ALMSIVI
~An Elder Scrolls Adventure~

Hello, everyone! I have been working on a project for a few months with a few people, and I would love to finally share it with you. So, please, let me elaborate as to what I have been concocting for the past while.

• What is "ALMSIVI"?

ALMSIVI is a narrative-focused Questline and Fan-made expansion pack for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim along the lines of a shorter, more packed version of Knights of the Nine. In it, players will return to the well-remembered Sheogorad Archipelago in Morrowind, where they will meet with new faces, and unravel a plot to retake Morrowind from the hands of those unfit to hold it. The Sheogorad Region will be filled with new dungeons, locales, and encounters for you to explore, as well as offering the player to re-visit cherished areas from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and see how things have changed in the 206 years separating the two games. The quest-line will feature full voice-acting and several multi-dimensional characters with their own agendas to fill, as well as offer new experiences that will feel refreshing to any player of Skyrim.

• What do you mean by "Lore-Friendly?" I thought Vvardenfell was destroyed in the Red Year?

The Sheogorad region was hit hard by the Red Year, and as such, much of the area is changed, but the area is still(albeit barely) inhabitable. To also insure the story's premise was friendly to the lore while also delving into interesting territory, http://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/188qin/hey_rteslore_i_am_making_a_skyrim_quest_mod_and/, and they gave me suggestions to my ideas and encouraged me to continue on my journey to deliver to you all this experience.

• Huh? Sounds really interesting. What are some of the features one can expect in ALMSIVI?

Well, let's list them off!

Fully-voiced 12+ hour questline with well written characters

Many new dungeons and locations, filled with many new and old enemies

A new settlement, struggling to survive as a fishing village in Post Red Year Morrowind

New quests to distract you further in your adventures in Tamriel!

New weapons are armor to discover and wield

New books filled with lore about Morrowind in the post Red Year, and returning books from Morrowind!

• That sounds pretty sweet! Can we some Pre-Alpha screenshots?

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/612760136881753891/3FF49388A927AF5115259F368E86EB2068CF8BF2/

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/612760136859921372/5BF171815917BFDA8BC34F190FBB5DC010FDD4AE/

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/594746535627394872/85FF89ACA3C33DDE7DB2DE7E2AE90BA944476063/

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/594746535629808035/0621F38FC6DEB8A9CE3EC9D18DE650AD552F7922/

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/613885499285837086/B769EF72B3D5B956C0F7A997B7A2776EB5D2EEF6/

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/595872808903814758/A7144451C4F3931690FAC5B8ADEA01DDB64FC241/

I will frequently be posting updates when they come, so expect a steady torrent of information as I allow it to become available!

~Rodvt Michael Petrick (BlackRaven117)

CREDITS

• Sheogorad: Forsaken Isles Resources
  
  • Phitt - Models/Textures
  • Kzinistzerg - Textures
  • Dave91 - Models/Textures
  • MrSiika - Models/Textures
• ALMSIVI Team
• 1shoedpunk for conversion help
• Andoran team for Converter
• Bethesda Game Studios
• Michael Kirkbride
• My Mother

DISCLAIMER

I have waived all of my rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law and the Creation Kit EULA. You can copy, modify, distribute, and perform the work being distributed all without asking for permission.

This is going to be interesting. Looks nice! Phitt had some real nice screens for his Oblivon mod.
Is his resources for Morrowind stuff available for Skyrim, or does one still have to convert them from Oblivion source?

Thanks for the info and screens

Unfortunately, his resources had to be converted, but it was sure worth it! My original plan was to re-use the Dragonborn Redoran tileset and Ancient Nord tilesets for Ancestral Tombs and Daedric Ruins, but I couldn't resist.

This mod sounds wonderful. I loved the Sheogorad region in Morrowind. I started many characters in Dagon Fel with Evermoon's mod and a few of them stayed up in that area (thanks to other mods like Ald-Vendras, Tusar, LoKKen and Solstheim Castle) for entire games. So this mod sounds like it's right up my alley.

I am greatly looking forward to this. Please keep us posted on your developments.

Let me know whenever you're looking for voice actors later down the road! I always love contributing to projects with the Morrowind flavor. Good luck!

Looks great.

This looks really good! How far (Progress-wise) are you?

This does sound pretty sweet. Are there story spoilers in the r/teslore post?

No, most of that stuff is top secret! You won't even find a character name.


Currently in Pre-alpha, but expect a release in between April and June!



Thank you for offering! I currently have everything in the VA department covered, but if anything comes up, I will be sure to shoot you a PM!

Set to follow topic. Looking forward to this.

Thought it would be nice to give everybody a new screenshot, but please forgive the glossiness and missing textures, those will be fixed ASAP!

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/594747728558278081/285049912096E3D484CB0EE1BB7B42BD60C234FE/

Sure has http://images.uesp.net/6/65/MW-place-Mzuleft.jpg, eh?

Changed in a good way. I like the Skyrimized look.

Thank you! I tried to emphasize and demonstrate the effects of the Red Year on Sheogorad by turning a little lava-filled area into an entire volcanic vent.

It works, and is still recognizable as Mzuleft.

i love mods bringing back any parts of morrowind, thanks for working on this!

By the title I assume the MQ it's going to be about Dunmer who don't take seriously this "Reclamations" stuff and prefer the good ol' pals Vivec, Almalexia and Sotha Sil

Use the Tribunal Robes with golden Vivec masks from the Nexus. Ever since they came out with Dragonborn and the Reclamations, I've wanted to see pockets of old worshipper cultists camped out in Velothi tombs wearing those.

Ding-ding-ding, we have a winner!


I was thinking about using them, but the whole drama involving the assets from the mod being sold on Second Life is making me reconsider, so I will instead mostly have them wearing modified http://images.uesp.net/a/a5/DB-npc-Galdrus_Hlervu.jpg re-textured to look like http://images.uesp.net/9/9a/MW_Clothing_ExpensiveRobesM.jpg.

Exciting. I hope Gambolpuddy is exactly where I left it.

Well, not exactly where you put it. You know how Daedric cultists are, they have a nasty habit of putting very expensive things under pillows. Except this won't be a pillow.

Ooooh. Will this bring Vivec [the God] Back, or at least give some idea what happened to him?

No, writing one's self out of history has a nasty habit of leaving him forgotten by the wayside. Almalexia will be having the spotlight here.

How? O.o Based off previous games, that makes no sense. Unless you just refer to mentions of Almalexia? I wanna see Sotha Sil, or well, considering the circumstances, have something to do with him?

Sotha Sil died. Also, Almalexia makes no appearance(being dead and all), but she plays a major role, and so does Hopesfire. Remember how the Champion of Cyrodiil 'mantled' Sheogorath in Shivering Isles? *hint hint*

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Oh man.

I need this for my Dunmer now.