I play a few, but my main's a khajiit warden. Khajiit because they're my favourite race and warden because I like ice abilities. Not really much else to it.

#1, Race doesnt matter. Be who you want to be.

#2, Class does of course, cause itll be the gameplay style you want to play. Nightblades for high single target damage and stealth but crap AoE. Sorcerers for delicious shock AoE as a Mag or Physical DoTs as Stam. DK's are massive Poison DoTs as Stam or some hard to master but fun Fire damage as Mag. And Templars, either as a big Healer or an Aoe/Single Target combo of either attribute. I dont speak for Wardens as i never play one.

Altmer because they are sexy and because they are the best magicka DPS race.

It's all about the passives, pick your Play style and go from there.

Magblade? Go High Elf / Breton.
MagDK? Go Dark Elf.
Stamsorc? Go Wood Elf / Khajit.
Tank? Go DK / Argonian.
Healer? Go Breton Templar / Warden.

It all depends on the build you want.

Favorite Race: Breton

First race I ever picked in Daggerfall, and still my favorite due to my tendency to play as a Mage most of the time

Main Class in ESO: Warden

I switched to the Warden class when Morrowind dropped. It was a class that I longed for ever since I learned that it didn't make the final cut during beta and when I tried it out during the PTS, I fell in love with it. And even now, I still love to play a MagDen in this game. My Druid

My very first character was an argonian Dragonknight on the EU server; I didn't have the first clue about classes or roles at the time, since I was new to both TES and MMO games; I read a little bit about Argonians, and they seemed to have a cause to fight, and I just liked the sound of 'Dragonknight' However, shortly afterwards I swapped to the NA server, and my first character there was an Altmer DK, because I prefered how High Elves looked. This was when the VR system was still in place-- I was terrible at playing the class, eventually hitting a wall around level 18 in terms of progression, and giving up. When I picked up the game again a few months later, I created a new character just to see if it would make a difference, and this became my main character, an Altmer magsorc.

On hindsight, I'm glad I got to learn the game with my magsorc, because it's an all-around great class to do solo content with, and the high elf racial passives are nicely suited to it. I have done a lot of content with my main, and there aren't many situations that can't be dealt with, because sorcs have a lot of utility as a class. I eventually created characters for almost all class specs, and in most cases, I picked a race that's suited to the class/role, unless I didn't particularly like the look of the 'recommended' race, because I think it's better to be content with how your character(s) looks, since you are going to be spending a lot of time with them, than choosing a race only because they are recommended for a class spec. The same goes for class and role: if somebody likes a class's playstyle, but it's not the best class for a given role (for instance a magden DD), I don't think they should give up on it solely for that reason. Luckily, I think ESO is flexible in this regard, and the majority of the content can be completed by all class specs, given knowledge of mechanics and experience with the class-- it might be true that some fights can use skills from cerain class specs, but that's too niche and a small part of the game to make someone choose a race/class spec they don't really enjoy.

My suggestion is: try a class and race that you like how it looks and plays, and see how you get along with it. And if you ever feel you need to change your race in the future, for min-max reasons for example, there is always the race respec option as well

I have my main as a redguard Stamplar reason is I based my original choices from eso 4 and 5 I couldn’t be a imperial so went redguad I always play as warrior in eso games so went as sword and board and bow but after cp160 i discovered totally wrong so respecced. To dual wielding and bow plus respecced my cp at 300 ish now much better still very hard but always learning new ways to play this charector eg just completed malestrom arena and finnaly got Vigor He has all my achievement titles from pve. I am currently levelling a high elf sorcerer to try magic out and to do the dungeons which I can’t do with my main .

Great reasons here. Thank you very much for sharing them with me.

High Elf, Magicka Sorcerer. Why? Because I own!