Tako No Kishi - Custom Armor Set

Tako No Kishi (Octopus Knight)

This mod is an amalgamation of several individual armor pieces, most of which are recolored, and combined to make one uniform-looking outfit. The chest is a recoloration of Ronins Armor. I thought this chest piece was cool but looked too faded and I didn't love the colors. The available options online for recoloring this set seem to only dye everything black. I wanted to provide some color options to those who don't know how/care to mod the files themselves. After adding a burnt-red color to the scarf and the helmet twine, I decided the Horse Crest shield color-matched too well to be left unused. However, I didn't like the manila-colored horses on the front so I replaced that with an octopus logo which inspired the name of the 'character.'  I like to imagine he leads the land-octopuses as their tarnished hero.

THIS MOD IS FOR UNALTERED VERSION ONLY! If you alter the armor at site of grace it will revert to base model of altered set.

Set includes:

(Equip corresponding item to replace it's appearance in-game)

HonorKinght26 Vagabond Knight Helm Visor Down

Vagabond Knight Helm Recolored Twine

Ronin's Armor Recolored (2 options)

     -Black cape with gold trim

-Black cape with silver trim

Blaidds Greaves Recolored Dark

Custom Reskin of Horse Crest Wooden Shield

(I like the default Ronin Gloves with the set)

Another head option I think looks cool, and is more involved than just a simple recolor I know how to do, (which also happens to be a close color-match to the cape) is the Death Hood by vindowviper11100

Huge Shoutout to HonorKnight26. His visor-down mods are awesome! I wish I could, in the vanilla game, just alter the helmet to toggle visor up/down. His mods allow for that. More so, I learned the whole process for recoloring textures myself using his extremely helpful guide (linked below.)

HonorKnight26 Recolor Tutorial

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1. You want to launch the game outside of steam, so Easy Anti Cheat (EAC) is disabled. This prevents you from ban. Do not use any mods (unless otherwise specified by the author) for online play.

2. I suggest using Mod Engine 2 for this purpose. After downloading and extracting the most-recent version of ME2 from the GitHub link, located within, is the LaunchMod_EldenRing batch file. This is a mod-friendly way to launch the game. Launching the game this way loads mods without (much) further setup.

3. There are a few folders I suggest creating for ME2 to properly load different mod types. The base directory should match the following, unless you installed ME2 somewhere other than the downloads folder. Also, keep in mind if you co