SCORN - Skyrim Consistently Oppressive and Rewritten Narrative (Alpha Release)

[Ghostseyru160]

Some pretty damn good work you've got here. This is awesome, well thought out, well produced. As entitled as this sounds, I've been modding this game since 2014 and this is the first mod that doesn't make me think of any criticism at all. Thank you so very much for spending time and money on this.

[Its_LB]

Not sure why but I'm getting an infinite loading screen at game initialization with this mod, my LO is huge with over 1k mod so yeah I'm sorry I can't be of much help hopefully someone else has the same problem as me and figures it out lol.

 

Skyrim 1.6.1170

Dependencies already in LO

Load order is also correct. 

Edited July 12 by Its_LB

[Ondine.]

11 hours ago, Its_LB said:

Not sure why but I'm getting an infinite loading screen at game initialization with this mod, my LO is huge with over 1k mod so yeah I'm sorry I can't be of much help hopefully someone else has the same problem as me and figures it out lol.

 

Skyrim 1.6.1170

Dependencies already in LO

Load order is also correct. 

really unsure how this mod would cause an infinite loading screen. i would recommend:

 - make sure SCORN is being overwritten by everything except for USSEP
 - try running it without any of the provided patches
 - open it in xedit and look for conflicts from mods that i havent provided patches for

[d0uble007]

it feels like a perfect sister mod to TOH, how does it fair with both?

[Ondine.]

1 hour ago, d0uble007 said:

it feels like a perfect sister mod to TOH, how does it fair with both?

just sanity checked and a couple minor conflicts, just make sure TOH overwrites SCORN

[Ondine.]

Updated with some increased scope, redid the framing on strong female characters to keep them strong willed but put it on the men around them to reframe the tone.(may re-add the weakening tones of strong females as a separate addon if people want that, but this felt like the best way to keep things more cannon while matching the tone direction.)

[aspirine2]

any way we can do this without the AE update, I'm so scared to do it. it will ruin my game?

many thanks in advance

Edited July 13 by aspirine2

[Ondine.]

22 minutes ago, aspirine2 said:

any way we can do this without the AE update, I'm so scared to do it. it will ruin my game?

many thanks in advance

i assume it will be fine? I dont run SE but afaik nothing here explicitely requires you update to AE.

define ruin your game:
ruin your game: no, its not going to brake skyrim, its just an esp, no dll, no executable, no scripts. it's not going to ruin your game
ruin a save: im 97% sure it will not. its just string updates with audio files. Worst case uninstall and revert to your last save.
disclaimer: i call it an alpha so ultimately if you decide to install alpha or beta software you take on risk of things not working perfectly.

[randompersons123]

18 hours ago, Ondine. said:

really unsure how this mod would cause an infinite loading screen. i would recommend:

 - make sure SCORN is being overwritten by everything except for USSEP
 - try running it without any of the provided patches
 - open it in xedit and look for conflicts from mods that i havent provided patches for

 

Just deleted the solutions patch and it fixed it for me, might be something wrong with that one (I also have confabulations which has a SL solutions patch, might be part of the issue as well)

Edited July 13 by randompersons123

[aspirine2]

8 hours ago, Ondine. said:

i assume it will be fine? I dont run SE but afaik nothing here explicitely requires you update to AE.

define ruin your game:
ruin your game: no, its not going to brake skyrim, its just an esp, no dll, no executable, no scripts. it's not going to ruin your game
ruin a save: im 97% sure it will not. its just string updates with audio files. Worst case uninstall and revert to your last save.
disclaimer: i call it an alpha so ultimately if you decide to install alpha or beta software you take on risk of things not working perfectly.

requirement for survival mode. it's an ae creation club thing.

[Ondine.]

5 hours ago, randompersons123 said:

 

Just deleted the solutions patch and it fixed it for me, might be something wrong with that one (I also have confabulations which has a SL solutions patch, might be part of the issue as well)

thanks will look into this

[Ondine.]

3 hours ago, aspirine2 said:

requirement for survival mode. it's an ae creation club thing.

heard, i thought SE still had survival as part of the free CC even without the update. i will consider removing or moving survival to a separate file

[Ondine.]

@aspirine2 - survival mode removed from master requirements in 0.5.2

 @randompersons123 - I havent been able to recreate this with solutions and confabulations installed, i did add a confabulation patch though. try again, make sure the solutions-confabulations combo patch overwrites everything else

[jacobdg02]

Can this mod be updated mid game, updating to a newer version?

[Ondine.]

11 minutes ago, jacobdg02 said:

Can this mod be updated mid game, updating to a newer version?

 

sure can 👍

[ThatOneSpiderPhoenix]

Definitely going to check this out, been waiting for a mod that has the oppressive atmosphere of SL Survival or Sexist Guards that's more grounded and not too over the top, and I hope this is it. With that being said, I was wondering about this preview:

On 7/6/2026 at 7:39 AM, Ondine. said:

A thief in the Ragged Flagon, on growing up:
  VANILLA: I'll tell you about the time I was a young girl, barely out of her teens... living on a pig farm in the middle of nowhere.
  SCORN:   I'll tell you about the time I was a young girl, barely out of her teens... living on a pig farm in the middle of nowhere. Back then, a girl like me had two choices: starve, or sell herself.

 

 

Maybe I'll change my opinion once I actually hear the full modified conversation, but given that the original dialogue has Sapphire describe her family being slaughtered and herself being essentially kept by the bandits as a sex slave, was it really necessary to make changes to that exchange in particular?

[Ondine.]

51 minutes ago, ThatOneSpiderPhoenix said:

Definitely going to check this out, been waiting for a mod that has the oppressive atmosphere of SL Survival or Sexist Guards that's more grounded and not too over the top, and I hope this is it. With that being said, I was wondering about this preview:

Maybe I'll change my opinion once I actually hear the full modified conversation, but given that the original dialogue has Sapphire describe her family being slaughtered and herself being essentially kept by the bandits as a sex slave, was it really necessary to make changes to that exchange in particular?

appreciate it, this is exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping for.

I see your point it is a bit "on the nose" and can be refined, if you notice any other out of character or lore-breaking changes please do let me know.

[velinais]

Hey! Just a heads-up on a quick bug I ran into:

It looks like the dialogue line relationsh_relationshipmar_00074de2_3 (We bind wife to husband, as Mara wills. The temple's oldest duty.)isn't playing in-game. I took a look at the bsa and it seems the audio file wasn't converted from .wav to .fuz/.lip format, so the game is skipping the audio line.

 

 

 

[t0r4k]

This mod looks interesting, shame it requires USSEP. It's too much pain to make it run on vr.

[d0uble007]

4 hours ago, t0r4k said:

This mod looks interesting, shame it requires USSEP. It's too much pain to make it run on vr.

That man has done irreparable damage to skyrim modding

[Ondine.]

On 7/15/2026 at 12:02 PM, velinais said:

Hey! Just a heads-up on a quick bug I ran into:

It looks like the dialogue line relationsh_relationshipmar_00074de2_3 (We bind wife to husband, as Mara wills. The temple's oldest duty.)isn't playing in-game. I took a look at the bsa and it seems the audio file wasn't converted from .wav to .fuz/.lip format, so the game is skipping the audio line.

 

 

 

Thanks, will make sure this is cleaned up on next update

 

 

14 hours ago, t0r4k said:

This mod looks interesting, shame it requires USSEP. It's too much pain to make it run on vr.

shame how some folks ask for things passive aggressively, making me really want to not do it 😆 That said, I'm generally open to looking into removing the requirement USSEP if folks ask.

[t0r4k]

14 hours ago, Ondine. said:

Thanks, will make sure this is cleaned up on next update

 

 

shame how some folks ask for things passive aggressively, making me really want to not do it 😆 That said, I'm generally open to looking into removing the requirement USSEP if folks ask.

It's ok if you don't want to, just wanted to let you know that most vr setups will be incompatible. Sorry if I sounded passive aggressive 😔

[Vyefl]

Scorn DV needs DV esp but I have DV AIO version. Is it possible to make it compatible?

[lhlongsong]

On 7/13/2026 at 2:39 AM, randompersons123 said:

 

Just deleted the solutions patch and it fixed it for me, might be something wrong with that one (I also have confabulations which has a SL solutions patch, might be part of the issue as well)

I had the same issue, Solutions patch causes infinite loading. Haven't had any crashes yet after introducing this mod and its patches yet so a major win imho.  I'm using a heavily modified Nolvus 6 Awakening. 

modlist.txt

[Ondine.]

3 hours ago, lhlongsong said:

I had the same issue, Solutions patch causes infinite loading. Haven't had any crashes yet after introducing this mod and its patches yet so a major win imho.  I'm using a heavily modified Nolvus 6 Awakening. 

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I still havent been able to recreate this. would you mind sharing your `loadorder.txt` file? it will be in your MO2 profiles folder. also is the infinite loading screen for game startup, or when loading a save?