Magethorn Staves 1.0

Greetings, traveller! Take a seat, get warm by the fire and have a pint or two with everyone's favorite Prince of Debauchery! Your old Uncle Sanguine has bestowed upon you his incredible staff, and you, being a variably power-mad dovakiin/adventurer/mage are happy to accept. But, there's just one problem... Maybe it's the fact that you frown on conjuring servants of Oblivion to aid you in battle. Maybe you prefer to blast your enemies with fire? Or, perhaps encase them in ice? What about a bit of lightening? Yes... now you're talking!


Special Edition Port will be available... soon.



What Is This?

This mod adds a number of craftable staves to the game, modeled after Sanguine's Rose, slightly tweaked and retextured and enchanted with a variety of elemental Destruction spells to suit your tastes. This mod was basically the product of a one-off I made for this one character, in particular, and I decided it was sufficiently interesting for distribution. You can thank me later.

Spell effects are as follows:

Flame Thorn Staves:

Lesser - Flames
Greater - Fireball
Grand - Incinerate
Master - Wall Of Flames

Frost Thorn Staves:

Lesser - Frostbite
Greater - Ice Storm
Grand - Icy Spear
Master - Wall Of Frost

Storm Thorn Staves:

Lesser - Sparks
Greater - Chain Ligthening
Grand - Thunderbolt
Master - Wall Of Storms

The Recipe:

For now, all staves are craftable at any blacksmith forge, using a fairly standardized recipe, which may be subject to change based on balance concerns and lore-friendliness.

3 Mountain Flowers (Color based on element; red for Flamethorn, blue for Frostthorn, Purple for Stormthorn)
2 Firewood
1 Elemental Salt (Type determines element, eg; Fire Salts makes a Flame Thorn Staff)
1 Filled Soul Gem (Size determines staff magnitude, eg; Lesser Soul Gem makes a Lesser Thorn Staff)

The Exception: Master-level staves each require 2 filled Black Soul Gems in place of the single white soul gem as in the above recipe. Furthermore, you need to be a particularly skilled mage to craft these particularly powerful staves. (Go talk to Faralda after you reach 90 in Destruction.)

No perks are required for crafting, as this functionality is broken by perk mods, anyway (and who doesn't use perk mods?). You are, however, required to complete "A Night To Remember" (Sanguine's Daedric Quest) to unlock the recipes, as the Magethorn staves are created by studying Sanguine's artifact.

TO MAKE IT COMPLETELY CLEAR:

You will NOT be able to craft these staves until you have already completed "A Night to Remember" and acquired the original Sanguine Rose. Furthermore, the Master-level staves added by this mod are further gated by the Destruction Ritual Spell quest. If you are lazy, impatient, or otherwise can't be arsed to do the requisite quests, just use the console (help "thorn Staff", then additem ) or AddItemMenu to spawn the staves in. If you can't figure any of that out, well, that's a shame.