Current Events > Skyrim's shouts need to all be magic spells in TES VI.

(+) Yeah! (+)

The thing with Skyrim is the setting and marketing encouraged players to run around as big barbarians, but the devs wanted them to still get to do cool fantasy stuff, so we got the Shout system. Think about how many cool effects are on this list that are basically spells tied to Shout cooldown instead of Magicka:

-Animal Allegiance (charm/rally animals)
-Become Ethereal (Shield/Misty Step)
Clear Skies; Storm Call (weather magic!!)
-Disarm
-Unrelenting Force; Cyclone (force pushes, force/wind damage)
-Ice Form (status effects on enemies like Frozen)
-Slow Time (fucking time magic!)
-Throw Voice (for the arcane tricksters)
-Whirlwind Sprint (spatial magic)


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