Mehrunes Dagon's Shrine Unlocked - Pieces of the Past Alternate Ending

Mod Overview

This mod provides additional methods to enter Mehrunes Dagon's Shrine without helping Silus Vesuius or having to side with Mehrunes Dagon. Additionally, if a skilled enough smith, you can reforge the Razer yourself as an alternate way to end the "Pieces of the Past" quest.

40+ new lines of dialogue have been added. All responses use re-purposed vanilla lines. No AI or splicing tools were utilized.

Enter the Shrine - No Unnecessary Restrictions

• []The lock on the shrine's door has been changed to a master-level lock and can now be picked. (The key dropped by the Dremora still unlocks it as well.) [/]

  []Silus Vesuius now carries an additional copy of the key to the shrine that is able to be pickpocketed or taken from his corpse.[/]

  []A journal has been added to Silus's House which explains how he came into position of the key and, furthermore, fleshes out his character.[/]

  []After reading Silus's Journal, you can confront him directly and, if you pass a speech check, can obtain the key through dialogue.[/]

  []You can also attempt to convince Silus to close the museum. Depending on the prompt, Silus will become hostile to the player and can be killed without a bounty.[/]

  Reforge the Razor Yourself - Alternate Ending

  []An optional plugin is available which allows the player to reforge Mehrunes' Razer themselves without Dagon's help.[/]

  []Adds 30 new lines of dialogue all voiced with Vanilla assets. You can now convince Silus to let you reforge the Razor instead of going to Dagon. No one needs to die and the Razor can be obtained if the player is a master smith.[/]

  []The Razor can be crafted at any forge and requires all the fragments, three Daedra Hearts, and the Daedric & Arcane Blacksmith Perks.[/]

  []Upon reforging the Razor this way, the "Pieces of the Past" quest will end/fail automatically.[/]

  []You can keep the reforged Razor or give it back to Silus for gold. If you keep it, Silus may try to take it back through force if you fail an intimidation check.[/]

  []If you don't want to help Silus, you can still get the Razor.[/]

  []You can collect the pieces of Razor without agreeing to help Silus. This is actually vanilla behavior, not a change made by the mod. The pieces spawn into the world after Silus invites you into the museum. Acquire them and, if you are a skilled enough smith, just take them to a forge![/]

  []If you choose to go this route, additional dialogue options will be added to Silus.[/]

  []A copy of "The Keepers of the Razor" has been added to Silus's inventory as well—the same book he gives the player when they agree to help him. It lists the locations of the Razor pieces and can pickpocketed/taken from his corpse.[/]