The Dryad - A Playable Tree Nymph
by Xenius

Dryads are mythological beings, they are protectors of the woods. Each Dryad is linked to their own tree, a tree that they have to keep safe, if the tree dies, they die. Anyone who tries to harm their tree will be punished. Dryads are able to use the forces of nature to their advantage, to heal themselves and to harm others.

Description

This mod adds two new races to the game, called "Dryad" and "Autumn Dryad". The only difference between them is some of the colors. The Dryads have their own unique spells and abilities, they even have their own clothes, accessories and weapons, specifically made for them.

All of these items will be added to your automatically, but not all at once. At the start of the game you will get a few, while you gain levels more items will be given. This goes on until level 20.

Attributes

Strength    - 30
Intelligence    - 50
Willpower    - 50
Agility        - 40
Speed        - 40
Endurance    - 30
Luck        - 40
Personality    - 40

Skill Bonuses

Destruction    - 10
Alteration    - 5
Illusion    - 5
Mysticism    - 5
Restoration    - 10
Alchemy        - 5
Blunt        - 5

Spells & Abilities

Nature's Revenge
Ranged spell
Inflicting Earth* damage.

Tree Link
Daily power
Temporal constant health regeneration, slow but long lasting.

Stride
Effect on self
Highly increases your movement speed and jump height.

Root
Touch spell
Roots your target causing paralyzation.

Earth Quake
Daily power
Ranged spell, inflicting Earth damage on multiple targets.

Wooden Skin
Ability
Your skin is hard as wood, is partly resistant to damage inflicted by normal weapons and catches fire easily.

*The full effect is only available when using the optional Earth Magic addon. This optional .esp file will replace the Damage Health effect with the Earth Damage effect, the only difference is the visuals, the damage caused is still the same. It was the only way to add the Earth Damage effect, adding new magic effects is not possible. Of course this also means that all existing spells in the game will be labelled "Earth Damage" instead of "Damage Health", if you don't like that idea, don't use the optional file. The hit and sound effect is scripted and only tied to the Dryad's spells, this does not depend on the optional file.

Additional Items

As mentioned before, various items will be added to the inventory automatically when gaining levels. The following items will be available:

Autumn Leafrobe/Green Leafrobe
Comes in 4 variations, is enchanted with both Burden and Shield.

Seed of Life
Necklace, increases your Restoration skill. Comes in 2 colors.

Autumn Garland/Green Garland
Headwear, comes in 3 variations, is enchanted with Resist Magic.

Tree's Hand
Blunt weapon, plain wooden staff.

Earth's Reclaim
Staff, wooden orb staff decorated with leaves, Earth Damage on target.

Grasp Of Roots
Staff, wooden orb staff decorated with leaves, Root on target.

Both magical staves come in a less strong novice version, these are wooden staves with an orb and without the leaves.

Installation

I would recommend using 7zip to extract the files.
Move the Data folder to your Oblivion folder.
Install the optional files of your choice, same procedure.

Required files for Nehrim are also available in the Optional Files folder.

Uninstallation

Remove the following files and folders:

Data\Meshes\Xenius\Dryad
Data\Textures\Xenius\Dryad
Data\Textures\Menus\Icons\Xenius\Dryad
Data\Sound\FX\Xenius\Dryad

Data\X.Earth.Magic.esp
Data\X.Dryads.GotF.esm

Version History

[13-07-09] 1.0 Release
[01-11-11] 2.0 Release - Complete Redesign
[14-11-18] Re-release

Requirements

Roberts Male Body
Roberts Female Body

Unofficial Oblivion Patch
Or
Custom Race Fix + Boethia Shrine Custom Race Fix

Credits

Thanks a lot to the following people, without their work this mod would never have been possible.

Head
throttlekitty - Head06 Resource
CapsAdmin - PSD Resource
Lucha - Tweaked Head06 Fem3
scanti - Merged Mouth & Teeth
Sinblood - Original Teeth Textures

Body
Robert - Body Replacers
AlienSlof - Resource

Hair
Cazy - Original Hairstyles
Anto - Original Hairstyles
FumoFumo - Converted Hairstyles
zitch - Converted Hairstyles
Lucha - Converted Hairstyles

Clothes
Nioliv - Original Morrowind Dress Mesh
JClyde and AcidRain226 - FF Dress Mesh Conversion
Xiamara - HGEC Conversion
BlackBaron2 - RF Conversion
Yevic1992 - Help with rigging (RF Conversion)

Additional Clothing Pieces, Jewelry and Weapons
Gizmodian - She made all the meshes and was kind enough to give them to me for use with the Dryad race, which I am very grateful for.

DeviantArt
ftourini - Tileable Tree Bark Resource
bluesse - Leaf Resource
joannastar-stock - Branch Brushes

Freesound
reinsamba - Ambient Forest Sound
Benboncan - Rock Fall Sound
Zixem - Mystic Sound
Dynamicell - Howling Wind Sound

Tools of the Trade

Adobe Photoshop CS5
Nvidia DDS Plugin
Nvidia Normal Map Filter
Nifskope
The Elder Scrolls Construction Set
7-Zip
Notepad
Audacity
dBpoweramp Audio Converter

Permissions

The contents of this mod can be used freely on the following conditions: credit me, notify me and only use for the game it was intended for.