Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-9601450-20131225183646/@comment-218.186.252.220-20131227082950

I wrote the following on the previous thread, only mania replied, I think.

Anyone wants Aetherium armor and weapons? Made and improved only at the aetherium forge. affected by the final smithing perk, whatever it is.

Stats wise, it will replace dragonbone as the strongest set, with a light and heavy armor variant, a full set of top notch weapons. The pieces will all have the innate effect of boosting the power of enchantments placed on them by 25% (like how Stalhrim boosts frost by 25%). Tentatively, the dagger can look like Keening.

Crafted with Dwemer ingots and raw aetherium (cause you can't smelt aetherium and we can't add an aetherium smelter beside the forge, cause it wasn't there, unless you want an aetheruim workbench, grindstone and smelter to rise out of the lava on platforms, which is kinda cool too, like the central area opens and the 3 stations rise out of the lava). It will be similar to Daedric stuff, replacing the ebony with aetherium ingots/aetherium, add a dwarven ingot and some leather strips.

I only came up with the idea after I actually visited the aetherium forge, it seems so wasted that it was a one time use thing, which was sad, given its easily the coolest looking forge in the entire TES universe (its like steampunk and high tech). The fact that it limited you to only 3 aetherium artifacts also seemed kinda sad and limited, cause the amount of aetherium was probably enough for a dagger, at least.

I would also suggest a small set of misc quests to acess the forge, but this can come later when the sidequests board comes up.