Nemesis

Lose a fight, and the one who beat you remembers.
Nemesis is a nemesis system for Skyrim. When an enemy beats you, you don't die and reload. You wake up somewhere safe, hurt, and whoever beat you becomes a named rival who walked off with your weapon, your helmet and some of your gold.

What's in it

• Defeat, not death. You wake up somewhere safe with a story of what happened.
• Named rivals. They rank up and earn titles and powers every time they win.
• Find their weakness. Kill their people or beat them to learn what breaks them.
• They hunt you. Rivals ambush you on the road, and kill a strong one and his blood brother swears revenge.
• Your followers fight on. They go down instead of dying and can get you back up.
• Take it back. Beat your rival to get your gear back, or buy it back in town.
• Rivals remember reloads. Load an old save after a defeat and they still remember beating you. You can turn this off in the menu.
• Lose it for good, if you want it hard. Everything you wear and every coin you carry is gone when you fall, and there's a chance any fall is real death. Both are in the menu.

Works with my other mods

• Warband: spare a beaten rival and you can recruit him into your band.
• More tie-ins with Estates of Skyrim and Skyrim Kings are on the way.

This is a beta
Rival voices are still being recorded, so most rival lines show as text for now. If something goes wrong, tell me on Discord in #mod-help with your SethNemesis.log (in Documents > My Games > Skyrim Special Edition > SKSE).

Installation

• Install it with your mod manager (MO2 and Wabbajack, or the Modhold app).
• Needs SKSE, Address Library for SKSE Plugins and MCM Helper.
• Everything is set in the Mod Configuration Menu under Seth Nemesis.

Compatibility
Built and played in Nolvus Awakening (Skyrim Special Edition). Mods that also change what happens when you die may clash with it: use one or the other.

Also by me

• Estates of Skyrim - every home you own becomes a living estate.
• Warband - a follower framework and party manager in one.
• Skyrim Kings - Crusader Kings inside Skyrim.
• Octavia - a fully voiced shield-sister follower.
• Nadira - a voiced mercenary captain who commands your band.
• Skywent of Gathering - a card game you play at the bar.

If you enjoy my mods and want to support them, you can donate here.

Credits
Thanks to the SKSE team, meh321 for Address Library and Parapets for MCM Helper, and CommonLibSSE-NG, used in the mod's SKSE plugin.

About AI use
This mod was built with the help of an AI coding assistant (the SKSE plugin and the scripts). I play it in my own game and fix reports fast, so tell me in the posts if anything's off.