Nadira
A voiced Redguard mercenary captain with over 3,000 lines and her own quest, made for every one of my mods.
A voiced Redguard mercenary captain with over 3,000 lines and her own quest, made for every one of my mods.
Nadira was captain of the Kestrels, a free company out of Taneth in Hammerfell. They were hired to hold a well fort at Sarhat, and someone sold the plan of the fort to the enemy. Nineteen of her people died there. She carries a roll with their names and reads it when it's quiet. Now she sits in the Bannered Mare in Whiterun, she reads every contract twice, she counts the exits in every room and she takes first watch. She is sharp, dry and three moves ahead of you, and she respects people who can do the work.
This audio was created with Boson AI's Higgs Audio - https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio
- Over 3,000 lines, with nearly 2,000 voiced now. The rest are voiced in the next update.
- Say "Let's talk." and it's a real conversation: ask about her life, her work, the two of you, a captain's lessons (tactics, ambushes, reading people, sparring) or romance, and every answer leads to your next question. When you're done, "Let's talk about something else."
- Ask her opinion on over 100 things: people you meet, the gods, the holds and their people, the war, dragons, and the creatures out there.
- Long talks: the Kestrels, the well at Sarhat, and the house in Taneth.
- Orders: follow, wait, trade and go home, all in her own voice.
- "I need you to do something.": point her at something to use, open or take, like any follower.
- In Warband and Estates of Skyrim she says their lines in her own voice: in the band, and when you hire her at an estate.
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All my estates and followers in one Modhold loadout.
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She notices things- What you do: picking locks, murder, spells, drink and food, crafting, reading, killing a dragon.
- Where you are: every hold, the cities and towns, inns, estates, and every kind of dungeon, camp and ruin. She greets you differently depending on where you are and when.
- The world around you: weather, the season and the month, the stars, animals nearby, and the quests you're on.
- Combat: lines for the fight and for when it's over.
- Find her in the Bannered Mare in Whiterun and ask her to join you. She doesn't sign with anyone she hasn't seen work.
- She picks the job: bandits at Halted Stream Camp, north of the city. Clear it with her.
- In the cleared camp she finds a letter under a Thalmor seal, addressed to an envoy in Solitude. She knows the name.
- Then she signs on: with you on the road, or at your estate. Not ready yet? She waits for you at the Bannered Mare.
- Her own follower system. She never takes the game's follower slot, so she travels next to your other followers.
- Follow, wait, trade and go home, all in her own voice.
- Different greetings before you hire her, while she follows, inside, at your estate and on the road.
- Her own set: Captain's Edge (her sword) and Captain's Guard (her shield).
- Drill me: she trains your One-handed and Block for gold, like a trainer, up to 75, five drills per level.
- Her face is TheFaceSculptor's Thema Nyr, with the Nyr Follower Asset Pack.
- Her outfit is AshtorethH's Ahlanna Armor, fitted to her. Its textures come from its own page, a requirement.
- Her hair uses textures from KS Hairdos - HDT SMP, a requirement.
- Estates of Skyrim: hire her as a skilled worker, at the top of her trade from her first day, with her own traits.
- Warband (1.2.22 or newer): she joins your band through Warband's own join line and gets her own Skilled Commander post, only for her. The band fights better with her in it, even more while she leads, and your members gain experience faster.
- All of it works without Estates of Skyrim and Warband. They only add to her.
- The longer she travels with you, the closer she gets: new hire, trusted, friend, close friend. Her greetings and answers change as she comes to know you.
- Romance and marriage, for any character: court her, tell her you love her, and marry her at the Temple of Mara in Riften with an Amulet of Mara. She notices your gifts, your wedding day and the rest of your life together.
- She has a conscience. Kill the innocent, and she will tell you what she thinks of it.
Nadira knows these mods when you have them installed. All of them are optional: she works fully on her own.
- Estates of Skyrim: hire her as a skilled worker at your estates.
- Warband: version 1.2.22 or newer gives her her own Skilled Commander post.
- Octavia, Oskar and Cassia: she talks with them on the road, and they answer in their own voices.
Good to know
- Works without Estates of Skyrim and Warband.
- Her own MCM: turn her talking on or off, set the minutes between her remarks, and choose what she talks about.
- Want her simple? Get Nadira - Vanilla from the Files tab: base-game hair, steel armor and whatever body you use, so you don't need 3BA, FSMP, KS Hairdos or the Ahlanna Armor. Install it after the main file, let it overwrite, and enable its plugin.
- Don't want the body physics? Get Nadira - No Body Physics from the Files tab, install it after the main file and let it overwrite. Same look, nothing jiggles.
- Light on scripts: she reacts when something happens, with no timers running all the time.
Built and played in a Nolvus Awakening load order. Nolvus users: install it like any other mod.
Install with your mod manager and enable all four plugins: Estate Specialists.esp, Estate Specialists - Nadira.esp, Estate Specialists - Nadira Part 2.esp and Estate Specialists - Nadira Intro.esp. All are ESL-flagged, so none uses a load order slot. On Skyrim older than 1.6.1130 you also need Backported Extended ESL Support. Needs SKSE, powerofthree's Papyrus Extender, RaceMenu, SkyUI and MCM Helper (for her MCM), Nyr Follower Asset Pack, Ashtoreth Ahlanna Armor, and KS Hairdos - HDT SMP with FSMP. Her body and outfit are 3BA.
Safe to install mid-game: load your save and she is in the Bannered Mare.
- TheFaceSculptor for Thema Nyr (her face) and the Nyr Follower Asset Pack (a requirement).
- AshtorethH for the Ahlanna Armor, fitted to her. The textures are a requirement and are not included.
- ousnius, Kalilies and Stealthic for KS Hairdos - HDT SMP (a requirement).
- naChooey and Kyoe for Kyoe's Bang'n Brows PLUS PLUS.
- powerofthree for Papyrus Extender.
- The SKSE team.
- Built with houseCARL and DevBench.
Nadira was built with the help of an AI coding assistant (records & scripts). Her voice is an AI voice made with Boson AI's Higgs Audio. Her banners and thumbnails are AI-made images built from her in-game screenshots. I play her in my own game and fix reports fast, so tell me in the posts if anything's off.