Solitude statue of Gaius Mucius

"Let me guess... another statue for the people of Solitude? What is it now, a Khajiit?

_ An imperial. People says he put his hand in fire without crying...

_ So what, he just took a fire resist potion...

_ Fancy yourself an alchemist, hmm? Never could get the hang of that."

"Gaius Mucius Cordus, better known with his later cognomen Scaevola, was an ancient Roman youth, possibly mythical, famous for his bravery.

In 508 BC, during the war between Rome and Clusium, the Clusian king Lars Porsena laid siege to Rome. Gaius Mucius Cordus, with the approval of the Roman Senate, sneaked into the Etruscan camp with the intent of murdering Porsena. Since it was the soldiers' pay day, there were two similarly dressed people, one of whom was the king, on a raised platform speaking to the troops. This caused Mucius to misidentify his target, and he killed Porsena's scribe by mistake. After being captured, he famously declared to Porsena: "I am Gaius Mucius, a citizen of Rome. I came here as an enemy to kill my enemy, and I am as ready to die as I am to kill. We Romans act bravely and, when adversity strikes, we suffer bravely." He also declared that he was the first of three hundred Roman youths to volunteer for the task of assassinating Porsena at the risk of losing their own lives.

"Watch", he is said to have declared, "so that you know how cheap the body is to men who have their eye on great glory". Mucius thrust his right hand into a fire which was lit for sacrifice and held it there without giving any indication of pain, thereby earning for himself and his descendants the cognomen Scaevola, meaning "left-handed". Porsena was shocked at the youth's bravery, and dismissed him from the Etruscan camp, free to return to Rome, saying "Go back, since you do more harm to yourself than me". At the same time, the king also sent ambassadors to Rome to offer peace.

Mucius was granted farming land on the right-hand bank of the Tiber, which later became known as the Mucia Prata (Mucian Meadows)." - Wikipedia

Description

This mod add a statue of Gaius Mucius at Solitude, in the Castle Dour District.

Install/Uninstall

There's no scripts, so it should be safe to install/uninstall in mid game.

Compatibility

Compatible with RedBag's Solitude

Should be compatible with others Solitude mods that doesn't change too much this part of the city, or else some patch shouldn't be too hard to do (just moving stuff).

Credits

It's from a true scan of the Gaius Mucius Scaevola statue in the  in Schönbrunn Palace Park, Vienna : https://skfb.ly/ontJJ. So credits :

- noe-3d for this great scan

- myself for the port into Skyrim

- the original sculptors of the statue

Tools used

- Blender, for the optimization

- ShaderMap 4 for the normal maps