[SSE] Using Dragon Souls to Power-up Fully Mastered Shouts

[AnnieGoodtimez]

For the past 12 years, the Dragonborn has devoted a great deal of time adventuring through Skyrim and performing their duty as the world's ultimate Dragon-Slayer. With this in mind, the Dragonborn faces a new dilemma. As a result of their success in mastering the way of the Thu'um, and discovering all its words, they are now left an absurd number of Dragon Souls that hold little value or purpose in their cause. What is one to do with all these excess souls? Well, I believe that there is still untapped potential to many of the Dragonborn's shouts that can still be discovered, and these souls are the key!

 

As a longtime enjoyer of Skyrim, I was thinking it would be cool if there was some sort of mod that let you spend dragon souls to further upgrade your shouts after learning all the words (similarly to how you can spend perk points to power up a specific perk multiple times). I don't think a whole new perk tree is necessary per se, but just a way to continue boosting a shout after you've unlocked all the words for it. What I have in mind are just some simple boosts that build off of the vanilla shouts. There are plenty of people who have added new shouts and abilities to the game already.

 

The premise of my idea is to incorporate Dragon souls in a simple shout progression system allowing you to upgrade already mastered shouts in the following ways:

• Increase shout strength/effect
• Increase shout range
• Increase shout speed
• Increase shout effect duration
• Decrease shout cooldown time

 

I know there a few mods that cover some of the aspects of this idea, but I have found none that use Dragon Souls to achieve the changes I desire. I don't want overpowered shouts with a ton of crazy additional effects, just a way to better optimize them through the use of Dragon Souls. I'm still working on this idea, but as it stands, it seems like it would be good to allow the player to level up shouts three additional times, with the exact boosts for each shout being specific to each its ability and preexisting stats, while never making them feel too overpowered.

 

I'll eventually make a follow up post on how exactly each specific shout would changed with each new level-up. I just came up with the idea today and wanted to draft it out somewhere. I think I could figure out how to make this into a mod myself eventually, but I only have a little experience using the Creation Kit, and I'm not exactly talented when it comes to coding and creating/changing scripts, so if anyone is interested and wants to work together on making this a real mod once the idea is more fleshed out, I'd love the help.

Any thoughts, ideas, or advice on the topic are greatly appreciated!

[Sagill]

There already is a Mod that does exactly that. It's called Dragon Soul Relinquishment. Its for Skyrim LE but i play it on SE and It Works Perfectly fine.

[GrimstaffToo]

There is an SE version out now

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/12408