Vion is making me homesick for the Isles - my 360 is broken and I don't have Shivering Isles for the PC. I may need to see about buying it.

Great shots!

Does ESO not have conjuration? And I thought you could play as necromancers in it? I'll have to re-look that back up. And can you not use a combination of weapons or weapons and magic? I didn't know that either.

Did you just pull the facial textures out and over-write Bab's with them?


Ha! I recognize Agarmir's dead body, lol.

But ... who's grave is that in the second screen? Where is Nath Dyer? Gaaaaah!


I love these shots of the sun on Persephone's face, gorgeous! Is that a pose mod? That has to be the best sqatting sit I've seen yet!


Awesome shots!








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Maxical heard Persephone had come to Cyrodiil, and hurried to meet up with her so maybe they could adventure together.

Since I have no way to start Maxical again without losing her face (which took me forever to perfect; so this is still her original game that I just kept restarting at the opening of the Imperial Sewers) I decided in order for her to really follow in Persephone's footsteps she would have to break back into the Imperial dungeon.


I had to use the console to unlock doors all the way through, and in a few places toggle clipping to get through walls that broke away or moved by scripts that were no longer running.

I was surprised to find Mythic Dawn assassins; Glenroy; and Captain Renault all standing still in various places - Renault and Glenroy were both in the rooms they die in. Renault was standing right next to a Mythic Dawn assassin and they were just standing there side by side!

Well, I killed all the Mythic Dawn I found even though they didn't attack me for some odd reason. I talked to both GlenRoy and Captain Renault; both had specific conversation related to the tutorial dungeon they would have spoken before the Emperor's (and their own) death.


Then I got back in the original jail cell the game starts in. So I wondered what would happen if I went back out through the main prison exit. So I consoled the jail cell gate open; stopped and spoke to Valen Dreth (who had generic rumors); then headed up the stairs to the Imperial Prison rotunda.

At the top of the stairs was the Emperor - DEAD, but standing upright! Next to him was Baurus, who force greeted me, and then went into the dialogue that would have changed my class and possibly some of my stats, so I backed out of that by reloading the save right before I picked my way out of the jail cell, lol.

When I got to the inner sanctum, Glenroy was fighting two Mythic Dawn - which he killed! So both Glenroy and Renault were still alive when I left the Tutorial dungeon.

When I got outside the dungeon, none of the map markers were showing anymore for places I'd found previously.

Maxical is working her way over to the Imperial City to search for Persephone in case she needs help handling Argemir, lol.


Here is the screenshots of Maxical's day hunting for Persephone:



http://imgur.com/a/BO89Z





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SubRosa, these are fabulous shots and it is so nice to see Persephone in Oblivion. Although Teresa will probably always be my fave of your characters, Persephone has been around long enough to have quite grown on me as well. Her timeless melancholy, not to mention the possibilities provided by death/immortality do indeed lend her an enduring quality. It always pulls at the heartstrings when she ponders the identity of a skeleton – perhaps one of her friends from forever ago?

MALX, I also use and endorse QTP3 as an Oblivion graphics mod. What command console crazy fun you had in the tutorial dungeon with Maxical! So nice to see our kit adventuring again! Looks like we need to get Maxical a purse phone so she can call Persephone. *groan*

mALX, I´m so glad you got your Oblivion friend back into working order again!



Wow, haven´t seen that final tutorial update in so many years!

I didn't remember it at all! It kind of stunned me when I stepped out and saw that, lol.

Wow, it is great to see Maxical again! The archmage better hide the watermelons! Please tell me she is not armed with a bow, otherwise I think Persephone might have to hide inside one of the ruins to protect her rear from accidental perforations!

You should be able to start a new game with her old face though. Start a brand new game, and set your race and sex, and don't bother with anything else. Save and exit. Now use use Oblivion Face Exchange Lite to open one of your old saves of Maxical, and click on the Copy Face to Clipboard button. That copies her face info. Now go to the brand new save you just made, select it, and click on Edit Save file down in the bottom left corner of the window. That brings you to a Change Face screen. Just click on the Paste button at the upper left. It will give you another prompt asking you how much you want to copy over, just the geometry (how the face is actually shaped), hair style, eye color and so forth. If you don't have the exact same hair or eye mods installed that you had with original Maxical, it is best to copy just the geometry and texture data, and leave all the rest blank. You can change the hair and all that easily enough in the game later. Now save it to new savegame and you are done.

Of course I am lying, you are not done. If you use OBSE (and let's face it, who doesn't?) then your game is going to lock up whenever you try to open your inventory. This is because Obse creates a second save file of its own for every savegame you make. If you look in your save game folder (probably My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Saves), you will see all of your savegames. They all have a *.ess name. The OBSE files all have a *.obse extension. Just find that brand new save game you made at the start of all this, and copy its .obse file. Paste it in the same folder, and then change its name to match that of the newest save you made with Face Exchange Lite.

Now you are all set, with Maxi2.0 looking just like the original. You can use showracemenu to change her hair, eyes, and so on for more tweaking.

This is really great with save games you can download just for the faces. Making a good face in Oblivion is hard. But there are plenty of people who have managed to make some good ones, and posted their savegames on the Nexus. Just download some saves you like. Start a new game like I showed you with the same race and gender, and copy the face with Face Exchange. I have done it more than once. I am such a perfectionist that I naturally spend another twenty minutes tweaking the faces even then.

(URGH!)

This is a great help, Thank you! Can I paste a face onto an NPC I make as a follower?

What I have always done in the past is to make a save just before exiting the sewers so I could start at that point and play a new game any time I wanted (and if I wanted even change the race/class/appearance/etc).

Unfortunately, I accidentally saved over my beginning save a long time ago, so couldn't start a new game. When I came out of that dungeon and saw all the locations reset and Maxical at level #1 (I instantly saved it so I could always go back to that point) - as long as I remember not to save over it; or don't accidentally save over it again, lol.

Thank you again for the step by step, I really appreciate that a lot !!! I downloaded the mod, have been wanting something like that for a long time.

I think the only way you can transfer a PCs face to an NPC in Oblivion is by using Wyre Bash. Since I don't use it, I don't know how it is done.

Okay. I think what I can do is to play the character when I need to make screenshots of them (like I did for the screens of Malan a few years ago). I don't have a story anymore, so probably won't do even that, lol. But it is nice to know how to do the Player, I def appreciate that!

Here you go. Feel free to PM me if you get stuck. I've done it with Julian, in hopes of importing her into Tallei's game. What you want to do is create a plug in with the PC's face so you can add her as an NPC. Make sense?

Is that link working right? I keep getting an MP3 download page.




This post has been edited by mALX: May 21 2015, 03:01 AM

Stupid me. It's an html file so I thought it was online somewhere, but no . . .

I'm going to try and PM you a PDF file of the relevant section. Watch your inbox!

Welcome back to Cyrodiil, Maxical. Enjoy your stay.



You cringe? Why? I don't understand.

I mean, I do understand, but I don't understand. I've been there before, when I cringe after making a character. I remember when I created my Lady Saga character on Xbox, I was comparing the face I made on PS3, and trying to make her look similar. I thought I had her nailed. Then I saw "her" outside of CharCreation, and I cringed, because she looked like a man. XD

But that's different from the reason you cringe, right?

Love those pics by the way, especially Old Friend and Vilverin!

This post has been edited by Renee: May 21 2015, 09:10 PM

mALX: Maxical's adventures are just as madcap as ever! I think it is hilarious that Glenroy and Captain Renault are alive this time. It is neat that they actually had things to say, beyond just the random rumor topic. Valen Dreth is friendly? The world turned upside down!

I missed how pretty Cyrodiil can be too. And Persephone did explore Vilverin, and she stopped off at Weye and did some fishing. So Maxical is following in her footsteps. She didn't go down to Bravil though. Instead she has headed west to Chorrol, and up into the mountains beyond.


Acadian: One of those things about Persephone that really sets her apart from my other characters is her immortality. Everyone she has known has died, and turned to dust, before her eyes. Every time she meets someone she knows that will be their fate as well. That is why she can have a short fuse, and kill half the Thieves Guild within 30 seconds of walking in Riften. They are all dust to her, and how much value can you place on dust? Yet at the same time she can recognize that the fleeting nature of life is what makes it precious. What makes flowers smell sweeter for them, the sun's rays warmer, the summer breeze's more comforting, etc... She just wishes she could grasp those feelings again.


Renee: I cringe. I want it to look just right, and Oblivion has too many controls to make the faces with, which effect too many other things. You change one thing, and it changes two other things in the bargain. Getting people to look the way I want them too is always a battle.


Most of the following landscape has been added by Unique Landscapes: Cloudtop Mountains.

After 4,000 years, Persephone has returned to the place of her birth: Lipsand Tarn

"Long have I desired to look upon the kings of old, my kin."

Taking a break at Hammerfell Pass

Colovian Sunset

Night falls on Rislav the Righteous

Persephone stands lookout in the Cloudtop Mountains

The summit of Colovia Horn, where Persephone has built a new lair

The first ring has a desk for writing, alchemy station, some bookcases waiting to be filled, and chairs and benches to relax upon

Down in the pit is a living space with bed, kitchen table, pantry, and some storage (in case she has a guest who actually eats or sleeps)

This post has been edited by SubRosa: May 21 2015, 11:17 PM

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Persephone was born in Lipsand Tarn? Oh how I would love to hear that story!


Uh...I don't recognize some of these, (Like Hammerfell Pass and the statues, and the statue of Rislav - the only one I've seen is inside the city of Skingrad I think - I might be remembering wrong).

All these screens are beautiful! That tower mod you made is awesome! I like the deck stairs added, would not have thought of doing that!


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Most of the places in this last round were added by Unique Landscapes - Cloudtop Mountains


btw, does anyone know where the quote "Long have I desired to look upon the kings of old, my kin." is from?




Persephone's story came together for me a while back. She was born a slave of the Ayleids, and took part in Alessia's Revolution. She was killed in the battle to take the Imperial City, which is where he life took a turn for the weird.

A necromancer named Haides - who would never call himself a necromancer - got ahold of her body. He was seeking to defeat death itself, by creating eternal life. He was a Pre-Modern Prometheus. Haides even has a theme song. He replaced Persephone's heart with varla stone crystal, and essentially wired up her body with more of the crystal, like veins. He transformed her, so that she would subsist off of magicka, rather than food, water, and air. Her heart gathers in magicka from the sky just as the Ayleid wells do, and then redistributes it through her body, like a giant battery. Of course he had to cut out her real heart to do this, and reanimate her. It worked, and she came back. But not alive of course. She is as undead as any Lich or Wraith.

Persephone was only the prototype. Haides planned to make many more like her. He went to Alessia to sell the idea to her. He could make her an entire army of undead warriors, who didn't need to eat, or drink, or sleep, or feel. But she turned him down. He was a necromancer after all. Then she ordered him to be arrested. But Haides escaped with Persephone. He fled to Skyrim, since it was the only other human-ruled place in Tamriel. He tried to make more like Persephone, but failed every time. He did not realize it, but he had made her within White Gold Tower, and its own natural magic had been a part in her creation.

In time, Haides fell in with a group of necromancers. Then he fell out with them. Naturally a lot of killing was involved. It ended with the ruins they were laired in collapsing, and Haides being run through with a broken support beam. Dying, Haides gave Persephone her freedom (He had created her heart in two pieces, the big part in her chest, and a smaller piece on a ring he wore. But both were connected, and functioned as one). He took the crystal from his ring and put it in her chest, fusing it with the rest of her heart. Now finally free, Persephone strangled him. She still does not know if it was an act of revenge, or mercy.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: May 22 2015, 12:29 AM

Lord of the Rings.


This mod is fantastic! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOT !!!! Downloaded, and Thank You !!!!! WOO HOO, I LOVE it !!!!


I am still reading about Persephone, thank you for posting this for me. This is fascinating!

Just a dead girl in search of. . . feelings.

The shot of Persephone at Lipsand Tarn is wonderful. The poignancy of it is nicely set off by showing us what a very nice butt she has.

And Colovian Sunset is downright wallpaper-worthy. Wow.

Aww, King Rislav. Did Persephone learn the Call of Corsair power?

Why am I not surprised that her lair is so isolated?

I'm away for a few days and the thread gets flooded with beautiful screens!

There's something special in these screenshots, I remember similar ones from Skyrim.

Agarmir got what he deserved, as did his accomplice. It's funny how not playing OB for some time made me think that Agarmir is accompanied by a Khajiit in the tomb, I even checked it on the UESP. Looks like I mixed it up with the quest in Bravil where you have to find the missing husband, and there's a Khajiit archer at the end.


Dat ass!

Yesss, Maxical is back! About time, I'd say. I really laughed at some screens as when Baurus says "We failed..." and there's Uriel standing right behind him. Beware of Maxical, she wears glass armor any wields ebony sword!

I didn't know that she was born there either.

Many beautiful shots and her lair looks nice, especially because it's completely open-air. And she even took care of possible guests like Maxical, for instance.

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Even when covered in mist, Mania was a beautiful place.

Vion made sure to pick up some alocasia, the most tasteful fruit he ever tried.

He got a lesson in Blade from Big Head. Point them out, never in!

Then he spent some time at the Sacellum of Arden-Sul though he didn't exactly understand who or what was he supposed to worship. But in the end, he was in the land of insane, so thinking too hard was pointless.

He went up to the Palace Grounds the next day...but he feared to approach the Mad God himself. So after admiring the Daedric Lord from a safe distance, Vion left his Palace.

Soon he was out again, adventuring. He returned to Knotty Bramble to get more cure for Sickly Bernice from the Shrine of Grummites.

He tried his newly-found steel shield on a skinned hound. In fact the shield wasn't new, Vion took it from a skeleton guardian in Xavara but it was almost as good as new.

Vion felt pity for cursed souls of the Hill of Suicides who were doomed to wander the hill eternally because they dared to commit a suicide in the Shivering Isles. But he figured out that if he finds their remains scattered all over the Isles, he can free pour souls. One of such souls was Lorenz Bog-Trotter, a former knight. But Vion found his skull and returned it, so Lorenz was finally liberated and thanked Vion by healing him.