Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11276487-20130706160459/@comment-94.7.183.35-20130715122330

I was thinking a 3 word power-like shout, like the summon ones, where the effect only takes place with all 3 words. Something like vampire lord form, with a few changes.

It wouldn't be a full dragon transformation, that would be kind of boring, instead it would be a partial transformation: scaled skin granting increased armour, closer connection to dragons giving increased shout power and more frequent shouts, not unlike dragon aspect.

Unlike dragon aspect you would gain a set of dragon wings, would have slightly increased movement speed, and due to the transformation, be unable to equip weapons (although magic would still work). The transformation would give you strong claw attacks not unlike werewolf form.

Like vampire lord there would be two forms, a ground form, where you would be bipedal on the ground, though with a more animalistic stance - slightly hunched over, claws readied, though not quite as bestial as the werewolf stance. Sprint animation would be flying just over the ground, like the hovering of the vampire lord form, but through wings. Attacks would be either magic or claw, as well as empowered shouts.

The other form would be flight form, which would have a huge movement speed increase, with the option to 'sprint' to fly even faster. Stamina would be constantly drained while in flight form, and drained faster during 'sprinting'. All attacks would still be possible, though with the exception of shouts they would be naturally weaker. Of course running out of stamina would cancel flight mode and cause you to uncermoniously fall to your (most likely) death. [im not sure how to make this not cause quests to sometimes bug. seems like it could cause a lot of problems, but it is cool so ill ignore that]

Switching between forms would take a brief period of time, and notably going from flight form to ground form would have an additional 'rest time', with accelerated stamina regen (up to the stamina you had before switching to flight form, assuming you have less stamina than when you switched to it).

I'm not sure if a perk tree would be appropriate, but if it was included, level ups would happen according to total dragon souls absorbed.

As for limitations, once per day seems already quite generous, a shout cooldown time wouldn't be possible due to the shout empowerment, and since it is a power-like shout, it would be fitting for it to be a once-per-day greater power. As for the shout itself, I was thinking of Jul-Dov-Ro, Human Dragon Balance, as the shout would put you into a form that was a balance between human and dragon. I would have preferred hybrid, or fusion (or other similar words) but balance was the closest word I could find for what I wanted.

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