It would be nice to know her race and skill stats in more detail. In my playthrus I like to pair my followers up with my player race and skill-wise so that they compliment each other in combat. For example, if my character is a heavy-armoured sword and board or 2H user, then my two followers will be a mage and the other an archer; and I play a mage character instead, then I have two followers, one being heavey-armoured 2h or sword and board and an archer. My mage followers are always Breton, Imperial, or High Elf, and my heavy-armoured combat followers are Nords and Orcs and redguards, and my archers are in dark elf and wood elf. I don't know why I have it this way, but I like it and won't play it any otherway. The reason why I ask is because I was unsure of what she is since the names you chose for her and her mother sounded like they are redguards.
Hi RosieCheeks, thank you for commenting! Yeah she is a Nord. Her level should scale like other NPC's based on player level. I'll look at tweaking the description to include this info. Good point about names, I need to get more into on the lore of TES to get a better feel for that. Shaleigh was an adaptation of one of the many characters I often played in Skyrim, and I didn't consider as much if the name fit the Nord lore. I understand about how you like to have complementary followers, I often do same
@deviousMirth, a beautiful and very capable follower. Been having a great time with the two "lady" followers I'm using on this run through. Shaleigh can be a wee bit impulsive at times though. Keep up the good work, I agree with the other comments about giving her the voice treatment. Could be a winner. I've taken the liberty of uploading a couple of images for your perusal. A well deserved endorsement given.
It was a minor update, adding a new UNP body variant and armor tweaks to use a steel ingot & advanced armor perk for tempering for immersion sake (for folks who use mods to access NPC outfits). Some of the characters I want to add related to the lore story use UNP, so I migrated Shaleigh while I was at it.
Sweet! I use custom body meshes/textures but know how to manually replace those on my end myself. Not hard once one practices a bit. It'd be nice to have Shaleigh custom-voiced. Anduniel, author of the fantastic Anna NPCS 2_0 mod here on Nexus would make for a great voice actor. I strongly recommend her & her team. Peace.
She is pretty and handy to have in a fight. My only quibble would be that her nice-looking armor is iron instead of steel. I see in your credits that there is a steel retexturing mod of her armor, so I should check that out. It was good to place her at the Solitude temple, since other follower mods tend to place their NPC at the usual crowded places.Thank you for sharing your creation with us! Endorsed!
Thank you You are right .. it would seem to make more sense if her armor counted as steel and needed steel ingots. I left the armor stats the same as they were from the original mod, but this is something I can improve without too much trouble.
How's the expanded content such as a quest based upon the wonderful lore you've given in your background description concerning Shaleigh's father & such? Was hoping to see this expanded upon at some point. Peace!
So, she had cold feet ... how strange! Are you playing an Argonian? ;-)
Did you fast travel back to the Temple? It's a long walk back from Riften to Solitude, so my guess is she was still on her way back.
Edited- Trying this out again, I see it took her a good 24 hours or so to make it back. I was able to get her reference id from the console, 1d00434b in my case, and use the console command "player.moveto 1d00434b" to see her on her way at a couple of points. I suggest just come back to the temple after some time has passed or, if in doubt, try the player.moveto trick (great way to find lost horses too btw ).
yes that's exactly what happened! she showed up after I did a 'wait' in the Temple of the Divines after 24 hours.. she's a great char and great fighter.. sexy to boot .. is there anyway to get her to move to my owned properties? I get a message saying 'you are now living with your spouse' and we apparently live in the Temple.
I'm a female Breton, I called my char 'Kik~'a'~z' and I want to name my Flame Atronach 'Let's Rock!' but just looking for the mod for that .. I decided she was vampire hunter..before I knew what Dawnguard was haha
thanks for that tip on the horses too..didn't know that.
She has the default behavior for a married spouse, no custom scripts. You should be able to talk to her afterward and have a dialogue option like "I'd like us to move someplace else" which allows you to specify another property. You'll have to give her a bit of time to travel to the new property of course.
If it's a custom player home from a mod, you'd probably need an NPC mod to make it happen. EFF allows for that (I think).
There are quite a number of standard followers around for the Dragonborn. They are usually much the same: Lydia clones, wooden glossy girls, objects that kind of get in your way in fights. But Shaleigh is different. She looks drop-dead gorgeous and I was also very pleased to find her routine dialogue seemed a bit different to standard followers (not sure how but there we go). I took to her straight away and she's stuck with me since. DeviousMirth, Shaleigh is an excellent companion and I hope you decide to take her forward into the realms of real voiced companions. Thanks for your hard work on this! I really, really like her as a companion. Endorsed!
Very nice to know Shaleigh is out there helping to battle dragons and whatever else you face with the Dragonborn. I enjoyed building her as stand alone (and re-building her few times before she was just right). Happy to hear you've enjoyed your adventures with her so far. Thank you for your post and endorsement!
Endorsed! Such a lovely follower most certainly deserves my endorsement as well as a long questline at some point deviousMirth. Hopefully you'll have the time to complete such an undertaking at some point in the future. Peace!
Good followers are getting harder to find these days, and after a minor glitch I've re-acquired Shaleigh. The "minor glitch" was two recent potential followers were classed "nevernude" which I consider ridiculous when so much excellent modding effort has gone into making the female form a work of art. OK, sometimes way over the top. So I re-learned the meshes & textures change, and opted for the good 'ol standard CBBE.
Shaleigh scales well with huge combat skills, and has finely crafted facial features. Didn't take long for her to dump the custom armour and put on the regulation enchanted Trielek. So, with a few more bits, she's ready for the road - and should be able to tackle whatever.
Have high hopes for her, and will endorse in due course. This mod deserves attention.
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Keep up the good work, I agree with the other comments about giving her the voice treatment. Could be a winner.
I've taken the liberty of uploading a couple of images for your perusal.
A well deserved endorsement given.
BIG thanks!
Edit 29/06/2014:
umm
We got married, the ceremony ended, she walked out and...gone.
I checked the Temple of the Divines and both my properties then all of Riften..I'm stumped ..plus shocked haha
I'll go back in and try again.
So, she had cold feet ... how strange! Are you playing an Argonian? ;-)
Did you fast travel back to the Temple? It's a long walk back from Riften to Solitude, so my guess is she was still on her way back.
Edited-
Trying this out again, I see it took her a good 24 hours or so to make it back. I was able to get her reference id from the console, 1d00434b in my case, and use the console command "player.moveto 1d00434b" to see her on her way at a couple of points. I suggest just come back to the temple after some time has passed or, if in doubt, try the player.moveto trick (great way to find lost horses too btw
yes that's exactly what happened! she showed up after I did a 'wait' in the Temple of the Divines after 24 hours.. she's a great char and great fighter.. sexy to boot
I'm a female Breton, I called my char 'Kik~'a'~z' and I want to name my Flame Atronach 'Let's Rock!' but just looking for the mod for that
thanks for that tip on the horses too..didn't know that.
If it's a custom player home from a mod, you'd probably need an NPC mod to make it happen. EFF allows for that (I think).
Shaleigh scales well with huge combat skills, and has finely crafted facial features. Didn't take long for her to dump the custom armour and put on the regulation enchanted Trielek. So, with a few more bits, she's ready for the road - and should be able to tackle whatever.
Have high hopes for her, and will endorse in due course. This mod deserves attention.
Good work.