This build is one of those rare treats that manages to completely satisfy your most sinister desires. Whether or not this is due the fact that you will be drinking the blood of ignorant sleeping civilians, eating from the corpses of your freshly slain victims, and sneaking around at night in order to find an easy kill - I cannot say. But I can say (without lying) that this build might just be the most fun I have ever had in Skyrim, and that it has brought a grim smile to my face on more than one occasion. This -also being my first build- I have put a lot of time and effort into, therefore I cross my fingers and hope (dear God) that you will enjoy.
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He stood there amid the burnt out ruin of his home. Everything and everyone that mattered to him was gone, and he was filled with fathomless grief... and fear. Fear of those red burning eyes, pale skin, and gruesome power. He saw again the smile on the creatures face as it slaughtered his family. It had come in the cover of darkness, the air had been cold, as if winter had been the creatures companion. Killing his family and destroying his home had only taken a matter of heartbeats, then it was gone, melted away into the darkness of night from where it had emerged…
The Diablerie Bloodmaster is a master necromancer and an expert of "The Dark Arts" who fears not the use of forbidden magics. Infact, this monstrosity warmly coldly embraces any spells that puts it at an advantage over it’s prey (and yes, I will be referring to The Diablerie Bloodmaster as “it”, for there is no humanity left inside it’s frozen heart), no matter the consequences; be it equilibrium, necromancy or ice magic. However, such power comes at a price and thus you will constantly be forced to manage your resources: making sure your health never drops too low, your magicka stays high, and that your damages is consistent.
Another major factor of this build is roleplay; because sneaking around Skyrim’s forests at night like a restless ghost and seducing innocent citizens to follow your command, both are awesome things to do. And I promise, you will experience some of the most epic, atmospheric and immersive moments ever, when not rushing the game.
- Race: Altmer (make sure he looks pale and evil, more like a creature than an elf).
- Stone: The Lord
- Shouts: Become Ethereal, Drain Vitality, Soul Tear and Storm Call.
- Major Skills: Sneak, Destruction and Conjuration.
- Minor Skills: Alteration, One-handed and Illusion.
- Stat Placement: Stamina / Health / Magicka - 0 / 1 / 2 > 3 (depending on your magicka needs).
- Equipment: Master robes of destruction, shrouded handwraps, black mage boots and gold-ruby circlet.
The Diablerie Bloodmaster is first and foremost a vampire, this means that illusion and conjuration naturally play huge parts of the build. Illusion is used in conjunction with sneak to stay hidden with spells such as invisibility and muffle, causing fear and frenzy spells to be used sparingly, if ever. This is because the Diablerie Bloodmaster is a fast killer (as described in the intro), preferring destruction spells and sneak attacks to swiftly execute it’s victims rather than watching them kill each other, or run in dismay.
Conjuration is used for multiple reasons, most of them essential. The first, is using cheap revenant-spells to raise the dead as a distraction, a breathing space if you will, that allows the Diablerie Bloodmaster to slip back into invisibility and single out it’s next target. The second is for when engaging in all-out-combat; you see, The Diablerie Bloodmaster isn't the most survivable of characters due to most of this guy’s resources being spent on offence. Therefore a 800 hp frost atronach can definitely come in handy when caught red-handed and out in the open. The third and last use of conjuration, is also the most badass - the summoning of daedra (and other deadly beasts) to do your bidding, and that is in my opinion at least, where the true power of conjuration lies.
However, make no mistake - The Diablerie Bloodmaster is not a nightblade, nor a shadowmancer. This character is something completely unique, a mix between several archetypes such as the classical vampire, the bloodmage and the unholy warrior. The warrior part comes into play when you add alteration and one-handed into the mixture of conjuration, destruction, sneak and illusion. The outcome is a spellblade fueled by the blood of it’s victims, vampirism, and self sacrifice.
Before you unleash your unholy crusade of death upon Skyrim, there are a few items, weapons and spells that need collecting. Until you have collected this equipment you should play as an ordinary vampire: pretend to be a normal citizen, join the collage, learn about magic, allow your powers to grow, and never reveal your sinister secret...
Spells:
Essentials:
- Vampirism: The source to most of your power, the earlier you become a vampire the better.
- Ring of Namira: For consuming the blood of your victims, and thus stealing their strength.
- Necromancer Amulet: The synergy between this amulet, vampirism and and the ring of Namira is awesome. The health and stamina loss is almost completely countered by the ring, and you will receive epic bonuses to your conjuration and magick.
- The Lord Stone: Sticks and stones may break your bones (not), but spells and swords will never harm you.
- Gauldur Blackblade: With your only defense being alteration, some drain health really comes in handy.
Once these items have been collected, you can start to feel the animalistic power of this build for the first time. This is how it sums up: you will have a base magicka of 200 (Altmer + Amulet), your health will be equal to a character 5 levels higher (ring of Namira), your conjurings will be 25% cheaper (amulet), you will be 25% harder to detect (vampirism), you will have 45% magic resistance (Lord + Alteration Perk) and as a stage vampire you will have 50% frost immunity. As you can probably imagine The Diablerie Bloodmaster is no joke, and is capable of casting extremely expensive (and thereby powerful) spells at very low levels, allowing for epic bursts of damage.
In-fight: First thing to do when engaging in combat, is making sure that you have the advantage of surprise - do this by casting invisibility straight off the bat. The second thing to do, is to gain crowd control; this is typically done by sneak-attacking a troublesome enemy (then drinking his blood to gain extra health), and reviving him with a necromantic-conjuration-spell (or summoning a atronach). Now you unleash hell: whilst you’re undead minion is tanking the enemies, you start to pick off foes by starting a storm of ice-destruction-magic. Keep spamming spells until, either your victims are slain, or you run out of magick. When out of magicka use Equilibrium to gain more, then use this magicka to cast a frost atronach and defensive-alteration-spells so that you can safely engage in melee. Hack and slash your way through the last few enemies that survived the onslaught.
Out-of-fight: When you hear stories of farmers gone missing, and cattle found dead - you can almost be certain that it was the work of The Bloodmaster, for blood is the fuel that drives it, and it constantly needs to feed on corpses or sleeping victims. Therefore, when out of combat, you will be spending most of your time haunting ancient crypts, performing forbidden rituals and stalking innocent people for an easy kill.
However, in order to truly play as an outcast creature of the darkest nature, I have made a couple of custom missions. These mission allow you to embrace the atmosphere of the build much more:
*These missions are best suited for the build when you have completed a few quests, and you have a couple of levels (lets say 20-30) on your back, so you can survive easily without towns and cities*
- Get a high bounty, (minimum 1000 gold) in all of the hold so you are attacked on sight. This will hugely increase immersion as it forces you to always stay hidden and out of sight, allowing for some epic moments of you sneaking around Whiterun at night hiding in the alleys and on roofs.
- Find a lair, some old forgotten cave that can serve as a base of operation where you can lay your items and have easy access to corpses (make sure it’s deep and dark so that no one will ever find you).
- Stay away from towns and cities, unless you sneak in at night in order to drink some blood from sleeping victims.
^Perkspread level 45^
Quests: College of Winterhold, Dark brotherhood, Dawnguard (vampire side ofc), The Taste of Death and Blood On The Ice.
Shadowmaster (passive): Through decades of studying necromancy, death and reanimation, The Diablerie Bloodmaster has learnt how to revive the dead in their strongest possible form, for the lowest cost of magicka.
Vampirism + Necromancer Amulet = 25% fortify conjuration, 25% better sneak, and 25% stronger illusion.
Bloodmaster (novice): By drinking the blood of your victims, and purifying your own, you steal a part of their strength and gain almost supernatural strength as well as extra potent magic capabilities.
Altmer + Lord + Amulet + feeding on corpse with Ring of Namira = +100 magicka, +75 health , - 25% health regen (instead of full 75%), and 45% magic resistance.
Crimson Waltz (apprentice): A long forgotten fighting style that capitalizes on grinding down your opponents resources whilst maintaining your own; a slow, painful and deliciously satisfying way of melee combat that leaves the victim emptied of all strength.
Flesh-spell + Gauldur Blackblade + Ice-destruction-spell + Drain Vitality = Extra armor, 25 points of drain health, stamina damage (ice spells do that) and 150 points of dmg to all attributes over 30 sec.
Winds of Winter (adept): The Diablerie Bloodmaster has mastered the element of ice (the element which walks hand in hand with the grave), and has learnt to unleash mighty elementals fueled by the cold that it unleashes.
Frost atronach x2 + Ice destruction magic + Equilibrium = Two tanks to take damage whilst you spam spells until you have no more magicka, then equilibrium to almost fully restore all magicka, then one more round of spell-spamming.
Diabolic Will (Expert): The Diablerie Bloodmaster strives to bend the will of superior creatures to his own, constantly searching for more powerful creatures to summon.
Summon Daedra (or Wrathman) x2 + 50% better conjuration + Crimzon Waltz = Three extremely deadly beasts for the slaughter (Conjure Daedra x2 is so overpowered that you will be able to annihilate almost all foes in the game.
Unleash Hell (Master): Unleash all of your power at once!!!!
Winds of Winter (swap out atronach with Daedra) + Bloodmaster to massively buff all your stats + Storm Call = mass extinction.
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This build is one of those rare treats that manages to completely satisfy your most sinister desires. Whether or not this is due the fact that you will be drinking the blood of ignorant sleeping civilians, eating from the corpses of your freshly slain victims, and sneaking around at night in order to find an easy kill - I cannot say. But I can say (without lying) that this build might just be the most fun I have ever had in Skyrim, and that it has brought a grim smile to my face on more than one occasion. This -also being my first build- I have put a lot of time and effort into, therefore I cross my fingers and hope (dear God) that you will enjoy.
***
He stood there amid the burnt out ruin of his home. Everything and everyone that mattered to him was gone, and he was filled with fathomless grief... and fear. Fear of those red burning eyes, pale skin, and gruesome power. He saw again the smile on the creatures face as it slaughtered his family. It had come in the cover of darkness, the air had been cold, as if winter had been the creatures companion. Killing his family and destroying his home had only taken a matter of heartbeats, then it was gone, melted away into the darkness of night from where it had emerged…
The Diablerie Bloodmaster is a master necromancer and an expert of "The Dark Arts" who fears not the use of forbidden magics. Infact, this monstrosity warmly coldly embraces any spells that puts it at an advantage over it’s prey (and yes, I will be referring to The Diablerie Bloodmaster as “it”, for there is no humanity left inside it’s frozen heart), no matter the consequences; be it equilibrium, necromancy or ice magic. However, such power comes at a price and thus you will constantly be forced to manage your resources: making sure your health never drops too low, your magicka stays high, and that your damages is consistent.
Another major factor of this build is roleplay; because sneaking around Skyrim’s forests at night like a restless ghost and seducing innocent citizens to follow your command, both are awesome things to do. And I promise, you will experience some of the most epic, atmospheric and immersive moments ever, when not rushing the game.
- Race: Altmer (make sure he looks pale and evil, more like a creature than an elf).
- Stone: The Lord
- Shouts: Become Ethereal, Drain Vitality, Soul Tear and Storm Call.
- Major Skills: Sneak, Destruction and Conjuration.
- Minor Skills: Alteration, One-handed and Illusion.
- Stat Placement: Stamina / Health / Magicka - 0 / 1 / 2 > 3 (depending on your magicka needs).
- Equipment: Master robes of destruction, shrouded handwraps, black mage boots and gold-ruby circlet.
The Diablerie Bloodmaster is first and foremost a vampire, this means that illusion and conjuration naturally play huge parts of the build. Illusion is used in conjunction with sneak to stay hidden with spells such as invisibility and muffle, causing fear and frenzy spells to be used sparingly, if ever. This is because the Diablerie Bloodmaster is a fast killer (as described in the intro), preferring destruction spells and sneak attacks to swiftly execute it’s victims rather than watching them kill each other, or run in dismay.
Conjuration is used for multiple reasons, most of them essential. The first, is using cheap revenant-spells to raise the dead as a distraction, a breathing space if you will, that allows the Diablerie Bloodmaster to slip back into invisibility and single out it’s next target. The second is for when engaging in all-out-combat; you see, The Diablerie Bloodmaster isn't the most survivable of characters due to most of this guy’s resources being spent on offence. Therefore a 800 hp frost atronach can definitely come in handy when caught red-handed and out in the open. The third and last use of conjuration, is also the most badass - the summoning of daedra (and other deadly beasts) to do your bidding, and that is in my opinion at least, where the true power of conjuration lies.
However, make no mistake - The Diablerie Bloodmaster is not a nightblade, nor a shadowmancer. This character is something completely unique, a mix between several archetypes such as the classical vampire, the bloodmage and the unholy warrior. The warrior part comes into play when you add alteration and one-handed into the mixture of conjuration, destruction, sneak and illusion. The outcome is a spellblade fueled by the blood of it’s victims, vampirism, and self sacrifice.
Before you unleash your unholy crusade of death upon Skyrim, there are a few items, weapons and spells that need collecting. Until you have collected this equipment you should play as an ordinary vampire: pretend to be a normal citizen, join the collage, learn about magic, allow your powers to grow, and never reveal your sinister secret...
Spells:
Essentials:
- Vampirism: The source to most of your power, the earlier you become a vampire the better.
- Ring of Namira: For consuming the blood of your victims, and thus stealing their strength.
- Necromancer Amulet: The synergy between this amulet, vampirism and and the ring of Namira is awesome. The health and stamina loss is almost completely countered by the ring, and you will receive epic bonuses to your conjuration and magick.
- The Lord Stone: Sticks and stones may break your bones (not), but spells and swords will never harm you.
- Gauldur Blackblade: With your only defense being alteration, some drain health really comes in handy.
Once these items have been collected, you can start to feel the animalistic power of this build for the first time. This is how it sums up: you will have a base magicka of 200 (Altmer + Amulet), your health will be equal to a character 5 levels higher (ring of Namira), your conjurings will be 25% cheaper (amulet), you will be 25% harder to detect (vampirism), you will have 45% magic resistance (Lord + Alteration Perk) and as a stage vampire you will have 50% frost immunity. As you can probably imagine The Diablerie Bloodmaster is no joke, and is capable of casting extremely expensive (and thereby powerful) spells at very low levels, allowing for epic bursts of damage.
In-fight: First thing to do when engaging in combat, is making sure that you have the advantage of surprise - do this by casting invisibility straight off the bat. The second thing to do, is to gain crowd control; this is typically done by sneak-attacking a troublesome enemy (then drinking his blood to gain extra health), and reviving him with a necromantic-conjuration-spell (or summoning a atronach). Now you unleash hell: whilst you’re undead minion is tanking the enemies, you start to pick off foes by starting a storm of ice-destruction-magic. Keep spamming spells until, either your victims are slain, or you run out of magick. When out of magicka use Equilibrium to gain more, then use this magicka to cast a frost atronach and defensive-alteration-spells so that you can safely engage in melee. Hack and slash your way through the last few enemies that survived the onslaught.
Out-of-fight: When you hear stories of farmers gone missing, and cattle found dead - you can almost be certain that it was the work of The Bloodmaster, for blood is the fuel that drives it, and it constantly needs to feed on corpses or sleeping victims. Therefore, when out of combat, you will be spending most of your time haunting ancient crypts, performing forbidden rituals and stalking innocent people for an easy kill.
However, in order to truly play as an outcast creature of the darkest nature, I have made a couple of custom missions. These mission allow you to embrace the atmosphere of the build much more:
*These missions are best suited for the build when you have completed a few quests, and you have a couple of levels (lets say 20-30) on your back, so you can survive easily without towns and cities*
- Get a high bounty, (minimum 1000 gold) in all of the hold so you are attacked on sight. This will hugely increase immersion as it forces you to always stay hidden and out of sight, allowing for some epic moments of you sneaking around Whiterun at night hiding in the alleys and on roofs.
- Find a lair, some old forgotten cave that can serve as a base of operation where you can lay your items and have easy access to corpses (make sure it’s deep and dark so that no one will ever find you).
- Stay away from towns and cities, unless you sneak in at night in order to drink some blood from sleeping victims.
^Perkspread level 45^
Quests: College of Winterhold, Dark brotherhood, Dawnguard (vampire side ofc), The Taste of Death and Blood On The Ice.
Shadowmaster (passive): Through decades of studying necromancy, death and reanimation, The Diablerie Bloodmaster has learnt how to revive the dead in their strongest possible form, for the lowest cost of magicka.
Vampirism + Necromancer Amulet = 25% fortify conjuration, 25% better sneak, and 25% stronger illusion.
Bloodmaster (novice): By drinking the blood of your victims, and purifying your own, you steal a part of their strength and gain almost supernatural strength as well as extra potent magic capabilities.
Altmer + Lord + Amulet + feeding on corpse with Ring of Namira = +100 magicka, +75 health , - 25% health regen (instead of full 75%), and 45% magic resistance.
Crimson Waltz (apprentice): A long forgotten fighting style that capitalizes on grinding down your opponents resources whilst maintaining your own; a slow, painful and deliciously satisfying way of melee combat that leaves the victim emptied of all strength.
Flesh-spell + Gauldur Blackblade + Ice-destruction-spell + Drain Vitality = Extra armor, 25 points of drain health, stamina damage (ice spells do that) and 150 points of dmg to all attributes over 30 sec.
Winds of Winter (adept): The Diablerie Bloodmaster has mastered the element of ice (the element which walks hand in hand with the grave), and has learnt to unleash mighty elementals fueled by the cold that it unleashes.
Frost atronach x2 + Ice destruction magic + Equilibrium = Two tanks to take damage whilst you spam spells until you have no more magicka, then equilibrium to almost fully restore all magicka, then one more round of spell-spamming.
Diabolic Will (Expert): The Diablerie Bloodmaster strives to bend the will of superior creatures to his own, constantly searching for more powerful creatures to summon.
Summon Daedra (or Wrathman) x2 + 50% better conjuration + Crimzon Waltz = Three extremely deadly beasts for the slaughter (Conjure Daedra x2 is so overpowered that you will be able to annihilate almost all foes in the game.
Unleash Hell (Master): Unleash all of your power at once!!!!
Winds of Winter (swap out atronach with Daedra) + Bloodmaster to massively buff all your stats + Storm Call = mass extinction.
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