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Discover the secret of Lion Thane Stronghold and banish the evil from Lion Castle. A player home, with mini-quest and custom voiced NPC with a lore-friendly connection with the late Second Era of Tamriel.
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About this mod
Discover the secret of Lion Thane Stronghold and banish the evil from Lion Castle, to gain the ownership of the old property of Lady Arabelle Devoux, one ancestor of your grandmother, and with it the title of Lion Thane. A lore-friendly connection with the late Second Era of Tamriel lies under the history of Lion Stronghold: the history of the vile alchemist Arkasis, the old Jarl of Whiterun, and Lady Arabelle Devoux and her fiction alter ego, Investigator Vale, all reported in the novel The Hounds of Black Moor.
Description of Lion Thane Strongold mod for Skyrim SE
In the year 2E 577, the city of Whiterun experienced a period of intense fear. It was besieged by deranged outsiders and howling wolves during the night, leading to a series of mysterious disappearances. The situation escalated when a member of the Battle-Born clan was discovered naked, drenched in blood, amidst dead livestock on the grounds of the Gray-Mane estate.
This triggered a conflict, almostresulting in accusations of lycanthropy and a potential execution, until Lady Arabelle Devoux who at the time was in Skyrim, intervened and resolved the crisis. Shortly thereafter, the Jarl of Whiterun and
the court alchemist disappeared, fueling suspicions of a conspiracy against the prominent families.
The newly appointed Jarl, Morryn,designated the court alchemist, Arkasis, as a formidable enemy.
According to the "Chronicler-at-Large," Adandora, there is a theory suggesting that the enigmatic figure who resolved the case
was Lady Arabelle Devoux, the real person behind the fictional Investigator Vale and that the narrative was later adapted into an
adventure novel titled "The Hounds of Black Moor."JarlMorryn appointed Lady Arabelle as Lion Thane, giving her land and
castle, which she named Lion Stronghold, in honor of the Lion Guard of High Rock, among which she had militated.
Eventually, Lady Arabelle had to hurry back to High Rock for an unknown reason, and the Lion Castle was cursed by the vile alchemist Arkasis. Will you rescue Lion Stronghold from that evil?
Features
There is a mini-quest with 2 bosses fighting to gain the ownership of the Lion Thane Stronghold. The quest starts when you read the note on Lion Castle that the courier brings to the player at first you load the game with the mod installed.
At the end of the mini-quest there is a reward with the Lion Thane Armor (heavy) and Lion Guard armor (light) completes of helmets, gloves, boots, cloak, and shield, more gold and gems. Check out in the mine for ore storage and with Anna The Sweet, the vendor, for more supplies for forging more armos for you men-at-arms at Lion Stronghold, because all this stuff can be crafted at the forge or
at the tanning rack (the cloak) and upgrade at the smithing workbench.
The castle
The Stronghold
Compatibility
Compatibles NO patch needed:
Multiple Floors Sandboxing is not needed, because Lion Thane Stronghold edits the same value.
For the NPC sandbox around all the floors of Lion Castle, you need to
install the patch provided by Lion Thane Stronghold Home is YourHome-Patch
if you have My Home is Your Home mod installed. Just overwrite it with the patch.
Compatibility Patches:
Patch-CACO FarmOverhaul-LionThaneStronghold.esp
Thane Stronghold.esp
Kojaks Whiterun Market and JK's Whiterun Outskirts, it needs
Kojaks Whiterun Market for JK Whiterun Outskirts patch,
and optional you can use with Elysium Estate too, follow load order instructions.
Download Patch-JK'sWhitOutskirts+KojaksWhitMarket-LionTS
ESL flagged, you find in optional files and
install with the other mods and patches with this exact load order:
JK's Whiterun's Outskirts.esp
Kojaks Whiterun Market.esp
Thane Stronghold.esp
Kojaks Whiterun Market for JK Whiterun Outskirts.esp
Patch-JK'sWhitOutskirts+KojaksWhitMarket-LionTS.esp -ESL flagged
Patch - JK's Whiterun Outskirts-Lion Thane Stronghold.esp
ElysiumEstate.esp
Patch - Lion Thane Stronghold-Elysium Estate SSE.esp -ESL flagged
Patch-JK'sWhiterunOutskirts+ElysiumEstate-Lion Thane Stronghold.esp-ESL flagged
NOT Compatible
Installation
It's good practice create a save game before installing the mod as a backup.
install the patch Lion Thane Stronghold - Undress Castle Pool Patch. It works with the player too, but only on undressing.
Patch with texture downsized replacer for users with performance problems: architectures and statues textures downsized to size 512 in interior and exterior areas. Install like any plugin after the main file to overwrite textures.
Not mandatory, but better make a new play-through for installation.
IMPORTANT: if NPC dialogue doesn't work immediately, just make a save and reload
it, and it will come out without any other problem.
Update
Lion Thane Stronghold v.1.2
Change log:
Change log:
Uninstallation
Uninstallation mid game is not recommended because of scripts.
Uninstall with your mod manager and delete all saves of the play-through with the mod installed.
Make a new game, or load a previous save game created before installing the mod.
Recommended Mods
Face Discoloration Fix SE - To fix black face maybe missing tint
Simple cow and goat milking - For having milk to convert into Primofiore Cheese at the farm workshop (it works with cows)
Bijin Skin UNP and CBBE SE OR BnP - Female Skin - For NPC aesthetic results
Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions
True Thane - For game play and immersion as Thane
Clever Charff's AIO 2K - For buildings textures good looking
…and that in my mod list as above - For the mod result as my screenshots
Credits Mods
Sonsof Skyrim by NordwarUA for the meshes models of Lion Thane armor andLion Guard armor and their equipments
ModderDisplay Compendium by MrDanSG1
RS Children Overhaul by Isophe
KSHairdoss SSE by Kalilies and Stealthic
Moregrowable plant portof Moreplants and recipes for HearthFires by Rowan Thomas – Numberland
VampireCastle by Zardalu
PlantableRoses of Remembrance for Hearthfire by Elrian
DomePainting Fickji for the original mod Skitinerant for the adaptation of Waterhouse images from Wikipedia Commons
BookSetsResource by Blary
Modder'sResource Pack - The Witcher Extension by Oaristys and CD PROJEKT
Statueof Kynareth by Mandragorasprouts
AntiqueStatue by Tamira
Tlaffoon'sRugs and Tapestries by Tlaffoon
LorModder's Resources by LorSakyamuni
Credits Textures and Meshes
Credit to Jojo-ojoj on Deviantart for textures withCreativeCommons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License:
Credit to Fractaleyes on Deviantart for textures withCreativeCommons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
Credit to Strapaca on Deviantart for textures withCreativeCommons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
Credit to Ojaqx-texturesn Deviantart for textures withCreativeCommons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
Image by Gleb_guralnyk on Freepik
Marble texture Designed by Vectorium / Freepik
FabricTexture Designed by Frimufilms / Freepik
Credits Audio files
AIgenerated by Play.ht forNPC custom dialogue lines
Credits Music
Through the Mirror - music by Adrian von Ziegler
Sing with the forest - music by Adrian von Ziegler
Feastof Cristpian – ambience and music by tabletopaudio.com licensed under creativecommons4.0
CreditsScripts
LightBotton Script by DarkFox127
Rainand Snow Clipping by Xilante
ModeUpscale Textures
Disclaimer
Lion Thane Stronghold is my first mod and I developed it for a year while I learned how to create mods. Moreover, I'm not English mother language. All the resources that I used are properly credited and I followed the rules, but if for some mistake in a so large work or because some misunderstand I forget something, just contact me on Nexus and I'll fix things, thank you.
Support Author
I'm a writer and one of my novels is translated into English. If you'd like to know something about “The Arcane Secret of Ulfberht's Legacy” I'd absolutely love you to check out my webpage, or if you're one of those wonderful people who'd like to support me, by reading my books, you can buy a copy of my novel!
Discover the secret of Lion Thane Stronghold and banish the evil from Lion Castle, to gain the ownership of the old property of Lady Arabelle Devoux, one ancestor of your grandmother, and with it the title of Lion Thane. A lore-friendly connection with the late Second Era of Tamriel lies under the history of Lion Stronghold: the history of the vile alchemist Arkasis, the old Jarl of Whiterun, and Lady Arabelle Devoux and her fiction alter ego, Investigator Vale, all reported in the novel The Hounds of Black Moor.
Description of Lion Thane Strongold mod for Skyrim SE
In the year 2E 577, the city of Whiterun experienced a period of intense fear. It was besieged by deranged outsiders and howling wolves during the night, leading to a series of mysterious disappearances. The situation escalated when a member of the Battle-Born clan was discovered naked, drenched in blood, amidst dead livestock on the grounds of the Gray-Mane estate.
This triggered a conflict, almostresulting in accusations of lycanthropy and a potential execution, until Lady Arabelle Devoux who at the time was in Skyrim, intervened and resolved the crisis. Shortly thereafter, the Jarl of Whiterun and
the court alchemist disappeared, fueling suspicions of a conspiracy against the prominent families.
The newly appointed Jarl, Morryn,designated the court alchemist, Arkasis, as a formidable enemy.
According to the "Chronicler-at-Large," Adandora, there is a theory suggesting that the enigmatic figure who resolved the case
was Lady Arabelle Devoux, the real person behind the fictional Investigator Vale and that the narrative was later adapted into an
adventure novel titled "The Hounds of Black Moor."JarlMorryn appointed Lady Arabelle as Lion Thane, giving her land and
castle, which she named Lion Stronghold, in honor of the Lion Guard of High Rock, among which she had militated.
Eventually, Lady Arabelle had to hurry back to High Rock for an unknown reason, and the Lion Castle was cursed by the vile alchemist Arkasis. Will you rescue Lion Stronghold from that evil?
Features
There is a mini-quest with 2 bosses fighting to gain the ownership of the Lion Thane Stronghold. The quest starts when you read the note on Lion Castle that the courier brings to the player at first you load the game with the mod installed.
At the end of the mini-quest there is a reward with the Lion Thane Armor (heavy) and Lion Guard armor (light) completes of helmets, gloves, boots, cloak, and shield, more gold and gems. Check out in the mine for ore storage and with Anna The Sweet, the vendor, for more supplies for forging more armos for you men-at-arms at Lion Stronghold, because all this stuff can be crafted at the forge or
at the tanning rack (the cloak) and upgrade at the smithing workbench.
The castle
- Lion Castle - Player Home
- Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions 6 beds for up to 6 child adoptable
- More room for up to 10 followers, more for one spouse
- Custom crafting stations
- Custom storage system with cloud armor, weapons, ingredients, and gems chests
- Laboratorium with repeatable skills boosts locations (you can increase by 30%
more during 4 hours with one skill chosen between Alteration, Conjuration, Destruction, Illusion, Restoration, Enchanting, and Alchemy). - Player custom trophy room with displays manual storage
- Swimming pool, throne, banquet hall and more.
- Kitchen with custom fire cooking places and custom food and drink storages.
The Stronghold
- Post guard with entry balcony, tower, and walls.
- Family Farmhouse with 4 custom-voiced NPC: player's father, grandfather, mom, and sister, with custom dialogue (if the player is race other than Nord, Imperial, or Breton, he will result as adopted to make sense for Argonians, Khajiit, and the other races).
- Commoners Farmhouse with 12 custom-voiced Npc: 6 guards, one farmer with his wife and a child, more two miners, and a merchant (Anna The Sweet sells her merchandise between 11 and 17 hours at the stand near the Stronghold entry).
- All the NPCs of Lion Thane Stronghold have their basic follower system. For the guards to wear the Lion Guard armor, which is light, give it to them through trade dialogue option. If they don't wear it right away, give them first Lion Thane armor, which is heavy, and the Lion Guard armor, retrieving Lion Thane armor.
- Farm workshop and blacksmith area with the custom production system of cheese and brevery.
- Farm Mill.
- Farm stable with cows, goats, and chickens. Apiaries, harvestable plants and planter soils: apple trees, wheat plants, tomato plants, garlic blueberry plants, and many more.
- Custom Fish Hatchery with pond.
- Entryway with market stand and horse stable.
- Custom Mine with a mini-dungeon spot.
Compatibility
Compatibles NO patch needed:
- Whiterun Expansion 1.3 Exterior Compatibility Version
- Fortified Whiterun
- Rob's Bug Fixes – Fortified Whiterun
- Rob's Bug Fixes – Capital WhiterunExpansion
- Ryn's Western Watchtower
- Warbird'sWhiterun Metropolis
- Whiterun Has Walls
- Whiterun Forest Borealis
- Northern Roads
- Northern Roads - JKs Whiterun Outskirtspatch.esp (Northern Roads Patch collection)
- Whiterun Forest BorealisLightweight.esp
- CACO Farm Overhaul.esp
- Northern Roads.esp
- JK's Whiterun's Outskirts.esp
- Northern Roads - JKs Whiterun Outskirtspatch.esp
- Kojaks Whiterun Market.esp
- Patch-CACOFarmOverhaul-LionThaneStronghold.esp
- Thane Stronghold.esp
- Kojaks Whiterun Market for JK WhiterunOutskirts.esp
- Patch-JK'sWhitOutskirts+KojaksWhitMarket-LionTS.esp
- Patch - JK's Whiterun Outskirts-LionThane Stronghold.esp
- ElysiumEstate.esp
- Patch - Lion Thane Stronghold-ElysiumEstate SSE.esp
- Patch-JK'sWhiterunOutskirts+ElysiumEstate-LionThane Stronghold.esp
Multiple Floors Sandboxing is not needed, because Lion Thane Stronghold edits the same value.
For the NPC sandbox around all the floors of Lion Castle, you need to
install the patch provided by Lion Thane Stronghold Home is YourHome-Patch
if you have My Home is Your Home mod installed. Just overwrite it with the patch.
Compatibility Patches:
- Elysium Estate SSE download the patch you find in optional files, and install after the 2 player homemods - ESL flagged
- JK's Whiterun Outskirts download the patch you find in optional files
- Patch-JK'sWhiterunOutskirts-ElysiumEstate-Lion Thane Stronghold1.0 ESL flagged it fixes wall compatibility between Elysium Estate and JK's Whiterun Outskirts, it needs both the patches: Patch - JK's Whiterun Outskirts-Lion Thane Stronghold 1.2
- Patch CACO FarmOverhaul - ESL flagged - need LOAD ORDER:
Patch-CACO FarmOverhaul-LionThaneStronghold.esp
Thane Stronghold.esp
- Patch Kojaks Whiterun Market
Kojaks Whiterun Market and JK's Whiterun Outskirts, it needs
Kojaks Whiterun Market for JK Whiterun Outskirts patch,
and optional you can use with Elysium Estate too, follow load order instructions.
Download Patch-JK'sWhitOutskirts+KojaksWhitMarket-LionTS
ESL flagged, you find in optional files and
install with the other mods and patches with this exact load order:
JK's Whiterun's Outskirts.esp
Kojaks Whiterun Market.esp
Thane Stronghold.esp
Kojaks Whiterun Market for JK Whiterun Outskirts.esp
Patch-JK'sWhitOutskirts+KojaksWhitMarket-LionTS.esp -ESL flagged
Patch - JK's Whiterun Outskirts-Lion Thane Stronghold.esp
ElysiumEstate.esp
Patch - Lion Thane Stronghold-Elysium Estate SSE.esp -ESL flagged
Patch-JK'sWhiterunOutskirts+ElysiumEstate-Lion Thane Stronghold.esp-ESL flagged
- Dark's Whiterun Market download the patch you find in optional files, and install after the 2 mods - ESL flagged
- Patch-eFPSOccSkyrimDarkWhiterunMarket-LionTS1.0 Resolve occlusion issues ofdisappearing landscape between eFPS official Patch Hub(Occ_Skyrim_DarkWhiterun-market_patch.esp) and Patch-Dark's Whiterun
Market-LionThaneStronghold - ESL flagged
- Occ_Skyrim_Tamriel.esp
- WhiterunMarket.esp
- Thane Stronghold.esp
- Occ_Skyrim_DarkWhiterun-market_patch.esp
- Patch-eFPSOccSkyrimDarkWhiterunMarket-LionTS.esp
- Patch-Dark's WhiterunMarket-LionThaneStronghold.esp
- Patch-RS Children-LionTS(Leif the Nimble)ESL flagged-Patch NPC Leif the Nimble for RS Children
- Patch of Alpine Forest Of Whiterun Valley with Lion Thane Stronghold
NOT Compatible
- Summers dream
- Whiterun safehold
- Ryn'sWhiterun City Limits
- Castle Dovah
Installation
It's good practice create a save game before installing the mod as a backup.
- Install the Main File Lion Thane Stronghold 1.2 (Thane Stronghold.esp) with your mod manager (I use Mod Organizer 2)
- Then install the patch Lion Thane Stronghold-My Home is Your Home-Patch, overwriting My Home is Your Home mod if it is installed.
install the patch Lion Thane Stronghold - Undress Castle Pool Patch. It works with the player too, but only on undressing.
Patch with texture downsized replacer for users with performance problems: architectures and statues textures downsized to size 512 in interior and exterior areas. Install like any plugin after the main file to overwrite textures.
Not mandatory, but better make a new play-through for installation.
IMPORTANT: if NPC dialogue doesn't work immediately, just make a save and reload
it, and it will come out without any other problem.
Update
Lion Thane Stronghold v.1.2
Change log:
- Removed KS Hairdos SSE and The Eyes Of Beauty requirements. From now Lion Thane Stronghold doesn't have any dependencies other than the base game.
- Fixed mesh FPS problems through collision boxes around the statues with high poly count.
Change log:
- Fixed problem trigger giant attack Companion
- Removed dependencies USSEP no more required as master
- Fixed puzzle solve mismatch: snake and whale now match between dragon claw and the door. For some of Bethesda's mesh mistakes, the bear on the claw
corresponds to the eagle on the ring. But the puzzle's solution is now
ok. - Conversion of custom music files from WAV to XWM
Uninstallation
Uninstallation mid game is not recommended because of scripts.
Uninstall with your mod manager and delete all saves of the play-through with the mod installed.
Make a new game, or load a previous save game created before installing the mod.
Recommended Mods
Face Discoloration Fix SE - To fix black face maybe missing tint
Simple cow and goat milking - For having milk to convert into Primofiore Cheese at the farm workshop (it works with cows)
Bijin Skin UNP and CBBE SE OR BnP - Female Skin - For NPC aesthetic results
Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions
True Thane - For game play and immersion as Thane
Clever Charff's AIO 2K - For buildings textures good looking
…and that in my mod list as above - For the mod result as my screenshots
Credits Mods
Sonsof Skyrim by NordwarUA for the meshes models of Lion Thane armor andLion Guard armor and their equipments
ModderDisplay Compendium by MrDanSG1
RS Children Overhaul by Isophe
KSHairdoss SSE by Kalilies and Stealthic
Moregrowable plant portof Moreplants and recipes for HearthFires by Rowan Thomas – Numberland
VampireCastle by Zardalu
PlantableRoses of Remembrance for Hearthfire by Elrian
DomePainting Fickji for the original mod Skitinerant for the adaptation of Waterhouse images from Wikipedia Commons
BookSetsResource by Blary
Modder'sResource Pack - The Witcher Extension by Oaristys and CD PROJEKT
Statueof Kynareth by Mandragorasprouts
AntiqueStatue by Tamira
Tlaffoon'sRugs and Tapestries by Tlaffoon
LorModder's Resources by LorSakyamuni
Credits Textures and Meshes
Credit to Jojo-ojoj on Deviantart for textures withCreativeCommons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License:
Credit to Fractaleyes on Deviantart for textures withCreativeCommons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
Credit to Strapaca on Deviantart for textures withCreativeCommons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
Credit to Ojaqx-texturesn Deviantart for textures withCreativeCommons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
Image by Gleb_guralnyk on Freepik
Marble texture Designed by Vectorium / Freepik
FabricTexture Designed by Frimufilms / Freepik
Credits Audio files
AIgenerated by Play.ht forNPC custom dialogue lines
Credits Music
Through the Mirror - music by Adrian von Ziegler
Sing with the forest - music by Adrian von Ziegler
Feastof Cristpian – ambience and music by tabletopaudio.com licensed under creativecommons4.0
CreditsScripts
LightBotton Script by DarkFox127
Rainand Snow Clipping by Xilante
ModeUpscale Textures
Disclaimer
Lion Thane Stronghold is my first mod and I developed it for a year while I learned how to create mods. Moreover, I'm not English mother language. All the resources that I used are properly credited and I followed the rules, but if for some mistake in a so large work or because some misunderstand I forget something, just contact me on Nexus and I'll fix things, thank you.
Support Author
I'm a writer and one of my novels is translated into English. If you'd like to know something about “The Arcane Secret of Ulfberht's Legacy” I'd absolutely love you to check out my webpage, or if you're one of those wonderful people who'd like to support me, by reading my books, you can buy a copy of my novel!