Blood Magic

The idea for this mod came about while I was working on YARABO. In that mod, I had a few powers and togglable spells that, as a drawback, would damage or drain the user's stamina rather than cost magicka. I thought it would be neat to try creating a "blood magic" mod that used health for spells as well, somewhat like how it was handled in Dragon Age Origins. This mod is my crude attempt at trying to implement this idea.

The mod is split between 3 versions;

- The "Full" version is as I intended, which makes some of the blood mage tutors hostile (one of whom is a vampire), or belonging to specific factions that will deny you service unless you're a member. You thus need to be a member of these specific factions and/or find a way to pacify the

hostile mages.

- The "Simple" version removes the mages from any factions they might have been a part of,

pacifies the two that are normally hostile, and changes the vampire mage into a normal human, and

relocates her to an alternate location.

- The "SUPER Simple" version places all six of the mages, and the Odd Ruby, into the Eight Plates

in Balmora. This exists mostly so players can test the mod right away, and see if they like the

characters and dialogue. It isn't really intended for normal play, unless you really like the

idea of these six weirdos openly chilling in a pub.

In an ideal world, I would have created a new power that allows the player to toggle between magicka and health to cast any spell, including custom spells and maybe even enchantments. However, I am woefully deficient when it comes to coding, or really, anything tech-related. Like absolute boomer-tier deficient.

So, my rather blunt alternative was to make a whole lot of spells (about 792) that cost 0 magicka, but inflict Damage Health upon the caster as a secondary effect. The amount of damage done is equivalent to how much magicka would have been spent had this been a normal spell.

Because of this, a character with enough magicka resistance won't be that effected by the side-effects of blood magic. With 100% immunity, you essentially have a ton of powerful free spells.

It is INCREDIBLY easy to trivialize the game as a result of this, so keep that in mind if you decide to use this mod in a serious playthrough.

For the most part, the mod simply copies and modifies a wide array of vanilla spells. For certain schools however, there was a lot more variety. Destruction and Restoration make up the majority of spells in this mod, due to how precise and particular a player might want to be with them, as opposed to the more utilitarian schools like Illusion and Alteration. I tried to include as many variants as poss