LE Sovngarde Expanded

[psycodragons]

(sorry if this is impossible/too hard to do)

 

Sovngarde seemed really dull for a heavenly world. All you could do was eat, drink, and take a walk. I suggest a mod that expands Sovngarde to add extra features to make it a real paradise.

 

Basics (note that if you can't do/don't want to do one of these, you don't have to. These are just higher priority):

- More land/flora

- Add the spawning of animals (maybe recolors?)

- Stray camps, houses, monuments.

- More ghosts. They'd be generic, but I won't mind if you insert inside jokes or other easter eggs with them.

- Lakes/waterfalls. I don't know if it's possible to add water to Sovngarde, so I wouldn't really stress this one.

 

Those should be some of the main features, but I also have a ideas that are much harder to pull off, but would benefit the mod. These are optional:

 

- Towns/Cities

- Quests

- Special equipment

- Dungeons

- Special World Map

- A portal that requires a quest to get to, preferably after main quest. This is so it doesn't require a separate mod.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

NOTE: I realize that there are house mods for Sovngarde. These don't expand it, they just add a living area.

[notmyhome]

Also, permanently available brawls. That's what they promised us!

[monganfinn]

Shor is the Soul King aka Sovngarde total Bleach conversion.

- just a joke

 

I wouldn´t really add to much content into Sovngarde, whole towns etc seem over the top and dungeons aka graves in the land of the dead?

 

But brawls - perhaps also with weapons and drinking contests - you could drink poison thus draining your life and turning the drinking contests into something more challenging than Sanguines, which bring the player some nice little, heavenly tokens as reward?! - That would be genius!

 

A portal beside Skuldafn would be quite lore breaking - but nowadays you can jump on a dragon and should be able to fly there again.

Otherwise we could implement a death - Sovngarde - rebirth (by dragon shouting you back into life!) cycle.

[flamingdiaper4U]

Hey, I saw this post and I have already made a mod that starts your idea. It allows you to return to Sovngarde, and it unlocks the hall of valor. I also added numerous improvements. Things like more flowers and statues. I also added a custom player house. I haven't worked on it in a while, but after seeing this post, I decided I'd like to continue working on it. I had also started a dungeon, but never really got around to finishing it. Here's the link: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/32252/?. Let me know what you think, and let me know if you have anymroe ideas. Also, keep watch for more updates if you like it.

[monganfinn]

I believe that there are in fact several mods which allow you to return to Sovngard. In one way or another.

I know of one where you go there after your death.

Others:

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/53836/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50893/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50877/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/27575/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/20581/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/17633/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/10880/?

 

I must stress that I am reeaalllllyy grateful for every(most) single mod out there!!

But most of the Sovngarde mods aren´t really what I am hoping for.

Yours for example has a far to easy access and leaving point: you are travelling beyond Oblivion into Aetherius and back it shoudn´t BE simple!!

My preference would be a death - rebirth cycle like in Operation Comeback?

Before you killed Alduin the Hall of Valor should still be locked.

Perhaps some of the dead have messages or other quests for you?

Stuff added to the Hall of Valor, which is accesible after Alduin is banished - drinking, brawling contests, more non generic npcs, trainers?

A lore friendly rebirth system, as the PC has a draconic soul Odahviing or Duneheviir should be able to be called to the place of your death or reapperance in Skyrim and be able to shout you back into a mortal body. - Or some quest aka sorcery ritual that justifies why you suddenly return among the living.

 

Would it be possible to use the Skuldafn portal with a mod where you get a dragon to fly you there? like command dragons?! Or ist the whole region restricted?

[flamingdiaper4U]

When I made this mod, I wasn't very good at modding. But I have since improved. So i will definitely be changing the way to get there eventually. I would like to add more dialogue, and possibly some quests. I am still working on expanding the terrain and adding new features. And with some of those mods you mentioned, I haven't tested any of those mods, but my mod may be compatible with more NPCs, and the portal to Sovngarde mod. But i am planning to add a lot of the things you mentioned in your original post to Sovngarde. Let me know if you'd like anything else.

[flamingdiaper4U]

oh and about the Skuldafn thing, I haven't actually looked into that, but I could see about maybe allowing the player to travel there and use the portal again.

[monganfinn]

Wow, thanks!! :laugh:

And I really didn´t meant to criticise your work! Such details are rather part of the personal taste department more than anything else.

Edited August 25, 2014 by monganfinn

[monganfinn]

How about a fighting pit like the one who wasn´t put into the game but is in the data of Windhelm? Would have to stopp the fights before the participants die - again, or they respawn, -the PC as well- in a chamber, lake, giant cauldron(there are norse/celtic legends about people ressurected from couldrons).

[flamingdiaper4U]

I could try to add a fighting pit, but I would have to learn more. And you weren't really criticising my work. I don't like how you go back either. In the next update I will definitely have a better way. But back to the fihting pit thing, that does sound interesting. I would probably make them essential, so it's like a brawl, where they just go down to there knees. But it would be fun to fight against ancient nord legends.