I can't help my mind wandering while I'm at work. Sometimes the thoughts that pop in there are fairly interesting, some even Skyrim related. Here are a few.

Remembering a lot of people complaining about the excess of dragon souls after learning all the shouts, I thought about what you see during the Main Quest, particularly at Kynesgrove during A Knife in the Dark. What if you were able to learn the shout Alduin was using? Resurrect Dragon: Slen Tiid Vo (Flesh Time Un . . . weird I know). So that would be 3 spent souls. To use the shout, you would have to be aimed at a dead dragon, use it, it would then take one of the souls you have and revive the dragon and it would then serve you untill it died. Would basically be a Dead Thrall shout for dragons. You would lose the soul after the dragon died again, but I think it would be worth it. Cooldown would be almost identical to the Call Dragon shout, with the first two words having 5 seconds, with no effect, and all three having 300 seconds and the effect. There would be either new word walls for them, so that the new Slen and Tiid would be seperate from their vanilla counterparts, or maybe from a dragon.

A lot of people also complain that blacksmiths aren't able to upgrade weapons and armor, or no one is able to enchant things for you. I'll start with blacksmiths.

The way I see it, most blacksmiths would have a smithing skill of 50. However, Balimund of Riften would have 75, as he is the Expert Trainer, and Eorlund Gray-Mane of Whiterun would have 100. Balimund and Eorlund would also be the only ones to have the 'Steel Smithing' perk and 'Arcane Blacksmith' perk, so they could upgrade magic items as well. None of the other blacksmiths would have any of the other perks. Also, they would each have a level requirement (Eorlund would have a higher req than Balimund), so that you wouldn't be able to get it too early. Therefore, doing it yourself would be best, but at least people that dont want to grind it can also have upgraded equipment. The cost would be the material needed to upgrade, as well as 50% of the finished item's value.

As for Enchanting, any court wizard would do it for you. I guess they would all have a level 100 Enchanting, but no perks, again to make doing it yourself the better option. They would start with a basic number of effects, like maybe only Fire Damage, Frost Damage, Shock Damage, Fortify Health, Fortify Magicka, and Fortify Stamina. To increase the effects the individual knows (so you would either only go to the one, or do this once for each of them) you would use a dialog option like 'I would like you to learn this enchantment.' A menu would pop up with a list of the enchanted items in your inventory, with ones the mage already knows grayed out. You hand them the item and they would pay you a finders fee, I guess like 100 gold (they are destroying it after all), the mage walks over to their Arcane Enchanter, uses it and then learns the effect of the item. When having an item enchanted, you would provide the item and soul gem, select the enchantment, and it's done. The cost would be

My original thoughts on Enchanting have kinda deadended, due to the fact that this method would make extremely weak enchantments. For Example, that way would give you a Fortify One-Handed enchantment of 16%. It might simply be solved by increasing the perks they get, but I don't want it getting to quite the same level as doing it yourself.

Doing it yourself should be better, as you have put forth the effort in making it better.

I would have done all this in Lime green, but it was getting annoying on my eyes just typing it. -LoZ