Hello all!

I've been in and out of the scene for a bit here, but recently I got pulled back in harder than I have in quite a while.

After deciding that I wanted to start a new play through of Morrowind, I installed the game, then I started installing mods, then I remembered the ultimate vision I had for the hostile side of this world. I looked at my previous creature mods, and I realized how much of some of that I liked, and how much I hated. Because of this I decided to start mostly from scratch on this.

This time around I started thinking more about these creatures.

Where did they come from?

What scenarios does it make sense to see them?

Does it make sense that you can summon a bonelord?

Does it make even less sense that you can summon a bear or a wolf?

These are the questions I began to ask myself. I also through these questions started to notice things that I never had before. Summoning spells are extremely lopsided. All undead summon spells are relatively weak compared to their daedric counterparts. That made things difficult to plan out when I wanted to start working on various necromancer enemies.

As I dove into things deeper I basically scoured the entire UESP website. I looked at lore, other games, I even looked at ESO for inspiration on this. I made an excel sheet of what would ultimately be the summon spells that will be available in the game, and made sure that daedra and undead would be on equal footing. I'm currently at the point that I'm almost done with new creatures, and will be starting on fine tuning, and working on integrating everything in to the world in the appropriate places. Because of the fine tuning point I wanted to get some opinions here of what I have planned, and what I'll be working on. Also, in the near future I may be looking for testers to make sure the creatures all look right, move at appropriate speeds, etc.. while I'm working on integrating things into the world.

Here are my plans for summoning spells.

Removing spells:

Summon Fabricant

Summon Bear

Summon Wolf

Summon Shock Centurion

Daedra spells:

Lvl. 1 Summon Scamp

Lvl. 5 Summon Flame Atronach

Lvl. 9 Summon Hunger

Lvl. 10 Summon Frost Atronach

Lvl. 13 Summon Clannfear

Lvl. 15 Summon Storm Atronach

Lvl. 16 Summon Daedroth

Lvl. 20 Summon Dremora

Lvl. 22 Summon Winged Twilight

Lvl. 25 Summon Golden Saint

Undead spells:

Lvl. 1 Summon Ancestral Ghost (likely to change)

Lvl. 5 Summon Boneman

Lvl. 9 Summon Lesser Bonewalker

Lvl. 10 Summon Ancient Ghost (likely to change)

Lvl. 13 Summon Bonewalker

Lvl. 15 Summon Mistman

Lvl. 16 Summon Death Hound

Lvl. 20 Summon Greater Bonewalker

Lvl. 22 Summon Wrathman

Lvl. 25 Summon Keeper

As you can see a large number of undead summon spells will be changing, as well as the weird random spells that don't make a lot of logical sense have been converted to undead summons.

Thoughts? Concerns? I'd love to hear opinions.

You don't summon Wolfs and Bears. You call them. There's a difference. Better than removing them would be to make them appear somewhere off the screen and run towards the player. But that could be tricky to accomplish in Morrowind.

I love your idea to make more powerful undead summons though!

And again for the Shock Centurion, I think it's more of an assembly or maybe "inflatable shock centurion trick" thing which is limited by game mechanics.

Don't you summon the fabricant with the mazed band? If I am not mistaken, that artifact would just teleport them in from the Clockwork City.

You may be correct about the fabricant.

I'm looking at some adjustments to this anyways since I don't like the idea of summoning ghosts, and scamps would need to change since I don't have them being quite as week anymore. I'll keep working with that.

Question for anyone who has used anteres creature mods. His Medusa model gives an animation group note error. Looking in warnings.txt it doesn't seem to be anything too major. This is what I get from it.

Bad note string "Sound: AnCr_MedStinger" frame 292 in "NX9\NX9_Harvester.nif".

Does anyone know if this is a major problem? Is it just because I haven't added the sounds into the CS yet? Does it cause any issues in game?

Edit: Also, noticing what looks like 2 unused summon spells in the CS. Are those usable in some way?

IIRC yes

The fabricant, centurion, bear, and wolf are not normal spells; they are special quest rewards. You're not supposed to learn these effects like you'd learn "summon winged twilight" or "summon skeleton".


Ultimately for any sort of mod dealing with spell effects I'd rather wait until OpenMW gives us a way to create and define new spell effects.