[Firestormalpha]

Well, for recharging mana, I highly recomend getting alchemy skills up and making potions of restore mana. Once your skills get up their, they are both lighter and far more effective than the stones. Especially if you make intelligence boosting potions first, I mean around 10 of them, drink them all, and then make magicka restore potions. I once ended up with something that restored around 150 mana for 120seconds. So, I could cast spells non-stop for 2 minutes. (it was overkill at the time, seeing as I was playing a bosmer assassin)

Enter Oblivion gates early to get a feel for them. Once I waited til I was level 30 to enter and it's denizen's slaughtered me. Oblivion gates level with you, and high level daedra are dangerous.