Hello wonderful and exceptional modding community! I will not pretend this is a simple request as I have done a bit of modding myself and know better. The guts of my request comes down to this, Thanes don't get a whole lot, respect or otherwise. As an example, when I became Thane of Whiterun I got; A personal Housecarl - A nice touch, to bad I don't have a choice in who that Housecarl might be. The right to purchase a house that more or less has "it's drafty" in the title. A badge of office, in the form of a 20lb, two handed, inappropriately enchanted monstrosity. and the ability to accidentally pick up a sweet roll that doesn't belong to me and have the guards forgive me, one time only. In short it didn't really wow me. I guess I could swallow the "it's a small and poor holding with not much to offer" excuse. It's just that Whiterun is described as the trade center of all of Skyrim and usually ranked below only Solitude and Windhelm. So I tried Solitude next, as for perks I got, Housecarl - Better, but still not necessarily my first choice The right to purchase a Really Expensive house A badge, this time in the form of a shield, to bad I dual wield and finally, the familiar Sweet Roll Privilege, again one time only. A trend emerges... So here's a rundown of things I would like to see in a mod; Choose your housecarl! Maybe the Jarl allows you to pick from, say, the reformed assassin bodyguard, the young but energetic bbw (big burly warrior) or your very own eccentric court wizzard! Or maybe your even offered to ability to pick your housecarl from the citizens of the hold! Not sure what to do about the housing, I tend to live in places like Jorrvaskr or Lakeview Manor anyway, but this to might be improved. (Edit) For one thing you should not have to buy property to become Thane. As for an improvement, maybe if you continue helping the citizens of the hold the price of potential property might come down... Choose your Badge of Office! Maybe the Jarl tells you to visit the holds best smith who will fashion you a customizable magic item, blade, shield, trinket or other wise! Or maybe an heirloom of the hold that is useful to more than just one type of character... And finally more respect. I get that the get out of jail free card can be used for quite a large bounty and that's fine, but to learn that they will only look the other way once no matter the crime doesn't make much sense. Pulling rank so to speak should more or less cover petty crimes permanently, anything up to say 40-50g, even up to 100g isn't out of the question. Removing disrespectful dialog seems like a good idea to... Add to all this the idea that the title of Thane carries absolutely NO weight outside your hold seams a bit flimsy. Would a common guard in Falkreath really risk conflict with Solitude by imprisoning High Queen Elisif's personal Thane? Over a picking up a dropped apple!?! [/rant] Anyway... If anyone is interested in working on this mod please feel free to send me a PM, and at the end, thank you for reading and considering even if you don't think this is the kind of mod you want to make. Foxx P.S. I always look for mods that do what I want before I actually post. I have tried a few mods that handle some of this but I have yet to find a mod that dose all of or even most of these things, that's why this is a mod request. (sorry for being snippy)
