I know the feeling, but unless someone can do the mail trick for you, you're kinda stuck. In all honesty though, even with time constraints working against you, the difference in leveling once you get your weapon will be minimal. Because say your don't find your first sword and shield until after you leave the tutorial (this is a worst case scenario). By the time you get out, you will be starting level 4-5 quests and killing level 3-5 enemies. This experience gain is going to be constant if you are within the right range, which you should be at this time. So since your one-handed skill is so low it will grow a lot faster then say your two-handed which leveled with you because you are gaining more experience than you technically should at that skill level.
A more grandois example would be you are level 50 and haven't once picked up a destruction staff. Your destruction staff skill is at level 1, but your character is level 50, doing level 50 things. Turning in a level 50 quest, will grant you enough experience to level your new destruction staff by multiple points.
I hope that all makes sense, I am having trouble describing this lol. In the end, each level your skill line needs a static amount of experience to level up and killing different level enemies or doing different level quests reward varying amounts of experience. So if you pick up a new skill line later in the game, even as early as level 5 or so, it will level more quickly until it kinda evens out with your character level. So don't worry about it too much
I know the feeling, but unless someone can do the mail trick for you, you're kinda stuck. In all honesty though, even with time constraints working against you, the difference in leveling once you get your weapon will be minimal. Because say your don't find your first sword and shield until after you leave the tutorial (this is a worst case scenario). By the time you get out, you will be starting level 4-5 quests and killing level 3-5 enemies. This experience gain is going to be constant if you are within the right range, which you should be at this time. So since your one-handed skill is so low it will grow a lot faster then say your two-handed which leveled with you because you are gaining more experience than you technically should at that skill level.
A more grandois example would be you are level 50 and haven't once picked up a destruction staff. Your destruction staff skill is at level 1, but your character is level 50, doing level 50 things. Turning in a level 50 quest, will grant you enough experience to level your new destruction staff by multiple points.
I hope that all makes sense, I am having trouble describing this lol. In the end, each level your skill line needs a static amount of experience to level up and killing different level enemies or doing different level quests reward varying amounts of experience. So if you pick up a new skill line later in the game, even as early as level 5 or so, it will level more quickly until it kinda evens out with your character level. So don't worry about it too much