In my never-ending quest to find the perfect build for me, this is the latest development. Only, it's such a mish mash of RP ideas and skills that I have no clue what to call it.

Poison-Archer-Mage-Enchanter-Guy-Thing
Difficulty: Master
Race: Breton
Weapon: unenchanted long bow with iron arrows. Always. This is both for aesthetic reasons, and to make master more challenging. RP wise, it's the character's father's bow, and he would consider it a sacrilege to alter it in any way.
Armor: self-enchanted robes.
Gameplay: the idea behind this guy, as with many of my other archer characters, is to use slowing poisons to kite melee dudes with a long bow, and damaging poisons to offset the bow's low damage. This works, is a lot of fun, but gets a little repetitive. So I had to find something else to add some variety to the build. Because my bane has always been the undead and constructs, due to the fact that they are immune to poison, I thought that maybe switching to destruction fire magic when facing them would be fun and prevent boredom.
Skills: archery (no ranger or quick shot perks to make kiting more fun), destruction, alteration (not sure about this one), alchemy (for poisons mostly), enchanting (to enchant robes with archery stuff).

So what would you call this build? The Schizophrenic? Identity Crisis Build? Arcane Monk? And can you think of anything that would improve him?

Sunk to page 2 . Bumper stickers.

BTW, would you consider this build bard-like? He has a little magic, wears cloth, but engages primarily in physical combat. I know in past TES games bards have used illusion magic instead of destruction, but I think destruction works too.

Spiderman?

Anyway, on the topic, this seems like a very interesting build. As you mentioned, has elements of a Bard, and yet it has its own unique thing.
I have nothing much to add to it, except that I support the idea of Alteration. Playing a clothed character without it is not very easy.

In the fourteenth century Catalonia produced a lot of highly regarded mercenary archer companies/bands. They were apparently methodical, accurate (unlike the volley fire of the average longbowman) and lightly armored. This last because they were often used in Naval battles... wouldn't want to sink like a stone if you went overboard. Also, in this role, they would often use arrows coated in flaming pitch and other nastiness.

The Catalan chronicler Ramon Muntaner says they are "like a stone thrown by a war machine, nothing stands against them". Don't know the Catalan for Archer... but sounds like a class... and Muntaner is a cool name.

Spellbow. Like a spellsword but... you get the idea. I rate it 7. I have a character just like this it's fun until you have to put it on master difficulty because your sneak is so high and do so much damage with bow's.

Thanks for the info. A quick wikipedia search turned up a lot of stuff about that company of mercenaries (almogavars), but nowhere does it mention they were archers (they did mention how they hurled javelins at knights' horses). I really love to read about archery so I was a bit disappointed .

Check out the naval battle between Pere the second and Charles of Anjou off the coast of Malta in 1283, where the Catalans pass from ship to ship using only archery.

English Longbowman did not specialize in volley firing. They were self-trained natural tallents that mastered in precission. They were not conscripted, they were recruited from the greatest archers in Medieval England through competition (Think Robin Hood and the apple).

http://www.archers.org/default.asp?section=History&page=longbow

Probably should have said 'Arcing' rather than 'volley'... thinking of the close-range character build.

Anyway two finger salute to you for reminding me of Crecy and Poitiers.