Lunari Race - SE 1.7.1

Lunari Backstory
The Lunari are rare women of the ancient bloodline born of the unlikely union between the famed Nord hunter Saeryn and Rae'Li, the legendary archer and huntress of the rare Sun'Li tree elves. The Lunari 'gene' bearing their traits passes on only through the female. They are stronger and longer lived than Nords, and exhibit the slightly pointed ears born of their elven mother. Lunari are gifted with quicker regen and they inherited the combined combat prowess of both of their first parents. Their skill with weapons, particularly bows, is second to none.

Lunari prefer to live in nature, away from the bustle of city life. They have been known to enchant trees into massive, spectacular dwellings, choosing to live inside the tree, or sometimes in majestic homes built far up in the high branches.

Specialities
Base stats when starting out in the world of Skyrim:
+10 to Archery
+8 to One-Handed
+8 to Two-Handed
+9 to Block
+9 to Light Armor
+8 to Speech
+8 to Restoration

Plus, Lunari enjoy greater overall health and strength, with faster regeneration in combat (Magicka, Health, and Stamina). They have a natural resistance to shock (50%), and may cast an immunity spell by voice (assigned to the z key like shouts) that will cure disease, and heal.

If you find that the Lunari women are too strong in base stats for you, simply increase the difficulty of the game or try the Lunari Diminished option when installing the mod!

The Lunari race assembles many elements into a cohesive whole, designed to present a certain look to its characters. Some of the features include:

• Customized, seamless, high resolution textures for the bodies and faces for UNP & CBBE.
• Custom face texture that is the result of hours of layering and adjusting many elements.
• Custom specular body/face/hands textures.
• 26 character presets, lovingly designed and crafted.
• 45 custom eye textures.
• 24 different custom eyebrow textures.
•  CBBE, UNP, 3BBB, and BHUNP body meshes.

The SE Conversion of LE's v1.7 of the Lunari race now gives you the following body mesh options during the FOMOD installation:

• CBBE
• CBBE 3BBB
• TBD
• UUNP
• BHUNP

(Of course you would need to have previously installed the matching body mod)

Requirements
• Install TMPhoenix's RaceCompatibility mod before installing the Lunari mod.
• You must have the XPMSSE skeleton installed

Installation
The easiest way to install your Lunari race is to download and install via a mod manager such as Mod Organizer 2, Vortex or NMM. The FOMOD installer will then let you choose your options as you go (Body type, tintmasks, etc.). Resize the installer window to properly see the comparison images.

Alternative 4K Textures
HeroedeLeyenda has a great alternative skin texture pack with direct support for the Lunari race and can be found here: Leyenda Skin 4.0

Warpaint / Tattoos
IF USING FACE WARPAINT OR TATTOOS: Please know that the Skyrim exe forces the tintmasks (the textures used for the tattoos/warpaint) to a measely 256x256. It looks terrible, and for the longest time I avoided using warpaint or face tattoos, but with the use of SKSE you can place a few simple lines in an SKSE INI file in your Skyrim data folder to tell the game what resolution you would like to use. If you like using warpaint or face tattoos on your Lunari character, I HIGHLY recommend the following tweak:

• Download and install the latest version of SKSE (Skyrim Script Extender). Gopher has made a great installation video for this at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGnQIiNVqA
• Once you have SKSE successfully installed, you'll need to:

1. Locate your data directory.
2. Create the SKSE folder inside your data folder, if it is not already there.
3. Create the SKSE.ini file if it is not already there (inside the SKSE folder).
4. Add "[Display]" category within your INI file.
5. Add "iTintTextureResolution=1024" or "iTintTextureResolution=2048"

And enjoy a whole new world of warpaint and face tattoo resolution! There is an option during installation of the Lunari mod to choose the HD face tintmasks and tattoos in addition to the high res textures and HD body skin, but the regular high res and low res textures look great when using the SKSE hook!

PLEASE NOTE - If you are experiencing problems with your character's hair not changing in the race menu, try the following fix via the console in game:

stopquest lunariracecontroller
resetquest lunariracecontroller
startquest lunariracecontroller

Exit the console and you should be good to go. Remember to resave. These three lines in the console will fix your old saves and make vampire compatibility and hair changeable in the race menu!

To uninstall the Lunari mod use NMM. If manually uninstalling, remove the 'bhakti' folders from your meshes and textures folders within your data folder.

Permission and message from Original Author -Bhaktisean
The Lunari mod is the result of a personal desire for the femme power of Skyrim to be truly beautiful and dynamic. This is of course completely subjective, and I never intended for this to be shared publicly. It was a mission really, to enhance the game, and bring a little Tolkien into the mix. I hope you enjoy it!