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The Ice Blade Of The Monarch by FrankFamily
Skyrim » Weapons
Added: 10/03/2015 - 11:58PM
Updated: 14/12/2015 - 09:51PM
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Last updated at 21:51, 14 Dec 2015 Uploaded at 23:58, 10 Mar 2015

As all my mods, it's FREE and NEXUS-EXCLUSIVE, if you see it on Steam it's stolen.

----The Ice Blade Of The Monarch----

"The Ice Blade of the Monarch is truly one of Tamriel's most prized artifacts. Legend has it that the Evil Archmage Almion Celmo enchanted the claymore of a great warrior with the soul of a Frost Monarch, a stronger form of the more common Frost Atronach. The warrior, Thurgnarr Assi, was to play a part in the assassination of a great king in a far off land, and become the new leader. The assassination failed and the Archmage was imprisoned. The Ice Blade freezes all who feel its blade. The Blade circulates from owner to owner, never settling in one place for long. —Yagrum Bagarn, Tamrielic Lore"

by FrankFamily


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DESCRIPTION
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From morrowind, straight to skyrim comes the coolest and coldest artifact ever created, featuring:

  • Lorefriendly mini-quest to get the Ice Blade. Starts automatically when the mod is loaded and should give enough clues to locate the artifact, including a tresure map, dead adventurers and argonian blood drinking!! It's not a very hard quest, but it may prove quite a challenge for Frostfall's users...
  • Users that have trouble finding it can download a spoiler text file or watch third video (hodilton's) which from minute 1 includes a walkthrough as of version 1.0, current version walktrough is pretty much the same except that you find the map inside a satchel (container, so no havok interaction and no risk of it flying away or clipping with stuff, much safer) along with a custom and very cool potion that helps getting to the blade for those that use frostfall, or find themselves in the need of waterbreathing.
  • Lore-friendly load screen.

  • HD carefully made textures available at 4k, 2k and 1k resolutions.
  • High quality model including a very detailed handle and custom scabbard.
  • Properly baked normal maps from sculpted highpoly model (zbrush if anyone wonders)

  • In the quest you get the greatsword version of it, called "Great Ice Blade of the Monarch", but you can change it to one handed at a forge (Steel category) or viceversa for free. Note that it will remove tempering and reset charge so i recommend using those recipes only once to get the version that you want (2h or 1h).
  • Temperable with quicksilver ingots.
  • Not overpowered but still strong as it's meant to be. Stats are basically a little bit higher than daedric greatsword/sword.

  • Lorefriendly, complex, scripted and very unique enchantment:
             > Strong frost damage + slow target
             > 10% chance to freeze 10 seconds, meaning paralysis and constant damage as long as they remain frozen.
             > Lesser power "Release The Monarch" only available while the Ice Blade is equipped.
                    - Summons an Frost Monarch, stronger version of a frost atronach with custom model.
                    - Lasts 5 minutes.
                    - The summoning cost is a decent amount of the Ice Blade's enchantment charges.

  • Dual Sheath Redux (or similar mods) meshes included out of the box.
  • Now glow optional available.
  • Long handle, Hand-And-A-Half patch available.

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INSTALLATION
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IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT UPGRADING FROM PREVIOUS VERSION TO V1.3 (NOT FOLLOWING MAY LEAD TO BUGS)
  • Uninstall previous versions.
  • Check that all files are deleted: (you can trust NMM and skip this step, but only if you installed everything with NMM)
        -data/IceBladeOfTheMonarch.bsa
        -data/IceBladeOfTheMonarch.esp
        -data/textures/FFIceBlade
        -data/meshes/FFIceBlade
        -data/scripts/"All starting with FFIceBlade"
  • Load your savegames and save again. (hopefully will remove scripts, as far as i know, if the object holding the script is removed so does the script)
  • Install new version.

IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING BUGS, PLEASE, FOLLOW ABOVE PROCEDURE.
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INSTALL ORDER:
1º/ Main file
2º/ Updates
3º/ Optionals, such as translations.

INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS:

Choose the file you want: 4k, 2k or 1k and install it.

I recommed using NMM, but you can do it manually, simply download the version of your choice and drop in "Data" folder the two files inside the compressed archive:

>IceBladeOfTheMonarch.esp
>IceBladeOfTheMonarch.bsa
The two must remain together and should not be renamed.

After the main file, install updates, then you can install the patches you want. For updates and optionals, remember to tell NMM or other mod managers to install the file normally, on top of what you have (1.3 main file) so it wont remove the 1.3 and put the patch which would lead to invisible stuff.

To uninstall, first unequip the ice blade, save and uninstall, just to be on the safe side.
Do it with NMM or, if you choosed to install it manually, delete the files installed.
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VIDEOS
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Videos by FeuerTin, Hyo (this two also show how the enchantment works, summoning, etc), hodilton (third one, includes walktrough of the quest as of version 1.0, pretty much the same, read description above for details.), BDMods and Nozi87.
Thank you so much for the videos, really helpful :)



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COMPATIBILITY
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Compatible with anything as long as the don't try to add something on the same spot, please report any incompatibility of this kind, maybe i can find a better place to put it.
Note that mods that change vanilla chillrend enchantment shaders and enchant art files will modify Ice Blade's enchantment appearance to some degree. If it causes any trouble i can make mine use unique copies of those, so they don't get modified by other mods.
Compatibility patches for overhauls and such would have to be made by those who use them.

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CREDITS
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Vicn Creature Resources by Vicn for frost monarch mesh (called frost lord in his resource)

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CHANGELOG
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v1.1:
- Reduced glow, helps with some enb configs.
- Tweaked quest, now it's easier to follow and includes some help for frostfall users.
v1.2:
- Adjusted propotions of one handed version.
- Further adjusted glow.
- Included update 1 into bsa to reduce Data files cluttering. Note that one handed version still remains as loose files.
v1.3:
- Inluded one handed sword in the main file, adding the posibility to change form 1h to 2h and viceversa at a forge.
- Everything packed into the bsa. (READ INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS FOR UPDATING TO 1.3)
- New glow shader.
- Adjusted one handed stats.

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FINAL WORDS
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I really appreciate positive or negative-constructive comments, user screenshots (no verification needed) and videos, thanks in advance and hope you like it.
Stay tunned for more mods comming in the future.