Fun vids! I still really enjoy the pure magic approach. I also really liked her clothy caped outfit in the first vid.

And a new Acadia Aradia! I see the lady’s boots in Skyrim still look like Oblivion tree trunks.

Now. . . we just need to see if we can coax a smile – even a faint one – from the stern-faced high elf.



This post has been edited by Acadian: Feb 16 2012, 01:39 AM

I don't know, she comes off pretty cold to most people she meets. Looks down on most of them too.

On neat, I didn’t know those hanging pots would explode. Fun! Good to know about the range issue. That's another thing I was doing wrong.

Wow. Aradia is tall. I think she looks especially great in the forge one.

I really like the environmental things that Bethesda put in. Aravi always notices those lamp AFTER she’s killed someone with her swords or arrows. A little frustrating. Lol.

Exiting the game to mod the range of those spells eh?

Aravi found a variant of the furs that have long sleeves. She’s never going to get rid of them.

Acadian: Her snow white clothes will make a reappearance soon. As well as a new pair of boots. I would not expect even a faint smile from Aradia though. She is a High Elf after all, and above such things.

liliandra nadiar: Of course she looks down on everyone. She's about a foot taller then them!

Grits: Funny thing is, when I switch to 1st person, Aradia is shorter then everyone else. There is at least a foot difference between the two povs. I usually forget about those pots, and the oil on the floor. I think I actually read about them in the game manual.

King Coin: It is amazing to compare one of the ES games to Bioware games like the Kotor and Mass Effect serieses. Even as far back as Morrowind, the ES games had lots of clutter in them, that made the world seem so much more alive. The Bioware games are all stark and empty, and none of them seem like real places where people live.


Aradia gets a good view of Helgen's ruins.

Beyond those mountains lies Cyrodiil.

Aradia was nice enough to help me test a mod, by summoning Bone Jovi.

At the dock of Fort Neugard

A close up

Aradia found those long-sleeved furs, and I made them into regular clothing (rather than light armor) for her.

Finally, in the Galactica White Warrior clothes.

A short vid of Aradia at Valtheim Towers

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Feb 19 2012, 02:49 AM

Thanks for the screens!

Nice view toward *sigh* Cyrodiil. Somewhere over the rainbow mountains, it is green. And warm.
Love the name Bone Jovi! Shot through the heart!
Aradia looks a bit severe from a distance, but in the close up, I quite like her features.
I very much like that clothing she made from furs! It looks great on Aradia.

Edit: And you added a vid! Fun to watch our spell slinger in action. And Aradia's Familiar - a ghost wolf of course. That way she can cast over his head!

This post has been edited by Acadian: Feb 19 2012, 03:04 AM

I added in a short vid as well.

Those screens looking over the mountains are beautiful!

I have to agree with Acadian, up close she has very nice features.

Beautiful retexture.

Aradia’s just blowing them off the towers!
I like the little howl at the end. The ‘discovery’ sound effect is something I like to hear too.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Feb 19 2012, 05:45 AM

I like your summonings far better than the vanilla ones, of course. Bone Jovi looks great!

Aradia has a much softer look in her close-up, very nice. I especially like her eye color.

Oh, great idea to make her furs an outfit! Excellent snow camo armor. It makes me wonder about using white furs in an outfit. Aradia would look quite regal decked out in snowy sabre cat fur!

Very fun video. I see that range is no longer an issue!! It gives my own budding destructionist hope. Aradia’s familiar is awesome. Nice to see her still there at the end of the battle. (Girl wolf? Just guessing.)

Acadian: It is strange how Aradia looks more severe from a distance then she does up close. I have no idea why that is.


King Coin: Once you take out all of the greyness, Skyrim can be a pretty place to look at, especially the mountains.

I just love blasting baddies off of things and watching them fall. Bridges, cliffs, you name it. The Ice Spike spell is good for that, as it has a lot of knockback.


Grits: There are not very many vanilla summonings! Aradia's familiar was still around because I am using my Improved Familiars mod, that beefs them up to make them useful. I have spent the weekend working on mods to change that. The next one will be my animal summoning mod, that still needs a number of finishing touches, like a new perk tree for summoning them.

White furs would be a neat idea for a mod. If I can find a way to do it without editing the .nif files I might do it. Right now I cannot do anything more than look at the meshes with nifskope.


Aradia met an elk after coming down from the towers.

A waterfall in the Rift

Eldergleam

A flying saucer!

Aradia wonders how those Bretons can wear this stuff without getting frostbite?

The elk is beautiful! Of course, ALL waterfalls are beautiful. I expect those are tree roots in the Eldergleam screen, but I want to think of them as the bones of mammoths – like a sacred burial ground for the giant pachyderms. And a bard with a lute! I quite like the bits of fur armor, but agree with Aradia that they belong only in a warmer clime!

Who says they don't? Bretons do have a bonus toward Restoration after all. Azula recommends dressing warmer like she and Jenassa do. No point in become brain frozen like the rest of the barbarians in the land do after all.

Nice catch on the elk superhighway! That’s a great shot!

Looks like Aradia found Jensa’s favorite outfit. It’s good for soaking up the sun. With vanilla skies she has to be careful not to develop a vitamin D deficiency.

Eldergleam is a beautiful place.

Those Bretons must be part Nord!

Acadian: Funny thing is, that elk pic was taken without using an animal friend mod. Usually the elk and other prey animals flee your character. This fella just stood there and stared at Aradia.

Those were indeed roots in the Eldergleam pics. There are places with large piles of mammoth bones however, just like you imagined. It always makes me wonder what killed them.


liliandra nadiar: Aradia put that Forsworn stuff away almost as soon as she put it on, and got back into her furs. She might like that top the one in the left in your pic is wearing though.


Grits: Jensa can wear that because she has a 50% Frost Resistance! Sometimes I wonder if the developers thought they were making a game set in a jungle, rather than icy mountains.


King Coin: I like Eldergleam's cave too. I just wish it was bit better lit.


Primrose has taken her first (barefoot) steps into Tamriel

A close up

Being a wood elf, the wolves and other animals like her (and also thanks to a mod I am working on )

Framed against the moon

She found a horse whose bandit owner was dead

Primrose wonders why the water disappeared in a prefectly square-shaped area?

Because of some issues with the Animal Friend mod, I had to recreate Primrose

Primrose looks great! She's my favorite so far.

I love the picture of Primrose and her horse.

A wood elf with a horse! Can't beat that. 'Sides, it gets her poor bare feet up off that cold Skyrim ground!

When is she gonna put that henna dye that is on her face into her hair, move to Cyrodiil and start writing? You know, maybe join the Fighters Guild and settle down with a nice Dunmeri lass and learn how to summon bears and ravens.

Both outfits were actually part of the same progression path for this. Azula was in the base level, Jenassa was in the final version (without the optional backpack). If it wasn't for Azula being a full on Destruction mage, it'd be her outfit of choice. It's between Elven and Glass in AR. There's also a version for Oblivion too if Teresa wants a casual(ish) look.

Primrose looks ready to turn large, aggressive lizard-like creatures into free roaming quivers.

Woah! She’s heavy on the paint! I like her still. You did a wonderful job on the face. Barefoot too! I suppose Aravi couldn’t be the only one forever.

Grits: Primrose is my favorite so far as well. The most difficult character as well, since archery at low levels is not very effective.


Acadian: Primrose came from Cyrodiil. She learned the henna in the hair trick from her mother, who also taught her to shoot the bow, mix potions, and summon animals.


liliandra nadiar: I tried the Roadstoker outfit. It causes a CTD on startup, like every other mod packaged in a .bsa does to me. I have it for Oblivion, and it works fine there.

Primrose has not met any large lizard like creatures, nor will she ever thanks to my dragon disabler mod. There are still Argonians though...


King Coin: The face paint makes me think of Primrose as my Japanese elf. She has finally taken to wearing shoes however. It gets too cold walking barefoot in the snow.


Primrose has been making friends with the bears

...and the wolves

Like her second mother, she is handy in the forge as well.

Against the mountains

The obligatory aurora pic

Primrose likes it around Falkreath, so I made her a little camp outside of town

She found that forsworn 'armor'. She thinks it is ridiculous

Primrose forged herself a real suit of armor instead