Hag and Sceleritas Fel Mesh Edits

Made for Patch 7, but probably works for other patches! It's just mesh edits, no code was touched. Working with Patch 8!

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Hi, so, uh. Something that's always made me pretty uncomfortable about the game is the designs for Sceleritas Fel and Ethel's Hag form. Specifically, they utilize design tropes that have a pretty long history in the context of villain designs in art, animation, and games—and that history is steeped in bias and hatred against people like... Well, me! And my community! And like, I do want to clarify that this mod is not actually about real-world issues, and is meant to fit within Nexusmods' policy about those issues. The mod itself is just edits to their models for my own personal comfort, and there's nothing included in the mod beyond those mesh edits.

But, at the same time, I do want to point out the reasons I made these edits in the first place. And it's because looking at the designs for those characters stings a bit, honestly—these design tropes were originally used to villainize my people. I don't think doing the same was Larian's intention; again, these design elements have a very long history, and that history often goes under the radar. I was actually taught in university that these tropes mark good villain design, and that they're related to audience expectations and the concept of appeal in animation, from teachers I still really love and respect. Not everyone is aware of that history!

... But that doesn't mean I can't be uncomfortable with it, or that we can't critique these design elements. I actually think it's really, really important that we do.

Again, ultimately, this is just a personal comfort mod. And I'm releasing it for anyone who might want it for their own comfort, too.

But I am going to link this breakdown of these tropes in the context of fantasy/goblin designs, just, to give some context on why these designs make me uncomfortable, and why I made these edits.

... And now, let's talk more about the mod itself.

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This mod is just mesh and icon replacements! Specifically, it replaces the following head meshes:

\\Data\Generated\Public\Shared\Assets\Characters\_Anims\_Creatures\Hag\Resources\HAG_Green_NKD_Head_A. GR2

\\Data\\Generated\Public\SharedDev\Assets\Characters\_Anims\_Creatures\Bhaal_Butler\Resources\BHAAL_Butler_Head_B. GR2

It also overrides their character portraits to match the meshes. The PAK version of the mod doesn't technically override the original files, but will still update them, but the loose file version will override the existing portrait image files, which can be found at these file paths: