» Mon Dec 12, 2011 3:40 am
Welcome to level scaling. It doesn't matter what your level is, the threat is scaled to you.
If you somehow have trouble, anyway, you can put off any quest you have trouble with for a few levels, and when you come back, the enemies will have stayed the same level.
If you are a mage, you should probably take the first wagon ride to Winterhold, though. You only really have to cast a single summon spell, and they let you buy the summon spell if you don't have it yet, at that. Then you get access to plenty of good maging materials.