When I said innate I think the word I was actually searching for was dormant.

yeah scrolls in tes have generally been consumable but as far I know, there's nothing that would prevent a reusable scroll to exist. dual wielding wasn't a thing until skyrim. Whole schools of magic have been erased or combined from game to game. Eso doesn't require consumable arrows. Soul gems aren't used in enchanting in eso. So the mechanics in tes series can change and I think a reusable, chaotic scroll is within the realm of possibilities.

And yeah, spell-crafting would be great but that'd require a whole system to go along with it, multiple animations, materials, nodes, probably a new workshop bench, npcs, etc. I hope it still is implemented but a scroll weapon should be much simpler to implement, the devs would only have six new skills to make animations for rather than idk - countless skills that would come with spell crafting. And six skills would be easier to balance as well.

According to both Skyrim and Oblivion, scrolls are one time use items that are useable by literally everyone because they don't consume magicka. It's thought that they're one time use bc the paper that holds the spell deteriorates after the spell is used. Morrowind, afaik, does not seem to have any lore on scrolls even tho they're one time items.

What does prevent a reusable scroll to exist, is the fact that there arent any in other games, and while you could use the argument that most knowledge is lost after the 2nd era, the telvanni are many things, but they are not forgetful, and there's no way they'd forget about reusable scrolls. Thus, they'd have some in morrowind, and there were none in morrowind in the 3rd era.

A better magicka weapon would be the datamined 1hand and rune.

very interesting view and is a good read.

dwemer_paleologist, thank you, glad to hear.

First. I apologize for bumping the thread. I did a search and thought I'd add to a current one with my suggestion.

I really would like to see a new Melee/Striking Staff weapon line. The weapon skill line would offer new alternative for magic builds to have a melee range weapon skills line that scale to Max. Magic and Spell Damage. The weapon line would than provide some support for melee oriented magic builds; but also offer stamina version morphs.

For instance,

Power Slam (magic) would be a moderate DD strike, as the wielder slams the staff down on the target. You could compare the skill to Upper Cut.

Double Strike (either magic or stamina) would be a fast weapon channel that double strikes the target. You could add a third jabbing strike with the end of the staff with a possible staggered effect or a minor heal negation effect.

Quick Reversal (stamina) would be a hooking strike that does relocates you behind the target. Possibly, offering a short Empowered benefit for your first Light or Heavy Attack. This skill would be a tactical CC weapon skill because quick displacement briefly breaks LOS from the target.

Focused Strikes (magic) would be a strong DD strike, as the wielder focuses his energy to briefly reduce the channel time for heavy attacks. This would be using the old Weighted weapon trait mechanics that increased your attack speed.

These suggested ideas bring out some DD and utility weapon skills similar to other weapon skills i.e. Rally, Deadly Cloak, Weakness to Elements, etc. I ultimately would love to see a viable melee magic weapon skill line, as expanding upon the different staffs seemed good.

I would love more skills to play around with and you put a lot of work into this. I wish it could come true.