Improved Follower Dialogue - Lydia

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INTRODUCTIONLydia is a character many of us love, but there hasn't been much reason for that other than pure sentiment. She has fewer than 50 lines of dialogue in the base game, all drawn from a generic voice type shared with other followers and characters voiced by Colleen Delaney. Now, Lydia has over 1400 lines of dialogue voiced by the talented LMG Wilson, and written by myself. Her character is transformed from a generic set piece into a major supporting character in the main questline (and the game as a whole), without actually editing the main questline at all. Expansions for Legacy of The Dragonborn, Wyrmstooth, and Beyond Skyrim: Bruma now available.

CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE PLAYER

I wrote Lydia to center around the main questline, since for many of us, she stuck with us from the journey to High Hrothgar to the Confrontation with Odahviing on our first playthrough - I based this very heavily on what I imagined was going on between Lydia and the Dragonborn the first time I played Skyrim. With that, not bringing her along for the main quest will create a backlog of dialogue, so it's highly recommended you do so. While she has plenty of non-MQ content, she is, first and foremost, a main-quest follower. She has her own personal quest that functions independent of the main quest, however.

I didn't write Lydia to be a "historically accurate" (as if every Huskarl in pre-Christian Scandinavia was the exact same), type-a housecarl because that would have been boring. I wrote her to be a courageous and very good-hearted woman who's become disenfranchised with the state of the world around her, and has put up at least one defense mechanism to keep herself from what would be faltering in her view. She has a romance path and a specific attachment style that will be enticing for some players but not others - I think I've written Lydia to be a great romantic partner, but she's not one-size-fits-all. Her romance has some highly suggestive lines, but nothing extremely explicit. For the Mass Effect fans out there, she's a cross between Garrus and Liara (I didn't base her off of them or anything, but that's just kind of how she came out.)

Lydia also has out-of-the