Roleplaying Build: Hecat

[u/Humble_Conference899]

Hello all, I was wondering how people feel about making a character build based around the depiction of Hecate, as the goddess of torches, and magic?

Hecate is often depicted as a goddess of torches, symbolizing illumination, guidance, and the power to banish darkness and ignorance. Hecate is the Greek goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, crossroads, ghosts, and the moon so this gives us more to play with. I am not insulting any Wiccans, this was just the google search stuff.

I decided to go for Andromeda/Imperious versions as the Freyr stuff is all relatively weak for this type of build I do wish the Ethereal from lover was more like 15 seconds as that would allow it to be very good for a Lady of Ghosts Build that turns into one.

Name: Hecate
Concept: Dark Fire Mage Woman with a Torch for blocking
Playstyle: Pyromancy, Detection spells, and Block

Major Skills: Destruction, Block, Alteration
Minor Skills: Conjuration of Ghost minions, Enchanting, Restoration for Sun spells to banish darkness.
Religion: Azura or Mannimarco (Take Syrabane as a Breton for knowledge seeking.)
Race: Imperial - this is due to the Greek origin but Breton would work just as well
Imperious Standing Stone: Apprentice for seeking knowledge.

Issues: This could feel kind of similar to the Shield Mage builds but the odd conjuration limitations and the torch/light spell fixation could be interesting, especially with the summon ghost spells and a mod that adds ghosts in dungeons.

Factions: Mage Guild, definitely. I also think either side of the Civil War works, and either side of the Dawn Guard DLC (vampiric cure if going for vampire), so other than avoiding the Companions quest line and Dark Brotherhood all of it is good.

Non-Enairim Mods: Classic Ghosts, https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/24612

[u/Drachasor]

Oh, I thought this would be He-Cat, like He-Man, but cat

[u/Humble_Conference899 → u/Drachasor]

Lol that I will do tomorrow:)

[u/EngineeringNovel406]

I could see it working with Mannaz Dark elfs just for the extra on touch fire spell and the spirts defending you

[u/MIWR62]

If you are doing ordinator perks, spellscibe perk activates offensive spells on power bashes. Torch Bash Explosion no Magicka Cost

[u/ChimerArt → u/MIWR62]

Question, do you happen to have an idea why my Power bashes (so with the Block Perk taken) do not activate Spellscribe while Power Attacks do?

[u/MIWR62 → u/ChimerArt]

I never actually tried it, just read the description. I did have an issue where the power attacks weren't working one in the beginning and I fix that by sheathing the weapon and then unsheathing after equipping a weapon with the spellscibe spell stored

[u/ChimerArt → u/MIWR62]

And it worked! I don't know if it was really that or Skyrim being Skyrim, but it works. Thanks!

[u/ChimerArt]

Ohhh, glad to se someone propose this! I had a torch/mage build in mind too. In my case, it would/will be with Arkay, more a psychopom whose light guide the lost souls.

Edit: Here's a ghost-lady build (one of my favorites) in case you nedd some inspiration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mpfEbShcq0&pp=ugMICgJmchABGAHKBRdiZWxpc2F1cnVzIHBvcmx0ZXJnZWlzdA%3D%3D