Companion Valfar

COMPANION VALFAR by Omesean

Update 1. 4. 0 has been uploaded. This one should fix all problems related to UFO. Several topics have also been added, allowing sandbox behavior, customization of appearance and blocking idle chatter. Uninstall the old version, make a clean save and use the current version instead!

Nexus user Charosian is responsible for the excellent bit of storytelling called Skysteel - Beyond the 7000 Steps, a tale in which Valfar was priviledged to make his appearance. Below is showcased a video depicting a brawl between (amongst others) Valfar and Hoth, portraying the tremendous quality and effort being put towards the creation of this epic. Check out the Tumblr page, updated mondays, to see a great interpretation and implementation of Companion Valfar and revel in some awe-inspiring storytelling!

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Valfar is a highly customized follower mod. A great warrior, lover of mead and hater of elves! Do you fancy the Stormcloaks over those sissy Imperials? Then look no further my friend, for you have found the ultimate Stormcloak follower!

His armour is custom, his voice is custom, even his beard is custom - and it's all in in a single package and, I quote, "itching to kill something". Your average barbarian - always a bottle of mead and rusty battleaxe within reach, and able to cast a shout (or three!). You'll see him whacking down hordes of Thalmor milk drinkers with a single blow, all the while shouting epic comments and battle cries, and he'll do so with a smile!

And when I say that his voice is custom, I say that I treated it the same as I do with all my armour mods: I mix and match parts of the vanilla game and put them together in a whole new package. This is clearly evident on his armour, but his voice is a good example of this as well. For Valfar I wanted a very special voice that fully reflects his personality. And rather than scouring the internet for a voice actor like that, I found one already part of the vanilla game. We all know Ulfric's right hand, Galmar Stone-Fist. I extracted his dialogue and mixed it into the CK under whole new conditions and functions - in fact, the only thing that causes his voice to not be 100% custom is that I didn't act them myself. Everything has been added manually - over two hundred lines of dialogue, most of which are used during idle chatter to add a bit of life to an otherwise dull and average follower. Please don't argue that if I didn't voice act him myself he does not have a custom voice at all. There's a lot of work put into this, and if you can't see or appreciate that your opinion is of very little importance to me.