Bosmer Hearthfires?, Little Treehouse of Horrors Options

[ghastley]

So I'm currently playing a couple of Bosmer archers from the Gweden mod, who've made it to Skyrim. Darwen, who is very slender, with a dancer/gymnast's body, and Enilwen, who's a bit larger, rivalling Nords. Although they're taking different approaches, hunting bears and dragons respectively, they're both doing the usual sneak/archery/smithing thing for max damage, with little or no defence except RUN!!!

They'd each like somewhere to live, but haven't found anything they like. Darwen has taken over the Alchemist's shack, because it's in bear country, but she's not happy, because it's made of wood. Enilwen is sleeping in taverns, and has no fixed abode.

Dead wooden construction offends their Bosmer heritage, and neither has been to Solstheim to see Telvanni mushrooms. The options are pure stone, which isn't the best choice in cold climates, and living wood, which just doesn't seem to exist here. So I'm considering whether the latter can be fixed.

The CK has vines for wall and floor use, and I'd expect to use a lot of ivy for fill. There are bone and hide pieces that might be adapted as furniture, and mammoths have larger bones than most creatures, so their bones can be used for large items. Pelts everywhere, of course. Iron items from draugr ruins would be hauled in where they'd be useful. Even though they're not Bosmer-traditional, this is Skyrim, and they're available.

Can anyone think of any other stuff a Bosmer would use?

This post has been edited by ghastley: Apr 11 2016, 06:31 PM

[ghastley]

I still have a number of gaps in the furniture line. There are no tables and chairs in the home yet.

Sitting cross-legged on a pelt is possible. There's an animation set (enter, sit, exit) for that in the game already. There's also a generic seat furniture, which is essentially the chair furniture marker for placing on a rock, or whatever.

Tables may be easier, as there are stone altars and similar in the Nord ruins. Stone for the flat part can already be quarried, and the rest of the mesh looks like iron to me. However, the workbench mesh is very wooden, and I'll need an alternative.

Darwen is living in the place as I make it, and it's not in Enilwen's game yet, as she'll be the build tester. Since Darwen is collecting bear pelts, she needs more storage. Can't have bookshelves, so where do her books go? The issue of dead tree books should not be one, as there are alternative papers based on other plant material that can be harvested without harming the plants. Hers could even be printed on vellum, and they're bound in leather, so that's fine. Her RP has her taking everything from dead animals, and eating the meat, but her supply of teeth, claws and antlers is growing, and she can only use so many pelts and hides.

Darwen believes that eating fruits is OK, as that's what the plants made them for. Vegetable soup is her guilty secret.

Edit: Some further details - the only bones you can collect in the vanilla game are dragon bones and a few skulls. Dawnguard adds bone hawk parts for jewellery, and also allows making arrows, but requires firewood for that. I'll be needing more bones, and have the forge be a unique one that can make bone-shafted arrows. Those arrows will not be unique, however. There's no benefit from doing that.

It should be possible to add bones to animal death items without too much work. I think they're already "leveled' lists, so that antlers or goat horns, for example, aren't included every time. So I just need to edit or dynamically add to those. Animal bones would use dragon bones mesh scaled down a bit, and lighter weight, too! I don't want to require dragon bones directly, as some don't do MQ.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Apr 19 2016, 03:32 PM