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The Last Dragonborn - Chapter 21 - The Silver Gambit

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  1. wadelycan
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    If anyone noticed in the interior of Jorrvaskr I was playing around with textures and found that the stonewall texture from Renthal311's great RHDS mod works extremely well as a stone floor texture as well. I may need to see how Dragonsreach looks with it next.
  2. Liadys
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    The first part was absolutely adorable, with Signar, Ysolda and Lucia ! Oh the name for the dog..that was just priceless ! Oh silly Signar not having any sweetrolls for Lucia tsk tsk ! Well I'm quite looking forward on how things will develop between those two .

    That imperial man smelled fishy from the get go and it wasn't too long before that was proven right. Thalmor getting the Silver Hand to attack the companions and force them to show their beast nature in front of the entire city..but also destroying their homes. I feel bad for them and I also understand their anger about being banished from Whiterun after losing their home and doing so much for the city.

    Awesome work. Sorry for being so slow..School started for me..so already tons of homeworks haha ! I'll do my best to catch up though
    1. wadelycan
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      When was the last time I went to school? Let's see.....2002, god I'm getting old

      A warriors lifestyle can hardly consist of sweetrolls, unless he's going for the large bellied berzerker type. Belethor had to sell his shop and is gone, but his spirit remains

      The Thalmor certainly won this day, and got their own type of revenge for what happened at Northwatch Keep, even though it was really only an amusement for Shalanna. The inner circle survived, so the Companions still have a chance to make a comeback, but only time will tell
  3. User_6005213
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    I stayed sticked on the first shot of description, watching that shot of Whiterun with the mist... This shot could come from a movie, it's so real ! One of the best shot of this place ! Fantastic work, Wade !
    1. wadelycan
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      Thank you very much!

      The credit for that shot goes to True Storms, I didn't have to do too much.

  4. RatherWindy
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    That was really awesome wade,..the calm and peacefull opening of this story building up to the flaming frenzy of the companions hall,. Very Well done , and the images you made of the whole process are wonderfully made,.. Big compliment for those,...
    It's an interesting scheme that is going on here,.. With the role of the thalmor as vicious as ever,.. Very Nice set and story,.. Enjoyed it a lot,...
    1. wadelycan
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      Thanks again for checking out the latest chapter

      These images were among the most fun I have tried to make, plus I came across a gem of a mod called SSAssist which helps a lot with the lighting. The Thalmor are vicious, especially the Puppet Master who got her revenge.

    2. RatherWindy
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      I'm using that mod too,.. it's a great help indeed,..
  5. aok
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    This was a tough one, as the companions are some of my favorite characters. Glad to see not many died. Especially Kodlak.
    So typical of the people to forget so quickly all the years of help and protection that they had given them. Always fearing anything different.
    Amazing work as always my friend.
    1. wadelycan
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      The Companions are a fairly universal favorite, and I like many of them as well. We will see if they can figure out what to do, and whether or not the Thalmor get found out.

      Fear does crazy things to people, especially when some of that was unnatural, as the remaining Companions could tell. On the bright side, with the entire inner circle alive still there could be opportunity to rebuild.

      Thanks for checking out the latest chapter
  6. PTC001
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    I am astonished by the amount of work you have put into this set Wade, the staging is absolutely remarkable. So is the story, it starts as peaceful as it can be, with nice intentions towards an orphan, flirty moments, delicious times...and when everyone's guard is down, horror of war strikes.

    The images are perfect, the use of the fire makes the scene viewable and avoid what could have been too dark otherwise.

    I will have to dig in in your last posts to comprehend more of few of the protagonists, both spies and Shalanna...alas I need to go to work now first

    All thumbs up Wade, formidable work!!
    1. wadelycan
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      Thanks for checking this out

      It was an interesting contrast of scenes to start out peacefully and end on that note. Usually I will use a simple torch and hide it to get some light in these dark places but the Helgen burning fire meshes worked really well because they have the added blowing fire effect.

      The Archives link on top has the chapters in order and a short summary of each in case there is not any time to read them (it's pretty long now).

      Thanks again, glad you enjoyed it
  7. PatrickTheDM
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    Wow, amazing work in total, the story and especially all the time to create the images!
    1. wadelycan
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      Thanks! I'm getting better after poking at the CK and Nifskope a bit more
  8. wolfgrimdark
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    Awesome work Wade, you are our premier story teller these days. Reminds me of the work GreenBMS used to do for her shots. So much work in the CK and setting up scenes - really cool and incredible shots knowing what goes into those things.

    Excellent story - I really did not know what to expect from the main shot that I saw earlier on Flickr. A nasty plan by Shalanna and she has effectively taken them out of commission. I wonder why she wants them alive though or perhaps she felt if she tried to kill them it would be less effective or even too risky. Regardless she has certainly weakened and disrupted Whiterun. A dangerous opponent to be sure.

    In opposition to the horror of the attack and loss of the companions home there was a rather sweet moment with Ysolda, Lucia, and Signar that I very much enjoyed. A very peaceful scene and you described and wrote it very well. Great name for the dog as well.
    1. wadelycan
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      I appreciate the compliment! Does this person still exist on Nexus or are they gone completely? It is good that quite a few storytellers still remain around and working on stuff even though many other stories came to an end, as they all do eventually. Setting up some of these images is really the most fun I have while doing this.

      Shalanna wanted a certain kind of revenge, and their deaths were not enough. The fact that they were exposed and banished and have to live with it and figure out what happened is what is satisfying to her. I would say that if she really wanted them dead then her minion would have sent the second wave of attackers in rather than betray them (although a bunch of dead Silver Hand outside will bring more questions).

      However, this does leave the entire inner circle alive and angry. I anticipate a certain Daedric Prince will be annoyed as well.

      Signar has earned a bit of good fortune and making a scene like that was a bit of a challenge since I haven't done anything of that nature. Yeah, Belethor needs to be remembered
  9. Culuf
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    Yes! I finally get to see the goings on of Jorrvaskr before I always arrive too late
    Aww, Lucia's so cute! I really miss using that overhaul
    1. wadelycan
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      Yeah, the Dragonborn is either late to the party or the party will wait forever for them to show up.

      That mod does do a great job with the kids, especially with Braithe so that she doesn't look like Saffir cheated on Amren with one of the local Nords

      Why don't you use it anymore??
    2. Culuf
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      Oh, because I tried "­Dolls" when I reinstalled Skyrim :­)
      It's cute but.. very weird looking
    3. wadelycan
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      It does have an anime style to it, that's for sure.
  10. Pikalchu
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    Great shots & story Wade, that main image is impressive.
    1. wadelycan
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      Thank you very much! I was glad to get that image after figuring out some things in Nifskope
  11. FastestDogInTheDistrict
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    The opening werewolf pic caught my eye, & then I took a look at the rest. I am curious - your werewolves seem a lot larger than what I normally see in my game, and I use Heart of the Beast/Moonlight Tales (*seeing the skins here prompted me to check the page - it seems there's been new skins added recently), but proportionally my werewolves are still basically "Vanilla Slim". Are you using custom meshes of some kind?

    *EDIT: The "essentials" mod maybe?
    1. wadelycan
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      Thanks for checking it out. Yes, it is the essentials mod from Moonlight Tales. It has several of the meshes and textures from other mods in it so that's where I got the different sizes of werewolf as well as the different colors. I'm not really sure how the mod itself works, as in whether or not the MCM only applies to your character or if it works on others.

      I created several new werewolf forms in the CK and just applied different textures/meshes to each of them.
    2. FastestDogInTheDistrict
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      Much appreciated!