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Enchanting Awakened

Welcome to Enchanting Awakened!
~ by egocarib


A mod that completely reimagines Skyrim's Enchanting skill system in an immersive, balanced, and lore-friendly way.


Requires:
Dragonborn



Enchanting Awakened: THE QUICK LIST OF FEATURES
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* Choose the path you will follow from among three distinct Enchanting styles — Aether, Chaos, and Corpus — each suited to unique playing styles and designed to allow multiple play-throughs with different characters. Each of the three styles gain bonuses to the enchantments that are aligned with their particular path.

* Gain enchanting experience when trapping souls, and unlock special "Essence" perks that add exciting new features to soul trapping. Soul trapping is now of central importance to Enchanting, as Skyrim lore suggests.

* Unlocking perks is now necessary to disenchant more powerful items, trap larger souls, and improve the number of charges your enchantments yield (charges are much more limited to begin with now).

* Experience completely restructured enchanting mechanics: gold values have been reduced, enchantment magnitudes have been rebalanced, and enchantments now scale at their own unique rates — some (like Regen and Carry enchantments) increasing much faster and to significantly higher magnitudes than in vanilla Skyrim.

* Revel in the Skyrim you've grown to love — all has been carefully designed with the aim of enhancing Enchanting with new layers of complexity and excitement, while avoiding any undesirable immersion-breaking changes.

* Enjoy options that allow you to globally modify the power of all enchantments, to a level that YOU envision to be right for your character (SKSE/SkyUI MCM Menu capabilities are necessary if you want to change EA's settings)




Enchanting Awakened: THE THREE STYLES (see the images for more info)
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AETHER
Channel the unimaginable forces of the stars as you seek the secret of limitless energy and
unbound magical power. The elusive Aether is your medium, and the invisible transference
of all soul energies and essences are your domain. Manipulate sound and silence, light and
darkness, reality and the ethereal planes - terrorizing foes with the unspeakable and unseen.

CHAOS
Enlist the forces of Chaos in your quest to warp souls, unleashing unimaginable power.
Destruction is both your preferred means and your desired end, and you will do all that
you can to bring the world to its knees before you. Steal, poison, swindle, and strike
your foes down with a fluid and fiery rage unmatched by any other enchanter.

CORPUS
Train your body and mind to resonate in perfect consonance, and become an impenetrable
fortress of stored soul energies. Strengthening and restoring the purity of the natural
world with your iron willpower and unmatched attunement to the inner harmonies of
the body itself, you stand in judgement before all that is perverse and evil in the world.




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Trapping Souls is deeply enmeshed in Skyrim's Enchanting lore, and Enchanting Awakened's Essence Perks are designed to reassert this central importance of Soul Trapping to the Enchanting system. Each Essence Perk represents the unique intersection of two enchanting schools, and has profound effects on a character's style of trapping souls to be used for binding to enchantments.

Videos Demonstrations of Essence Perk Powers:
Essence Gambit
Essence Modulation
Essence Nemesis




Enchanting Awakened: IMPORTANT NOTES
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---------- Gaining Access To Enchantments ----------
Each enchantment requires a particular perk in order to be used & to be disenchanted in Enchanting Awakened. Without the right perk, weapon enchantments will not affect your enemies, and armor enchantments will automatically dispel or fade when worn. However, almost every enchantment will be usable & disenchantable after you've unlocked all three ranks of the first perk, Soul Shaper. There are six more enchantments — two for each "style" of enchanting — that are only available to specialists in that particular school (the ones listed as "Exclusives" in the style images above).
Follow this link for a list of which enchantments each rank of Soul Shaper unlocks

---------- Incompatibilities ----------
An effort has been made to ensure that Enchanting Awakened alters only elements of the game related to Enchanting and Soul Trapping, to best ensure compatibility with other mods. However, Enchanting Awakened makes tweaks to just about every detail related to those things, so ANYTHING that alters Enchanting or Soul Trap in significant ways will be likely to conflict. If you must use EA in combination with other enchanting mods, it is recommended to put EA later in your load order to ensure the best possible result.
See here for a comprehensive list of all known compatibilities and incompatibilities with other mods[static2.nexusmods.com]

---------- Installation ----------
WARNING: Installing the mod while your character has the Soul Trap spell equipped, or while Soul Trap is actively affecting targets nearby will result in Soul Trap no longer working after installation. Exit combat & unequip the spell before you install.

-------------------------- UNINSTALLATION -------------------------- !!!!! IMPORTANT !!!!! --------------------
If you do decide that you would like to uninstall Enchanting Awakened, you MUST follow these steps carefully to ensure you make a clean and safe removal of the mod:

* Go somewhere that does not have any enchanting tables or soul gem traps in the loaded area. A good place to uninstall would be indoors inside a shop without an enchanting table, for instance.

* Unequip ALL enchanted items that you are wearing or wielding. It is okay for them to remain in your inventory, just ensure they are unequipped.

* Either go into the MCM Menu (if you have SkyUI installed) and choose the option to Uninstall the mod, or else open the console with the tilde key (~), type StartQuest EAUninstall and close the console (~).

* Click the "Uninstall" button in the window that pops up. You will see some uninstall notifications.

* Wait at least 60 seconds. Now save the game. Shut down Skyrim and uninstall Enchanting Awakened. After uninstalling, restart Skyrim and load the save you just made. Make a new save and overwrite the first one. This is your clean save. Now restart Skyrim once more. You will now be able to continue playing from your clean save with no problems.

WARNING: Not Following These Instructions Will Break Enchanting Tables For Your Character !!!




---------- Still have questions? ----------
Read the FAQ (posted as an image) - or search this forum[forums.nexusmods.com], which will very likely answer them.



---------- Credits ----------
BIG thanks going out to all the kind people over at Beth's CK forums for constant support and insight: s7o, mojo, MrJack, hypno, B1gBad, Inki, CDM_, heilghast, JustinOther, and many other folks I'm definitely forgetting. A truly fantastic group.



Now go enjoy the mod already!