Introduces 3 new followers: Roald Storm-Shield, a Nord warrior; Katja Kind-Heart, a Nord healer; and Maera, a Dunmer sorceress. Presets included, if followers aren't your thing.
This mod introduces three new potential followers fresh in from adventures of their own in Morrowind. Head on over to Candlehearth Hall in Windhelm and say hello!
These followers have additional lines beyond those as part of the basic follower voices:
- Roald: 147 lines (total of 562 counting the base voice)
- Maera: 85 lines (total of 448 counting the base voice)
- Katja: 26 lines (in addition to those from RDO)
Roald may hand out bounty letters if you ask, saving you a trip to the Jarl's advisor. If he tells you he has nothing, try moving between holds (which is when these bounty quests are generated in the base game).
Event-driven Comments
These followers also have additional comments triggered by certain events in-game.
Vanilla events
- Dungeon entrances: Roald, Maera (with some banter between them)
- Traps and ambushes: Roald, Maera, Katja
- Scenic locations: Roald, Maera, Katja
FECKOFF events (requires FECKOFF)
- Critical hits: Roald, Maera
- Dragon soul absorbed: Roald, Maera, Katja
- Followers killing enemies: Roald, Maera
- Targeted by healing spells: Roald, Maera, Katja
A FOMOD is included. Please choose the desired options.
Allow FECKOFF to overwrite any scripts provided by this mod.
Instructions for Optional Overlays
The replacers come with optional overlays. To keep this mod's size minimal, I do not provide the overlays and instead add them to these NPCs at runtime. You MUST have these additional mods for the overlays to be loaded:
- PapyrusUtil - This is required to detect overlay textures and apply/remove them.
- RaceMenu - This is required to add or remove an overlay to an NPC.
- FRECKLES - Only texture assets are required for Roald's body freckles. Plugin may be disabled.
- MOLES - Only texture assets are required for Katja's body moles. Plugin may be disabled.
- Community Overlays 2 - Only texture assets are required for Maera's tattoos. You must extract the .bsa for the textures to be found! Plugin may be disabled.
- The intro is not finishing! Maera/Katja is stuck! Talk to Roald and tell him you can meet them later.
- The replacer is not working! Did you remember to enable all the plugins?
- The overlays aren't there! Did you follow the instructions about optional overlays?
- Their body turned purple! This means you had the overlay mods installed, then decided to uninstall them for some reason. If this was intentional, then assuming FECKOFF, PapyrusUtil, and RaceMenu are still installed, try moving between cells after loading your save. The overlays will be removed, but the change won't apply until their 3D is unloaded.
- Roald and Maera won't follow even though I tell them to! The problem is likely with your multi-follower framework. Also, make sure the SOS Voice Pack is installed with the correct patch for your multi-follower framework.
- Katja has no follow dialogue! You need RDO or RDO Lite or Missing Follower Dialogue Edit, as mentioned in the requirements.
- Katja isn't actually healing me! Use NFF and the provided NFF config in the FOMOD . I don't have time to duplicate its healer capabilities.
- Why AI? (a) This mod is released now to provide examples of some of FECKOFF's new features. (b) I don't have time to fully flesh out the characters into 5k+ line behemoths. (c) The AI voices are a temporary solution.
- Why RDO? (a) See answer to "Why AI?" (b) I like FemaleNord--which is not a follower voice by default--and do not yet have a suitable Nord-accent AI voice in the voice pack.
- Quest/Idle comments? No. Not now. Instead, Roald and Maera have around 80 event-driven comments each that, to my knowledge, no other followers out there have.
- They don't look like the screenshots! Check the Additional Notes below.
- Low poly replacer? Vanilla hair? Permissions are open for making your own replacer. Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Are the plugins light? Yes. All of them.
- Why multiple plugins? I keep them separate to allow for install options, and I may need the core plugin separate in the future. They're all light, so impact to plugin count is limited.
- Are there conflicts? Aside from the script reuse from FECKOFF, there should be no conflicts with other mods. I did not make any edits to the base game/DLC.
- Why so many requirements? (a) To reduce duplication of scripting/setup, (b) most of these requirements you should have already, and (c) I don't want to manage or distribute a bunch of appearance assets with various levels of permissions.
These followers use your installed bodies and skins. I will not provide custom bodies or skins as these massively inflate the mod size and commonly have rigid stipulations about permissions.
If you like what you see in the screenshots, please see the captions to get an idea of what skins (and graphics) were used. The below customized skins are my personal preferences for these followers:
Roald - The New Gentleman
Katja - BnP - Female Skin (1.7)
- Face Diffuse - 4 (nord)
- Younger or older - Younger
- Hair option - Hair
- Body Diffuse - 2 (breton)
- Body Normals - 2 (breton)
Maera - BnP - Female Skin (1.7)
- Face Diffuse - 6 (dunmer)
- Younger or older - Younger
- Hair option - Hair
- Body Diffuse - 8 (redguard)
- Body Normals - 1 (bosmer)
Presets are available in the miscellaneous downloads. Below are the requirements.
Roald - Nord
High Poly Head (1.4) by KouLeifoh
Expressive Facegen Morphs by Niroku
Mistborn Eyes (and, by extension, Eyes Nouveaux by Novelyst)
KS Hairdos by Kalilies
Koralina's Freckles and Moles by CoralineKoralina
FRECKLES by TREBoy
DDSWorkshop Facial Hair by khisartin
(optional) DDS Workshop Scars by khisartin
Katja - Nord
High Poly Head (1.4) by KouLeifoh
Expressive Facegen Morphs by Niroku
Mistborn Eyes (and, by extension, Eyes Nouveaux by Novelyst)
KS Hairdos by Kalilies
Koralina's Freckles and Moles by CoralineKoralina
MOLES by TREBoy
Koralina's Makeup Tweaks by CoralineKoralina
Koralina's Even More Makeup by CoralineKoralina
Maera - Dunmer
High Poly Head (1.4) by KouLeifoh
Expressive Facegen Morphs by Niroku
Mistborn Eyes (and, by extension, Eyes Nouveaux by Novelyst)
HG Hairdos 2 by lemonbalmtea, Kalilies
Community Overlays 2 by DomainWolf
Koralina's Makeup Tweaks by CoralineKoralina
Credit for appearances goes to all the authors whose resources were used in the presets.
Additional credits:
- Roald is derived from the Caldis preset by Miggyluv66
- Katja is derived from the Jacqueline preset by Miggyluv66
- Maera is derived from the Lyra preset by Miggyluv66
Permissions
Visuals (Replacers/Presets)
All the visuals are built on work from others. Please refer to the permissions listed on the mod pages of those mods, as seen in the Presets and Credits section.
Audio
Audio is either output from ElevenLabs or property of BGS (I did not clone vanilla voices.). Please see their license terms if you wish to modify the audio. (Note this is subject to change to more restrictive permissions if/when I switch to human VAs.)
All other content
Released under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
You are free to use assets from this mod IF:
1. you do not charge for it (Bethesda rules, not CC)
2. you share the work under CC BY-SA 4.0
3. you attribute credit
Instructions
Install with your favorite mod manager. A FOMOD is included.
You can find them in Candlehearth Hall in Windhelm. Speak to Roald first.
Requirements
Optional Requirements
Shields of the Ashlands
FOMOD included. Plugins are all light. Enable all plugins you choose.
Shields of the Ashlands - Presets
RaceMenu presets, with 2k tintmasks. See the main mod description for required RaceMenu addons.
Shields of the Ashlands - Party Sheet Portraits
Portraits for Skyrim Party Sheet: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/167538
