Hello you.

Have you ever shut up I said have you ever wanted to wear dead bears for a laugh, wished that the act of wearing dead bears for a laugh wasn’t copyrighted by the Stormcloaks and/or wished that there was a modded armour set in the Nordic style that’s not just the Nordic Carved Armor just set to light™? 

Then sit down, my child, for I have a story for you:
In Dragonborn’s .esm, there exists the keyword ‘DLC2ArmorMaterialNordicLight’ and the outfit ‘DLC2ArmorNordicLight‘, which of course suggests that there was meant to be a light armour set in the Nordic style. This is why the Nordic armour has the word “Carved” in the name unlike the weapons and shield, as it would have differentiated between the two Nordic armour sets. I also believe that Frea’s proficiency in the Light Armor skill was not accidental as she was meant to wear this cut light armour; but since this armour was cut, she had to wear the next best thing aesthetically (but not changing her armour proficiency from light to heavy when they changed her armour to Nordic Carved WAS accidental). 

Due to this GROSS INJUSTICE on Bethesda Game Studios’ part, I took it upon myself to make a unique (ok it’s a reskin and an armour mashup but who do I look like, NordWarUA?) armour set that fits the ‘DLC2ArmorMaterialNordicLight’ keyword for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 2011 PC Video Game with Finally A Nordic Light (Bear) Armor For The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (FANLBAFTESVS). With the Nordic Bear Armor , you can wear dead bears for a laugh.

I decided that the original ‘DLC2ArmorMaterialNordicLight’ armour set would have been a reimagining of the Bear Armors from Morrowind’s Bloodmoon expansion because many Morrowind/Bloodmoon armours saw a return in the Dragonborn expansion and because of the bear motif on the Nordic Carved Armor. The Stormcloak Officer Armor was therefore the obvious base for this armour mashup/reskin. I also took elements familiar to the Nordic Carved armour and incorporated them in this armour (eg. Nordic Carved bear head-shaped pauldrons ≡ actual bear head pauldrons).

So if you ever wanted to fill that ‘DLC2ArmorMaterialNordicLight’-shaped hole in your The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 2011 PC Video Game experience, wear dead bears for a laugh in the most vanilla way possible without feeling like a Stormcloak or if you somehow missed wearing the Stormcloak Officer armour when you downloaded that one Stormcloak armour replacer mod, then hmmmmmmmm maybe just maybe maybe maybe FANLBAFTESVS is the mod for you.
Probably.
Yes.

SPECIAL EDITION VERSION

TECHNICAL NOTES:

• This is NOT an armour replacer.
• To smith Nordic Bear Armor, you need the Advanced Armors perk (which is the Advanced Light Armors if using kryptopyr’s Complete Crafting Overhaul Remade and/or Smithing Perks Overhaul).
• As the DLC2ArmorMaterialNordicLight keyword is a Vanilla keyword that is built in to the Light Matching Set Perk, you will achieve a matching set bonus if you have the perk.
• Though the main version of the mod affects Frea as per the reasoning above, download the optional Non-Frea esp if you don't want her to be affected and overwrite the main file.
• Several base-game and Dragonborn levelled lists have been directly altered appropriately to spawn this armour. I have not changed the DLC2Init Quest to add these armours like how the Nordic Carved Armor was. I recommend that you make your own bashed patch to merge the levelled lists of other mods.
• Unenchanted armour pieces will appear at Level 22 and three tiers of enchanted variants will appear at levels 26, 28 and 30 respectively. Nordic Bear and Nordic Snow Bear armour pieces can be found across Skyrim and Solstheim (chance: 75% Bear, 25% Snow Bear). Higher tiered bandits/reavers will wear pieces of this armour randomly and Reaver Lords will have a chance of wearing the full set.
• The base version of this mod (both Frea and non-Frea versions) includes injected Weapons and Armor Fixes Remade (WAFR) keywords. The CCOR patch adds its crafting conditions to FANLBAFTESVS’s crafting recipes, along with the appropriate breakdown recipes. The armour pieces also have injected Frostfall keywords.
• As per the reasoning above, there are two NORDIC CARVED IS NORDIC CARVED plug-ins that renames any Nordic Carved armour pieces that are just called “Nordic” to “Nordic Carved”. One is for Nordic Carved armour pieces that are based on the vanilla game and the other is for those based on the stats from kryptopyr’s mod WAFR. Choose only one. If your Nordic Carved armour pieces don’t have the stats from either the vanilla game or WAFR, you should see to the renaming yourself.
• Though this is a mashup of armours, I have altered the UVs in a way that it's mostly one or two textures per armour part. The only vanilla texture that this uses is the Nordic Carved body texture for the limbs. Thus, the limbs are the only part of this armour that will be affected by any texture replacer that affects the Nordic Carved armour. Do not ask me to make a version of the textures for aMidianBorn or whatever mod of similar result.
  

CREDITS:
All mesh reshapes and retexturing was done by me. All of the original meshes and textures were made by Bethesda Game Studios. Weapons and Armor Fixes Remade and Complete Crafting Overhaul Remade keywords by kryptopyr. Frostfall keywords by Chesko.
Programs used: Blender (with the Blender NifTools Import/Exporter), XEdit, NifSkope, NifUtilsSuite, Photoshop, SSE Nif Optimizer

Special thanks to the developers of the above software, Bethesda Game Studios for creating the base meshes and textures, kryptopyr, Chesko, and your continued support. Thank you.

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BUTANE'S OTHER SKYRIM MODS:

• I Have Made Sandals the Norm, Deal With It (Special Edition)
• Finally a Steel Plate Shield For The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Special Edition)
• Ancient Nord Armo(u)ry EXTREME (Special Edition)
• Finally A Nordic Light (Bear) Armor For The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim (Special Edition)