Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-76.118.67.131-20140922181150/@comment-17114085-20140924130752

That is not true, not everyone can learn the Thu'um. You have to have the affinity for it, as stated by Balgruff. He tried to learn it but couldn't, as he didn't have the affinity. Among Nords it is fairly common, as show by the numerous tongues present in all of Tamriel's history. But among the other races it is pretty rare.

Flesh spells don't negate damage, they add armor.

Also I agree with the flame cloak thing, it logically should be able to stop arrows. The reason that it doesn't is a gameplay limitation. I mean it is literately a wall of fire around a person. It should burn the arrow to a crisp, at least a powerful flame cloak should. Though that wouldn't work on bullets. As it takes a whole lot more to melt metal, and at that velocity the bullet would barely have enough time to be heated up by the flame cloak. If anything it would make things worse for the mage, as the bullet would be warmed up when it hit him. That could alter the bullet's trajectory but it would also hurt more and penetrate more into the flesh.