Hearthfire Songbirds

While Oriella sings ably and tunefully, her counterpart Sonir has a less favourable reputation, with her music hall delivery, 'singing' phrases more like the punchline to a dirty joke than a song.  Perhaps her new look will make her caterwaul din a little less penetrating.

There's also a new girl in town for those who wish it, as Llewellyn seems to have gone mental with the Face Sculptor's services and changed gender (insert rainbow here), now preferring to be known as Myfanwy.  I hope my fellow Brits approve of this name change.  :D

Mod does what? Updates the appearance of Hearthfire bards Sonir and Oriella. Optional update to change the gender of Llewellyn to female.

Details The mod only provides updated head data and hair, as these are fairly minor characters who I didn't think warranted fully customizable unique folders for meshes/textures as with other replacers.  It also keeps the mod's size down for such a minor update. Mod does not include any mesh/texture data except for hair. Mod does not affect default meshes/textures. Mod does not include any armour/clothing variations seen in screenshots.

Requirements Skyrim updated to the latest version. Hearthfire DLC.

Installation NB: Each download contains all the data for Sonir and Oriella, while version 0. 1a also includes the Llewellyn update.  Install one or the other depending on your preference. Install via NMM. Manual install: install manually.

If updating from one version to the other, please un-install the previous version first.

Un-install Un-install via NMM if the mod was installed that way.

Manual un-install: As well as deleting HearthfireBards.esp and the hair meshes/textures in the characters folder, ensure to delete the facegendata for references: 0001930 (Sonir) 0001931 (Oriella) 00018DE0 (Llewellyn/Myfanwy)

Known Issues Introductory speech from 'Myfanwy' has no sound, as it was intended for a male voice and still states their name as 'Llewellyn'. There may be grating, screeching and other terrifying noises.  Don't worry, that's perfectly normal; Sonir just sings like that. Llewellyn's voice is originally 'male young eager', which if I'd just changed to 'female young eager' she would have had the same singing voice as Sonir.  As such, I changed it to 'female even toned' so the song selection is not what it would normally be.  I presumed this was preferable to having yet another screeching harpy trying