Dragon Age: Origins

Original Elves of Ferelden readme by AdmiralAlbia

What it is:
- 6 brand-new conversions of the DA2 elf clothes. These overwrite 3 of the vanilla outfits (come, comf and comk for both sexes), so they can be installed without worrying about item variation ID conflicts.
- 27 new clothing items in various colour combinations to go with these new conversions. That's 9 each! Yes, I went a little overboard.
- 7 default replacements for vanilla items, not including the main 6 outfits.
- A complete overhaul of every elf in Origins and all DLCs except Witch Hunt (see below) to use these new clothes where appropriate, use other modded-in clothing where appropriate, and use vanilla clothing assets where appropriate.

What it is not:
- A face mod. I recommend Ferelden Elves or DA2 Elves for DAO – Retain Variety if you're looking for something to give DAO elves their big-eared, flat-nosed DA2 appearance.

Conflicts:
- Improved Atmosphere: please remove or overwrite any UTC or UTI files that have duplicates in this mod.
- tmp7704's elf proportions/elf update: in the da2_elf-proportions\ef\clothing folder, please delete ef_cth_come_0.mmh, ef_cth_comf_0.mmh, and ef_cth_comk_0.mmh .
- Will also conflict with any other mod that changes the clothes worn by elves in game.

UTC changes

For the most part, NPCs were just changed into nicer-coloured versions of the clothes they were already wearing. Any Dalish (except Marethari) who were left wearing human-style clothes were then changed into elvhen-style ones: most city elves wearing human-style clothes were left that way. Specific cases below.

City elves
- Zevran was not changed at all, except in the epilogue, where I changed him out of the elfy clothes he would otherwise have ended up in. (They were hideous. Trust me, I did you all a favour.)
- Tabris's wedding party were put into white and green/blue (for the brides and grooms) and green/yellow (for the rest).
- Elven servants are a bit scattershot at present, and I'm considering ways to fix them (like dedicated servants' uniforms, but those would obviously have to work for humans too… that might be another mod entirely). Erlina has not been changed and is still in human-style clothes. Iona is in a very fancy-looking elfy dress… with shoes, of course.
- Pol is in a bright lilac shirt, mostly to create visual contrast with the Dalish around him.
- No Circle elves were altered, for hopefully obvious reasons.
- Over in Leliana's Song, Adaia is now wearing a very fetching pink number.
- No elves were changed in Witch Hunt, mostly because I haven't looked into converting theSentinel armour from Inquisition yet.

Dalish elves
- The Dalish armour was updated to use the models from tmp7704's Dalish armour port, and all hunters were swapped into it – including Mahariel and Tamlen in the origin.
- All hunters have also had their helmets removed! This is because if you're using a DA2-style elf face mod, their ears poke through and look quite silly. (I'm assuming that most people using this mod are interested in visual continuity between the games in general, so.)

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