ANSKA ENHANCED - Follower - Marriage - commentary - EFF UFO AFT

05-07-2014: The B-Team follower compilation mod launches May 9th! B-team includes and will supersede my Anska, Heimskr, and Nazeem mods. An upgrade is not required but Anska, Heimskr, and Nazeem will be considered "finalized" as they are, and any further upgrades, changes and fixes to the NPCs will come through the B-team mod.

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One thing I've never understood is how keen people are on making brand-new followers out of whole cloth when there are so many great NPCs already available in Skyrim who naturally lend themselves to it.

The best example of this is Anska - after a harrowing journey with her into the heart of a far northern barrow for a sealed scroll, the quest kind of peters out. She remains stuck in the barrow, forever mulling it over while dreaming of flame-broiling zombies. Anska Enhanced seeks to remedy this: it stabilizes her NPC record so she can be properly hired as a follower, and in the style of Heimskr Forever, switches appropriate dialog topics currently 'stuck' to Mjoll to work for the FemaleNord voicetype.

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• []Comments as you travel, in a fashion suspiciously similar to Mjoll the Lioness![/] []A unique class and theme - Pyromancer! Fire spells a-plenty![/] []A unique face![/]

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• []Q) What makes this better than just using a mod like Everyone is an Adventurer to turn the vanilla NPC into a follower?[/] []A) EIAA is a fine mod, to be sure, but that mod and like functionality in other mods just kicks Anska into the requisite factions for following and gives her the right relationshiprank. My mod goes a step further by preserving the essence of her fiery personality as a follower, and adds a couple nifty bonuses on top of that.[/]

• []Q) Do you take requests?[/] []A) Maybe! That was how I got started on Nazeem. My vanilla follower picks are selected for a variety of reasons, mainly boiling down to how technically complex it would be to pluck them out of the game as a follower, and whether or not it makes sense for them to decide to go gallivanting about Skyrim with the Dragonborn. If you know an NPC you think would be a good candidate, drop me a line or post it as a comment![/]

• []Q) How do I get Anska to join me?[/] []A) Go the High Gate Ruins east of Solitude. After finishing the quest a Scroll for Anska, ask her again about what the scroll says. She will be able to join you after giving her response.[/]

[]Q) Anska already spawned, and has vanilla stats![/] [*]A) Skyrim is really weird about this sort of thing; sometimes waiting 2 days elsewhere will spawn the mod's version. The 'recycleactor' command might work, but it might also scramble her memory. If that doesn't work, use setle