Nightingale Powers Redone

Mod Overview

The vanilla Nightingale powers, are very underwhelming. They're just recycled versions of existing spells with nothing unique to offer. Worse yet, by the time you unlock them, they're so weak that you never end up using them. In my decade of playing Skyrim, I don’t think I’ve used them more than once!

Enter Nightingale Powers Redone, where I've remade the Nightingale Powers into something you would actually want to use.

I've restructured each power to fit a distinct role—utility, offense, or defense—so choosing which power to take feels more purposeful. Furthermore, since powers can only be used once a day, I’ve also made them significantly stronger to make that one use actually count.

○Agent of Stealth○

Vanilla Effect: You go invisible. yippee.

My Changes:

Role: Utility

New Effect: Shrouding yourself in a cloak weaved by Nocturnal's darkness, you distort the perception of those around you, causing them to forget any crime committed in the next 10 seconds.

Now, once per day, you can get away with any crime! By the end of the 10 seconds, any bounties you accrued will be reset to what they were before, and anyone you've aggroed will immediately calm down and act as if nothing happened. Importantly, this power can only be cast before combat has started. So you have to plan out when you want to use it.

●Agent of Strife●

Vanilla Effect: You absorb 100 points of health.  SO OP! (if you're level 1).

My Changes:

Role: Offense

New Effect: Targets hit by the spell are paralyzed for 2 seconds and take Health, Stamina, and Magicka damage equal to the proportion of these attributes missing from the caster. The caster then absorbs half of the damage inflicted.

This changes the power into a high-risk, high-reward option—which I feel thematically suits thieves very well. If you want to get the most out of the power, you need to use it when you are near death. Regardless, even if you don't, it still Paralyzes—always an impactful effect. Furthermore, because the amount damage you can deal scales with your attributes, the power never becomes useless late-game.

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