I've been having a lot of trouble making a new character and enjoying it. I've always done archers and for once I want to do a swordswoman. But, I don't want to do a sword and board or a two hander. I'm leaning towards even staying light armor. But, I'm willing to go heavy if I get an idea.

I've tried an dunmer spellsword who only uses Ash spells. But, when I finally got an ash spell, I hated it. The magic around the hand is way to big and distracting in first person. All over magic is alright, but for some reason the ash spell is like a cloud around your hand.

I tried an illusionist swordswoman. Who uses fear and calm as crowd control, but it felt really really cheat after trying it out.

I don't know if I want to do a fire and sword one, because that magic doesnt scale well.

Can people suggest an interesting swordswoman to try? Something that can catch my interest? Any help would be great, thanks.

Heavy armour with dual wield swords. You can do some serious damage, take hardly any damage and it's fun.

Maybe play the role of a conjurer? You could summon a familiar or atronach with your off-hand and have it absorb enemy attacks while you attack with your sword. Atronachs are rubbish at actually killing things so it's not all that cheap, although it would be once you have enough magicka to summon a new one every time it dies. I tried this once on master and even got attached to my familiar/flame atronach after a while because it saved my skin so many times . You could also mix this up with Restoration spells and pretend you're some sort of paladin by always using the anti-undead spells against draugrs while slashing away. Wards and flesh spells would be useful for overall survivability while paralyze is very fun (but cheap) once you can spam it.