barding

A light armour cuirass. From the waist up, Telvanni robes. From the waist down, the same as the Dunmer Outfit, or the chitin armour, preferably in a matching or similar colour. Simple, I think? If anyone could make this for me I'd be incredibly grateful. I guess I just wanted something with that Morrowindy pauldrony Telvanni look to it, but that also looked like it was travel-ready. Cheers. (I can think of all sorts of ways to make this more complicated - for example, adding the articulated arm plating from the cultist robes, or replacing the Dunmer Outfit legs with recoloured versions of the Iorveth armour from the Witcher 2 ports, so it looks sort of like a rugged coat or something...But that can wait, I guess.)

I personally like the chitin bits on the chitin armour. With some good retex mods they look pretty cool, and are also lore-important, and capable of giving me all sorts of Vvardenfeels. However, as I said, I'd love to see them mixed with some other armours, preferably ones from some of the brilliant Witcher 2 imports we have around the Nexus. Another idea I've had recently would be a light armour version of the Telvanni wizard robes (preferably with the awesome retex I mention in this thread's first post), but perhaps with a shorter less obtrusive skirt (taken from the Dawnguard armour, perhaps? - or the Witcher 2 Iorveth armour/Wanderer's Surcoat?) or the leg parts/greaves from the light chitin armour. I love how the torso on the Telvanni robes looks, but would love to adapt them for less of a pure-wizard character. The way these cravings are going, I might have to take up modelling myself, although my knowledge of nifscope is probably worse than zero.

I have to admit, the awesomest armour ever for me would be one that blends aspects of the Witcher 2 Iorveth armour (or the Wanderer's Cuirass retex of it) with DB's chitin armour, perhaps using the retex I mentioned above. My mind would be blown, and I'm sure other folks' would be too...I know it's possible, though I'm never sure how - that's why I don't just do it myself!

Definitely cool. I'd install them if you uploaded them. Though any more extensive mixed armour mesh sets would be really amazing too.

One of the things I got most excited about, with the release of Dragonborn for PC, was the custom armour mods that could come about, thanks to all the new resources. I'm a massive fan of the Dunmer and their culture, and I had always thought that more exotic armours, based on DB resources would be awesome. So this is my way of suggesting to the Nexus community how freakin' schweet it'd be to have mixed armours based on, say, some of the following combinations: A Dunmeri spellsword armour using parts (shoulders, coat-tails, etc.) from the Telvanni robes, and parts from the light chitin armour.Netch leather armour, probably using some vanilla elements, and some elements of chitin armours and maybe Solstheim civillian clothes.A version of the chitin armour helmet which removes the helmet but keeps the scarf, covering the lower face, and also keeps the goggles, or adds new goggles - something to protect against all those ash storms.Pretty much anything using the scarves attached to armours added by DB.Anything that adds more fancy cloth bits to existing armours, making them like armoured coats and robes and the like.I'd also really recommend taking a look at Leyr's Ashland Apparel Retexture Project for some ideas as to patterns or enhanced resources to use: the textile patterning in that mod is fantastic.

Thanks for the heads up.

Yo. I'd love to see a mod which makes magic staves visible on your character's back, when equipped but sheathed, or favourited (if you're using the 'geared up' enabled .ini tweak, as I am). Rather than them just disappearing into your character's invisible bag of holding. I find it to be quite a big immersion breaker, to be honest. I'd imagine this'd be quite a simple mod to implement, but I've looked around and not quite found anything that fits the bill. It existed as an option in Armed To The Teeth, but that mod's a little obsolete now, what with the 'Geared Up' tweak. Sure, there's the 'Staves of Skyrim' mod, which is fantastic, but not quite right, as it uses the shield slot, and presumes a relatively full-on-mage kinda character: one who'd always be carrying their staff. What I'm looking for is something that'd fit a spellsword kinda character, who might carry a staff like other adventurers would carry a bow: to give them a bit of ranged firepower, without expending magicka. Would anyone be willing to make this sort of mod, or direct me towards a mod which already does it? Thanks!