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frozenthirdyear

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th3rm0pyl43

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Visually turns General Tullius into an approximation of Julius Caesar.

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Replaces General Tullius's looks with an approximation of Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BC), general and statesman of the Roman Republic.

- - - Details - - -

Removes Tullius's beard and dirt overlay, lightens his hair and skin, changes his hairstyle and eyebrows, adds a facial scar, and sets his weight slider value to 65. Only head parts, hair color and weight slider values were changed in his record. The same changes were applied to CWBattleTullius.

All head parts are vanilla. The plugin is ESP-FE.

This is not a fully standalone replacer and will use your installed skin and hair textures. I specified what face textures I used for each screenshot.

Stuff shown in screenshots (not included):

More screenshots using different textures are welcome.

- - - Compatibility - - -

Requires a patch for anything that directly modifies General Tullius (0001327E) and CWBattleTullius (000D0577) without touching his appearance, e.g. Real Bosses and some Civil War overhauls. I won't provide patches; permissions are open for anyone to make their own patches or further tweaks. In most cases, it'll be as simple as a drag-and-drop in xEdit.

Will conflict with anything that modifies any part of Tullius's appearance. Use load order to pick one or the other.

Not interested in High Poly Head.

- - - Manual Uninstallation - - -

Delete the .esp and the following files:

  • meshes\actors\character\facegendata\facegeom\Skyrim.esm\0001327E.nif
  • meshes\actors\character\facegendata\facegeom\Skyrim.esm\000D0577.nif
  • textures\actors\character\facegendata\facetint\Skyrim.esm\0001327E.dds
  • textures\actors\character\facegendata\facetint\Skyrim.esm\000D0577.dds

- - - Additional Instructions - - -

To use the RaceMenu preset for your character after installing it:

  • Load the FTYCaesarPreset.jslot preset in the RaceMenu Presets tab.
  • In the Sculpt tab, import the FTYCaesarHeadSculpt.nif head from the \CharGen\Exported\ folder.

- - - Highly Recommended - - -

Historical Revival - The Roman Era by Jedo_Dre/JaydoDre, an Imperial armor and weapons replacer mod that has a very special place in my heart and is the reason I bought Skyrim in the first place.

Tempered Skins for Males by traa108

Imperial Tribune Armor
by Gypsymama and Caenraes

- - - Author's Ramblings - - -

Obviously he wasn't going to look nearly as chiseled as the portrait busts because this is skin and not marble we're looking at; even the Tusculum portrait, which may the only one from Caesar's lifetime (if it's him in the first place), is quite stylized as far as I can tell. According to Professor Mary Beard (The Twelve Caesars - Images of Power, episode 1), the only depictions we're absolutely sure are him are on coins, and those are notoriously hard to extrapolate a person's appearance from.

A lot of the 'this is what this historical figure might've looked like in life' recreations of him feel like they're barking up the wrong tree by flirting too hard with the universally recognizable Chiaramonti bust and proceed to triple-backflip straight into the uncanny valley. No shot a nearly-56-year-old who had spent the last 15 years fighting war after war had the exact same smooth cheeks and boyish, conspicuously full head of hair that Octavian/Augustus insisted on being depicted with even as he aged. That bust is an extremely stylized image of a mature man of the Late Republic fashioned after Hellenistic youths less than half of his age, and one does not simply plonk that into FaceApp and call it a day. Thus, behold the fruits of my spite and RaceMenu sculpting labor.

Caesar almost certainly didn't live to see his hair turn white, but I'm writing an alt-history-urban-fantasy in which that happens to him as a side effect of becoming a vampire, and I'm too attached to the white-haired look now. Might put up an optional grey-haired version.