Nether's Ninara (1.0.3)

Short, sweet and crafty, Ninara is my take on a Gnome follower for Skyrim, woven into Dwemer lore. Original, unique voice, 850 lines of dialogue. Features a gameplay mechanic where she creates new, unique items based on being inspired when reading schematics. Includes interaction and quest content. ESL-Flagged and compatible with SSE/AE.

INSTALLATION:

- Uses XP32-based skeleton. Supports CBBE (Physics), 3BA and BHUNP bodies.

- FOMOD installer will install the main files (provided in archive file) + your choice of Follower manager and your choice of body type.

- Ninara uses your installed textures for skin.

- You SHOULD use bodyslide to build her armor for your game, otherwise it defaults to CBBE Physics. CBBE (Physics), 3BA and BHUNP are supported in bodyslide. Groups should start with Nether's Ninara. You are welcome to convert to other bodies and upload those bodyslides but I'm not covering every variation under the sun.

- You may opt to have her installed with Dwemer Armor if you have a replacer you'd rather use or a body other than CBBE Physics, 3BA or BHUNP or just want her to start with this armor.

HOW TO START:

- Travel to Mzinchaleft, southwest of Dawnstar. She will be located (from the main entrance) in the first large area. An introduction quest will start when you get near her. After helping her and acquiring her as a follower, there will be a follow-up deeper in Mzinchaleft.

BASIC FEATURES:

- General theme is discovery, exploration and curiosity. I also wanted to bring a smaller character to Skyrim and make it fit into the lore of the world. Ninara is a fish out of water, a Dwemer-engineered race designed for crafting and labor. She has been preserved for thousands of years and has just been accidentally released from her stasis. She isn't a cyborg type character but was designed to be efficient and logical, though she has her own kind of whimsical charm.

- Ninara can create new devices through a discovery system. Though she can do this on her own, dwemer schematics can be dropped from Falmer and Automaton enemies, retrieved from Dwemer Boss Chests or purchased from court wizards. Trading these to her, causes her to read them, possibly giving her "ideas" in the way of breakthroughs.

- Ninara is fully voiced using an original, generative AI voice. She reacts to a lot of game situations or when you give certain things to her.

- She is very customizable. You can have her wear what's in her inventory, you can give her a selection of wigs provided by other mods that she can choose from and you can give her accessories (jewelry) that she can choose from. She changes wig and jewelry choices periodically.

- A follower manager is recommended but not required. She has a sidekick (companion) system that you can activate. It will be activated by default if you don't seem to have enough follower slots available. Companion mode can be turned on and off at any time.

- You can get a lot of statistics and change features by using her Talk and Option dialogue choices. Things that you might do frequently fall more under "talk". Things that are a bit more fire and forget are presented as "options".

- She has a relationship system that is outside of the game's relationship system so that it can gradually increase. It is based on a 700 point system. It takes 25% of that for her to be friendly towards you, at 50% she feels like an ally and at 100% she is enamored and can be married.

- She will eventually flirt with you as she gets sweet on you. You can turn this off once it becomes active. She will verbally cue being flirty with you. She verbally cues a lot of things that happen, so try to pay attention to her sometimes.

- This is presented as a mod that falls in-between Elana and Jenna in terms of seriousness and it leans more on fun.