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The Ruinlord is a combination of a dark and grave knight. By melding together the martial capabilities and magical arts of the dark knight with the corrupt vitality and physical prowess of the graveknight, what we get is an incarnate of chaos. One who is specially gifted with ability to cull many lives while leaving behind a path of destruction and decay.

The Ruinlord is a champion of Death and was once a champion of the people. The Lady Stone is taken to reflect your adherence to Namira while the blessings of Arkay and Talos depicts what you once were; however, those virtues has long since been defiled.

Enchanting is taken to reflect your ability to bind the souls of those you've slain, those you've culled ultimately helps to empower you.
Smithing is primarily used in order to keep your greatsword maintained. You'll need to routinely sharpen the edge of your blade with all the things you'll be cutting up.
Alchemy is taken to portray the Ruinlord being constantly surrounded by a noxious aura, one that helps to boosts every aspect of your ability.
Heavy Armor is taken to demonstrate your uncanny ability in withstanding countless deadly blows.
Destruction, One-handed, Two-Handed and Blocking reflects your complete mastery of destructive magic and wielded weapons, the Ruinlord has unrestrained versatility in combat.

Spells and Powers:

• Raise Zombie
• All Novice Destruction spells
• All Master Destruction spells
• Fireball
• Ice Storm
• Chain Lightning
• Candle Light
• Scroll of Guardian Circle
• Secret of Arcana
• All All-Maker Stone Powers

Shouts:

• Become Ethereal
• Elemental Fury
• Marked for Death
• Bend Will
• Summon Durnehviir
• Storm Call

The Ruinlord favors the unholy matrimony of bound souls onto cold steel. As such your overall power is proportional to the strength of your enchantments.

With the power at your disposal you will be more than able in bringing down swaths of enemies with each swing of your greatsword (+300 physical damage). You'll have the ability to channel vast amounts energy and miasma into your weapons allowing you to rend anyone and thing asunder (+300 chaos damage, +150 fire/frost/shock damage, +100 health absorption, poison, attack speed). Those who attempt to flee or fight the from afar will find to their great dismay that even distance will not grant them a moments rest, for the Ruinlord can just as will ravage and end them with a cacophony of spells (+2x listed damage). And what little damage you do take will be quickly regenerated thanks to your unholy vigor imparted to you by your armor, which serves by greatly enhancing your natural health, stamina, and magicka capacity and regeneration (++ health, +30 health regeneration, ++ stamina, ++ stamina regeneration, ++ magicka, ++ magicka regeneration).

Armor: Your armor has been thoroughly corrupted through out all of the mindless slaughtering. It has become sentient and thirsts for the blood of the living and hungers for the souls of the dead. In doing so your armor encapsulates and further amplifies the your power, helping to further fuel your drive in spread discord all over Tameriel.

The visage of the Ruinlord entraps the arcane knowledge of the lives you've claimed, they grants you the ability to channel vast variety of maleficent spells. The armor and gauntlets of the Ruinlord helps to contain your malignant flesh and soul, the armor has become one with you gifting you its unholy regenerative prowess, allowing you to absorb fatal attacks one after another. And the boots of the Ruinlord ensures that you'll continue standing and moving, even should every bone in your body shatters and every fiber of your muscles and tendons gets ripped to shreds.

Clothing: In ages past before being defiled into what you are now, you were once a champion of the people, of Talos; however, even as a Ruinlord you're still "blessed" by the people. For as a champion of Namira, by consuming the very flesh of the people you were tasked to defend you're able to further invigorate your wretched existence.

Ruinbringer: By continually honing your greatsword in the flesh and blood of the still breathing and having it bask in the souls of the damned, the Ruinlord's greatsword transcends the mortal planes. The greatsword is capable of seething layers of miasma which is especially deadly towards the living and invites forth total debilitation towards those unlucky enough get struck by it. It also has the ability of being used as a conduit for souls wishing to impart their hatred and wrath upon the world, allowing you to wield your weapons faster and deadlier.

Dark Savior: What was once your ornate holy sword entrusted to you to be used to protect the living is now used with the intent to extract the souls of the living as well as the dead. The silver sword is especially powerful when used purge the undead, however is also equally capable in scourging the living.


Chaos Stalhrim Weapons (Reaper's Edge, Blade of Resonance): The Ruinlord has the innate ability to channel vast amounts of destructive power into specially soul bounded weapons helping to give birth to a new type of chaotic weapon, one that is capable of discharging extremely explosive amounts of volatile energy.

By combining Chaos Damage with a second effect, even those that wouldn't normally get boosted, you'll be supercharging that second effect to a mind boggling 5x the magnitude and this is WITHOUT THE USE OF EXPLOITS (ie. NO RESTORATION STACKING). This means it's possible in turning a paltry +20 absorb health to an unheard of +100 magnitude (this works for other effects too).

Now , when applied onto Stalhrim you'll find your chaos and frost damage boosted even further by 25%. Meaning you can achieve a possible damage of +500 damage.. ALL WITHOUT THE USE OF ANY FORTIFY RESTORATION OR DESTRUCTION POTIONS. Drink a fortify destruction and you'll be doing +1000 damage. Now get even more ridiculous here and assume your target was poisoned and you'll find yourself doing a mind boggling +2000 damage.

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Information in regards to fortify potions:

You can effectively boost your enchanted equipment, standing stones, and blessings by drinking a fortify restoration/destruction potion then re-equipping them.

You can take this even further by stacking fortifying effects and then boosting your enchantments. As of the latest official (1.9v) Skyrim, you'll only be able stack Restoration potions (confirmed with TES5Edit).

The Ruinlord may be somewhat craft intensive, however most of the mind numbing grinding can be circumvented by utilizing the fortify restoration loop. Getting Alchemy and Smithing up this way ensures you'll take advantage of your gear's enchantments without vesting much time and ingredients/components. You'll want Smithing maxed out early on so you can reset it after having crafted your Daedric Helmet(s).

In order to stack fortify restoration potion, all you require is two variation of the potion; a single effect potion and a multiple effect potion; drink the single effect potion followed by the multiple effect potion and repeat until you get your desired results.

Leveling Alchemy and Smithing with Fortify Restoration loop:

1. Stock pile at least 2 dozen Salt Pile, 1 dozen Abecean Longfin, 1 dozen Cyrodilic Spadetail, and 1 dozen White Cap (or Garlic), this will be for your Fortify Restoration; stock pile at least 1 Glowing Mushroom and 1 Blisterwort, this will be your Fortify Smithing.
2. Make sure your you're atleast at Alchemist 2/5.
3. Make an alchemy gear set with grandsoul gems and wear it.
4. Make a Fortify Restoration (Cyrodilic Spadetail) and a Fortify Restoration(Salt Pile + Abecean Longfin + White Cap).
5. Drink both potions, Re-equip alchemy gear set.
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until your percentages are in the 7 digits or until your Alchemy hits 100.
7. Make a Fortify Smithing.
8. Buy a couple steel/iron ingots and steel/iron armor/weapons.
9. Drink your Fortify Smithing and refine/temper as many armor/weapons as quickly as you can until your Smithing hits 100.

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Death's Touch
Those you touch will find peace in annihilation.

1. Repeatedly cast Raise Zombie on essential/unkillable actors until they turn to ash piles (ie. Nelkir whenever he opens his mouth).

Distort Reality
By exuding your presence you're able to warp the planes of reality.

1. Summon Durnehviir
2. Drink Fortify Destruction
3. Storm Call

Twisted Carnation
By wrapping yourself in the wails of those you have slain, you're able to undergo an unholy rebirth.

1. Have Namira's Blessing
2. Drink Fortify Health and Fortify Healing Rate
3. Use Scroll of Guardian Circle then immediately invoke Waters of Life
4. Become Ethereal

Execration
Rip away your foes' health, defense, and resistance.

1. Marked for Death
2. Apply Poison
3. Sweep

Frenzy ⇛ Efflux
The souls of the wicked rushes into every crevice of your weapons allowing you to swing with a great unholy fervor.

1. Elemental Fury
2. Drink Fortify Two-Handed or ⇛ Fortify Destruction
3. ⇛ Hotkey to Enchanted Weapon(s)

Poltergeist
As if having a mind of its own, you have a chance of doing additional strikes with a single swing of your weapon.

1. Move your directionals in multiple directions while swinging your weapon(s)

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Will o' the Wisp ⇛
AoE Rally, +2000 AoE frost dmg/10s
Enrapture your enemies to your ghastly reverence

1. Cast Candle Light to lure out enemies
2. Bend Will
3. Drink Weakness to Frost and Fortify Destruction
4. Invoke Secret of Arcana
5. Cast Blizzard then immediately invoke North Wind
6. Become Ethereal ⇛

⇛ Ardor ⇛
+1200 AoE fire damage, +480 fire dmg/4s
Envelop those around in you in phantom destruction.

1. Drink Fortify Destruction
2. Invoke Secret of Arcana
3. Become Ethereal
4. ⇛ Cast Fire Storm then immediately invoke Sun Flare ⇛

⇛ Sublime Horn
AoE Stagger, +200 shock dmg/s
Pierce the very surrounding with a lance formed out of pure lightning.

1. Drink Fortify Destruction
2. Cyclone
3. Invoke Secret of Arcana
4. ⇛ Cast Lightning Storm