Breton?

It really makes no difference. The only permanent effect is the racial bonus and the racial power, which you might never use anyway. Everything else will be irrelevant after an hour or two of play.

True. I'm a Destruction mage and I'm an Argonian. A lizard can be whatever he wants in this day and age, I'll have you know.

I'm an Argonian Artificer. I can become whatever I like with the gadgets I have created. Technology is the future, unless you're a Dwemer.

I don't think anything is your future when you're all piles of ash.

To me, artificing is akin to forging, and forging is a useful byprocess of smelting, and smelting is a perfect tool for disguising stolen metallic goods. And also kind of broken, since I can, like, triple the value of a silver jug just by melting it.

Also making lockpicks out of pans. And people say a thief can't be self-sufficient...

You must be playing the mod where they make junk useful.

Oh yeah, I installed a few mods before I even played it. Despite reminding myself not to mention stuff without checking if it's in the vanilla version first, I seem to have done exactly that.

Yeah, I have Val's Crafting Breakdown. It's good, apart from Silver Ingots are too valuable like I said.