The Daywalker
The Lost Lore
It all began in the beginning of the first era. The Bosmer had just made their pact with Y'ffre. Unfortunately some of the Bosmer did not accept the Pact, instead feasting on meat of all kinds, including those who were sentient. In anger, Y'ffre cursed all of the Bosmer with a…sentient parasite. She sent upon the beastfolk this bug. The creature would then subconsciously put itself into the paths of all Bosmer, inciting aggression against those mer. When the Bosmer easily killed this Harbinger and feasted, as was a rule of the Bosmer's pact. The parasite entered the body of the victor. From there, it attached to the brain, and leeched the knowledge and skill of it's new form. To sustain itself, it would make the form to partake in what is now thought of as vampiric tendencies. These tendencies, as the parasite discovered, evoked anger and fear in it's surroundings… It quickly adapted. When endangered, the parasite would wall itself up in a durable membrane, and force it’s way out of an opening. It would float until it found a beast or beast-like form to inhabit. Y’ffre did not plan for this, and so Nirn was cursed by this parasite…It knew Aedra had slipped up.
And so the cycles began. Abilities, knowledge, skills, everything was recorded inside the parasite's mind. Most of these sentient little bugs became overzealous and the carrier would be killed before it could escape. Those that did not actively lust after knowledge were revered by vampires for one reason: the parasite seemed to be a vampire who could survive the sun. Vampires everywhere saw the Daywalker -a name they gave to the parasite- as a transcendence into something greater. When they found they could not transcend, they would call the carrier a heretic out of jelousy, and quickly killed the body before the parasite could flee. Everyone thought the Daywalkers died out...they are wrong....
The Legacy
10 mer...50 men....No beastfolk, for they are the harbingers, not the carriers. I am the last of my kind. many times I had to flee my carrier when people began to get suspicious. I am as ancient as the Eras. Unlike my brethren, I knew the consequences of knowledge. I have filled many rolls in my life: A physician and a cook, a bookseller and a soldier, a teacher and a student, an officer of the law and a thief, a murderer and a priest, an alchemist and a farmer. I have always kept one thing in my mind...Knowledge is power. My goals are The Elder Scrolls. Not just one, all of them. The infinite knowledge they possess will finally put my lust at rest. I have turned to Hermaous Mora himself for aid in this quest, and I will be damned if anyone stands in my way...But now…now you have learned my secret, so now you are my dinner...
Race: Vampire
Stone: Any of the Guardian stones for leveling, then Advanced Lady
Major Skills: One Handed, Block, Alteration, Sneak, Speech
Minor Skills: Archery, Restoration, Destruction, Conjuration, Illusion
Temporary Skills: Enchanting, Smithing, Alchemy
Weapons: Blades Sword then either Nordic or Ebony Sword
Gear: Ulfric’s Clothes/NobleClothes and Fur-lined Boots
Essential Quests: Book of Love, Heart of Dibella, No Stone Unturned, Frostflow Abyss, all Black Books, Discerning the Transmundane
Optional Quests: A Return to Your Roots, Unfathomable Depths
One-handed is the Daywalker's offense, as well as his defense through Block. He uses only a sword; No spell, no shield, nothing is equipped to his other hand when he enters combat. Like a snake, the Daywalker waits for the perfect moment to strike. With Quick Reflexes, you gain a feeling of the Daywalker's innate, vampire-like abilities while the bash skills are a testament to his skill with a blade.
Alteration is one of the Daywalker's few defenses. Before combat, the Daywalker hardens his skin to nigh impenetrable toughness. With rigorous study into this school of magic, the Daywalker has learned how to enhance it's flesh spells to give more protection when not wearing armor. Though the Daywalker refrains from using anything while fighting, it is known to draw from the Khulari vampire clan and paralyze prey when it is needed.
Sneak is The Daywalker's main support. Along with Archery and Conjuration, the Daywalker can summon a bow when ever it is needed to deliver the first lethal strike to his enemies from the darkness. When danger is eminent, the Daywalker can slip into the shadows and lose any pursuers.
The Daywalker has studied all schools of magic, gaining various benefits from each. It has learned how to harness the death-like state it sets the carrier in to enhance it's power, how to control the elements to force more power into it's blade, and how to cast even the loudest of spells as silent as death.
Through Hermaeous Mora's guidance, the Daywalker has learned how to re-wire it's own mind. When the parasite has crafted what the shell needs to defend itself, it re-works the brain's circuitry to allow for more focus on it's offensive and defensive abilities.
The Daywalker has leeched many skills and abilities from it's various hosts: some of them were priests, and the blessing was carried over with the parasite, the life as a sailor has taught it how to heal better, while it's life as a thief gave it luck while acquiring money. Even it's lives as a smith and alchemist has carried over, giving it knowledge from techniques long past.
How to become a Daywalker
To represent the Daywalking capabilities, you would of course enchant various pieces of gear with Fortify Magicka, Health, and Stamina. When done at 100 Enchanting, and Necromage, the amount is around 77 points to each, so only one of each of these enchantments are needed. The full list of gear with enchantments will be provided below.
Another part, and probably the most important, is to use an Advanced Stone. What is an Advanced Stone? The Advanced Stones were found by Mason through his 'quest' for the perfect Sentinel, and they can house great power for those who activate them. To get this power, you must brew a couple of restoration potions. One that is just a restoration potion, while another has an extra effect to it. Like Mason said in his Obsidian Sentinel build, the ingredients can easily be found as you leave Helgen. Abacean Longfin, Cyradilic Spadetail, and White Cap to be specific. My potions ended up at roughly 25%, and then 36% when I drank the second potion, and my regeneration was faster, albeit not much, than normal regen. You can exploit this if you wish, but I chose to keep it low to keep enjoyablity.
Skills
Level 30 spread: http://skyrimcalculator.com/#245839
Level 60 spread: http://skyrimcalculator.com/#245833
Level 81 (before re-wire) spread: http://skyrimcalculator.com/#243507
Level 81 (after re-wire) spread: http://skyrimcalculator.com/#243502
I have given two level 81 perk spreads for one reason: Black Book: Waking Dreams. As most of you know, it can 're-wire' your character's skills with this book. You may plan to re-wire earlier if you wish, but I was nearly to 81 when Dragonborn came out, so I waited until said level 81.
Thanks to Henson for help with the details, Vix helping with the lore, Ben C for his ever helpful criticism, and Ponty for the screenshots.
The Daywalker
The Lost Lore
It all began in the beginning of the first era. The Bosmer had just made their pact with Y'ffre. Unfortunately some of the Bosmer did not accept the Pact, instead feasting on meat of all kinds, including those who were sentient. In anger, Y'ffre cursed all of the Bosmer with a…sentient parasite. She sent upon the beastfolk this bug. The creature would then subconsciously put itself into the paths of all Bosmer, inciting aggression against those mer. When the Bosmer easily killed this Harbinger and feasted, as was a rule of the Bosmer's pact. The parasite entered the body of the victor. From there, it attached to the brain, and leeched the knowledge and skill of it's new form. To sustain itself, it would make the form to partake in what is now thought of as vampiric tendencies. These tendencies, as the parasite discovered, evoked anger and fear in it's surroundings… It quickly adapted. When endangered, the parasite would wall itself up in a durable membrane, and force it’s way out of an opening. It would float until it found a beast or beast-like form to inhabit. Y’ffre did not plan for this, and so Nirn was cursed by this parasite…It knew Aedra had slipped up.
And so the cycles began. Abilities, knowledge, skills, everything was recorded inside the parasite's mind. Most of these sentient little bugs became overzealous and the carrier would be killed before it could escape. Those that did not actively lust after knowledge were revered by vampires for one reason: the parasite seemed to be a vampire who could survive the sun. Vampires everywhere saw the Daywalker -a name they gave to the parasite- as a transcendence into something greater. When they found they could not transcend, they would call the carrier a heretic out of jelousy, and quickly killed the body before the parasite could flee. Everyone thought the Daywalkers died out...they are wrong....
The Legacy
10 mer...50 men....No beastfolk, for they are the harbingers, not the carriers. I am the last of my kind. many times I had to flee my carrier when people began to get suspicious. I am as ancient as the Eras. Unlike my brethren, I knew the consequences of knowledge. I have filled many rolls in my life: A physician and a cook, a bookseller and a soldier, a teacher and a student, an officer of the law and a thief, a murderer and a priest, an alchemist and a farmer. I have always kept one thing in my mind...Knowledge is power. My goals are The Elder Scrolls. Not just one, all of them. The infinite knowledge they possess will finally put my lust at rest. I have turned to Hermaous Mora himself for aid in this quest, and I will be damned if anyone stands in my way...But now…now you have learned my secret, so now you are my dinner...
Race: Vampire
Stone: Any of the Guardian stones for leveling, then Advanced Lady
Major Skills: One Handed, Block, Alteration, Sneak, Speech
Minor Skills: Archery, Restoration, Destruction, Conjuration, Illusion
Temporary Skills: Enchanting, Smithing, Alchemy
Weapons: Blades Sword then either Nordic or Ebony Sword
Gear: Ulfric’s Clothes/NobleClothes and Fur-lined Boots
Essential Quests: Book of Love, Heart of Dibella, No Stone Unturned, Frostflow Abyss, all Black Books, Discerning the Transmundane
Optional Quests: A Return to Your Roots, Unfathomable Depths
One-handed is the Daywalker's offense, as well as his defense through Block. He uses only a sword; No spell, no shield, nothing is equipped to his other hand when he enters combat. Like a snake, the Daywalker waits for the perfect moment to strike. With Quick Reflexes, you gain a feeling of the Daywalker's innate, vampire-like abilities while the bash skills are a testament to his skill with a blade.
Alteration is one of the Daywalker's few defenses. Before combat, the Daywalker hardens his skin to nigh impenetrable toughness. With rigorous study into this school of magic, the Daywalker has learned how to enhance it's flesh spells to give more protection when not wearing armor. Though the Daywalker refrains from using anything while fighting, it is known to draw from the Khulari vampire clan and paralyze prey when it is needed.
Sneak is The Daywalker's main support. Along with Archery and Conjuration, the Daywalker can summon a bow when ever it is needed to deliver the first lethal strike to his enemies from the darkness. When danger is eminent, the Daywalker can slip into the shadows and lose any pursuers.
The Daywalker has studied all schools of magic, gaining various benefits from each. It has learned how to harness the death-like state it sets the carrier in to enhance it's power, how to control the elements to force more power into it's blade, and how to cast even the loudest of spells as silent as death.
Through Hermaeous Mora's guidance, the Daywalker has learned how to re-wire it's own mind. When the parasite has crafted what the shell needs to defend itself, it re-works the brain's circuitry to allow for more focus on it's offensive and defensive abilities.
The Daywalker has leeched many skills and abilities from it's various hosts: some of them were priests, and the blessing was carried over with the parasite, the life as a sailor has taught it how to heal better, while it's life as a thief gave it luck while acquiring money. Even it's lives as a smith and alchemist has carried over, giving it knowledge from techniques long past.
How to become a Daywalker
To represent the Daywalking capabilities, you would of course enchant various pieces of gear with Fortify Magicka, Health, and Stamina. When done at 100 Enchanting, and Necromage, the amount is around 77 points to each, so only one of each of these enchantments are needed. The full list of gear with enchantments will be provided below.
Another part, and probably the most important, is to use an Advanced Stone. What is an Advanced Stone? The Advanced Stones were found by Mason through his 'quest' for the perfect Sentinel, and they can house great power for those who activate them. To get this power, you must brew a couple of restoration potions. One that is just a restoration potion, while another has an extra effect to it. Like Mason said in his Obsidian Sentinel build, the ingredients can easily be found as you leave Helgen. Abacean Longfin, Cyradilic Spadetail, and White Cap to be specific. My potions ended up at roughly 25%, and then 36% when I drank the second potion, and my regeneration was faster, albeit not much, than normal regen. You can exploit this if you wish, but I chose to keep it low to keep enjoyablity.
Skills
Level 30 spread: http://skyrimcalculator.com/#245839
Level 60 spread: http://skyrimcalculator.com/#245833
Level 81 (before re-wire) spread: http://skyrimcalculator.com/#243507
Level 81 (after re-wire) spread: http://skyrimcalculator.com/#243502
I have given two level 81 perk spreads for one reason: Black Book: Waking Dreams. As most of you know, it can 're-wire' your character's skills with this book. You may plan to re-wire earlier if you wish, but I was nearly to 81 when Dragonborn came out, so I waited until said level 81.
Thanks to Henson for help with the details, Vix helping with the lore, Ben C for his ever helpful criticism, and Ponty for the screenshots.
