LE kynareth's champion ( working title subject to change )

[nexustourist]

Hello everyone, my name is nexustourist and there are two things i would like to say before i start. First i would like to thank all the modders for their incredible generosity in sharing their talent and work with everybody. Second being very new to the nexus website ( And after having read the post : why no one is making my mod request ? The reality. ) i'm fully prepared to the reality that no one will be interested and also that my idea might already exist in some form. ( If it does please could you kindly point me in it's direction? )

 

One last thing before i begin, i have no PC i use mods on xbox one via beth.net so while i can help thoses who are interested by providing more details i cant join a team and work directly on it.

 

So without further ado let's begin.

 

First in order for my idea to make sense i have to say that ever since i joined the elder scroll family of gamers. ( Back in the early days of oblivion! ) I found it a bit sad that spriggan cant be anything other then enemies/monsters. ( I know that there was two spriggan acting as one of the knight of the nine relic guardian but it's not the same thing as these were merely widow dressing. ) Also after seeing many beautiful jewelry and armor mod. ( Among the many modders who inspired me are two that come to mind : ashara and zerofrost. ) These idea came to me all of whom are themed after and around nature and spriggan :

 

The first part of my idea is a set of jewelry inspired by ashara paragon jewelry set.

 

the first item would be a headband similar to a circlet except it would be a light brown leather strip instead of a silve/gold chain and with a miniature spriggan face instead of a paragon gem.

 

The second item would be a choker ocupying the same slot as a neclace but tighter around the throat with the same light brown leather strip as the headband but with a miniature taproot in the middle of the throat.

 

The third item would be a pair of earings similar to ashara parago earings except with miniature taproot dangling from the ears.

 

The fourth ( and last item on the jewelry set ) would be a ring, for this one i took my inspiration from the vanilla game ring of hircine but the ring would've a wooden texture as if made from wood instead of metal but with a very miniature spriggan face instead of the wolf.

 

Once the jewelry set was done in my mind. I began to think why stop there?

 

So i started to imagine a full suit of light armor for femal character and npc's. ( Why female? Simply put spriggan are female! But i'm pretty sure that talented modders could find a way to make a male version of the armor. ) I envisioned the armor as a skin thight light brown leather under armor with spriggan body parts ( for this i have the skyrim version of the spriggan in mind ) over the leather like wooden armor plates. And with a helmet that is similar to the cultist from the dragonborn dlc except with a spriggan's face and horns/branches instead of whatever the cultists mask is suposed be be. I even though about armor stages. With the first stage resembling a basic spriggan ( with the green glow ) The second stage resembling a spriggan matron. And the third stage resembling a spriggan earth mother. With stats that would comparable to elven armor for basic, glass for matron and dragonscale for earth mother. I even though about a set based on the burnt spriggan as an evil/corupted version.

 

When the armor part of my idea was done in my mind. I thought that just droping it in a chest or making available to be made at the forge or leather rack while practical was a bit lame. So i began to think of a way of how the dragonborn could aquire these armor set and jewelry. And that's when my muse hit me over the head with her inspiration stick. And i began putting together the idea for a fully voiced follower with her own mini recruitment quest that would expand into her helping us to build these armor and jewelry set.

 

Follower description : It's a fully sentient spriggan that can shapshift into a bormer woman. ( Not the other away around. ) She assume her bosmer form whenever she's in a city or settlement but resume her spriggan form whenever she's out in the wild or in a dungeon or private place. ( Like in one of the many home available to the dragonborn. )

 

Mini recruitement quest : the quest is entwined with the vanilla quest the blessing of nature. Basicly the dragonborn would start that quest as normal aproaching danica purespring then she send him/her to fetch the nettlebane. Upon his/her return danica send him/her to the eldergleam sanctuary. at this point in the vanilla game the dragonborn is aproached by a man who want to tag along. In the mod however that man is removed and replaced by the follower in her bosmer form. ( She also keep that form until the end of the recruitement quest. ) She ask us the same thing to tag along if the DB agree then on the way from whiterun to the sanctuary she is very vocal about what she think of the nettlebane. ( She call it the abomination and other less flathering name. ) As soon as the DB spawn inside the sanctuary cell she force a talk in wich she says she as figured out that we intent to harm the tree. ( She call it the wise ancient or some other honorific. ) So she says ( in a not so veiled treat ) that if the DB persist in his/her goal to harm the tree then she'll have to stop him/her. ( It should be noted that from this point on until the recruitment quest is completed if the DB use the nettlebane on the tree then the follower loose her essential status and turn hostile toward the DB along side everybody else in the sanctuary including the human whorshipers. ) But she follow that by saying that if the DB is willing to entertain an alternative there is a way for him/her to obtain what he/she want without resorting to violance. After that she grant the DB a lesser power. ( Or maybe a spell. ) That when cast on the tree roots blocking the path achieve the same thing as if the DB had hit the root with the nettlebane. Only without provoking the aggro of everyone around. ( The power or spell look like a green version of of the vanila firebolt except that it does'nt create a burning effect after impact like vanila fire. ) If the DB use the power/spell all the way to the top of the path. Then the follower force another talk in wich she says she's impressed and that she require one more proof from the DB that they are the friend to nature they apear to be. She then cast a spell at the ground in front of her where a weird little half tree spring from the ground and open at the top. Then the follower tell the DB that they must allow nirn to swallow the nettlebane forever. If the DB do it ( by clicking the top of the weird tree where there might be or not a short animation where we see the DB pull out the nettlebane and drop it into the tree ) Then the tree sink back into the ground. After this the follower cast a spell on herself where tiny branch spring from the ground around her and form a egg like cocoon then there's a quick green flash and the cocoon disapear back into the ground. And where the bosmer woman was now stand a spriggan. She then tell the DB that this is her true form. And that the bosmer woman was a disguise she adopt when she visit town and settlement.

 

crafting quest :

 

After the recruitement quest is done if the follower is still alive. ( If she's not we get access to the burnt spriggan armor but nothing else. ) she tell us this short story about an evil cult of druid/necromencer who as decided to enslave her sisters. And that is why all spriggan in skyrim so hostile toward man and mer some have already been corupted and became crazy the others are afraid of sucombing to the same fate. So she urge the DB to visit all the spriggan glade in skyrim to save her sisters. In this mod every spriggan glade as more spriggan in it. A few who are normal spriggan under the thrall of one crazy/corupted one. The normal one are essential but can be incapacitated, the corupted one can be killed. Once the corupted one is dead the DB can use the lesser power/spell on incapacited normal spriggan to heal them thus earning their trust. Each corupted one yeild a corupted taproot as loot while any normal spriggan healed will gift the DB with an item called essence of nature. ( The corupted taproot look like a darker version of an original taproot and the essence of nature look like a green version of a pinch of salt. ) When enough of these material have been collected. The DB can return to the eldergleam sanctuary where in the middle of the map there's a green fireplace where the DB can sit in a meditation pose and the material can be exchanged like with the forge for the piece of armor and jewelry.

 

That's it. Now like i said at the begining i dont expect to see all of it into reality but if by chance it does or even part of it all i ask ( and it is a hope not a request ) is that you consider allowing an SSE version of you work to be made available on consols.