For my 2 handed nord, this pic alone made me want to play as it [img]http://i49.tinypic.com/zn7art.jpg[/img]

For my first character it was Vlad Kulich's (who, as you may know is actually the voice of Ulfric Stormcloak) character from the movie Ironclad.

http://www.fanpix.net/picture-gallery/vladimir-kulich-picture-17761057.htm

I wish there was a screenshot app for xbox, I really nailed the look.

assasins creed for my first character a dark elf assasin

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EZfbfSjk-t4/T1M6B9BcgnI/AAAAAAAABnA/x9y0GakQaSE/s1600/Nord.jpg

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100818181048/mountandblade/images/3/35/Nord_Encounter.png

For my Nord.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SOypKhJ4kas/T8Mpd7UTjDI/AAAAAAAADSw/FMwSOw7uKRw/s1600/Thor-1024x768.jpg, since the first pre-set face for male Nords kinda resembles him.

Mr. Kulich also played the lead Warrior in "The 13th Warrior" if my memory serves me. Perfect Nord Warrior archetype/example in my humble opinion.

I base all my characters on those I created in my own fiction works. Since it's a very similar setting to Skyrim it's easy to transfer ideas for characters from one to the other.

The blood-spattered Orc on the loading screens... Unfortunately my Orc character looks more like a Rastafarian...


Oop. OTHER source..? Probably that Uruk Hai fella who knackers up Sean Bean in Fellowship of the Ring, then.

Agree 100%.
Skyrim has loads of references to that movie too.

I really want to watch that again now.

I made a really buff Nord warrior called Conan, and made him look like Arnold Shwartzen err Shwartz uh yeah, I could never spell it. But I modeled his face off the cover of the Conan The Barbarian DVD cover. That was fun.

For my female Orc assassin, it was some chick from a video game. I want to say it was Two Worlds? But I don't think it was. In that game, it was chick who was like half Orc or Goblin or something and wore something similiar to the Dark Brotherhood mask. I'll probably remember it later. But if somebody could help me remember?