Lost Sorceries of the Ayleids

Welcome to the 37th installment of my Oblivion Immersion Series.  Fingers of the Mountain was one of the most interesting quests in the game, in that it focused on reclaiming the lost magics of the Ayleid precursors, something that the game pays criminally little attention to otherwise beyond the Umbacano quests.  But interesting lore stuff aside, the Fingers of the Mountain spell completely sucked.  It was a mediocre spell at low levels, and utterly unusable at higher ones.  This mod was originally envisioned as just a rebalance of Fingers of the Mountain and was intended as an independent release, but once the idea of Lost Sorceries of the Ayleids took hold,  I decided to fold Fingers of the Mountain Rebalanced into this larger project.

So here we are, with Lost Sorceries of the Ayleids.  This mod adds custom spells to Ayleid altars found at various ruins.  For the sake of simplicity (this is my first ever attempt at scripting after all - and by scripting, I mean copying and trimming down a pre-existing vanilla script), the altars will activate and grant you their power if you are carrying a Welkynd stone, without any extra steps or frills.

Fifteen altars have been added and will grant the following (see the Cheat Sheet for locations):

Greater Powers (once per day, 0 cost):

- Fire King's Ire (200 fire damage in 10 feet)

- Winds of the North (200 frost damage in 10 feet)

- Power Overwhelming (fortify health, stamina, and magicka by 50 pts for 120 sec)

- Sorcerer King's Genius (fortify all attributes by 10 pts for 120 sec)

- Auriel's Favor (restore health, magicka, and stamina by 10 pts for 15 sec)

- Daedrophile's Pact (summon dremora lord for 30 sec)

- Shackled Servant (reanimate for 120 sec)

Lesser Powers (comes with magicka cost to cast):

- Shadow Walker (chameleon for 40 pts, fortify sneak for 10 pts for 60 sec)

- Supreme Domination (dominate animal/humanoid up to level 15 for 30 sec, rally for 50 pts)

- The Tiger's Fangs (absorb health/stamina by 5 pts for 30 sec)

- Rainbow Shield of Meridia (fire, shock, and ice shield 20 pts for 30 sec)

- Armor of Oblivion (conjure complete bound armor for 30 sec)

- Star Orphan's Hunger (spell absorption 25 pts for 30 sec)

- Cloak of Magnus (resist magic for 25 pts for 30 sec)

- Twisting Flesh (damage health/stamina for 5 pts for 15 sec, damage strength/endurance by 10 pts)

Fingers of the Mountain has also been retooled as a greater power with damage output equivalent to Fire King's Ire and Winds of the North.  Fingers of the Mountain Rebalanced is also available as a standalone bonus plugin in case you just want that.

A final word concerning in game balance between these spells: I tried to strike a balance between being suitably overpowered given the lore, usefulness and accessibility to the player across diffe