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About this mod
Materialized from obscure childhood fears, what could be more frightening than a profound trauma turned into a solid, horrifying deformed infant form of flesh and blood, which returns from the past lost in time to torment those who tried to forget it at all costs?
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When a sentient being thinks or feels, he unconsciously creates thought-forms, generated from his own mental and soul energy. Usually these forms are just floating ethereal masses, not visible to the naked eye, that orbit around their creators, and that dissipate as those whoever created them ceases to think or feel about the matter that lead to their creation. Some more intense forms exist for longer periods, and can even generate dreams, or especially nightmares, to their creators. When these long-lasting thoughts and feelings, which usually turn into deep fears, or overwhelming traumas, become obsessive, the thought-forms also become dense and catchable to the point of being detected by the Living Nightmares, who, by merging with them, end up using the form's creator soul energy, and their own, to model a densified and often exaggerated version of that original thought- form, which materially represents these fears, traumas, intense desires, so that they can then torment, dominate, and suck the strength of the afflicted. Often their presence is usually just ethereal or semi-ethereal, with them only becoming completely material in times of great stress or fear, however in most cases they are generally limited to haunt the nightmares of their victims.
In addition to tormenting directly those who have the fears, obsessions and traumas, they can also be brought to Nirn by mages associated with the realm of that Prince to which they are affiliated. Generally knowledgeable as Nightmare Apostles, these Vaermina cultists are also the source where you can get usually the spell tomes to learn how to summon small groups of Grey Children, or other similar nightmarish abominations."
by Beastmaster Mihail *
(*Who is Beastmaster Mihail? He is my avatar/persona within the universe composed of all my mods. He is the ingame author who writes the texts that are usually presented as descriptions for my mods. A former monster hunter, now a dedicated scholar, he is planned to be released as an NPC in late 2022/early 2023, doing the same job in-game as my descriptions do on Nexus.)
Technical details: Grey Children can be found being summoned by groups of Nightmare Apostles found randomly on Skyrim's
outdoor areas. One among the group usually carries a spell tome from where you can learn to summon Grey Childrens as well.
- 1 new creature: Grey Children;
- 1 new type of NPC: Nightmare Apostle;
- 1 new spell: Conjure Grey Children
So far no incompatibilities have been found between this mod and other mods.
(OBS- If by chance when installing several of Mihail's mods at the same time you are asked about files overwriting those of other Mihail mods or other authors mods, don't worry because they are just the same files shared between mods. I recommend that on these occasions always give preference to the files contained in my mods, and among mine always give preference to the mod you are installing last.)
The Mihail Monsters and Animals series aims to create and make available to the community the most complete set of creatures for TES 5: Skyrim, implemented in an immersive and unique way, with respect to the pillars of lore. Instead of pathetically just throwing models and textures in the game reusing 100% vanilla mechanics, the creatures made by Mihail have uniqueness and extreme zeal in their idealization and implementation, which will provide you with an experience that you have never had before in this area.
Author:
Mihail- Grey Children model, textures, animations, sounds, spell, game implementation; re-texture of the knives used by them; retopology, retexture and specular maps of the masks used by the Nightmare Apostles;
Some assets used on the mod belong to:
cjsavage56- model and original textures of the grey children knives;
Cyril43- model and original textures of the nightmare apostles mask;
Additional acknowledgments:
Konami and Masahiro Ito- the Grey Children available in this mod are inspired on the Grey Children from the Silent Hill franchise, and have part of their background also inspired by the official background of the ones in the aforementioned franchise. No assets belonging to Konami were used in the production of this mod.