She’s supposed to be our ally – why does she keep blastingour other followers with frost spells? This mod should stop friendly fire. INTRODUCTIONShe’s my favorite vampire … and yours.  We know her, we love her, the one and onlySerana.  Yet she always seems to blasther own allies with frost spells in the middle of a fight, which causes them to
turn around and attack her after the initial enemies are dead.  This mod aims to prevent that.THIS IS MY FIRST MOD AND DURING MY TESTING EVERYTHING WORKEDLIKE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO, SO PLEASE DON’T BURN DOWN MY HOUSE OR SHOOT MY DOG IF
IT DOESN’T PERFORM TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS.WHAT THIS MOD DOESI simply created a new “Serana Friends Faction” and addedSerana and the various followers to it, and set them to be “friends” in combat.  I then gave Serana theDLC2BlackBookCompanionsInsight perk (which is why this mod requires
DragonBorn).  Finally, I had to create a“friend” relationship with the DLC1Serana faction and my added Serana Friends
Faction.The three followers I’m initially starting with are allcustom voiced, and two of the three of them are on their own follower
framework.  For vanilla followers, ormodded followers using the vanilla follower framework (such as the majority of
waifu mods) I don’t know if a mod like this is necessary if you’re already
using a multiple follower framework such as AFT or EFF.  I use EFF, but I think most, if not all ofthe multi-follower frameworks have some mechanism for followers to ignore
friendly hits.  People should try thatbefore cluttering up their game with a bunch of new esp files.These are just small esp files, no archives or other loosefiles.  There are no scripts.  You can pick the files for whichever of thefollowers you are using and forget the rest.I know there are other mods that try to accomplish the samething by using scripts to change Serana’s AI, or spell package, or combat
behavior, or any number of other tricks. My goal here was a script-free, lightweight mod that keeps Serana closeto vanilla so you can make other changes as you see fit and that shouldn’t hurt
your game if you’re already heavily modded with script heavy mods.Note:  if you entercommand mode, where you tell Serana “I need you to do something” and then tell
her to deliberately attack another follower, it’s not going to count as
friendly fire and the two will start to battle it out.WHO IS COVERED SOFARSofia by DJJohnJarvis – my favorite, number one go-tofollower, a bawdy yet socially awkward misfit.Inigo by SmartBlueCat – former skooma addict and his petdragonfly turned loyal companionSong of the Green (Auri) by Waribiki – witty, offbeat and awalking, talking Bosmer history lesson.  FUTURE IDEASMore followers will likely be added in the future, focusingon modded followers using their own follower framework.  It will depend on the amount and type offeedback received here after all of you put the mod through its paces some
more.  I started with my initial three,because they, along with Serana, round out my little quintet.  Possible additions:Arissa the Wandering Rogue
Vilja in Skyrim
Recorder
Interesting NPCs (haven’t played this mod in a long time, are Zora and Rumarin
(sp?) the only two long-term followers?)
Others???PLEASE LEAVE YOUR FEEDBACK SO I KNOW WHETHER THIS WORKS FORYOU OR NOT, AND WHO ELSE YOU’D LIKE TO SEE!!!INSTALLATION1 – First things first, as with any mod, have a good savepoint that you can revert to if my mod screws up your game/wrecks your
lore/causes the Earth to tilt off its axis. Then, simply install with the mod manager of your choice – it’s nothingbut a small esp file.  If installingmanually, just drag the esp file into your Data folder.2 – If you’re using multiple files of this mod, then Isuspect you’ve probably already got a large load order and every esp slot adds
up.  I recommend using the Merge Pluginsmod by Mator the Eternal to safely merge your various Serana No Friendly Fire
mods into one.  In my game I merged theSerana NFF Sofia, Inigo and Auri files and run them as a single esp.  Not necessary, just my recommendation.3 – Load order matters, sort of/kind of/maybe.  My esp files reference the original versionsof the modded followers.  Load my fileafter the follower file.  Load anyappearance changing mods (such as Sofia Customizer Redux or
Seranaholic/Seductress Serana) after my mod, because for some reason theCreation Kit carries over appearance data when I added people to factions.  Note, if you’re using a merged patch (seestep 4) this might not make a difference, if the appearance mod is carried over
into your merge.For example:Skyrim
Update
Dawnguard
Hearthfires
Dragonborn
Sofia
018Auri
Serana NFF – Sofia
Serana NFF – Auri
Seductress Serana (or Seranaholic, or Superb Serana, or Overknee Serana, or ???)
Sofia Customizer Redux (no esp file, but load it after my file anyway)
Merged Patch4 – Make or update your merged patch.  If you’ve never done this, you should, and it’spretty simple. Watch this Youtube tutorial by GamerPoets for a simple
explanation.  If you’re using any sort ofmod that changes other aspects of these followers, such as perks or factions,
that’s yet another reason to use a merged patch, just to be safe.5 – Finally, if you use the mod and it works for you, andyou like it, please endorse and post a nice comment.  COMPATIBILITYShould be compatible with just about anything with theproper load order and a merged patch. Like I said, all I’m doing is adding a faction, a relationship and aperk to various followers.  Once Icarried the faction and perk over into my merged patch, TES5Edit wasn’t showing
me conflict with mods such as Extensible Follower Framework, Serana Dialogue
Edit or the Auri-Inigo banter patch.RECOMMENDED MODSSerana Dialogue Edit – adds an affinity system for Seranawhich the author is continuing to expand uponRelationship Dialogue Overhaul – I’m not sure if this modactually changes any of Seranas dialogue or not, and it doesn’t do anything for
the custom voiced followers.  However, itdoes have an excellent “Stop Combat” feature that I used numerous times to stop
Serana fighting with my other followers after they got blasted with her AOE frost
spells.  It just got rather tedious tohave to do that after every fight.INSPIRATIONFriendlier Guards for the Underground Bathhouse byAlpineYJ.  After I tried various otherfixes on my own that didn’t work, I had a look at the insides of this mod and
saw how it achieved its goal by setting the various factions as “friends,”
which led me to create my own Serana Friend Faction.  PERMISSIONSRight now, no permissions are given without myexpress written consent.  This is to givethe mod a chance to let more gamers test it under stress and make sure it
works.  The mod will remain exclusive tothe Nexus for the time being.  If you seeit on Steam or Bethesda or a foreign site it’s a pirated copy.  Also note that I don’t currently have SkyrimSE installed, so I won’t be porting it myself anytime soon because I can’t
support it.  Because it’s so simple, itmay work for SE as is, but I have no way of knowing.