.....:: Aryll Stark ::.....

I've always been fond of the nords in Oblivion. Maybe because going around bashing things can be a great stress reliever and a lot of fun. Unfortunately, it took alot of searching and experimenting to find the perfect nordic lady-knight; I wanted her to be beautiful, but stern, and a combination like that is harder than it sounds to pull off.

So, after hour upon frustrating hour, I turned to one of the masters; Veritas_Secreto. I was plowing through the female nord NPCs in his wonderful TNR - The Nords plugin (if you aren't using TNR, run don't walk to his personal website and do yourself a favor: http://www.stephanewuttunee.net/tnr_home.html ) when I happened upon the face that would become Aryll. Actually, the face that -is- Aryll, since I was using only vanilla face textures at the time and any tweaking on my part resulted in blotchiness. Maybe it was fate, because her face and the things I considered to be imperfections at the time grew on me. She's been with me now through three different iterations, and has become one of my all-time favorite characters. As for her TNR NPC twin, I can't remember her name, nor have I ever bumped into her in my hours of playing since.

Included is the .off file of Aryll's face, so you will need Oblivion Face Exchange Lite to use it. ((UPDATE: I've included my save of Aryll for those with WryeBash to extract her face from. I wouldn't recommend trying to play the save, since I run hundreds of mods and at least a few you aren't, leading to crashes!)) Technically Ren's hairs are also needed, but if you can apply a face in face exchange, I'm hoping you can also change to vanilla hairs if need be. (But really, who doesn't have Ren's amazing hairs by now?)

For the curious, Aryll in my screen shots is using Natural faces with Danis on top, and Danis' eye replacements for those amazing green eyes. The one screenshot marked 'vanilla' shows Aryll with completely vanilla face textures, but obviously her eyes and hair are not stock Oblivion stuff. Sorry for any confusion.

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Required:
- Oblivion Face Exchange Lite:
(( http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=7808 ))
OR
- another tool such as Wrye Bash for extracting her face from the included savegame
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Recommended:
- Maboroshi Daikon's Natural Faces
(( http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1965 ))
- Danis' Beauty Patch for Natural Faces:
(( http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6631 ))
- Danis' Eye Replacements
(( http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5732 ))
- Ren's Hairs, whether it be in Cosmetic Comp, Beautiful People... whatever you prefer
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Credits:
- Veritas_Secreto for TNR and Aryll :-)
- Mikko Puonti for face exchange lite