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== Snow Line Lodge v1.0 ==
Located above Bruma on the snowline of the mighty Jerrals, you will find a small hunting lodge tucked atop a rise overlooking the city. Bjorn Bear-Hugger left Solstheim years ago in search of a new place to grow the fine Ice Wines of his homeland. Once only a Huntsman of some repute, he one day found himself beside the deathbed of his father, Hulfgard.
Bjorn had walked the pristine snows of Solstheim for many years, the bears he hunted his only company; the Rieklings the only unwelcome visitors to his camps. One evening as night fell and the snows shimmered red and purple across the frozen tundra, a messenger from his village found him with dire news. His father lay dying. The spectre of death had finally laid claim to him in his old age and his final wish was to see his son one last time.
Father and son had not parted on happy terms for the father had eschewed the Huntsman life of the Skaal, turning instead to the growing of grapes and making of Ice Wines. Ostracized from their own people, Bjorn fled his father's home and lost himself in the arctic wilds of Solstheim. While the son strove to be the consumate Nord Huntsman, the father became widely known for the distinctive Ice Wines he created, at odds with the traditional view of spirits of the North.
After much debate with himself, Bjorn relented and returned to the village, taking his place by his father's bed. Hulfgard spoke for many hours into the early morning, the heavy fall of snow outside making the world silent as his weak voice whispered to his son who bent close to hear each word. With the rise of the winter sun, Hulfgar was gone. His words spent and a son returned, he'd left with a sigh of happiness to join his fathers in the great Meade Hall of Sovngarde.
Bjorn strode from the warm house into the dawn snow fall and walked among the lovingly tended vines behind the house. In his hand he held a bottle of his father's work and took his first taste with his father's voice still in his mind. Hulfgard had given to his son all his knowledge of wine making, of the growing and tending of the vines and his forgiveness for leaving him all those years ago. As the sweet taste of the Ice Wine slid down his throat, a tear slid from Bjorn's eye as with that taste, he suddenly understood the passion his father had felt.
Bjorn spent several weeks planning, taking careful cuttings of the unique vines and hiring of a ship to take him from Solstheim. His father's dream had been to introduce the wine to Cyrodiil. Bjorn was nothing if not the picture of a loyal Nord and a father's dying wish was not something to be ignored. Several months of travel saw him into Cyrodiil's heartland. Standing beside the great gates of the Imperial City he spied the rise of the majestic Jerral mountains in the distance and they called to him.
It was there, on a small rise above the city of Bruma that he found a new home for the vines of his father. He built upon the spot a Lodge House beside his own cabin for he was yet a Huntsman and would not give that up. The Lodge he offers to any traveller as a respite and when he is not hunting or exchanging tales of home in Bruma with Olav, in it's cellar he perfects the recipe his father passed on to him.
Be welcome to Snow Line Lodge Traveller. Warm your thin skins by it's fires and pass the cold winter nights with a bottle of Solstheim's Finest Ice Wine.
== == Requirements ==
TES IV: Oblivion Patched to v1.2.0416
== Installation ==
Extract the Snow Line Lodge esp, Meshes and Textures to your Oblivion Data Directory then enable Snow Line Lodge in the Oblivion Launcher.
**An optional file to add four Loading Screens is now available. Detailed instructions are included in the readme.
== Uninstallation ==
Remove the following files from your Oblivion Directory:
Snow Line Lodge.esp
Data/Meshes/Red/SnowLine
Data/Textures/Red/SnowLine
Data/Textures/Menus/Icons/SnowLine
== Changelog ==
v1.0 - Release - 7/09/09
Optional Loading Screens Added - 7/10/09
== Bugs/Incompatibilities ==
The new Unique Landscape: Snowdale conflicts greatly with the lodge. The UL team has graciously made a compatibility patch. You can download the patch here or go to the Compilation Patch page on TES Nexus here: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=13834
== Credits ==
-Darkrider - Without who's patient tutelage I would not be the modder I am today, for the custom Wines included in this mod, cleaning and his handholding through AI creation.
-Greenwarden - As always for her willingness to test my frankenstein creations and tasteful advice on decor.
-InsanitySorrow for testing and general cheering on of my house building obsession and for all his wonderful help with AI creation. For the wonderful loading screens add on.
-TES Alliance without who's tutorials and helpful modding Scholars I would often be lost.
== Resources Used ==
Antistar's Bathtub Resource
Aisis' Anvil Furniture set
JDFan's Bunk Bed Resource
EFG Tapestries
Garak's Booksets
Hel Borne's Simple Wall Shelf Resource
Meo's Open Books
Xiamara's Sofas and Chairs set 1
Zimnel's More Sofas and Chair Sets
throttlekitty's, WillieSea's, and da mage's Real Water Mesh
Der Kriger's Mounted Heads
WildKarrde's Potbelly Stove
== Contact ==
Contact me on either TES Alliance or Bethsoft's Official Forums for prompt support.
== Permissions ==
As everything in my mod is either vanilla content, a retexture by me or a resource you may do with it as you wish. If you use any resources from this mod, be sure to give credit in your readme to their authors.
