About this mod
A port of Dawnguard heavy armor set from Skyrim SE to Enderal SE.
- Permissions and credits
The Dawnguard heavy set was always one of my favorite armors in vanilla Skyrim, so one day I asked myself "Why not bring it to Enderal?". And here it is. Hope you will enjoy it. I decided to call it "Shadowsteel Brigandine" because shadow steel is "what all cool kids have in Enderal", according to the lore, and because it somewhat resembles real-life brigandines, at least to my uneducated eye.
Location
After you reach level 22, Darius Floorhammer ("Floorhammer's Forge Work" shop in Ark's Marketplace) will start selling blueprints for the set, all at once. The smithing skill requirement is Handicraft 44. If you are not a fan of smithing, Darius will also sell "stock" versions of all set pieces at the same level 22. The stock pieces are somewhat weaker than the ones you can craft yourself, very similarly to how the vanilla Enderal common armor sets work.
Details
The mod includes 5 cuirasses of different colors, the heavy full helmet, boots and gauntlets, and 2 shields ("common" Dawnguard shield renamed to "Shadowsteel Shield", and "rune" Dawnguard shield renamed to "Shadowsteel Rune Shield"). Although 3 out of 5 cuirasses are classified as light armor in vanilla Skyrim, they all heavies in this, because the "light" ones visually differ not so much from the heavy ones - a missing shoulder plate (pauldron) here, missing sleeves there...
By armor rating the set is halfway between the Starling ("Dwarven") and "Righteous Path" ("Ebony") sets, so it's quite high-tier. By weight it's lighter than the Righteous Path set.
The mod is very small because the meshes and textures are already part of Skyrim SE resources and so are accessible to Enderal SE right out of the box too. This also makes the mod pretty much with any Dawnguard texture overhauls for vanilla Skyrim SE.
Install and Uninstall
Enderal Special Edition version 2.0.5 or newer is required for the mod to work properly.
To install, unpack the archive straight into Data folder of your Enderal Special Edition copy. Don't forget to check BrigandineArmor.esp in the "Data Files" tab of Enderal launcher (Steam version only?) on first launch.
To uninstall, delete the following files in your Enderal Special Edition\Data directory (basically everything named "BrigandineArmor"):
- BrigandineArmor.bsa
- BrigandineArmor.esp
Changelog
Version 2.0 (changes from 1.01 version for old Enderal)
- Added "stock" versions of all armor pieces to the inventory of Darius Floorhammer for "no smithing" players
- The mod doesn't modify Darius' inventory directly anymore, so it's far less likely for it to conflict with any other mod changing Darius' trade habits.