This is one of my latest Skyrim characters, Rahv'ael. She's an orc werewolf. Using the Skyrim Unbound mod, which allows you create many of your character's starting conditions, I had her start in the forest with a bounty of 2000 gold on her head. I'm also using Survival Mode which requires your character to eat and sleep or suffer penalties from hunger and fatigue. So Rahv'ael lives by raiding small settlements and bandit camps in wolf form, knocking people down and devouring their hearts for sustenance. It's so much fun playing as a werewolf in Skyrim. You're fast and very deadly. The trade-off is that you can't access inventory items and you can't heal except by eating more hearts. Though, since Rahv'ael can't go into town anyway, there's not much point looting for items to sell. I have a prison mod installed called Raven's Beak in which your character, if caught with a very high bounty, is sent to mining camp and forced to mine ore in order to get a reduced sentence. It's a really buggy mod but it was fun for a while massacring the guards and inmates. When I tried to actually escape, though, the game crashed.
It's actually really difficult playing as Rahv'ael most of the time. If I go into a major city, as deadly as she is in wolf form, she tends to get overwhelmed by the number of guards. I've tried other, similar "rebels against all civilisation" characters and it's always a satisfyingly desperate existence. The backstory I imagined for Rahv'ael is that she's known throughout the region, hated and feared. She was born as a werewolf in an orc stronghold and cast out, left to die, but somehow survived on insects, rats, and pure malevolent will.
When not in wolf form, Rahv'ael is a sneaking character who uses two daggers. I have another mod that requires your character to be of a certain weight and strength to use heavier weapons and armour so she uses smaller weapons by necessity. So with one character I have two extremes of gameplay.
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