Once you’ve sold off all the gear you don’t want (which for the purposed of our build is everything except for your novice robes and hood, dagger, bow, whatever shoes and gauntlets you want to keep and useful miscellaneous items like potions and lockpicks) walk through the countryside to Whiterun. You should have Whiterun marked on your map already. Speak to Riverwood merchants in business hours (8am to 8pm) to barter and sell all the random loot you’ve picked up so far. Make sure to activate the Mage Stone to help you level your Illusion magic shortly. On your way, you’ll pass the Guardian Stones. After you leave the cave, part ways with Ralof and walk towards Riverwood. Leave the cave system with Ralof and emerge into the outside world again. This is because our use of Illusion magic makes this perk less essential and we don’t want to level our character unnecessarily too early, which would lead to overpowered enemies.
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The video below by the awesome Youtube channel ESO shows you how to level your sneak skill ultra-fast by stabbing the immortal Ralof into a bloody mess: At this point you’re going to instead equip your dagger and start attacking Ralof (don’t worry he’ll forgive you). Ralof will give you a long bow and teach you how to sneak. You’ll eventually get to a cavern with a sleeping bear. You’ll use these to help level your Illusion skill. When you get to the room with locked cages, make sure to unlock the cage with the dead mage instead and loot the Novice Robes and Novice Hood. Loot all the Imperial soldiers’ corpses and take any arrow you can find.
Make sure to keep at least one dagger, one longbow and any arrow that you find. If your inventory fills up, start dropping lower value items to remain unencumbered. In the play through I did for this guide I chose Ralof.įollow Ralof through the Keep, collecting everything you can to sell later. At this point you can follow either the Stormcloak prisoner Ralof or the Imperial soldier Hadvar, it doesn’t matter which for this build. Once you’ve chosen your race, customised the appearance of your character and chosen a name play through the opening of the game until the point where you escape the dragon by entering the Helgen Keep.
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Note: You can put a few points into stamina and health if you wish, but for the purpose of this build, choose to upgrade magicka at most character level-ups. This powerful Skyrim Assasin build is based around a hybrid of Illusion magic and the Sneak skill.