The Ebony Shieldwall
Note - I played this on expert and it seemed to work fine, except at lower levels, it picked up at around level 10.
Backstory:
Growing up in Markath wasn't easy. The constant fear of forsworn attacks, wandering too far out and falling off a cliff. The danger was high, but this danger was what made young Urig Herarsen tough. I worked in a mine as an orphan due to my parents being brutally murdered infront of me by the forsworn. It was on that day that I vowed to always help the innocent and rid Skyrim of the Forsworn filth.
At the age of 10 I found something while mining...Ebony. This ebony is what made me turn into the crazed being that I am today. I begun to mine all the ebony and keep it for myself in secret so that it would not be taken away from me, the ebony had sickened my mind, every minute of every hour of every day I was away from it I was mad but while near ebony I was calm.
I worshipped Talos and at the age of 16, but sadly, somebody found out, if they didn't I don't know what my life would be like today.
" You there!" A shadowy figure exclaimed. " Come with me, and you won't be hurt. " I did as was asked of me and I walked off with this shadow figure. " What is this? "I asked calmly. The figure replied, " Reports say you've been worshipping Talos, this is a punishable offense and we will make an example of you. " I sprinted as fast as my legs would carry me to avoid being executed. My legs carried me to a mountain southwest of Markath. This is where I lived for a long time in the cold wilds, living off the hunt. I turned psychotic
from the withdrawl of ebony and begun to kill to ease my mind. One day many years past the date of my arrival I hunted a bear that took me to a main road where there was the same shadowy figure from the years before. It was a Thalmor, something I failed to noticed before. I was captured and taken to Helgen to be executed with the stormcloaks.
In what I thought was my final moments I remembered the vow I had made to help the innocent, a vow I never fufilled. I once again vowed that if I made it out of here alive
I would fufill my first vow.
Thus begun the adventure of The Ebony Shieldwall.
Name - Urig Herarsen
Race - Nord Werewolf
Gender - Male
Stone - Warrior until level 15, then Steed or Lord Stone
Blessing - Stendarr
Shouts - Unrelenting Force, Slow Time, Dismay, Storm call, Kynes Peace
Storylines - Main Questline, Dragonborn DLC, Dawnguard DLC (side with Dawnguard), Companions, Destory the Dark Brotherhood
Major Skills:
One-Handed - "I was Taught how to wield a sword by the miners and I have since mastered the art of the blade"
Block - "Alone in the mines I taught myself the ability to defend with a shield"
Archery - "Hunting in the cold unforgiving mountains I learnt how to shoot an arrow from a bow"
Heavy Armour - "I wear heavy armour so that the attacks I cannot block will not harm me"
Minor Skills:
Sneak - "Sneaking was crucial in the wilds because if you made too much noise your prey would escape with their life"
Smithing - "Growing up in a mine I learnt many things, like how to smelt ore into ingots and how to make ingots into weapons and armour"
Enchanting (Optional, I Used it) -"There were some in the mine who bestowed the power of enchanting smithed items onto me"
lycanthropy:
"Living in the wilds can create a feral creature within you, and in some cases, you become that creature."
Too add to roleplaying purposes you can choose to become a werewolf if you desire.
Playing as a werewolf take all the perks and just kill everything you see that wants to kill you pretty much.
Perks:
One-Handed - Armsman 5/5, Fighting Stance, Bladesman 3/3, Critical Charge, Savage Strike
Block - All of them
Heavy Armour - All of them
Archery - Overdraw 5/5, Critical Shot 3/3, Eagle Eye, Steady Hand 2/2, Power Shot, Quick Shot. (You can grab Bullseye to get ranger if you like but you don't need too.)
Smithing -Steel Smithing, Dwarven Smithing, Orcish Smithing, Ebony Smithing, Arcane Blacksmith
Enchanting - All of them (although it isn't necessary)
Sneak - Stealth 5/5, Muffled Movement
Armour Progression
Level 10 Steel / Dwarven
Level 20 Steel Plate / Orcish
Level 30 Ebony as soon as possible
Or if you have high level smithing just craft the best armour you can up to Ebony.
End game Armour / Weapons with the enchants they should have go as:
Ebony helmet with Fortify Archery and Water Breathing
Ebony Armour enchanted with Fortify Healing rate and Fortify Stamina regeneration (Or use Ebony Mail if you want too, depends on your choice.)
Ebony Gauntlets with Fortify One-Handed and Fortify Block
Ebony Boots with Resist Fire and Resist Frost
Ebony Shield with Fortify Block and Resist Shock
Ebony Sword with Fear Enchantment and Fire Damage
Gauldur Amulet and an Ring with Fortify Block and Fortify One Handed (Or Hircines Ring.)
Gameplay:
Barrage your enemies with as many arrows as you possibly can untill you can bash their body and slash their limbs. Charge at your enemies with your shield infront of you, knocking all living things away in your path of destruction, that is however depending on how close you are and how you would like the living to die. If in need of a breather use the dismay shout or battlecry to cause enemies to flee before your voice. Shout your enemies off heights with the classic Unrelenting Force shout if they get to close to your personal space. If you want a little change in weather use the Storm Call shout and cause some aoe damage to those that dare oppose you.
Roleplaying:
Play as a chaotic neutral type character. Give some gold to a beggar if you feel the need and can spare some coin, help someone retrieve an items, but do it as brutal as possible. Cause chaos wherever you tread and make your enemies tremble at the sight of you. Urig Herarsen is ignorrant, aggressive and arrogant. If somebody dares to question your skill show them that your the boss. Act impulsively without thinking of the consequences and almost always choose the brawl and intimidate option.
Ebony Withdrawl
This ebony addiction Urig Herarsen has is soul shattering and extremely destructive. It causes him to act as ferocious as he desires and he will always try to kill as much as he can untill he is at ease with himself.
Stages: ( Stages proceed to the next stage every in game week )
Stage 1, Fustration - At stage one Urig is fustrated with everything and will go on a hunt just to kill peaceful things as he is annoyed that he is not at peace with anything, so he feels nothing else should be, so he decides to kill animals that are peaceful such as deer and rabbits.
Stage 2, Impulsive Brutality - At the second stage he will act more impulsive than ever, wishing to kill all things on the battlefield that lays before him. He will slash with his sword and bash with his shield and attack with the sound of his dragonborn voice.
Stage 3, Lycanthropy - As he becomes longer without ebony he will lash out with claws and teeth, letting his inner beast take over his body, murdering everything it sees in cold blood.
Stage 4, Restlessness and murder - At the final stage of ebony withdrawl Urig becomes restless, unable to sleep. Urig will let his werewolf side take control more often than usual and will let it kill everything it desires untill it is satisfied and lets the human side of himself take control in the murder. He will not help people as often unless he sees the chance of a rampage involved in it.
In these stages of ebony withdrawl he will likely worship daedric princes along with Talos as he becomes more malevolent. He still won't do everything they ask of him but he will do some things they ask such as completing Hircines daedric artifact questline or aquiring Ebony Mail.)
When he has ebony armour and is near it regularly he will be his normal self but will still occasionally let his beast take over the battle, but if he loses his ebony that he has regulary his stages will become more destructive and impulsive.
Final Notes: You don't need to roleplay or play it as I did or even do any of the ebony withdrawl stuff but I think it's one of the few things that set it apart from any ordianary sword and board build.
This is my first build so I don't think it's perfect but I enjoyed it so you might too :D
The Ebony Shieldwall
Note - I played this on expert and it seemed to work fine, except at lower levels, it picked up at around level 10.
Backstory:
Growing up in Markath wasn't easy. The constant fear of forsworn attacks, wandering too far out and falling off a cliff. The danger was high, but this danger was what made young Urig Herarsen tough. I worked in a mine as an orphan due to my parents being brutally murdered infront of me by the forsworn. It was on that day that I vowed to always help the innocent and rid Skyrim of the Forsworn filth.
At the age of 10 I found something while mining...Ebony. This ebony is what made me turn into the crazed being that I am today. I begun to mine all the ebony and keep it for myself in secret so that it would not be taken away from me, the ebony had sickened my mind, every minute of every hour of every day I was away from it I was mad but while near ebony I was calm.
I worshipped Talos and at the age of 16, but sadly, somebody found out, if they didn't I don't know what my life would be like today.
" You there!" A shadowy figure exclaimed. " Come with me, and you won't be hurt. " I did as was asked of me and I walked off with this shadow figure. " What is this? "I asked calmly. The figure replied, " Reports say you've been worshipping Talos, this is a punishable offense and we will make an example of you. " I sprinted as fast as my legs would carry me to avoid being executed. My legs carried me to a mountain southwest of Markath. This is where I lived for a long time in the cold wilds, living off the hunt. I turned psychotic
from the withdrawl of ebony and begun to kill to ease my mind. One day many years past the date of my arrival I hunted a bear that took me to a main road where there was the same shadowy figure from the years before. It was a Thalmor, something I failed to noticed before. I was captured and taken to Helgen to be executed with the stormcloaks.
In what I thought was my final moments I remembered the vow I had made to help the innocent, a vow I never fufilled. I once again vowed that if I made it out of here alive
I would fufill my first vow.
Thus begun the adventure of The Ebony Shieldwall.
Name - Urig Herarsen
Race - Nord Werewolf
Gender - Male
Stone - Warrior until level 15, then Steed or Lord Stone
Blessing - Stendarr
Shouts - Unrelenting Force, Slow Time, Dismay, Storm call, Kynes Peace
Storylines - Main Questline, Dragonborn DLC, Dawnguard DLC (side with Dawnguard), Companions, Destory the Dark Brotherhood
Major Skills:
One-Handed - "I was Taught how to wield a sword by the miners and I have since mastered the art of the blade"
Block - "Alone in the mines I taught myself the ability to defend with a shield"
Archery - "Hunting in the cold unforgiving mountains I learnt how to shoot an arrow from a bow"
Heavy Armour - "I wear heavy armour so that the attacks I cannot block will not harm me"
Minor Skills:
Sneak - "Sneaking was crucial in the wilds because if you made too much noise your prey would escape with their life"
Smithing - "Growing up in a mine I learnt many things, like how to smelt ore into ingots and how to make ingots into weapons and armour"
Enchanting (Optional, I Used it) -"There were some in the mine who bestowed the power of enchanting smithed items onto me"
lycanthropy:
"Living in the wilds can create a feral creature within you, and in some cases, you become that creature."
Too add to roleplaying purposes you can choose to become a werewolf if you desire.
Playing as a werewolf take all the perks and just kill everything you see that wants to kill you pretty much.
Perks:
One-Handed - Armsman 5/5, Fighting Stance, Bladesman 3/3, Critical Charge, Savage Strike
Block - All of them
Heavy Armour - All of them
Archery - Overdraw 5/5, Critical Shot 3/3, Eagle Eye, Steady Hand 2/2, Power Shot, Quick Shot. (You can grab Bullseye to get ranger if you like but you don't need too.)
Smithing -Steel Smithing, Dwarven Smithing, Orcish Smithing, Ebony Smithing, Arcane Blacksmith
Enchanting - All of them (although it isn't necessary)
Sneak - Stealth 5/5, Muffled Movement
Armour Progression
Level 10 Steel / Dwarven
Level 20 Steel Plate / Orcish
Level 30 Ebony as soon as possible
Or if you have high level smithing just craft the best armour you can up to Ebony.
End game Armour / Weapons with the enchants they should have go as:
Ebony helmet with Fortify Archery and Water Breathing
Ebony Armour enchanted with Fortify Healing rate and Fortify Stamina regeneration (Or use Ebony Mail if you want too, depends on your choice.)
Ebony Gauntlets with Fortify One-Handed and Fortify Block
Ebony Boots with Resist Fire and Resist Frost
Ebony Shield with Fortify Block and Resist Shock
Ebony Sword with Fear Enchantment and Fire Damage
Gauldur Amulet and an Ring with Fortify Block and Fortify One Handed (Or Hircines Ring.)
Gameplay:
Barrage your enemies with as many arrows as you possibly can untill you can bash their body and slash their limbs. Charge at your enemies with your shield infront of you, knocking all living things away in your path of destruction, that is however depending on how close you are and how you would like the living to die. If in need of a breather use the dismay shout or battlecry to cause enemies to flee before your voice. Shout your enemies off heights with the classic Unrelenting Force shout if they get to close to your personal space. If you want a little change in weather use the Storm Call shout and cause some aoe damage to those that dare oppose you.
Roleplaying:
Play as a chaotic neutral type character. Give some gold to a beggar if you feel the need and can spare some coin, help someone retrieve an items, but do it as brutal as possible. Cause chaos wherever you tread and make your enemies tremble at the sight of you. Urig Herarsen is ignorrant, aggressive and arrogant. If somebody dares to question your skill show them that your the boss. Act impulsively without thinking of the consequences and almost always choose the brawl and intimidate option.
Ebony Withdrawl
This ebony addiction Urig Herarsen has is soul shattering and extremely destructive. It causes him to act as ferocious as he desires and he will always try to kill as much as he can untill he is at ease with himself.
Stages: ( Stages proceed to the next stage every in game week )
Stage 1, Fustration - At stage one Urig is fustrated with everything and will go on a hunt just to kill peaceful things as he is annoyed that he is not at peace with anything, so he feels nothing else should be, so he decides to kill animals that are peaceful such as deer and rabbits.
Stage 2, Impulsive Brutality - At the second stage he will act more impulsive than ever, wishing to kill all things on the battlefield that lays before him. He will slash with his sword and bash with his shield and attack with the sound of his dragonborn voice.
Stage 3, Lycanthropy - As he becomes longer without ebony he will lash out with claws and teeth, letting his inner beast take over his body, murdering everything it sees in cold blood.
Stage 4, Restlessness and murder - At the final stage of ebony withdrawl Urig becomes restless, unable to sleep. Urig will let his werewolf side take control more often than usual and will let it kill everything it desires untill it is satisfied and lets the human side of himself take control in the murder. He will not help people as often unless he sees the chance of a rampage involved in it.
In these stages of ebony withdrawl he will likely worship daedric princes along with Talos as he becomes more malevolent. He still won't do everything they ask of him but he will do some things they ask such as completing Hircines daedric artifact questline or aquiring Ebony Mail.)
When he has ebony armour and is near it regularly he will be his normal self but will still occasionally let his beast take over the battle, but if he loses his ebony that he has regulary his stages will become more destructive and impulsive.
Final Notes: You don't need to roleplay or play it as I did or even do any of the ebony withdrawl stuff but I think it's one of the few things that set it apart from any ordianary sword and board build.
This is my first build so I don't think it's perfect but I enjoyed it so you might too :D
