What? Which side am I on in the civil war? What civil war? Do you mean which side quest distracts me most often from the main quest? That'd be the Theif's Guild. Sometimes I just wander the countryside, find a random town, complete all the quests, and then disappear into the distance again. But I've never gotten past the second scripted dragon encounter. I try sometimes, and then some peasant comes running up to me, begging my help in finding her adventuruous husband, and the next thing I know, I'm trapped in some Dwemer ruins because of some greater conspiracy involving an Aedra and some ancient lost race of elves that I, frankly, had never heard of before entering the place!

I like to imagine that my character stumbles drunkenly around the world, occasionally slurring to themselves, "Oh yeah, don't I haveta do somethin' about some dragon guy, again?" as some elder dragon appears from nowhere while he's hauling some random shopkeeper's magic claw back from a barrow filled with undead horrors, all because he chose to stop at the wrong inn in the wrong town on the way back from finding some lady's dead husband.

But then he'll spot another invitingly blood-soaked cave and pop in just to have a look around, because you never know, hey?

Hell, one time he decided to look into a "haunted" house, and ended up torturing a guy in a cage who he'd never met before with a rather unpleasantly spiky mace for an elder god that he didn't know existed. I mean, hey, if that's your thing, he doesn't judge, but it was still a little awkward.

Writing this makes me want to do a Let's Play of Skyrim from that guy's point of view. Maybe do it like a diary:

Dear diary,

Today I woke up in a cart of prisoners. Not sure why I was there, but I must've been drugged, because I couldn't move anything but my eyes. When the effects wore off, I was already in the town we were headed for. Turns out that the incompetent b**** in charge, when faced with a prisoner not on her list, skipped the necessary paperwork and ordered my head cut off anyway. Turns out my protests were moot, because an honest-to-Emperor [i]Dragon[/i] showed up....