Fun in Helgen! So nice that you can take that captain out so early - she sooo deserves it!

White River Watch is a great dungeon to go early on. Good job, Aard - and nice to see pictures of him and his game.

All of those early lairs (White River Watch, Embershard, Fort Greymoor, Silent Moons Camp) are very interesting, especially the first times you visit them, and the NPC dialog is all fresh. Then after you visit them, they're still fun because they all require different sorts of strategy, in a way.

Aard looks like a tough guy. I like tough guys...

Renee, like Acadian I use Convenient Horses to get my followers to ride. I have used other mods, but CH is my favorite. I had some trouble with the other ones.

Oh my gosh, Lopov, that is one ugly dragon! Yikes! What a fantastic picture above Nchardak.

Lucius looks really mad in the Ready picture. I think that’s one of my favorites of him.

Aard! He looks great! Like Renee said, very tough.


Here’s one of mine that made me laugh. This is Jensa at the Burning of King Olaf Festival. She had been in Solitude on business, which is always stressful for her. (She is Stormblade, High King Ulfic’s left-hand woman. They still haven’t fixed some of the walls in Solitude that she Shouted down during the last battle.) So she did not need much of an excuse to hit the bar on the way in. Anyway what made me laugh is the active effects on the right of the screen, which I didn’t notice until after I took a picture of the priest’s comment. The effects are from all of the alcohol she drank.

Here is another comment that she heard at the Bards College. She was indeed looking pretty sturdy at the time.

If Jensa will lay off the Johnnie Walker, she can fix up Solitude with this mod! The same modder has fixer-uppers for Whiterun and Windhelm as well.

I am surprised that the chef was not looking down when he made the sturdy comment!

What mods are you using to have such a good face on a Skyrim male? The chin and mouth are much better than vanilla!

Thanks for all tough kind comments about Aard.

@mALX: I use Xenius Character Enhancement and Final Younger Characters. FYC mostly removes wrinkles so as the name suggests, characters look younger but changes are subtle. XCE alters many things, like making faces less blocky, more detailed but neither of these mods heavily alters chins or mouths, so that's mostly vanilla.

I spent a lot of time creating him, playing with different possibilities but it helps if I know how I want my characters to look like because I want to make them almost exactly as desired. Changing mouth & nose height for instance can make a great difference in how a character looks like. I also learned that changing nose affects a facial expression, some noses can create a threatening look while some make our characters look like milk drinkers. So I always choose the nose at the end when I have everything else set up.

@Grits: lol at the comments directed at Jensa, how appropriate. I've never seen that old cook, is he vanilla? A lot of active effects indeed.

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Grits - Holy Cyridiilic Brandy! That's alota booze inside Jensa! I'm usre she could drink Sanguine under the table. . . .

Hey! Buffy's a proud member of the Popinjays! And Snowberries. And Milk Drinkers.

Thank you for that link, SubRosa! I will check it out ASAP. I’m not using any Solitude overhaul mod, so I’m hopeful that it will do the trick. I really like Solitude, but that stupid broken well ruins it for Jensa.

That old cook is vanilla. He pretty much always stays in the Bards College kitchen except for the festival. He is so grumpy! I’m sure he was worried that Jensa would hug him and accidentally crush his head like a walnut. She was still wearing her warm weather ranger getup, so there were boobs flying all over the place.

Acadian, Jensa’s big tough Stenvar named his horse Snowberry. Sanguine is definitely a fan of Jensa!

These are some great tips, Thank you! I am Facegen challenged, lol. The male mouths and chins in Skyrim are awful; and there are a lot fewer mods for males. I was trying to make a male follower and couldn't make a good face to save my life, lol.

Thanks, Lopov!

You're welcome.

And now time for some Lucius' shots from his visit to Apocrypha which ended with Miraak's defeat.

Hermaeus "arrives"
Storn's Sacrifice
Back to Apocrypha
Below Miraak's Tower
Books, books and more books
Sahrotaar tamed
Dragon riding
Fly, Dov, Fly!
To the Meeting
The First and the Last
The battle of Apocrypha
Sword Vs Sword
Final swings
Miraak impaled
End of the Soul Stealer

Yay for Lucius! I’m glad you shared these, for they show stuff I’ll never see. That looked like it was an epic battle vs Miraak!

That is stuff I probably won't see either, like Miraak and his end. It is neat how Luke Skyrimmer and Miraak seem to glow. I definitely like Lucius' lightsaber sword better.

OMG, these are some of the most exciting scenes I've seen in Skyrim so far! What an enemy/what a battle! Were you able to loot his body/skeleton? What kind of loot did he drop? Holy Cow !!! Awesome screens, Lopov !!!

It was indeed though it glitched on me for the first time and I had to reload. I encountered a fairly common bug where Miraak gets invincible and at first I thought that I have to do something else to fight him, like find some means to cancel his invincibility. But it was a bug.

It's because both covered themselves with the Dragon Aspect shout which gives you the look like wearing additional armor plus the glowing effect which resists magic to some extent IIRC.

Yes, you can take his mask, robes, gloves, boots, sword and a staff and while at first Lucius took it all, he later returned it to the skeleton because he felt that these items should stay in Apocrypha and have no place in Tamriel. So I guess that Miraak's mask will be missing from his collection of dragon priest masks.

Skaal-Friend
Black Book in the sea (Lucius followed Frea's advice)
Another Black Book sailing
Gift for Skaal-Friend (thanks to this mod)

Instead of killing it, Lucius tamed the dragon
"Take me to Brodir's Grove!"
"Almost there. Find a place to land."
"Dismissed."

"Yes, there's one more. You." (a quick look at Skyrim's demographics tells that Lucius and the old miner are in fact only Imperials on Solstheim)
Stalhrim & Scaled
Against the traitor
Sharp battle
Threat no more

Thanks for pointing out that mod, I’m sure I will use it when Jensa goes to Solstheim. It’s great that Lucius has a place of his own among the Skaal. I love how he looks in his Skaal furs. He tossed the Black Books into the sea! Well done.

Dragon riding, yay! Take Me To Brodir’s Grove is my favorite. What a great shot!

Ooo, Stahlrim, very nice. I like how it looks with the scaled boots and gauntlets. I don’t recognize that Altmer, but I enjoyed the shots of their fight. I like how the healing spell in Lucius’s hand lights up his face.

I think it's Vendil Ulen, who's a Dunmer. The lighting is a bit candle-yellow in there.

I'd like to know why he's not wearing his helmet. No wonder he's losing, if he doesn't look after his head! At least Lucius has a circlet, and we can assume it offers some protection.

I'm guessing that this is post-Miraak, so the dragon was an anonymous spawn, not a named one?

Ah, that would explain the chitin armor. It has been a very long time since I saw that guy!

I’ve always liked Lucius, and it is no surprise that he and the Skaal would befriend each other.

Magnificent shots of Lucius flying around with a dragon pal!

Those scaled boots go pretty darn well with stalhrim armor. I like both scaled and stalhrim armors so naturally it looks good to me!

That Dragon Aspect sounds very intriguing. I will have to look into possibly making the a spell, and possibly using it as a form of bound armor...

Props to Lucius from casting off those black books! But where will they wash up... Dum-Dum-Duuum!

And Luke got to fly in an X-Wing dragon again too! Now he just needs to take on the Empire, face down Darth Tullius, and blow up the Imperial City...