Bards Reborn Bardic Lore Book Crafting System

Welcome to Bards Reborn: Bardic Lore, a new writing system for Skyrim designed to reflect the reality that books in Skyrim would have to be produced by hand as it is a pseudo-medieval culture without printing presses (unless you’re a LOD user). Books are one of the few things that you encounter and can’t make so I set out to change that after looking at the variety of scroll writing mods. You can make most game books, special tomes from maps and recipes, new books, and even special books written from your character’s perspective of quests!

Crafting Books

At the Scriptorium you can craft almost all books in the game provided you have the materials. The books are sorted into tiers in accordance to their rarity and value. The rarer the book, the most sophisticated and expensive the materials to make them. Additionally, as this crafting system has no perks attached, you unlock more books to craft based on your speechcraft skill while crafting them raises your speech skill. This will allow you make more valuable and rare books to fill in your collection.

Journals and notes are not included in this mod as it makes no sense to me that they would be reproduced. Here is the breakdown of the book tiers and their crafting materials. Everything you need can be made at the crafting Scriptorium so the mod doesn’t interfere with crafting overhauls.

List 0: created with paper, inkwell, quill, leather (no speech requirement)

List 1: created with paper, inkwell, quill, leather,firewood (25 speech requirement)

List 2: created with paper, inkwell, firewood, quill,leather, leather strips (40 speech requirement)

List 3: created with paper, inkwell, firewood, leather, leather strips, colored ink, (60 speech requirement)

List 4: created with paper, inkwell, colored ink, leather,leather strips, gold leaf (80 speech requirement)

Write Quest Books

You will unlock the ability to write books based on some your quests as you explore dungeons and experience special events. These books are a bit vague so that they can potentially be written by almost any Dragonborn and are intended to reflect someone heroic or at least writing as though they are for good PR. There are twelve books for the main game quest line and an additional seventeen books for side quests, adding a total of thirty brand new books. I stayed away from quests that had choice branches or sensitive information your character shouldn’t be writing about. The value of the books varies, but they have no speech requirement tied to them.

The side quests currently covered are: Tending the Flames, A Love Beyond Death, A Scroll For Anska, Coming of Age, Evil in Waiting, Forbidden Legend, Frostflow Abyss, Laid to Rest, Rise in the East, The Affairs of Hagravens, The Wolf Queen Awakened, The Heart of Dibella, Repentance, Blood on the Ice, Dark Ancestor, The Ghost of Old Hroldan, The Lost Expedi