I'm curious, is there a backstory for why this Bosmer has such a good selection of vegetarian ingredients? I thought the lore indicated that boomers only ate meat/animal products. Is she an exception, or am I just misremembering this?
Well first off all, I'm guessing you're referring to the Green Pact - and yes, you are correct. As far as I can tell, it is a cultural thing - but if someone can find a reference that shows that it is the race as a whole can eat only meat, rather than their cultural willingness, I'll either explain it out, or switch something out. Wood elves typically don't have last names in Morrowind, either. So, I'm thinking that having a book written by the Lawson family of wood elves in Keening would be a good idea. Mostly everyone I know can probably tell me about various characteristics from the culture of their grandparents that they no longer follow or care about... we're all pretty much just "American," now... a weird, watered-down mish-mosh of stuff from all over the world. Personally, I'm Danish - but what I know of the language and culture is what was passed down by a grandmother who was four years old when she came to Connecticut. So, from my perspective, in a world with so much Imperial influence, it is actually MORE Lore-friendly to have at least a few Bosmer who have blended into Imperial culture. But, working within Lore and expanding it where I can is one of the reasons I started this project, so if we find out that the Green Pact will physically prevent an Imperial-indoctrinated bosmer from selling plant ingredients, I *do* want to know about it.
Especially face, hair, some architectural, some clutter. But hey everyone likes it his/her own way ofcourse. I am more vanillaish
Ah, okay - yes, the faces and hair are created by or complied by Westly, as part of Westly's Master Head Pack (As with MCA, you do not have to have this .esp activated). This was chosen because Keening is a Mod of Morrowind Comes Alive. So, it was chosen because I wanted Keening to deliberately feel different, and to mesh with MCA, both of which also mesh with Clothiers of Vvardenfell. In fact, in the areas that I create outside of Keening City, I'm deliberately using styles that look a *little* closer to vanilla Morrowind. I like to think that even in a world like Morrowind's, it is possible for a group of people to follow fads and styles if you inject some powerful celebrity/ leader characters that are the reason all of these people are even in the city in the first place. Personally, I think that the vanilla faces and hair are the weakest part of Morrowind, and I always recommend that new players *at least* use a face replacer. But yes, that is personal taste, and I appreciate input of any kind. If Keening is popular, I will be honored if people create various patches and mods for it to create their own preferences... means I did something right. But, again, there are no face REPLACERS in Keening - the rest of your game will remain as you have modded it to be. Thanks to your input, I'm going to make sure that this is clearly written into the Lore of Keening City- here and there it may be mentioned.
As for architecture.... I'm using standard Common, Nord, Dwemer, and Hlaalu architecture. There will be a new Dwemer tileset, but it will not replace anything in your game. It's a big DON'T for a large mod like this to slip actual replacers into the game. I want to ADD, not replace... I may release some replacers after Keening comes out that allows some of the styles, clothing, and items to bleed into some areas of Vvardenfell, but those will be totally separate .esp's.
Clutter - again, I'm not replacing clutter. There is, however, some NEW clutter created by Qarl (Kayla's Knick-Knacks) that you'll find around town. I felt it would make sense that this City which exists outside of Tamriel, founded by powerful wizards who believe they are called by Azura to save the world just might start to develop their own unique items. There are plenty of mods out there that use only vanilla resources... sometimes out of preference, sometimes out of fear of reprimand... so, I guess you could say that Keening fills the void by creating a setting that is deliberately different.
» Thu May 03, 2012 9:44 am 
I just imagined a mod where the game starts in the stone age and buildings get built and technology advances to where we are today... impossible though. I probably wouldn't download it even if it was possible.
