Helios Keep

Helios Keep version 1. 0. 02

by Sauron256

February 15, 2004

1. 0  Description

This plugin places a rather large castle to the south-southwest of the island of Vvardenfell.

You can get there by ship from either the Ebonheart docks or the docks of Fort Frostmoth.

You will be given the choice of either going to the eastern docks or the main docks.  I would

suggest going to the eastern docks if this is your first visit to Helios Keep.  I would also

suggest visiting at night.  Considering how large Helios Keep is, the castle looks much nicer at

night since the game engine doesn’t use fog to cut render distance as aggressively at night.  Not

to mention that the lighting of the castle looks much better at night.

2. 0  Secret of the Nerevarine

The castle in its current state doesn’t have any quests yet and is there for setting and atmosphere.

However, that will change!  Thread Whisperer will be merging Helios Keep into his SotN TC.

Then we’ll have quests!  However, in the mean time, if you would like to make a quest for Helios Keep,

please contact me and we’ll see what we can do.

3. 0  Requirements 

Helios Keep requires both Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions to run.  The plugin was created

using version 1. 6. 1820 of the game.  It should work with earlier versions, but I cannot guarantee

that it will.  You can get the patches here.

One warning to note is that this plugin uses quite a few face mods created by many different artists.

The textures used are the original textures packaged by the face mod creator.  Installing this mod may

overwrite the textures installed by Faces of Vvardenfell (FOV). If you like the FOV faces better,

just re-install it after installing Helios Keep.  If you use Better Bodies, you should be okay.

4. 0  Installation 

I highly suggest you use Venymora’s installer to install Helios Keep.  It’s easy and makes my life

much easier as far as support goes.  However, if you decide that you want to manually install

Helios Keep using 7-Zip:

A)    You’ll have to extract the files to your “DataFiles” folder

B)    Then enable the Helios_Keep.esp file from the launcher

C)    If you don’t know how to do steps A or B, use the installer!!! (install.exe)

5. 0 Credits

Many thanks to the following people.  Making Helios Keep in all it’s glory would never have been

possible without their contributions.

Improved Heads-Original face and hair models by Rhedd.

-Original face and hair textures by Allerleirauh.

bgriff@wnm.net

http://home.wnm.net/~bgriff