Light Armor Skill

Light Armor
Specialisation	Stealth
Perks	6
Perk Points To Fill	10
Governing Stone	The Thief Stone
Armour Per Point	+0.4%

Light Armor governs how well you fight and move in the lighter armour sets in Skyrim. At six perks it is the smallest skill tree in the game.

Sets It Unlocks

Hide, Leather, Elven, Scaled and Glass are the base game's forgeable light sets, matching the light branch of the Smithing tree. Dragonscale and Imperial light armour are also forgeable, as are Chitin and Stalhrim light with the Dragonborn add-on.

Several notable sets cannot be forged: Nightingale, Thieves Guild, Forsworn, Guard, Stormcloak and Fur armour among them.

Light Shields Are Not Light Armor

A shield described as light does not count toward this skill, and neither the skill ranks nor its perks apply to it. Shields are governed by Block instead, which catches out characters building a light-armour blocker.

Forgeable Light Sets

Light shields do not count toward this skill.

Set	Perk needed
Hide, Leather	None
Elven	Elven Smithing
Scaled	Advanced Armors
Glass	Glass Smithing
Dragonscale	Dragon Armor

Progression

The eighteen skills split three ways. Full list on Skills.

Specialisation	Stone	This skill
Magic	The Mage Stone	-
Combat	The Warrior Stone	-
Stealth	The Thief Stone	Yes