LE dwarven guns

[luckymo777]

Okay i got this great idea for some dwemer weapons. Guns that run of magicka which you can upgrade with special runes that you can by from a new merchant in whiterun. the ammunition can be made from any craftible material including dragon bones and scales. the bullets can also be enchanted. you can also go to a new shooting range and test out your new guns.

[Lumenbeing]

Why would you get the materials in Whiterun if they are Dwemer weapons? Let me guess, the guns can be found in a chest behind Breezehome... :P

[TolarisOmega]

You could make quite a quest line to be able to make these.

This is just brainstorming off the top of my head, so it may be a bit scattered.

 

 

Say you find a book (or workshop if its a bit more involved) that describes these weapons (in a dwemer ruins, or Winterhold -make it radiant?). It initiates a quest line where you have to look through dwemer ruins to find more instructions, maybe you can make it a series of radiant quests, so each time it doesn't send you to the same sequence of ruins. Place a book or scroll or something into the boss chests in the ruins.

You then need to read the books in order to learn how to make different pieces, the barrel, trigger, power source/ammunition.

 

Or a crafting station in a Dwemer ruin? You can then find design sketches in other ruins, learn them then use it at the crafting station. So it doesn't clutter too much. Also more realistic, perhaps. Guns take a fair bit of skill to make, and the tools are different from ones used for making swords and armour. If you make a new model for it, maybe start with a metal lathe? With other stuff attached to it. A smelter to cast the barrels? They were originally created like bronze bells.

 

You could make it level based. The first guns you make are simple hand cannons, just a cast barrel. Muzzle loading. Then after you gain more experience, you can make matchlocks, then flintlocks, wheellocks.

Maybe a perk tree? Maybe gained like shouts? You read the books and scrolls to learn the "words of the shout" (the design or component) then another quest or something (dragon shouts? I have a lot of dragon souls I haven't used yet) to unlock it so you can use it (you have to work for stuff, you know ;-) )

 

Make the weapon designs modular, so other modders can add firearm meshes later.

 

Quite a large mod to be sure, maybe combine with Lorecraft? To lighten the load a bit.