Oblivion

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This mod adds a race called „tree elves“ to the game. They do have wooden skin, and mostly green hair, but the color can range between red, orange, yellow or a bluish green. Their eyes are blue or green with coloured stains, but can also vary. Tree elves are very strong and intelligent. Also, they do have good endurance, but less speed. They ar

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This mod adds a race called „tree elves“ to the game.
They do have wooden skin, and mostly green hair, but the color can range between red, orange, yellow or a bluish green. Their eyes are blue or green with coloured stains, but can also vary.
Tree elves are very strong and intelligent. Also, they do have good endurance, but less speed. They are totally weak against fire and frost, but do have a 25 percent resistance to any type of magic as well as a little resistance to normal weapons because of their wodden skin.

Also it adds the fire elves. Their skin does have the color of pure fire, as well as their hair. Their eyes look like glowing pieces of coal. Fire elves are totally immune to fire, and in addition they are strong magicians, especially for fire magic. Physically they aren’t really strong, and they don’t even have the highest vitality, but intelligence and willpower make them good mages. For their nature water is their biggest enemy – it is able to kill them, and rainy weather forces them to hide their skin under thick cloaks, because every single drop ‘burns’ their skin. Crossing a river would be an impossibility, unless they can’t walk over water or there’s no bridge. And believe me, any water WILL kill you within secounds! In addition they do have a weakness against frost.

Stats:
Tree Elf: (Specials: magic resistance 25%, weakness fire 100%, weakness frost 100%, resist magic 25%, resist normal weapon 25%)

STR 60
INT 50
WIL 40
AGI 40
SPD 40
END 50
LUC 40
PER 30

Fire Elf: (Specials: Immunity to fire, weakness frost 100%, lesser fireball and flaming touch, weakness Water while swimming and during rain they receive high damage!)

STR 30
INT 60
WIL 50
AGI 40
SPD 50
END 30
LUC 40
PER 50

Story (Dryads / Tree Elves)
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Once, on a nice day a young magician went out to test his new obtained abilities. He has learned to give human life to dead things, such as dolls or even brooms to work for him. Although his master has warned him to use this ability well he started to play around with it. He never listened to the words of the wise, and so it came, that he lost his way in a dark but beautiful forest. Hours and hours he went around, searching for the way out, but it seemed that there was none.
At dawn he made some fire, thinking of spending the night in this forest, with all its wolves and deer, and he decided that he would have to be home soon. But he didn’t know how – until this idea came to his mind. Who would know this forest better, than one of the trees? They spent all their lives in here, so they should know so much more. Off course he could not ask a tree for the way, but he could give life to one of them!
With this thought he stood up to look for an old and proud tree whom he could cast his spell on. He didn’t have to search for long until he found one. It was huge and healthy with wonderful green leaves. This should be the one, he said to himself before preparing his spell.
Only a few minutes later branches converted to arms, the trunk divided itself into legs and a head, and leaves became the hair of this strange creature. In front of him stood a human looking tree, all naked and with green hair! He didn’t really believe what his eyes were seeing. At least he had a hope that his spell would work, but now that it really did, it was hard to realize. It was amazing, but at the same time frightening. The young magician totally forgot what he came for, he turned around quickly to just run away. Though he never went far, a pack of wolves got him, and people who heard about this legend say, it was the will of the living tree that finally killed him. But nobody actually believed in this story, until today. This tree-like creature was left in its forest, and no one ever saw it. For a long time this has been a story for masters to tell their little mage students, just to teach them to use their power well and not for their own goods.

Story (Fire Elves)
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The fire elves have once been a proud elven tribe of a foreign world. They lived peacefully with all the other tribes in a world that had been destroyed by war. They took good care of what was left of their forest, and had their own laws. One of them said, that all magic was forbidden due to the damage it was able to cause. Every tribe followed these laws, except those who later became the fire elves. Secretly they studied the arcane power, and some got really obsessed by it. Nobody seemed to discover that fact, and so they grew stronger and stronger.
But one day one of them committed a terrible fault. When practicing the forbidden magic this one didn’t care well, and so a fire ball lighted up the dry underwoods, and no matter how hard they all tried, almost the whole forest burned down.
Now it was clear that this tribe studied the forbidden power and even used it, so they had to carry their responsibilities, and the old and wise of each tribe called them to court. There was no way that they could claim their innocence – everyone knew that they would be doomed.
So it came that the court spoke out the hardest sentence they knew for those not following the laws, and in addition, they should feel what they did to their precious wood. The old and wise that still knew the forbidden magic should take care of them.
And this is what the judges decided: All dependants of the guilty tribe will be banished from this world to another, and in addition they will receive a curse, that will be unbreakable until their death. This curse will be transmitted to their children and grandchildren until their fault is warn out, but they will never have a chance to return to their native land…

And so it happened. Every elf of the respective tribe got cursed, and then banished. From this day on their skin should have the color of fire, just like their hair, a strong heat would go out of their skin, so that it is hard for non fire elves to stay near them, but that won’t do damage to anyone. In addition they would learn to fear things they once loved. Water and rain should become their biggest enemies. It burns their skin just like fire would have done before. That was for all those who died during the fire. The only thing the old and wise left with them was their magic power. Maybe it would help them in their new world. And the world they appeared in was Tamriel.

Installation:
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Copy the files contained in the data folder of the rar archive to your program files/Bethesda softworks/oblivion/data directory. If you’re asked to overwrite files, click ‘yes’ – this mod won’t overwrite any content anyway, all used files have not been edited, except own content, which has new names.
Once you start your game mark ‘tree elf.esp’ in your mod list. (If you use OBMM it doesn’t matter where this mod is in the loading order, it will work anyway)
Enjoy!

Requirements:
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In order to run this mod you will either need Ren’s bautypack or Cosmetic Compilation v1.22. In addition you will need Babe’s hair mod.
(This mod is compatible with robert's male body replacer, as well as Exnem's female eyecandy mod - I dunno if it works with other nude mods, you'll have to try it out yourself!)

Known issues or bugs:
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As this races will be recognized as a darkelf by the game there should be none even at starting a new game. But feedback would be nice as I am too lazy to test it myself (The quickstart mod is a good alternative if you don’t want to do the tutorial over and over again.)

As for the new 2.0 final version, there should be NO problem with AWS, natural weather and sunlit interiors. I don't know about natural interiors.
To make all features work properly with existing fire elves (both, normal and burning version) it may be needed to open the console, type in "showracemenu", then switch to another race, afterwards back to fire elf, (haircolor and eye color will mess up but everysthing else will stay like you created it before) and then (the console MUST BE LEFT OPEN! Otherwise you'll loose stats) save the game and right after load it again and you'll be done. Enjoy your new abillity or better... weakness. :)

Credits:
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Ren for his textures and meshes
Renzeekin for some hair textures and meshes
miss_onatopp for 2 of her eyetextures (lime and seagreen)
Raznod for the wood textures of his mannequin mod
opaj and Sheepherder for the needed script and help with it.

Changelog:
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v1.1 - added an optional ESP file for those of you who like their fire elf burning. You can see the effect on the screenshot. It's just the one fire atronarchs use.
Please note: Use only ONE esp file - both have the same content, but in the alternative one the fire elf shows this fire effect.
If you already started a savegame with the original ESP you will have to rename the alternativ ESP exactly like the original - otherwise your game will crash at loading a savegame!
Almost forgot: The flame effect will only appear on a new created character - if you already have a fire elf you will have to use the console to switch race once and then switch back and save your game. I don't know why that is, but you should know that. ;)

v2.0 FInal:
Changed the race's specials a bit:
Dryads (tree elves) do now have a resistance to normal weapons for their skin of wood. I removed their healing spell for that. Also, they do have a total weakness to frost.
Fire elves: I was finally able to add their water weakness, they now will receive high damage when swimming through water or while walking around outside while it is raining. Water and rain will now kill you within secounds. Remember, you're a creature made of fire. ;)
Same stuff has been added to the burning version of the fire elves.
IMPORTANT: Read the bug section for your own good!

For all of you who are sick of beeing killed by rain all the time or who just don't want to teleport back just because it is raining, open the console if it starts to rain and type in: fw 0038eee, or: fw 0038eee 1.
First code will only change the weather to clear until the game engine changes the weather itself again, secound command will lock the weather to clear instantly - at leas until you fast travel to any place from your current location. But keep in mind that this is CHEATING! ;) This weakness is not just for fun, it's for reality! Maybe a mark & recall spell that brings you home quickly would be an alternative. ^^Y

v2.1 (Burning Fire Elf only!)
Added another script effect that will turn out the flame effect while swimming or walking through rain. This is mostly for reality, but in addition you will have an indicator that tells you that you receive damage the same time. ;)
(This time I could do the script on my own - I'm learning well!)
- Added another downloadlink for the Phoenix equipment, it looks really nice on fire elves. ^.^
All credits go to the creator, so don't forget to vote for it if you download it. ;)