Hello, there. I am just thinking to diving into modding Skyrim. So, I have almost none experience yet. I have looked though some tutorials; though, failed to find any info on how to do things I want to alter, so maybe you could give me a hint where to start looking for.

The basic question I have here is where to find some base game scripts? For example, in Creation Kit you have some armor object, a forge, and a tempering table entities. But it seems they do not have any scripts attached to them in CK.

and I was not able to find a menu in CK where you could just observe all the scripts that exists in skyrim.

If you might know how does the magic of transforming ignots and leather into an armor object or magic of improving armor rating (be tempering) happens. I mean is it done by a script or it is hardcoded in the game? and if it is hardcoded in the game, can we actually alter it?

What I am actually would like to achieve is prohibit tempering an armor/weapon above Legendary level.

I suppose that it can be done either by adding a simple if-condition to the original tempering script or by adding a new script to the tempering table with the if-condition.

In first case I have no idea where to find that original script. In the second case, I have no idea how to get armor rating of the to-be-tempered object.

Thank you in advance for any advice you can give or maybe you know a guide/article that helps to understand these things.

Like I said, i'm not good with scripts, and almost all of that involves scripts or modifying the game beyond my abilities. I've taken a break from the Creation Kit for a bit.