Orc Ranger. I avoided cities a lot and saw more of the map. Hung out with that archer woman in the mountains. Reluctant hero. I also RP'd that he was kidnapped by Miraak cultists on the way back from defeating Alduin. Playing the Miraak DLC while completely starting over (nothing but underwear on and jumped off the boat at solstheim) was awesome and I actually used the new gear and weapons since I had none. Skyrim believed the dragonborn died defeating Alduin. After destroying Miraak, character returned to the archer lady riding a dragon to discover vampires had ravaged Skyrim in his absence. Probably enjoyed that playthrough the most because the random encounters and quests seemed perfectly in line and guided the story I was imagining.

Hope is crushed on the anvil of truth.

One of my play throughs had almost every nonessential NPC dead in the streets in Solitude. I found a lot of dead vampires too. Made the town a sad place to be.

A mountain top one I shot the dragon out of the sky and he sort of crashed right in front of me. Awesome. Ooo also my first time at Karthspire, I was fighting forsworn and a Dragon came in and there was magic and fire everywhere. I was getting destroyed. As I was starting to leave the scene, I saw the dragon take some serious hits. Delphine and Esbern came running up and saved me. It was great quest to meet there, but I took my own way to get there and forgot about them.

I generally treat shouts like magic schools. If I'm a conjurer, I'll grab soul tear, if I'm frosty I'll take frost breath and ice from. I love become ethereal always though. I have one all shout build with no cool down, but I don't like menu-heavy characters so I've got fire breath and unrelenting force hotkeyed. I have one magic-less character, and one shield mage with no shouts.