Tomb Sentinel

Nord - Battleaxe - Light - Barbarian - Conjurer

Background

To a grave robber you are a terror made flesh, you do not fight for gold, glory or a faction, you fight out of a sacred ancestral duty to keep the restless dead contained and the living out.

Weapons

Any two-handed weapon as soon as you can.

The final weapon is a Drainblood Battleaxe which is found in Labyrinthian when on the College of Winterhold main quests. It is an enchanted weapon with 15 points of Absorb Health and it has a ghostly appearance. It cannot usually be tempered but the Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch mod allows you to temper it with 3 ectoplasm.

Without the mod use a Nord Hero Battleaxe that can be crafted at the Skyforge when you have completed the Companions quest chain. It will not have a ghostly appearance, but you can enchant it with Absorb Health and Frost Damage, it can be tempered and it benefits from a Smithing perk.

Armor

Craft a set of Leather Scout gear as soon as you can. You can switch to armour of progressively better materials as you gain Smithing perks.

The final gear is an Execution Hood, Mourners Clothes, Dark Seducer Boots and Gauntlets.

The Execution Hood can be found by starting the Dark Brotherhood questline by talking to Aventus Arentino in Windhem, completing his contract and then sleeping in a bed. You can choose to Join the Dark Brotherhood by killing at least 1 of the hostages or kill Astrid and at least kill or pockpocket one of the hostages. If you kill Astrid it gives you the Destroy the Dark Brotherhood quest.

The Mourner’s Clothes can be bought from Radiant Raiment in Solitude.

The Dark Seducer gear can be acquired from the Saints and Seducers creation. The quest is started by talking to Ri’saad, the Khajiit merchant that travels between Whiterun and Markarth, and asking him about bandit attacks.

Spells

Alteration for utility spells. Destruction for fire spells. Restoration for heals.

Standing Stones.

Use the Lord Stone for 50 armor raring and 25% magic resistance

Shrines

Use a Shrine of Talos for 20% cooldown reduction on shouts.

Shouts

Character Creation

Male Nord

Nord has the best background for this build, so I went with them. The Frost Resistance is also handy for this build as it is not boosted anywhere else on this build and it’s always useful on melee builds.

Attribute Distribution

Distribute attributes at a ratio of 0 / 1 / 1. At level 64 which is required for all the perks the attributes are:

Perk Point Distribution

The skill boosts for Nords are marked in bold.

Skills and Perks

Mage Skills

Warrior Skills

Rogue Skills

Spells

Alteration

From the Bow of Shadows quest that you get from the steward in Dragonsreach you can get the Detect Life spell book at the stables once you have read the ledger in Acradia's Cauldron. Cast this in the market during the day to level Alteration.

Conjuration

Soul Trap is a good way to level conjuration. Just find a baby mudcrab and then spam the spell.

Destruction

Use Unbounded Freezing or Storms and fast travelling to level Destruction. The spellbooks for these can be found in Hob's Fall Cave. Icy Spear is useful against dragons in flight

Illusion

Courage can be used to level illusion by casting it at an NPC.

Restoration

Restoration is used to replenish both Health and Stamina.

Enchantments

The effects listed below are based upon 100 Enchanting skill, all the enchanting perks in the build and with a set of enchanted crafting gear. Read my guide on making crafting gear if you are not familiar with it.

With the Sallowed Regent Black Book the magnitude of all enchantments can be increased. Please note that Black Books can only be used on Solstheim.

The magnitude of the enchantments can be further increased by equipping 4 pieces of Azhidal's gear.

Alchemy

Potion of Fortify Health

You can get all the ingredient in Whiterun and the surrounding areas.

Potion of Fortify Carry Weight

Creep Cluster can be found on the path near Kynesgrove to the South of Windhelm. Gather 1 Glowing Mushroom from Shimmermist Cave to the North East of Whiterun. The remaining 7 are in the secret lab at the farm. Steel-Blue Entoloma can be bought from Khajiit merchants and you can get them all by doing the merchant inventory reset of Quick Save, attack and Quick Load.

Potion of Fortify Enchanting

Dreugh Wax and Stoneflower Petals are only available from Khajiit caravans. Some travel between Whiterun and Markarth. Snowberries are abundant near Windhelm.

Potion of Fortify Smithing

Dreugh Wax and Gold Kanet are only available from Khajiit caravans. Some travel between Whiterun and Markarth. Glowing Mushrooms are in Falmer caves.

Farming

For more information on getting to and setting up your farm read my guide.

Main Area (27)

Side Area (11)

Planters (6)

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