Skyrim Mod: Arlen Bales
Posted by Karen
Hey everyone! I love my video game brethren. You might remember OldNile’s Skyrim character recreations that we gushed about a little while ago. They were, to date, some of the coolest re-imaginings of Peat’s characters that I’ve seen.
Recently I was browsing some gaming forums and came across what LOOKED like Arlen as a video game character. Holy cow! I did a bit of digging and it turns out someone made a Skyrim mod based on the Demon Cycle. Now you can ward your characters and send them into a world of monsters and magic.
This is a RaceMenu tattoo plugin which will give your character the all over tattoos of Arlen Bales; The Warded Man.
Using RaceMenu will of course enable you to select whatever colour you like for the tattoos, but I would recommend black with a slight blue glow if you want to keep to Peter V Brett’s lore.
In order to give your character the powers that Arlen has due to his warding (or approximations within Skyrim’s options) I have also included an ability (Which is entirely optional, if you don’t want the ability, just don’t use it) which boosts Magicka 100, Carry Weight 100, Unarmed Damage 50, Damage Resistance 50, Fortify Armour 50 and Health Regeneration 20.This ability is available via a spell tome which can be found in the ruins of Anoch Sun which I have placed North East of Windhelm (See the picture), or more precisely: East of Yngol Barrow, or North East of Traitors Post. Inside Anoch Sun you will find the corpse of Kaji, he has the spell tome. No battles or anything, just grab the tome and read it.
I am currently working on making Anoch Sun into a useful little player home for sleeping, crafting etc but mainly concentrating on display for your character’s items.
This is super cool! If there are any Skyrim players out in the fanbase who want to use this mod, go ahead. Let us know how it goes.
You can get your copy of The Warded Man here!
OMG this is so awesome. But a few question.
Will there also be deamons wich appears at night?
And are those like the deamons in the books original just normal Monster wich are known in skyrim?
From what I know, this mod only does what you see above: ward tattoos for your character and a boost to skills relevant to Arlen’s character, plus an extra location where you can find the tome that unlocks these features for your character.
So no demons that appear only at night, but if you really want to roleplay it, vanilla Skyrim has some creatures which are similar to “Thesan” demons to some extent (the Spriggan, Fire Elementals and such).