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While I don't play Skyrim anymore for years, I figured I'd share Serene's Backstory. Now she's proficient in wielding one handed weapons and two handed weapons as well as using a bow. 1. The Master Shipwright of Atmora It all begins in ancient Atmora with Serene’s father, a highly respected master woodworker and architect. He builds a rugged, top-tier longship to fulfill his dream of exploring the seas. Alongside his fierce warrior wife, they raise their daughter Serene, training her to be proficient in all forms of combat—from single-handed weapons and bows to greatswords. 2. First Contact and a Dual Household During a voyage far to the southeast, Serene’s father makes first contact with the golden-skinned Chimer on the shores of Morrowind. There, he meets Nylaathria, a young and elegant woman from the ancient, minor Great House Mora. They fall in love, and Nylaathria returns with him to Atmora as his second wife. Though the family dynamic is shocking at first, Serene eventually accepts her. When Serene’s biological mother tragically passes away from an illness during Serene's preteen years, Nylaathria’s warmth and patience provide the comfort she needs, forging a deep bond between them. 3. The Birth of Drarusea and the Great Fleet By the time Serene is a young adult of 19, Nylathria gives birth to a unique Man-Mer child named Drarusea, who inherits her mother's golden skin and red-brown hair, but features her human father’s rounded ears and nose. Desiring to raise her child in the warmth of Morrowind, Nylaathria asks her husband to return home. He agrees, but must first complete a massive, historically monumental task: crafting the entire legendary fleet of ocean-faring longships for Ysgramor and the first wave of Atmoran settlers heading south to Skyrim. Once the fleet is finished, Serene’s father, stepmother, and baby sister sail to Morrowind, while Serene stays behind to maintain the homestead. 4. The Night of Tears and the Call to Arms Down south, the Atmorans build Saarthal, only for the Snow Elves to launch a surprise attack, slaughtering the settlers in the Night of Tears. Ysgramor escapes back to Atmora, beating the war drums and calling for the Five Hundred Companions. Hearing that the very ships her father built were destroyed and human blood was spilled, 19-year-old Serene answers the call out of pure duty. She boards Ysgramor's personal ship, stepping into history as an unrecorded hero of the 500. 5. Vengeance, Valor, and the Lonely Peak The Companions sail back through the Sea of Ghosts and launch a brutal campaign of vengeance, driving the Snow Elves all the way to Solstheim. Serene fights like a demon. Even after taking a massive blow to her face, she simply binds her left eye with a cloth bandage and keeps swinging until she is fatally stabbed in the abdomen. Refusing to stop until the battle is won, she uses her final strength to walk to a high mountain peak right outside where Ysgramor’s Tomb will eventually be built. Looking out over the Sea of Ghosts toward her lost homeland of Atmora, she takes her final breath and passes away. Ysgramor and her crewmates honor her final wish, constructing a solitary tomb for her right there on the cliffside. 6. The Eternal Legacy While Serene’s soul ascends to the warm halls of Sovngarde to feast with her birth mother, her name is forever immortalized in the Nords' oral history during the annual Feast of the Dead in Windhelm. Meanwhile, back in Morrowind, her bloodline quietly lives on through her half-sister Drarusea, weaving the lineage of an Atmoran master shipwright directly into the future politics of House Mora.

That hair needs it's own video though. But yeah no PS/Illustrator is biggest hit on Linux for me, but I can sidestep it because I have a work mac. That said leaving windows isn't a luxury anymore but a necessity. I'll be taking the leap soon myself. Time to go! Was talking to two other Skyrim modders who are both on linux earlier this week. A little work but worth it in the end.

Exactly. It's just a repetition of bad spending habits.

I'm going to return to my mod once I've finished with WNII. I said I had gone overboard with that mod, and the world is going to see it.

"Doom-spending" for sure. Alas, tomorrow didn't get the memo.

Fuck they just never learn. Looks like the same woman ten years after a severe drug addiction, lol.

I'm currently working on a mod for TKA now. It's nothing too major. Just modifying the vanilla challenge map—Centralized Control Area with my own way of zombie waves. Got sick of the dumb unbalanced versions on Nexusmods that are pretty much unbalanced on extreme.