Hey
Playing a staright up sneaky type char (who doesnt use long swords) has proven a bit more challenging that I thought, because unless I cheat with enchanted weapons a straight up fight wiht a full armed ork swinging a huge 2 armed axe is quite deadly. I dont use many weapon mods, other than Weapons of Tamriel, but could you suggest a few weapons that an assassin type can use that are lore friendly and relatively recent (so the textures are more detailed)
Thank you

I always liked the shortswords in this mod. http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=mods.detail&id=6768. Nice scripted effects that make a nice alternative to a longsword-wielding-knight, although there are other weapons in it too.

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=2384 has some nice daggers.

Why are enchanted weapons cheating? They're in the vanilla game and totally lore friendly. If you have an enchanted wakizashi (or even a plain daedric one) and the Fang of Haynecknamet, you should do well.

Because as a fighter I can whack ther heck out of everybody with a battleaxe with no enchantments but as a sneaky char I absolutly need to paralyse them or poison them or (my favorite) abrorb their health

Hey thanks really nice looking stuff; I see a lot of longswords and Im not that much into the LOTR kind of elven blades but definetly great stuff asll around for my otherr chars thank you

Right, but my point was that you can have a daedric wakizashi enchanted with 30 absorb health by level 3 at the latest with easily obtained waki and soul gem. The Fang is the most damage per sec weapon in the game. With those two you don't need mods for function; only for looks.