Been working a while on this one, hope you enjoy it!
- She uses your own installed body type and textures. (Fair Skin CBBE is what I use in my game)
After the intro, she has 9 formulas (spells) that you can find for her (the can drop from boss chests, dungeon or above ground). You can give her new spells to use this way and use her satchel to swap out which spells she uses. If you like gathering ingredients (to allow her to learn the new spells, one time), you'll have fun with helping her build up her abilities. If you don't like gathering, once you fetch all the formulas, you can opt out of having to gather anything at all.
A lot of "how to do things" with the mod and formulas is spoken by Elana so pay attention to to what she talks about at the beginning (post intro). You can talk to her to learn about her backstory and if you do decide to look for ingredients, you can ask her the most likely places to find them.
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As people have been asking, Elana goes to Riften if she's not with you. She can be found at the Bunkhouse or in the Keep, near Wylandria. Y'all should talk to her a bit more and ask her about her past as she will tell you this.
I'm in the final stages of a new update for Elana. I was going to release this Friday the 13th because... spooky. But I updated by SSE to .640 and had to resolve a few mod issues unrelated to Elana. I have been playing Starfield for a bit, so had given Skyrim a rest.
Highlights: - A few fixes for minor issues. - A new Easy mode for the ingredient side of things. Long story short is that is you're not fond of looking for ingredients, just want a quicker play companion or keeping track of ingredients is just too much, when finding a formula, it automatically puts that imbued gem in her specimen satchel. This is completely optional and you must talk to her to enable this (replaces the original cheat mode). Just like cheat mode, it does grant any gems for formulas that you've found but don't have gems for yet. - New enemy Necromancer encounters when you're going after formulas. - Mage Hunter and Mage Seeker encounters that eventually lead to a new Quest that helps you to resolve Elana's dilemma with the staff. - New bonus part of the Skeleton Horde that appears sometimes... Pee-Wee Vermit, a tribute to Paul Reubens. Watch Pee-Wee smite your enemies with his enormous "funny bone". - And more!
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As people have been asking, Elana goes to Riften if she's not with you. She can be found at the Bunkhouse or in the Keep, near Wylandria. Y'all should talk to her a bit more and ask her about her past as she will tell you this.
So I manage to bug out the quest Understaffed and got the mages bodies to no spawn . I have the quest marker but there is nothing there , not even under the map since i've searched the area with tcl . What is the stage and quest ID to get the note from them since loading a previous save is kinda not possible (mostly because I don't want to lose around 4 hours) . EDIT: Yep , found my way through SSEdit and got the ID and stages of the quest then finished it normally .
Love this companion and her summon, Seraphina. I know you're probably not planning it, but Seraphina would make a great stand alone follower if you kept along the lines of the dialogue she already has.
Can you give me any advice? I took Elana and completed the introductory quest. and then he walked around the world and collected all ten formulas. Also, while we were traveling, her attitude towards me increased to a maximum of 500. But I don’t get a continuation of the plot. I know that there should be a quest about the staff and its return. Also, it seems that relationships should develop in dialogues and a wedding is possible. But I don't have any of this. I just got a companion, collected all the spells for her and now she just runs around with me and that’s it. There is no plot or quest development. Perhaps there should be some dialogue in the menu that advances the plot. But I don't have anything like that. Only function dialogs talking about different statuses and settings.
Even before all ten formulas were found, we were attacked by mage hunters from her old college. I think there's a convenient note to pick up from one of their corpses. That triggers the dialog about what to do about the staff she stole.
However, it will now be difficult for you to remember the approximate attack. (for me approximately between the 4th and 6th formula)
Please also take a look at your quest journal, there may be an entry there that you can use to locate this "necromancer seeker" later. Otherwise, you probably won't be spared from loading a save that precedes the attack in question.
Edit: It concerns the quest "Understaffed" - (Search the corpses, read the note, talk to Elana...)
JimmIblis, bacsie Thanks to both of you. I had two attempts to complete this quest. And I didn't receive this letter every time. And it seems I haven’t met any hunters. But then I didn’t know where to look. Now I have started for the third time and will carefully look around. I hope I meet these hunters and receive a letter.
Liking so far! For some reason, when summoned in combat, Boris turns any friendlies that happen to be nearby hostile. Could be from his Taunt ability? No biggy, I just took that spell away. That system is brilliant btw. It's very difficult to find and remove spells from companion npcs, and for that reason can't use anyone that spams annoying spells like Fireball or Frost Atronach. Your system solves that easily. I also like that I can ask her to limit Summons to outdoors. Another thing I wish I could ask of other npcs. Thanks for doing this.
Just picked her up, and I'm loving her and Ninara's comments back and forth
Is there any way she could also look in the player's inventory, as well as her satchel, when she's trying to make a spell gem? Or does her satchel exist as a physical container somewhere I could coc to? I'm using Smart Harvest, and I'd love to just give her all my ingredients automatically. If there's a physical chest I can direct my looted ingredient's there, but I can't do it to a person (and I don't think it'd reach her satchel specifically even if I could).
In my pursuit of a good support follower, I scoured and tried many many custom followers, but I can honestly say Elana is one of the best one out there. Her Imbued magic system is so versatile and customizable, perfect for almost any playthrough albeit a tad confusing at first on how to utilize it, but once you get the hang of it, she's easily amongst the most useful while also features a lot of nifty stuffs.
From compatibility with NFF (I wonder why, lol) to quest commentary, a decent introduction and personal quest, and rather extensive behavior tweaker, she got em all covered. The AI voice sounds decent enough in my opinion, while yes she lacks the expressive nature and the intonation of an actual VA, it's still sounds good enough for me to not even feel bothered by it.
All in all, I feel like I found my perfect supporting party member, and quite happy with how well she turned out to be!
Anyone play this with 3DNPC? I encountered a weird bug where Elana would be instantly hostile and attack Anum-La the Swamp Knight when you meet her. When I try to force calm her and recruit Anum-la, it's fine, but it's such a weird interaction. Does Elana just really hates Argonians?
You may have a mod conflict due to changes to combat AI or general NPC AI overhaul. Basically, the 3DNPC should be "friendly" towards the player based on their friendship rank. Also Anum-La the Swamp Knight.
However, I would imagine that when you first encountered Anum-La, she may have been attacked by a "giant swamp spider." Elana may have recognized the situation and went on the attack with her “fighting bunnies”. I have experienced this very often myself or read about it here in the forum. When the actual enemy attack is completed, uninvolved "peaceful NPCs" were also attacked for no reason - perhaps Anum-La too!
The only thing I could recommend you is to remove the corresponding "Formula" and the "Imbuled Gem" from Elana's "Special Bag" - especially the infamous "Fighting Hares" = "Deadly Vermin".
Want to say that Elena looks great and the spell system you built into the mod is very interesting. I am considering adding her to my next playthrough but I am usually very careful to what I add to my collections. One question though. I see someone a few posts ago complaining about random and frequent Necromancer encounters occuring after they installed the mod. I don't see anything about them on the description page and I don't see anyone else complaining about this. Is this something the mod adds or is it possible that poster has mods that are conflicting with Elena and is generating those encounters?
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- She uses your own installed body type and textures. (Fair Skin CBBE is what I use in my game)
After the intro, she has 9 formulas (spells) that you can find for her (the can drop from boss chests, dungeon or above ground). You can give her new spells to use this way and use her satchel to swap out which spells she uses. If you like gathering ingredients (to allow her to learn the new spells, one time), you'll have fun with helping her build up her abilities. If you don't like gathering, once you fetch all the formulas, you can opt out of having to gather anything at all.
A lot of "how to do things" with the mod and formulas is spoken by Elana so pay attention to to what she talks about at the beginning (post intro). You can talk to her to learn about her backstory and if you do decide to look for ingredients, you can ask her the most likely places to find them.
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As people have been asking, Elana goes to Riften if she's not with you. She can be found at the Bunkhouse or in the Keep, near Wylandria. Y'all should talk to her a bit more and ask her about her past as she will tell you this.
Highlights:
- A few fixes for minor issues.
- A new Easy mode for the ingredient side of things. Long story short is that is you're not fond of looking for ingredients, just want a quicker play companion or keeping track of ingredients is just too much, when finding a formula, it automatically puts that imbued gem in her specimen satchel. This is completely optional and you must talk to her to enable this (replaces the original cheat mode). Just like cheat mode, it does grant any gems for formulas that you've found but don't have gems for yet.
- New enemy Necromancer encounters when you're going after formulas.
- Mage Hunter and Mage Seeker encounters that eventually lead to a new Quest that helps you to resolve Elana's dilemma with the staff.
- New bonus part of the Skeleton Horde that appears sometimes... Pee-Wee Vermit, a tribute to Paul Reubens. Watch Pee-Wee smite your enemies with his enormous "funny bone".
- And more!
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As people have been asking, Elana goes to Riften if she's not with you. She can be found at the Bunkhouse or in the Keep, near Wylandria. Y'all should talk to her a bit more and ask her about her past as she will tell you this.
If there was a voice add-on for OStim, there'd be another .5 in there!
Like she wrecks bandits before I even get a chance to hit them with her magic.
So I manage to bug out the quest Understaffed and got the mages bodies to no spawn . I have the quest marker but there is nothing there , not even under the map since i've searched the area with tcl .
EDIT: Yep , found my way through SSEdit and got the ID and stages of the quest then finished it normally .What is the stage and quest ID to get the note from them since loading a previous save is kinda not possible (mostly because I don't want to lose around 4 hours) .
Perhaps there should be some dialogue in the menu that advances the plot. But I don't have anything like that. Only function dialogs talking about different statuses and settings.
However, it will now be difficult for you to remember the approximate attack. (for me approximately between the 4th and 6th formula)
Please also take a look at your quest journal, there may be an entry there that you can use to locate this "necromancer seeker" later.
Otherwise, you probably won't be spared from loading a save that precedes the attack in question.
Edit:
It concerns the quest "Understaffed" - (Search the corpses, read the note, talk to Elana...)
Thanks to both of you. I had two attempts to complete this quest. And I didn't receive this letter every time. And it seems I haven’t met any hunters. But then I didn’t know where to look. Now I have started for the third time and will carefully look around. I hope I meet these hunters and receive a letter.
For some reason, when summoned in combat, Boris turns any friendlies that happen to be nearby hostile. Could be from his Taunt ability? No biggy, I just took that spell away. That system is brilliant btw. It's very difficult to find and remove spells from companion npcs, and for that reason can't use anyone that spams annoying spells like Fireball or Frost Atronach. Your system solves that easily.
I also like that I can ask her to limit Summons to outdoors. Another thing I wish I could ask of other npcs.
Thanks for doing this.
Is there any way she could also look in the player's inventory, as well as her satchel, when she's trying to make a spell gem? Or does her satchel exist as a physical container somewhere I could coc to? I'm using Smart Harvest, and I'd love to just give her all my ingredients automatically. If there's a physical chest I can direct my looted ingredient's there, but I can't do it to a person (and I don't think it'd reach her satchel specifically even if I could).
In any case, thank you for all that you do
From compatibility with NFF (I wonder why, lol) to quest commentary, a decent introduction and personal quest, and rather extensive behavior tweaker, she got em all covered. The AI voice sounds decent enough in my opinion, while yes she lacks the expressive nature and the intonation of an actual VA, it's still sounds good enough for me to not even feel bothered by it.
All in all, I feel like I found my perfect supporting party member, and quite happy with how well she turned out to be!
However, I would imagine that when you first encountered Anum-La, she may have been attacked by a "giant swamp spider." Elana may have recognized the situation and went on the attack with her “fighting bunnies”. I have experienced this very often myself or read about it here in the forum. When the actual enemy attack is completed, uninvolved "peaceful NPCs" were also attacked for no reason - perhaps Anum-La too!
The only thing I could recommend you is to remove the corresponding "Formula" and the "Imbuled Gem" from Elana's "Special Bag" - especially the infamous "Fighting Hares" = "Deadly Vermin".
Thank you for your time.
I haven't finish her quest yet, but if this is like Nether's other follower mod Jenna, the encounters should stop once her quest is completed