Welcome to Enchanting Awakened!


A mod that completely reimagines Skyrim's enchanting skill system
in an immersive, balanced, and lore-friendly way.

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/42796

Tired of enchanting being a mindless skill grind with no rewards or replay value? Bothered
by how those half-dozen banish-enchanted daggers ruined the economy for the rest of your
play-through? Have tried all the other enchanting mods out there but found them lacking?
Then welcome, fellow essence-seeker — you've finally arrived where you belong.

Enchanting Awakened: The Quick List of Features

* Choose the path you will follow from among three distinct Enchanting styles — Aether, Chaos, and Corpus —
each suited to unique playing styles and designed to allow multiple play-throughs with different characters.

* Gain enchanting experience when trapping souls, and unlock special "Essence" perks that add exciting new
features to soul trapping. Soul trapping is now of central importance to Enchanting, as Skyrim lore suggests.

* Unlocking perks is now necessary to disenchant more powerful items, trap larger souls, and improve
the number of charges your enchantments yield (charges are much more limited to begin with now).

* Experience completely restructured enchanting mechanics: gold values have been reduced, enchantment
magnitudes have been rebalanced, and enchantments now scale at their own unique rates — some (like Regen
and Carry enchantments) increasing much faster and to significantly higher magnitudes than in vanilla Skyrim.

* Revel in the Skyrim you've grown to love — all has been carefully designed with the aim of enhancing Enchanting
with new layers of complexity and excitement, while avoiding any undesirable immersion-breaking changes.

* Enjoy options that allow you to globally modify the power of all enchantments, to a level that YOU
envision to be right for your character, as well as a system that has been optimized behind the scenes
to take you beyond level 100, if you are among those who play with a skill uncapper activated.

Enchanting Awakened
The Perk Tree

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Enchanting Awakened
The Three Schools

AETHER

Channel the unimaginable forces of the stars as you seek the secret of limitless energy and
unbound magical power. The elusive Aether is your medium, and the invisible transference
of all soul energies and essences are your domain. Manipulate sound and silence, light and
darkness, reality and the ethereal planes - terrorizing foes with the unspeakable and unseen.

CHAOS

Enlist the forces of Chaos in your quest to warp souls, unleashing unimaginable power.
Destruction is both your preferred means and your desired end, and you will do all that
you can to bring the world to its knees before you. Steal, poison, swindle, and strike
your foes down with a fluid and fiery rage unmatched by any other enchanter.

CORPUS

Train your body and mind to resonate in perfect consonance, and become an impenetrable
fortress of stored soul energies. Strengthening and restoring the purity of the natural
world with your iron willpower and unmatched attunement to the inner harmonies of
the body itself, you stand in judgement before all that is perverse and evil in the world.

Enchanting Awakened
The Essence Perks

Trapping Souls is deeply enmeshed in Skyrim's Enchanting lore, and Enchanting Awakened's Essence Perks are designed to reassert
this central importance of Soul Trapping to the Enchanting system. Each Essence Perk represents the unique intersection of two
enchanting schools, and has profound effects on a character's style of trapping souls to be used for binding to enchantments.


Will you follow the path of Chaos, recklessly trapping the greatest number and variety of souls, then hastily
binding them to your enchantments with little concern for how they might be more efficiently put to use?

Will you choose the respectful path of Corpus, shunning the capture of human souls entirely, and carefully
extracting every last bit of essence from creatures as part of your reverence for the forces of nature?

Or will you favor the path of Aether, absorbing the most energy possible from any source that you find,
prideful of your command of all souls, unconcerned for your victims or the methods used to enslave them?

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Enchanting Awakened
Additional Notes and Things to Know

• The Fortify Magic & Regen enchantment has been rebuilt from the ground up, and it will now add a regen bonus scaled to your current enchantment level when worn. This allows the enchantment to provide much higher levels of Magicka Regen at high skill levels. Unfortunately the exact regen % cannot be shown in the item description as a result, but can be viewed in the magic effects window, or an optional message can be turned on to display it whenever you equip an item enchanted with this (see the Settings section below).
• The Fortify Barter enchantment has been replaced by Fortify Persuasion. Instead of simply increasing selling prices, the new enchantment gives a straight bonus to all Speech skills, resulting in not only better prices, but improved persuasion and intimidation success.
• A new enchantment, Fortify Speed, has been added. It will increase movement speed by about 30-70% depending on your skill level. This addition seemed necessary to balance the Chaos school with the other two, as I couldn't decide on an "exclusive" armor enchantment to limit only to Chaos. I plan to eventually add one or two more unique enchantments to this mod (Aether will be the next school I toss a bone to), though I am going to limit new enchantments to a small handful at most.
• A completely rewritten Soul Trap script is integrated into the mod: with the exception of Azura's Star, soul gems will no longer accept souls of a smaller size than they are intended to hold. Black soul gems & the Black Star will now only capture human souls, as they should. Also, your followers will now be able to capture souls correctly if given the appropriate soul gems and a Soul Trap weapon.
• A highly recommended soul gem scarcity plugin is also available in the installer. The plugin will will replace 80% of the filled soul gems sold by vendors with empty gems instead, to further promote the use and importance of soul trapping in the game.
• Most enchantments now scale at their own custom rates, instead of all enchantments being exactly 3 times stronger than their base magnitude when you reach level 100 (as in vanilla). Some will scale more slowly, and some will improve faster and reach much higher values (Magicka Regen scales to about 10 times its base value, for instance). This should keep almost all enchantments relevant even at higher levels.
• The Power of some enchantments has been decreased. This is intended mostly for the purpose of promoting game balance and eliminating vanilla flukes, like the ability to reduce casting cost to zero (now impossible with the default settings) or the ability to use smithing and alchemy enchantments to vastly improve potions and smithed items.
• Weapon enchantments have noticeably less charges to begin with. This more realistically reflects your skill level and promotes the use of Soul Trap to keep weapons charged (at lower levels especially). Your choice of specialization will affect how much your charge yield increases. Chaos enchanters will find that they burn through charges more quickly, for instance — representing their fiery nature — but they also have the most impressive arsenal of powerful weapon enchantments at their disposal. Skilled enchanters produce significantly more charges for enchantments aligned with their specialty.
• You will be unable to use enchanted items before unlocking the required perks. Weapon enchantments simply wont affect your enemies, and armor enchantments will stop working a few seconds after you equip them. You will gain access to almost all enchantments simply by unlocking all three Soul Shaper perks (find a list of what each rank of that perk unlocks in the section below, "Gaining Access to Enchantments")
• The Silent Moons Enchantment has been fixed. It didn't do any damage in vanilla. (The Unofficial Patch also fixes this, if you have it)
• Bound Weapons now have the proper Soul Trap visual effects after you unlock the Soul Stealer perk. It actually looks like you're absorbing the soul!
• [color=DeepSkyBlue]A visual projectile can be added to the Soul Trap spell in the installer, something that was also missing from vanilla Skyrim.
• [color=DeepSkyBlue]Extra Enchanting experience will be awarded when disenchanting weapons. In vanilla, disenchanted weapons already gave less experience than armor generally, but after this mod's price rebalancing, weapons give extremely little experience. To compensate, you will be awarded extra experience when disenchanting weapons to bring them more in line with armor, BUT that experience will not show up immediately in the experience bar until you enchant or disenchant another item. Unfortunately this minor cosmetic issue can't be fixed. You can disable the extra experience if this bothers you, however (see the Settings section below).

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/42796

Nice! As a standalone overhaul for the enchanting system, this definitely seems like the most well-thought and impressive out of all the others I've seen out there. Can't wait to make a character to take advantage of these improvements! What other skill overhauls do you recommend using with this? Specifically those that are magic related, since the kind of character to fully exploit these perks probably wants to put some weight in magic as well.

Thanks for the kind words

There's a pretty good list of skill mods I recommend near the bottom of the Nexus page. Those are the ones I frequently use, at least. Regarding magic, specifically, though--last time I was playing regularly I was using Empowered Magic and found it to be quite nice (but I've never been a pure mage in Skyrim yet). Unfortunately EM conflicts a bit with this mod, so maybe others have some more suggestions. I might make a patch for EM, I compared the files already and it doesn't seem like it'd be that tough.