Heimfeigr

Heimfeigr (literally, Home of the Dead. Pronounced "Heym-fey-gr") is a dungeon from Luftahraan that features during an important segment of the main quest. For this release, it has been taken out of its context and moved into Skyrim itself where it will serve as a standalone dungeon for players to explore. Heimfeigr is split into 5 cells, one of which contains a fully scripted boss fight in the same vein as those in World of Warcraft and Diablo (albeit limited somewhat by the Skyrim engine) and has it's own originally composed music written by Stephen Webster. The entire Level Designing process by Örvar "Wheeze" Arnórsson was streamed on his personal twitch channel. Also special thanks to twitch user skar_awakens for the puzzle scripting and CaptainFalcon92 for improving the script.

Luftahraan is a large city and quest mod that has been in development for 18 months. It adds a new city to the Skyrim worldspace, situated to the west of Solitude, as well as a large area of surrounding lands and villages. Luftahraan will come with its own main quest, as well as numerous side quests, a functioning arena fully integrated into city life and well over 100 NPCs. More information on Luftahraan can be found on our website, where any updates regarding development are posted.

The Archon Entertainment team decided to release Heimfeigr at this point because Luftahraan has been under development for a long time, and we are keen to reassure people that development is still continuing apace, and to also show people some of our design principles in action – the focus on interesting puzzles (that don’t just involve a spinning statue) and challenging boss fights (that don’t just involve the player running up to the monster and devouring 47 health potions whilst standing still and repeatedly hitting them), as well as our attention to detail, is something that we plan to bring to many of the dungeons that will feature in Luftahraan, not just Heimfeigr.

This release is completely separate from Luftahraan, and includes no assets from the main mod besides the five cells. It is also spoiler-free – you needn’t worry about spoiling the story of Luftahraan whilst you’re playing. Heimfeigr also includes three tracks by one of our composers, Stephen Webster, written specially for it – these pieces are mixed in with vanilla Skyrim dungeon music to help give it a unique atmosphere.

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Luftahraan Soundtrack by Stephen Webster

Heimfeigr is located to the north-east of the College of Winterhold, on a remote ice floe in the Sea of Ghosts. You can find an old boat behind the College of Winterhold that will take you to the dungeon.

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