So I've working on building a up a 'Most Damn Nord You Could Ever Be' build in Skyrim for a while. Harbinger of the Companions, Sided with The Stormcloaks, fights with Greatswords, has no truck with magic, and was based on a combination of the original Skyrim 'Poster Nord' from the publicity and the Braveheart style Nord from the Loading screens.

He's the guy currently my Avatar, if anybody gives a toss...

I've not actually downloaded Dragonborn yet, but I'm planning to do so in the next few days (Just waiting for a window of a few days to actually play it) and this is the Toon i'll be using.

So far I've played through the game, much like the 'Poster Nord' in a combination of light and Heavy armour. Usually light armour with heavy helmets, boots and gauntlets. I have Juggernaut in Heavy Arnour maxed and Agile Defender in Light Armour too, to cover this, and a maxed out Smithing tree to Smith the crap out of everything I acquire. This has allowed me to use light Scaled Armour to keep a more Nord aesthetic, while not getting my ass handed to me...

At present UESP and the Skyrim Wikia pages don't have full armour lists up yet, so I was wondering if anybody who actually has the DLC could let me know which new armours are light, which are heavy, and whether from an aesthic point of view any will combine well with either each other or existing armours.

I have Dawnguard BTW. So DG armour IS an option.

there is bonemold heavy and light versions there is chitin heavy and light versions there is carved nordic armor which is purely heavy (carved nord boots and arms look good with chitin light as well as the dawnguard full helmet thats what i currently have) and miraaks armor is light, the stalhrim armor comes in light and heavy as well, deathbrand is light armor. Stalhrim and deathbrand can be mixed considering they almost look identical but certain peices are different so thats a good combo but stat wise you definitely want to wear solid deathbrand if you get it. Not much is know about the morag tong armor but in past games it was a set of assassin armor so i bet its light. The new masks are heavy armor and the black armor i heard was light then i heard was heavy, dont know there but finally the skaal coatish armor is i think heavy. Thats all i know so far.

To my knowledge:

Morag Tong is light.
Chitin has both heavy and light variants (aesthetically different).
Bonemold is heavy.
Nordic Carved is heavy.
Stalhrim has both heavy and light variants (aesthetically different).
Deathbrand is light (and very similar to Stalhrim light).
Cultist robes are clothes (unarmoured).
The masks are all heavy armour.
EDIT: According to Skyrim Wiki, Miraak's gloves and boots are light, while his mask is heavy and his robes are unarmoured.


I'm sure there's extra stuff I've missed.