Mages are not the type of character that crafts items at the forge or uses the physical assets of the "mere normal people". What makes them powerful is that they can just summon the tools they need. Well, it should be like that. When hunting with Hunterborn you need hunting knives - a special kind of knife to handle carcasses - to get the best results. A mage should not need to craft such a thing. He would get dirty hands! And think of cleaning your knife from "hunting remains". That's not magicky! No, a mage has to snap his fingers to get a clean tool; and snap again to get rid of the used one. For your magicky convenience this mod adds a bound hunting knife to Hunterborn.

The knife is like the other hunting knives in Hunterborn as in that it increases the skinning, harvesting, and butchering skills. How much each skill is buffed depends on your conjuration level. There are 5 grades for the buffs:
- Novice (conjuration < 25; basically like the stell hunting knife)
- Apprentice (conjuration >= 25 and conjuration < 50)
- Adept (conjuration >= 50 and conjuration < 75)
- Expert (conjuration >= 75 and conjuration < 100)
- Master (conjuration >= 100; basically like the dragonbone hunting knife)

When the spell is used a hunting knife corresponding to your conjuration level is added to your inventory and removed again after 2 (real time) minutes. The hunting knife is not displayed in your inventory and not equipped! So you cannot use it as a weapon. But you are a mage. Conjure something that is not just a knife! While you have a bound hunting knife in your inventory you will see a red glow around you.

Note: A bound hunting knife always wins over the "physical" one. So, when you have, for example, a dragonbone hunting knife in your inventory and conjure a novice level hunting knife, the conjured hunting knife will be used for skinning, butchering, and harvesting.

How to get the knife in the game

The knife can be obtained as a spell tome at various traders selling conjuration spell tomes (e.g. Farengar in Whiterun or Phinis Gnestor in the College of Winterhold).

Or

The spell can be added via the console with:
- Open the console with '~'
- Issue the command 'help "bound hunting knife"'
- The last command will give you the ID for the spell (look for the line starting with "[SPEL]"
- Issue the command 'player.addspell <ID>' where '<ID>' is the id you got in the previous command

Installation

Requirements

• Hunterborn (duh!)
  

NMM / MO

• Download with NMM /MO and install
  

Manuall Installation

• Extract the files to a temporary location.
• Put everything in the Skyrim data folder.
  

Load Order

• Put after Hunterborn
  
  

Compatibility

• Hunterborn 1.3.1, 1.4
  
  

History

• 1.0, 2014/10/26 - Initial release.
  

Credits

Many thanks to

• Bethesda
• SKSE team for an indispensable modding tool
• unuroboros / dragonsong for creating Hunterborn
  

Licensing/Legal

You can do whatever you want with this mod but all I ask in return is that you give me credit if you distribute any part of this mod. I would also like
to know what mods are including my work.