KiaraRedVA

Well first off, I'm gonna miss my favorite nerdy subreddits. r/wow, r/Morrowind, r/Oblivion, r/Skyrim, r/Elderscrolls, and even r/trueSTL. Happy that Skyrimmods is here though!

Aside from that though, r/botchedsurgeries, r/amitheasshole, and r/hobbydrama.

The rest would be various animal subs, but hopefully, they find new homes quickly.

I had sort of the same problem when modding my summoner/sorcerer playthrough a while back, a lot of Necromancy stuff but not as much for the Daedric side of things. Now I love me some Necromancy, but it was a little frustrating not being able to find as much love for Daedra.

Someone else could probably recommend better as my recommendations here primarily come down to spell mods, but you mentioned a scholarly interest so something I can recommend is the Spell Research mod. I can't remember much about it as I haven't played with it enabled for a while, but it adds something extra rather than just getting spell tomes the normal way.

You already mentioned Mihails mods but I did the same, just added as many Daedra as I possibly could.

Not really Daedric-themed but this one adds more immersion to the College of Winterhold and lets you do quests for every school of magic, College of Winterhold Quest Expansion.

I might be able to recommend some house mods but the ones I used on my summoner playthrough were Dunmer-themed, and I think I just ended up using JK's College of Winterhold at the end of it.

Spell Research: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/20983

College of Winterhold Quest Expansion: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/66666

JK's College of Winterhold: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/65676

Edit OH I also forgot, just for the scholarly side of things there's The Eloquent Reader, gives you some speech experience for reading books. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/16338

I don't think I've ever had problems with how many magic mods I have, I hardly get crashes as is and my last playthrough was sitting at around 450+ active mods.

The spell making isn't like Morrowind's or Oblivion's spell making, but I enjoy it as a stand-in. The spell making tables aren't everywhere but there's one in Winterhold & the Abandoned Shack. It's bugging me that I can't remember which mod the spell making table is from, haha.

Actually thought of another mod that's not magic-related, Informative Console - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/19250

Helps when I don't know what item or NPC comes from where.

It's hard to choose a favorite out of all of them, they've also been in my games for so long that sometimes I can't remember what spell comes from which mod unless it's super obvious.

Forgotten Magic adds rings as well that buff up some of the spells which I thought was a nice addition. One of these mods adds a table where you can make spells (buying/finding two or more spell books to create a new spell) but I don't remember which one does that, also pretty sick though.

I have way too many to say and I'm unsure how many of them would count as must-haves for most people. However, for me, I'd say a lot of my must-have mods come down to magic mods because a ton of my characters end up using different sorts, so I like variety, such as:

Triumvirate - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/39170

Stormcaller Magic 2 - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/89643

Stellaris - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/86833

Singularity (haven't gotten a chance to use it yet but it seems rad) - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/38611

Shadow Spell Package - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/13299

Poison Magic of Skyrim - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8944

Odin - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/46000

Mysticism - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/27839

Apocalypse - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/1090

More Apocalypse - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18578

Lunaris - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/80852

Forgotten Magic Redone - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/12711

Blood Spells Pack - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/15652

Astral Magic 2 - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/69938

Arcanum - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/23488

Ace Blood Magic - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/16995

Honestly, I keep forgetting to disable some of these for a couple of my playthroughs so a ton of spells scattered all over just became the norm, even if I don't use most of them or if I'm playing a character that hardly even uses magic.