The idea for this build is very simple, and there honestly isn't that much to it. I wanted to examine the perk 'Undead Crown' as a form of intensely interesting, Undead Healing and the interesting builds that it can make. The entire idea of the build is to be a melee-distance spell-caster that relies on Disease Damage from Ordinator's Restoration tree, summoned creatures that are heavily buffed just for existing near you with effects like Preservation and Rallying Standard.
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Black is the night when The Corpse Maiden rises, her twisted mind hunting down the dead, the decaying, the bodies of fallen soldiers. She stalks the night, prowls through the province, all in order to discover that succulent corpse that shall provide her a new masterpiece to work on.
Her craft is as genius as it is evil, her foul Necromancy taints the very land that she walks upon and the mountains themselves quake at the thought of her deathly figure stepping upon their slopes.
The Corpse Maiden's story is not a sad one, nor is it a particularly understandable one. There is no great evil that defines her life. No great sacrifice that turned her towards the art of the Undead. Simply a woman who desired power so very much that she's commit the gravest of offences, pollute the world with yet more evil just to gain this power. She is not a hero who has descended into madness, nay she is not really mad at all. By day she walks amongst us, seemingly a completely normal resident of this fair land, and none could point her out as anything but a beuatiful young woman.
If one were to stumble across the Corpse Maiden, I have only this small piece of advice. Either run, or be ready to forfeit your life.
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Race: Redguard or Breton
Redguard
- Dust Storm: Killing humanoids briefly improves weapons and spells.
- Nomadic Heritage: Resistance to disease, and infinite Stamina out of combat.
- Tenacity: Increased Magicka and Stamina regeneration at low Health.
Quest reward - Win 30 battles by slaying 3 or more people to unlock...
- Red Sand Dance: 1/day - Greatly slow time while sprinting for a short time.
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Standing Stone: The Lover
- Secret Admirer: The Lover periodically gifts you a random enchanted weapon or armour.
- Undying Love: Cheat death when slain, returning to life with full Health. This effect has a 15-minute cooldown.
Unlockable...
- Lover's Kiss: At will - Target is magically bonded to you and can be called to your location with the Lover's Call power.
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Mods:
Ordinator - Perks of Skyrim. Ordinator's kind of the biggest requirement for this mod. I'd say that you could possibly play the build without the other mods (except maybe Sacrosanct) but some of the perks and effects that Ordinator supplies are just too good to pass up.
Apocalypse - Magic of Skyrim. As I said, this is technically skippable and honestly there's only one spell that I'm really playing around with here, and that's Power of the Master, which should allow me to give my minions a flesh spell, making their AR even more ridiculous. I might test out the Undead Summoning perks, but I'm not entirely sure how well they'll fit the characer (maybe as bosses for the minions...not sure).
Imperious - Races of Skyrim. I just really like Imperious, so I'm using it. For this build I think there might be a lot of benefits to taking Redguard for Tenacity and Dust Storm, with the latter being...maybe not useful since I don't know if my minions killing enemies will trigger it. If not then I'll be changing that to Breton or Imperial, but generally speaking, there's cool shit to go around regardless.
Andromeda - Unique Standing Stones. So really, I just liked the idea of Undying Love and I didn't see much point in taking any of the other stones. This character just sorta suits the idea of Undying Love even if there's a lot of the rest of it that she doesn't really need. That said, Secret Admirer could be really good depending on how it works (if it's levelled and thus in the late-game I'm getting good equipment regularly.)
Sacrosanct - Vampires of Skyrim. I'm not entirely sure on this one but I'm going to give it a test run and maybe work some of it into the build. I think this character would be the best possible choice for me to run with Sacrosanct (which...I cannot spell for shit), at least more than my others.
Wildcat - Combat of Skyrim. MOAR COMBAT DIFFICULTY.
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The perks for this build are utterly fascinating to me when examined in conjunction with each other. The key set of perks is probably the Conjuration Perks, or really it's more just that these are the perks that form the core component of the build while everything else (in some manner) is designed to boost and generally enhance the effect of our reanimated minions. Rallying Standard from Heavy Armour gives a fairly significant boost to our minions, with either 150 AR and 25% increased damage or 300 AR and 50% increased damage (depending on whether they stack...which I think they do). Commanding Presence from Illusion will give them 160 AR and 40% increased damage, along with a 40% increased crit rate and 40% magic resistance. Though it's important to note that we do need Master of the Mind for this to effect our undead minions. Still total we're already at a possible 460 AR, 90% increased damage, 40% MR, 40% increased crit rate...oh and an extra 500 for the first 60 seconds of their life thanks to Preservation from Conjuration. That's right we're really looking at some insane rates of boosting already, and that's not even getting into our healing ability.
But this is all late game. Early game will be a true challenge I think. Not impossible by any stretch but definitely not easy.
The idea for this build is very simple, and there honestly isn't that much to it. I wanted to examine the perk 'Undead Crown' as a form of intensely interesting, Undead Healing and the interesting builds that it can make. The entire idea of the build is to be a melee-distance spell-caster that relies on Disease Damage from Ordinator's Restoration tree, summoned creatures that are heavily buffed just for existing near you with effects like Preservation and Rallying Standard.
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Black is the night when The Corpse Maiden rises, her twisted mind hunting down the dead, the decaying, the bodies of fallen soldiers. She stalks the night, prowls through the province, all in order to discover that succulent corpse that shall provide her a new masterpiece to work on.
Her craft is as genius as it is evil, her foul Necromancy taints the very land that she walks upon and the mountains themselves quake at the thought of her deathly figure stepping upon their slopes.
The Corpse Maiden's story is not a sad one, nor is it a particularly understandable one. There is no great evil that defines her life. No great sacrifice that turned her towards the art of the Undead. Simply a woman who desired power so very much that she's commit the gravest of offences, pollute the world with yet more evil just to gain this power. She is not a hero who has descended into madness, nay she is not really mad at all. By day she walks amongst us, seemingly a completely normal resident of this fair land, and none could point her out as anything but a beuatiful young woman.
If one were to stumble across the Corpse Maiden, I have only this small piece of advice. Either run, or be ready to forfeit your life.
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Race: Redguard or Breton
Redguard
- Dust Storm: Killing humanoids briefly improves weapons and spells.
- Nomadic Heritage: Resistance to disease, and infinite Stamina out of combat.
- Tenacity: Increased Magicka and Stamina regeneration at low Health.
Quest reward - Win 30 battles by slaying 3 or more people to unlock...
- Red Sand Dance: 1/day - Greatly slow time while sprinting for a short time.
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Standing Stone: The Lover
- Secret Admirer: The Lover periodically gifts you a random enchanted weapon or armour.
- Undying Love: Cheat death when slain, returning to life with full Health. This effect has a 15-minute cooldown.
Unlockable...
- Lover's Kiss: At will - Target is magically bonded to you and can be called to your location with the Lover's Call power.
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Mods:
Ordinator - Perks of Skyrim. Ordinator's kind of the biggest requirement for this mod. I'd say that you could possibly play the build without the other mods (except maybe Sacrosanct) but some of the perks and effects that Ordinator supplies are just too good to pass up.
Apocalypse - Magic of Skyrim. As I said, this is technically skippable and honestly there's only one spell that I'm really playing around with here, and that's Power of the Master, which should allow me to give my minions a flesh spell, making their AR even more ridiculous. I might test out the Undead Summoning perks, but I'm not entirely sure how well they'll fit the characer (maybe as bosses for the minions...not sure).
Imperious - Races of Skyrim. I just really like Imperious, so I'm using it. For this build I think there might be a lot of benefits to taking Redguard for Tenacity and Dust Storm, with the latter being...maybe not useful since I don't know if my minions killing enemies will trigger it. If not then I'll be changing that to Breton or Imperial, but generally speaking, there's cool shit to go around regardless.
Andromeda - Unique Standing Stones. So really, I just liked the idea of Undying Love and I didn't see much point in taking any of the other stones. This character just sorta suits the idea of Undying Love even if there's a lot of the rest of it that she doesn't really need. That said, Secret Admirer could be really good depending on how it works (if it's levelled and thus in the late-game I'm getting good equipment regularly.)
Sacrosanct - Vampires of Skyrim. I'm not entirely sure on this one but I'm going to give it a test run and maybe work some of it into the build. I think this character would be the best possible choice for me to run with Sacrosanct (which...I cannot spell for shit), at least more than my others.
Wildcat - Combat of Skyrim. MOAR COMBAT DIFFICULTY.
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The perks for this build are utterly fascinating to me when examined in conjunction with each other. The key set of perks is probably the Conjuration Perks, or really it's more just that these are the perks that form the core component of the build while everything else (in some manner) is designed to boost and generally enhance the effect of our reanimated minions. Rallying Standard from Heavy Armour gives a fairly significant boost to our minions, with either 150 AR and 25% increased damage or 300 AR and 50% increased damage (depending on whether they stack...which I think they do). Commanding Presence from Illusion will give them 160 AR and 40% increased damage, along with a 40% increased crit rate and 40% magic resistance. Though it's important to note that we do need Master of the Mind for this to effect our undead minions. Still total we're already at a possible 460 AR, 90% increased damage, 40% MR, 40% increased crit rate...oh and an extra 500 for the first 60 seconds of their life thanks to Preservation from Conjuration. That's right we're really looking at some insane rates of boosting already, and that's not even getting into our healing ability.
But this is all late game. Early game will be a true challenge I think. Not impossible by any stretch but definitely not easy.
