Drakes Guardian Equipment

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Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Drake's Guardian Equipment

by Drake the Dragon

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All content from this mod is added in 3 respawning chests (unlimited supply, might need to wait for a cell reset though). Those can be found in front of the Arcane University left of the stairs to the Arch Mage's Tower and the locked entry gates.

I needed some unique clothing/armor for my personal character Drake, the Little Dragon and got the idea to create the equipment he uses in the stories I make up of him (since 2 years actually, long before I started with Oblivion). I had a basic idea of their appearance but needed to detail it further before I could even consider creating specific items. It was always intended looking close to the SeeD uniforms from Final Fantasy VIII, and stumbling across a thread on the Nexus forums depicting some soldiers and other chars from Final Fantasy, I got immediately reminded of the time when I was playing FF7 and FF8. I always loved their designs. Those pictures now became my main inspiration and I started thinking about how to best... start it. I created only a few meshes totally from scratch yet, so I was first looking for existing mods with interesting and fitting contents I could use to reshape and retexture them so they become the realization of my vision.

These are Guardian Uniforms and Armor parts, Guardians being the members of a fictional faction in the stories of Drake, the knightly Guardian Order from Ancient Earth, sworn protectors of order and peace in mystical times long before human history. The armor parts shouldn't be overly powerful apart from the Dragon-Scaled Shirts (also worn below any upperbody armor item from this mod). But in my stories a dragon's scales are almost indestructible by normal means, so it had to fit in somehow. They're Light Armor for maximum freedom of movement in and light to be worn. The pauldrons are worn in a Ring slot due to the lack of free slots for the different combinations.

The mods I mainly took from (base meshes to be heavily reshaped and bases for the re-textures): - AlienSlof's Male Clothing : Hussar Uniform, base for the sleeveless (dragonscale-armored) shirt (the collar was from Vanilla, remember Count Hassildor of Skingrad's coat? I also took many parts from Slof's Robe Trader's textures due to their high artistic quality) - MystikHybrid's Dragon Skin (Akatosh Mount textures) : previously the base for Drake's scales, now only used for the scales on the shirt - The short vest was created from a Vanilla upperclass shirt (the blue one, if I remember right), ornaments taken from Vanilla mithril textures, the little dragon emblem