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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 Dawnguard DLC Dragonborn DLC 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 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 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. 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!

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 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!

The Ancient Profession is a prostitution and quest mod. It aims to make prostitution feel as natural in the game's world as joining the College of Winterhold or the Thieves Guild, and to help you role-play a prostitute character who isn't a combat bad-ass at the start of the game. The mod adds the following: Quests. Many of the quests are designed around role-playing, not combat. Low-level characters can do most of the quests. High-level characters just have more options. The quests are meant to feel like they belong in the game's world, not like a separate sex game sitting on top of Skyrim. Even when they expand on lore, the quests are intended to stay lore-friendly. This is a SexLab mod, so the quests will usually somehow involve sex. Prostitution. Entertain clients and do special jobs to earn money. There are several different prostitution factions that you can join, with their own benefits and drawbacks. Becoming a succubus. Either complete a quest line or use the MCM menu to become a succubus, which grants you new perks and abilities. This system is completely optional and should not interfere with any other succubus mod, if you prefer a different one. Unlicensed prostitution as crime. Complete quests to get a license to work in each of Skyrim's holds so that you don't receive a bounty for illegal prostitution. Public sex as crime. Have sex in private so that you don't get reported for having sex in public. This system is completely optional and can be turned off if you don't want it or have another mod that you want for this. You can turn on options so that public sex is only a crime during the day. I hope that players enjoy getting to know the characters in the mod and find the quest lines interesting to play. This mod is intended for female player characters. A future version may have things for male player characters to do, but this probably won't happen in the near future. Content warning. The Ancient Profession deals mostly with consensual sex. However, some of the paths through a few of the quests can have rape scenes. These are always avoidable in some way. Some optional quest content requires creature animations. Note about LE compatibility: @killer905 has created an LE port of The Ancient Profession. Please note that this remains officially unsupported by me. I may or may not address bugs that exist in the LE version. It depends heavily on whether those same bugs exist in the SE version or are caused by using the mod with LE, and it depends if the bugs are easy to fix. How to start the quests Option 1: Go to a Dibella's Garden brothel and speak to the madam. There are locations near Solitude, Whiterun, and Windhelm. Option 2: Go to any innkeeper and ask, "Do you have any work that doesn't involve risking my life?". Then ask "May I sell my company in your inn?". If you are in a hold in Skyrim, it will start a quest to get a license in that hold. If you are outside of Skyrim, such as in Raven Rock or in a location added by a mod, you will not need a license, but you will still get an objective to get one in Skyrim before working there. Option 3: Speak to a prostitute. Option 4: Speak to Benjen Black-Briar in Riften. How the freelance prostitution system works You can solicit NPCs on the streets and in the wilderness. Full details are in the spoiler section. How the crime system works The Ancient Profession enforces that you cannot have sex in public by default. This is optional and can be turned off entirely if you don't want public sex to be illegal or if you have a different mod that you prefer to use for this. More details in the spoiler section. How the succubus system works You can become a succubus after completing a quest line in Winterhold. Full details are in the spoiler section. Information for modders The Ancient Profession provides options for integrating with the mod, and I will be adding more in future versions. Right now, using mod events, you can: Exempt scenes in your mod from public sex penalties. Find out about succubus events, like feeding, leveling up, and more. Learn when the player starts and stops working as a prostitute in an inn. Add new NPCs to the Temple of Dibella, including holding an ordination ceremony for them. The documentation for these integration options is in the mod download in a markdown file at Docs/The Ancient Profession Modder's Guide.md. Bugs and known issues This mod isn't finished, and most of the quest lines are works in progress. Vanikseth gets stuck multiple times on the way to his workroom. This is an issue with the vanilla navmesh between where he starts and where he's going. I will address it at some point, but he should automatically "jump" past the parts where he's stuck. Prostitution in inns added by mods doesn't always work correctly, for a variety of reasons that depend on the mod. After the special Dibella's Garden CMNF party job, if you do the job again, the cell may not reset properly unless you leave the brothel first. This is not the complete list of known issues. These are just the ones I think are likely to confuse people. Installation Just extract the archive into your Skyrim SE Data folder or use a mod manager to install it. Upgrading from version 0.10 or later to release 16 on a game in progress is safe. You should end any repeatable quests or inn prostitution sessions first just to be safe. Upgrading from a version before 0.10 without starting a new game is not supported. Hard Requirements (install them or it won't work) SexLab SE and any of its dependencies Some of the quests do require creature animations. I intend to always keep creature-related content optional. If you start going down a quest path that won't work without creature animations enabled, the mod will tell you. PapyrusUtil This is installed with SexLab, and it's fine to use that version, but this mod directly uses it now. Fuz Ro D'oh for Skyrim SE (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/15109) Dialogue will go by too fast without it Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch The mod will load without this at the moment, but I think some of the quest conditions rely on bug fixes from the patch. Soft Requirements (install them if you want to) The mod will load the following to provide the prostitutes more outfit variety than the dull vanilla tavern clothes: Blades Hakama Set Extended and Blades Hakama SE BodySlide CBBE, with Topless option enabled in Bodyslide. This is what the player character in the screenshots is wearing. The author of these mods has removed them from NexusMods, and they can now be found here: https://dracotorre.com/mods/bladeshakamaset/ Meridia Undead Pacification Force CBBE (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/14137) Goddess Outfit SE CBBE (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/46905) Undies CBBE (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17933) CBBE Standalone Underwear (Dyeable) (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/28496) - you don't need this mod's optional Dye Manager dependency if you don't want it. Crazy Magician Glass Robes SE (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/27864) Warhammer Sorceress Robes - CBBE SSE BodySlide (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18031) Female Outfits Standalone CBBE BodySlide (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/26088) Open Monk Robes Standalone - UNP UUNP BHUNP CBBE BodySlide - Physics - Flower Girls (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/31277) SkyTitties Clothing Pack 50 Outfits - 3BA (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/86605) KSO Mage Robes for Females - CBBE 3BA (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/91460) You can add or remove outfits from other mods for the characters in this mod to use. Instructions for doing this will appear in the second post of the support thread. You can add or remove these outfits at any time (but note that removing an outfit that someone is currently wearing will cause them to be naked temporarily). Animation packs recommended: For best results, install an animation pack that has a lesbian double-dildo animation. Some quests will use these if available because they fit better with what's happening. Mods that may enhance your experience Keep in mind that these are not made by me and may lag behind releases a bit in updating. I also cannot provide support for them. Voice pack for The Ancient Profession - note that if the audio and subtitles disagree on what a character is saying, the subtitles are probably correct KSHair for The Ancient Profession - optional non-vanilla hairstyles for the NPCs in the mod The Ancient Profession Interior Project - remakes some of the interiors in the mod with much greater skill than I possess TAP Facelift - alternate face designs for some of the characters in the mod Ciri voice pack for DBVO - voiced player character pack that includes support for this mod Bella voice pack for DBVO - voiced player character pack that includes support for this mod Compatibility It's impossible to completely avoid compatibility issues with all mods in a mod the size of The Ancient Profession. I try not to modify vanilla assets more than absolutely necessary. That said, there are certain existing and planned features that introduce the possibility for compatibility issue. The biggest of these is brothel locations, as these require me to edit the Tamriel worldspace. I am also sometimes forced to modify a few vanilla scripts and quests to integrate the mod better. Some compatibility issues Anub's Animations. This animation pack works fine and has some nice animations, but the animation tags in it are a hot mess, so you may see some scenes using animation types that you asked The Ancient Profession to suppress. Turning them off by hand or fixing the tags is the only solution. The Sisterhood of Dibella. This mod can be used together with The Ancient Profession, but the Temple of Dibella quests are not compatible with it. As of version 0.12, The Ancient Profession will automatically disable its Temple of Dibella quests if it detects that The Sisterhood of Dibella is installed and it's not too late to prevent incompatibilities between the two. If it's too late, The Ancient Profession will instead display a warning that The Sisterhood of Dibella is not compatible with your saved game. Not recommended Any other prostitution mod. Other prostitution mods will be unaware of the licensing and employment systems in The Ancient Profession and will provide a way to sidestep its game mechanics. If they implement player approaches, you may also get weird interactions. And if they provide solicitation dialogue, you may have to remember which mod does which thing. Not compatible If there's a mod out there that changes the rental bed at the Sleeping Giant Inn in Riverwood to a different bed, this mod won't be compatible with it. There are technical reasons for this that you probably don't care about. Radiant Prostitution if you have the "NPC Scene" options turned on. Some of the characters in The Ancient Profession wear the tavern clothes outfit, and this can cause quest-breaking interruptions. Mods that make extensive changes to exterior worldspaces, such as Open Cities. These may put objects or buildings in the way of places where NPCs from this mod are supposed to stand. For mods like Open Cities, they will make the cells that The Ancient Profession needs inaccessible to you without console commands. Credits The Dibella's Garden sign is based on resources from Jokerine's Misc Resources, https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/801