Hello everyone,

As some of you know, I am planning a massive quest mod. I'm adding my own new land, a huge main quest, many side quests, and probably over 30 new fully voiced characters.

Now, I was thinking about some details and places that I should have, and I thought, what's one of the key points in Skyrim? Well, fighting dragons of course! So I should have dragons in my land. I'll make a few cool unique 'roosts' for them like the ones spread across Skyrim. However, people have stated that as they play farther into the game, they build up a bunch of extra dragon souls, with no shouts to spend them on. So, I was thinking I could perhaps add new shouts in my game to counteract the new dragons. Thus preventing an even further buildup of excess souls.

Would you guys like new shouts? If so, what kinds? Also, how many should I add? (I voted 3 so I could see results) Keep in mind these would only be available in my new land and could not be obtained without going there.

Thanks for your ideas and feedback,
Alexander J. Velicky

Possible shouts:

DiiN VOTH FaaS - Freeze With Fear. Paralyzes the enemy with fear.
NOL KOTIN RaaN - Form Into Animal. Turns the enemy into a harmless animal. (Like a bunny or goat)
ZUN LOS YOL - Weapon Is Fire. Your weapon is surrounded by flames. (Doing extra fire damage)
SLEN DO GOLZ - Flesh Of Stone. Makes you immune to all damage. (While still being able to attack, making it a much better version of Become Ethereal, but with a far shorter duration, and longer cooldown)
WahL FEL PaaL - Create Feral Foe. Makes enemies frenzy and fight anything around them.

Maybe a shout that paralyzes.

Hmmm, would that not be repetive as the Ice Form shout essentially does this. Or since it's paralyzing by a different method it would still be cool? Great idea, I'll write it down.

I see nothing wrong with more shouts. Im sure many people will add more.

I see no reasons to be opposed to any of the things you suggest. The "turn target into an animal" shout certainly has... potential... :chaos: And I don't care one way or the other about the word walls. Do whatever you'd prefer.

If you can make them sound right and what not. Sure

"WAB-BA-JACK!"? :teehee:

But no, as long as they're not overpowerd, new stuff is always welcome, including shouts

A shout that turns me into a dragon for 30 seconds, usable only once a day

Doh I forget about the ice shout. Maybe paralysis isn't such a hot idea then.

How about more utility shouts - like something that would detect life, perhaps in combination with a couple other effects as well.

There is also the life detect shout already. I love the way the paralysis shout would sound (See bottom of OP), so I may use that.

I agree more shouts that aren't damage oriented is a good idea. Maybe one like Become Ethereal, but you can damage stuff while remaining invincible. For a very short period of time, though.

EDIT: Also, I could make the paralize one do no damage, so you lose the damage in the shout, but it has a lower cool down than Ice Form? That way the player can pick. The more deadly, but slower recharing, or faster weaker one.

How about a shout that imbues your weapon with certain attributes, be it damage, or some other effect?

Hmmmm, possibly. The only like this in the base game is the Air thing that makes you swing faster. Maybe something that makes your weapons catch fire, or something else. The only issue is enchanted items already do much of these things, but then again then you just dont have to use the shout. I'll look into some of these now.

These are the 5 I have so far. Do you guys like them? Should any be changed?:

DiiN VOTH FaaS - Freeze With Fear. Paralyzes the enemy with fear.
NOL KOTIN RaaN - Form Into Animal. Turns the enemy into a harmless animal. (Like a bunny or goat)
ZUN LOS YOL - Weapon Is Fire. Your weapon is surrounded by flames. (Doing extra fire damage)
SLEN DO GOLZ - Flesh Of Stone. Makes you immune to all damage. (While still being able to attack, making it a much better version of Become Ethereal, but with a far shorter duration, and longer cooldown)
WahL FEL PaaL - Create Feral Foe. Makes enemies frenzy and fight anything around them.

Then another question, how many should I do? Should I just add 2 or 3, or should I add a good 6-8 more? My land will be rather large, so I could probably accomodate 10-15 words without having them super spread out, or too cluttered.

Makes me sad i'm on console

Ooooo, I actually probably should I have made this in the mods section. Sorry. Though I am asking for general ideas.

Thank you mods.

Here's hoping modders finish their massive ambitious projects. But back on topic, new Shouts would be interesting and welcome.

I'm definitely going to be re-recording the shouts to my liking, they need to be more....woooooOOOSSHH sounding.
half and half glottal fry and forceful whisper.

Actually paralysis could still be usable. The ice shout slowly causes damage as long as the target is frozen. Maybe a paralysis shout simply makes them "black out", without taking damage (and possibly without becoming hostile). They come out of it thinking "huh, I must have dozed off", never realizing you were there.

make a shout that extinguishes fires and lights (candles and torches) so I can go all sneaky on people.
A shout that revives a dragon by sacrificing a soul?
A shout that summons a dragon priest?
A shout that creates a decoy dragon?
A shout that causes an avalanche?
A shout that puts people to sleep?

Battle Orders: You and your party's skill levels increase by X.

Would it not be possible to extend the UI to fit a fourth word in? I think it'd be cool to extend and power up the current shouts. Although on the other hand it'd probably be a good idea to stay away from UI mods as they could conflict with someone elses mod who's is dedicated to a UI revamp as opposed to UI tweaks.

Freeze with Fear- Ice Form already essentially does this

Form into Animal- I thought the Wabbajack was supposed to do this

Weapon is Fire- Well sure.. but, I'd never use it. Sounds a bit boring. Not trying to offend.. its just not really all that original.

Flesh of Stone- There should not be any shouts that make other shouts pointless, the longer cooldown/shorter duration doesn't help. I would not download the mod purely because of this one.

Create Feral Foe- This is a spell already- Frenzy. Making it kind of pointless.

1. Ice form does it, but it damages them. Mine wouldn't damage them, but would cooldown faster. So you have to choose whether to use the more damaging one, or use the weaker one more often.
2. Sure, but my shout doesn't weight anything, and you don't have to equip it. Maybe the draw back could be shorter duration. So again you have the choice, carry an item, or have a shout but it lasts less time and has a huge cooldown.
3. It wouldn't be for everyone. Some would use it, some would not. I NEVER use half the shouts already in the game, but I'm sure plenty of people do.
4. It doesn't make it pointless, again it gives you a choice. You can go invincible, but cant hurt people, for a long duration, or you can be invincible and still hurt people for a far shorter duration. Choice.
5. But not all people use magic or have that spell. Again, choice. The mage character may stick to the spell, but the warrior or thief may use this shout.

Look at the shouts already in the game. You could easily call half of those pointless too. Fire breath - THere are already plenty of fire spells. Frost breath - again, plenty of frost spells. Aura Whisper - Already detect life spells, so this would be pointless too.

Except only mages would most likely have those spells.

I would like a shout that does only work with a specific Weapon, like a Crystal Sword or Crystal Weapons in General, that I can load with this specific shout making it vibrating for making a devastating slash or that the Weapon or that will allow the Weapon ignoring any Armor and doing additional Dmg.... could be fun I think ^^

A shout that calls a dragon down to take any npc you don't like.
Like Orthorn. "For 100th time YES YOU CAN HAVE THE ARMOR I DROPPED! :swear: