Talkative Dragons

Overview

This mod reuses some vanilla voice lines to make dragons speak during combat, so they feel like sentient creatures instead of just mere beasts. I recently started a new game and was surprised that Mirmulnir actually said something during the fight, because I didn’t remember that at all from my other playthrough. And most of those lines aren’t anything special either, just generic combat talk. I can see where the devs were trying to go with making quest related dragons more unique by adding dialogue, but in the end, you fight those few dragons once (or not at all if you choose not to do the main quest), and all the rest you battle on a daily basis are silent. There are mods that enable voice lines for shouting, but I haven’t seen anything that adds dialogue.

There are a few completely generic lines that will be used regardless of the dragon’s target, and some additional ones that refer to the Dovahkiin – those will be used alongside the generic ones when the dragon is targeting the player, and you’ve spoken to the Greybeards (MQ105).

Paarthurnax, Alduin and Odahviing have unique voices, so they won’t use those lines. You’re not going to see the first two in combat outside quests anyway (unless you have mods that spawn enemies such as SOT and they happen to spawn someone on the Throat of The World, but that is very rare, and I don’t think Paarthurnax has combat lines that don’t refer to Alduin). Odahviing doesn’t have generic combat lines that don’t refer to the player or shouting, so I only added the shouting ones and they’ll be used if he’s targeting another dragon. I set the chance for it relatively low so it’s not too repetitive.

A few more details about the lines:

• ◘ If you happen to kill dragons after Mirmulnir’s death but before speaking to the Greybeards, they’ll have that surprised death cry “Dovahkiin? No!!” that Mirmulnir uses when he somehow senses who you are. Unfortunately that is the only death line I found, so after you talk to the Greybeards dragons won’t say anything while dying.

  ◘ There’s a 50% chance that the dragons will express their disgust if you’re dishonourable and use Dragonrend on them.

  ◘ All the other lines have an equal 20% chance to be played. This is because dragon battles can get a bit lengthy, especially with dragon and combat overhaul mods, and having them constantly talking would get old real quick. They will still talk often enough so you won’t have a silent battle unless it only takes a few seconds.

Other Versions

LE – ported by FierySnowman and EmeraldShadow

Video Previews – made by CaffeinatedOrange and hodegar – thank you so much!

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