Middle-Earth Challenge
By Danae

Version: 1.0

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Contents
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1. Requirements
2. Description
3. Permissions
4. Installation
5. Incompatibilities
6. Known Issues or Bugs
7. Changelog
8. Credits

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Requirements
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Morrowind, Tribunal, and Bloodmoon

Compulsory:
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Westly presents: Halflings
Kalikut's Male Mithril Armor
Dwarves!
Antares Creatures: Trolls

Recommended
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Easy Escort by NullCascade to not lose Fargoth. (MWSE)
Companion Health bar MWSE-lua script by Mesafoo
PC Voice Dwarf Male onlyPC VOICE MODDERS
Archimaestro Antares' BigMod
Weapon Sheathing by Greatness7 (MWSE)
PC Voice Old Wizard male by PC VOICE MODDERS
Qwert's Ranger v1.0
Merlord's Character Backgrounds (MWSE)
Go Fletch by Merlord (MWSE) or FletcherMod (non-MWSE)
Ashfall or Bare Necessities

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Description
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Bring Fargoth alive to the Red Mountain. He must have his Engraved Ring of Healing, Sting and a Mithril Chain Mail. Choose between Sam, Gimli, Gandalf and Legolas for different packages (starting gear, perks, handicaps and additional goals).

How to win
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Get the Mithril Mail from a Dwarven Specter
Get Sting form a Solstheim troll
Level your Speechcraft to 60
Alternatively, you can have a creature companion and have them jump in the crater with the Ring like Gollum did.
Fargoth is utterly useless as a companion, and he won't level up. However, if you give him the following item, he will get constant buffs:
- Mithril Mail: higher defense (duh), fortify Light Armor +100 and unarmored +50 - found on Dwarven ghosts
- Sting: fortify Agility and Speed +50 - found on trolls
- An Elven Cloak: frost immunity
- Elven-Way Bread: constant +50 fortify health
- Balrog (Fire Atronach in Mount Kand Caver) relic: immunity to Fire and Shock
- Shelob (Red Mountain Pass) relic: immunity to poison, and diseases
- Azog (Goblin Warchief in Old Mournhold) relic: immunity to normal weapons
- Uglúk (Umbra) relic: Reflect and immunity to paralysis
- Find the other Rings of Power

You are Sam!
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Chargen: Halfing, male
You are a Gardener, you go on a quest to destroy evil, travel long distance and like to sing: Bard, Witchhunter, Pilgrim or Scout.
Perks
- Start the game with Halfling clothing and a backpack.
- The Friend powers (Let's be friends/charm, Patch up/restore health and Shrug It Off/dispel)
- Fargoth lets you use Sting and the Mithril Chain Mail.
- When havesting flower ingredients, you have a chance to find flower extracts (Slow regen effects from cheap to exclusive).
Handicaps
- No shoes or boots
- No bows or crossbows (thrown weapons are OK)
- No armour other than leather or mithril mail
- No enchanted weapons other than Sting

You are Gimli
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Chargen: Dwarf, male, Warrior class
Perks
- You start with a War Axe and a Helmet (fitted with brown hair!)
- You start with a sturdy repair hammer, you may find more later on.
- You get the Dwarven Sprint power as well as the Khazâd ai-mênu Shout
- You may buy 2 new types of beer in pubs and inns. Being a Dwarf, the adverse effects of aclohol are lessen and the benefits improved.
Handicaps
- try to role-play an inferiority complex! You are short and surrounded with mer (elves) so you always try to outdo them (have the final word when bartering, compare weapons (easier with Weapon Sheathing), duel in the Arena (BigMod lets you challenge NPCs)...
- NEVER increase your speed when leveling up (fortify effects and potions are ok)
Additional tasks
- You may find small chunks of mithril in ores. Bring them to Yagrum to have a new Mithril Chainmail reforged (one that Fargoth won't take).
- Find Dwarven ingots in Dwemer ruins. Bring the ingots to Yagrum to upgrade your helmet and axe.
- Be sure to defeat Gaenor to prove Dwarves are superior.

You are Gandalf
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Chargen: Breton, mage, elderly face, Atronach birthsign
Perks
- gets a defensive staff and a grey wizard hat
- Starts with one Elven Ring of Power
- Has insight on the other Rings of Power locations
- You may draw magicka from the Ringing Crystals
- You may find Pearls of Mana when slaying Daedra
Handicaps
- fire element only
- may only use staves or silver one-handed long blades or Goldbrand.
- Cannot use rings besides Elven Rings of Power and Wizard's Ring
- Robes only, and only common until you defeat the Balrog
Additional tasks
- Acquire the Staff of Magnus, Goldbrand and the Wizard's Ring
- Get a new robe hat after you defeat the Balrog

You are Legolas
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Chargen: Bosmer Archer, Ranger birthsign, Child of Nature background
Perks
- Craft you own arrows
- Moonshadow, Voice of the Emperor and Eye of Night Powers (you can blend in shadows, you're pretty, you have good eyesight)
- You start with a ranger armor (cuirass, quiver and skirt)
- You snipe Cliff Racers clean, not damaging their plumes as much.
- Insight on Elven Cloak location
Handicaps
- You are a short annoying male Wood Elf, isn't that enough?
- You cannot use anything made of metal
- Only eat what you kill / forage
Additional tasks
- Acquire the Bow of Shadows and Auriel's Bow and bring them to the Master trainer in Marskman to improve both bows.

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Permissions
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You cannot modify my mod

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Installation
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Be sure to install Westly presents: Halflings, Kalikut's Male Mithril Armor, Dwarves!, and Antares Creatures: Trolls or you will get errors.

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Incompatibilities
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No known compatibilities, this mods does nothing, adds nothing until the quest is started.
Do merge your levelled lists.

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Known Issues or Bugs
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Respecting the handicaps for each character is totally up to you: this mod won't prevent you from equipping a bow as Sam or a full suit of steel armour as Legolas.

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Changelog
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1.0 Original release
1.1 Fix the duplication bug when you pick a character
Gave Fargoth a simple follow script (WanderRA's excellent mod is not requied anymore)
Fixed the crystal script
Increased chanced of mithril chianmail and sting drop
Removed bugged model of Gondor pauldron
Removed White Wizard hat (broken model) and replaced it with a robe
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Credits
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Thanks to Bethesda Softworks for developing Morrowind and the Construction Set.

Thanks to Brucoms for developing the TES3 Readme Generator this readme was made from.
Gondorian ranger armor by rojak, Snakebitten, Dongle, Pseron Wyrd, HopperFly621, and Bravo1
Midgetalien's Gondor Armor
The One Ring icon by BeckhamFC9
Stuporstar for the gold ingot and lead models
LadyE and Proudfoot for the Battle Axe model
Tarnsman for 2 beer models
Alaisiagae, Coolman and Dragon Lance for the Arthur dagger.
Uisce for the Soul Gem resources
Phaedrus for the Giant Spider creature
Harlequin sword and bow resource by Phijama
Korana for the horn instrument
Daduke for the Wizard hats
Grumby whose companion script I modified
Lightsourced for showing me the WoW-Lotr challenge that inspired me.