About This File
A strange island has risen from the depths of the sea, an expedition to uncover its mystery is already on its way. You are just a little too late to the party, and following the expedition's footsteps you uncover a tale of treachery, madness and forgotten secrets before you self are drawn into the Maelstrom...
Maelstrom is a dungeon quest mod inspired by Norse mythology and spans a large dungeon complex and other locations filled with puzzles, enemies, secret areas and more!
How to start the quest:
Talk to the innkeeper of the Winking Skeever in Solitude, and ask if he knows about some work for you. Alternatively you can find a new location along the coastline which also leads to starting the quest.
What awaits you:
- A multipart dungeon questline with three possible outcomes
- Lots of old-school RPG style puzzles
- New enemy variants, equipment, lore and flavour texts and a lot more
- A fully voice acted NPC and potential follower (voiced by Simone Mountain)
- A secondary vanilla voice follower with some custom dialogue
- New dialogue created by editing vanilla voice assets
Requirements:
Latest version of Skyrim Special Edition
Video Reviews:
Playthrough by Zero Period Productions (contains spoilers, but useful for hints):
Changelog for v1.03:
- Added a third way to complete the quest
- Rán can now ride her own horse as a follower (you can disable it via dialogue option)
- Fix for a rare CTD when fighting drowned enemies
- Minor clarifications, fixes and enemy tweaks
- Hopefully a fix for a CTD when fighting Drowned Dead in Skyrim VR (can't test it, so you have to try for yourself
Installation:
Use your favourite mod manager that can handle a FOMOD installer, simple as that. Manual installation is also possible by dropping the .esp and .bsa files from the archive into Skyrim's Data folder.
Uninstallation:
Uninstalling a mod midgame is never really a good idea, but if you have no other choice:
- Dismiss any followers you might get from this mod and go to a location which is definitely not part of this mod (e.g. Riverwood)
- Wait for 24 ingame hours
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Save game and uninstall the mod with your mod manager or delete the files you've installed manually from the Data folder.
Compatibility:
Both followers have their own follower system and they will follow you regardless of any other followers you might have. They won't conflict with any mods regarding followers, but they also will be ignored by them and their respective special features. It's not recommended to use any force recruit / manage features from other mods on them as this certainly will mess up things.
The vanilla voice follower will switch to Skyrim's vanilla follower AFTER the questline is completed, then she can be managed by any mod you like.
Install Options:
A few of the NPCs are nude by default. If you don't like this, the FOMOD installer gives you the option to give the respective NPCs a basic set of underwear.
Translations:
- Russian Translation by Frank404
Conflict Potential:
This mod makes no changes to any vanilla records except adding two new locations to the worldmap by editing the cells 00000D74, 00003DBE and 0000B478. Only new objects are placed, existing objects are left untouched.
Credits
- Voice Acting -
Simone Mountain as Rán
All other NPC voice were created by editing vanilla voice assets
- Mods, Assets & Resources -
Feminine Argonian Textures by MONSTERaider
Modder's Resource Pack by Oaristys and Tony67
zzjay's wardrobe by zzjay
KS Hairdos Renewal by Kalilies Stealthic Khaos and Shocky
Lind's Human Eyes by Lind001 - LindsWorkshop
Maevan2's Eye Brows by Maevan2
Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Edition -CBBE- by Ousnius and Caliente
DIMONIZED UNP Female Body by dimon99
Demoniac High Quality Glossy Female Body Texture by Regenbot03 / Demoniac FMS uses assets from Mature skin texture and body for UNP(B) 7BASE CBBE Vanilla by Maevan2
Leyenda Skin by HeroedeLeyenda
Freckle Mania 2 by tetrodoxin
The Amazing World of Bikini Armor by NiseTanaka
Ice Titans - Mihail Monsters and Animals (mihail immersive add-ons- giant- witcher) by MihailMods
Duelist - A New Sword and Yggdrasil Viking Sword by Billyro
Amulets of Skyrim and Vanilla Followers AI by uni_SL
Evil Laughing Woman Sound - Woman Laugh Sound Effect | Ver.2 by Distorted Room
A Siren's Lure Song by Reaper Cat
Music: Ásgarðr by Adrian von Ziegler
- Tools -
GIMP, NifSkope, Audacity
Lazy Voice Finder by BowmoreLover
Unfuzer CPP Edition by greentea101
RaceMenu by Expired
BodySlide and Outfit Studio by Ousnius and Caliente
TES5Edit by ElminsterAU
NifMerge by Turulo
MultiXWM by Vikichan
SSE NIF Optimizer by Ousnius
Skyrim & Creation Kit by Bethesda
Special Thanks
Simone Mountain, for bringing life to my creation
Porterhause, my trusty chronicler
Have fun!
Edited by nachtdaemmerung77
