Triumvirate - Enderal Patch

Triumvirate — Enderal Conversion

Enai Siaion's five mage archetypes, rebuilt so Enderal can actually sell you the spells — and so the Shaman stops praying to the All-Maker.

Triumvirate adds 75 spells across five archetypes: Druid, Shadow Mage, Warlock, Cleric and Shaman. In Enderal, out of the box, the mod loads perfectly and every one of those spells is in your game — and you can never obtain a single one of them.

That is the whole problem, and it is a quiet one. There is no crash, no missing master, no error message. The spells exist. The tomes exist. They are simply not for sale anywhere in Vyn, and nothing in the game will ever put one in your hands.

This conversion gives them a way in, removes the parts that cannot work here, and takes Tamriel out of the writing.

• []Triumvirate — Mage Archetypes by Enai Siaion, version 1. 8. 0 exactly. Install it first and normally. Its two BSAs — 29 MB of meshes and 37 MB of textures — supply every asset. This download contains none of them.[/]

  []Install this and LET IT OVERWRITE. It replaces Triumvirate - Mage Archetypes.esp with a converted build of the same plugin, and adds three loose scripts under Scripts\. Those must win over Triumvirate's BSA, so this mod has to sit below Triumvirate in the left-pane (file) order — which it already must, to win the plugin.[/]

  []Keep Triumvirate - Mage Archetypes.esp enabled, exactly where it already sits in your load order.[/]

  No other requirements at all. No SKSE plugin, no SkyUI/MCM, no PapyrusUtil. All 106 of Triumvirate's compiled scripts were decompiled and audited for this conversion: zero hardcoded FormIDs, zero hex literals, zero imports, zero SKSE calls. Every mechanic is driven by properties filled from the plugin records, which is the single best thing that can be true of a mod you are porting.

  Do not use this with any other version of Triumvirate. It is a rebuild of 1. 8. 0's records by ID; a different version moves them.

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  Why a replacement and not a patch

  If you have used my Apocalypse conversion, the reason here is not the same one.

  Apocalypse had to be rebuilt because its header form version was 1. 71 and Enderal's engine silently refuses to load those. Triumvirate is already 1. 70 — bytes 9A 99 D9 3F at file offset 30. It loads fine. That ceiling never applies here.

  What forces a replacement instead is the BSAs. Both are named after the plugin — Triumvirate - Mage Archetypes.bsa and … - Textures.bsa — and the engine only loads an archive while a plugin of that exact name is present. Ship the fixes as a separate patch ESP and the original plugin has to stay, taking its broken distribution with it. Rename it and 66 MB of assets stop loading. So the plugin itself gets rebuilt and shipped under its own name, which is what this is.

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  What was actually wrong

  1. The distribution is a script that talks to a game that isn't there.

  Triumvirate hands out its spells at runtime, from a quest that starts with a new game. Its script makes 76 calls: AddToFaction on ten named Skyrim NPCs (turning priests and herbalists into vendors), AddItem of tome bundles into fourteen vanilla merchant chests, and AddForm of staves into vanilla staff loot lists.

  Enderal replaced Skyrim.esm wholesale — it is base Enderal, not Bethesda's game — so not one of those receivers exists. Danica Pure-Spring, Maramal, Hamal, Runil: none of them are people here. The quest runs at game start, calls 76 methods on nothing, logs 76 errors, and reports success.

  2. Two thirds of the tomes were behind a lock with no key.

  This one is nastier, and it survived the first version of this conversion.

  Vanilla Skyrim gates spell-tome availability on your skill level: the Adept, Expert and Master leveled lists carry Global: PC<School><Tier>, and when a leveled list names a global, that global's value is the list's chance of yielding nothing. In vanilla those globals start at 100 — a 100% chance of nothing — and a World Interactions quest zeroes them as your skill rises.

  Enderal does not have that quest. It exists in Bethesda's Skyrim.esm[