Telvanni Patrons - Baladas Demnevanni

Tired of running errands for Master Aryon? Wish your patron was someone less interested in "progress" and "moving House Telvanni forward", but was more focused on their own research? Want to learn more about the Dwemer? You have come to the right place.

v1. 1 is out, introducing various fixes:

-Added proper condition checks to several dialogue entries that were missing them

-Certain dialogue options that weren't checking for item count now properly ensure that you have required items in your inventory

-Better implementation for item checks that were already in place, which should no longer result in players getting repeated dialogue bug under certain conditions

-Particularly clever members of House Telvanni are no longer be able to trick Eddie into running chores for them in addition to picking another Mouth

-The second quest for Fevyl Arys should now properly resolve and finish itself instead of causing a crash

-It should now be more apparent that the questline is finished if the player decides to remain a Master

-A slew of small typo and inconsistency fixes

Special thanks to Chloé for reporting most of these.

Should be safe to update mid-game -- however I would refrain from doing so if you are specifically progressing quests for your new Mouth, as that might cause a few issues.

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-14 quests which allow you to progress through the ranks of House Telvanni as before

-Two new short dungeons for you to explore

-An option for you to recruit an entirely different Mouth of your own (those attached to Eddie can still pick him regardless)

-Deciding to become a Master under Baladas is a semi-permanent decision (you will not be offered a chance to change your mind after accepting, but killing Gothren will enable your promotion to Archmagister as normal)

This mod does not tamper with anything related to your stronghold and therefore should be compatible with mods that touch up/expand Tel Uvirith as a cell (storyline/expansion mods like Uvirith's Legacy are probably going to have major narrative conflicts since they also add their own chunk of new content outside Tel Uvirith itself).

On the other hand, it is unlikely to work with anything that severely alters layouts of certain vanilla Dwemer ruins (Aleft and Arkngthunch-Sturdumz) or directly modifies Baladas. New dialogue topics are probably fine.

Disclaimer: This mod makes a minor edit to one of the vanilla scripts by adding a short variable to it. I have tried to find my way around it, but since objects and npcs can only be assigned one script at a time there is no alternative. It shouldn't break anything -- however you might be warned about it if you have already interacted with Demnevanni in your playthrough. If you are worried, simply back up your save.

Should be entirely safe to install mid-game, though