Altmer or Imperial

OutlandishMachine

I currently have a little dilemma. See, whenever I play MMO's, I feel the compulsion to adhere to my decided playstyle. Now, IRL, I have always loved martial arts and thus created a character that I thought could be a sort of "monk" style. This worked well enough, and I now have a V14 Imperial Sorcerer in the Ebonheart Pact. But now, I'm starting to feel like maybe an Altmer would have suited me better, in terms of my playstyle and also in terms of what suits my personality better. If I do roll an Altmer, I would do it on Ebonheart Pact, and I have the backstory as an Altmer dissident with Imperial blood all sorted out. But what I was wondering was if all of you nice peeps out there could give me some insight into the lives, personalities and cultures of Altmer and Imperials so that I could get a little bit of a boost in my mental scuffle.