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Workshop Update: Kaidan Revoiced - Community Expansion 1.0 Launch!

After two years of development, the Kaidan Workshop Staff is proud to present Kaidan Revoiced - Community Expansion (KRCE)!

First and foremost, none of this would be possible without livtempleton graciously giving us permission for our project! Throughout the years, the assets she's allowed the Skyrim modding community to build upon has kept Kaidan alive in thousands of modlists, providing the opportunity for even more players to enjoy her original creations; we're very honored to be added to the list of modders whose creations are inspired by her work. When we started the Workshop, we had no idea if anyone would even notice our project; a new voice actor, a new iteration of an already established character, and no product to show for it in advance. The only thing we could offer the general public at the time was the promise of transparency and community cooperation throughout the process. So we created a budget for revoicing Kaidan, a plan for community involvement, and hit the ground running. We added new staff, taught ourselves new skills as the scope of the project evolved, and leaned on the advice, ideas, and encouragement from our community. Alongside the (mostly) monthly updates on our Tumblr and taking suggestions from our 'I Had An Idea!' Discord channel, our methods for ensuring transparency during development evolved; our Community Team began hosting public meetings via our Discord to discuss our current workflow, answer questions, and conduct live script readings of our original scripts, to ensure that our Writing Team was matching the original tone set by livtempleton. We also streamed our beta footage on Twitch, trying our best to stress test the new framework built by our Creation Kit Team while also taking more suggestions from our audience for future content. Finally, we were incredibly pleased to be able to host an Open Beta for KRCE this past October & November for our Discord community, as a special thank you for their support. We were able to get some excellent feedback on some of our new follower features, as well as hunt down any missed audio or errors our internal testing missed. All in all, it took many, many people to bring this mod to life, and our Staff is incredibly humbled and grateful for the support of everyone involved. While this 1.0 version will be available indefinitely for those who prefer it, the Workshop Staff is very excited to begin creating more original content moving forward into 2025! One of our original scripts for the Daedric quest "Pieces of the Past" is in the 1.0, so you can check it out to get a sense of the tone our writers are going for! You can read about what content is present in our mod, as well as find the answers to commonly asked questions in the KRCE Mod FAQ. Keep up with the project via our updates on Tumblr, or join our Discord server!

How bodies decompose

Wilderness survival skills

Mob mentality

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What it takes for a human to die in a given situation

Common tropes in your genre

How bodies decompose

Wilderness survival skills

Mob mentality

Other cultures

What it takes for a human to die in a given situation

Common tropes for your genre

‘Neve gets him without doing any of the hard work.’ Rook is the only person alive who could even be able to. That’s the whole point.

Saving Minrathous results in the Inner Demons quest never happening.

Meaning an unhealed Lucanis never makes peace with Spite.

Meaning he goes on to enter a relationship with a woman (to no fault of her own) who could never, and would never, force him to face his fears and give him the unyielding encouragement needed to live without compartmentalizing every important thing to ever happen to him.

Without Rook completing that quest— Lucanis remains chained down by his debilitating fear of disappointing Caterina, the shame of being made into an abomination against his will, the guilt of being the one who got off easier than Neve and the pain and anger Illario’s betrayal brought onto him.

“Thoughts live here. Ideas. Feelings.” Disappointment. Shame. Guilt. Betrayal. All of which Lucanis felt were too big, too messy to face.

Solavellan is Rookanis’ foil. Except Rook is if Lavellan had succeeded in persuading Solas to face his regrets.

viago: (sighs) i know exactly what you mean

crow!rook: (wanders over) what are we talking about?

the big battle is over. the team is back on the ground and surrounded by their allies. rook and lucanis kiss. and then keep kissing. and then perhaps kiss a little more than is appropriate in front of other people. but whatever. they’re just so damn happy. and when they finally break for air, rook’s wide smile is the most beautiful thing lucanis has ever seen

then he looks over their shoulder

and sees viago’s face

and lucanis is first talon of the crows. the demon of vyrantium. he survived a year of venatori torture and the resulting demon possession. he killed a god

but viago de riva’s narrow-eyed glare at the moment he sees lucanis sucking face with his protégé/de facto younger sibling?

This guy

Who was in several of solas’ memories and has notes around the lighthouse and crossroads

Was in the masked empire. He was a friend and mentor of Brialas and helped her with her efforts to use her relationship with Celene to improve the lives of elves in Orlais (and tried to let her down gently when it became apparent that was not enough).

He refuses to let Briala tell him the code for the eluvian network so that he cannot give it on to Solas. Refusing to tell him would not be enough to keep it from him. When he meets with Solas he tries to convince him that modern elves should be given a chance. Solas murders him, his ally of thousands of years, for this.

In inquisition, Cole says this:

Felassan, knowing that he’s going to be killed for this (he KNOWS his “friend” is going to kill him for this) spends his dying words trying to convince Solas that modern elves deserve a chance

I have been imagining these two way too much. I finished the game and made a second playthrough and I am just obsessed with my second Rook, Kylais de Riva.

Have you before had an encounter with one of the Blood-Cursed? We had one captured and caged here recently. Apparently doing such a thing is usually difficult, but this thing was sloppy and animalistic, behaving much less like the cunning creatures they're usually portrayed as.

I've learned a lot against my will through my station here as this thing was kept. In the human world, they'd call it a 'vampire,' but I've read some of those myths myself, and this is something different. They don't require blood for sustenance and instead need normal food to survive, just as any of us do. Feeding on the blood of other beings, the way they describe it seems more like a compulsion of some kind, but not exactly that because the compulsion - as they claim - is like a pressure on their consciousness from something outside themselves, rather than some kind of internal conflict. An incessant, keening itch. The longer they go on without tending to it, the more unstable they become, slipping deeper into a state of monstrous desperation until the thirst is sated -..to the point where any warm body around starts looking like prey, even if it's a child or a loved one.

I've learned most of this from one of the scholars who visited for a rare opportunity to study the thing. According to him, they used to be called “Addon's Forsaken.“ An insult when it comes to the Mardorisian's, but carrying the Blood Curse is apparently venerated by those who follow Addon. I can't imagine it's a pleasant experience to be damned to that kind of existence - even Addon's most devout must suffer as a result of it, but perhaps they view their suffering as a form of devotion? Their bloodshed as a form of sacrifice?

Maybe now that the thing is gone and I won't have to be kept awake by the unholy noises it makes in the night, I won't have to think about it anymore.