Will likely "Retcon to Skyrim"

[lavender_rose]

I recently decided to clean up my Oblivion mod list, mainly removing things like house mods I'm not using and the Vilya mods. This will of course wreck the game I had in progress since Oblivion seems far less forgiving about mods being removed mid-game than Morrowind, but oh well. I will not yet at this time delete the Cyrodiil journal entries, nor am I planning a do-over, for what I have written basically sums up the characters' relocated lives. Aeronwen and Neldor would never do the main quest, nor do much hardcore adventuring since they have children to raise. So it's just "acquire a farm or two and live their lives".

Another reason I'm not bothering with a do-over is that after all these years my husband and I finally have Skyrim. We haven't installed it yet and I don't know when we will, but we have it. When we do finally install it I'll play a vanilla game and go through the main quest which takes place in the Fourth Era. After that I may very well start a new game and roleplay that the game-world exists in the Third Era, which means Aeronwen and her family are still young, alive and well. And Skyrim would be the place that they relocate.

Skyrim may be colder than what they're used to, but I think they would like it far more than Cyrodiil. Even though I don't have the game installed yet I've been browsing Skyrim mods and bookmarked those that look interesting (such as one that adds some unique colored horses, including a palomino). I've found mods for farms, farm animals, mods that pertain to having children in the home, etc. Oddly I have not yet found a mod that adds pack donkeys, but surely I'm just somehow missing it (we have to have Oliver).

So along, with playing Morrowind, I'll keep browsing Skyrim mods so I have an idea what I want to work with when I'm finally ready to turn my version of TES4 into "Third Era Skyrim".

Comments

[darth_eldritch]

There's 50,000,000 great house mods for Skyrim. Or you can build a home yourself with the Hearthfire DLC, though you will have to do some minor adventures to gain favor with the local Thane.

Unfortunately there is only one donky mod that doesn't even look good.

[darth_eldritch]

Another thing, if you see a mod that you think you might like, download it now and archive it. Mods get taken down all the time.

[lavender_rose]

That's a good idea. I found one that has adoptable children (two versions of it, one for LE and SE) which includes Bosmer twins (a boy and a girl). I have no idea how easy it is to customize Skyrim mods, but I'm hoping it wouldn't be two difficult to edit that one to rename the twins and make them look like Calonir and Cariel.

[darth_eldritch]

It's easy to change names in the Creation Kit. (Construction Set for Skyrim.) It's a matter of finding a hair etc. There's a lot of tutorials of making followers.

I had found a mod that had perfect Altmer children for Aryc's and Amaryllis' twins.

[lavender_rose]

I downloaded both versions of the mod with the Bosmer twins since I'm not sure which version of Skyrim my husband purchased. It's probably the LE, but I figured I better grab both just to be on the safe side.

[darth_eldritch]

This is the mod I found for Aryc's and Amaryllis' twins;


Tokkimoon's More Adoptable Children

I remember changing their hair color in the CK to match Aryc and Amaryllis. And their height so they would be tall gangly kids like Altmer kids must be like.

[lavender_rose]

That's one of the ones I bookmarked and was considering it until I found this one; Realistic Elven Children

[lavender_rose]

Unfortunately there is only one donky mod that doesn't even look good.

I saw that one and as soon as I looked at the screens my thought was, "Why does it look so stupid?"

It's really odd that there's not a single pack donkey mod made for Skyrim.