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A boy claiming to be your son has turned up in Riften. After reuniting with him, he can be recruited as a follower. He'll inherit your race provided you're not using a custom race.
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Description
This mod allows the player to find his or her long lost son to travel around Skyrim with as a follower. After you've been Thane of Riften for a few days, you should get a letter telling you that a child claiming to be your son has turned up in Riften. After receiving the letter, you can go and reunite with him, and recruit him to travel around with you. After recruiting your kid, his home will be set to Honeyside. I would recommend using a mod like My Home is Your Home to set his home to wherever you want him to live. He'll inherit your race provided you're not using a custom race.
There is no support for having a daughter at the moment. I hope to get around to this at some point, but crawling through the lines of dialogue to try and create a small dialogue sequence that made any kind of logical and tonal sense took quite a while, and since the malechild and femalechild voice types have unique lines, it will probably take me almost as long the second time through.
This mod does not:
Installation
I would recommend using the Nexus Mod Manager or a similar mod managing solution, but if you insist on installing manually, just put the .esp and .bsa into your Data folder.
Only choose one of the main files depending on whether you use RDO or VVE and whether or not you use RS Children
All the unique lines added by this mod are the same between the RDO and VVE versions, but he ones added by VVE and RDO differ, so you'll get a few different responses to companion dialogue depending on which version you choose.
If you use AFT, make sure this is loaded before that in your load order.
Known Issues
Required Mods
Recommended Mods
Credits
This mod uses assets from:
(A note about RS orc and elf children, I've had to reuse the exported facegen data provided from Aymar and Friends, so at the moment, the RS orc and elf children have the same faces and features as the characters from that mod. I feel a bit weird about that. They look great, but it's ultimately not the end state I want. That said, that's the only way I could get things to work at this point)
Part of the inspiration for this mod came from a mod which is no longer available called Ma'dashe. The khajiit version of the player's son is based on that character. The player's son knowing Unrelenting Force and Ice Form was a concept originating from that mod as well.
This mod allows the player to find his or her long lost son to travel around Skyrim with as a follower. After you've been Thane of Riften for a few days, you should get a letter telling you that a child claiming to be your son has turned up in Riften. After receiving the letter, you can go and reunite with him, and recruit him to travel around with you. After recruiting your kid, his home will be set to Honeyside. I would recommend using a mod like My Home is Your Home to set his home to wherever you want him to live. He'll inherit your race provided you're not using a custom race.
There is no support for having a daughter at the moment. I hope to get around to this at some point, but crawling through the lines of dialogue to try and create a small dialogue sequence that made any kind of logical and tonal sense took quite a while, and since the malechild and femalechild voice types have unique lines, it will probably take me almost as long the second time through.
This mod does not:
- Allow child races to wear armor meant for adults - I wanted to keep this mod as focused and compatible as possible, so I left this up to other mods. There are a few to choose from. Pick one that works for you.
- Allow you to adopt your son - He'll still call you Ma or Pa, but I wanted people to be able to take their kid adventuring, so he's recruitable but not adoptable. Getting npcs to switch between being adopted children and followers is pretty tricky. Maybe one day I'll take that on.
Installation
I would recommend using the Nexus Mod Manager or a similar mod managing solution, but if you insist on installing manually, just put the .esp and .bsa into your Data folder.
Only choose one of the main files depending on whether you use RDO or VVE and whether or not you use RS Children
All the unique lines added by this mod are the same between the RDO and VVE versions, but he ones added by VVE and RDO differ, so you'll get a few different responses to companion dialogue depending on which version you choose.
If you use AFT, make sure this is loaded before that in your load order.
Known Issues
- After packing the .bsa files, I'm not 100% positive that all the required files were included. If you have any errors that you think may be related to missing files, please let me know.
- There are a few dialogue edits where I stitched together two parts of a line, and not all of them are completely seamless. I tried to make the edits as clean as possible, but I was working with limited resources.
- Occasionally during combat, if your kid is lagging behind you, and enters combat range just as you are killing the last enemy, he'll use Ice Form or Unrelenting Force just as combat has ended, which will result in you and any other allies or bystanders being sent flying or freezing solid for about 45 seconds. If any allies or bystanders get hit, they'll see it as an assault and will start fighting your kid. It's pretty annoying, but has only happened to me a handful of times. If it bothers you, just use TES5Edit and remove the two shouts from your kid's spell list.
- In the RDO version, when you use the command "I need you to do something" he'll respond "What?" which will be silent, as if missing a voice file. I'm pretty certain this is not a result of this mod, as I tested the line on another child follower without this mod loaded and the line was still silent.
Required Mods
- VVE - This adds dialogue topics that allow children to be used as followers.
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- RDO - This also adds dialogue topics that allow children to be used as followers.
- The RS Children version requires RS Children
Recommended Mods
- A follower overhaul mod - feel free to use whichever you prefer.
- Convenient Horses - Gives your followers horses to ride
- My Home is Your Home` - allows you to set a home for your followers
- A mod that allows child races to wear armor, such as Armor and Clothing for Kids
- Universal Race Scale Remover SSE - a mod that removes the scaling effect applied when an NPC uses a piece of furniture or an idle marker. This prevents shorter characters from growing to normal interacting with certain furniture.
Credits
This mod uses assets from:
- VVE by aluckymuse
- RDO by cloudedtruth
- My Little Kitty Ma-Rakha Khajiit Boy by hl84
- My Little Hatchling Ram-Ku Argonian Boy also by hl84
- Pretty Khajiit by tktk1
- The RS Children version uses:
- RS Children by Ranaline
- Aymar and Friends - Adoptable Elven Children by mdfeelgood
(A note about RS orc and elf children, I've had to reuse the exported facegen data provided from Aymar and Friends, so at the moment, the RS orc and elf children have the same faces and features as the characters from that mod. I feel a bit weird about that. They look great, but it's ultimately not the end state I want. That said, that's the only way I could get things to work at this point)
Part of the inspiration for this mod came from a mod which is no longer available called Ma'dashe. The khajiit version of the player's son is based on that character. The player's son knowing Unrelenting Force and Ice Form was a concept originating from that mod as well.