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Trivsea is a female dunmer with a Nord father. Her face is rounder than that of most elves, her ears slightly shorter, her eyes as big as an elf's but with the frosty blue iris of a Nord maiden, her skin tone still ashen blue but paler and closer to that of Nords and she has many other subtle touches such as these.
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Trivsea is a female dunmer with a Nord father. Her face is rounder than that of most elves, her ears slightly shorter, her eyes as big as an elf's but with the frosty blue iris of a Nord maiden, her skin tone still ashen blue but paler and closer to that of Nords and she has many other subtle touches such as these. I am no moder but I had lots of fun designing her in the race menu and decided others might like her as well! She is also taller than most Dunmer, and if that bothers you it's very easy to fix! (the camera in character creation will be a bit off-set because of her extra height - you can remedy this by going to the last tab in the race menu and decreasing the height slider from 1.06 to less)
Requirements
If you want her to look like in the screenshots please download and install the required mods, (CBBE, Fair Skin Complexion, Eyes of Beauty and KSHairdos, as well as obviously race menu) and while I uploaded her preset here so you can edit it and use it to your heart's content, she comes with a story which I thought to also share here for those interested in unique role-playing ideas! Again, if you just want the preset, simply download, install and enable the required mods and then follow the installation instructions, but for those interested in the character concept that inspired her, read on and I think you won't be disappointed!
Installation Instructions
Manual: Download the archive and open it with WinRar, then simply drag and drop/extract the folder to Skyrim Special Edition
Vortex/Wrye Bash/NMM: Install as you would any other mod. Don't forget to enable it!
Background
Trivsea Norvayn was born the bastard daughter of the powerful patron of house Shatter-Shield of Windhelm, Yrsanil, in the year of the 4th era 139. Her mother was a Dunmer refugee arrived in Skyrim soon after the disaster of Red Year, and following a harsh existence in the cold streets of the Grey Quarter was eventually taken in by Yrsanil, officially as a house servant and unofficially as a concubine. She was the child of a forced union, and her and her mother were treated with contempt by Yrsanil and even worse by his Nord wife and her son and heir apparent, Torbjorn, who both saw Trivsea's existence as a stain on the family's honour.
Coming from a long line of alchemists and healers that served house Hlaalu for centuries and even had an ancestral tomb back in Morrowind, (so they used to be a well-off family until the events of Red year) her mother taught Trivsea to read and write and the basics of the Norvayn trade in alchemy and magic since early childhood, but especially to be proud of her Dunmer heritage and her name. On the other hand, constant abuse as a child from Torbjorn, his mother and eventually his wife and much younger two daughters, Nilsine and Friga, instilled in Trivsea a searing hatred for Stormcloaks and a strong desire in her heart to completely deny her Nord heritage. No matter how much money her mother's potions would make for the Shattershields, they would still wear rags and dine only on servant food.
Come Yrsanil's eventual death in 191, (who treated them better than the rest of the Shatter-Shield family especially as he grew older and more regretful of past deeds) she and her mother were thrown into the streets with nothing in their hands before the Windhelm winter, a season Trivsea's mother would not survive. Septimless, desperate and close to starving, the now-adult Trivsea left for the wilds in the spring of 192, planning to use her basic knowledge of alchemy to survive. She was found and taken in by a coven of witches who also taught her one or two destruction spells to protect herself, and she felt at ease for a few years within the coven, far away from the intrigue and plots of the Windhelm nobility. But alas, peace would not stay with her and one faithful day 9 years later, while collecting some ingredients for potions in the woods, she was captured by an Imperial patrol east of Helgen, and would soon make a discovery that will change everything...
What did I want to achieve with this background? Trivsea's dragonborn powers awakened from the blood of a long line of proud Nord warriors, a part of her identity that, some could say for good reason, she repressed and denied. Will she as a dragonborn embrace her Nord side and try to forge a world of less hatred and suffering and more equal coexistence between men and mer? Will she use her powers for revenge instead? If so, how? Will she join the imperial legion and destroy everything the Shatter-Shields stood for, conquering Windhelm at general Tulius's side, ending their line and make herself thane of new Windhelm, reigning over their dead bodies? Will she join the Dark Brotherhood because of the desire for revenge long buried in her heart, dreaming to hone her skills and hunt them down one by one? (the Dark Brotherhood quest "Mourning never comes" really allows you to bring ruin to the Shattershields if you kill Nilsine, as this will get her mother, Tova, to commit suicide, and as her younger sister Friga had already been killed by the butcher, this leaves Torbjorn sad, lonely and heirless) On that same note, will she claim her title as the last heir of house Shatter-Shield (she is, after all, Torbjorn's younger and only half-sister, and if his last legitimate daughter were to die somehow...) under an Imperial Windhelm and remake it into something that would get her Nord ancestors to move in their graves? (like, say, marry another Mer and worship a Dardric lord in Friga's former manor of Hjerim? Also, draugr pun unintended for the last sentence...)
Or will she never even admit to herself that Shatter-Shield blood flows through her veins, try to forever leave behind the city of ice and stone that brought her decades of sorrow and made her an orphan and, recognizing that her mother died exactly because of political scheming by Torbjorn and Tova, never involve herself in politics, stay away from the civil war and just try to lessen the suffering of the oppressed and do good deeds? (because she'd still have deep regrets for not being able to save her mother) Or maybe go to a secluded place of learning like Winterhold to, in a way, continue the Norvayn legacy and honor her ancestors but leave her past behind? She is even a perfect character for a pro-Thalmor playthrough if you ever wanted one and think you have the mods for it! She has been mistreated by a harsh prejudiced Nord society and lost everyone she knew because of it, (it is likely her witch coven was also found and destroyed by Ulfric's armies in the western Rift as they were marching for Helgen) so clearly she would see the empire as the far lesser evil for Skyrim, but not necesarily the best faction. Given her experiences, she might just wish for a world free of the yoke of human empires and perceive the Dominion as the last bastion of Elven independence. After all, Tiber Septim slaughtered countless elves with Nummidium in Summerset and was a brutal tyrant over all of Tamriel (he even disallowed any local militias in all provinces, effectively keeping them under military occupation). Saint Alessia, still revered all over Cyrodiil, founded an order that purged the entire race of the Ayeleids throughout the first era. If you look at their old history, starting all the way from the Alessian and Reman periods, the empires of Cyrodiil were mainly a force that subjugated elves and put them under Imperial control, (much like Stormcloaks are doing now to beastfolk and Dunmer) so if she doesn't directly witness crimes committed by the Thalmor (like Ancano's plan in the Winterhold questline), she might even in good faith view the Thalmor as having the moral high ground!
You could take this character in almost any direction except a Stormcloak playthrough and it will still give you the unique experience of being born in Skyrim, having ties to its people (you're no longer a "foreign prisoner") and a personality shaped by the tug of 2 very distinct identities that may well never be reconciled. She could become very dark and vengeful, very kind and compassionate or a hundred other in-betweens. Feel free to use and alter this back-story for yourself and ask me questions in posts if you want to! And if you're wondering, yes, she is supposed to be 62, but considering a Dunmer average lifespan of about 300, this is the Dark elf equivalent of being 20-22. (that's why she looks so young)
Conflicts
As for any racemenu preset, there are NO conflicts with other mods
Lore-Friendliness
I am aware that this conflicts with the book "Racial phylogeny", which states she should inherit only her mother's race, but "Brief History of the Empire" mentions an emperor living "half as long as an elf" due to a similar mixed background, so this is lore-friendly depending on which interpretation you prefer to canonize.
Requirements
If you want her to look like in the screenshots please download and install the required mods, (CBBE, Fair Skin Complexion, Eyes of Beauty and KSHairdos, as well as obviously race menu) and while I uploaded her preset here so you can edit it and use it to your heart's content, she comes with a story which I thought to also share here for those interested in unique role-playing ideas! Again, if you just want the preset, simply download, install and enable the required mods and then follow the installation instructions, but for those interested in the character concept that inspired her, read on and I think you won't be disappointed!
Installation Instructions
Manual: Download the archive and open it with WinRar, then simply drag and drop/extract the folder to Skyrim Special Edition
Vortex/Wrye Bash/NMM: Install as you would any other mod. Don't forget to enable it!
Background
Trivsea Norvayn was born the bastard daughter of the powerful patron of house Shatter-Shield of Windhelm, Yrsanil, in the year of the 4th era 139. Her mother was a Dunmer refugee arrived in Skyrim soon after the disaster of Red Year, and following a harsh existence in the cold streets of the Grey Quarter was eventually taken in by Yrsanil, officially as a house servant and unofficially as a concubine. She was the child of a forced union, and her and her mother were treated with contempt by Yrsanil and even worse by his Nord wife and her son and heir apparent, Torbjorn, who both saw Trivsea's existence as a stain on the family's honour.
Coming from a long line of alchemists and healers that served house Hlaalu for centuries and even had an ancestral tomb back in Morrowind, (so they used to be a well-off family until the events of Red year) her mother taught Trivsea to read and write and the basics of the Norvayn trade in alchemy and magic since early childhood, but especially to be proud of her Dunmer heritage and her name. On the other hand, constant abuse as a child from Torbjorn, his mother and eventually his wife and much younger two daughters, Nilsine and Friga, instilled in Trivsea a searing hatred for Stormcloaks and a strong desire in her heart to completely deny her Nord heritage. No matter how much money her mother's potions would make for the Shattershields, they would still wear rags and dine only on servant food.
Come Yrsanil's eventual death in 191, (who treated them better than the rest of the Shatter-Shield family especially as he grew older and more regretful of past deeds) she and her mother were thrown into the streets with nothing in their hands before the Windhelm winter, a season Trivsea's mother would not survive. Septimless, desperate and close to starving, the now-adult Trivsea left for the wilds in the spring of 192, planning to use her basic knowledge of alchemy to survive. She was found and taken in by a coven of witches who also taught her one or two destruction spells to protect herself, and she felt at ease for a few years within the coven, far away from the intrigue and plots of the Windhelm nobility. But alas, peace would not stay with her and one faithful day 9 years later, while collecting some ingredients for potions in the woods, she was captured by an Imperial patrol east of Helgen, and would soon make a discovery that will change everything...
What did I want to achieve with this background? Trivsea's dragonborn powers awakened from the blood of a long line of proud Nord warriors, a part of her identity that, some could say for good reason, she repressed and denied. Will she as a dragonborn embrace her Nord side and try to forge a world of less hatred and suffering and more equal coexistence between men and mer? Will she use her powers for revenge instead? If so, how? Will she join the imperial legion and destroy everything the Shatter-Shields stood for, conquering Windhelm at general Tulius's side, ending their line and make herself thane of new Windhelm, reigning over their dead bodies? Will she join the Dark Brotherhood because of the desire for revenge long buried in her heart, dreaming to hone her skills and hunt them down one by one? (the Dark Brotherhood quest "Mourning never comes" really allows you to bring ruin to the Shattershields if you kill Nilsine, as this will get her mother, Tova, to commit suicide, and as her younger sister Friga had already been killed by the butcher, this leaves Torbjorn sad, lonely and heirless) On that same note, will she claim her title as the last heir of house Shatter-Shield (she is, after all, Torbjorn's younger and only half-sister, and if his last legitimate daughter were to die somehow...) under an Imperial Windhelm and remake it into something that would get her Nord ancestors to move in their graves? (like, say, marry another Mer and worship a Dardric lord in Friga's former manor of Hjerim? Also, draugr pun unintended for the last sentence...)
Or will she never even admit to herself that Shatter-Shield blood flows through her veins, try to forever leave behind the city of ice and stone that brought her decades of sorrow and made her an orphan and, recognizing that her mother died exactly because of political scheming by Torbjorn and Tova, never involve herself in politics, stay away from the civil war and just try to lessen the suffering of the oppressed and do good deeds? (because she'd still have deep regrets for not being able to save her mother) Or maybe go to a secluded place of learning like Winterhold to, in a way, continue the Norvayn legacy and honor her ancestors but leave her past behind? She is even a perfect character for a pro-Thalmor playthrough if you ever wanted one and think you have the mods for it! She has been mistreated by a harsh prejudiced Nord society and lost everyone she knew because of it, (it is likely her witch coven was also found and destroyed by Ulfric's armies in the western Rift as they were marching for Helgen) so clearly she would see the empire as the far lesser evil for Skyrim, but not necesarily the best faction. Given her experiences, she might just wish for a world free of the yoke of human empires and perceive the Dominion as the last bastion of Elven independence. After all, Tiber Septim slaughtered countless elves with Nummidium in Summerset and was a brutal tyrant over all of Tamriel (he even disallowed any local militias in all provinces, effectively keeping them under military occupation). Saint Alessia, still revered all over Cyrodiil, founded an order that purged the entire race of the Ayeleids throughout the first era. If you look at their old history, starting all the way from the Alessian and Reman periods, the empires of Cyrodiil were mainly a force that subjugated elves and put them under Imperial control, (much like Stormcloaks are doing now to beastfolk and Dunmer) so if she doesn't directly witness crimes committed by the Thalmor (like Ancano's plan in the Winterhold questline), she might even in good faith view the Thalmor as having the moral high ground!
You could take this character in almost any direction except a Stormcloak playthrough and it will still give you the unique experience of being born in Skyrim, having ties to its people (you're no longer a "foreign prisoner") and a personality shaped by the tug of 2 very distinct identities that may well never be reconciled. She could become very dark and vengeful, very kind and compassionate or a hundred other in-betweens. Feel free to use and alter this back-story for yourself and ask me questions in posts if you want to! And if you're wondering, yes, she is supposed to be 62, but considering a Dunmer average lifespan of about 300, this is the Dark elf equivalent of being 20-22. (that's why she looks so young)
Conflicts
As for any racemenu preset, there are NO conflicts with other mods
Lore-Friendliness
I am aware that this conflicts with the book "Racial phylogeny", which states she should inherit only her mother's race, but "Brief History of the Empire" mentions an emperor living "half as long as an elf" due to a similar mixed background, so this is lore-friendly depending on which interpretation you prefer to canonize.