#skyrim build

[kayderrart]

Resenly I stumbled upon praise the Stealth Archer OP playstyle in Skyrim. Again.

Well, as 100% Mage player, I'd say let's spawn 2 Dremora Lords, a Dead Thrall, turn enemies into rage mode, add some lightning and paralyse spells and massive fire blasts.

Don't forget to call Durnehviir and his undead army if you're oustide.

Enjoy the perfect chaos you've created.

Oh, and you can summon enemy bodies after (what's left of them).

I can't blame Stealth Archers for fun they're missing.

[jasper-the-menace]

The Dark Six

Life's too short to limit oneself to just one part of reality.

The Dark Six are worshiped in Eberron, just as real or fake as any other faith. It is not their existence that fuels the power they grant worshipers, but faith itself.

But things are a little different in Skyrim.

Shurkaan, The Devourer

Sovereign of Wave and Whelm

The Devourer's avatar in Skyrim is an Argonian man named Devours-The-Waves. Wielding battleaxes in place of the trident that he left behind, he also favors frost and shock Destruction magic, particularly leaning towards frost, and Alteration magic in place of traditional armor.

It is the guidance of the Serpent Stone that anchors the Devourer to Skyrim as it does for the Mockery.

Szorawai, The Fury

Sovereign of Rage and Ruin

The Fury's avatar in Skyrim is a Breton or Dunmer - she favors two forms - and each embodies a different part of her being. She is the patron of barbarians, bards, artisans, and craftsmen. In her Dunmer aspect, she relies on fury spells, lighter armors, and fast one-handed blades to mimic the rapier she left behind in Eberron. In her Breton aspect, she favors the cities, practicing smithing and enchanting and relying on her words over her weapons.

In either case, she anchors herself with the Lord Stone (like the Keeper) and keeps the Lover Stone on the Aetherial Crown in her back pocket.

Kol Turrant, The Keeper

Sovereign of Death and Decay

The Keeper is both the one who takes the dead and the one who keeps them from Dolurrh...and considering how badly that plane sucks as an afterlife, he believes that he's doing them a favor. He appears as a Bosmer, standing the shortest of the Dark Six in this realm. Naturally, he believes wholeheartedly in necromancy magic as his specialization, but he is not weak and alone once his undead are felled. Instead, he favors greataxes over his missing scythe...and all of this assumes that you notice him to begin with, as he is a stealthy figure who leaves pockets picked in his wake. Due to being what he is, he also hoards food and ingredients to use later.

The Lord Stone anchors him as it does the Fury, but his backup in the Aetherial Crown is the Ritual, for he loves anything that lets him scam his own magic.

Dol Azur, The Mockery

Sovereign of Betrayal and Bloodshed

The Mockery is the stealth archer of your dreams...or he would be, if he bothered picking up a bow. Instead, he appears as a Redguard who loves close-combat stealth and the feeling of sliding a dagger into an unsuspecting ribcage. Here, daggers replace his kama, but he finds them to be similar enough in execution to not worry about it. While poisons coat his blade, he supplements it with paralyzing, fear, and fury spells for his enemies and invisibility spells for himself.

The Serpent Stone anchors him as it does the Devourer, but the Shadow Stone aids him from the Aetherial Crown.

The Shadow

Sovereign of Magic and Mayhem

The Shadow has never existed on its own, being defined entirely as the literal cast-off shadow of Aureon. But it finds that in Skyrim, it carves its own path without that bastard burning a path first. So it appears as an Altmer, the most magical-focused race in modern Tamriel, and focuses on all five magic schools: Alteration, Conjuration, Destruction, Illusion, and Restoration. It doesn't care what spells it uses; in fact, it loves the variety. Why specialize when you can learn it all? In place of its favored quarterstaff, it uses the staves of Tamriel for when its magicka runs out, and it finds joy in enchanting its own.

The Atronach Stone is an important anchor for the Shadow in Skyrim, enabling it to remain in this realm and stand on its own.

The Traveler

Sovereign of Chaos and Change

The Traveler is defined by change and oddity. They are not malicious, it's just that chaos tends to upset the whole status quo. That's the point, after all. Their avatar in Skyrim is a Dunmer, though they could appear as truly anything. They were able to keep their scimitars and dual-wields them here, but they also love unconventional weapons like the Wabbajack or the spider scrolls found in Solstheim. They armor themself lightly and sneak around just to appear somewhere strange, though they also love throwing around an Illusion spell or five.

The Shadow Stone anchors them, but they also have a soft spot for the Tower Stone's power and carry it with them in the Aetherial Crown.

My favorite part of any fictional setting is investigating what the religions and gods have going on. And certain groups become my favorite bunch of bastards, especially ones that are outwardly evil. I love seeing why people would worship gods that get called evil and I love seeing settings where faith and belief matter. But the Devourer's section is the shortest because I hate him lmfao.

Plus, with Skyrim's whole religiously-charged atmosphere, it's really funny to just add foreign gods to the whole mess and see what happens.

Practically speaking, I think various gods would handle competition differently. The Devourer would not particularly enjoy any trying to claim dominion over his domain of natural disasters and storms and the sea, leading to conflict with Kynareth and her worshipers. The Fury would probably be more likely to work with other gods and Daedric Princes like Dibella, Mara, and Azura. The Keeper is probably going to involve himself in the conflict between Arkay and Molag Bal. The Mockery is going to bristle at the idea of honoring something like Sithis through killing but equally throw tomatoes at Talos statues. The Shadow is going to spend the entire College of Winterhold questline staring at the fourth wall while everyone keeps talking about this Magnus guy. The Traveler's just gonna show up in places and see what they can change. Stuff like that.

In any case, these were a fun batch to design.

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[prince-kittens]

Someone who understands Skyrin modding please help me. I tried to put this in LLO and is added a few new mods to my already existing set up but when I finish downloading everything the game crashes and won't load up again. Here is my LO:

USSEP

Realistic water two resources

Lanterns of Skyrim ii

Campfire

Jobs

Simple workaround framework

I don't like easy mode

Bushcraft

Frostfall

iNeed continued

iNeed extended

iNeed dangerous diseases

I need disease plus

Hunter and animals

Kahjiit caravan

Toxicity

EMLI

Sheogoraths cheat menu

Display enhancements

Dynamic camera

locks are just locked

At your own pace AIO

The choice is yours

Bounty preview

Headhunter with trophies and missives

Gildergreen regrown

Rustic weapons

Farm tools

Haldoons hunter gear

Primitive shelter

Third era alchemy equipment

Soups teas and poisons

Gourmet w/ cooking pots and baking ovens

Be a milk drinker

Bosmeri cuisine

Cooking with herbs

Alchemist cookbook

Magpies cookbooks and poetry

Wearable lanterns

Poison arrow crafting

TAOS the art of smithing

Freshly ground

Crafting requires tools

An anvil is not enough

Simple cow and goat milking

Gather wilderness resources

Improved traps dangerous edition

Addiction to potions

Sensible travel

Journeyman

Imperious

Wintersun

Sleep to level

Train and study

Training dummies and target

Pass the time

Reading books books books improves speech

Reading is good

Character creation overhaul

Ordinator

apocalypse

Ordinator Apocalyps

Better spell learning

Better spell learning patch apocalypse

Producers of Skyrim

Fisherman sell creation club fish

Better harvesting

Bug jars

Gold and lockpicks weigh ten grams

Economy and crime

Simple banking

Thematic loot

Unique loot

Faction overhaul

Fashions of fourth era 1km

Dedicated followers of fashion

Sounds of skyrim

R a s s

Flies around corpses

a game of weather

M rens dark nights

Kynes grass

XP32 realistic ragdoll

Dark age skins

Immersive movement

Proper aiming

Realistic swimming

Dovahkiin can

Immersive interactions

Better shaped weapons

Unique uniques

Atlantean 1k

Real dirt roads

High quality ivy replacer

Real wood

Renthals wood texture

Witcher 3 fence

Riton aio 512

Whiterun stone floor

Mossy whiterun walls

Leaves of riften

Mossy af markarth

Sky falls unique windmills

Dark age signs

Snazzy clutter

Rallys market stalls

Book covers of Skyrim

Imlennys bundle

Renthals workbench

Better alchemy and enchanting workstations

Pretty animated potions

Animated alchemy

Animated forge water medieval anvil

My road signs are beautiful weathered

More colorful bug jars 2

Bellyaches HD collection

Immersive death cycle

Immersive citizen

Swimming animals

Spiders spit

Good dog

Tls insectopia

Surprise small critters

Cats in skyrim

Divine canines

Birds of Skyrim

Farm animals

Husky farm protector

Real wildlife

Toads and frogs

Sewer rats

Flying birds and co

Immersive patrols

Improved roads

Jobs of skyrim

Lanterns of Skyrim workers

The kids are alright

Bosmer NPC have antlers

Ks hair salt and wind

Character editor all in one

KS uplands

Mild complexions

Cuyis bosmeri antlers

ELFX updated

ELFX - Hardcore

Magical college

Junipers for dawnguard

Baths of Skyrim

Divine forests

Distinctive verdure

Diversity of trees

Ivy area edit

Immersive laundry

Shelter for the weak

Carriage stops of skyrim

Benches of skyrim

Point the way

Giant mountain trail

More wooden bridges

Improves bridges

Bridges ferries and fords

S6o6t mundus stones

Bells of Skyrim

Immersive dawnguard springs

Oppaikuns gardens

Lakeview fish hatchery

Wood cutters campsite

Hag occult orphan rock

Laketown

Winterhold docks

Great city of solitude

Great city solitude fishing patch

Rangerboyds campsites

Vigor - combat and injuries

know your enemy

Wear multiple rings

Honest work

Visible favorite gear

Dead body collision

Realistic water two

Realistic water two iNeed

Alternate start

yappers of skyrim

[pankratz]

currently doing a skyrim playthrough where my character is evil at first, but then switches around all of a sudden and becomes good

[beyoncelocks]

Skyrim Build: The Gate of Oblivion

Armor/Equipment

Head: Shrouded Hood

Everything else: Daedric

Off-hand: Deadric Sheild

Skills

Conjuration

Restoration

Enchanting

Heavy Armor

Block

Destruction

Shouts

Bend Will

Unrelenting Force

Fear

Fire Breath

Race

Imperial

The Gate of Oblivion is a female imperial who is an ancient and devout follower of the Mythic Dawn. She, along with her fellow cult members, sought to release Mehrunes Dagon unto Cyrodiil. After the Hero of Kvatch thwarted their plans and saved Tamriel, The Gate of Oblivion had gone into hiding, slowly gathering her strength in hopes of opening the jaws of Oblivion once more and finishing the Mythic Dawn’s work. She knew this would take time. Quite a few life times in fact. She sought vampirism as it tends to keep one remarkably fresh. For centuries she hid in a cave close to Bruma where she could practice her dark rituals in solitude. Eventually the town guard caught wind of her dealings and she was chased out of Bruma and towards the north; towards Skyrim. It was on the border she was detained and sentenced to death by beheading. The Gate of Oblivion knew she was getting out of this, one way or another. As destiny unfolds, she escapes Helgen and unleashes her army of deadra upon Skyrim.

Her play style is a tanky conjuror. She is a walking, talking gate of oblivion constantly unleashing her loyal daedra and her heavy shield to defend herself. Eventually she will learn to summon from other deadric realms such as Apocrypha or the Soul Cairn. She is of pure evil and will let nothing stand in her way. When she discover’s that she is dovahkiin, she will use this power for her own personal gain, bending the will of all of Tamriel to finally complete her mission once and for all. 

[jasper-the-menace]

Lydia Nightwind

Valenwood. The Summerset Isles. Elsweyr. Hammerfell. High Rock. Cyrodiil. Black Marsh. Morrowind, or what remained of it. She had spent nearly a century searching for her missing child. The Great War had not stopped her. Skyrim's civil war wouldn't stop her either. This was the final province she could search. This was her last hope.

Lydia Nightwind stood above the burning village of Helgen, the flames dancing and casting shadows that she would have used years ago. She sighed and readjusted her iron plate gauntlets. Dragons be damned, she had a son to find. Dervenin, that fool, may have spent a century mourning him, but she knew that Ronthil was still out there somewhere.

Lydia Nightwind is a 356-year-old Bosmer assassin who has always been an independent agent doing assassinations through Morrowind and Cyrodiil. She was also once the Nerevarine during the downfall of both Dagoth Ur and Almalexia 207 years ago and the Champion of Cyrodiil during the Oblivion Crisis 201 years ago, but she doesn't use those titles anymore. Also she stole a unicorn one time. She tried to give that all up many years ago in order to raise a family with another Bosmer named Dervenin, even moving back to Valenwood with him so that their family would grow up in the Bosmer homeland.

They had one child together, a son that they named Ronthil who showed promise as a wizard; he grew up due to a fascination with magic that Lydia encouraged in him. When Ronthil was young, she would call him her little sprout, and she and Dervenin had plans to have more children before Ronthil went missing when he was seventeen. Dervenin went completely mad from the grief, becoming one of Sheogorath's worshipers and heading to the Shivering Isles to serve the Madgod's court just so he didn't have to think about the son he lost.

Lydia, meanwhile, began her search for her son, refusing to believe that he was dead, and has been searching all of Tamriel - Valenwood, the Summerset Isles, Black Marsh, Cyrodiil, Morrowind, Elsweyr, Hammerfell, and High Rock so far - for 97 years despite the Great War between the Empire and the Aldmeri Dominion interrupting that search 30 years ago. She recently made it to Skyrim to continue her search and has been looking for clues about her son's whereabouts despite the civil war going on. She is a dour and humorless woman due to a century of grief, but repays the kindnesses paid to her and will take up a fight to defend Dunmer and other Bosmer from the Nords of Skyrim.

Despite newly arriving in Skyrim, she knows she isn't alone. Through the years, many members of her family - her siblings' children and a handful of cousins - have also made their way north. This creates a web of connections across Skyrim that she can tap into in order to find shelter and even support in combat if need be, particularly in the form of her nephew Faendal and her niece Beleval.

Despite the years, despite the pain, she holds out hope that her son is still out there somewhere. She just needs to find him.

One might say that she's just as mad as her former husband to continue her search for this long.

One would be right.

She's right, too.

During her search for her son, she's willing to do anything she can to get people to owe her favors, regardless of her own morals (equally supporting and selling out Talos worshipers, fucking over rich people every chance she gets, accidentally getting dragged into the Companions and then promptly abandoning them) but she's well past the point where she cares about stealth, leading to her ignoring the Thieves Guild while dropping by Riften to check with her family there and ignoring the ominous letter after putting an arrow in Grelod on pure reflex. She's too busy searching to sleep, much less get kidnapped by a bunch of tryhard assassins, but if she were...well, she'd just put arrows in Astrid and keep moving. Naturally, it's painful for her to see Dervenin in Solitude and have him not even recognize her, but she figures he deserves it for succumbing to despair when their son vanished.

Naturally, the biggest turning point is when she inevitably decides to get involved in this whole "vampire menace" mess she's heard so much about. While Beleval puts her lot in with the Dawnguard, Lydia doesn't care much about a Vigilants of Stendarr offshoot. That's not her god, that's not her job. But she's the one to find Serana and warms up to this long-lost daughter of someone, seeing parallels with her own search for her own son. And once she steps inside of Volkihar Keep and casts her gaze around the gathered vampires who have come to see Serana's return...

Who cares about this prophecy and this Lord and this Keep?

She found her son.

As a character, Lydia's notable skills have changed between her Morrowind and Oblivion version. Where she used to be a pretty standard Bosmer stealth archer, I chose to take her Skyrim build in a very different direction: an archery tank who summons a bow rather than worrying about lugging around arrows.

Ideally, she has maxed-out perk trees for Archery, Heavy Armor, and Smithing (because armor of both Light and Heavy versions can be found on both sides due to the addition of Creation Club content in Anniversary Edition, and dammit I'm gonna use it). Out of the Conjuration skill tree, she has Novice to Adept Conjuration and Mystic Binding.

In practice, while she's easy to level (especially with the money laundering training method for Faendal as an early follower to get you to 50 Archery with the cash you get from dumping tutorial-gathered armor off with Hod), she's also a bitch to level (I still haven't gotten her to 50 Conjuration or very high in Heavy Armor and Smithing). While she's not the Dragonborn (and thus shouldn't use Shouts, which I try to avoid using while playing as her), she is around while one is kicking about, and nothing hits better than literally knocking a dragon out of the sky.

As far as Lydia goes, it's a common thing for me in games with elven protagonists to make a wood elf (or equivalent) named Lydia. I've done it for years, literally since I was a kid. I figured I would finally haul this omnipresent character in my life up out of a default state and into a proper character of her own.

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[jasper-the-menace]

Ryoichi Shiro

The teenager leaned against the wall, idly twirling a dagger in his hand. His other hand snapped a few times, summoning and unsummoning various drinks and potions from his pack.

He didn't care much for the man in the marketplace trying to sell "Falmerblood" elixirs or whatever, but money was money, and this place was already more promising than Towashi had been.

He pushed off of the wall. Time to hear out the weird dude.

Ryoichi Shiro is a human teenager from Kamigawa who may or may not have a little extra going on. But the veil between planes has thinned a lot, and he found himself in Skyrim instead of the neon-lit streets he clawed his way through for most of his life.

He disguises himself as a Breton, as no humans on this plane look like a Kamigawan; he just mimics an accent and keeps his eyes shaded so people don't look too hard. Something in his blood enables him to resist the local magic like a Breton would, so he's not too concerned about being "found out" or anything.

His only inherent magic that he's aware of is being able to summon drinks and manipulate drunks with magic, and everything else is pure skill. Luckily, Skyrim and its magicka offers him more avenues to magical power. An easy healing spell followed by learning other applications of Restoration keeps him alive, while early access to spell tomes containing Choking Grasp and Strangulation give him an additional combat option if his dagger gets knocked from his hand.

He never learned how to use any weapon larger than a dagger and doesn't intend to learn now, instead favoring the fast flurry that dual daggers grant him. Light armor was difficult to learn how to wear at first, but it's easier than the heavy stuff and still protects him more than clothes do. In addition, light armor is easy to sneak around in, and he's getting better at that too.

And as for alchemy...well, he could already summon drinks, so what's a few extra potions to add to it? Especially when he figures out how to chain weaknesses to magic and poison through, well, poisons on his blades and can follow it up with an even nastier bit. His favorite blends rely on ingredients bought from the Khajiit caravans.

Outside of combat, he's honed his speechcraft skills and figured out how to talk people into better deals. While not physically intimidating, all it takes is a proper application of tone and a display of magic to make people scamper out of his way.

The Mage Stone looks after him most, allowing him an anchor to better tap into the magicka of Skyrim rather than the mana of his home that feels even more distant now. Eventually, the Atronach Stone takes over keeping him safe as things escalate further and further in power.

While he's generally a lone wolf and used to looking out for himself, he also becomes loyal to anyone who treats him well. In particular, Erandur very quickly gets promoted to being his new grandpa (because Ryoichi doesn't hold Erandur's past as Casimir against him) and the Thieves Guild can pay him enough for him to give them the time of day. His attitude is generally "shit's fucked and life sucks, you do what you've gotta do to look out for yourself".

Ryoichi is fundamentally a selfish person, looking out for himself and those he cares about first and foremost. But he also is not above helping random people out if he assesses that doing so won't be too risky to himself.

Ryoichi Shiro is a fairly minor (for now) Kamigawan character over on my @azzie-beastbinder MTG roleplaying blog. He's got a bunch of other things going on with him (including being trans) but I think this is a pretty good base for his build.

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As a bonus, here's a zoomed-in picture of his HeroForge model:

[jasper-the-menace]

Vladimir Rivvilbol

Damnable mind flayers, damnable dragons, damnable derro, damnable everything beneath the earth.

General Vladimir Rivvilbol kept the full-face helm secure as he continued up through the tunnels. This was a new passage, leading to a new world. He needed to find out the situation and assess possible alliances for the drow kingdom to offer Ricochet. And, well, if he happened to find a few cool magic things to show off, all the better.

With that, he drew the mask down fully over his face to shield his eyes from the light and stepped out of the cave. A roar from the sky answered him, and he let out a sigh. Of course there are dragons.

Vladimir Rivvilbol is the general of the drow kingdom of Kaveshys. Before the rise of Queen Ricochet Galanodel to power after the war deaths of her parents and the reforms following, he was a strategic soldier at best, held back by both his gender and his quarter-human ancestry that's obvious in his natural coloration. Now he calls the shots for the drow army and handles everything except the scouts, which are under the command of Head Scout Ristel Dazza. He is guarded not just by his own internal storm, but also the ancestral Bear spirit that follows his family that originated from somewhere on the surface, where his human grandmother Svetlana Volchev once dwelled.

While drow can't be confused for Dunmer, a little bit of Illusion magic goes a long way to bridge the gap - longer ears, red eyes backed with dark red rather than brown with white, and skin closer to ash grey rather than pure black.

Vladimir's main skills are Archery (for crossbows), Conjuration (for bears and storm atronachs), Destruction (shock damage), and Heavy Armor (for the Fists of Steel perk, among others). His minor skills are Illusion (for calming animals; this is also done in-game through the Kyne's Peace Shout despite Vlad not being the Dragonborn) and Sneak (for sniping).

His weapon of choice is the Ebony Crossbow left behind by a vampire hunter whose corpse he found while sussing out the Thalmor Embassy. His armor is Ebony Spell Knight Armor recovered by putting a wayward soul to rest upon purifying his heart. His mask, Zahkriisos, was claimed from a Dragon Priest that he slaughtered beneath the Raven Rock Mine when he traveled there.

His magic focuses on three spells in the end: Lightning Cloak, Unbounded Storms, and Pride of Hirstaang. In order to get there, all sorts of other spells are picked up and used, including Sparks, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Rune, Chain Lightning, Wall of Storms on the Destruction side and Conjure Flame Atronach and Conjure Storm Atronach on the Conjuration side. (Because Conjuration is a bitch to level if you're not using Bound Weapons.)

Other abilities of note include Agent of Mara (from completing The Book of Love), Companion's Insight (from completing The Winds of Change), Seeker of Sorcery (from completing The Sallow Regent), and Conjure Werebear (from completing the Beast Stone part of Cleansing the Stones).

His notable allies are Gogh, a goblin that he rescued from another cave, and Teldryn Sero, who saw what was happening and decided to be in the middle of it since Vlad could pay him. His preferred home is Nchuanthumz, which is the closest he can get to living in a cave safely, though he's still disturbed by the fact that dwarves are elves and orcs are also elves in this plane.

I've been compelled by the society of drow in Dungeons & Dragons ever since I first cracked open the 3.5e Monster Manual that my mother got to teach us the system. However, I don't care much for established settings, as my instinct is to homebrew everything - another bad habit picked up from her.

Vladimir started "life" as a drow barbarian/ranger multiclass, but I found lots of trouble when trying to translate him to 5e: you can't really mix and match abilities like you could back in 3.5e, and rangers really, really suck. So out of spite, I decided to figure out how to translate him into Skyrim and found that it was far more accurate than I ever could in 5e. This version clearly needs a lot of the Creation Club stuff to work, but hey, I have it and he's worth it.

The core parts of Vladimir are his unarmed melee, his guns for ranged, his medium-weight military gear, and the lightning magic and ancestral Bear spirit, along with his quarter-human aspect (which you really can't do in 5e without homebrewing to hell and back). I'm also going to attempt to make him in Pathfinder 2e and Oblivion Remastered, but this is his Skyrim version.

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As a bonus, here's some pictures of his HeroForge model: