War Weather Content . Bring this to Neidir ' s attention immediately . It ' s a transcript of an old text , but she needs to see this . Beg her pardon for the conjecture on Nord legends and Psijic nonsense , but this text contains the angle of attack she was looking for : Weather magic has never been an exact science , perhaps because of the temperamental nature of what it seeks to control . Minor spells to conjure gusts of wind or forks of lightning are common , but manipulation of a region ' s climate is much more difficult to achieve . Our war wizards have longed for the ability to lower catastrophic hailstorms onto enemy borders as a preamble to invasion , or to halt a blizzard to make an unexpected march through inclement weather . There are claims to such spells — spells originating from foreign lands and beyond . Legend has it that a sect of Nords in faraway Skyrim command the spell - like language of dragons , which allowed them some mastery over the weather . Accounts of these Nords ' abilities during the Merethic Era Dragon War include the power to diminish fogs , mists , and clouds with the sheer bravado of their shouts . Negil ' s " Dragons at Windhelm " notes that an army of these bellowing Nords foiled an airborne sneak attack by dragons who sought to strike under a cover of storm clouds . Negil writes , " We thought the heavy clouds looked better parted , and when we spoke our Words of Power , the clouds thought so , too . But even with their passing , the sun remained hidden . A then - apparent wing of dragons stretched across the blue , and the curse that escaped Vofodor ' s mouth brought a hearty guffaw to mine . Our Words of Power did not spare us the battle , but they told us battle was coming . We joined it gladly . " The Maormer lack access to the dragon language , but I have confidence anything the Nords can accomplish we can match . Far to the southwest of Skyrim , members of the Psijic Order have been long - rumored to possess spells cast in the Old Way of magic that can bend the elements to the user ' s desire . Our scouts have reported sudden lightning and flash rain turning to small - scale blizzards off the coast of Artaeum for years . It ' s possible instructional texts on the matter exist — and translating them from the Old Way into intelligible magic will be difficult , but it would be an excellent starting point . Arresea ' s " The Daedric Primer " describes a spell devised by Sheogorath , Daedric Prince , called Manipulate Weather . She writes , " Sheogorath ' s spell folio includes an incantation to match the weather with his mood . The Lord of the Madhouse has been known to teach the spell to mortals in his favor , allowing them to alter the climate of an entire region . Unfortunately , the spell functions at Sheogorath ' s whim , no matter who casts it — meaning it functions entirely randomly . There are stories of his followers trying to stymie flashfloods but summoning torrential rain instead , or trying to put out brush fires and feeding the flames with unwanted lightning storms , to Sheogorath ' s delight . Making a Daedric Pact with Sheogorath is probably not in our best interest , but it seems there is something we can learn from the Prince of Madness . I include the above examples to say that large - scale weather control has been noted across the world , to convince King Orgnum or any in his close circle that weaponizing such an ability would be an incredible asset to the Maormer military . I set out to prove as much this past winter , with the help of twenty journeyman mages . We didn ' t quite succeed — though we ' re on the cusp of success . We started by clearing an open plain near the sea and created a lightning storm by manipulating the charge of a passing cloud with our own skeins of lightning . It worked , but we lost a member of our group ( entirely regrettable ) to the sudden storm and a fork of wayward lightning . It ' s possible we would all have perished had our storm not consumed itself . We tried several times , managing to lengthen the duration of the storm each time , even learned to direct it out over the water . But the duration of our spell remained our enemy , and we eventually had to admit that the exercise would be futile in a battle . We concluded that if we had had some way to physically suspend our spell at a high altitude — perhaps with a conduit device ? Perhaps a series of devices — we would eliminate the need for continued expenditure of magicka and free the casters to direct a storm across a great distance .