Morrowind:Light Armor

Skill: Light Armor
Governing Attribute: Agility
Specialization: Stealth
Increase: Hit By Opponent: +1.0

The Light Armor skill lets one move and defend while wearing light-weight, flexible armors like leather, boiled leather, fur, chitin, and glass. To use any style of armor effectively, the wearer must be trained, conditioned, and skilled in its use.

Character Creation

The following races receive bonuses to their Light Armor skill:

• +10 bonus: Wood Elf, +5 bonus: Dark Elf, Imperial, Khajiit

The following classes have Light Armor as a Major skill:

• Agent, Archer, Assassin, Rogue, Thief, Witchhunter

The following classes have Light Armor as a Minor skill:

• Acrobat, Barbarian, Healer, Monk, Nightblade, Scout

Factions

The following factions include Light Armor as one of their favored skills:

• Ashlanders
• Blades
• Camonna Tong (not joinable)
• Census and Excise (not joinable)
• Dark Brotherhood (not joinable)
• House Hlaalu
• Morag Tong
• Thieves Guild

Trainers

The Master Trainer of Light Armor is Aerin at the Andus Tradehouse in Maar Gan. The only other noteworthy trainer is Ruccia Conician at the Grand Council Chambers in Ebonheart (up to 70). See Light Armor Trainers for the complete list.

Books

The following books will increase your Light Armor skill:

• The Rear Guard
• Ice and Chitin
• Lord Jornibret's Last Dance
• 36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 21
• 36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 28

Notes

• Light Armor is a very efficient armor skill. Your armor rating while wearing the best Light Armor available with maxed Light Armor skill is an impressive 168, which is higher than that for Medium Armor (145; not counting Bloodmoon's Ice Armor which also peaks at 168) and about half the weight. While not as good as Heavy Armor's 266 rating (up to 333 using certain artifacts), Light Armor is both easier to acquire and easier to carry.
• Light Armor is a useful way of getting bonuses to raising Agility, an important combat attribute.

Armor

Light Armor is defined by the following weight values. The links provide access to categories that list all of the available light armor items of each type.

Armor Type	Weight
Boots	≤12.0
Cuirass	≤18.0
Greaves, Shield	≤9.0
Bracer, Gauntlet, Helmet	≤3.0
Pauldrons	≤6.0

Excluding the expansions, there are four styles of Light Armor that provide complete armor sets; one other style includes a few pieces of armor.

Armor Style
Complete Sets
Nordic Fur Armor	5	35.4	550	141
Netch Leather Armor	5	50.0	550	137
Chitin Armor	10	28.4	1,100	178
Wolf Armor BM	15	37.8	1,210	660
Glass Armor	50	54.0	5,800	106,400
Partial Sets
Boiled Netch Leather Armor (Helm, Cuirass)	7	15	290	54
Dark Brotherhood Armor TR (No shield)	30	16	1,750	3,200