Mammoths! Awesome! There's something about those majestic creatures that is fascinating. I think it is because they're both so serene and yet they can be so deadly, too.

At last, Buffy made it to the north. The land of the Nords! Oh how I'm excited! The rugged land of Skyrim brings out the same on those who wander those lands. Buffy looks marvelous and dangerous(as she well should be) but I guess some time in a warm home under a bath or in those hot springs should clear some things up. Saunas were popular in Skyrim(lore-wise).

I like her hunting companion. The fearsome sabre-cat. The area she's in is flowing with game. Our Mystic Archer won't have any difficulty locating food in Skyrim. It is plentiful.

Nice shot Buffy made there. I like it. Bearskin elf time!

Welcome to Skyrim, where even trolls get arrows to the knees! Buffy is a quick learner. She already knows how things work in the north

Magic time, eh Buffy? Show those children what you learned in the Arcane University!

Wonderful update, Acadian. I am sincerely glad Buffy is in Skyrim!

As frozen Buffy can be when she´s visited Lothran, it´s hard for me to think she´d go even further north!

That said, lovely pixie of the month!

SubRosa- Thank you! Buffy’s been continuing to adjust to life among the glaciers, tundra and forest.

Grits- As I’ve mentioned in other threads, SkyBuff seems comfortable moving in an eclectic circle of friends: Mammoths/giants, College Mages, the Court of Solitude, and Orc Strongholds. Go figure. Thanks for the wonderful encouragement.

mirocu- Well, I’m sorry that SkyBuff 1.0 was a bit. . . hard-edged from what we’re used to. I did want to stick with vanilla for a decent length of time however. Thanks for the kind words on the screen of the month.

KC- Thanks! As ever, Buffy is torn between buckskins and silk, furs and arcane robes, a warm fire in a tavern or one out on the plains under the stars. . . . Her mystic bow seems to be a keeper – Buffy quite loves how it epitomizes a mystic archer, and how its perks quite neuter enemy mages who try and summon help. Happily, I’m able to tweak out any pesky downsides to using the bow like fine-tuning damage and using it from the saddle.

DE- Thank you for the warm welcome to the cold land of Skyrim! She’s still finding her way, but the game is certainly a keeper, alongside Oblivion.


Well, Buffy continues to thrive up north and has amassed over 400 hours in game there. We have embraced mods, and Buffy’s look is now SkyBuff 2.0. We kept her a Bosmer, adding a body mod that includes wonderful face complexions as well. Then a mod for a ponytail, another for some dazzling blue eyes and we’re there!

I also believe that Superian is complete – the black mare having gained several hundred pounds and some additional white highlights. I simply love the 'heavy horses' of Skyrim. The mod, Convenient Horses has been a wonderful and necessary addition to make Superian work well.

In today’s update, you’ll still see some use of Buffy's hunting bow – I expect she's now moved on to pure use of her mystic bow - as I mentioned to KC, she can use it from the saddle and we can tweak it to taste. You’ll also see she seems to currently favor a big cat for a helper (the cat changes coats from tawny to snowy depending on the environment), but she also likes conjuring arctic foxes and summoned golems of fire, ice and stone.

That all said, here’s a few shots of Buffy in her current game -

A small elf in a land of big Nords.

Skyrim dungeons are wonderfully done.

Naturally, Superian made the trip north.

Superian's full of bravado with a sabre cat backing her up.

A close up.

Symphony in blue – as only a mystic archer can play it.

These new pixies were great, Acadian! Now I actually can see the Buffy we all hold so dear!

Being in a land even colder than Bruma, I guess Buffy won´t need that bear blanket anymore if she decides to visit Lothran again


That little elf is truly amazing

SkyBuff got 'the talk' from Sigrid! I cannot blame Siggy for caution. She really fills out that Triss Outfit well...

The dungeons pic looks like it was taken in Nightcaller Temple, from the Vaermina/Mara quest.

Superian is a paint! They are my favorites in Skyrim too.

Love the pic of Supes rearing up with kitty cat.

Buffy does have lovely eyes in her close up, and nice skin! I love that ponytail mod too. Ever since I found it, every character I created since has had a ponytail!

The Buffster's mystic bow meshes well with the blue swirlies from Potema's attempted resurrection.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 12 2014, 04:52 PM

SkyBuff 2.0 looks fabulous! I can see why Sigrid was worried.

Gosh I love that Triss outfit on Buffy! I completely agree about the dungeons.

How wonderful that Superian made the trip north with Buffy. As I’ve always admired Sir Mazoga’s sturdy steed in Buffy’s Cyrodiil pictures I was delighted with Skyrim’s heavy horses. (And the lanky Ulfe dogs.) That’s a great view of Buffy’s ponytail in the stable picture. Very nice.

Bravado is my favorite of this group. It has it all. I love Buffy’s mystic bow in that picture!

Aah, close-up – gorgeous! Dazzling blue eyes indeed.

Another thing that Lildereth likes about a mystic bow is that enemy archers can’t pick up the glowing blue arrows and shoot them back at her. I can imagine how Buffy went through Wolfskull Cave. What a neat shot!

Thank you for this update on SkyBuff. It’s great to hear of Buffy's adventures and see her in Skyrim.

Buffy! I love her outfit in the first one.

And I thought she would be using candle light and mage light spells.

I’ve loved hearing about your horse mod.

And I approve of all the mystic in mystic archer.

Is that 400 hours on current Buffy, or all the restarts? I haven't put half that on any of mine.

The Triss outfit(s) have travelled well. I see she has a green and a white variant, presumably for forest and snow. But I expected her to many more than that. No bag of holding?

She's definitely looking more elven than Breton, but that's a much better-looking elf than I've managed with vanilla. I'm playing with Ethereal Elven Overhaul for my latest, but I don't like that it changes all the elf faces in the game, so it may not stay. Does your face mod work only on the player?

ghastley – Let me pop in here to answer your question about Buffy’s appearance mods. Since it looks like you are searching for perhaps a current character, waiting until my next update to reply might be too late to be of use to you.

When we installed Caliente’s Beautiful Bodies Edition (CBBE), in addition to using the Slim option, we had the auto installer go ahead and install the included CBBE Official Face Pack. Here’s what Caliente says about it:

‘CBBE Official Face Pack is for those who don't feel like searching for a decent face mod to go with the base CBBE textures. This pack does not contain any new or edited face presets; it contains textures only. Also includes 'Eyebrows Match Hair' in two shades and three styles (six sets in total), and a 'dirt to beauty marks' option. This can be found in the Options folder in the main archive, and does not require the use of TexBend/TexBlendLite.‘

The face pack does seem to affect NPCs but, since many of them have dirt, age, wrinkles, whiskers, war paint, etc set in their sliders (that remain), the results are pretty subtle with them.

The only other appearance mods we use beyond CBBE, are Ponytail Hairstyles and The Eyes of Beauty. So we just used the vanilla Bosmer sliders to make Buffy. We used no dirt, young age, eliminated the ‘Bosmer’ sunken eyes with the very dark eye shadowing they all seem to have. Then some blue eyes and a nice ponytail really polished her up.

Hope that helps some!

Life's been hectic! But I'm here!

No problem! I was excited to see Buffy in Skyim and I'm still hoping for a story of her in Skyrim but this is good enough. Sincerely!

Buffy's been small all her life. With those tall high elves in Cyrodiil and those big Orcs, I'm sure she feels dwarfed by those huge northerners! She better keep an eye out, women in Skyrim are just as tough as the men and apparently the jealous types are even more dangerous!

The dungeons are wonderfully done, and dark. That's when the light comes in handy. For one who likes to hide and snipe her enemies down, Buffy will love the places she can conceal herself. Skyrim's dungeons and caves are full of those.

Superian in the north! And my does he look great and majestic!

A lethal trio! Much like King Coin's Aravi and her two companions. Things are dangerous when three are involved. Check out that mystic bow in her back! You weren't kidding when you said we'd see it!

One thing is for sure. Buffy has always been a looker. The Nordic women(and all the other women) will feel jealous. Dangerous, pretty, a femme fatale. Savlian indeed had it good when he spent his time with her(Nine rest his soul).

Indeed, I've seen no other. Wow. Just wow. This was beautifully shot(as I'm sure that arrow was). The blue here lovely!

Fantastic update, Acadian!

mirocu- I’m so glad that you can see the Buffy you know in her latest version. Again, I wanted to spend a fair amount of time in vanilla before introducing mods to our game. Thank the Nine for resist frost enchantments up in Skyrim! Otherwise, Buffy would truly have to dress like a tiny brown bear.

SubRosa- Thank you. Buffy continues to love the Triss outfit as a perfect blend of her mystic archer buckskin & silk style. We have found a hood and cape that goes well with it for the more extreme weather. Thanks for your support for Superian as a heavy paint. We debated between it and the palomino and settled on the paint as closer to the black with white accents traditionally associated with Superian. I’m still loving the mystic bow (after some support tweaks for damage and usability from the saddle).

Grits- Thanks! Like you, I love the heavy Sky horses! So many things we like about the mystic bow – can’t be disarmed by shouting DrugLords and we don’t have to worry about recovering arrows, no recharging, dispelling summons, turning reanimated undead. . . . The biggest plus to the summoned bow is that, when you have a 'real' bow in your hand and then equip a spell the bow disappears. I shudder to think where the character might stick it since it certainly does not appear in the only logical place (on her back). The summoned bow answers this quite nicely by simply disappearing by design.

KC- Thank you! I still remember being so impressed that Aravi could cast a little magey light to follow her around. And now we have one! Always the seeker of utilitarian ways to use magic, Buffy has discovered that if you toss a magelight at a follower, it does no harm to the follower and hovers above their head for the duration. In effect, it looks much as if the follower had cast candlelight on themselves.

ghastley- We put roughly 10-30 hours on each of several learning iterations of Buffy. Then about 450 on the one you saw in our last update. Since then, we have redone her, with some learning tweaks. Happily, it is very easy to recreate the same face in the character gen portion of the tutorial. The current Buffy has just over 50 hours on her. Rather than make Buffy her own race, I simply made a small mod that changes every Bosmer woman in the game to suit Buffy’s size and talents. There are so few of them in game that it’s almost her private race anyway.

DE- Buffy has to keep remembering what Master Daenlin told her – ‘Your size makes you a small target.’ Thanks so much for you kind and supportive words!


Buffy and Superian continue to travel and thrive in the harsh Nordic lands. The Convenient Horses and better maps mods we are using have gotten Buffy quite into being not only a good scout/pathfinder, but also traveling with others – both horse-mounted NPCs and a variety of critters. Here’s a small selection of shots that are fairly representative of things for her -

At home on the tundra.

Who says armor slows you down?

So two mages and an atronach walk into a Nordic ruin. . . .

Brelyna grumbled from the rear, “I’m a mage, not a packmule, you know.”

Mystic archer - posing.

Mystic archer – in action.

I love Buffy's snow fox trailing her and Superian on the tundra.

Fantastic leap in the second pic!

Two mages and an astronaut is a great example of the aftermath of an adventurer's job.

Poor Brel, dragging everything around. I recognize Buffy in the lead. And of course Winnie the Pooh behind her. Who is that long haired lass in the middle horse though?

Buffy is positively aglow in her pic. She is looking very colorful and fantastic in Sky.

Quite the contrast is that last pic of Buffy in all her ninja glory, sneaking like a pro, with only the soft glow of her mystic archery to show that she is even there.

Buffy is an ever so invigorating inspiration

I just hope that she at some point will find her way to Bruma once again. She has lots of friends there too, not to mention a certain weather-beaten Warlock...

What a great idea to adjust all of Skyrim’s Bosmeri sisters! I took a quick look and discovered that some of what I took to be Altmer ladies are actually wood elves. I’d say that’s evidence that they started off too tall!

I absolutely love At home on the tundra. Buffy in furs with a mystic bow on her back, adorable and fierce fox companion, and beloved Superian in all of her Skyrim glory.

Neat armor for Superian! She can really fly with Buffy’s petite Elven self on her back. I love how Buffy looks out for her mare’s safety.

Excellent aftermath of a draugr battle. Those three ladies got the job done!

Brelyna’s grumble is my favorite! Very funny when she is the one with the pack saddle. The mage in the middle has great hair! My favorite part is that you caught Buffy’s bear in mid-amble. I love it!

Buffy brings her colorful style to Skyrim! I love her jaunty feathers. What a great picture.

Awesome mystic archer in action. Mystic bow, silent feet, fabulous style, and possibly even a magical armor spell? This one has it all.

I love seeing how Buffy has found her way in Skyrim! She is an inspiration in the northern province as well.

I hope you and Buffy forgive me for being so late. But here I am! With Buffy and Superian braving the harsh terrain of Nordic lands I can only expect some good adventure from our tough-as-nails duo.

Let's begin, shall we?

Home on the range tundra! Is that a fox I see tailing behind them? That's what is good about being a wood elf. You get all these awesome critters to fight or follow you. I don't see Nords hanging out with sabrecats.

That's an awesome shot of Superian mid-leap in the wilderness at night. Ah, and I see one of Buffy's awesome outfits that I'm sure( could be mistaken) she packed with her from Cyrodiil? Ha, I'm digging Superian's helmet.

... and unleash mayhem that leave a bunch of druglords undead faceplanted, kissing the ground.

Hehe . . . baggage-mage!

I love her pose here. Must I say again that she looks as beautiful and fabulous as ever. Looks like Skyrim has nothing on her. She's not like your average wood elf lass you see.

Sneaking sneaky. That's one advantage she'll always have over those tall Nords and Orcs. Her size and nimbleness. As her bow master said, and I quote, "Your size makes you a small target."

Great shots, Acadian, Mystic Archer riding and not being slowed down by armor, is my favorite. And what is that bow on her back? It looks stunning.

Oh Buffy, you brave little explorer! You ride on Superian´s strong back through the wild and the snow up in the north in your September pic!



But I hope you´ll come back down and visit my elf at some point

This post has been edited by mirocu: Sep 6 2014, 04:06 PM

I went through all the screens I missed this past year, and want to comment all of them (well, except the early Skyrims - but I already told you about that, lol). I just can't, it would take me days to do all that typing. I was so sad to see Buffy moved to Skyrim and I missed hearing the stories of all her adventures there. I would love to hear the story behind so many of these screens - especially the dungeons I remember from Maxical's trek into Skyrim, lol.

Anyway, I promised to tell you which Skyrim screen of Buffy was my fave, here it is. This is the Buffy I know and love, even with the Skyrim makeover (and SO GLAD she got that makeover, lol).

I want to know what face and body mods she is using, I may trot up to Skyrim again now that there are some decent mods out there for beauty!

Awesome screens, Bufffy! I have missed you so much too!

Nice to see Buffy cool her legs in the waters of Skyrim in this month´s pic

Two blonde foxes! I love it. Your title made me grin in anticipation, and the screenshot did not disappoint!!