Spell - Levitate
by Magistrate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eOLCaHCgTy4

The one thing I always loved the most in the TES saga was the ability to grow your character from a low level wizard to a powerful mage and the ability to levitate came with the package. As soon as you grew in power and expertize gone and forgotten were the times you had to walk from place to place like a mere mortal. "But.. There are horses now" you may say. But can a horse fly you from one mountain top to another? I don't think so.

But then it came Skyrim and Bethesda, after enclosing cities in interior cells they saw fit to take away from the player the ability to levitate in order to encase us in heavily scripted quests. But no longer you have to suffer! Now you can fly, again.

I found on the nexus an excellent mod by http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/26638 which added just what I was looking for: a Levitate Spell. There were some issue though, unfortunately he quit supporting the mod and left it open-source due to R/L commitments. So I grabbed it, cleaned it with TESVEdit, replaced levelled lists with item placement; added two new custom sound effects for better immersion and packed everything in a BSA.

[Features]

Custom sound effect for Levitate Casting (see Video).
Custom sound effect for Levitate Concentration Loop (see Video).
Cleaned some dirty edits in the original mod.
Everything packed nicely into a BSA.

[Change Log]

1.0
Initial release.

[Installation]

Download the "Spell Levitate.7z" and extract its content to your Skyrim folder.

[Obtaining The Spell]

You can find the "Levitate" spell in a satchel (with an expert lock) in Toldfir's room, in Winterhold College.

or

If you can't wait you can add "Levitate" to your spell book, via console. Type:
help levitate
Then use:
player.addspell [ID#]

This mod has been cleaned with TES5Edit.

[Note]

Fancy Hovering Animation.
The hovering animation as seen in the video is NOT included, to get that, you have to download http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/15703 Personally, though, I use a custom mash-up of Dualsun's and [/url] XP32's New Animation For Magic Casting[/url] this way my character hovers only when holding a concentration spell (such as levitate) and stays anchored to the soil when casting non-concentration spells.

Levitate with care.
Levitate is a concentration spell, which means you will be flying as long as you keep the button pressed so if you stop concentrating mid-air you WILL fall to your death (granted Skyrim, differently from Morrowind) doesn't allow to cast spells while falling).

Levitation is Mana-Expensive.
Take into consideration that if levitate is used at low levels it is a mana drain and you may end up mana-less in no time and if that happens mid-air, you may fall to your death.

The game does not expect the player to levitate.
Remember that the Vanilla game does NOT expect the player to fly around, therefor, be careful when flying around as you may find the occasional invisible wall or when levitating in interior cells end up stuck in places you are not supposed to reach.

[Credits]

Original Spell by http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/26638
Original Script by http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19069

[Permission]

You are permitted to use these files in your mod as long as you send me a message to ask for permission and you credit me for use of my files.

[My Other Mods]

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/27743
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/28243
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/28431/
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/28457/
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/28588/
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/28684/
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/29543/
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/29600/

[Contacts]
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1427216-relz-spell-brilliance-an-alternative-to-candlelight/
Available on http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/29600/.