Skyrim Special Edition

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About this mod

Lore-friendly texture and FaceGen for player and all the NPCs.

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Inspired by Cathedral Player and NPC Overhaul - HMB II, I want to make a character overhaul that preserve the vanilla aesthetic with modern textures and models. Thanks to many talented modders in the community, there are lots of high quality and open-sourced assets exist. I hand-picked and choose the best available one to achieve a realistic, eye-pleasing and consistent visual to enhance my Skyrim experience.

Nordic Faces
can be used as a complete package of character overhaul, or serve as a solid base which you can add your favorite skins or NPC mod on top of it. The mod contains no plugins, only textures, meshes and FaceGen files are included to ensure high compatibility with other NPC mods.


Features
  • High quality and lore-friendly textures for Faces, Body, Hairs, Beards, Brows, Eye, Scars, Warpaints and Makeup.
  • Better hands, feet and body models. No neck-seam or clippings with vanilla clothes and armors.
  • Improve all playable races including human, mer and beastfolk. As well as vampire, snow elf, children and old people.
  • Tweaked some NPC appearance to look more eye-pleasing and less ridiculous.
  • Realistic, vanilla-flavored and consistent visual and aesthetic.
  • Plugin-less installation and high compatibility with other mods that edit NPC records. No black face problem.


Here are the mods used in this mod. Credits to the original authors.


Expressive Facegen Morphs SE by Niroku

Without this mod I won't be able to build Nordic Faces. All the FaceGen files are generate with it installed.
Not included in the mod. Highly recommended to install it so your character can get the awesome faces as well.

Expressive Facial Animations for Males, Expressive Facial Animations for Females by Niroku
All the FaceGen files are generated with those installed.
Not included in the mod. Highly recommended to install it so your character can get the awesome facial animations as well.

SUEMR SSE by RAN46 bellwood2206 Borearis HHaleyy rxkx22 Ruhadre
The FaceGen files are generated with it installed.
Not included in the mod. Highly recommended to install it so your character can get the amazing eye meshes as well.
The NPCs are generated with the no beast grow optional file.

High Poly Vanilla Hair by Macxhiin
The FaceGen files are generated with it installed. (Except for General Tullius, it uses the one from High Poly Head)
Not included in the mod. Highly recommended to install it so your character can get the amazing high poly hairs as well. 
Note: many screenshots in image section were taken before the mod implemented.

Vanilla Hair Remake by jg1
The FaceGen files are generated with it installed. It overwrites High Poly Vanilla Hair.
Not included in the mod. Highly recommended to install it so your character can get the amazing high poly hairs as well. 
Note: many screenshots in image section were taken before the mod implemented.

Closed Mouths for Orcs by Artsick
The FaceGen files are generated with it installed. It overwrites High Poly Vanilla Hair.
Not included in the mod. Highly recommended to install it so your orc character can close the mouth as well.

Xenius Character Enhancement Complete by Xenius
Serve as a base of the texture part of Nordic face. Very well designed assets. Included in the mod.

Males Of Skyrim by zzjay
A great skin texture and body model mod for men. Included in the mod.

Women Of Skyrim - RACIAL DIVERSITY by zzjay
A great skin texture and body model mod for women. Included in the mod.

Women of Skyrim female textures zzjay and Shiva182
The base of the above mod. Included in the mod.

Simple Children by Tetchystar
Included the textures from this mod.
I wanted to incorporate the facegen from this mod and TK Children, but the eye looks weird without the original tri files. So I give up and decided to go with vanilla facegen using SUEMR only. Recommended to install the full mod yourself.

Northborn Scars by Northborn
Included the vanilla scars texture from this mod.
Recommend to install the full mod if you want additional scars.

Superior Lore-Friendly Hair - HD Textures by skyrimaguas
Super high quality hair retexture! Also it improves the colour mismatch problem with beard a lot. Included the 2K rough version in the mod.
Thanks skyrimaguas for the permission to include them in this mod.
Note: many screenshots in image section were taken without the mod installed.

Skyrim Special Edition Upscaled Textures (SSEUT) by kartoffel
A fantastic project that offers high quality upscaled vanilla textures. Used the newly updated character textures for Khajiit, Argonian, short hairs, brows, beards and other little things with my own little tweaks. The result is really good. Super lore-friendly and high quality.

Masculine Khajiit and Feminine Khajiit by MONSTERaider
I edited the face textures from these two mods to fit the vanilla style. If you want full body texture or striped and leopard style, I highly recommend you to install the original mod. (Not included since 2.5 update for a more consistent style with vanilla, still recommend if you want striped or leopard style. )

Cleaned Skyrim SE Textures by kartoffel
Extracted the argonian and khajiit textures, as well as a few human textures (beard and brows) to complement the others.
The result is quite good being a Cleaned texture, definitely better than the SE original. (Many textures were replaced by SSEUT in 2.5 update. )

HD Elf Eyes Lore-Friendly Immersive Immersion by kartoffel
Used a few texture from this mod. At one point I considered to use all of its eye texture to keep a truly vanilla vibe.

Mild Complexion by nicostein
Included some of the complexion texture. It looks really nice.

Argonians Enhanced by Blackwolf24
Included the "No more plastic coated Argonians" files.

SC - Khajiit Improvement by ShinglesCat
Used the high quality tintmarks in this mod.

Vanilla Body with UNP Textures by Shiva182
Included in the Nordic Faces.


Installation
(Soft Requirement) Install Expressive Facegen Morphs
(Soft Requirement) Install Expressive Facial Animation (Male and Female Edition)
(Soft Requirement) Install SUEMR main files v3.0 Meshes and No Beast Race Glow in optional files
(Soft Requirement) Install High Poly Vanilla Hair
(Soft Requirement) Install Vanilla Hair Remake
(Soft Requirement) Install Closed Mouths for Orcs
Install Nordic Faces - Complete Edition


Compatibility
Nordic Faces should be compatible with everything. If you want to use other NPC or skin texture mod, just load and overwrite everything after Nordic Faces.
Example of installation order:
Nordic Faces
Pandorable's NPCs
Other Pandorable's NPCs' patches
Bijin NPC Overhaul
Other Bijins' patches


Other Credits with the original mods
RaceMenu by Expired and expired6978
Fair Skin Complexion by HHaleyy
RAN46, bellwood2206, Borearis, HHaleyy, and rxkx22
Xenius for XCE
Neckros for Beauty faces
Caliente and ousnius for CBBE
HHaley for fair skin mod
Navetsea for Female face texture
tktk1 for pretty face
dimon99 for dimonized unp body
BellaGail for Better females
MissJennabee for imroved freckles
Zonzai for Real girls
Petrovich for Dreamgirl
Mavevan2 for Mature Skin
ShinglesCat for teaching me stuff 
Xs2reality for Sporty Sexy Sweat - wet specular maps
SvarogNL for Fitness Body
Shiva182 for organizing FOMOD
Mavan2 for Mature Skin
Wenderer for FOMOD Creation Tool
Neckros for Beauty Faces
Nuska (for mod resources collecection)
HHaley (Fair Skin COmplexion)
ShinglesCat for all the knowledge sharing
Navetsea
Fading Signal > Sky SIght Skin Texture and for being extra kind <3
Shingles Cat <3 > SC Men Faces whos normalmap are amazing.
MagicNakor > Better Male Feet
Imperator3 > Mens Underwear replacer (+ neovinci and baron david)
Letho0036 and Dizona > specularmaps + Head texture in younger version : 
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/100547
Urshi >specularmap
Tetchystar
Blackwolf24
Phygit for FemFeet
traa108 — Tempered Skins for Males
traa108 — Tempered Skins for Females
HHaleyy — Fair Skin Complexion
Mandragorasprouts — Vitruvia - Skin texture overhaul for males
Rx310 & Ice885 — Freckles and Rough skin Complexion Retex

Gizmodian for the scar and warpaint resources
leboef for the brushes
Phygit for FemFeet
Geonox for High Res Face Maps for Men
Mr. Dave for Lashmaker Eyelash Alpha Resource
Gka 1 for Cathedral Assets Optimizer
Serana Unsquared for NPC face setting of Serana
WICO - Windsong Immersive Character Overhaul for some of NPC face setting
nuska from Ethereal Elven Overhaul
KouLeifoh from High Poly Head