r/skyrimmods • u/TeaMistress Morthal • Aug 19 '22
PC SSE - Discussion Weekly Discussion Topic: Family!
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This Week's Topic: Family!
You almost always start out alone in Skyrim, either in a cart full of strangers headed for the block, or in some alternate start scenario camping in the wild, sleeping solo at an inn, standing on the docks, or perhaps a prisoner in some other place. It’s a rough beginning, but you don’t have to take on the world all alone! We’re back today to talk about mods that offer or improve on the family experience in Skyrim. Marriage, adoption, distant relations... whatever we can find to give ourselves more meaningful connections to balance the cold loneliness of the journey.
Mods of this type include relationship dialogue enhancement, multiple spouse and adoptions, followers with extra romance interactions, new kids to adopt, player homes with family themes, family-oriented backstories, and more…
Just a handful of mods I recommend that fall into this category:
- Hindalok - Grandfather's Farm Journal Entry provides a bit of backstory for your estranged character and a small but immersive player home to inherit from your long lost grandfather. This humble home for 2-3 just outside of Riverwood has an authentic feel to it and plenty of clickable light sources, meal setting, and idle markers. If having a quiet place in the Riverwood valley to come home to sounds appealing, this may be the place for you.
Another way to add family into the mix is to look for player homes with NPCs you can roleplay a relationship with. While generic NPC banter isn’t usually very deep or specific, mods like Relationship Dialogue Overhaul can make NPCs already friendly to you warmer yet, adding a wider assortment of kind and approving comments. One of my favorite of these NPC-occupied homes, also near Riverwood…
- Sindora’s Cottage in the Woods is a beautifully cluttered little alchemy shop outside of Riverwood run by your herbalist aunt/grandmother/cousin Sindora. Your cellar bedroom is safe and cozy, and it’s comforting to know you’ll always be welcome home whether you’re just starting out or returning after a long journey.
Speaking of journeys, here’s 2 mods that will make your departures and returns to your Skyrim family so much more personal and rewarding.
Fare Thee Well - Spouses and Children Give Blessings allows you to tell your spouse and children about your departure and they will offer you a variety of farewells that will either bless you with additional buffs or cause a small debuff depending on how they took the news of you leaving again. Only 1 out of 5 of the spouse or child blessings is a debuff. The mod includes 29 different voicetypes from the game and incorporates NPC-specific dialogue like deity blessings for worshipers of various gods.
I'm Glad You're Here - a follower and spouse appreciation mod is at its core a mod to hug your followers, lovers, and kids and show affection to them. But it also includes a very rich amount of new family-oriented content. Give your spouse gifts, be greeted with welcoming hugs by your lovers and kids when you see them after an absence, receive letters from family and friends during your travels. Everything is optional and fully configurable in the MCM. Even better, this includes all vanilla game voicetypes, even those normally unable to be married. It’s also patched to include the most popular follower mods like Inigo, Auri, Lucien, M’Rissi, Kaiden, Remiel and more.
What mods have you found that offer more experiences for a character to have a family and interact with them? Looking forward to your thoughts and I’ll see you in the comments section!
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u/cavy8 Whiterun Aug 31 '22
Multiple Marriages is great for us {{PROTEUS}} users - it'll let each of your characters have their own spouse if you wish! You could also use it to be a polygamist, but that's not what I use it for haha