LE Breath - Stamina - Shouts

[dallas8]

I've always thought shout cooldowns were a bit arbitrary. Why would your ability to speak/shout fire be limited by a 30 second cooldowns...if other than to catch your breath? You can have a similar magical attack using the magicka resource, so it seems to me that shouts should use similar mechanics. Being out of breath is literally the indication of running out of stamina, and Paarthurnax mentions shouting in the context of "Su'um ahrk morah." breath and focus. Following that logic, magicka could be considered a measure of focus. In practice, shouting could use stamina for lesser shouts, and for those shouts where you do something rather spectacular (storm call?) you might add in a magicka cost. The idea here being that you could shout off a few fire breaths for say ~100 stamina each, or 300 stamina for a full shout. However, if you wanted to do something like...become ethereal, which would not be a good ability to have spammable, you could have the cost be *all* stamina and magicka, or a very high cost for each. The amulet of talos would make a bit more sense to me as well - instead of an arbitrary 20% off of cooldowns because of...why...you could have a "blessing of talos" that reduces the effort required to channel the Thu'um by lowering costs. I'd love to hear from anyone who might expand the idea, and of course an actual mod would be the bees knees.