Hello everyone,

It's been a few years since I've been on these forums, I've been busy playing the hell out of Skyrim for my PC since I recently built my own gaming computer (finally).

I like to make many different characters on Elder Scrolls games to roleplay with, and recently I made an Orc which I have called Azuk gro-Gar, (I studied the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Orc_Names page to help create his name) and he's a seasoned Orc with slight grey to his hair to show that he's been around a while. I plan on having him don http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/35094/? once I've leveled him up high enough and gain several Orc followers and become a Chieftan of my own.

However simply gaining a few Orc followers and wearing epic armour isn't going to make my Orc what I really want him to be; an Orc Chieftan. I want my Orc character's home to be his very own http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Orc_Strongholds.

Now before I started this thread, I searched around a bit to see if I could find what I wanted, and I managed to find this very nice mod called http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/13764/? by http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/users/860179/?. Now he made a lovely Orc Stronghold, but it's not what I envisioned of a player owned stronghold for my Orc Azuk gro-Gar. So I'm thinking of trying to create my very own Orc Stronghold in the Creation Kit exactly how I envision it to be and if I manage to finish it, I'll gladly share it with the Skyrim PC community for others to enjoy like I most definitely will with my Orc.

However I am no experienced modder and I've only got around 20 hours of experience with the Creation Kit from messing around with it but not actually creating anything myself. So the reason I'm writing this thread today is because I'm wondering if any experienced modder would like to try and create a player owned Orc Stronghold how I envision it since you would most likely be much more experienced and better at creating it than someone like me who will have to do a lot of studying learning how the Creation Kit works and how to set up NPCs and quests etc.

I do not want to create an empty Orc Stronghold like the one Krageesh created, the way I envision my player owned Orc Stronghold is it has to be exactly how all of the other Orc Strongholds are in Skyrim. I want it to have Orc NPCs with their own 24/7 schedules and a mine as well as an Orc Chieftan there currently. Why do you ask why I want an Orc Chieftan in a Orc Stronghold that I want to have for my character? The answer is simple but most likely not so simple for scripting it in the Creation Kit.

I want there to be an Orc Stronghold with the Orc NPCs as well as a Chieftan leading it because I want you, as an Orc player to be able to walk into this Orc Stronghold, and go up to the Chieftan and challenge him to a fight to the death for who gets to be the Chieftan, and if you manage to defeat him, you are now the Chieftan of that Stronghold and everything there now belongs to you, including the ex-Chieftan's wives.

Also once you become Chieftan, I would like there to be a chest within your Longhouse that gets killed with coins and random loot every week that your Orcs from your settlement find and put into your chest to pay the Chieftan. Much similar to the chest once you became the guildmaster for the Fighters Guild in Oblivion.

I would also like to add that once you become Chieftan, sometimes a random Orc could come into your Stronghold and challenge you for the right of Chieftan and then you would have to kill him to maintain your title and prove you are the strongest Orc in your stronghold.

This is my vision for my player owned Orc Stronghold, a fitting player home for an Orc character if you ask me. Now I won't lie, like I have said, I am a complete novice with the Creation Kit and I know that is isn't going to be easy and it's no easy thing I've envisioned for a player owned Orc Stronghold, but I will try my best and learn as much as I can from the tutorials on the http://www.creationkit.com/ to make my vision a reality.

But the main reason why I am creating this thread is because I am asking if an experienced modder would like to undertake this mod I am envisioning and create it themself since they are obviously much better suited for doing than someone like myself who has no experience what so ever. Please leave a reply to this thread letting me know if you would like to give it a try, if you would like help with creating the name for the Orc NPCs living in the stronghold and perhaps even the name of the stronghold itself, I would be more than happy to create them for you.

But if no one is interested, I will try and create the mod myself, although it may take many, many months for me to complete it, if I can complete it, who knows how many troubles I am bound to come across but I promise I will try my best if no experienced modder wishes to do it for me.

I'll wait until 10th June 2013 for someone experienced with modding to decided if they want to undertake creating the Orc Stronghold mod for me, if no one wants to by then, I'll reply to this thread myself stating that I will do it.

Below I am going to write a summary of what I want for this Orc Stronghold mod, read this thoroughly to see if you believe you could create it yourself (perferably an experienced modder) if not, I will give it a shot:

Summary of Features

• Add a new Orc Stronghold just like the others to the Skyrim world with NPCs.
• Orc Stronghold has a lorefriendly name as well as the Orc NPCs.
• Able to challenge the Chieftan to a battle of the death to become Chieftan yourself and own the stronghold.
• Radiant quest system where random Orcs can occasionally walk into your stronghold and challenge you to defend your title of Chieftan.
• Has all buildings that a normal Orc Stronghold in Skyrim would have.
• Has all services other Orc Strongholds have such as; Blacksmith, Apothecary, Tanning Rack, Forge, Workbench, Grindstones etc.
• Safe storage areas in Chieftan quarters of Longhouse.
• Chieftan Chest that spawns gold and random items every week that act as your payments from your Orc followers to their Chieftan.
• Full map markers for the Orc Stronghold.
• If possible, only an Orc player can challenge the default Chieftan of the Orc Stronghold. (lore purposes)
• Several Orc followers you can recruit to come with you once you are Chieftan.
• Orc Stronghold guards that patrol inside and around the Stronghold keeping it safe. (preferably wearing iron/steel armour)
• All Orc NPCs have their own 24/7 schedule and bed to sleep in.

These are the main features I have envisioned for the Orc Stronghold I want to create, if you feel as an experienced modder can create all of these points, please feel free to let me know and I'd be gladly to let you work your magic. Like I said if you'd like help coming up with names for the Orc NPCs and Orc Stronghold, I'd be happy to help out in that regard. If no one feels they can do this or they simlpy can't be bothered or are not interested, that is fine; some words of encouragement to myself to help me create it would be much appreciated and I'll try my best.

I may think of more ideas but I want this to be lorefriendly as possible, if you're not a modder but you find my vision for a player-owened Orc Stronghold interesting and you would like to see it made, please post a reply and let me know, I'm sure it would help me with motivation to create this mod myself if no experienced modder wishes to undertake this. I've always wanted to create my own mod and learn how to work with the Creation Kit properly, maybe this is where I'll begin. But I'm totally new to this, so I would much prefer someone who knows they can make this mod happen create it than someone like me who doesn't even know if it's possible.

Thank you very much for reading, I look forward to hearing peoples responses for my ideas for my very own player-owned Orc Stronghold.