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About this mod
Gore is a fully voiced, lore-friendly, standalone follower I spent a year and a half writing, voicing and implementing. This mod is dedicated to my friend, Eden "Solaria" Knight. You will always be loved. 4,300 lines including the Vigilant add-on voiced using high-quality studio equipment. Coverage for all factions, main quest and DLC.
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Translations
- Turkish
- Spanish
- Russian
- Portuguese
- Mandarin
- German
- French
- Changelogs
Hello. Thank you, first of all, for reading this. Gore is a passion project for me, one that I work on by myself. He was coded, voiced and worked into the game by me. He has a short intro quest, then becomes a follower. You can find him at Peaks Shade Tower, outside of Falkreath.
Don't uninstall mid-playthrough because I use global variables.
Don't uninstall mid-playthrough because I use global variables.
Gore is a child-soldier grown adult, cast off by the family he never truly had following a tragedy. Despite this, the past he is running from is infinitely darker than his future has the potential to be. Gore himself is in love with life, and drinking it in greedy pulls from a deep cup. You'll find he is not so much a broody, quiet type, but more so a very animated and outspoken companion that wears his heart right out on his sleeve.
As you travel together, you will learn more about his history, his personality, and have the opportunity to form a life-long bond with him, potentially a romantic one, depending on your choices. Gore's story is told across two main quests, a few side quests, and a conclusion that I am currently working on. Take your time, make careful choices, and help him put his torments to rest. The main focus of this mod, however, is to cover your own journey, be that through vanilla faction quests, side quests, or the main quest. I also covered some mods like Vigilant and Saints and Seducers Extended Cut.
As you travel together, you will learn more about his history, his personality, and have the opportunity to form a life-long bond with him, potentially a romantic one, depending on your choices. Gore's story is told across two main quests, a few side quests, and a conclusion that I am currently working on. Take your time, make careful choices, and help him put his torments to rest. The main focus of this mod, however, is to cover your own journey, be that through vanilla faction quests, side quests, or the main quest. I also covered some mods like Vigilant and Saints and Seducers Extended Cut.
In technical terms, he uses a greatsword, heavy armor, and violent aggression to draw enemy attention. His stats and gear are balanced, as he starts with Iron-Tier equipment. You can have him use archery, or a blend of the two as well, just talk to him about planning, and he will be open to it. This is how you adjust his follow distance and turn on and off his catch-up teleport feature. I designed him with lore adherence in mind, and I believe I struck a good level of believability for someone not formally educated like Gore. His personality may surprise you, given his name, appearance, etc. but always remember that things are not quite as they seem. Gore is also friendly to nonbinary identities, all you have to do is let him know, and he will not use gendered language with you anymore. I didn't do this lazily, I recorded new lines for this specifically.
Gore uses a survival-lite optional system I have built. It is compatible with any survival mods you use by design. It does not punish you for not participating. At the end of your day, you can ask Gore to take you to camp (Planning > Let's set up camp,) and he will offer to hunt an animal based on your current region. When you get to camp, he will give you a meal he made and any spare parts from said creature. The meals offer very slight 24 hour buffs to attributes. Rest in camp, craft, harvest alchemy ingredients, and let him know you are ready to leave, and you will be transported right back to where you left. How do you access the flask? Ask him through the camp dialogue menu what else he can cook up. It can be refilled by interacting with the mortar and pestle at camp.
- Start and end your days at a secluded camp site
- Let Gore hunt animals to make meals for you, these provide 24hr slight buffs to attributes
- Collect spare parts from the hunt
- Gather ingredients around the camp
- Once you get Gore a horse, have access to crafting stations around the camp
- Get a flask from Gore with 5 charges, healing 50% of your health each time you use it
- Recharge the flask at camp at the end of the day
- Access to: A mortar and pestle for alchemy, a flat stone to temper armor, a tanning rack, a cooking station, an anvil for crafting, dozens of herbs and ingredients, a sharpening wheel, most of which show up after completing Gore's horse quest.
- A nice, quiet, isolated cell. No music, no script lag, no draw calls cloggin' up your fps, just you, Gore, nature, and a nice little break from it all.
Spoiler:
Remiel
Gore has around 320 lines with her.
Auri
Gore has a few idles with Auri, which came not even a week after posting Gore in his fledgling mod state. Auris author was so kind and so available which was honestly amazing as someone who barely had a mod at the time.
Simple Outfit System
I know followers have issues equipping what you'd like them to, and despite nerfing Gore's equipment down to Iron-Tier quality, you may still have issues with getting him to equip what you'd like. This is a vanilla bug, I apologize I can't fix it.
SNIFF - Simple No Internal Friendly Fire
Don't often recommend these, but quite frankly this is just a good mod to have. I can deconflict things on my end, but I cannot fix the base game. Came pretty close with his horse though.
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Remiel
Gore has around 320 lines with her.
Auri
Gore has a few idles with Auri, which came not even a week after posting Gore in his fledgling mod state. Auris author was so kind and so available which was honestly amazing as someone who barely had a mod at the time.
Simple Outfit System
I know followers have issues equipping what you'd like them to, and despite nerfing Gore's equipment down to Iron-Tier quality, you may still have issues with getting him to equip what you'd like. This is a vanilla bug, I apologize I can't fix it.
SNIFF - Simple No Internal Friendly Fire
Don't often recommend these, but quite frankly this is just a good mod to have. I can deconflict things on my end, but I cannot fix the base game. Came pretty close with his horse though.
You can, of course, use him with mods like NFF installed, just do not use the dialogue option to integrate him into them.
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My beta testers for playtesting.
khisartin from dds workshop for the brows, facial hair, scar, eyes, and skin textures. thank you!
frequiaaa for the updated catch-up spell.
WillOhTheWisp for porting Gore over to the Xbox! Thank you!
Cheming for the weapon idle animations.
swefrida, for the teeth.
Naxmaardur, for the burned skin marks.
xavbio, for the armor textures.
DomainWolf, for the body paint.
billyro, for the sword.
sirius1503 for the amulet.
zzJay, WillOhtheWisp for the horse model and textures.
kalilies for KS Hairdos.
Salt & Wind for the textures.
Dan Johnson for voicing Pate.
Flint the Minotaur for voicing Jo-Lee.
KouLeifoh for high poly head.
Niroku for expressive facegen morphs
CaptainCreepy for Still
LokiCXXVIII for voicing my sister, Eden <3
Neyrine, for the armor upgrades!
Cwahson for voicing June
Gore was, for the final 2 updates of 2024, co-written by Leliana.
THANK YOU TO AUTHORS THAT LET ME USE THEIR ASSETS SO I CAN FOCUS ON ONE MONUMENTAL TASK AT A TIME. THIS SHIT IS EXHAUSTING.
Vigilant credits:
Dan Johnson, for once again working on Pate.
Kukielle, author of Daegon for her voice talent as J'hul.
Giamel, for the crib asset.
4thUnknown, for the dust jacket used in the armor.
swerifida, for BNP skins and allowing me to use it for Gore.
Mihail, for the bandage nifs.
Robby, author of Khajiit Will Follow for writing feedback, helping me deconflict this patch with his as much as possible, and for being a good friend to me.
My beta testers.
Vicn, for Vigilant.
Translators and VAs, for the English patches.
Xtudo, for his numerous patches that make great additions.
Eden, none of this would be possible without your divine presence to motivate me. Rest in peace, my darling sister.
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My beta testers for playtesting.
khisartin from dds workshop for the brows, facial hair, scar, eyes, and skin textures. thank you!
frequiaaa for the updated catch-up spell.
WillOhTheWisp for porting Gore over to the Xbox! Thank you!
Cheming for the weapon idle animations.
swefrida, for the teeth.
Naxmaardur, for the burned skin marks.
xavbio, for the armor textures.
DomainWolf, for the body paint.
billyro, for the sword.
sirius1503 for the amulet.
zzJay, WillOhtheWisp for the horse model and textures.
kalilies for KS Hairdos.
Salt & Wind for the textures.
Dan Johnson for voicing Pate.
Flint the Minotaur for voicing Jo-Lee.
KouLeifoh for high poly head.
Niroku for expressive facegen morphs
CaptainCreepy for Still
LokiCXXVIII for voicing my sister, Eden <3
Neyrine, for the armor upgrades!
Cwahson for voicing June
Gore was, for the final 2 updates of 2024, co-written by Leliana.
THANK YOU TO AUTHORS THAT LET ME USE THEIR ASSETS SO I CAN FOCUS ON ONE MONUMENTAL TASK AT A TIME. THIS SHIT IS EXHAUSTING.
Vigilant credits:
Dan Johnson, for once again working on Pate.
Kukielle, author of Daegon for her voice talent as J'hul.
Giamel, for the crib asset.
4thUnknown, for the dust jacket used in the armor.
swerifida, for BNP skins and allowing me to use it for Gore.
Mihail, for the bandage nifs.
Robby, author of Khajiit Will Follow for writing feedback, helping me deconflict this patch with his as much as possible, and for being a good friend to me.
My beta testers.
Vicn, for Vigilant.
Translators and VAs, for the English patches.
Xtudo, for his numerous patches that make great additions.
Eden, none of this would be possible without your divine presence to motivate me. Rest in peace, my darling sister.
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"Installation?"
Load Gore.esm as high as you possibly can. Follower mods change nothing, but touch many things.
"Safe to add mid-playthrough?"
It is, at least in the case of the mainline mod. I don't recommend doing that, because I personally believe Gore is best when gotten at a low level, but to each their own. In the case of the Vigilant addon, abso-fucking-LUTELY not if you have started Vigilant at all. Neither his mods nor his addons are safe to remove mid-playthrough, either.
"Is this finished?"
Yes. I posted a long statement about it in the pinned comments.
"Romance?"
Romance. You have to earn it, though. There is a very, very narrow passage you must get through to have access to it. It is not difficult to achieve if you are a decent person, though.
"Is anyone going to read this?"
No.
Load Gore.esm as high as you possibly can. Follower mods change nothing, but touch many things.
"Safe to add mid-playthrough?"
It is, at least in the case of the mainline mod. I don't recommend doing that, because I personally believe Gore is best when gotten at a low level, but to each their own. In the case of the Vigilant addon, abso-fucking-LUTELY not if you have started Vigilant at all. Neither his mods nor his addons are safe to remove mid-playthrough, either.
"Is this finished?"
Yes. I posted a long statement about it in the pinned comments.
"Romance?"
Romance. You have to earn it, though. There is a very, very narrow passage you must get through to have access to it. It is not difficult to achieve if you are a decent person, though.
"Is anyone going to read this?"
No.
Spoiler:
- Go to Peak's Shade Tower and find Gore
- Play through his intro and then take him to an inn and speak to him
- Tell him to start following again
- Outside, tell him you are thirsty
- Go to the Drunken Huntsman
- Exhaust his dialogue
- Go to another inn
- Tell him to relax, exhaust dialogue
- Go to Dawnstar, confront Pate
- Play through the Epilogue(s)
- If you make good decisions, you can romance him here
- Play through the interludes (one is accessed by asking him if there's anywhere he wants to see in Skyrim while he is relaxed, the other he will bring up himself.)
- After the waterfall ambush, tell him to relax and tell him you want to talk about the ravens some more.This dialogue tree is CRUCIAL in deciding which ending you will get going forward!
- If romancing, ask him on a date. Click on the boat!
- Go to his camp and ask him about marriage
- Go to an inn and speak to him one last time. Tell him to relax.
- Play through the quest
- Patiently await the third and final quest
- You can get him a horse by asking him about life in the Ravens while he is relaxed
- You can go to his camp through the planning menu
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- Go to Peak's Shade Tower and find Gore
- Play through his intro and then take him to an inn and speak to him
- Tell him to start following again
- Outside, tell him you are thirsty
- Go to the Drunken Huntsman
- Exhaust his dialogue
- Go to another inn
- Tell him to relax, exhaust dialogue
- Go to Dawnstar, confront Pate
- Play through the Epilogue(s)
- If you make good decisions, you can romance him here
- Play through the interludes (one is accessed by asking him if there's anywhere he wants to see in Skyrim while he is relaxed, the other he will bring up himself.)
- After the waterfall ambush, tell him to relax and tell him you want to talk about the ravens some more.
- If romancing, ask him on a date. Click on the boat!
- Go to his camp and ask him about marriage
- Go to an inn and speak to him one last time. Tell him to relax.
- Play through the quest
- Patiently await the third and final quest
- You can get him a horse by asking him about life in the Ravens while he is relaxed
- You can go to his camp through the planning menu
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This mod touches on some personal subjects that may upset you. His personal quests are optional, and you can avoid any of this by not pursuing them. I am not a writer, I was blessed with the gift of drawing on my own experiences to shape his story, meaning it was a bit easier for me to make him believable. That being said, I am not Gore. Gore is not me. He is not a self-insert, but rather a vessel meant to convey a message that victims should not be expected to be perfect people. I drew inspiration from my experience as a veteran, a CSA survivor, and other shitty experiences that shaped my life, but I also drew from Eden's experiences as well as others. Despite the heavy themes, this is a story of healing, kinship, and blood. the metaphorical kind, specifically. Chosen family, and its validity. This mod was for trans people first and foremost. It's for people whose family has let them down. It's a story about finding that acceptance and love with your chosen kin, and it's a story about finding happiness.
I have made a discord server to easily provide support for the mod and any bugs that need to be addressed. Please make sure to read the rules after joining.
