illiteracy

Maybe it wouldn't make sense to play a character who's illiterate, but it would make even less sense for books to give a character a skill boost or play a significant role in mission completion, so this attempts to address that.

This mod removes things caused by reading books. This includes quests starting with books, skill upgrades from skill books, spelling most learned spells, and some scrolls.

Inspired by influencers who wanted to play illiterate bloggers:

Skill Books: UESP lists the skill books in Skyrim. These have simply been edited to remove the skill boosts they conveyed in vanilla Skyrim. The Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition patch contains edits to many skill book texts, this mod includes these edits but does not require USSEP to be installed. You can still read the books, and I highly recommend checking out 2920: The Last Year of the First Era, which is a twelve-part series. Most of them are vanilla Skyrim trickbooks, but they also make for a good story.

Quest Trigger Books: Removed scripts that launch the following tasks when the related book is first opened:

Boethiah's Call

Find Red Eagle's Sword

forbidden legend

lost age

It seems like everything can be started without reading a book, but I haven't tested it myself.

Known Issues: Even if you haven't gotten a Crimson Nirnroot yet, you can still start the quest A Return To Your Roots by reading Sinderion's Notebook, and since it works differently than the other quests, I don't know how to stop it, but there is a Crimson Nirnroot in the same room of the book.

Spell Book: Spells are no longer taught, but they will still appear in loot and vendors, so you can still sell them.

Note: This removes any ability to learn spells from Spell Tomes.

Without adding another way to learn spells, this means there aren't any new spells.

Rolling: Removed from loot list and vendor list. They can still be found in the world, and currently they still work as expected. In the future, I can edit them to do nothing, like Spell Tomes.

At this time, no steps have been taken to affect the notes and letters that may have begun the mission.

Currently not compatible with other mods that edit books or scroll level lists, it will not affect spell outlines added by the mod.

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This mod removes things triggered by reading books. This includes quests started by books, skill increases from skill books, learning spells from spell tomes, and some scrolls.

Inspired by a redditor who wanted to play as an illiterate Bosmer:

Skill books: UESP has a list of skill books found in Skyrim. These have simply been edited to remove the skill increases they convey in vanilla Skyrim. The Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch contains edits to the text of a number of skill books, and this mod contains those edits, but does not require the USSEP to be installed. You can still read the books, and I strongly recommend checking out 2920: The Last Year of the First Era, a twelve part series. Most of them are skill books in vanilla Skyrim, but they are also an excellent story.

Quest trigger books: Removes the scripts which start the following quests when first opening the associated books:

Boethiah's Calling

Find Red Eagle's Sword

Forbidden Legend

Lost To The Ages

It seems all can be started without reading the books, however I have not tested this myself.

Known issue: The quest A Return To Your Roots can still be started by reading Sinderion's Notebook even if you haven't already picked up a Crimson Nirnroot, because it works differently from the other quests and I'm not sure how to stop it, but there's a Crimson Nirnroot in the same room as the book.

Spell Tomes: No longer teach spells, however they will still appear in loot and vendors, so you can still sell them.

Note: this removes any ability to learn spells from Spell Tomes.

Without adding in another way to learn spells, this means no new spells whatsoever.

Scrolls: Removed from loot lists and …