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Standalone Weapon and Armor replacer for the Thalmor

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Vanilla + style mod that replaces Thalmor weapons and armor with standalone variants unique to them, adds in a full set of elven gilded equipment cut from skyrim, and adds a crafting recipe to an elven cuirass that was uncraftable in the vanilla game

Feature overview:
- Thalmor now have their standalone versions of elven, elven gilded and glass weapons & armor
- Added sets carry forward most WACCF balances and fixes
- Full Non-Thalmor Elven gilded set is craftable with 'advanced armors' and 'elven smithing' perks, and elven gilded armor is listed to appear in leveled loot
- Non-Thalmor Elven/Gilded 'light' (No pauldron) Cuirass' now craftable with respectively reduced armor rating, weight and crafting materials

Elven Gilded:
- Elven gilded weapons are balanced between elven and glass as an improvement on elven weapons generally this will be higher critical damage and value, additionally for WACCF users they will have a higher base damage compared to elven and for non-WACCF users a lower weight
- Gilded armor is balanced between scale and glass, to learn more about the armor changes please refer to LE or SSE gilded elven armor mod description
- The Thalmor Gilded set is level listed to Thalmor between Elven and Glass improving their equipment leveling through the mid-game

Thalmor rearmed - HA additions patch:
- Adds in matching craftable elven gilded weapon variants from Heavy Armory
- Thalmor elven, gilded and glass HA one-handed weapon variants are added to Thalmor level lists

Thalmor rearmed - Crafting addons:
- Makes the Thalmor set variants craftable by the player
- Makes Two-Handed Thalmor weapons available to the player via crafting

Thalmor rearmed - Elven Steel patches:
- Integrates level lists from New Armory Series - Elven Steel so Thalmor no longer use vanilla steel weapons
- Thalmor rearmed 2 handed weapons will be distributed to 2-hander wielding Thalmor soldiers

Alternate Glass Textures:
- Swaps out aMidian glass textures for sforzinda's versions

Differences to Elven Gilded complete set:
- Elven Gilded not level listed to Thalmor, this has been replaced with Thalmor Gilded
- Changed Specular color of Elven Gilded to better match corresponding Thalmor Gilded set
- 'light' (no pauldron) cuirass crafting recipe added
- HA patch does not list any two-handed weapons to Thalmor in line with vanilla


Installation and Compatibility:
- For crafting patches: If using HA additions, both crafting patches should be installed for full crafting functionality
- If using the HA additions from New Armory - Elven Steel both Elven Steel patches should be installed from this mod

- Likely incompatible with other mods that edit the thalmor level lists
- Incompatible with my previous release
 Elven Gilded complete set (If using this mod Elven Gilded complete set is obsolete)


Notes:
I always liked the black and gold armor retextures as they helped improve the overall aesthetic of Thalmor you encountered in game, however I felt as though I was making one lore issue to solve another. Not all altmer and certainly not all mer are members of the Thalmor, but once I retextured elven gear it was all Thalmor styled. So now Thalmor goods were being sold by smiths loyal to imperials and stormcloaks alike, hidden deep in ancient nord ruins and Thalmor weapons are being used by the Redoran guards on Solstheim with utter impunity. The third Aldmeri dominion would certainly not approve of such a cavalier abandonment of the finest Alinor craftsmanship across Skyrim, it's about time the Thalmor put a stop to the smuggling and illicit trade of gear plundered from their armory.
Now you'll get a better-defined style for the Thalmor faction without sacrificing vanilla elven and glass gear, plus expanded elven gilded equipment all with a vanilla + experience in mind

On the new Elven gilded appearance 'According to lore, Gilded Elven is not in fact armor that's "gilded" with gold, as you'd think. It's actually a combination of moonstone and quicksilver. Quicksilver has sort of a blue-green hue with purple mixed in. I've gone for a subtle change which hopefully reflects what this alloy could look like.' - jedp15. Thinking on this I combined jedp15's cubmaps with Iconic's textures and a little nif tweaking of my own. I felt I had arrived at that shiny alloyed quicksilver and moonstone appearance I was looking for, helping it to stand out from regular elven armor while not looking too different

Thalmor armor appearances, this mod started off as a standalone aMidianborn retexture mod and grew from there, as the scope increased adding weapons, a full gilded set etc, I was no longer satisfied with just a retexture. I tried to make each variant stand out, so got to work mixing an aMidian base appearance with complimentary textures and cubemaps from other authors and some of my own alterations: Thalmor Elven has a golden brass metallic undertone that reflects its primary material moonstone, Thalmor Gilded replaces those undertones with a different cubemap and a cold blue reflection befitting of alloyed quicksilver, Thalmor glass is most alike to the original aMidianborn with its predominant change being a conversion from envmap to a multilayer parallax helping bring out the bright glassy reflections I wanted to see from malachite


Credits and Permissions:
Erlioniel - Elven Weapons for Silence
shodan44 - Black and Gold Elven Equipment
CaBaL120 - aMidianBorn Book of Silence
HigheverRains - HR's Glass Weapons 
IconicDeath - Elven Set - Resurgence & Glass Set - Resurgence 
jedp15 - Gilded Elven Armor Complete
hellwisp - Gilded Elven Armor Complete SSE version 
LeanWolf - Better-Shaped Weapons SE 
PrivateEye - Heavy Armory - New Weapons
sforzinda - Alternate Glass Textures (link to their variations page)