SSE Making Skimpy Armor Lore Friendly

[swordtroll]

So I had an idea for a mod that I would love to see but I am unable to make it myself. I loved the skimpy armor replacements but they seem so unnatural and unearned. So I was thinking that as the dragonborn becomes more powerful and influential they could use that influence to more and more revealing appeal. I was thinking of splitting it up by guilds, war factions and holds primarily with some specific options for bandits and the dlc factions. Each guild and hold would act independently of each other. I was thinking that there would be several tiers of skimpy by using multiple replacement mods, (with the creators permtion of course) staring with the cbbe vanilla armor and ending with full nudity or nearly so. As the player did more quests for that faction or hold more options would be available for the player and they could revert back to any stage of skimpy that they pleased by accessing a specific book. Both sexes would have options for skimpification. It would be entirely up to the player The player could also change the spawn rate of male or female guards this way too. I would do this in a lore friendly way by telling the steward to only hire male or female guards.

 

I was thinking of tying tiers of skimpiness for the holds with being a thane at first with the ability to trade in repeatable bounties (like kill a giant or a bandit) with the steward for a change in policy regarding clothing. Later tiers would be being unlocked by conquering or liberating the city during the civil war.

 

I think the guilds would be a lot more straight forward. Simply once you become faction leader, you could order a new dress code and as you do more quests for that guild, you unlock new tiers.

 

for the vampires and dawnguard maybe a tome in Valerica's alchemy room that made the faction you didn't side with wear less and put a journal that explained it to make it lore friendly.

 

I think the stormcloaks and imperials along with the thalmor should be tied to the civil war.

 

I don't know how to do this with the bandits that would be lore friendly. I think that one would require its own quest line.

 

While I cannot create a truly lore friendly reason for bikinis replacing steel plating, I am hoping to a create a framework that can help explain why people are wearing skimpier clothes and in turn make them a little less jarring.

 

I played around with the creation kit for a few days but I've never uploaded a mod onto the nexus before and i quickly realized that this was something i couldn't do by myself. Please let me know if this project is something that you would be interested in or if it is even possible.

Edited August 30, 2020 by swordtroll

[anjenthedog]

Honestly, I don't know how you can ever make skimpy armor "Lore friendly" unless all your battles are held on one of the "tropical beach" addon mods.

[Apis4]

You cannot make Skimpy armour Lore friendly, as Skyrim is heavily based on Scandinavia, I lived in Denmark for almost three years, coming from one of the hottest countries in the world, Australia... and believe me, even at the height of summer for the most part, you'd not really get away with wearing anything too skimpy in such climate. Maybe a local might, I sure didn't... well I am dude, so not skimpy.... but I wasnt wearing my bonds singlet and thongs.... wait.. flipflops... is what you call then.....at all though.

 

And that's three or so month of the year..... the rest of the time? Hypothermia I suspect.

 

Maybe players, and NPCs that lived exclusive in the Rift or around Falkreath, maybe in Solitude itself.... but beyond there, even around Whiterun, I suspect you're dying pretty quickly in a ebony bikini, so I am not sure how you'd consider that Lore friendly.

 

Skimpy armour is NOT Lore friendly, any more than it's realistically armour in any sense.

[G4M3W1NN3R]

all skimpy is, is literally if an armor or clothing, exposes the skin. followed by a severity definition

 

as such if you have full body armor, that only exposes a tiny bit of skin, it is now considered skimpy. however it can still be practical and it can still very much fit in with the lore.

 

the extreme is if the armor only consists of underwear. such as a forsworn bra and panty, but even then that could still fit in, if your dragonborn happens to be a brothel worker

 

lets also not forget that the Aedra and Daedra are a big part of the elder scrolls lore, you have both Dibella and Mephala who are both associated with sex, you also have Dark Seducers, so their is no reason to believe that brothels could not exist, and likewise could then make extremely skimpy clothing lore friendly.

 

so case in point, You can either consider the game setting as determining whether a specific armor or clothing mod can be considered lore friendly

 

or you can use the Elder Scrolls lore itself, where their really is a lot more exceptions, especially when you factor in the Aedra and Daedra and anything connected to these

 

it really is down to user

 

take Flame Atronachs for example, they are wearing extremely skimpy armor, and they are very much part of the lore. so take from that what you will. but ye, the elder scrolls lore is what should be used when using the term Lore Friendly, and not just the lore created in this game, it should be taken from all elder scrolls games, and even ESO

 

it seems the majority of people will use the game setting when determining if something is lore friendly or not, but the elder scrolls lore not only limited to this game, you can also include Elder Scrolls online, where the player has access to the Dark Seducers outfit. plus the dark seducers exist in that game. so ye

Edited August 28, 2020 by G4M3W1NN3R

[Apis4]

all skimpy is, is literally if an armor or clothing, exposes the skin. followed by a severity definition

 

as such if you have full body armor, that only exposes a tiny bit of skin, it is now considered skimpy. however it can still be practical and it can still very much fit in with the lore.

 

the extreme is if the armor only consists of underwear. such as a forsworn bra and panty, but even then that could still fit in, if your dragonborn happens to be a brothel worker

 

lets also not forget that the Aedra and Daedra are a big part of the elder scrolls lore, you have both Dibella and Mephala who are both associated with sex, you also have Dark Seducers, so their is no reason to believe that brothels could not exist, and likewise could then make extremely skimpy clothing lore friendly.

 

so case in point, You can either consider the game setting as determining whether a specific armor or clothing mod can be considered lore friendly

 

or you can use the Elder Scrolls lore itself, where their really is a lot more exceptions, especially when you factor in the Aedra and Daedra and anything connected to these

 

it really is down to user

 

take Flame Atronachs for example, they are wearing extremely skimpy armor, and they are very much part of the lore. so take from that what you will. but ye, the elder scrolls lore is what should be used when using the term Lore Friendly, and not just the lore created in this game, it should be taken from all elder scrolls games, and even ESO

 

it seems the majority of people will use the game setting when determining if something is lore friendly or not, but the elder scrolls lore not only limited to this game, you can also include Elder Scrolls online, where the player has access to the Dark Seducers outfit. plus the dark seducers exist in that game. so ye

 

 

I am sure it can be made Lore friendly in terms of the TES series, but I doubt it can be in terms of the Skyrim environment..... and more, I doubt anyone could ever call Skimpy armour practical.

 

Armour that is Skimpy.... KIND of has historical precedent..... that is to say.... the early mirror armours would just be a leather harness of small mirrors in key positions on the torso, often three dimensional and shaped liked mythical beasts...... and would be worn with just a skirt.... by men actually.... with them only wearing a simple helmet and greaves and vambracers..... BUT.... ONLY with a HUGE shield.

 

In fact, Celts, despite inventing maille.... often fought NAKED...... but ALWAYS behind a HUGE SHIELD.... remove the huge shield, and skimpy armour is as practical as a screen door on a submarine and there's no way around it.