So I always play as melee, never as a magic user. No magic in my billion playthroughs, not even for healing or anything. So I finally decide to do a magic character, read about a bunch of sweet rune caster builds and kinda combined them. He only uses runes and some illusion like frenzy and charm (use Skyrim Redone too).


Anyway, use Live Another Life mod and start in Mage college. First time I leave to go outside of town I encounter a bandit that I totally obliterate with my fire rune. It was epic. I loot her and get a daedric katana!


Just my friggin luck, the ONE time I use no melee and I get the most badass sword ever at level FOUR, the very beginning of the game. No clue what mod I have that caused that to happen... possibly Sands of Time.


Side note, a pure rune caster is ridiculous amounts of fun. Most fun I've ever had in Skyrim.

its certainly a mod.. a daedric karana does not exist in vanilla



so the most likely cause is whichever added the weapon in the first place

Had to do a double take myself DEADRIC KATANA?! do the deadra even make katana's? I thought that was an akaviri thing? Definitly a mod.

Daedric Katanas and Dai-Katanas are only found in Morrowind I believe.

Well, the Ebony Blade is a katana that is Mephala's artifact. So, yeah, there is a "daedric katana."

But , yes, this is something from a mod.

There's also Goldbrand, but the Emperor got it. Unless you use mods, of course.

Whatever mod added the weapon is also affecting the leveled lists. Bandits shouldn't be using daedric weapons of any sort at level 4 unless you've modded to allow them to.

My first thought as well. While there's always a very very slim chance of finding daedric gear at low levels, it's still extremely rare case and it's chests, containers that can have them, not regular bandits. Clearly leveled lists are a bit wonky. I'd really really recommend creating bashed patch and merging leveled lists, even when using a single mod affecting the lists.

What are you talking about? I've had a daedric sword by level 2 -okay, bound sword but it's of daedric origin, isn't it?

But yeah, a mod propably misbehaved and put the katana in the early tiers of the levelled lists.

Oh yeah no question it's definitely a mod lol. No I wasn't questioning that. Just sharing the irony that for ONCE I don't play melee and I get a huge head start item for a melee character that's completely useless to me.


Anyone else have something crazy like this happen? It's more of a middle finger to me because I've made more melee characters than I can count, and I get this at lvl 4 on my one magic user. First time I've even had a daedric item drop too. Ever. I make new characters at like lvl 30-40, I get bored and try a new build before I've used daedric on my melee characters.

For me, it has been mostly enchants I've been searching for a long time on one character, to find them on a new one, during the first 10 levels. That's just about it.

If thats what your talking about then ya op i found very usefull items for wrong or opposite characters and its annoying as hell!! Oh cool a dragon bone chest peace!! Oh wait im not a heavy armor guy! Hazzaaaaa!

the blades in oblivion had a bunch of them and again in skyrim.

Really sound advice. Always rebuild your bashed patch after adding anything that affects loot or vendors, even when it tells you to do something weird (Wrye wanted me to merge FSS No Pause between Lines and DynDOLOD's bird flapping desynchroniser, still all works fine and saves two ESP slots, who am I to argue?) If you don't have Wrye Bash, get it.

Those were Akaviri, not Daedric.

Oooh ok gotcha

On that technicality perhaps but it still uses the mesh of the Ebony greatsword and that is the only katana / Dia-katana I know of in Skyrim other than the Blades gear (which is Akaviri in origin of course).

If you use Runes, Get the Runemaster Perk swiftly. You won't regret it at ALL.

Also, there's http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Dragonbane

Dragonbane.

I'm using Skyre so it's rune perks are pretty cool. Extra range plus extra runes across two different perks