The Forgotten Realm
"Somewhere deep into the forests of Blackwood, there once stood a great castle. But then something happened. The crops began to die, and soon thereafter, the animals died too. Servants started to report strange noises and twinkling lights in the dungeons beneath the castle. Shortly afterwards the place was abandoned and fell into decay. Blackwood Forest had consumed the castle.
Centuries later, not knowing about the circumstances of the castle’s fall to ruin, a rich lord, named Aryon, from Leyawiin decided to build himself an estate in the forest. Having an interest for ancient things, this lord found the site of the ruined castle a perfect location, allowing him to investigate the castle ruins. One year later, the lord didn’t show up at the annual County meeting. A month later an Imperial patrol was sent to investigate. It disappeared. Nobody knew what had happened. Years past with no word of neither the soldiers nor the lord. Soon, years became decades. Ultimately, it was all forgotten about… until now!"


http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35696
To make the mod even more enjoyable, go to your ini file and change these settings: fLightLOD1 to 30000 and fLightLOD2 to 35000.

Description

After speaking to a Dark Elf spellwright dispatched to Leyawiin by the Great House Telvanni, you are sent on a quest to uncover the circumstances of a certain nobleman's disappearance. By venturing far into Blackwood Forest you are thrown into something much bigger than you could ever imagine. Explore ancient castle ruins, make your way through natural caverns and break into a lost ayleid city, sealed off from the rest of the world. The Forgotten Realm offers any Oblivion player an epic adveture with an epic reward in the end of course. The mod will allow the player to enter a huge underground dungeon which ultimately leads him or her to the long lost Forgotten Realm!

Details

• 45 detailed cells
• New worldspace
• Several boss-fights
• Discover a secret cult and then something worse...
• Pretty extensive questline
• Aquire a companion
• Lots of surprises, traps, stuff and epic moments!!!

Progress

Status - 100% It's done, OH YEAH!

Screenshots and Videos

NEWEST!!! 2010-08-18
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NEW! 2010-06-25
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Help Request

In case anybody feels like they're up the challenge, I do have a need to hire one or maybe two voice actors. Since the dialogue is not finished yet, the voice work cannot be started yet. Although, if anyone shows interest at this very stage, I can write your names down somewhere so I'll know who to contact when the time comes The kind of voice actors I need is one person who can record male dunmer voices. One arrogant swearing dunmer who's always angry and one dunmer who's also arrogant, but a has a lot more manners and does sound a little sofisticated. And then, I might perhaps need a person who can voice act for an ayleid/high elf male, who's supposed to sound like a demigod sort of But I'm not sure if I'm going to have voice for this guy, so we'll see about that


Install

1. Extract the files to a temporary location.
2. Examine the folder structure and make corrections where necessary. Though this shouldn't be needed, as everything is most likely in order here.
3. Copy files to (install folder)\Oblivion\Data\
4. Start Oblivion Launcher, click 'Data Files', place a checkmark beside the .esp file(s).

Uninstall

1. Start Oblivion Launcher, click Data Files, uncheck the .esp file(s).
2. Delete the files/folders associated with the mod.
3. You're done!

Incompatibility

This mod could conflict with any other mod that makes changes to the area around Leyawiin and Blackwood Forest.
More specific information on cell edits will be made available later.

History

2010-09-15 - Initial Release (v1.0)

Contact

You can find me on the official Elder Scrolls forums and on TESNexus as 'GrandDukeAdense'
You can send me an email here: adense@hotmail.com

Credits

Thanks to Bethesda for creating Oblivion.
Thanks to TESNexus.com for the a one-stop-shop resource for authors and players.
Thanks to LHammonds for the Readme Generator this file was based on.
Thanks to RaduSamanc (tda?) for tda's armory
Thanks to Ghogiel for the Bonemold armor
Thanks to jojjo for the Death Knight armor
Thanks to CGChaos and Infiniti for the Horror Creatures
Kudos to myself for not forgetting anyone who should deserve credits (I hope)

Tools Used

7-Zip - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=15579
GIMP - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=14920
NIFSkope - http://niftools.sourceforge.net/wiki/NifSkope
TES Construction Set - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11367
Readme Generator - http://lhammonds.game-host.org/obmm/tools_readme_generator1.asp


Licensing/Legal

You must contact me and obtain my permission before re-packaging any part of
this mod.



Cheers, GrandDukeAdense

Okay, we're finally here! RELEASE
I have no idea how well this will work, so download it and play it! If you find bugs, tell me If you manage to finish it, please do tell me if it was good. If not, what was bad?

Also, a recommended thing is to go into the INI file and adjust the light lod to much higher numbers than default. Personally, I use something like 30,000-35,000... that will enhance the experience A LOT!

//Cheers GDA

Man, you sure like your mods epic.

I've never got to a high enough level to try out your Epic Dungeon, but I've got it active, and I'll download this too. :thumbsup:

You'll need a high level for this one too

Aw, high level? Well, I guess I can suffer through that line while I prepare my character for a long quest in the realm.

Sorry if this should be obvious but you copied your entire first post from the WIPz thread. Does the 100% finished label mean it has voice acting?

Looks really good, I so want to play this when I get my game together. :goodjob:


BTW you probably want to remove this:

Glad to see a release! I'll download it soon, but my character has to get ready for such a challenge first lol.

Im downloading this mod now, looking forward to try it out. I got two question though. Whats the recomended minimum level to enter the dungeon? And since it modifies blackwood forest, will it be compatible with UL?

Ooh, and grats on the release!

Looks fantastic! Congrats on the release! :celebration:

I wouldn't mind helping out with an angry Dunmer voice, I've been practicing getting the gravely kind of sound (like the Morrowind Dunmer)

I play-tested this with a lvl 30 character...


No sorry, there is no voice acting


whoops, Yes I would


I'll let you know when the times comes then

hmmm there's a gate which won't open in the beginning of the dungeon! You'll know it when you see it, just press it in the console and use "playgroup forward 1"
In the meantime, I'll try to fix it and reupload the mod!!!

Good news! I just turned into a level 8 thief/archer/assassin type...only about 12 more levels to gain till I even ATTEMPT this mod...but it is already on my mod list!

And the update is up, it should work!

@richardrocketYou could try and enter the dungeon anyway

I think I will...when I get to it...with 254 mods...exploring goes slow!

How long till this dark elf shows up?

Do you mean how deep into the dungeon the dark elf is?
I would estimate between one-third, or just before the middle... something like that!

Nice dungeon. Bugs found so far:

- Escaped Demons are shown as odd violet spheres with graphical glitches included.

- There's a missing mesh in the little room with the "clock" sound.
- Some textures (especially in the "Holy Church") are pitch black, and no Light effect illuminated them (intended?)
- Raryn Daren's sneak and wait options doesn't work...and I know Oblivion AI isn't great by default, but he gets stuck even more often than most of the companions I've never had....isn't there any way to improve that?

How does this only have 400 downloads?? Bump!!

It's full of bugs And I really haven't had time or energy to promote it very much

edit: although there may be a fixed version on its way sometime in the future..

Aw really? Bummer. Hope you find the time to fix it up soon.

sounds sweet! i may have to dust off my high lvl nightblade-assassin char for this one =)

also, i know its been asked before but i did not see a response: is this compatible with the UL mods that affect those same areas?

i would assume they are not, but maybe you designed the mod with UL mind- i don't know.

Don't think it conflicts with UL..

great! ill definitely check this out