Creating Characters

I've played around quite a bit with all the options under creating characters and thought I'd share some of my observations.

- The Nords are noticably larger than the other humans.  The Bretons are the most petite.

- The Imperials tend to look older because their eyes are smaller/narrower, while there are larger/rounder eye options under the Bretons and Nords which can lend a more innocent look if you're going for a youthful character.

-  Also, it's a lot easier to make young looking women and elves, while all the human men tend to look older due to the width of their jaws and complexions.  Even the fairest complextion option for men looks coarser and more shaddowed or dirty than for the women.  The men's noses also tend to be on the large side.  I might add that this trend carries over to the characters you can marry as well.  There seem to be more young/pretty looking women to choose from, while the majority of the men look older or generally more thick-set and weathered. 

- When using lighter colored hair, facial hair doesn't always look the same color as the rest of the hair, even if you've selected the same color, because of the way it's shaded or something.  For example, and old man with the whitest hair option will appear to have a grey beard rather than a white beard.

- The Orcs have some of the most complex and even beautiful war-paint.

- It's possible to make orcs look almost elven if you move the jaw setting as far back as possible so it doesn't jut out, and select one of the smaller mouths without big teeth.

- Often the various eye options will all look really wierd, but if you play with the width and height of them they will actually look much better than expected, so you really can't just scroll through the shape options - you have to adjust everything in order to tell which you'll actually like.

- Occasionally when starting from a preset, if you change a feature you won't be able to find the same one again AT ALL in the rest of the options.   Most of the time, however, it's in there somewhere, but not in the location the arrow seemed to indicate orriginally. 

- In most cases the options for men and women of the same race are all pretty much the same, however, I have noticed a few instances where there are additional options under one gender or the other.  Examples are:  Argonian males have a purple hair-color option not available under the females.  Nord males and females have a few differing war-paint options.

Something that is really handy is that after playing with options under one race and then switching to check out another one, if you decide to come back to the first race, all the options you picked will still be there.  The same goes for switching between male and female under the same race.  This is nice for comparrison between different possibilities.