The Trickster, a magician who does not shy away from more mundane weapons in order to complete his task. They wander Tamriel pulling their pranks and scheming their way to success. As a child he was mirthful and enjoyed a good joke, much to the other villagers chargin. When other children started to bully the Trickster, they looked to anyone for help, parents, villagers, elders, none would help the trickster as they had pulled to many jokes and pranks to warrant any sympathy. Unfourtunetly this led to the trickster finding their own ways to protect themself, Illusions, Stealth, Archery, Alchemy, and Enchantments all became part of the Tricksters arsenal. Quickly turing their enemies against each other then disappearing around corners the Trickster watches as their advesaries quickly rip each other apart in rages of fury or flee in fear. The Trickster then fells them with a hail of arrows enchanted and poisioned to make the kill faster.
Race and Stats: The Tricksters race is High Elf for the magic abilites, talents in illusion and magical recharge racial ability. The gender doesn't really matter, you want a balanced Magic, Health, and Stamina because the trickster does use weapons like bows and crossbows. However they don't use very much in the way of armor so they are definetly a glass cannon, thus why you need the health if you get hit your going to need some cushion.
Major Skills: The major skills are Illusion, Stealth, and Archery your going to want a Mastery in Illusion, Adept skill equivilent in sneak, and for Archery your going to want to fill out the tree. Don't bother with Illusion dual cast if you don't think you need to, it's not really worth it.
Minor Skills: Your Minor skills are Alchemy and Enchantments, alchemy is the most important of the two, your going to want to increase the effectiveness of your potions as much as possible, nothing else in the tree really matters though, while in Enchantments you should focus of increasing the effectiveness of your enchantments and then I personally went with focusing on frost enchantments as they slow down the enemy as well buying you more time to use illusions or just to kill them with your bow.
Equipment: For your clothing I suggest going with the Adept Illusion Robes and torturers hood as it also provides some armor and gives that cool asthetic look we're looking for. I would also use Steel Plated or Ebony boots and gloves as it adds protection and gives your character the dramatic look of those styles of armor that work well with the tricksters flashy personality. For amulets and rings I chose the Amulet of Arkay because it adds a little more health or you could also go with the amulet of saarthal. For rings you will want to go with magicka enhancing rings to really give you an extra edge as a caster. Also get the Antorach stone and the blessing of juilianos.
Staffs: As a caster you will need some staffs and as a trickster I recommend the Wabbajack it is random and can be deadly.
Shouts: The Whirlwind Shout can help you put distance between you and your opponents to be able to do more damage.
Gameplay: Lets run through a few scenarios of the trickster fighting a few enemies.
Bandits: Perfect for practice, you will want to remain hidden at first to launch a few fury spells at the group of bandits, then while their tearing into each other you can step out of the shadows to shoot a few arrows into the carnage (remember this is not an assassin build but a trickster build.) Never be afraid to get a few innocent bystanders caught in the action with a few more fury spells, if people run towards you to attack, you can use either calm or fear, I recommend fear because it puts distance between you and them without you actually having to move that much. if your allies run away use courage on them to keep them in the melee.
Draugr: Draugr are harder to cast illusions on so if your a low level you may want to rely on your sneak and archery as well as enchantements. Try to kill them before they notice you or wake up, so shoot from a distance and fire as many arrows as best as you can in order to damage them.
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Dragons: This is where it gets tricky, obviously you can't really use illusions on them and archery is going to take a while, but don't worry your not out of tricks yet, this is why you have to have a balanced health, magic, stamina ratio. So your going to want to run but use arrows to make sure that the dragon is following you and try to find another enemy, my favorite is giants. Now becaus the dragon is now within a giant camp they will fight each other, and if your lucky enough you can throw in a few more creatures with fury spells, use the wild life to your advantage.
Factions: It doesn't really matter what factions you join, I would recommend the thieves guild and college of winterhold to increase your skills in magic and stealth as well as archery but you could join the companions or the dark brotherhood and gain similar experience in magic, stealth and archery.
Backstory: The Trickster was a young child who even though they are a high elf grew up in the nord village of helgen in skyrim and spent much of their childhood discriminated against. They pulled pranks as a sort of petty revenge and to get attention because they didn't get much from their adoptive parents as their adoptive mother had died a heretics death as a talos worshipper at the hands of the thalmor and their father was a vetran of the war and eventually left to join the stormcloaks years later. So as they grew older and the other children bullied the trickster more and more aggressively the trickster kept on having to invent knew ways to defeat their much physically stronger opponents, unfortunetly one day when the trickster was a teenager the bullies who usually bullied them grew tired of this and decided to give the high elf a good beating. Once they cornered him outside the village armed with maces and war hammers, it triggered the magical abilities of the trickster and he cast a fury spell, wherin the bullies all masacered themselves and the trickster was accused of murdering them in cold blood. Obviously he had to leave after that, he then spent most of his years as a teenager travelling skyrim and learning more about illusion and his other skills until his return to helgen at the start of the game.
Special Move: Choir of the Mad- Cast the Frenzy spell, then switch between your bow with fear potion on the arrows and your wabbajack and deal damage into the crowd of enemies. Use the Whirlwind sprint to move throughout the battlefield to deal with all the enemies you are fighting.
The Trickster, a magician who does not shy away from more mundane weapons in order to complete his task. They wander Tamriel pulling their pranks and scheming their way to success. As a child he was mirthful and enjoyed a good joke, much to the other villagers chargin. When other children started to bully the Trickster, they looked to anyone for help, parents, villagers, elders, none would help the trickster as they had pulled to many jokes and pranks to warrant any sympathy. Unfourtunetly this led to the trickster finding their own ways to protect themself, Illusions, Stealth, Archery, Alchemy, and Enchantments all became part of the Tricksters arsenal. Quickly turing their enemies against each other then disappearing around corners the Trickster watches as their advesaries quickly rip each other apart in rages of fury or flee in fear. The Trickster then fells them with a hail of arrows enchanted and poisioned to make the kill faster.
Race and Stats: The Tricksters race is High Elf for the magic abilites, talents in illusion and magical recharge racial ability. The gender doesn't really matter, you want a balanced Magic, Health, and Stamina because the trickster does use weapons like bows and crossbows. However they don't use very much in the way of armor so they are definetly a glass cannon, thus why you need the health if you get hit your going to need some cushion.
Major Skills: The major skills are Illusion, Stealth, and Archery your going to want a Mastery in Illusion, Adept skill equivilent in sneak, and for Archery your going to want to fill out the tree. Don't bother with Illusion dual cast if you don't think you need to, it's not really worth it.
Minor Skills: Your Minor skills are Alchemy and Enchantments, alchemy is the most important of the two, your going to want to increase the effectiveness of your potions as much as possible, nothing else in the tree really matters though, while in Enchantments you should focus of increasing the effectiveness of your enchantments and then I personally went with focusing on frost enchantments as they slow down the enemy as well buying you more time to use illusions or just to kill them with your bow.
Equipment: For your clothing I suggest going with the Adept Illusion Robes and torturers hood as it also provides some armor and gives that cool asthetic look we're looking for. I would also use Steel Plated or Ebony boots and gloves as it adds protection and gives your character the dramatic look of those styles of armor that work well with the tricksters flashy personality. For amulets and rings I chose the Amulet of Arkay because it adds a little more health or you could also go with the amulet of saarthal. For rings you will want to go with magicka enhancing rings to really give you an extra edge as a caster. Also get the Antorach stone and the blessing of juilianos.
Staffs: As a caster you will need some staffs and as a trickster I recommend the Wabbajack it is random and can be deadly.
Shouts: The Whirlwind Shout can help you put distance between you and your opponents to be able to do more damage.
Gameplay: Lets run through a few scenarios of the trickster fighting a few enemies.
Bandits: Perfect for practice, you will want to remain hidden at first to launch a few fury spells at the group of bandits, then while their tearing into each other you can step out of the shadows to shoot a few arrows into the carnage (remember this is not an assassin build but a trickster build.) Never be afraid to get a few innocent bystanders caught in the action with a few more fury spells, if people run towards you to attack, you can use either calm or fear, I recommend fear because it puts distance between you and them without you actually having to move that much. if your allies run away use courage on them to keep them in the melee.
Draugr: Draugr are harder to cast illusions on so if your a low level you may want to rely on your sneak and archery as well as enchantements. Try to kill them before they notice you or wake up, so shoot from a distance and fire as many arrows as best as you can in order to damage them.
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Dragons: This is where it gets tricky, obviously you can't really use illusions on them and archery is going to take a while, but don't worry your not out of tricks yet, this is why you have to have a balanced health, magic, stamina ratio. So your going to want to run but use arrows to make sure that the dragon is following you and try to find another enemy, my favorite is giants. Now becaus the dragon is now within a giant camp they will fight each other, and if your lucky enough you can throw in a few more creatures with fury spells, use the wild life to your advantage.
Factions: It doesn't really matter what factions you join, I would recommend the thieves guild and college of winterhold to increase your skills in magic and stealth as well as archery but you could join the companions or the dark brotherhood and gain similar experience in magic, stealth and archery.
Backstory: The Trickster was a young child who even though they are a high elf grew up in the nord village of helgen in skyrim and spent much of their childhood discriminated against. They pulled pranks as a sort of petty revenge and to get attention because they didn't get much from their adoptive parents as their adoptive mother had died a heretics death as a talos worshipper at the hands of the thalmor and their father was a vetran of the war and eventually left to join the stormcloaks years later. So as they grew older and the other children bullied the trickster more and more aggressively the trickster kept on having to invent knew ways to defeat their much physically stronger opponents, unfortunetly one day when the trickster was a teenager the bullies who usually bullied them grew tired of this and decided to give the high elf a good beating. Once they cornered him outside the village armed with maces and war hammers, it triggered the magical abilities of the trickster and he cast a fury spell, wherin the bullies all masacered themselves and the trickster was accused of murdering them in cold blood. Obviously he had to leave after that, he then spent most of his years as a teenager travelling skyrim and learning more about illusion and his other skills until his return to helgen at the start of the game.
Special Move: Choir of the Mad- Cast the Frenzy spell, then switch between your bow with fear potion on the arrows and your wabbajack and deal damage into the crowd of enemies. Use the Whirlwind sprint to move throughout the battlefield to deal with all the enemies you are fighting.
