Cassia
A fully voiced Imperial huntress with her own quest, made for every one of my mods.
Who she isA fully voiced Imperial huntress with her own quest, made for every one of my mods.
Cassia Vell is a game warden's daughter from the Great Forest, now hunting the woods around Falkreath. Her father taught her to take what you need and waste nothing, and she has lived that way ever since. She is gentle, she teases you like a big sister, she prays to Kynareth, and she will never hunt for sport. Her brother Lucan went off to the Legion and stopped writing. Lately she keeps finding animals skinned and left to rot, and she won't let it go.
See her in action:
This audio was created with Boson AI's Higgs Audio - https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio
- Say "Let's talk." and pick a subject: her hunting and the estate's stores; her life; what she thinks of the war, Ulfric and Tullius, the Thalmor, the Jarls, the guilds, the Daedra, Hircine, Kyne, magic and you being Dragonborn; how she sees the two of you; her skills and how the work is done, from smoking venison to setting a snare; romance.
- Long talks: the warden's lodge, over the mountains, Lucan, the Count's hunt, the root cellar, her mother's bread, thin ice, the winter after, tracks for bedtime, the tanner's winter.
- 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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She notices things- What you do: sneaking, stealing and locks, murder, Shouts, spells, drink and food, crafting.
- Where you are: the wild, towns, inns, farms and dungeons. She greets you differently depending on where you are and when.
- Combat: lines for the fight and for when it's over.
- Find her in Falkreath. Ask her what's wrong: she has found another carcass, skinned and left where it fell.
- Agree to help and she goes with you. A crew led by a man called Garrick is working the woods, and she reads their trail sign by sign.
- Find where they dumped the carcasses, then their camp, and stop them.
- Garrick gives up, and what happens to him is your choice. She remembers it.
- Take the stolen pelts from the camp, then tell her where she will serve: at your estate, in your Warband, or with you on the road.
- 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, at her post and on the road.
- Her own set, coloured to match her outfit: Warden's Mercy (her bow), Last Kindness (her dagger) and Mercy Arrows.
- Hunter's Lure: once a day, ask her to draw game in. Deer or elk come walking in from out of sight. They are ordinary animals, so the rest is up to you.
- Her outfit is Obicnii's Traveler's Romper, fitted to her and made for her alone: she wears it and you can't. Its textures come from its own page, a requirement.
- Her hair is Kaysa from KS Hairdos - HDT SMP, a requirement.
- Her face is Pharidis's Kate Dryden and her body is Pharidis's The Viper.
- Show me what you've hunted: every day she is hired she brings meat and pelts into her own pack, and this opens it. Sent home or at a post she hunts all day: more meat than a huntsman, pelts, now and then a rare pelt that sells, and coin from what she sold. Travelling with you, she only gets what she catches on the way.
- Estates of Skyrim: hire her as a skilled huntress, at the top of her trade from her first day, with her own traits. The Hunter post opens when you place a Hunter's Camp at Lakeview, Windstad or Heljarchen.
- Warband (1.2.8 or newer): she joins your band through Warband's own join line and gets her own Skilled Huntress post, only for her: more meat for the band, rare pelts, leather and strips for its armor work, trophies that sell high, and "Hunt for the band" missions with much better odds and 1.5 times the pay.
- 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: court her, tell her you love her, and ask her to marry you.
- She has a conscience. Stealing from a farmer or killing the innocent, and she will tell you what she thinks of it.
NEW: SKYRIM KINGS
I'm building a new mod that turns Skyrim into a war and diplomacy game. Every Jarl and lord lives on one realm map, marrying, making allies and going to war, and every day in Skyrim is a day on the map. It's still an early alpha and not out yet, so here's a first look.Want to help test it? Join us on Discord
Made for my modsI'm building a new mod that turns Skyrim into a war and diplomacy game. Every Jarl and lord lives on one realm map, marrying, making allies and going to war, and every day in Skyrim is a day on the map. It's still an early alpha and not out yet, so here's a first look.Want to help test it? Join us on Discord
Cassia 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 huntress at your estates.
- Warband: version 1.2.8 or newer gives her her own Skilled Huntress post.
- Octavia and Oskar: ask her what she thinks of them, and she talks with them on the road.
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.
- Light on scripts: she reacts when something happens. The only repeating check is the one that walks you through her quest, and it stops when the quest is over.
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 - Cassia.esp, Estate Specialists - Cassia Part 2.esp and Estate Specialists - Cassia 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), Traveler's Romper, KS Hairdos - HDT SMP with FSMP, and Kala's Eyes - Improved. Her body and outfit are 3BA.
Safe to install mid-game: load your save and she is in Falkreath.
- Pharidis for Kate Dryden (her face) and The Viper (her body).
- Obicnii for the Traveler's Romper, fitted to her with permission. It is NPC only and can't be worn by the player. The textures are a requirement and are not included.
- ousnius, Kalilies and Stealthic for KS Hairdos - HDT SMP (a requirement; her hair mesh is built from Kaysa).
- naChooey and Kyoe for Kyoe's Bang'n Brows PLUS PLUS, her brows.
- naChooey and Kalahira for Kala's Eyes - Improved, her eyes (a requirement).
- powerofthree for Papyrus Extender.
- The SKSE team.
- Built with houseCARL and DevBench.
Cassia 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.