Request: Sauria/Dinosaur Playable Races

[RalinDrakus]

Greetings all!

I stumbled into a Youtube video that has really ignited my imagination. The creator is Death Sound, and he's working on an short animated series called Sauria:

Show Trailer

It's a fantasy land dominated by dinosaurs, ice age creatures, and humanoid reptiles. It might not seem on the surface like something that would work in Skyrim, but his newest episode Winter Weathered changed my mind. It's got mammoths, saber cats, snow dwelling Argonians (basically), and ancient ruins of past civilizations. Hell, it almost feels like a reverse of Earth's history: Mankind has died out (or vanished like the Dwarves), leaving behind traces of our former existence, and dinosaurs have risen to replace us lol. I was so inspired by this episode, it made me want to play a character in a similar world.

I'm currently tinkering with a 'Sauria' themed mod list on MO2. Interestingly, Vanilla Skyrim DOES have a lot of elements of the show, and there's quite a few mods that help add to the setting:

What I Have

• Obviously Argonians are the starting point. Even vanilla they're a pretty close to looking the part. Looking into mods that make them bigger, more bestial, and digitigrade.
• Vanilla Skyrim also provides all the Ice Age critters seen in the series so far. Mammoths, Saber Cats, Deer. Maybe add a mod like immersive creatures and I'm set.
• I wouldn't say the climate is perfect, could use more diversity, BUT what we've got is pretty damn good.
• Mod wise, I'm starting with Lizards of Skyrim. Been hearing about this one for years, and finally have an excuse to install it. That will hopefully remove all humans from the game.
• As to the dinosaurs, I'm turning to SKINWALKER21 and basically his entire mod list. If there's more good looking dino/prehistoric mods out there that fit please hit me up, but my search for them has mostly led me to him.

What I Want

Now for the actual request. Most of the essentials to have a working mod list for this theme basically already exist. The one thing I can't find are more Argonian based races that make them look more like Dinosaurs. Yes, there are a lot of great Argonian upgrade and aesthetic mods that exist and that I've downloaded, But with the exception of the Crocodillians they aren't used to create new alternative playable races. I'd only be able to

Would anybody be able and willing to make some options in this regard? A Tyrannosaurid race for example? Possessing bigger heads, bigger tails, and are taller than vanilla Argonians. A Carno race? No, I don't want tiny arms lol, but a thin, rounded head with twin stubby horns. Playable races based on the crests made by SassiestAssassin? A Raptor race that uses Teh-Husky's Sickle Claw Argonian foot? (Both these last suggestions based on author permissions, of course).

My thinking is that with just a couple such custom dino races, I could use Race Distribution Framework to replace all Imperials with one and use another to swap out all Stormcloaks. That right there recreates the conflict depicted in the series. If someone was able to make a white and blue themed Ice dino race inspired by Winter Weatherd's Helionyx, an Arctic Saurian, I could use them to replace the Skaal. 

Long read, I know, and I appreciate you if you got this far. Hoping someone out there can help me with this. The assets all seem to be available, I just have no modding skill whatsoever. Thx in advance for any help making these new dino races, or if you know of any existing mods that would help this build.

 

[Drakefell01]

i'm working on a mod that makes skyrims climate look like shown in this image https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/images/227660

[RalinDrakus]

Nice! Total environment overhauls must be insanely tedious; props for putting in the effort! Would love to try it when you're able to share it!

[Drakefell01]

Its called green north (basically it reverses the effects of the red mountain event in skyrim) it will also add towns and cities missed in game and improve the ones already in game