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The Dragon of the North

Tags: #Knight 
  • October 4, 2017

    Hello everybody.This is my first build i post here.Hope you enjoy :D

    This is the dragon knight, a knight of the dragon from the province of high rock that has only one thing in his sights: making skyrim a peacefull and better place. He will do anything to aquire this, by destroying assassins and covens of vampires and taking over imperial citys with the stormcloaks, making sure the holds are treated well by the jarls by aquiring thaneship in every stormcloak controlled teritory. he will use both his martial and magical skills to do so.

    *Race*: The dragon knight will be a nord of skyrim, granting in a resistance to his own favourite magic style and a good boost in martial skills

    *Stats*: The knight will have 40% magika for his main spells, 40% health for surviving every fight he gets in and 20% for power attaks and sprinting across his beautifull ancestral homeland

    *Skills*: As for the skills he is going to use he will use the folloiwng skills: Two handed: this skill will increase the usefullness of either the greatswords or warhammers. the follosing perks will be used: Barbarian(5/5 if possible) Champion's stance and Devastating blow

                                                                                                             heavy armor: The juggernout and well fitted perks are usually enough, but if not using the steed stone, also invest in the left side of the tree for the Conditioned perk

                                                                                                             Restoration: the main healing skill, the main perks being novice, aprentice, adept casting perks, suplemented by Regeneration and Respite perk, usefull in long, drawn out fights in wich both stamina and health are depleted

                                                                                                             Smithing: Like all good fighting builds, Smithing is used for making and s=using the best equipment out there. The perks will be: Steel for the beggining, Elven for the Paladin-like swords and the Advanced armors perk for the nordic, steel plate and dawnguard heavy. also take the arcane smithing perk for the magical artefacts found. If you wish, invest 3 perks more in the right side for the ebony and stalhrim armors and weapons.

             There are 3 skills not as concentrated on, the minor skills: Destruction: 4 perks: novice, aprentice, adept destruction and augmented frost(only one)

                                                                                                  Archery(wich can even not be used) : overdraw, eagle eye and the slow time perk, woch can be used as a ranged alternative if you dont like destruction

                                                                                                  Enchanting: Enchanter perk(all 5 if possible), fire and frost enchanter

     *Equipment*: As for the armor, you can have a few combinations: steel plate enchanted with fortify restoration/destruction, fortify health and fortify two handed.

                                                                                                   dawnguard and nordic armor with the same "holy" enchants

                                                                                                   stalhrim armor toped withed the dukaan dragon priest mask from solsthiem, wich makes you immune to frost magic and increases your frost damage output(this is good for the archery classes as well, the bows being enchanted with frost)

                       The weapons: You can have a few options here. Depending if you are being based on warhammers or greatswords: The bloodskaal blade

                                                                                                                                                                                              Stormfang(both being found in the dragonborn dlc.

                                                                                                                                                                                               Nordic carved, Elven, Glass and Stalhrim can do theyr jobs too, but make sure you enchant them with frost damage

                                                                                                                                                                                                Dawnguard Runee hammer

                                                                                                                                                                                               Any bow or crossbow as long as its enchanted with a frost enchant.

                                                                                                  

     

    *Backstory*:the knight's tale beggins with one of his father's many adventures in skyrim. His father was a breton adventurer, trying to gain fame and recognition. On one of his adventures in skyrim, he met his future wife while looking for a smith to repair his broken sword. The two fell in love right away and decided to marry and move in her husband's estate near camlorn,an estate once ruined but brought back to its former glory by the noble. they had a child soon, a healthy, strong boy. The boy grew quiqly and even quiqer he gained an interest in smithing and using of greatswords and warhammers. He trained every day with boys from other estates, but nobody could outmatch his strength and endurance. Soon he took an interest in history, magic and fine things. He aranged with a friend of his father, who was a mage to teach him about theese things. Tho he heard about yisgramor and talos from his mother,he discovered more by talking with this man everyday, after training witht the sword of course. Once hitting the age of 18 years old, he took a horse from his father,s stables and crafted a set of heavy steel armor and a greatsword. He goes on and tells everyone farewell. The mage, his father, his mother and even his trainers and the smith. he was gifted with some spell tomes from the mage: a basic healing spell for the dire situations and a flames spell alongside some books about lore. He set out and he done the odd job or two, fighting some necromancers or slaying a troll. But he once heard about the dragon knightly order from daggerfall. he went and joined immediately. he was accepted after showing his kindness and strength by hunting some annimals or slaying some traitors. he was trained further in restoration and destruction magic by the paladins of the order,seeing he has an interest of theese things. he took a interest in frost magic and his masters took to liking to call him the ice dragon. He bacame known in the kingdom of daggerfall for his courage. Once he got a letter from his mother telling that a war is raging on and he should join in. She was talking about the great war. The dragon knight, now 21 heard about the civil war in skyrim and decided to go and help the stormcloaks to liberate they'r country. he went by carriage through bruma and eventually arrived in cyrodiil. there he passed the mountainous pass thrpugh the jerrals and was cought in the stormcloak ambush.

    *Factions and Quests*: The main questlines you will be doing as the dragon knight will be the main questline, The companions, The dawnguard, The stormcloaks and optionnaly the College of Winterhold. The knight will do Quests for people that need helping and holy quests like "The book of love", Kinareth's temple uest and Dibella's temple quest.

    Spells and powers: frost cloak spells and the Dawnguard holy spells. Also take the steed stone and lord stone if not going for the conditioning perk.

    Gameplay: Start the fight by casting a frost cloak spell or Stendarr's aura. If using archery try and take on the enemies from the distance. then equip the preffered weapon and in dire situations, heal yourself.

    This is the renewed build. I hope its better now. Have fun playing it!

  • Member
    October 4, 2017

    Given you a like of encouragement, Bjorn :) I recommend you head to the CB Group's "Please Read Before Posting" thread and give it a skim - there are lots of useful links and advice in there :)

  • October 5, 2017

    thank you very much for this, i have read the template and everything i need for the future builds i may d. thank you :) this one was pretty shallow maybe il make it better

     

  • October 5, 2017

    Hey Bjorn, welcome to Skyrim CB I'm glad you took the plunge and posted a build.  However, there are two things that all character builds must have, the first is a list of the perks you took, and the second is a description of how the build is intended to be played a "gameplay section" if you will.  Right now you are missing both of these which makes recreating this build impossible.  I will leave this up for the next few days to give you time to add a list of perks and a gameplay section.  However per the group rules a build without those two things will get deleted.

    Alternatively you could move this to the Workshop where you can get feed back on the build while you work out a perk list and gameplay section to add to the build. 

    If you have any concerns or questions please don't hesitate to ask.

  • October 5, 2017

    Did everything i had to do to renew it. Hope its playable now :D

     

  • Member
    October 5, 2017

    Hello bjiornironside and welcome to the CB. I would like to give some advice in order to make the build easier for the reader to understand and see what it is about. I would recommend to seperate the build into smaller sections which are:

    Concept: Here you can say a few things regarding the theme of your character/ build and maybe the class of your character.

    Backstory: This is optional. Here you can put a backstory for the character of your build but try not to have too much text. What I do is go at the roleplay section of the site and make a profile for my character there including their backstory.

    Character Profile: Here you list your character's race, skills, amount of magicka/health/stamina distribution, factions, alignment, brief description of armor, weapons, shouts etc.

    Perks Section: Here you list the perks used by your character, modded or vanilla or use a perk spread icon.

    Gear, Enchantments: Here you can list the gear your character will use or the enchantments put on your character's gear or some other specific gear the character should use.

    Roleplay: Here you will talk about the way your character will behave and how he will approach certain things/situations/quests during the playthrough for example a knight type of character can't go around stealing.

    Quests: Here you will list what quests your character will do or some quests that should be done due to the character's roleplay for example a deadric quest or something like that.

    Gameplay: This is actually where you explain the mechanics of your character's fighting style in game and how you use your skills, shouts, spells etc in any given battle situatation for example in melee or ranged battle or against cetain types of enemies like mages or dragons or melee fighters.

    Mods: This is optional. if you make a modded build like a build using some perk overhaul like ordinator or perkus maximus etc you should also mention the mods that should be installed to play the build.

    In the end of the build you can say a few closing words and that it! ^_^

    This is pretty much how I make the format for my builds. Hope this helps and if you need to see some examples of other builds there are quite a few up in the CB and you could check mine in my profile under the "My Shared Content" section and get some ideas.

    Have fun!

     

  • October 6, 2017

    wow thanks everybody for the tips and warm reception :) I used the builds from this site and i thought about writing some of my own favourite builds.