Expanded Weaponry

Welcome to the nineteenth installment to my Oblivion Immersion Series.  The loss of various weapon types in Oblivion and Skyrim compared to Morrowind is an odd spot for me.  On the one hand, I miss some of the weapon types available in Morrowind (Spears!  How I miss you so!), but I think that some of the weapons removed by these later games were kind of superfluous anyway (were throwing weapons that essential to the game?  Really?).  Despite all that, I do miss some of the weapons diversity that Morrowind had to offer.

So to improve on the weapon diversity in Cyrodiil, multiple new types of weapons have been added, including spears, Akaviri swords, halberds, cutlasses, and war staves (the kind for hitting people).  Of particular importance is the inclusion of Avakiri weapons, to support the supposed influence of Akaviri culture on Cyrodiil that we see in the lore but never see in the actual game (in contrast, Morrowind was overflowing with Avakiri weaponry to the point of feeling out-of-place and making the Dunmer look like an entire nation of weaboos, LOL).  Also added is orcish weaponry, because why not?

Last, a very special Valkynaz nodachi may be recovered from certain high level Daedra... and exclusively from these high level Daedra.  This was an artistic decision that I am not interested in changing.  If you finished the main quest already, you are simply out of luck.

All of these weapons are incorporated into the leveled lists so that you can purchase them from merchants, recover them from enemies, and otherwise find them in the world at large.

I tried my best to ensure that these weapons would be represented across all materials,from iron to Daedric, but sometimes weapons of a particular level had to be excluded due to a lack of suitable meshes or textures.  For example: halbards and spears in particular are not represented across all materials (more examples exist, of which these are just a few).

Weapons stats are based on logical considerations about size and weight:

[]War Staves: based on warhammer, faster speed, shorter reach, lower damage, lower weight []Spears and Glaives: based on claymore, faster speed, same reach, lower damage, lower weight (note that Daedric spears and glaives will have different stats from each other) []Halberds: based on battleaxe, slower speed, longer reach, higher weight, higher damage []Cutlasses: based on long-swords, faster speed, same reach, lower damage, lower weight []Katana: based on long sword, faster speed, same reach, lower damage, lower weight []Daikatana: based on claymore, faster speed, same reach, lower damage, lower weight [*]Ninjato: based on short sword, slower