Hello everyone!

When I came up with the backstory for my Dragonborn (Gi'Anna, female Khajiit Fighter), I created an unsavory Argonian Thief named Skeeme. I liked him so much (even wrote the beginning of some fan-fic) that I've created him as an Assassin. He was originally going to be played as a straight Thief, but I have Conan as a Thief for now.

Skeeme's going to become a member of the Dark Brotherhood, obviously. (The only guild I haven't even started with any of my six characters) I was reading threads about Jedi/Sith-inspired characters, and thought Illusion sounded like a fun way to give him some flavor, to keep things interesting.

Does anyone have experience with a build like this? Advice? Suggestions?

I'm going with these so far:

Sneak (obviously, and especially for Assassin's Blade)
Illusion (Calm, Fear, Muffle, and Frenzy for now, since I'm only level 6)
Light Armor (Just to supplement when I do have to get down and dirty)

My Lockpicking is already boosted as a racial advantage, and I'm pretty good at the mini-game as is. Pickpocket is something I'd like to work on, because none of my other characters ever pick pockets.

And one other question: Is Armsman (One Handed) even worth it, for the boost to using Daggers?

Thanks so much in advance!

If you're willing to be a little bit overpowered in the long run, then maybe this build might be fun for ya; just as it was, and still is, for me


Stealth Mage: (I picked female High Elf for role-playing purposes)

• Enchanting: Get this to 100 ASAP. Just pick the middle tree
  
• Illusion: Pump points into the right tree, the left tree just leave it at Apprentice and wait it out for 100 Enchanting and no cost Illusion. You're gonna spam invisibility any way, so you don't have to worry about it taking to long to get to 100.
  
• Conjuration: Points into the Atronach tree (undead tree too if you feel like it), and Bound Weapon damage perk because you will rely on the bound bow after you have no-cost conjurations. Get to 100 so you can summon two atronachs or undead at the same time!
  
• Restoration: I played a vampire, so I get myself Necromage (mostly for the free no-cost slot so I can don't have to wear that ugly circlet), but also Necromage seriously increase duration of my spells (Conjured creatures and illusion spells)
  
• Archery: Put points in this at your leisure, but pick the left tree because you don't need ranger perk (most of the time you will be shooting in the shadow and then disappear anyway)
  
• Smithing: Just get to Arcane smithing, 100 this at your leisure. Get the Blade of Woe, use it at your leisure.
  
• Sneak: Obviously fill EVERYTHING in this tree.
  
• Pickpocket: You will have a TON of spare points by the time you reach 40ish. I usually like some points in here so I can take weapons and strip armor. It's optional

Forget armor and weapon skills. Role-play a bit. Pick any clothes you want(change clothes for the occasion), since armor unnecessary.

Imagine yourself the perfect predator. Turn invisible at your leisure, stalk your prey, turn them into chickens (Wabbajack ), strip their clothes and weapons and make them fist fight each other naked. Rout your enemies and make them run around to alert other enemies; it's an instant party. Rout animals and lure them into towns. Throw frenzy into camps and watch the chaos unfold. Throw 2 dremoras in the room and close the door. Shoot them with Bound bow from the distance, and when they come over, fus ro dah them off the cliff. Reset traps, put down runes.

All and all, when you get caught, just PUFF and dissapear; leaving your enemies dumbfounded before you strip him naked, set him on fire and slit his throat and have your Dremoras desecrate his corpses and murder his friends.

And that beautiful moment when you're invisible and swimming toward enemy's camp under the night in third person; a silent ripple of water.

And don't worry about dealing damage. At 70-100 Archery, 100 Enchanting, and Vampire Necromage, your Bound Bow is pretty much a Daedric Bow (on Master), and with 100 Smithing and Necromage bonus for Smithing enchantments, your Blade of Woe can take an Ancient dragon down to quarter health with one swipe stealth. The fun part of this build is to screw around with your enemies.

Never are you truly overpowered, and never are you truly underpowered. You're the master of your enemies and your environment.

Also: Maximum Sneak (All perks, 100), and Maximum functional Illusion (All right tree, 100). WIth Shadow Warrior + Invisibility synchronize, you can literally disappear in front of an enemy without having to get out of his line of sight after turning Invisible.


Essentially, you're not the cloak and dagger assassin that quickly burn through enemies (that would be boring in the long run, and lack finesses and style). You're more like... the voice in people's head.... the twin torch bug in the night (this is what I call myself when I'm hiding in a tree with my shiny vampire eyes... )... the mischievous shadow ...the walking oblivion gate... the unpredictable force of nature that destroy some and leave some alone... and the occasional arrow from nowhere.


This is copy-paste from one of my previous post . Have fun!

Man, I never even thought of some of those things...lol. A lot of food for thought there! Thanks, k4Anarky!

It's quite an experience playing this build. There are so many things you could do with the AIs. You can drop a diamond (while invisible) in a bandit camp or at cities and watch friends turning on friends (try it!).... Or you can even trick an enemy to walk off a cliff by stripping him of his weapon and know where to place it.

I just no-cost alteration yesterday... maybe I can find some hilarious uses for paralyze and telekinesis... So far I only managed to kill a bandit with a cabbage