Azel - Vampire Male Follower (2024)

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I'm not a native English speaker. The following sentences was written by machine translation.
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!! Requirements !!
Dawnguard
("Non Dawnguard Edition" is also released. See below.)

[Highly Recommended]
Nexus Mod Manager (NMM) or Mod Organizer (MO)
Unofficial PatchesbyUnofficial Patch Project Team, orMarriage Mod - To Have And To Holdby joeThinkStudios(

)
Face Lightby tktk

[Recommended]
Follower management mod (I usingAmazing Follower Tweaksby Dheuster)
Follower Commentary Overhaul - FCOby terzaerian
Smaller Ice Spike and Ice SpearbyOdin_ml, orDeadly Iceby Flamecrafter

[Permission]

- Do not post this mod the somewhere else without permission.
- Do not reupload this mod and claim them as your own.
- Do not use his face data or head mesh (including preset file) for your mods.
- Do not use this mod as resources warehouse.

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[Summary]
Vampire male follower:
- Textures and meshes are independent
- Several eyes and hair color variation(Default / Pale-gold+blue / Pale-gold+red / Vampire eyes)
- Not Lore-Friendly

[Installation]
Latest version is Fomod format. Please use it with NMM or MO.
You will be able to choose his hair/eyes variation on installer.
(I do not recommend manual installing unless you are familiarity to structure of mod because I have seen many cases of malfunction which seems to caused by the failure of the installation. )

[Information]
Name: Azel
Race: Vampire(Imperial)
Level: 10-99, Autoleveled
CombatStyle: Spellsword
MainSkills: 1H Sword(Dual Wield), Destruction(Frost), Sneak, Light Armor
Spells: IceSpike, Crimson Cloak*1
Perks: Bladesman30, DualFlurry30, CustomFit, LightFoot, Silence, Deep Freeze, Frosty Caress*2
Protected: yes (Not Essential, Protected only)
Marriageable: yes
Voice type: MaleEvenTonedAccented
Location: Inside of the coffin at

(be careful of some enemies)

*1 Unique spell. When he is not under the sun, will use this spell which similar to Night Cloak.
If you don't want to let him activate it, please give a "Bloody tankard" to him.
(You will be able to find two Bloody tankard at around barrels inside Moldering Ruins.)
*2 Unique perk.Get damage bonus of frost magic damage based on Destruction Skill.

About "Non-Dawnguard Edition":
I made this for request. This not require Dawnguard, but has many limitations based on assets,and update of esp file have already ended.
So if you have Dawnguard already, I highly recommend Standard Edition.

List of differences with Standard Edition:
StartingGear:Mourner's Clothes
Spells: IceSpike, FrostCloak, InvisibilityVampiric
Perks: Bladesman30, DualFlurry30, CustomFit, AugmentedFrost, LightFoot, Silence
Location:"Dead man's Drink",Falkreath

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[FAQ]

If problem occurs, First of all, please try the following:
- Please update core files of Skyrim.
- Please check requiredments.
- Please install Unofficial Patches.
- Please check load order (I recommend using BOSS or LOOT).

Q. I could not find Azel. Where is he?
A. Standard version: In the coffin of Moldering ruins. Two coffins are there, he is sleeping inside either coffin.
Non Dawnguard edition: Near the entrance of the "Deadman's Drink (Falkreath)".

Please try the following in turn if does not solve the problem:
-Please reload save data.
- Please enable azelfollower.esp correctly, and check load order.
- If you do not solve the problem even if try the method described above,please re-install this mod.

Q. He makes crash my game :(
A. This mod has simple structure. It is quite unlikely that causing crash and fatal conflict.
Please install requirements correctly. If you already have doing it, the cause probably is other mods.

Q. He hasn't dialogue for talking. / He can't be made follower.
A. His voice-type and faction suited for follower certainly.
-Please reload save data.
- Please confirm load order. I recommend using BOSS or LOOT.

Q. Marriage or engage with him is not working well.
A. This trouble is quite common. The reason why is that the marriage system of vanilla has many bugs. Please google it for details.
(This mod never editing records and scripts about the marriage system so I'm sure that the cause does not lies in this mod.)

A common way to solve:
- You can prevent that by installing Unofficial Patches or Marriage Mod - To Have And To Hold.
As stated previously, I highly recommend installing it in advance if you planned marriage with him.
- Please save game before marriage or engage, and when problem occurred, redo from there.

Q. His hair texture looks weird.
A. Open Skyrim option,then try to select "high" at texture quality.

Q. I can not change his gear. / I want to change his gear.
A. Probably, He will not equip lower gear of defense than his starting gear. This is by design of vanilla.
You can remove the initial equipment by using the "belongings management" command of AFT.

Q. I want to change his body type (or underwear).
A. Since I have no plan to add variation, please try yourself.
It is necessary to replace the files manually.
Azel's meshes of body: meshes \ actors \ character \ azel \.
Azel's textures of body: textures \ actors \ character \ azel \.
Please search for instructions.

Q. Is this mod compatible with SSE?
A. SSE version is available ->here

Q. Can you make compatible with SOS or SAM? / Can you make non-independent body version?
A. No. It is not very difficult to make them using CK, so please try that yourself.
Google probably knows how to do.
(However, the redistribution of this mod is prohibited. Please note.)

Q. Can you release for Xbox/PS4?
A. No.This mod is contains some assets that nexus ONLY.

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[Credit]
Bethesda
Enhanced Character Editby ECE team
Better males - Beautiful nudes and faces - New hairstylesby Chris57 and FavoredSoul
Browsby Hvergelmir
Casanova Pack byMassiveMaster
Eyebrow Specularity Fixby Sooner266
Eyes Glitch Fixbybellwood2206
Eyes Shadow FIx by Elza
Faces - YoungerGeonoxFacesWithoutBeardby Geonox, Chris57, mrLenski
Fair Skin Complexionby HHaleyy (eyes and eye reflection, mouth textures)
Kijiko Hairby Kijiko and Goldiocks
Hale - Iridum Eyesby Halendia
High Res Male Face Makeup for SKSEby Diethardt
High Resolution Scarsby Xenius
Improved Eye Reflections and Cube Mapby fadingsignal
Pretty Face for menby tktk
Real Girls Realistic Body Texture for UNP UNPBand SeveNBase by Zonzai and Seren4XX
SG Female Eyebrowsby Hello Santa
Smooth Male Body - textures for Better Males - SOS Schlongs of Skyrimby urshi
Tempered Skins for Males by traa108
The Eyes Of Beautyby Gabriel Mailhot as LogRaam
Unslaad - Pale UNP Texturesby evgirunslaad
XP32 Maximum Skeleton -XPMSbyxp32

I really appreciate these wonderful works!

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