for my nord ranger came from Aragorn and Boromir. He's noble like Aragorn and for example won't take a side in the civil war. But on the other hand, like a nord, he has less qualms with drinking and killing and the like.

This is my first playthrough of the game so I don't have any inspiration per se. I'm actually a jack of all trades kind of character. I'm a mage, a warrior a thief, an assassin, I'm in the Bard's college, I'm also going through the mage's college.

Next playthrough I'll do a more specialized character.

I made a Bretton first because of my lineage and i wanted to be a mage, but I didnt like the animosity I recieved from all the nords. So i started over as a nord. Now that i think about it the Nord is closer to my lineage than a Bretton. The amuseing thing is that my lineage can be tracked back to the Isle of Sky in scottland, and I totaly didnt think about the fact that I named my charicter ------- of Sky untill after I created her.

Kraven Desselius, Imperial werewolf and gladiator/warrior: Conan the Barbarian(Long hair), Barca(Joker attitude among men) and Crixus(Rise to fame as a gladiator) from Spartacus: Gods of the Arena and Spartacus: Blood and sand. And also Lucien from the Underworld series(Sense of leadership and Lycanthropy).

Raven Meridius Vladmirius, Imperial vampire: Darth Zannah(Manipulation) and Darth Sidious(Manipulation and plotting), as well as Azula from Last Airbender(Don't hate, appreciate).

Draken Decumus Vladmirius: Darth Vader(Impulsive and dark), Darth Maul(Acrobatics) and Darth Tyranus(Civilized attitude).

Vera Darksky, Imperial werewolf and Bounty Hunter: Boba Fett, Jango Fett, June from Avatar and Cad Bane.