LE The Northern lands experience

[Edgardeth]

Hi all!

 

I would firstly like to apologize for any grammar inconsistency or poor English skill contained in my writings. I'm not a native speaker though English is my current spoken language as I'm living abroad working in an English spoken work environment.

 

 

A short foreword:

 

 

I've been brewing on these ideas for quite some time now. Knowing that there probably exist hundreds of other great ideas out there, I hope this could act as a hub for mod ideas of this sort.

 

I'm 27 years old and come from Norway but I don't live there anymore. "It's too damn cold for my taste" I've got some skill with the CK especially from fooling about with Oblivion having created a couple of mods for my personal use, including some landscaping, interiors and NPCs. I've got no skill with scripting so there wouldn't be much I could help with concerning that.

 

Skyrim is the land of the Nords. What are the Nords? are they vikings..? I don't think they are but they definitely share a lot of characteristics with the Vikings along with Celtic and Germanic culture. As a Scandinavian Skyrim is in many ways a dream come true. It offers almost an infinite amount of possibilities for creating wondrous mods, heavily scripted or aesthetic the choices are ours.

 

Vision:

 

As my skills are very limited. To get this happen I thought I'd make a mod request at the forums to see if i could attract some of the skillful mod authors out there.

 

1. Vikings and the ability to "go on viking" expeditions and trading abroad. I've already noticed a couple of mods on the Nexus offering chain-mail armour and the most gorgeous Jaysu's Swords. But a person wearing a ringmail/chainmail doesn't necessarily have to be a viking. There is lot more to vikings than armour and weapons.

 

Idea: Basically what I'm Requesting is a mod adding/gathering different Viking armour sets and weapons making it possible to arm-up those Nords in Viking age equipment and go raiding with them.

 

Raiding:

 

Keeping the idea fairly realistic concerning the amount of effort needed, I suggest "raiding" could be done using the quest system spawning with your Viking brothers on the shores where the attacks/missions will occur. Not necessarily having animated Viking voyages across the sea. (Though there is currently a pilot able Viking ship mod in Beta stage already on the nexus) http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/5432

 

Exploration/Trading:

 

Take your 15 men UFO-mod army and set of to distant lands around Tamriel whether it be for the purpose of exploration or discovering new trade routes. Imagine exploring islands within the Summerset archipelago or seeking out treasure on the surroundings of Solsteheim.

 

 

Conclusion:

 

The realisation of such a mod would require scripters, exterior and interior designers, quest/storyline makers among 3d modeling and texturing capable individuals. Luckily, a lot is already available on the nexus. Getting permissions to use the already available work would be an early step in the realization of the mod.

 

As stated before, I will be able to assist in designing exterior and interior environments as well as historical "viking" related reference.

 

I will update on my ideas when I have some more time (got to go to work now!)

 

Please leave a comment or any ideas below.

 

Thanks

[Allnamesinuse]

I really like this idea. You are going for realism as well? No magic or monsters right?