LE Shadow Step/Return Spell

[AsaHerring]

I have been playing a thief/assassin character lately, and from my play-style I thought about a cool spell. This may already be a mod, if so please let me know so I delete/update this.

The spell would work like this, you would cast the spell, then if you attacked another NPC or casted another spell, it would then teleport you back to the location you originally casted the spell.

The original inspiration of this idea was from the custom race mod I am using, The Ningheim Race, which one of its abilities is Ethereal Shift, which allows you to teleport to where you are looking, but only up to so far away and it uses a large chunk of magic.

After I thought of this, I remembered back to my old Guild Wars days and I knew there were several spells which allowed you to do this, and thought it would work great if implemented with a mod in Skyrim.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Aura_of_Displacement

[AsaHerring]

Found one mod that adds 4 spells that are similar to the above criteria. 1 of them is very much like what I am looking for and is basically the same as one of the spells from Guild Wars. It allows you to shadow step behind your target. Still have not found one that allows you to cast, then return to the original casted location. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/8535/?

[faffman]

There is a spell just like that in the Apocalypse spell pack. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/16225/?

 

It's called Ghostwalk, a novice Illusion spell. You turn invisible for 10 seconds, or until you attack or activate something, and when the invisibility is broken, you return to where you cast it. One may argue it's kinda broken as a novice spell, but you wouldn't believe how much fun I've had with this. It works perfectly for stealth kills from behind, trust me on that. Another really hilarious thing I've done quite a bit, which requires the Explosive Chickens mod from Steam, is sneak up on a bandit chief, use the console to place some chickens, teleport myself back to safety, and just wait until the dickweed attacks the chickens. Hilarious.

[AsaHerring]

There is a spell just like that in the Apocalypse spell pack. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/16225/?

 

It's called Ghostwalk, a novice Illusion spell. You turn invisible for 10 seconds, or until you attack or activate something, and when the invisibility is broken, you return to where you cast it. One may argue it's kinda broken as a novice spell, but you wouldn't believe how much fun I've had with this. It works perfectly for stealth kills from behind, trust me on that. Another really hilarious thing I've done quite a bit, which requires the Explosive Chickens mod from Steam, is sneak up on a bandit chief, use the console to place some chickens, teleport myself back to safety, and just wait until the dickweed attacks the chickens. Hilarious.

Ah cool. I actually have that mod, just not activated. I will definitely try that spell out, though it almost sounds a little unblanced for my tastes, a little cheaty, mainly the invisibility. Would work GREAT for scouting out an area to plan out how you're going to take down a group of enemies, but may work perfect for my assassin character. For sure sounds like an awesome trolling tool XD

[faffman]

It is unbalanced indeed. It would've been better as an expert spell, or at least adept. But do try it, see how fun it is.