Weapons Of The Shogunate 1_07b

WHAT IT DOES

It adds a few Edo era Japanese... err... I mean, Akaviri weapons, because you can never have enough katanas in a game ;)

The weights, speed and damage are loosely based on the existing Akaviri katana in the game, and my own extrapolations for the other weapons than the katana. Most weapons are fairly fast, especially the two handed katana and ninjato, which offer a completely different two-hander experience from the normal game weapons. They're also all set to silent for detection, since, well, if it was silent enough for the ninja, it's silent enough for me.

All weapons except the naginata have custom lacquered scabbards.

All weapons need steel and firewood to craft, and the ones with wrapping on the hilt also need linen wraps. So you might need to raid some tomb for linen if you want to craft them.

The weapons are: katana, wakizashi, zanbato (big two-hander sword used against cavalry), nagamaki, naginata, kikuchi yari, two types of tanto, and two types of ninjato. They'll be described in more detail in another section at the end of this readme.

Bonus weapons: Goldbrand from Morrowind and Skyrim, Eltonbrand from Morrowind, and the Zanpakuto paddle from the latest Netflix version of Bleach.

RETEXTURING AND MODDING

As most of my mods, it's designed for ease of retexturing, so the textures are separate pieces, and the mapping such that you can just swap in some other material. This is probably less easy to do for the blade, unless you're willing to lose the hamon, though even there it's possible if you want to end up with a more simple metal blade.

You can however safely replace similar textures included in the mod with each other. E.g., if you want a tsuka (handle) with black fittings instead of yellow, you can just replace the Tsuka.dds file with the NinjatoTsuka.dds, and suddenly the katana, ninjato and nagamaki will have black at the ends of the tsuka too. Similarly you can replace the RoundTsuba.dds with the NinjatoTsuba.dds to remove the yellow star on the guard (though the star-shaped indentation will remain.) The same can be copied over Habaki.dds to get a steel blade sleeve like the ninjato has instead of the yellow one.

The mesh pieces are separate too, somewhat like in Neverwinter Nights 2, so if you're not affraid to copy nodes around in NifSkope, you can mix and match. Katana with square guard? Wakizashi blade on the pole on my Roman Spear? Ninjato blade on an Epix Dagger hilt? You can do that. It's just copy-and-paste exercises, in fact.

HOW TO GET IT

A chest containing one of each weapon and variant except Goldbrand and Eltonbrand is in the Skyhaven Temple, near Alduin's Wall. Seemed like the most logical place to find ancient Akaviri weapons. The chest IS locked, but it's a novice-level lock, so it takes no skill to open it. Still, bring a lockpick or t