Existing mages will have an easier time learning new spells than new apprentices вЂ“ if you donвЂ™t have any spells to start with (which may well be the case), you must study alchemical ingredients or artifacts in order to improve. Now, there are several important gameplay consequences of this system. If you are skillful, lucky, and not mentally drained, you may discover a new spell that fits the archetypes of the theses you wrote.

Once youвЂ™ve learned enough about the spell archetypes youвЂ™re interested in, you can attempt to write magical theses and apply them towards gaining a new spell. However, these methods can be finnicky and dangerous, and they may harm you more than they help. By studying magical items, translating old tomes, or destroying all of these artifacts, you can learn a huge amount about various spell archetypes, or even gain new spells automatically. Along your adventures, you will come across all manner of new magical artifacts, ranging from the relatively commonplace enchanted weapon fragments to the dangerous and rare Grimoires. This is relatively fast, but expensive and terribly confusing.Д«eating the shit out of valuable artifacts. Using an alembic or a cauldron, you can distill alchemy ingredients into concentrated serums, which you can then (a) use for interesting crafting recipes or (b) study to improve your knowledge of their effects. This is slow, but a very straightforward method of progression for existing mages.Дistilling and studying alchemical ingredients. For instance, studying Lesser Ward would improve your knowledge of Restoration magic, of shielding spells, of magical force inducing spells, of self-targeting spells, and of concentration spells. Using your research journal, you can spend time studying any spell already in your possession, in order to increase your knowledge of the spellвЂ™s various archetypes. This means that you will need to research to discover each new spell, in one of three general fashions In short, spell tomes no longer exist, by and large, with the exception of certain hand-placed tomes. The process for obtaining new spells adheres to the Spell Research format. Did I mention you start with 10 Magicka Better bring some bodyguards along! No longer will you be shooting flames from your hands from the moment you step into the world, instead youвЂ™ll be hitting the books (or paper rolls, in this case) to study magical artifacts and painstakingly research your spells. Not only that, the process of becoming a mage isnвЂ™t assumed to have happened sometime before level 1, but rather will be a core focus of your playthrough should you intend to take up the esoteric arts. As youвЂ™ll see below, the systems surrounding magic have been expanded upon greatly to introduce new schools and nuance to the casting of spells. Though the magic of Librum can be described as low magic, it is equally apt to call it deep magic.

When you start Librum, you need to change your fundamental expectations of what being a mage looks like in Skyrim.

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