House of Grief's New Look

L'il Alurl! For Shar!

I was actually unsure about making this mod at the beginning, because I thought I was in the middle of an artist block and couldn't live up to an idea of elegance that the House of Grief has. When I started working on the characters, somehow, the ideas came by themselves, and I must say I'm pretty satisfied with this mod.

Before this mod, the only NPC inside the House of Grief I focused on was Nocturne since I love her character so much (and I would've romanced her 1000%) and I wished for something better for her, since she's one of my favourite characters in Baldur's Gate 3. She deserved waaaay more screen time.

So, with this mod, I just started with the intention of making a "Nocturne's New Look 2. 0" with a new and improved redesign, and everyone else came after.

Fun fact: as you can see in the screenshots, Nocturne has a small easter egg of a trans flag! Unfortunately, the House of Grief is very dark, but if you look closely and brighten her screenshots, I gave her shoulderpads with the colors of the trans flag :D (blue-pink-white).

For Viconia, I wanted her to have some kind of final boss battle vibe for Shadowheart's quest, just like I've done with Cazador for Astarion.

Viconia has a purple-ish armor that resembles Shar herself since Viconia has a high position of power inside Shar's cult. I also gave her a different hooded outfit (that you can also see in Shadowheart's flashback), darker skin, different shade of purple eyes, different shade of white for the hair. And also, I aged her up a little bit.

And also all the other NPCs inside the House of Grief have been changed (except the merchant you meet at the very entrance of the building and the Sharran spy you meet in Wyrm's Rock).

Many names, titles and races have been changed in order to allign with my idea for this redesign and to make things more interesting.

As mentioned, I did something different with this whole package. For the Church of Bhaal, I redesigned the NPCs to look like many types of Killers and servants of the Murder Lord; for the Church of Bane, the Black Lord's servants were like an army  that could protect Gortash and had high ranking guards with a lot of political power.

For this cult, I wanted to preserve their original elegance and show how appealing they can be with their clothes and armors. We've even got a Changeling now!

My ideas for the NPCs and their roles as servants of Shar are very self explanatory if you read their new names and titles. Be sure to do it in order to understand the creative process behind each one of them!

This mod was done with the official Baldur's Gate 3 Toolkit Moonglasses, and it was made to work for Patch 8. I have tested it and it's safe to install/uninstall mid playthrough.

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