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Fully functional artifacts with new models and high quality textures (up to 4k) obtainable through a little adventure with puzzles and maps. Includes Bow of shadows (from morrowind) wich lets you become invisible whenever you sneak into a shadow; and The Gray Cowl of Nocturnal (from oblivion) wich conceals your identity; and The Gray Fox.
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----Artifacts Of Nocturnal----
"Night among strangers. Secrets in the dark. Nocturnal is here."―Nocturnal
"To steal from a god is most unwise."―Nocturnal
By FrankFamily
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DESCRIPTION
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From previous T.E.S games come two artifacts to turn your boring character into the most amazing thief of tamriel.
- Lore-friendly adventure to obtain both artifacts, including puzzles, maps and The Gray Fox.
- High quality models with HD textures available at 1k, 2k and 4k!
- Fully functional Gray Cowl (identity concealing) and Bow Of Shadows (lets you become invisible whenever you sneak in the shadows) with very optimized and compact scripts.
- Compatible with all races and genders. (Fits great on khajiit)
> The lore:
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The Gray Fox has been seen in skyrim and now it's your oportunity to find him and obtain the precious Gray Cowl, but he may be in the possession of something else...
>The Quest:
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To start the quest go to any of the major cities of skyrim (Whiterun, Windhelm, Markarth, Riften and Solitude), you will find a sign with a bounty note for The Gray Fox by the stables (outside of the city), pick it up and the quest will start.
From there is pretty straightforward, the note contains the clue for the next obstacle and where to find it, then you will find a map that will lead you to the next location.
During the quest you will obtain both artifacts wich are endgame in terms of damage so, to keep it fair, you will have to face a strong oponent (lvl 50) before getting them.
Slightly spoiler note: The place where you find The Gray Fox is property of The Gray Fox, so if you want to take stuff without needing to steal it you must be The Gray Fox so equip the cowl.
>The Gray Cowl Of Nocturnal:
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As in oblivion, equipping the cowl will make everyone else see you as The Gray Fox, so you will get a high bounty in every hold and bounty collectors may come looking for you. Note that the bounty of The Gray Fox and your bounty do not merge, but rather swap. Also note that Gray Fox's bounty cannot be simply paid, he is wanted for so many crimes that you can't stay in jail long enough.
Upon unequipping the cowl, you will become yourself again, recovering your old bounty (highest bounty and total lifetime bounty are also recovered). Due to it's magical properties, if you unequip the cowl in front of a guard you are fighting he will forget you are in fact The Gray Fox and won't keep fighting (unless, of course, you have a high bounty on that hold obtained when not being The Gray Fox).
So you can comit crimes and The Gray Fox and then unequip the cowl and be bountyless.
The Gray Cowl will also increase your carryweight by 200 points, sneak skill by 25 and detect nerby enemies and foes while sneaking (i've included the "while sneaking" condition on the detect life effect because it was a pain to have to unequip the cowl to get rid of the effect, but note than it's not instant, when you stop sneaking it will take a few seconds to disappear).
>The Bow Of Shadows:
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With the bow equipped whenever you are sneaking in the shadows you will become invisible and inaudible, note that both conditions have to be met at once so keep your distance with torches and such if you are being sneaky.
It also does a decent amount of poison damage to targets, so perfect for sneak kills.
Any action that would stop invisibility such as activating something, taking stuff, opening doors and attacking will break the bow's invisibility, to regain it the fastest action is to stop sneaking and sneak again so that it refreshes but it will refresh by itself if you get out of the shadow and into another.
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CHANGELOG
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>V1.1:
- Fix typo in Gray Cowl description.
- Fix 2k version mipmaping of the bow's textures
- More challenging Gray Fox.
- Fix not being able to sleep or wait in the cave.
- Added bow sights as an optional file for those that play without hud crosshair.
>V1.2
- Improved script to avoid being stuck with Gray Fox bounty in normal usage and to make sure guards will attack you if they should without needing to talk to them, they might need some time to realise who you are as the Gray Fox is not very known in Skyrim.
- Increased initial Gray Fox bounties but reduced minimums, you still can't completely clear his bounty.
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INSTALLATION
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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:
>ArtifactsOfNocturnal.esp
>ArtifactsOfNocturnal.bsa
The two must remain together and should not be renamed.
To uninstall, use NMM or, if you choosed to install it manually, delete the files listed above.
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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. The bounty signs to start the quest are places by the stables so should be fine with city replacers, open cities and such, please report any clipping.
Compatibility patches for overhauls and such would have to be made by those who use them.
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BUGS & ISSUES
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Sometimes, equiping/unequiping a few times in a row from the favourites menu might result in being stuck with GF bounty. So don't do that, normal usage should not cause any issues.
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CREDITS
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Oaristys for Modders Resource Pack, wich was used for some assets (gold barrels, gold piles, etc)
Arron Dominion & DavidJCobb for helping me with 1.2 script.
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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.