Lion Thane Stronghold Skyrim SE mod by Gwendragon
About this mod
Discover the secret of Lion 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 lorefriendly 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.

Requirements
Skyrim SE
Update
Dawnguard
HearthFires
Dragonborn
Unofficial Skyrim Specia Edition Patch USSEP https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/266
KS Hairdos SSE
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6817
The Eyes Of Beauty
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/16185

OFFICIAL SITE https://www.cam.tv/gwendragon

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, almost resulting 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."
Jarl Morryn 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 Stronghold.
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 is can be forged 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 and harvestable plants: 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
Not compatible with mods that use the same cells, but compatible with Whiterun Expansion even if one of his buildings borders the entry wall of Lion Thane Stronghold.
Compatible with Fortified Whiterun, Ryn's Western Watchtower, and many other mods in the Whiterun area as you can see in my mod list of 450 mods: https://www.cam.tv/gwendragon/CNT9C91BE
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 Your Home-Patch if you have My Home is Your Home mod installed.
Just overwrite it with the patch.

Installation
It's good practice create a save game before installing the mod as a backup.
Install the mod 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 is installed.
If you want the NPC to undress/redress going in/out of the Lion Castle swimming pool, install the patch Lion Thane Stronghold - Undress Castle Pool Patch.
It works with the player too, but only on undressing.
Not need new gameplay for installation.
Uninstallation is not recommended because of scripts.
IMPORTANT: if NPC dialogue doesn't work immediately, just make a save and reload it, and it will come out without any other problem.

Recommended Mods
Simple cow and goat milking https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/30451
CleverCharff's AIO 2K https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/44650
Bijin Skin UNP and CBBE SE https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/20078
Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/3862
True Thane https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/42891
… and my mod list as above: https://www.cam.tv/gwendragon/CNT9C91BE

CREDITS

Credits Mods
Sons of Skyrim by NordwarUA for the meshes models of Lion Thane armor and Lion Guard armor and their equipments https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/68656
Modder Display Compendium by MrDanSG1 https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/62732
KS Hairdoss SSE by Kalilies and Stealthic https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6817
The Eyes Of Beauty by LogRaam aka Gabriel Mailhot
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/16185
More growable plant port of More plants and recipes for HearthFires by Rowan Thomas – Numberland http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/26851
Vampire Castle by Zardalu https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/16645
Plantable Roses of Remembrance for Hearthfire by Elrian https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/76098
Dome Painting Fickji for the original mod
Skitinerant for the adaptation of Waterhouse images from Wikipedia Commons
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/35071
BookSets Resource by Blary https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/14135
Modder's Resource Pack - The Witcher Extension by Oaristys and CD PROJEKT https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/68755
Statue of Kynareth by Mandragorasprouts https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/91358
Antique Statue by Tamira https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/28732
Tlaffoon's Rugs and Tapestries by Tlaffoon https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/68040
Lor Modder's Resources by LorSakyamuni https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/84433

Credits Textures and Meshes

Credit to Jojo-ojoj on Deviantart for textures with
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
https://www.deviantart.com/jojo-ojoj/art/Metal-seamless-texture-43-528437097
https://www.deviantart.com/jojo-ojoj/art/Metal-seamless-textures-7-575768587
https://www.deviantart.com/jojo-ojoj/art/Metal-seamless-texture-2-435108978
https://www.deviantart.com/jojo-ojoj/art/Metal-seamless-textures-pack-4-557775027
https://www.deviantart.com/jojo-ojoj/art/Metal-seamless-textures-461251168
https://www.deviantart.com/jojo-ojoj/art/Metal-seamless-texture-pack-2-472823291
https://www.deviantart.com/jojo-ojoj/art/Scales-metal-seamless-texture-2-443180458
Credit to Fractaleyes on Deviantart for textures with
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
https://www.deviantart.com/fractaleyes/art/PostApocalyptic-War-Giraffes-766574056
Credit to Strapaca on Deviantart for textures with
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
https://www.deviantart.com/strapaca/art/Rough-dark-woven-fabric-seamless-texture-860008713
Credit to Ojaqx-texturesn Deviantart for textures with
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
https://www.deviantart.com/jaqx-textures/art/Leather-brown-2-50838490
Image by Gleb_guralnyk on Freepik
https://www.freepik.com/free-psd/yellow-ears-composition-with-laying-seeds_9374380
Marble texture Designed by Vectorium / Freepik http://www.freepik.com
Fabric Texture Designed by Frimufilms / Freepik http://www.freepik.com

Credits Audio files AI generated by Play.ht https://play.ht/ for NPC custom dialogue lines.

Credits Music
Through the Mirror - music by Adrian von Ziegler
Sing with the forest - music by Adrian von Ziegler
Feast of Cristpian – ambience and music by https://tabletopaudio.com
licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Credits Scripts
Light Botton Script by DarkFox127 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BteERg_pPr4
Rain and Snow Clipping by Xilante https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/18651
Mode Upscale Textures https://openmodeldb.info/models/4x-Skyrim-Armory

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 (https://www.cam.tv/ulfberhtslegacy),
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 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CM7S1YQC)!