This was this author's only castle mod that it didn't work here, whenever I try to enter the castle of error and close my skyrim, the other mods of this author all worked perfect.
I was looking for a darker themed castle for my vampire/necromancer, and happened upon this gem of a mod. Everything in it is damn near perfect, there's no insane frame rate drop like a lot of other large player homes, and the sheer amount of detail put into it to make it feel lived in is stunning. The crypt has got to be my favorite part of the castle, especially the vampire room, which is perfect for this character's ever-growing coven of bloodsuckers. Using RDO and AFT, I was able to re-outfit the guards and all the other NPCs exactly the way I wanted, and stock the jail with a nice variety of prisoners to snack on.
This mod easily gets a 10/10 from me, and it'll always be part of my load order when I'm playing a darker character. I know some people have issues with the lack of KS hair support and extensive tweaks like Skystone, but personally, I would much rather do all that myself (Edit the NPCs hairstyles, body/face etc.) and only have what I want in the mod, as opposed to all sorts of unnecessary features and a potential performance hit. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, and this mod is perfect just the way it is.
It may be useless to post this as I'm sure the author has moved on to SE by now, but I absolutely love the castles this person makes. My favorites are Skystone, Moonstone, the Ayleids, and this one.
The dark vibe is great. Love the little shrine outside, love the pool in the bedroom, the pool in the living quarters is amazingly well done, and I also love the library area setup. (the crafting tables below, the bookshelves up, and to the side the forge area which looks great). And I didn't even mention the crypt yet, which is the best dark area setup of any of the castles. Way to hide the scary stuff.
The only thing that is very obvious about this one is that it feels it never got finished. It doesn't have teleport, no KS hair support, and it feels like the main hall is an open space with a bit of a lack of detail. The guards outside need to be given a key to the frontgate, because otherwise they'll just be spewing angry verbal conversation to the occasional wolf or bear outside the castle. Also, the dragon elder scroll holder in the display hall is broken. And hen you sit on the throne in the main hall it locks the camera in a position that you are looking at your own character, therefore you cannot look at whatever is going on down below.
Skyrimlazz, if you're bored one day, and its raining outside, and you feel like adding this things that would be so absolutely amazing. I'd doubt I'd use any other home mod ever again.
Same as you. Skystone, Winterstone, and the Ayleid's are my favorites.
The only thing with a number of these castles is that they don't have a private bathing area, and if they do, the rest is not that alluring. For example, the Skystone Castle could use a private bathroom in the main bedrooms. Maybe even make the cell independent so that NPCs don't go wandering while you're chatting with your family or whatever it is you're doing.
The Winterstone Castle has a private bath, a nice throne room, but my personal observation is that it was made for vampire lords. I'm no vampire. It's a great castle for any vampire lord or any vampire ally. The crypts (accessible via a trapdoor under the stairs leading to the throne) has all the spooky stuff to set the ominous atmosphere. It also has a private room with a bathing area. Good stuff.
I'd urge the modder if he's still working on these beautiful assets to make private bathrooms for each main bedrooms, and make some private bathing areas made for the owner inaccessible for NPCs in every Castle. I think there are 2 or three private bathing areas in all of his Castles.
Nevertheless, great projects with great potential. Props.
It may be useless to post this as I'm sure the author has moved on to SE by now, but I absolutely love the castles this person makes. My favorites are Skystone, Moonstone, the Ayleids, and this one.
The dark vibe is great. Love the little shrine outside, love the pool in the bedroom, the pool in the living quarters is amazingly well done, and I also love the library area setup. (the crafting tables below, the bookshelves up, and to the side the forge area which looks great). And I didn't even mention the crypt yet, which is the best dark area setup of any of the castles. Way to hide the scary stuff.
The only thing that is very obvious about this one is that it feels it never got finished. It doesn't have teleport, no KS hair support, and it feels like the main hall is an open space with a bit of a lack of detail. The guards outside need to be given a key to the frontgate, because otherwise they'll just be spewing angry verbal conversation to the occasional wolf or bear outside the castle. Also, the dragon elder scroll holder in the display hall is broken. And hen you sit on the throne in the main hall it locks the camera in a position that you are looking at your own character, therefore you cannot look at whatever is going on down below.
Skyrimlazz, if you're bored one day, and its raining outside, and you feel like adding this things that would be so absolutely amazing. I'd doubt I'd use any other home mod ever again.
This is the best castle, especially for my modern lore-friendly vampire and his clan. I had to vamp it up even more with Jaxonz Positioner and Renamer. A gargoyle here and there, bloody dishware, coffins in the follower's quarters, etc. My other favorite castle was Moonstone by the same author, best Caribbean blue water pools and vamp cellar ever. The only problem was it had heavy CTD. This castle does not have this issue. I did remove about half the mannequins, and will probably end up deleting all of them. Some move off the pedestals, or move in general which creeps me out, not to mention, they are memory heavy additions that really aren't necessary. I am not sure why modders include them, but a quick disable on them and their triggers using the console will do the trick. I like the cellar, and the battle to get it. For those who want a more creepier vamp quarters, it fits the bill. Highly recommend and endorse.
However, I did find one odd/huge issue. In the main pool in the living quarters. If you enter the pool on the left side, it results in a fire bomb going off, literally, and burning and sending my character flying across the room, ending his life. WTF? Was this pool filled with holy water? I assume this is not intentional. I thought maybe the author accidentally put a ward or something in the pool? I could not find any trigger, so I just avoid swimming on the far left side. That, that...was a first. Other than THAT issue, this darker style castle is perfection.
there was such a problem, the main door from the lock disappeared =) Of course, you can use the teleport to the castle's NPC's , but I need to figure out what the f*** is. I did a lot of things to fix it, from clear save disconnected conflict modes such as Helgen reborn, others, noted in tesedit, but almost all turned off, reinstalled the castle itself, unpacked the BSA, zero result, who knows where this f***ing door? Previously, before reinstallation of the game everything was fine, there are no mods to change the landscape, in that place the castle only conflicts with Helgen, but I deleted the Helgen, still there is no door. Added a couple of screenshots. in other places, for example, Velothi palace, also conflicts with other mods, but there you can remove some textures and get to the door, but here it simply does not exist, or it exists, but where it is lost =). Before drawing a new one, I would like to understand, maybe it still is =) Yes, used to install USLEEP, on this assembly did not put it, but tried to put the castle with him, also zero. Of course, there are still more than a dozen castles and houses, but I would like to understand, and even banal greed is stifling, as does 20k of well-stolen coins. Solved. Whiteran brothel, on the other side of the mountain in conflict with the castle.
I came across the exact same issue with Whiterun Brothel, I don't recommend anyone installing it.
Like you my door vanished, and I got a feeling it actually replaced some clothing textures too, which is why I don't have one of the normal in-game boottypes anymore.
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This mod easily gets a 10/10 from me, and it'll always be part of my load order when I'm playing a darker character. I know some people have issues with the lack of KS hair support and extensive tweaks like Skystone, but personally, I would much rather do all that myself (Edit the NPCs hairstyles, body/face etc.) and only have what I want in the mod, as opposed to all sorts of unnecessary features and a potential performance hit. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, and this mod is perfect just the way it is.
Same as you. Skystone, Winterstone, and the Ayleid's are my favorites.
The only thing with a number of these castles is that they don't have a private bathing area, and if they do, the rest is not that alluring.
For example, the Skystone Castle could use a private bathroom in the main bedrooms. Maybe even make the cell independent so that NPCs don't go wandering while you're chatting with your family or whatever it is you're doing.
The Winterstone Castle has a private bath, a nice throne room, but my personal observation is that it was made for vampire lords. I'm no vampire. It's a great castle for any vampire lord or any vampire ally. The crypts (accessible via a trapdoor under the stairs leading to the throne) has all the spooky stuff to set the ominous atmosphere. It also has a private room with a bathing area. Good stuff.
I'd urge the modder if he's still working on these beautiful assets to make private bathrooms for each main bedrooms, and make some private bathing areas made for the owner inaccessible for NPCs in every Castle. I think there are 2 or three private bathing areas in all of his Castles.
Nevertheless, great projects with great potential. Props.
The dark vibe is great. Love the little shrine outside, love the pool in the bedroom, the pool in the living quarters is amazingly well done, and I also love the library area setup. (the crafting tables below, the bookshelves up, and to the side the forge area which looks great). And I didn't even mention the crypt yet, which is the best dark area setup of any of the castles. Way to hide the scary stuff.
The only thing that is very obvious about this one is that it feels it never got finished. It doesn't have teleport, no KS hair support, and it feels like the main hall is an open space with a bit of a lack of detail. The guards outside need to be given a key to the frontgate, because otherwise they'll just be spewing angry verbal conversation to the occasional wolf or bear outside the castle. Also, the dragon elder scroll holder in the display hall is broken. And hen you sit on the throne in the main hall it locks the camera in a position that you are looking at your own character, therefore you cannot look at whatever is going on down below.
Skyrimlazz, if you're bored one day, and its raining outside, and you feel like adding this things that would be so absolutely amazing. I'd doubt I'd use any other home mod ever again.
However, I did find one odd/huge issue. In the main pool in the living quarters. If you enter the pool on the left side, it results in a fire bomb going off, literally, and burning and sending my character flying across the room, ending his life. WTF? Was this pool filled with holy water? I assume this is not intentional. I thought maybe the author accidentally put a ward or something in the pool? I could not find any trigger, so I just avoid swimming on the far left side. That, that...was a first. Other than THAT issue, this darker style castle is perfection.
The firebomb issue kind of made me laugh, never experienced that to be honest.
in other places, for example, Velothi palace, also conflicts with other mods, but there you can remove some textures and get to the door, but here it simply does not exist, or it exists, but where it is lost =). Before drawing a new one, I would like to understand, maybe it still is =)
Yes, used to install USLEEP, on this assembly did not put it, but tried to put the castle with him, also zero.
Of course, there are still more than a dozen castles and houses, but I would like to understand, and even banal greed is stifling, as does 20k of well-stolen coins.
Solved. Whiteran brothel, on the other side of the mountain in conflict with the castle.
Like you my door vanished, and I got a feeling it actually replaced some clothing textures too, which is why I don't have one of the normal in-game boottypes anymore.