The perks hypnotic gaze, aspect of terror and rage says cumulative with kindred mage and animage. does kindred mage and animage override the other perks or does having all of them make your spells stronger?

does anyone know anything on the illusion tree help a brother out?

I was wondering the same thing as a classic morrowind-oblivion warrior skyrim archer-thief that wants to play a mage too.

I'm not sure I understand the question. Do you not know what cumulative means? Or is there some other perk you're afraid of?

It means they stack. So instead of just getting +8 with Animage or +8 with Hypnotic Gaze you can get +16 with both.

leaning towards of not knowing the definition of cumulative. all three of those perks say cumulative wit kindred mage and animage....does having them all make your spells extra strong or does having kindred mage and animage cancel out aspect of terror hypnotic gaze and rage?

Once again, cumulative means they accumulate, or add together. Meaning they stack.

thx u my friend may ur journeys bring u to greatness

The description of the perks makes it sound like "these spells now work on anything that's higher than your level." In fact, what they mean is, "add +8 (or whatever) to the level of enemies normally affected by these spells." So they affect higher levels than BEFORE, but not all levels.