Hi, a visitor from OB here, and looks like I.m staying for a good long time as I.m having a great time playing. \have tried Morrowind before but got a little bored with the Nord warrior doing the Legion quests.
Now I have a cracking good Heavy armour wearing, strong magic using Dark Elf on my XP hard drive, he's going strong. I also have a spellslinging Breton still at L1 on Win7 hard drive. (same comp') He's not a pure mage and has got Destruction, Longblade, Medium armour, Restoration, and Alteration as Majors.
The Minors are Illusion, Sneak, Mysticism, Shortblade and Alchemy. Birthsign Apprentice. Favoured Stat's Endurance and Luck. Specialisation is Magic.

I started the game and he's nearly finished doing stuff in SN and I have suddenly realised that I'd intended to use Conjuration as a minor skill and put in Alchemy instead. It is not too late to restart him off again, trouble is I like Alchemy! But a Breton without Conjuration? Would it be possible? Really, what I want is six Minor skills!

What would you advise me to do? Leave him as he is or restart him?

Is Alchemy a pain to raise as a misc' skill? What's Conjuration like to raise as a misc skill?

I read somewhere that one of the best swords in the game is a shortsword and should be at least a minor skill, is this the case?

Oh dear, I have so many more questions, but I'd better make separate posts for those.

Thanks for reading.