Still playing my first character... 368 hours later.

a Dark Elf spell blade. I deleted him after a long while because I wasted many perk points.

I created a Nord Warrior as a test character to get used to the game. I put almost no time into character creation, thinking I would play the character for a few hours and discard it for a "real" character.

Well, to my surprise, I got hooked. I started playing my test character like it was one of my "real" characters. That test character eventually made it to level 40, a higher level than any of my Oblivion characters. I played nearly 100 hours before I made my first "real" character.

My first character was a Kajit. I didn't know the benefits of each class at that time and made him a heavy armor two handed weapon guy.

Ugrilam, a tribal orsimer who studied the arcane on the Summurset Isles, until the Thalmor killed his master.
He fled to Skyrim hoping to get find his tribe but the imperials caught him.

He joined the College, finished the main quest, then helped out orcs in some strongholds, but did not find his tribe.

A breton.. forgot the name.. I honestly didn't put much thought into him because I just wanted to get into Skryim and look around.