INTRO

Terrifyingly powerful Ayleid sorcerer king Tyras spells doom for the remaining Ayleid kingdoms of the underworld in Cyrodiil. Embark on an epic quest with the whimsical warrior Valamoor to the ancient city of Avalon to slay the tyrant. But beware, for nothing is as it seems. Along the way, you will be faced with magic like you've never thought possible, and at the end of it all, choices you never thought you would have to make.

Fall of the Ayleids is a look into betrayal, power, and choice—which we always have. And, of course...love.






REQUIRED

Required: Oblivion, Knights of the Nine, Shivering Isles, OBSE, Tes4LODGen* (see below)
Also required: Oblivion Character Overhaul 2

This mod was built around OCO. There is a patch for users who do not use OCOv2,
but many characters will not look as intended.

Consider using OCO2 only for the duration of the quest and removing it when you are done (if you don't use OCO)!

Highly recommended mods:

• Initial Glow Redux
  

• Robert’s Male Body v5
• HGEC body
  

Volume: It’s highly recommended to turn “Voice Volume” to 100% and to turn “Music Volume” up to about 75%, in order to hear the custom tracks included with this mod and to better hear the voice acting.

*Run Tes4LODGen after installing or else certain distant objects will disappear.




CONTACT

Hit us up on Twitter!

@FallOfTheAyleid

PREVIOUS VERSIONS

This mod is based on and uses many assets from Frostcrag Reborn, by indefiance. Frostcrag Reborn was mostly an exploration-based mod. This is a large quest that incorporates the city of Avalon from that mod, but otherwise there are no other similarities. This mod doesn’t even touch Frostcrag and you can play Frostcrag Reborn and this mod side by side.

Repeat: this quest doesn’t touch Frostcrag or its landscape in any way.

Previous versions of this quest were called “This Mortal Crag,” which was based on Frostcrag Tower, which was removed as Fall of the Ayleids is the spiritual successor to it and no longer requires Frostcrag.


HOW TO INTALL
1. USE NEXUS MOD MANAGER
2. Do INI tweaks:

Use these only if you have a good PC. These will make lights visible from farther away, which will make the Ayleid cities prettier.

fLightLOD1=20000.0000
fLightLOD2=20000.0000
fSpecularLOD1=20000.0000
fSpecularLOD2=20000.0000

3. Tick “Fall of the Ayleids.esp”
4. Run Tes4LODGen
5. Done





F.A.Q.

HOW DO I START THE QUEST?

Be level 20+ and have beaten the main quest. Wait 24 hours.

Otherwise use the “setstage fr0 5” command to start the quest without issue.

The quest can also be started and completed without these conditions if you find the location on your own.


WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 4.0? CAN I GET A LIST OF SPOILERS?

Brand new complex ending

Fall of the Ayleids ends entirely different from pre-4.0 versions. The new ending has several variations and allows for player choice, while also tying up many of the loose ends and plot holes of previous versions. Don't worry, I'm not pulling a Bioware here--you can expect a few different endings. There are some new quest rewards, Darklight has received a major visual and stat update to be a true end-game weapon, and quite frankly the new ending just actually makes a whole lot more sense.

ENDGAME SPOILERS!

*Darklight, 99 damage
*Overlord Armor set
*Overlord Steed (a summonable horse in Ayleid armor)
*Portal room (allows you to return to Avalon)
*Teleport to Watchtower spell (so you can use the Watchtower as a player home or the portal room)
*A few easter eggs

To me this is sufficient, but there've been complaints in the past that the ending was lacking. So this new version definitely remedies all of those things.

Along with the new ending is a brand new beginning to the quest.

Oblivion isn't very popular anymore, but I’d appreciate any comments. So if you like or hate the new ending, or anything, please be sure to let me know. Thanks!

HOW LONG IS THE QUEST?

About 2-3 hours.





CREDITS AND PERMISSIONS

• Voice acting – thanks a bunch to Lomekian, Daniel Coffey, and Edouard
• indefiance for all of his hard work in creating the original Frostcrag Reborn
• ancient_laws for totally badass Auroran Battle Steed armor
• Meo for beautiful Ayleid Clutter
• MadCat221 and RDjeke for their amazing Ayleid Meteoric Iron Weaponry
• Jgreybear (Iomir) for generous permission to include resources from Ayleidoon Karan
• Xenius for graciously allowing the use of resources from Race Compilation for Robert’s Bodies
• AlienSlof for Slof's Seamless Male Dremora 1.1 Textures
• Metz for Weapon Display Resource
• necrospawn for gratuitous open release of Slayer Swords
• Ayelie on DeviantArt for big lava texture
• CptJoker for his truly spectacular lava textures
• Edgen for his incredible music to complement this quest
• The crew of CastleSky for building Avalon and starting off this wonderful chain of great mods because of it
• LennyBook for Better Dremora Eyes
• Horinf for Tor Zireael tower resource
• Thanks to Cernasite for the use of Dragon Eyes
• CptJoker – Real Lava 1.3 – use of lava texture
• Nuska, for Oblivion Character Overhaul
  

Released on Nexus by request and permission of author Dr. Smith. Any use of this mod must be granted permission by the author first. Some assets in this mod belong to their various authors and can be used freely. Original voice files, sound effects, and art assets are the property of this file’s author. If unsure of how to proceed, please contact the author.

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ENJOY!