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Ancano's Apparel

Let me paint a picture for you. You start a new character and, after jumping through the usual hoops, are finally set free to begin your adventures. You decide to join the College of Winterhold and become a mage. Some time later you are on the final quest for the College, this is it, the big finish, the final battle, the epic finale that the entire questline has been building too. After a harrowing battle you defeat the questline's main antagonist. Excitedly, you rush to the corpse certain that the developers must have left some unique items on him. You open the inventory and find . . . . . . . a bunch of generic armor that you can get off of any other thalmor mage in the game . . . . . . really Bethesda, really.

Well this mod changes that. Ancano's generic thalmor gear is replaced with unique enchanted gear. He also gains a necklace and a ring, which are also unique and enchanted. None of the gear is disenchantable. I am sure some people will have questions about why I choose to give the gloves an enchantment that increases unarmed damage. I did this because it gives mages something to fall back on if you are out of magicka. Another thing are the robes. I tried to make them powerful enough to be a viable alternative to the archmage robes, without causing them to eclipse the Archmage robes. They are definately geared towards a more offensive mage build. This mod also adds a journal for Ancano. The information in this journal is my opinion and (as far as I know) doesn't break any lore. This mod will likely make the last fight in the questline harder, since Ancano actually wears his snazzy new threads.

You are free to use anything in this mod for your own works, but give me credit for creating the gear, enchantments, and journal.