Melisande's Menagerie, in essence, is a Summoning/Pet mod that will feature most of
the creatures that will be available in ELSEWORLDS!, as well as several that will not (unique
to this mod). Melisande had travelled far and wide capturing the essences of various
creatures and bound them in to spells and incantations so that you, the player, may call
upon these creatures for aide in your travels . Each creature will offer a bonus to the
player during the duration of the summon (and in some cases to balance the bonus, there
will be a slight detriment to an opposing skill/stat). I will be back tomorrow with more
detailed information on what the bonuses might be; for now, though, I just want to start
displaying the screens of the creatures for those interested in the "eye-candy" . Some of
these screens are outdated (as quite a few of these creatures have recived an overhaul);
for now, though, I will display the older screens as placeholders (in no particular order) 'til I
am able to take new/better screens .

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/_WAR_Summon_Zenaida1.jpg

Unicorns:
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DB_UNI1.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DB_UNI2.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DB_UNI3.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DB_UNI4.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DB_UNI5.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DB_UNI6.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DB_UNI7.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DB_UNI8.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DB_UNI9.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_BIGCAT_1.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_BIGCAT_2.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_BIGCAT_3.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_BIGCAT_4.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_BIGCAT_5.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_BIGCAT_6.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DRMF_Sorceress_1.jpg, http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DRMF_Sorceress_2.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DRMF_Warrior_1.jpg, http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DRMF_Warrior_2.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_BLOOD_PARASITE.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_BLOOD_INFECTION.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_BLOOD_DEVOURER.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_FLESHATRONACH_SCREEN6.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_XIVILAI_SCREENS1.jpg (http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_XIVILAI_SCREENS3.jpg)
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_XIV_SCREEN_UPDATE1.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_SEDUCER_SCREEN1.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_SEDUCER_SCREEN2.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_VMPBT_Screen1.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_HRPYVLT_Screen3-1.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/_WAR_Dryad_Screens2_1.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/_WAR_Dryad_Screens2_2.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/_WAR_Dryad_Screens2_3.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DMNS_SCREEN1.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_SPDRS1_SCREENS1.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DB_BAT_SCREENS1.jpg and http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DB_BAT_SCREENS2.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_DB_BAT_SCREENS3.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_HS_GRYPHON_SCREEN3.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_HS_GRYPHON_SCREEN1.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_HS_GRYPHON_SCREEN2.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_HARPYx_SCREENS1.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_HARPYx_SCREENS2.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_FLM_ATRNCH_F_1.jpg (in NIFSkope)

The Sea-Witch http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_SWTCH_SCREEN_1.jpg http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_SWTCH_SCREEN_2.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_SWTCH_SCREEN_3.jpg

The Blue Valkyrie: Brynhildr- http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_VLKYR_SCREEN_01.jpg http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_VLKYR_SCREEN_02.jpg http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_VLKYR_SCREEN_03.jpg http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_VLKYR_SCREEN_04.jpg
The Green Valkyrie: Sigr?n-http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_VLKYR_SCREEN_05a.jpg http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_VLKYR_SCREEN_05c.jpg http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_VLKYR_SCREEN_05e.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_VLKYR_SCREEN_WOLF1.jpg
Additional Wolf Variations: http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_WOLF_TRCLR1.jpg http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_WOLF_WHITE1.jpg http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_WOLF_BLACK1.jpg
G?ndul (The Red Valkyrie) http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_VLKYR_SCREEN_06a.jpg http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_VLKYR_SCREEN_06b.jpg http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_VLKYR_SCREEN_06c.jpg http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g235/Wesadam/Creatures/WAR_VLKYR_SCREEN_06d.jpg

AWESOME!!! I cannot wait for this Westly!

You are very creative with these creatures, and use excellent textures!

I still haven't been able to bring my sorcerer to Alkazar's and now you release this? Westly, you must hate me so much. JK, your work is top quality as always - I'm especially fond of the Xivilai, but I am also curious to see those creepy crawlies in-game. By the way, where will Melisande's be located?

Awesome! Also, are those vultures using the werewolf animation?

The Zebra-corn seems off when the texture hits his legs.

The Bengel would be great fun to have around.

Other than that it all looks amazing.

Absolutely wonderful! Looking forward to this, Westly!

I think they are using the Winged Twilight animations... but I may be wrong. I didn't make them :hehe:

Amazing work as always! These will be great for my Nakan monk/conjurer. I think I'll have a Bengal tiger named Hobbes.

Simply magnificent as always Westly!
Im not a fan of TC but these might make me change my mind, especialy is those magnificent seducers & hawkmen
cant wait fer more!

Its a gelatinous cube! :rofl:

Ultimately, Melisande can be found in one of the Mage's Guilds (as an emmissary from the High Summoner's Council). I have toyed around with the idea of making her location "random" so that she appears to be "making her sounds" to all of the mage's guild (while having the added effect that the player has to track her down). For now, though, she is a stationary merchant .







Indeed, they are based on the Winged Twilights




ELSEWORLDS! is not a TC, as much as it is a world that exists within pocket dimensions
parallel to Nirn (accessible by various "portals" seemingly lost to antiquity). More on this
in the new ELSEWORLDS! thread once this mod is released .

That sounded a lot like you were close to releasing it. =x

I'm sure I'm just being too optimistic though.

Well, then by all means, hurry up and release this!

Looks great, Westly :thumbsup: Heh, http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/photo-m.phtml?photo_key=80006&post_key=120463#prevnext

At the rate I am going, I will be a very old man before the mod is ever truly
finished (which is why I am trying to release as much content that I have cobbled
in installments so that they can be enjoyed in a somewhat timely manner).




:bolt:







I have updated the first post with a revamped version of my Dryads. In the ELSEWORLDS! thread,
they are built on the basic "bi-ped" skeleton (like the golden saints, Dremora, or Vivec creatures).
This new version now uses the Spriggan animations/body, so that the better resemble their wilder cousins .

More to come as I am able, as my time for modding is spread thin ATM

Take Care, All :angel:

Looks like it was grazing in the bean patch.

sieboldii

These creatures look great. Amazing, you?re one talented person, aren?t you? Nice!

I have added "Amora" to the screens above. In ELSEWORLDS!, she will be a boss
with "surprises", but I will go ahead and include a version of her in this mod as a
support summon for the character (she will look different in the "final" mod, so this
is more or less a unique character for Melisande's).

Those Dryads are awesome! I especially like the second one...there's something that's almost Tolkien Elvish about her...

O.O' Any chance you would consider releasing Amora as a companion?

Well, I might release the "humanoid" creatures as playable races as well (since all the texture files would be present to do so regardless); making them into companions would be another mod altogether, though (one mod at a time ).

Not much, but pics of a few spiders have been added .

Great work, Westly! I've got to admit to a weakness for the White Tiger, especially after visiting The Golden Compass website before the film came out, and getting assigned a white tiger as my daemon. It's nice to see regular seducers make a welcome return, instead of just the Dark Seducers and Winged Twilights. It's even nicer to see that you've compromised on their appearance between their two Daggerfall forms, resulting in a design that successfully calls both to mind!



That second Dryad is my other favourite, too. I think the Tolkienesque bit about her is the hair, which is very reminiscent of a weeping willow, and thus calls Tolkien's "Old Man Willow" to mind. Modeling the different Dryads' hair on different tree types is a wonderful touch!

Looking forward to this one, Westly!

I love the new stuff you just posted Westly! Beautiful work!

;) You didn't say 'No' so I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed on that one.

They all look great. I'm not usually one for summoning but I think I'd give this one a try.

Added: Little Brown Bat, Vampire Bat, and Flit (A spectral manefestation bound to the book it carries)

Gotta run :bolt: