LE Mercenary work (i don´t want to be a mage)

[Zombie007]

(Spoiler alert, i´m gonna talk about the mage school quest, so if you never played it just move along)
Hey guys, i´m gonna ask this bluntly, is there any way to modify the mage quest so you become a hired guard or mercenary instead of a student?
You could start by changing the dialog at the entrance, where you could tell her you are an adventurer looking for a job. Instead of leading you to Toldfir and the first class, Toldfir might ask you to go with them to the ruins as a hired guard.
Many of the quests given at the school are not really for casters. You could even modify the quest so you are requested to travel with one of the students for security reasons.

Obviously, by the end of the quest, you won´t be named archmage, (I allways thought Toldfir should be the new boss anyway) but you could be given another reward, like an enchanted weapon, a new set of armor or even a private room and complete acces to the archmage quarters.

I was thinking on going for a nord barbarian (two handed weapon) and to suddenly drop my giant sword and start castng spells would be kinda weird.

What do you think?

[Zygen360]

I have zero knowledge of modding personally, however I think that it would be possible judging from other mods I've seen created.

 

I suppose it's a matter of if anyone wants to, or if we want to talk lore friendly, if it's really even that.

 

I mean most non mages seem to fear the college if I remember correctly, and so they don't typically associate with non mages. In fact I don't know if I remember any non mages in the college of Winterhold from my somewhat sloppy memory right this minute.

 

Even then I don't know if it really makes sense for them to want, or need, a guard or mercenary, I mean they're all mages, so I assume most can handle their selves, anyone who would do any type of guarding is also a mage, so it might be not so much lore friendly for such an implication to be added.

 

Of course not everyone is concerned with lore, so it's not a reason it can't be done or anything, just maybe less likely.

 

But I think as far as the technical aspect goes it should be possible, however I personally don't have the knowledge to know 100% sure, much less the knowledge to actually do it, but if someone was willing, i'm almost positive it's possible.

[Zombie007]

Maybe the older mages can, but remember, there are students who are just starting to learn magic. The idea is to send them to do the quests with you as a backup.

It could be because of the fact that people fear and hate mages that the jarl could request them to have guards. And since no guard actually wants to deal with mages, they would post a request for mercenaries.
I think that, since there is already a vanilla option for not becoming an assasin, Bruce 142 made a mod that let`s you not become a thief, there could be a mod to avoid becoming a mage.
You could even have an option given by an assistant of the jarl (someone with a personal hatred against the school) to spy the mages and inform him of any danger, wich would lead to an assault against the school (something like the way dragon age deals with mages).
I just thowing some ideas there, in case someone feels like the mages quest is kinda forced into your character.
I also have ides to avoid the companions quest, but that is a story for another time...