If your hero of kvatch and last dragon born had a duel to the death (no followers, no outside help) who would win? How would the fight go?
My oblivion character was an imperial named Claudius zarion, most used a one handed silver sword and a few spells
While my skyrim character is varius zarion (he's from the same family as Claudius) who uses a steel sword with a fire enchantment (named flamestrike) and a shield which gives him resistance to magic.
While Claudius has more experience than varius, varius is more suited to fighting people, Claudius is a monster hunter more suited to fighting monsters, the undead, etc.
So varius would most likely win because Claudius' spells wouldn't work very well on varius.