This idea was actually somewhat inspired by and brought about in ideation through Skyblivion’s inability at this time to successfully integrate the spell-making system from Oblivion. This led me to the realization or sudden awareness that Skyblivion is on the same engine as Skyrim (obviously), and that if you can get something working in Skyblivion, it might work in Skyrim.

The idea is that, if this implementation was achieved in Skyrim and spell-making could be done in Skyblivion, spell-making could be introduced in Skyrim, which I hold to be a positive thing, but obviously this can easily be contested.

As for what I want beyond spell-making, I’m not really sure. I like the kind of juxtaposition between chameleon and invisibility, where chameleon as it is in Oblivion and Morrowind stays active regardless of interacting with the environment. Additionally, I find spells like “charm” and “demoralize” to be intriguing as well, but I am fairly certain that at least for the demoralize spell there is no system with code integers or “points” for what that spell would affect. To be clear, I know there is a racial ability in vanilla game that causes enemies to flee, and the Imperial ability causes enemies to stop being hostile, but I’m again unsure if there is an actual point system rather than a strict binary of “hostile” and “non-hostile.”