I don't murder random people for no reason, no matter the character. If I am evil or not depends on the character I play, but I never play "stupid evil".

I don't think I've ever played an evil character in my TES games. The closest I get, if you wanna go in D&D terms, is probably chaotic neutral.

I have snooty characters, like my current one who is a Thalmor sympathizer, but she's not evil.

Of my two characters, one's evil yet blending into polite society, until he kills and eats you because he likes your outfit.
The other is new to Skyrim and still discovering herself. I think she's going to be be an 'ends justify the means' type character, although she's having trouble getting into the game because it isn't as good as its predecessors.

I have trouble playing evil characters. Roleplaying it like a novel, I just can't get behind the evil player character and root for him.


It's too real. In the fantasy world I'd like to live in, everyone is nice, and the dead deserved it, and I am THE hero. Why the hell would I want to play real-life? I have to do that for money.

Evil? Me? No. I may be a thieving bastard, but I'm the good guy in this story.

I have a character that could be considered evil, he is a vampire necromancer who will kill anybody that Sithis wants. The Five Tenets must he upheld. He will murder those just because as he he is slightly unbalanced and he dis have a troubled childhood after the bandit came in killed his mother, he has a father who left him at birth and with no parents Valdor went searching for the Dark Brotherhood.

Evil, no, I bring sunshine and joy to every single Talos worshipper. I like to show them how much I enjoy their persistance.

I think it's suggested that the Dragonborn is not supposed to be considered a nice guy or girl. My character is killer cause it's just seems like he's supposed to be. Yeah, he saves the world from Alduin but he was also saving himself.

I can dream can't I?

You can, but my evil character will kill yours in his sleep.

My current character is a thieving Khajiit. He only takes from people who have wronged him, but when he does pick a target, he hangs on them like a curse. He'll take everything they have if he knows he can get away with it. He's reluctant to kill and will only do so if someone comes at him with a drawn sword.
Manipulative? Yes
Self Centered? Yes
Evil? I wouldn't say so, though I could understand if someone thought otherwise.

I'd say my character is far from evil, though it can be argued that evil is a point of view. He champions the Nine Divines, protects the innocent, and defeats monstrosities like the undead.

Mine's a conjuration mage and so after the whole dragon fiasco, she retired to a farm outside Whiterun and summons daedra to harvest her crops.

Swear to Talos, she ever sees a dragon again she is gonna fliiiiiip.

No, I can't even bring myself to make an evil character without him turning good at some point

Just checking off my characters in my head so far.... and where they fall on the personality spectrum...

My first char was my Dunmer Mage / Assassin... an escapee of both House Telvanni and the Morag Tong... Tended to make himself rather unpopular. Killed just about every Argonian that could be killed as retribution for their attack on Morrowind after the Red Year. Got kicked out of the Thieves Guild for killing the Dunmer there who says "Morang Tong", having taken it as an insult to the real Morag Tong. Slaughtered the Dark Brotherhood due to the obvious ancient rivalry. Did pretty much all of the above with magic despite having the Ebony Blade, just due to play style.
OTHER than that he spent most of his time in the Winterhold College, being a grump and telling Brelyna Maryon (his wife, seriously) that she is a failure to House Telvanni. How she tolerated staying with him, I don't know.
But yeah... he was sour, bitter, deeply conservative and dedicated to old ways. Wouldn't call him evil though. He knew he was righting things that were wrong with the world.

Then I had my nord barbarian. She mostly just remained in the wilderness and didn't really bother going into town except to hang out with the Followers. Ended up as a werewolf, and got Hircine's ring as well... Tended to wolf out and eat bandits. Sided with the stormcloaks for a while, but had no trouble wolfing out in the middle of fort battles and killing / eating everyone inside.
She was very antisocial... but not really evil either. The company and rules of other people just didn't mean much to her.

My Thalmor conjurer... she was a funny one, and my one time siding with the empire... which left me feeling distinctly hollow (so I didn't really continue past that). For some weird reason I ended up playing her trying to "mother" the nord people and teach them that their talos-worship was pretty much wrong..... and this usually ended with her trying to give a spanking to the naughty nords, which resulted in them considering it assault and fighting back (they just don't get it).... which then resulted in Atronachs running rampant and killing them all. It just didn't do well as a play style.
She wasn't evil in the slightest. She was even willing to play nice about the whole thing and try to convince the Nords it was in their best interest to submit. Just turns out that all the nords were evil that time. ALL of them were, or else they wouldn't have tried to so brutally murder her for giving them a little light punishment.
Suspension of disbelief got broken, and the roleplaying didn't really work out, to my disappointment. Slaughtering everyone for their own good might be inkeeping with MY philosophy, but my Thalmor-lady really didn't want to do that.

Which eventually brought me to Ra'Vanus ... Khajiit junkie, thief and hired thug. Will do pretty much anything for money, so he can get that money and spend it on Moon Sugar and Skooma... being yet another bad example bringing disrepute to the rest of Khajiit kind. He is a violent druggy... prone to killing people both deliberately because they have something he needs, and accidentally because he is constantly twitchy and not entirely in touch with reality (not a good combination for someone who can use thu'um)...
Is he evil? Nope. He is an addict. He lacks the moral depth or consideration to be called evil. He is just a very dangerous, very irresponsible individual.



So no.
I don't have any evil characters.
I just have a collection of people who do a lot of killing for totally understandable reasons.

In RL yes!

In games I usual play the 'neutral good' type of character to compensate for that.

'Am I Evil' is a great song by Metallica. 'Am I evil? I am Man, yes I am!'

You posted the original. You can't be all bad.

My characters tend to be on the lawful evil side of the spectrum.