Odachi

INTRODUCTION

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Japanese swords and swordsmithing have a long and storied history, stretching from dawn of the iron age to modernity (though, of course, the sword has taken on a more ceremonial role since the arrival of firearms in Japan). The enduring legacy of these traditions are a small stable of sword designs that evolved over the years, from the older tsurugi to the iconic katana. Alongside the changing designs, the art of the creation and wielding of swords became highly formalized, including numerous rituals and offerings alongside the more mundane aspects of steel production and swordplay. Truly, one could spend years in intensive study and still have things left to learn about these legendary weapons.

Thankfully, none of that is relevant to this mod.

DESCRIPTION

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This mod adds two medium-long Japanese-style swords to the game (one steel, one daedric). Essentially, these are just shortened dai-katanas, sitting between the katana and dai-katana in stats. They don't fill any specific gameplay niche and have no secret bonii to make them superior to either the katana or dai-katana, but I hated how sheathed dai-katanas clipped through the Gondolier Helm, so I learned the basics of Blender and made this mod.

Yes, really.

Here are the stats:

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|                | Weight | Health | Enchant | Value | Speed | Reach | Chop | Slash | Thrust |

+----------------+--------+--------+---------+-------+-------+-------+------+-------+--------+

|  Steel odachi  |   19   |  2250  |    65   |  170  |  1. 4  |  1. 0  | 2-24 |  1-20 |  1-10  |

+----------------+--------+--------+---------+-------+-------+-------+------+-------+--------+

| Daedric odachi |   57   |  6000  |   195   | 85000 |  1. 4  |  1. 0  | 2-52 |  1-46 |  1-22  |

+----------------+--------+--------+---------+-------+-------+-------+------+-------+--------+

Also included are sheathe meshes if you use Weapon Sheathing (hint: you should).

HOW TO GET THE WEAPONS

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Generally, these weapons should spawn anywhere their respective dai-katanas will (ie, the steel odachi should start showing up in merchant inventories around the same time as steel dai-katanas do, and daedric odachis should drop from dremora lords around the same time daedric dai-katanas do). Also, one daedric odachi has been placed somewhere in the upper level of Telasero.

COMPATIBILITY

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This mod should not have any major incompatibilities. It edits the Telasero interior cell, but apart from that the only changes are to leveled lists. Be sure to run TES3Merge to ensure nothi