ADASH - CITY OF MAGIC
A project for Oblivion and Shivering Isles.

Beyond the coasts of Tamriel,
far in the west amidst the unknown.
There's a city filled with magic and miracles.
A free city under the banner of the brotherhood.
A Place for traders, mages and adventurers,
a place for slayers, bandits and slave-traders.
Five magical circles, an endless fight for power.
A free city, without the servitude of the emperor...

Chosen by the Gods to face up to the Triumvirate,
those Gods are not well-disposed to the Namadash.
Deep beneath the lanes and streets of Adash,
the real enemy of this world is revealed to the Wanderer.
And everything he hoped to know and believed in
loses its meaning in this moment...




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ABOUT THE ENGLISH VERSION OF ADASH

The Oblivion modification 'Adash - City of Magic' is one of the biggest german
story driven projects so far released here in Germany. Now there is an english
version out! Fully translated, but with german voice acting.

Thank you goes to WALKERINSHADOWS for the translation!

WEBPAGE: http://www.adash-web.de

Please download the german version first (about 752 MB), some mirrors:
- http://www.worldofelderscrolls.de/?fileid=132&go=dlfile
- http://www.scharesoft.de/joomla/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=27&func=fileinfo&id=1457

To install: Extract the archive (of the german version) into the Data subfolder of Oblivion.
Then replace the "LordKain_Adash_World.esp" of the german version with the
"LordKain_Adash_World.esp" of the english version!

IMPORTANT: Make sure that you have "Shivering Isles" and the current patch v1.2.0416
already installed on your system before installing this mod.

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FEATURES OF THE FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD CHAPTER

• an extensive main quest with serveral hours of gameplay (20 parts)
  
• four new guilds (Mercenaries of Than / The Third Hand / The Followers of Palidan / Anruin's Pawnshop) and 24 quests
  
• furthermore 17 additional side quests
  
• six extensive playable parts of the city of Adash
  
• more than 130 characters with completely and individually voice-over (spoken by 75 speakers)
  
• with more than 4500 spoken lines one of the biggest german projects
  
• more than 50 minutes of newly composed music
  
• a revised NPC-to-NPC-Conversation-System for more realistic conversations
  
• overall more than 30 hours of gameplay

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ABOUT THE WORLD OF ADASH

Adash, the city of magic, is a place beyond the boundaries of Cyrodiil and Tamriel
far in the west at the end of the sea. A Place with his own history, his own culture
and his own conflicts. For several months the fragile peace between the Five Circles
threatens to find an end and in these days the Oracle of Mandakar speaks about the
arrival of a stranger from the east... But who is this stranger, who has to oppose
the still banished enemies from a world beyond imagination?

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IMPRESSIONS FROM 'FIRST CHAPTER: FLAMES OF THE PAST' (selection)

http://adash-web.de/screens/003.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/004.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/005.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/006.jpg
http://adash-web.de/screens/007.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/008.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/009.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/010.jpg

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IMPRESSIONS FROM 'SECOND CHAPTER: THE BLACK TEMPLE' (selection)

http://adash-web.de/screens/kap2_01.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap2_02.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap2_03.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap2_04.jpg
http://adash-web.de/screens/kap2_05.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap2_09.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap2_10.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap2_11.jpg
http://adash-web.de/screens/kap2_14.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap2_15.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap2_17.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap2_18.jpg

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IMPRESSIONS FROM THIRD CHAPTER: THE TRIUMVIRATE OF THE DANQUA' (selection)

http://adash-web.de/screens/kap3_01.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap3_02.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap3_03.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap3_04.jpg
http://adash-web.de/screens/kap3_05.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap3_06.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap3_07.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap3_08.jpg
http://adash-web.de/screens/kap3_09.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap3_10.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap3_11.jpg http://adash-web.de/screens/kap3_12.jpg

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VIDEO IMPRESSIONS (selection)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9imasBmYAaQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibZFh-zf_4
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=VpxMGytFPMc
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=t4fwW_7ERQ8

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MUSICAL IMPRESSIONS (composed by Alex Cottrell) (selection)

http://www.adash-web.de/music/00theme.mp3
http://www.adash-web.de/music/03theme_bc.mp3
http://www.adash-web.de/music/04theme_rc.mp3
http://www.adash-web.de/music/07blacktemple.mp3

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DOWNLOAD

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=31692

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If there are any questions, ideas or constructive criticism feel free to tell me.
I will try to respond as well as I can, but please forgive me some possible mistakes
as I'm not a native english speaker.

Would you be interested in having English voice-acting for the mod? I'm going to be free after June 15 (Summer holiday!) so I can do some voice-acting then, if you got a team of voice-actors you could also have people review the translations really quickly. What do you think?

PS

My congratulations to the modding team of this project, that really looks like one amazing mod. :tops:

Excellent job, Walker. Gonna DL this soon.

OMGOMGOMG! Instant-Download..... :bowdown:

:blink: ... What Kyoma said!

Big thanks for the translation!

Instant. Download.

Instant. Download. Oh my... God...

*yoink*

Thank you!

I'm only at 47% of the main German File...PLEASE DL FASTER, stupid computer!!!!!!!!!!

Many many thanks for this amazing looking mod. I've been wanting to play it for so long, and now it's here. And it's even translated. I feel positively spoiled! :laugh:


Thanks again.

These screens look magnificent.

http://adash-web.de/screens/008.jpg
I love the canol - I know it sounds strange but I kind of miss Balmora's canol when I travel around Cyrodiil. This should take care of that nicely, I think!

http://adash-web.de/screens/010.jpg
This one is wonderfully atmospheric.

http://adash-web.de/screens/kap2_03.jpg
Is this a puzzle? Do we get to solve it? It looks fascinating.

http://adash-web.de/screens/kap3_07.jpg
A great scenic view here.

All of this looks like wonderful stuff and I can't wait to try it out. I have one question: you mention this lies far in the west at the end of the sea. Does that mean Adash exists in the same worldspace as Cyrodiil? Or does it exist in its own worldspace?

Either way, count on another insta-download from me. Huge thank you's to everyone who helped bring us this massive project!

One thing...I wish the whole thing could have been translated.

I can't thank you guys enough for this! Thank you so much!

Is the main area of the mod in the tamriel world space or in its own?

Are there any known conflicts with popular English mods?

I assume deleting the German voices and use Ely's Universal Silent Voices will work fine?

Looked for conflicts in TES4EDIT and found very little, which is not surprising since it's in a different Worldspace. Found this:

1. [REFR:0003ADC7] (places ICGroundFloor08 [STAT:0003AD73] in GRUP Cell Temporary Children of ICTalosPlazaClaudiusArcadiasHouse "Claudius Arcadia's House" [CELL:0002C1A9]) is deleted. Looks like a "wild" edit?

2. Changes some Dialogue.
a. GREETING: [INFO:0003C8B5] and [INFO:0003C8B6]. Greetings if you are the Gray Fox. No conflicts with any of my currently installed mods, but could conflict with others.
b. GREETING: [INFO:0007B7DA], [INFO:0007B7DB, [INFO:0007B7DC] and [INFO:000AF05A]. Greetings if you are Champion of Cyrodiil. Conflicts with http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=23526

3. Makes some edits to
Worldspace \ 0000003C \ Block 0, 0 \ Sub-Block 0, 0 \ 00005FC6 \ Temporary \ 000074E7
and
Worldspace \ 0000003C \ Block 0, 0 \ Sub-Block 0, 0 \ 00005FE5 \ Temporary \ 000074C8
that looks like "wild" edits since it just removes the "Compressed" flag and makes some marginal landscape edits.

All of it is in it's own worldspace, there's just a npc added to the Mages Guild in Chorrol.

Also noticed these conflicts with http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=20053, after unpacking the BSAs and BAINing the whole package:

Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsbase01_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsbase02_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsbase03_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsbase04_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsbase05_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsbase06_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsbase07_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsbase08_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsbasecap01_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsbasedoor2x_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsmid01_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsmid03_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsmid04_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsmid04a_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsmid05a01_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsmid05a_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsmid08_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallsmid09_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallstop01_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallstop02_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallstop03a_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallstop03b_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallstop03c_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallstop03d_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallstop03e_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallstop04_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallstop05_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallstop05botadd_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallstop06_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallstop07endcap_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallstop08endcap_far.nif
Meshes\dungeons\fortruins\exterior\castle\rfcastlewallstop09_far.nif

Ooh, thanks for posting those. When you're so immersed in the text, it helps to have a look at the rest of it.


Yes, it's a puzzle. There's a spoiler about it in the readme. There's also an encoded message (a separate thing)... I'm not sure if Kain translated that one or not. *nudge nudge*


:shakehead:

finally!
personally, i don't really give a [censored] about voices, morrowind's text based system was plenty for me

Thank You Adash Team and Walkerinshadows!

quick question though: any known incompatibilities? level recommendation? can i bring a companion?

Hello, Walkerinshadows.
I followed closely your work with this challenging translation and the sensitive copy rights issues.
You solved both magnificently and and gave us generous gift.
Thank you.
Of course, it is entirely Lord Kain's fault that you had to make the translation - he could go drink beer and watch TV instead of making 752 MB mods, couldn't he?
Thank you both and wish me luck exploring Adash. (I am sure I'll need it.).

Intriguing...

Looks like nice work, LordKain.

Wow, I cannot believe that we finally get to play through this absolute masterpiece, I've been waiting for this for years now . Thank you so much LordKain for sharing this mod with us, and awesome job WalkerInShadows getting it all translated. That must have been an enormous task. I can't wait to finally visit Adash!!

Hmm... Strange download speed from mirror 1 - 1226 KB/s... never seen such speed.
Questions:
So, do I remove Voices.BSA or keep them (readme does not say anything about deleting.)

Have the meshes been PYFFIed before packed as BSA or we have to do it manually?

What is the load order?

Can someone give me a wee hint on how to start the quest?

A wee hint? Sure...read the read me file thats in the download