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Skyrim Character: Tandmara Avilelas

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Hello everyone, Taranuka back with yet another Skyrim Special Edition unmodded character for you all to see.  This is my Firepyre build, a Vampire Lord Dark Elf who uses his species weakness as a weapon against those who'd stand against him wherever he may be encountered.  As you can probably tell by the name of the build he is strictly a Vampire and will become a Vampire Lord once the Dawnguard DLC is started.  He utilizes a vast array of Flame-based Destruction spells and Flame enchanted Dragonbone weapons in his offensive and uses Flame resistant and Flame-based Destruction enchantments on his custom made Daedric armor aside from the head, the head is occupied by the Dragon Priest Mask Ahzidal for its flame spell damage and flame resistant enchantments.  He is a formidable foe on the battlefield and a silver tongue in politics, capable of taking gold off either a dead corpse or a shopkeeps gold inventory.  Let's start the build with the Firepyre's backstory.

The story of Tandmara Avilelas begins in poverty on the streets of Morrowind of the second Era.  Born penniless as the only child of a Dark Elf former political couple, he grew up hearing stories from his parents about how they used to swindle land barons out of wagons of gold and gain political friends with their silver tongues and quick wits.  For the young life of Tandmara was uneventful until he was a young Mer of 10 and his parents were killed in their own home by Skooma addicts for whatever they had to buy bread for their only young son.  When Tandmara returned he was immediately filled with anger and sadness at his parents loss, he was even filled with further fiery fuel when he realized the skooma addicts stole the family's only ring, a ring that was in the Avilelas line for time immeasurable and thus the young Firepyre took matters into his own hand with what spells he learned from his father, which wasn't much, only a novice level Flames spell in both his hands.  He marched to the skooma den the addicts resided in and before the first addict could realize there was trouble at the front door he was already a corpse on the ground.  Young Tandmara went on a systematic killing for a young Mer akin to a soldier of surprising determination, executing each addict around a small firepit and skooma bottles.  When the battle was over, the young Mer was magically exhausted and physically exhausted from dodging the pitiful daggers the addicts wielded.  He searched the addicts for his family ring, but it wasn't on them, when he looked at the bottles he realized they had sold the ring for gold to buy their disgusting skooma fuel.  He felt a burning rage, akin to the sun itself at the warrens he lived in.  He decided to leave the warrens of Morrowind after burying his parents and find their ring as a way of avenging them.  His quest would take his entire teenage and early adult years to find the ring, but he returned to Morrowind with better clothes and a knapsack of gold.  He strode through the streets a confident Mer seeking his family's ring, his search led him to a known skooma dealer of Darla Merdrine, a Khajiit richler, his name made him infamous among the lower class despite being a womans name, who made wagons of gold off the skooma addicts he served to.  Young Tandmara strode into the house Darla owned on the outskirts of Morrowind and burned every guard and loyal addict between him and Darla with his tried and true Flames spell.  When he reached Darla, he saw that the Khajiit himself was nothing more than a skooma addict himself, he kept the ring because he thought it was shiny.  When the Firepyre reached for the ring, disaster struck, Red Mountain erupted and blasted a great deal of molten rock, ash and lava towards the city.  Tandmara grabbed his family's ring and ran away from the house as a magma rock smashed into the house.  He made his way to the docks to escape, but he barely made it before he was swept into a bank of ash where he was sealed in rock like a tomb, buried alive.  He awoke eras later in the 4th era when excavators found his "resting" place.  The excavators sent the young Mer to Skyrim to be studied by the Mages of the College of Winterhold.  He took a boat to Cyrodill and walked to the border of Skyrim where he was captured by Imperials for being a spy.  His clothes, gold, he realized later the excavators took the gold before he could remember all the details, and his family ring were in possession of the Helgan executioner.  Until Alduin swept in and destroyed Helgan as Tandmara made his escape.

Perks:

Destruction 100-
    Novice
    Apprentice
    Adept
    Expert
    Master
    Rune Master
    Augmented Flames 2/2
    Intense Flames

Conjuration 25-
    Novice
    Apprentice

Enchanting 100-
    Enchanter 5/5
    Fire Enchanter
    Soul Squeezer
    Insightful Enchanter
    Corpus Enchanter
    Extra Effect

Smithing 100-
    Steel Smithing
    Arcane Blacksmith
    Dwarven Smithing
    Orcish Smithing
    Ebony Smithing
    Daedric Smithing
    Dragon Armor

Heavy Armor 100-
    Juggernaut 5/5
    Fists of Steel
    Cushioned
    Conditioning

One-Handed 100-
    Armsman 5/5
    Bladesman 3/3
    Fighting Stance
    Savage Strike

Archery 100-
    Overdraw 5/5
    Eagle Eye
    Steady Hand 2/2

Lockpicking 100-
    Novice
    Apprentice
    Adept
    Expert
    Master
    Golden Touch
    Treasure Hunter

Speechcraft 100-
    Haggling 5/5
    Allure
    Merchant

His end-game equipment is all Daedric armor except for the head as it is the Ahzidal mask and Dragonbone weapons except a shield which is a fire spell.  His armor is enchanted with Destruction potency, Smithing betterments, Carry weight, One-Handed potential and fire resistance.  His weapons are made from Dragon bones and, for the sword, have fiery soul trap and absorb health while bow has absorb magicka and paralysis.

This build was a lot of fun to do since this was the first character I actually played siding with the Vampires since I first began Skyrim almost 3 years ago.  It was a refreshing change of pace since being a Vampire has a lot of drawbacks given the universal weakness to sunlight that all vampires share.  it made for some fun and hectic situations and fun scenarios playing through the game, almost like playing it fresh again.  Well I hope you all enjoyed this build, let me know here or in my pages comments if you want to see more Skyrim character builds and I welcome feedback in the perks department as I am still even to this day learning the ropes.

Enjoy everyone, Taranuka, out.

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KrytenMarkGen-0's avatar
Ah, so this is your vampire, eh? Hmm, classy. :)