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Summon your power animal, a familiar who\'s appearance reflects your character, and unlock its hidden power! Your power animal will change its shape, from bear to cat to lion to ogre, depending on your stats, and change size depending on your level. Each shape has a different, never before seen power! Based on His Dark Materials.

Permissions and credits
http://i.imgur.com/cA7Yn.png - my day yesterday. Tottaly blown away guys that you like the mod so much!! Deffinatly encouragement to get Elemental Magic finished.


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You can also download from this website all the music I have made for Oblivion and some of my other songs.
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NOTE
When downloading the mod, you need to download the main file for the resources, and then one of the bugfixes for.. well, for bugfixes. Most players will want to download the fixy fix- This is the most recent one. I repeat: if your not sure, FIXY FIX IS THE WAY TO GO! :D :D

Some people might not quite get the workings of the spell as it works very differntly to other spells- it is highly reccomended to watch the video in the video tab for a "Public Service announcment" on how the mod works! ;P

NOTE NOTE
this mod will bring up errors in TES4EDIT with all of the spells, because I created it whilst the plugin OME was installed. You don't need to install OME as I didn't use any of its features, but it will, annoyingly, leave its mark on all of my spells. A mark that TES4EDIT seems to get quite upset about.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTE
Lots of people asked for it... now you can have it. For a list of included Animal Forms and how to get them, open the readme uploaded for this mod. NOT the readme included in the download, the readme on the TESnexus. This is not recommended however, as it will spoil the magic of the game for you. I think. Your choice. :P

Name: Mysterious Bears Power Animals
Version: 1.3
Date: 8/26/2011
Category: Gameplay Effects and Changes
Author(s): Mysterious Mr. Bear
Source: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=40125
Forum: TESAlliance.org
Homepage: MysteriousProjects.Tumblr.org


Description
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Summon your power animal, a familiar who's appearance reflects your character, and unlock its hidden power! Your power animal will change its shape, from bear to cat to lion to ogre, depending on your stats, and change size depending on your level. Each shape has a different power, from knocking back enemies to putting you into a boody rage to scaring away foes to turning your skin to stone! Based on His Dark Materials.

Location
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Just down the road out of Leyawiin is the Order Of The Bear Sanctuary... pretty hard to miss...

Details
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"Mysterious Bears Power Animals" aims to provide a dynamic way of having a cool companion fighting with you. When you aqquire the spell from The Order Of The Bear Sanctuary you will be able to transmute some of your own life force into an ethereal avatar of your character. But this truly is an avatar- you do not pick what form it takes... It is a part of you, it knows you, and there for, its appearance reflects you.

Depending on who you are and what skills and talents you have, you may see a bear, or a cat, a pure Magicka Entity or even a minitor when you summon your power animal into the world. Further more, your avatar matches you in power no matter how strong or weak you are- at the start of your journey you may be accompanied by a cute bear cub, and by the end of your journy, you may be joined in battle by a raging beast larger than any other bear you'll meet.

The creature is truly dynamic in appearance, and I tried my best to make a dynamic control scheme too. One spell handles everything, from summoning, to controlling, to dismissing. By holding down the cast key you summon or dismiss your avatar; by tapping it with the LMB, you order it to follow. Tapping it with the RMB orders it to attack on sight and allows it to attack civilians and guards it normally wouldn't, and holding LMB and RMB down and tapping cast orders it to stay put.
It is an easy way to do things that doesn't need you to move your hands out of their comfy places at the mouse and wasd keys :)I tried to make this feel as if you were actually effecting the avatar too, not just flipping a switch in its head- the avatar will change colour depending on what state it is in.

Finally, each animal has a unique ability designed to be useful to its owner. Your stealthy theif may well have a cat as an avatar - this is, of course, completly useless in combat. However, when faced with a patroling guard you need to slip past, you can tell the cat to wait away from you, then at a safe distance, activate its power and it will cause a distraction by releasing pheromones, causing everyone within its line of sight to try and chase it away whilst you slip by unnoticed.

Maybe your ranger will inherit it's dog avatar's sense of smell and spot enemies from miles off? Maybe your warrior will inherit it's ogre avatar's blood thirsty rage? Download and find out what your power animal is! :) Oh, and it's worth mentioning... high level characters with maxed out abilities will find a VERY nice surprise waiting for them when they go to summon their animal ;)

Install
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1. open up the archive in winzip, 7zip, or whatever zip is your preference of zip
2. Copy all the folders into your Data folder- Meshes, Textures, and Sound.
3. Copy ONE .esp into the data folder- there are three available, and each will make your power animal a differnt level of opacity.
4.????
5. PROFIT

Uninstall
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1. deactivate the .esp you chose with your .esp deactivator of choice
2. Delete the following folders:

meshes/mysterious meshes
textures/mysterious textures
sound/fx/mysterious sounds


Incompatibility
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Some incompatibilities may/will occur:

Deadly Reflex 6.0
You will find it rather difficult to tell your hairy companion to stay, as when the LMB and RMBs are pressed DR shuts down other keys. Deadly Reflex 5.0 and earlier are fine.

Anything building on the small island off leyawiin, connected to the road by a bridge, near the white stallion in.

Known Issues or Bugs
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make sure, when you first try this out, that you summon a creature before you try and tell it to stay, follow or attack. It's amazing I have to say this, really :P But yes, it causes a strange bug where Oblivion says "hmm, he's not pointed at a creature when applying these shaders... lets APPLY THE SHADERS TO HIM" and thus, you will end up smoking white, green or red :P very very easily avoidable though and wont happen ever after you have summoned your first animal.

History
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1.0: Release, hopfully bug free! :D Reuploaded after I forgot cleaning- all safe now.
1.1: Minor athstetic bugfixes.
1.2: Fixed the "hallo I am power animal, I kill everything because I'm an arse" bug ;)
1.3: Fixed the bug which prevenets some characters from summoning their animal.

Contact
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Find me as:

Mysterious Mr. Bear: TESAlliance, Bethesda Forums, Soundcloud
MysteriousMrBear: TESNEXUS
Mysterous Mr. Bear: Youtube (note the spelling mistake :P)

If its urgent or regarding licensing, email me at [email protected]

Im a creative genious when it comes to names, aren't I?

Credits
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special thanks to Andalaybay for helping to script the Magicka Entity - would not be possible without her!

Thanks to bethesda for creating TES and dangling skyrim infront of our noses.
Thanks to the creators and maintaners of TESNexus and TESAlliance, without whom I would never have even heard of modding.
Thanks to Lhammonds for this fine readme :)

Tools Used
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7-Zip - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=15579
Blender - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=12248
GIMP - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=14920
NIFSkope - http://niftools.sourceforge.net/wiki/NifSkope
Oblivion Mod Manager - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2097
Oblivion Script Extender (OBSE) - http://obse.silverlock.org/
TES4Files - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8489
TES Construction Set - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11367
Readme Generator - http://HammondsLegacy.com/obmm/tools_readme_generator1.asp

Licensing/Legal
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You can do whatever you want with this mod but all I ask in return is that
you give me credit if you distribute any part of this mod. I would also like
to know what mods are including my work. If you could video yourself dressed as a hot-dog dancing eroticly, cheeky bonus.