Unseen Seer

High Elf - Staff - Heavy - Mage

Background

Mysterious and elusive, the unseen seer trades in secrets. Subterfuge is their business, in the same way that death is an assassin’s business, and they use magic to gather other people’s secrets.

I based this on a Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 edition prestige class. I was limited in what I could do relative to the class in D&D with as the closest spells to the Divination school are Detect Life, Detect Dead and Clairvoyance. The premise of the class is to know what is going on and avoid trouble and alough the calm spells fit the role better you do need to kill things in Skyrim so I decided to go the Frenzy route instead to use your stolen secrets to manipulate others into attacking the comrades. This avoided the build from being another Destruction mage and I purposefully kept the Destruction spell cost reduction lighter than I normally would do softly encourage this.

Weapons

Any Destruction staff as a backup. I made a Wooden Staff of Thunderbolt but never needed to use it.

Armor

Heavy armor and Robes or Illusion or Robes of Conjuration and Illusion at the start of the game. The final gear is a Archmage Robes, Madness Boots and Madness Gauntlets.

The Archmage Robes are awarded upon completion of the College of Winterhold faction main quests.

The Madness Boots and Gauntlets can be crafted with the Ebony Smithing perk, 5 Madness Ingots, 2 Ebony Ingots, 4 leather strips This means you need 10 Madness Ore. To unlock the ability to craft the Madness items the following has to be done.

• Kill Thoron at the end of the Saints and Seducers quest chain.
• Read the Note on Amber and Madness Ore
• Kill Evethra and read her journal

The quest chain can be started by talking to Ri’Saad who travels between Whiterun and Markarth and once completed all Khajiit caravans have a chance to sell Madness Ore.

Spells

Alteration for Utility spells. Destruction for shock spells. Illusion for Frenzy spells and Invisibility. Restoration for heals.

Standing Stones

Use the Atronach Stone for 50% spell absoption, 50 magicka but -50% magicka regeneration.

Shrines

Use a Shrine of Talos for the 20% reduction to shout cooldowns.

Shouts

Character Creation

Female High Elf

Pick female as the sex for your character as there are more male humanoids than females to fight in Skyrim so the 10% damage bonus against the opposite sex from Agent of Dibella gets more use. All Dwemer Automatons count as Male.

Attribute Distribution

Place attribute points at 1 / 1 / 0. At level 65 which is required for all the perks the attributes are:

Perk Point Distribution

The skill boosts for High Elves are marked in bold.

Skills and Perks

Mage Skills

Warrior Skills

Rogue Skills

Spells

Alteration

From the Bow of Shadows quest that you get from the steward in Dragonsreach you can get the Detect Life spell book at the stables once you have read the ledger in Acradia's Cauldron. Cast this in the market during the day to level Alteration.

Conjuration

Soul Trap is used to level Conjuration and also fill soul gems.

Destruction

Destuction will level slowly as Frenzy spells are you main way to kill enemies except for when you face a single enemy where they are Destruction spells are used to finish them. Faralda at the College of Winterhold can be used to train this up to level 90.

Illusion

Courage can be used to level illusion when not in combat and Fury when in combat.

Restoration

You can start using better healing spells as the cost reduction perks are acquired but I pretty much just used Healing and Fast Healing before getting enchanted gear.

Enchantments

The effects listed below are based upon 100 Enchanting skill, all the enchanting perks in the build and with a set of enchanted crafting gear. Read my guide on making crafting gear if you are not familiar with it.

With the Sallowed Regent Black Book the magnitude of all enchantments can be increased.

Please note that Black Books can only be used on Solstheim.

The magnitude of the enchantments can be further increased by equipping 4 pieces of Azhidal's gear.

Alchemy

Potion of Fortify Health

All of the ingredients can be found in or around Whiterun.

Potion of Fortify Carry Weight

All the Mora Tapinella you need are on the way from Helgen to Whiterun. Scaly Philiota can be found near the Alchemists Hut if you travel towards Ivarstead from Helgen. Steel-Blue Entoloma are from Khajiit merchants.

Potion of Fortify Destruction

All the glowing mushrooms you need are at the farm. Nightshade are by the halls of the dead in large settlements.

Potion of Fortify Enchanting

Dreugh Wax and Stoneflower Petals are only available from Khajiit caravans. Some travel between Whiterun and Markarth. Snowberries are abundant near Windhelm.

Potion of Fortify Smithing

Dreugh Wax and Gold Kanet are only available from Khajiit caravans. Some travel between Whiterun and Markarth. Glowing Mushrooms are in Falmer caves.

Farming

For more information on getting to and setting up your farm read my guide.

Main Area (27)

Side Area (11)

Planters (6)

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