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Journey Through the West Weald

Just my Hero of Kvatch traveling through the wilderness with Martin on their way to Weynon Priory 🫶

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Urban Druid!Tav

Just discovered Urban Druids and Circle of the City. Its a homebrew subclass for druids but they're whole thing is going against the traditional druids even more so than Spores and Dreams. Everyone thinks cities would be the opposite of nature but urban druids believe that cities are their own ecosystems. Will now be applying this to my Tav.

Imagine Urban druid Tav who adapts to both being in the wild and in the city. They love nature for its tranquility but can't stay away from the chaos in city. Their subclass has buffs depending on wether the terrain their on is natural or manmade.

First shows up to the Grove, they're sort of discretely rolling their eyes at the typical reclusive druids. Especially when the Rite of Thorns is brought up. Like. Really? That's how your going to help preserve nature? By ignoring people and staying in your little bubble?

It goes against what they stand for. People are just as much a part of nature. They find they could learn a lot and help nature even more with mankind's wisdom. They ditch the whole secrecy and reclusiveness most circles hold sacred to aid people in cities, bringing nature to them but also teaching them to use nature as a tool. (Basically how to live sustainably)

They banter with Dammon about druids only using wood as if metal isn't from nature just shaped in man's hands. Rocking up to the grove in heavy armor (this subclass could have proficiency in them as like a tank). They save a literal child from being murdered ("These crazy hermits... *mumble*). They jump right in to helping that one refugee with the stew taste better.

Just vibing more with these 'outsiders' than the druids. They're used to helping the marginalized and downtrodden in the cities. People left behind by those better off.

Stepping into the temple to get rid of all the goblins they showcase some of their abilities. One of their abilities lets them sense how many people there are in a manmade building and where they are.

At the end they save the grove and stop the ritual. They gain a new alley Halsin who seems more open-minded than the rest of them. Score.

Imagine them in Baldur's Gate. We saw how badly it kinda chafed Halsin. It would be an intresting juxtaposition to Tav who settles in just fine and immediately blends in with everyone. Soon they'll know the best places to get a meal from and the best shortcuts.

The city itself might know their purpose and arranges things to suit their needs.

To them there is no line between nature and cities. Life should be encouraged to grow everywhere. Its just in a different form. From the animals and creatures people considered vermin. The trees may not remember the forest but they know the history of this city, of every event that happened, and of words spoken.

Someone else had this idea before but urban druids can be scary in cities. Their whole thing is area of effects spells and their in a city with narrow alleys and paths. They can speak and befriends animals, starting up a whole spy network with the rats, crows, and other vermins. Heck they can spy too thanks to wildshape and blend in with the stray dogs and cats. Eyes and ears everywhere that others can't even detect with magic.

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babygurl

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dragon-slaying and adventuring with wylla has been so fun; finding a surge of playing mostly-skyrim for three months straight has been so chill.

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💥🔥 wylla and the gang + facecard 🔥💥

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💨❄️✨🌾 ivarstead 🌾✨❄️💨

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POV: You're some bandits in a modded skyrim

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❄ ❅ lost in the jerrall mountains ❅❄

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Oh hey guess what you wouldn't believe it but it's true! A new outfit made within a year? No way!

Yes way. I had the concept sketch lying around since last summer. Originally, the design was intended for Fadiyyeh, the redguard showcasing my Dragonstar armor. I wanted it to be a more Indian inspired witchy dress with more colours, decorative stitching, and jewelry everywhere. But her story was told and the Dragonstar armor project kinda drained me. So I decided to turn it into somewhat of an elegant gothic dress with coarse medieval armor parts! You know I can't resist adding historical armor to everything I make.

So here it is. A black brocade dress with a mix of 14th and 15th century armor (I did my research) and modern(ish) jewelry and boots. The gauntlets sport fake nails for extra goth. All in all, a pretty good mid-late game dress for a mage up to no good!

In hindsight, I should have added more lace pretty much everywhere, as the design is pretty simple at this point. Then again, that allows for more customization with accessories from other mods, in a similar vein to the Brigandine set. Texture wise, though, the dress is a bit boring. It's just the single fabric texture. But it works, I guess, and all the other parts look amazing so it evens out. This outfit was also my first venue into baking normal maps from high poly models instead of manually painting them. I think it turned out especially nicely on the boots and the gauntlets. I hope you think so too.

The armor is female only. It has no quest. As much as I want to give my items a place in the world, it seemed like an effort spent in vain. Plus, I had no ideas I liked for this dress. It's just something people wear now, I guess. The skirt on the dress will be physics enabled. I'm also experimenting with that now, spooky stuff.

This dress will be released on the Nexus somewhere next week. I have the weight painting and BHUNP sliders done, so all that's left is the inventory models, the crafting recipes, and tweaking the physics.

Oh yeah. I moved to SE because of data loss somewhere last May. This means this outfit will be SE only. I still have the mesh without physics, so technically I could make an LE conversion. Will that be worth it? If literally one person asks me in DMs I will do it, bet.

I already got plenty ideas for my next project. I'll have to focus on other things after this, but I'll make sure to keep you guys updated. I'm kinda thinking of remaking the Squire's plate...

Till the next one!

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⋆˖⁺‧₊☽ bleak falls barrow ☾₊‧⁺˖⋆

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⋆˖⁺‧₊☽ unbound ☾₊‧⁺˖⋆

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Finally drew my TES OCs!

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never a worse case of restartitis than with this godforsaken game. i need to be banned from the nexus mod page for my own good lmao… i found some different mods i wanted to try so i had to start a fresh save. i just wanna play with the new kaidan update 😰 why do i do this to myself.

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"should we go back and put the old blind man out of his misery?"

"...nah, he'll be fine."

nightmare fuel? nightmare fuel. why did i download this.

contracted sanguine vampiris in a hellish dungeon. felt cute. might delete later.

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celene pre-skyrim blind acolyte working in northpoint, high rock as a priestess of mara

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So, how was your weekend? Rhiam met a shapeshifting god of forests who transed her gender 🌷

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The fang of the silver serpent 🦈💥⚓️ Does a triton count for mermay? Perhaps! Anyway, I recently joined a pirate multi-shot in which I got to play Aysu!! She had a few story changes and her subclass is now a ‘living weapon’ so I decided to freshen up her design and make her a little more pirate-like! It’s been nearly 2 years since I originally designed her and it really looks like she spend these past two years pirating around on the high seas being a menace🌊 Working through commissions and other stuff so this was a fun little break for me! But now i’m back to it^^