Sorry for the vague title, character limit you see :/

I'm playing a character that is bound to level 1 forever and doesn't use any skills that can be leveled. Instead I make use of greater powers, fists, lycantrophy, shouting, cooking... it's good fun.

Now this 100 health absorb nightingale power is something I'd go through the whole questline for. Can I punch my way through the questline, maybe with some help of the tower stone for picking locks?

I want to say there will be too many locks to pick, and joining requires you to pick 2 back to back as well as reverse pickpocket just to start.

Edit, unsure you can purposefully fail that quest. Never tried.

I'd have to relook at the line, but I want to say there are going to be too many locks.

I know some followers can lockpick, but most won't do it if it's illegal.

Actually as you can get through the whole questline without having to kill anyone ( til the end), with some careful planning you should be able to do a no lvl up run through. I do not think anything is lvl locked, pretty sure nothing is.

I ran a character through killing no one ( except at the end) using Lydia as my tank to get away from any baddies my character couldn't handle on the roads. She used the calm spell and paralyze when needed, but never killed anyone "on the job", so to speak.

OP doesn't want to use skills that can be leveled, so no spells. Punching Mercer to death might be a pain in the ass.

Like I said, I'd have to go through the quests again but some of it might be a pain in clothes with fists and no lockpicking.

I'm a khajiit and I do use gloves of the pugilist (yes it does very slightly level light armor) so I doubt punching my way through would be hard. I'm wondering if I could actually do that though, punch my way through instead of being sneaky.

oh no sneak, now that I don't know... fists.. well it should be possible , if you aren't worried about killing then maybe. The only issue I see with "no sneak" if you go that way, is the Falmer.. I have gotten past all of them with no killing, but a very high lvl of sneak. TG, w/o pick-pocket as that lvl's ? I'm not sure which of the radiant quests could be done with no sneak, though I am sure their is a way.

I know, I just said the way I had done it... which added those skills.

I'm sure there's always a way to anything, but it will be extremely difficult.

Sounds like you really won't know unless you try, but I agree that it will be very difficult.

Keep in mind that everything is rather weak as long as I stay at level 1.

With fists dealing 32 damage/hit, shouts and powerful staffs I can take on most enemies. I don't care for the radiant quests. I'm talking about the questline. Do I really need to pick locks and pockets?