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Caius is a rather unique and friendly companion that will follow you to oblivion and back. But this is no ordinary fox . . . he has a rather . . . "Unique" grasp in the arcane arts.

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Caius - The Foolhardy Fox
Created By:theBreadThief




Sadly, due to some unfortunate events, full dialogue for Caius has been delayed (possibly not happening), and will not be added until further notice. Sorry for the inconvenience/disappointment.


Background Story
Caius is just a small fox that found his home in the Alchemists shack (on the outskirts of the Rift, close to the boarder of the mountains were Haemar's Shame is) where he was taken as a pet by the person that lives there; Dylus. All you have to do to claim Caius is kill Dylus! (Make sure to take the rings from his body)


Description
Now, you may be thinking, "what the F*** is a small, scrawny fox going to do to protect me in combat?" Well, first of all, never under-estimate the power of small creatures. Second, this is no ordinary fox. As you play the game, (and by all means PLEASE read the journal! It kinda explains some things) you will notice that this fox has a rather unique ability to master arcane ability in the school of destruction AND he also has the ability to shout! (he can currently only use fire breath, frost breath, and unrelenting force HOWEVER there is not really a sound when he shouts . . . probably because foxes don't speak *LOGIC*) Anyway, Caius not only does those things, but his previous master created rings for him to use. These rings give Caius the ability to have either a Frost, Fire, or lighting cloak whilst he is in combat. All you have to do is give Caius the ring you want him to wear, and he will equip it automatically. Now you may notice that his master gave Caius a collar that makes him appear black and shadowy (mainly for the rogue-type players like myself). I thought that this gives him a sort of unique appearance and cool personality, but if you do not like this (which I am sure some of you won't) simply remove the collar from his inventory and *poof* - Normal fox skin! Caius automatically has this collar equipped "Dylus" located on the bed in Alchemists Shack (screenshots above). If you tell Caius to go home, he will go back to his little doghouse that his previous master built for him. The journal that kind of explains the full back story on Dylus replaces the previous journal called "Alchemist's Journal". If you would like to have this journal, type in the command "player.additem 000CE5BD 1" without the quotation marks via console commands. If you don't know how to access console commands, simply hit the tilda key located right next to the "1" key on your keyboard. Some people also call it the "squiggly-line" key. If you have no clue what I am talking about, then we are going to have issues here. I think I've covered everything, I will from time to time update this if I realized I missed something.



Bugs/Known Glitches
-DO NOT give Caius a sheild of any type! Caius will automatically equip it, and for whatever reason will always be "blocking" even thought it doesn't seem like it. This in turn prevents Caius from attacking NPC's at all, and there is no fun in a follower that doesn't attack people.

-If you can't get Caius to follow you:
(I had this problem myself and it seemed to work when I figured out how to fix it myself)
 type in the following commands w/out the quotes:

"set playerfollowercount to 0"
"set playeranimalcount to 0"


MAKE SURE THAT IF YOU HAVE UFO OR ANY MOD THAT CHANGES THE WAY FOLLOWERS WORKS, YOU PLACE IT AFTER CaiusTheFox.esp IN YOUR MOD LOAD ORDER, OTHERWISE CAIUS WILL DISMISS HIMSELF WHENEVER YOU SNEAK.
LIKE THIS:


CaiusTheFox.esp
UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul.esp

-The only other conflict it could be is another mod that affects the gameplay with followers and/or changes the properties of anything near Alchemist's shack.



Mod Conflicts
-My home is Your home mod - While the mod works perfectly along side with Caius, it seems that Caius is unable to set his home location where you tell him to. Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do about this :/
-Tested with UFO and have seen no conflicts, in fact, it is highly recommended that you use this mod located HERE
-Please report any bugs you may notice :)




Requirements
-Skyrim (obviously)
-Latest Update, whatever that may be
(it may work with previous updates, but I have not tested it.)




CREDITS

-DarkFox127 (Thank you for your most helpful tutorials on scripting the animal follower and for actually teaching me how to make it a follower! Very skilled modder)
-Stroti/Tamira (For Caius' little skeever chewtoy) (Not entirely sure if it was them that made it, but correct me if I am wrong in the comments)
-Alex [My best friend that came up with the name for the fox :)]

I think that's it... :)

Feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions or you can PM me and I will get to your request as soon as I can! Also, don't forget to endorse if you enjoyed the mod! :)