Valrysa is a young Falmer, born less than a century ago. Growing up, she honed her innate, natural skills with magic, melting and shattering her foes with a deadly mix of destructive sorcery and brutal close combat. Life beneath the earth is a precarious one, with monsters lurking in every shadow. Many times has an over the head swing with her trusty mace saved her life in close combat when her spells proved too slow to cast. Once, however, a feral Falmer slashed through her guard and across her cheek, leaving a scar that she now hides carefully with her platinum blonde hair. Ever since then, Valrysa became determined to perfect her skills with her magic and her mace, and is never content with settling for second best. 
   Valrysa had never seen or felt the light of the sun upon her skin until she stepped out into the surface world. Spurred onward by her youthful pride and a lust for action and adventure, Valrysa was eager to venture forth into  Skyrim and leave her mark on the history books in the land her ancestors once called home. Valrysa is skilled in magical ranged combat, and isn't afraid to enter a bloody melee with her frost-enchanted Ivory Glass mace, Leyaser.

   Ashian is a truly ancient Falmer. Having witnessed and survived both the Atmoran Conquests of Skyrim and his people's enslavement by the Dwemer, Ashian has seen all that the world could offer - for better or for worse. He carries with him the horrors he saw and committed in his long life, knowing that they will forever haunt him for as long as he lived. But those memories have not stopped him from living. In the centuries he spent underground, he grew accustomed to that neigh fruitless, brutal life. After being hunted for so long by both his devolved brethren and the Dwemer machines that patrol Skyrim's underworld he learned how to hunt them, and became exceptionally skilled at stalking unseen and loosing magical arrows from the darkness. When Ashian emerged unto the outside world, he was filled with great relief. After all he had seen and all that he had done, he was finally glad that he could put that darkness behind him and start anew.
   Although he looks forward to brighter, sunnier days, he has no qualms with plunging back into the darkness beneath the earth to slay the monsters that had tormented him and his people for so long. Ashian wields the ancient Ivory Glass witch-hunting bow, Leshasea, and prefers to strike from a distance.

* Right now neither of the two followers have any unique dialogue options or voices. I have no idea how to make either of those, and as it stands, I'm far too busy IRL to learn how. Eventually, I would like to have add more depth to these followers.
* I intend on fleshing out this mod more when I have the time to learn how to script spellcasting and make combat packages. I originally wanted Ashian to be a Witchhunter, who summons Atronachs and uses Illusion spells against enemies. Unfortunately NPC's don't cast these kinds of spells on their own... much to my frustration. 
* Ashian (and probably Valrysa) will equip a Hunting Bow when first recruited. This is a bug that all custom followers have. You will need to remove the bow from his inventory, or he won't use his own weapons. You only need to do this once. I can't fix this without breaking every follower mod out there, so manually removing that stupid Hunting Bow from his inventory ingame is the only way around this bug (thanks Bethesda)

LOAD ORDER:
Use LOOT to sort out your plugins.
After finishing installation make sure that you are only using Snow_Elf_Race.esm.

If you are using Better Vampires, Sacrosanct, and or Immersive Jewelry, you will need to manually sort some plugins after running LOOT:

BETTER VAMPIRES USERS:


SACROSANCT USERS


FERTILITY MODE AND UNIFIED PATCH


IMMERSIVE JEWELRY USERS:


BASHED PATCHES:
If you installed any optional compatibility patches, or if you are using any mods that modify the game's leveled lists (such as weapon/armor mods Immersive Weapons and Immersive Armors) I HIGHLY recommend that you run Wrye Bash and build a Bashed Patch. 
You will find advanced instructions on how to build a Bashed Patch here: STEP GUIDE: Bashed Patch.
However, if you want to just do what I do and only merge Leveled Lists (which is what is only really necessary) then follow my instructions below:
1. Open Wrye Bash.
2. Right click Bashed Patch, 0.esp, and click Rebuild Patch
3. Uncheck EVERY box in the window that pops up, EXCEPT Leveled Lists
4. Click Build Patch
5. Done!
Building a Bashed Patch will resolve many plugin conflicts, including those that you may encounter with this mod. 
My mod adds weapons to the vanilla leveled lists, and without a Bashed Patch, you may never see any Ivory Glass weapons in Falmer loot.

I aim to provide updates and bugfixes for this mod when I am able. These updates should not break your save, however, there are some steps you should take to make sure your character's traits are updated properly. 

Standard Updating Procedure

This is the standard updating procedure for 1.0.4 and above, unless specifically stated otherwise.

- Hit Tilde ~ to open the console, type in 'showracemenu' (without quotes) and press enter
- You will now be in the RaceMenu Screen. Make any changes you want (you don't need to) and press R to save and finish
- You should see on the top left of your screen: "Ancient Falmer perks and spells have been added successfully."
- Done!

Advanced Updating Procedure

WARNING! If you are updating from any version lower than 1.0.3 TO 1.0.3, you MUST follow the updating procedure below. You will NOT get the new Restoration skill bonus unless you follow this procedure:

- Hit Tilde ~ to open the console, type in 'showracemenu' (without the quotes) and press enter
- You will now be in the RaceMenu Screen. If you are using the RaceMenu mod or ECE, I suggest that you save a character preset of your current character before continuing 
- Change your character's race to any other race 
- Press R and confirm your changes, and return to the game. You should see the message at the top left of the screen: "Ancient Falmer perks and spells have been removed successfully"
- Open the console a second time, and enter RaceMenu again
- Change your character back to a Snow Elf, load your the character preset you saved
- Press R and confirm your changes, and return to the game. You should see a message on the top left of your screen: "Ancient Falmer perks and spells have been added successfully." Your new skill bonuses should be applied, and the Smite ability should be in your spellbook

You may also need to rebuild your Bashed Patch if I update the leveled lists, but I will let you know if you need to.