I've decided on what I want to play!
At first I was thinking about unarmed khajit (...Are there any mods to replace the females with cat girls? There needs to be), but then I remembered something. BOUND. WEAPONS.
I've never taken these seriously before despite really speaking to me thematically, because y'know, can't improve them with smithing, nor can you enchant them which is a super serious drawback. But I found a mod that makes them scale with conjuration, giving them equal extra damage to what smithing would give of equal level.
And a some minor abilities (4% of current mana as bonus damage and some mana drain I believe). So that kiiind of redeems them. A little bit. It's no drain health + stamina though.
So this Friday I'll be doing a fresh install and spending most of my evening tightening up the graphics a little bit, then adding some essential mods, and then my dual wielding, sword summoning, undead loving, heavy armour wearing
muscular body mod lady Orc is a go
I found a decent child mod for doing a loli witch character, but I can't help myself