About This File
This is a WIP, an early beta version. Please read the description carefully.
Trailer shows the followers in the old version. The screenshots show the actual appearance.
Version 0-4-0 beta is a big update! Best is you have not started the main quest and mages questline. If you did already, it will work, but you will miss some dialogue or maybe some lines will sound weird.
Before updating: Take out all the things of the inventories you want to keep. Let the followers and horses wait. Leave the cell. Save. Uninstall previous version and install the new. Don't install loose files in your Skyrim Data folder!
Important: Read this description!
This mod is not a lightweight anymore but uses mostly short running script fragments. I tried to avoid scripts as much as possible. On a weak machine you will have problems. I have a weak processor, 1GB VRAM and 16GB RAM. It works, but with heavy modded Skyrim I get problems.
Before installing this mod make a safe so you can roll back to in case you want to uninstall. Otherwise you will get problems. Install with MO or NMM . I don't recommend to uninstall midgame. Go back to a safe before you have installed the mod.
Put the esp as near as the bottom of your load order as possible.
Please report bugs – I have not the ability to test much and can't do anything if I don't know what bugs occured. Mod works for me but perhaps not for you.
This is a standalone mod dependent only on
Skyrim.esm
Not needed but highly recommended:
FixLip Sync
An alternate start mod of your choice.
May I introduce to you
Sherda Akkadim, chronist, the Breton from Cyrodiil
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Tomalik'r Torquesson, the farmer Redguard from Hammerfell
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Chiomara Northwind, smithing witch and pure Nord
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Ramgar of Stony Creek, true Nord, scout and hunter
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Ruby Trevelyen, Imperial of Cyrodiil and agent
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Eldrid Firerider, Barmaiden in Whiterun, Breton witch.
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Playerhorse Vala. If you play alternate start mods you have to search for her and do a little fight if you want to achieve her. If you play Helgen Intro she's available after you are out of the dungeon.
They are made for playing together. You will get most out of them if you take all six with you!
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Followers features:
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New: altogether 2000 lines of dialogue excluding player dialogue. Most dialogue runs at inns or player home. They will also run in new worldspaces but then you will have them all at once
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New: altogether 42 banter scenes. Some are between Eldrid and the inhabitants of Whiterun before you recruit Eldrid
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New: You can trigger banter scenes if you unequip all weapons and spells (experimental) Great if you play in new world spaces
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New: Two short quests with Rikja the Huntress and given from Raganhar of Stony Creek
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New: Ramgar's parents are now fully voiced.
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New: individual armor and rings, some wearable on the left hand.
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change clothes in player home and back to armor when outside. Different clothes in a week, split in two days, three days and weekends
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New: horses have now winter fur and individual saddles
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Different sandbox packages for different locations like inn, playerhome, shop, if player is in furniture state
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New: They start sandboxing if you unequip weapons and spells. Now you can let them sandbox everywhere! Cool for new worldspaces that have not the appropriate keywords set.
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New: an option through dialogue with Chiomara that let all loot at clearable locations (experimental) Talk to her again to stop looting.
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Chiomara and Eldrid can heal the player or the whole party during combat
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Chiomara can collect things for you
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Chiomara and Eldrid will train magic if player sits outside in a camp or other clearable location. They train for an hour each themselves before midday and together in the afternoon. Only once per day
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Tom and Ruby train melee if player sits outside in a clearable location, at afternoon for an hour. Only once per day.
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Ramgar can lead the player to 22 different locations
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Sherda sings for you at home or in some other locations if you wish – just unequip the weapons and spells, than the dialogue is available.
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New: Sherda plays instrumental alone or together with Eldrid
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fast mount and dismount through a script – that doesn't work if you play vanilla intro without an alternate start mod! Edit: Install the fix TasheniMonitorPlayerMount
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they have the lightfoot perk and will not activate traps – mostly
Where to find:
Sherda, Eldrid, Chiomara and Tom have their daily schedule in Whiterun. If you arrive on a sunday, you have to search for them. They could be on
a ride or in the Bannered Mare or wander somewhere around. You will find them at late evenings together in the Bannered Mare. Weekdays they are working (Tom outside Whiterun). Look around to find them.
Ramgar lives at Hunter's Rest and Ruby is in Helgen Keep. You can recruit her while playing Helgen Intro, than she has different dialogue as if you play alternate start mods.Rikja the Huntress will find you. She has a map marker from the beginning, so you can find her if the force greet doesn't trigger.
Dialogue menue:
The basic dialogue lines like follow, wait, etc. are hidden behind the dialogue: „can we have a word“ or „I've orders for you“. Please notice: Two of Ramgar's menu entries refuse to show up if you use the scroll wheel of your mouse. Use arrow keys instead.
Individual dialogue shows up always at the first tier so you don't need to scroll through the lines, if new dialogue is available. I've changed most of the blocking topics into top level topics because blocking topics are often cut off and this is quite annoying. So player dialogue will only appear if you click on them in different locations. These lines are only said once.
If you draw your weapon or spell or start sneaking, sandbox or loot packages end and they will catch up to you. This helps mostly all of the time if they don't follow you!
Dismiss follower or playerhorse: They go back to their daily schedule and you can't recruit them again. This will be changed in the future but is not on top of my todo list.
Included is now the Stony Creek Farm, where Ramgar's parents live. Don't use the mod Stony Creek Farm together with Tasheni Followers mod. The farm lies besides the Imperial Camp Eastmarch at the lake near Stony Creek Cave. Father Raganhar has a short quest for you.
Included is also Shepherd Erk Thrymsson and his flock of sheep. He's at sundays in Whiterun but wanders over the week to different locations. It's pretty relaxing to accompany him and safe also. He will fight against everything that smells like an enemy.
Ruby's dialogue includes the starting of her questline with the priestess Mor Murana – this is not finished yet, but you will get a glimpse of where it goes.
Tom's dialogue includes the hint of his questline - this is not finished yet, but you will get a glimpse of where it goes.
Mod is incompatible with mods that change
- the area of Whiterun in front of the stables, where the cabbage field is
- besides Old Hroldan, the area under the great trees. I also added some clutter in front of Pelagia farm and some flowers in front of Drunken Huntsmen.
- The area of Imperial Camp Eastmarch.
- Stony Creek Cave
Don't use dialogue options from mods like AFT, UFO or Campfire on my followers. I have not tested these mods but know from other custom followers that it will break the followers AI.
Mod is compatible with Convenient horses, but it overwrites the settings for Vala, so you have to set them in CH. Storage of CH is not the storage that Vala owns. Don't teleport with horses!
Please notice that teleporting or waiting for a lot of hours destroys the timetable of the AI. Avoid it, if you can.
Songs included (singing without instruments):
Chim-El-Adabal: music by Tasheni, lyrics from Imperial Library - this is my own interpretation and not the ESO version.
The Giant's Song: music and lyrics by Tasheni
Anvil's Golden Shore: music Irish traditional, lyrics adapted from Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore
Ride On: Irish traditional
Eldrids short songs written by Tasheni except one part that was taken out of Flaming Bess
New vocals and lute: Mist Over Glenumbria Moors written and performed by Tasheni – sorry lips are not synced here because ck recognizes the guitar as voice.
New instrumental:
The Giant's Song variation played by Tasheni
Song To Atmora written and performed by Tasheni
Short Practicing Piece written and performed by Tasheni
Credits:
This mod would not be possible without some people who helped me a lot with different things:
Very warm thanks to my boyfriend who got my back and gave me the time to work everyday on this mod.
Thank you Dark Creations and nexus for hosting my project and files.
Thank you for my very special voice actors, you've done a fine job:
- kaomau for the voice of Ruby Trevelyen
- Joachim 'dojoe' Fenkes for the voice of Ramgar of Stony Creek
- Roarbee for the voice of Tomalik'r Torquesson RoarBee on youtube
- Mona Bruemmer for the voice of Chiomara Northwind
- Lyrelaen for the voice of Scyld of Merryfair
- agerweb for the voice of Raganhar of Stony Creek
- Eldrid Firerider, Sherda Akkadim, Rikja the Huntress, Mor Murana and Rendel Dorcas are voiced by Tasheni
- Thank you so much, TheSunSpire, for your awesome music!
I'm also very thankful for the help of IsharaMeradin and ReDragon2013 on nexus for helping me with scripting and advice.
Please notice the credits list! Thank you to all the great modders that provide me with their awesome stuff!
All assets are used with permissions.
Hanaisse and many other: TESA resource
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1330-the-tesa-skyrim-resource-kit-project/
Mihail Romanow: wolves of Cyrodiil
Kraeten:
Stormcloak Cabin Resource
dailyplanet pretty animated potions
InsanitySorrow: clutter stuffs
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1319-insanitys-clutter-stuffs/&
folded blankets
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1452-insanitys-folded-blankets/&
Morrowind Potions
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1400-insanitys-morrowind-potions/&
Bales and Furrows
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1403-insanitys-bales-furrows/&
Curtains
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1437-insanitys-curtains/&
Log Hut Resource
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1477-insanitys-log-hut-resource/&
Washing Stuffs
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1325-insanitys-washing-stuffs/&
Wall Charts
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1473-insanitys-wall-charts/&
Window Boxes
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1497-insanitys-window-boxes/&
Tamira:
New Plants
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1305-new-plants/&
New Flowers
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/65335/?
Static dishes and food
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/63446/?
Assorted Resources
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57394/?
Tamira,Stroti and Mr Siika:
Strotis Rustic Furniture Resource
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1339-strotis-rustic-furniture-resource/&
Strotis Spinningwheels
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1359-strotis-spinningwheel-resource/&
Strotis Old Cabin Resource
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1333-strotis-old-cabin-resource/
Strotis resource pack 2
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/64590/?
Strotis Treehouse
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/62787/?
Mr Siika Tamira Ravens and Vultures
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/59602/?
Mr Siika Seagulls
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/59578/?
Strotis kitchen tools
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/42690/?
Strotis Old Mill resource
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/37176/?
Lilith:
Weapon Plaque Resource
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1229-liliths-weapon-plaques-resource/&
Clutter and Furnishings
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1300-ready-clutter-and-furnishings/&
Elinen:
hoddminir retextured sheep
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/85153/?
Hoddminir Flowers
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/55158/?
Blary and Pheo3309, Darkfox127, AlassinSane:
Harvestable Ingredient Jars
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/84199/?
Potion Shelf resources
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/14136/?
Kelretu:
Modders Resource:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/82985/?
Cyphe:
Hanging Satchel
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/77694/?
Scarla:
Toybox
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/69705/?
Ps46183:
Fully Functional Furniture
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/69239/?
Garnet:
Orient Set
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/62396/?
Elianora:
Extra Resources
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/53192/?
Jokerine:
Misc Resources
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/53022/?
Oaristys and Tony 67:
Modder's resource pack
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/16525/?
Pen's:
Basket Texture Sets
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1776-pensbasketstexturesets/
Hanaisse:
Witches Cauldron
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1599-witches-cauldron/
Berkian:
Fossils for Skyrim
https://www.darkcreations.org/files/file/1111-fossils-for-skyrim/
FrankFamily: Realistic Paper Retexture:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3819
farinelli: Engraved Bows
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/60660
testiger: Dovahbling
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/53767/
RonnieMagnum: Legendary Rings
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57417
RGMage2: Alchemist Compendium
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51077
couchwarriortv and Jung Shan: Book of Circles
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/73396
Laup26: More saddles
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19936
JZBai: Practical female armors
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/48160
Tasheni: Textures of horses, dogs, armor, wolves, saddles and some clothes. Written and recorded songs and dialogue. Thank you for thousands of hours and sleepless nights in front of the worst development kit in the world that drives me nuts! You've done an incredibly good job!