The Colosseum of Blood (a Neverweyr related mod) - 1.0
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- Fight in the Colosseum of Blood! A quest mod featuring a unique Daedric Arena. And you may return as often as you like, as Grand Champion!
- Hunt for the fabulous Axe of Dagon!
- Quest to find a missing brother! Will there be a good reward? Probably!
- Playable dremora armoured robes, playable Aureal and Mazken Armour.

This mod may be used as it is, modified, or used as a resource pack, as long as you give credit to this mod, and to anyone who has contributed (see CREDITS below).


REQUIREMENTS and INSTALLATION
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� Ideally, the Oblivion Game of the Year Edition. Shivering Isles DLC must be active for full functionality, as Aureal and Mazken can be fought in the Arena) - OTHERWISE see the separate ".esp" file provided, and mentioned in the INSTALLATION section below.

� There are also two ".esp" versions with reduced crowd sizes in the arena, just in case you experience too low a frame rate with the full crowd.

� If you are installing this manually, unpack the BCArena.7z file and copy into your virtual store. Two .esp files are included; activate whichever of the following is appropriate for you:-

- BCArena.esp :
- For gameoftheyear edition, with Shivering Isles.

- BCArenaNoShiv.esp :
- For no Shivering Isles, with Aureal and Mazken replaced by non-Shivering Isles opponents.
- THESE opponents will be referred to as Aureal and Mazken, and will have the Aureal and Mazken stats.
- Also they will have normal Tamrielic armour and weapons, but with Aureal and Mazken Armour/Weapon stats!
- Not as good, but better than nothing!
- To install, this must be renamed to BCArena.esp, otherwise the silent speech files will not match up.

- BCArenaLowFPS.esp :
- Same as BCArena.esp but with a reduced crowd size in case the larger crowd size is causing you a frame rate issue.
- To install, this must be renamed to BCArena.esp, otherwise the silent speech files will not match up.

- BCArenaNoShivLowFPS.esp :
- Same as BCArenaNoShiv.esp but with a reduced crowd size in case the larger crowd size is causing you a frame rate issue.
- To install, this must be renamed to BCArena.esp, otherwise the silent speech files will not match up.



FEATURES
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� A small quest initiated, directing you to Leyawiin.
� Access to the Arena is hidden away in Blackwood, on the Border (borders DO NOT need to be disabled).
� The Axe of Dagon. A unique re-styled daedric two-handed axe, modelled on the axe from Dagon's statue.
� Arena combat with a daedric theme.
� A large variety of challenging post-quest Arena fights, once you have reached Grand Champion status.
� A re-worked and enlarged daedric worldspace, with a good deal to discover.
� Essential Arena trainers, and hopefully everything you need to enjoy your stay.
� An Arena post-fight healing altar.

� This mod can be used as a resource pack: includes a few meshes from the Neverweyr mod.


GENERAL
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The Arena has been extracted from the Neverweyr mod, which is not directly publishable (though images have been published - just search for "Neverweyr"). This mod may be used as it is, modified, or used as a resource pack, as long as you give credit to this mod.


� This mod was created using the Oblivion Construction Set, NifSkope, Blender, Gimp, Paintshop Pro, Photoshop, DDS Converter 2, TES4Gecko, and cleaned using TES4Edit.
� Does not require any script extenders!
� Arena access is just within the normal TES4Oblivion border, so will play with or without borders being disabled.

� A few images from Neverweyr are available on Nexusmods, as standalone media. Search for "Neverweyr" in the images section, or specifically for "Neverweyr Arena" for the Neverweyr version of this arena.


CAUTIONARY NOTE
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- This mod is not level limited, so anyone can attempt it, but if you are low level you will most likely die (warnings and one autosave are given).
- Even if you die, if you think it shows promise, try again at a higher level.
- In the Arena's original context, I would have expected players to be 15th level plus, before they reached it, but could be lower.
- You will be up against characters of 22nd level for sure.
- If you are skilful, or play high powered characters, it should still be possible at lower levels, so give it a go.


STANDALONE MOD
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� This is provided as a standalone vanilla mod.
� However, please feel free to adapt it, or use anything from this mod, in whatever way you like, as long as you give credit (see CREDITS below).


KNOWN ISSUES
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� I never use companion play, so I have no idea how it would work here - possibly badly. If you want to try it, feel free, but you may need to adapt the arena yourself, or perhaps someone else would volunteer on behalf of the companion play community.

� Any other mods changing dremora, daedric creatures, or atronachs, could potentially have an impact, but again, it's something I have no experience of, so can't say for certain.

� Any mod changing Cyrodiil can, of course, conflict with others, but I have placed the Hidden Cave "Arena Entrance" as far out on the border as possible, to reduce the risk of this. However, if there is a conflict, feel free to move the cave to any suitable location.



CREDITS
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� AthaliaChangeless for bloodstalk and deathcaps textures and icons, and for proof reading and testing - Thank you!!

� And, of course, a big thank you to Bethesda for providing the game and construction set in the first place - Thank you!!



... Anyway, feel free to enjoy yourself with any of this! Use and/or change whatever you like, but please remember to give credit to this mod if you re-publish.