LE Spell casting book (animation).

[Dimitian]

A strictly magic battle weapon, much in the same way that dual wielding and two-handed weapons are strictly close-range, and bows and crossbows are long range.

 

The idea comes from the book-reading idle; holding the book with one hand and flipping pages with the other. The change in animation would be casting a spell with the right hand instead of flicking pages, perhaps with a flat palm gesture or whatever (I'm happy with whatever on that). 'Sheathing' the book would be closing it and carrying it underarm (on the left).

 

Unique details for it, in my mind, would be as follows:

 

No flame shots, ice shots, lightning shots, or streams of the aforementioned elements; already covered by staves.

 

Spherical wards; instead of a single ward in front, an all around barrier (perhaps the barrier effect used in the vaermena quest, or the barrier used with the eye of magnus?). Activated by the left-weapon button. Higher magika use than other wards, but with higher damage threshold.

 

Magical stagger; a 'bash' that expands the spherical ward to break any other wards. Activated by holding the left-weapon button and pressing the right-weapon button.

 

Area of effect spells that are deployed like summonings; fear, calm, fury, all higher power too (level 50). Also fire, shock, and soul trap spells that create a wide circle at the targeted area that are filled with the element effect.

 

That's pretty much all of the idea. If there's anything that might be added, post it below.

 

 

[Edsh0t]

This is a quite interesting idea, but I unfortunately lack any knowledge on how to make it possible.

[ShadowDestroyerOfTime]

I'm going to necro bump this as I love the idea of this mod.

[Dimitian]

Oh. I thought this post had been taken down (couldn't find it). At any rate, I've put up an updated version of the idea here; https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/5173635-magic-books/.