Aundae in Cyrodiil

Aundae in Cyrodiil
version 1.3
by AlienSlof & Peter

based on Vampiric Hunger by Zennorius and Vampire Realism by Jaxalot

About

This mod offers a Morrowind-style vampire experience for Oblivion, based on clan Aundae and the two classic mods Vampiric Hunger by Zennorious and Vampire Realism by Jaxalot.
Unique Aundae specials and unlockable powers will make the vampire a powerful spellcaster. However, power comes at a price: The hunger for blood means a constant urge to feed to stay strong.

Features

How to become a vampire

If your character already is a vampire
Your character will be instantly converted into a vampire of clan Aundae, Berne or Quarra after installing this mod. A dialog will question you which attribute/skill gain system to choose. This is important, so you should study the explanation in the following section. Another dialog lets you pick one of the three clans.
Please note you must only install this mod to a savegame of a vanilla vampire. If you are already using another vampire mod, like ParasiteX's New Vampire Mod, you need to make a clean save with a vanilla vampire first. This is explained in detail in the compatibility section.
If your character is a mortal
As mortal, you will turn into a vampire of clan Aundae, Berne or Quarra the next time you sleep (not wait) for 12 hours or more. You will receive a letter explaining what has happened and five bottles of human blood.
As there are no Vvardenfell vampires in Cyrodiil - at least no known ones -, using the original vampire disease mechanism to turn into a vampire makes no sense. Been bitten by a Cyrodiil vampire would turn you into another Cyrodiil vampire, not an Aundae, Berne or Quarra. Hence the vampire disease has no effect in this mod.

(new in version 1.1)
If you want to be turned by Vicente during the Dark Brotherhood questline, you need to inform this mod about that plan so you are NOT turned when sleeping for more than 12 hours:
set PSMakeVampire.waitForVicente to 1

Once you turn into a vampire, you need to pick the attribute/skill gain type, as explained below and one of the three vampire clans.

Clans, abilities and skills

This mod supports the three vampire clans from Vvardenfell: Aundae, Berne and Quarra (Berne and Quarra were added in version 1.1, hence the original mod name is now somewhat misleading).
Vampire attribute and skill boosts follow more or less the Morrowind rules.

General vampire bonuses:
+20 to speed, strength and willpower
+30 to acrobatics, athletics, illusion, mysticism, sneak, hand-to-hand and destruction

Additional Aundae specials
+20 to willpower
+20 to destruction, mysticism and blade (shortblade in Morrowind)

Additional Berne specials (new in version 1.1)
+20 to agility
+20 to marksman, sneak and blade (unarmored, sneak and hand-to-hand in Morrowind)

Additional Quarra specials (new in version 1.1)
+20 to strength
+20 to heavy armor, blunt and block (unarmored instead of block in Morrowind)

It is possible to change the vampire clan using the console: (new in version 1.1)
StartQuest PSChangeClan
and follow the instructions. This feature is mainly meant for users of version 1.0 playing an Aundae vampire who want to continue as Berne or Quarra after upgrading to version 1.1. Of course, if you continue to play as Aundae, this feature is irrelevant.

This mod comes with three possible ways to handle the vampire boosts. Once you turn into a vampire, or convert a vanilla vampire into a vampire of this mod, you will get a dialog asking you to pick one of the three attribute and skill gain types:

KCAS compatibility - scripted attributes, skills as disease
Both attributes and skills will be shown as green values. For attributes it means you can increase the value above 100, which is good. For skills it means you will not get the perks, which is bad. For example, if you start with a destruction skill of 25 and turn into a vampire, you will end with a skill of 75. So you are an Apprentice in destruction, as your base skill value is only 25.
You must use this for Kobus Character Advancement mod! This is also compatible with unmodded or Galerion levelling systems.
Vanilla compatibility - attributes and skills as abilities
The base values of both attributes and skills will be increased. Neither of them is shown in green. For attributes it means you will not be able to increase them above 100, which is bad. For skills it means you will get the perks, which is good. But you can not increase them above 100, which is irrelevant anyways.
Compatible with unmodded levelling system. Does not work with KCAS.
Galerion compatibility - scripted attributes, skills as ability
Attributes will be shown as green, so you can increase them above 100. Skills will not be shown in green, so you get the perks but cannot increase them above 100. In my opinion this is the best option.
Use this for Galerion Natural Levelling. Can also be used for unmodded levelling. Does not work with KCAS.

If you are using any of the scripted attribute modes, you must follow the correct uninstall instructions if you want to remove this mod. Otherwise a character may become permanently messed up after only unchecking the esp without resetting the scripted attribute bonuses.

Blood hunger

Every hour your blood level will decrease. The amount of blood per hour depends on the time spent as vampire: An older vampire will require much less blood than a freshling. At 90 days blood usage per hour will be at its lowest possible value.
If the blood level reaches zero, the starving vampire will face rather harsh consequences. This should provide sufficient motivation to stay fed. A young vampire can not survive very long without feeding.

Feeding happens by using the vanilla Oblivion mechanism by approaching a sleeping NPC or using a special Absorb Health on Touch spell. Stockable bottles of human blood and even ancient vampire blood offer an additional source.
Human and ancient vampire blood can be found in vampire lairs. Human blood can also be filled from willing (or charmed) NPCs through a new "Blood stocking" dialog topic, which appears after using the Vampire Dazzle or Charm spells.

To check your current blood level, see the fourth tab of the spell list and check the tooltip for the Vampirism effect. In addition, the Aundae_OBSE_addon esp lets you press the "B" key to view a short message telling your current blood level. Aundae_OBSE_addon.esp requires OBSE.

To change the default key, do in the console:
set PSVampKeyPress.key_id to #
Default is 66 for "b". This list of virtual keycodes should be helpful.

Spells and powers

Spell name	Description	Availability
Vampire Kiss	weak feeding spell, absorb health on touch	instantly
Vampire Touch	feeding spell, absorb health on touch	30 Vampire Kiss casts and 15 days
Vampire Rage	powerful feeding spell, area absorb health on touch	50 Vampire Touch casts and 30 days
Vampire Dazzle Mortal	allows to stock blood from NPCs	instantly
Vampire Charm Mortal	powerful charm spell, allows to stock blood from NPCs	15 Vampire Dazzle Mortal casts and 12 days
Vampire Calm Mortal	strong calm spell	10 days
Vampire Command Beast	command creature spell	10 Vampire Calm Mortal casts and 15 days
Vampire Command Mortal	powerful command humanoid spell	15 Vampire Command Beast casts and 20 days
Vampiric Suggestion	tell people to go sleep for a short time	7 days
Vampiric Illusion	hide vampiric nature, protect against sundamage	instantly
Vampiric Restoration	restores health and fatigue, costs blood and magicka	instantly
Aundae Bloodline	Magicka boost	15 days and clan Aundae
Berne Cloak of Shadows	Greatly improves stalking (new in version 1.1)	15 days and clan Berne
Quarra Berserk	Mighty melee boost (new in version 1.1)	15 days and clan Quarra

Casting the Vampire Dazzle Mortal or Vampire Charm Mortal spells on any mortal will make the topic "Blood stocking" appear during dialog, which allows you to fill some of the mortals blood into a bottle. Of course, mortals might resist, but playing with their mind using Illusion magic can be very satisfying. A strong charm spell is valuable to any illusionist.

Vampiric healing

Normal healing spells and potions have a rather reverse effect on undead flesh. Using such profane magic is not recommended. Instead there is a very powerful vampiric restoration spell, which costs a small amount of blood, a rather high amount of magicka and comes with a couple of other disadvantages.
In addition, feeding and drinking human or ancient vampire blood will also restore you. The combat feeding spells and some custom absorb health spells created with the spellmaker should also help.
Hint: Keep a stock of human blood bottles available.

The negative effect of healing spells and potions is optional and can be disabled using the console:
StopQuest PSHealthPrevent

To enable it again:

StartQuest PSHealthPrevent

Known issues: The script detecting normal healing spells and potions will not trigger on zero second spells and potions (unfortunately, that means all vanilla restore health potions). The potions modified by OOO 1.3 will be detected, though. Solution is rather easy: Forget the starter restore health spell and don't learn any new ones!

Vampiric regeneration

The OBSE addon includes vampiric regeneration as an optional feature. (new in version 1.2)
Depending on blood level, you regenerate health. Slowly, it isn't really meant as a replacement for the heal spell during combat. Blood level influences both regeneration amount and speed. With low blood level, you don't regenerate at all. In addition, regeneration depends on your vampire age: Freshlings won't get much of a regeneration effect.
There is no regeneration in the sun. Sun is bad.

In addition, you receive a spell "Vampiric Regeneration". This is a toggle and will turn rapid regeneration on or off. When on, you regenerate twice the amount and twice as fast, but it will reduce your blood level quickly while enabled.

This feature requires OBSE 0006 or later.

To disable regeneration, do in the console:
StopQuest PSVampRegeneration

To enable it again, do:
StartQuest PSVampRegeneration

The Vampiric Illusion spell

This unique spell will hide your vampiric nature behind a mortal mask. It serves two purposes, which will be described in more detail below: Protection from sunlight and protection against becoming a known vampire when low on blood.
The spell is quite difficult to maintain: It will quickly drain your magicka and cost a small amount of blood each minute. A powerful spell, indeed, but use with care.

Optional for the Atronach birthsign (new in version 1.1):
The constant damage magicka effect of the Illusion spell might be too hard for the Atronach birthsign. Non-Atronachs don't really need to worry, after turning the Illusion off they will regenerate magicka again quickly. An Atronach doesn't regenerate, so this could be considered too inconvinient.
Instead of damage magicka players can optionally select to use a constant Silence effect.

Configure this using the console:

set PSVampSupport.useSilence to 1

Make sure the Illusion mask is not active when changing this setting.

When you turn into a vampire and are of the Atronach birthsign, this setting is automatically set to 1. If you rather prefer the damage magicka effect instead, simply set it back to zero. Also, non-Atronach players preferring the silence can configure it by setting this variable to 1.
Please note the birthsign check only happens when you turn into a vampire with version 1.1 of this mod installed. So if you upgraded from version 1.0 and your character is an Atronach, and you want to use the silence version, you need to configure the setting manually - as turning into a vampire had already happend with the older version of this mod.

The Illusion spell also serves as a workaround for the vampire face bug: Cast the Vampiric Illusion spell before saving your game.

(new in version 1.3)
Blood usage while the Illusion mask is active depends on vampire age. A freshling will not be able to uphold the Illusion spell for a long time.

The base blood cost can be configured via console:
set PSMasking.maskBlood to # (default 10)
Lower values means less blood usage.

The sun, sundamage and how to avoid it

Sunlight is bad for a vampire. Stay out of the sun, the night is your friend.

However, an enterprising vampire occasionally needs to deal with shopkeepers and other mortals, who often refuse to be available during the healthy nighttime. As such, measures need to be taken to avoid turning into a pile of ashes.

A fully fed vampire will be less affected by sunlight than a starving one. So if you simply plan to run from door to door taking the sundamage, feed first and you might survive.
The Vampiric Illusion spell will allow a vampire to walk the sun without being hurt, but at a price. Still, it is sufficient to visit shops and walk through cities, but staying out of danger is a good idea. You will be weak.
Bottles of ancient vampire blood provide complete protection from the sun for some hours without any penalties (fixed in version 1.1).
However, those bottles are rare and difficult to come by, as their owners hardly agree to part with them. Such bottles can be found hidden in various places among Cyrodiil. Perhaps you will even learn how to create them yourself during your adventures? Search vampire lairs and keep your eyes open!

The sun will affect the physical conditions of a vampire. Regardless of sunprotection or not, the sun will weaken your body. Ancient blood will protect against this effect.

Physical weakness during daylight is optional and can be disabled using the console:
StopQuest PSDaylight

To enable again:
StartQuest PSDaylight

Regionally known vampire

Vampires need to disguise themselves and hide their true nature from preying mortal eyes. A hungry vampire may be discovered and become a known vampire in the current area. Being fed or using the Vampiric Illusion spell will prevent discovery. Once discovered, mortals will always treat you like a vampire - regardless of hungry or not - and refuse to talk.
After 15 days, mortals will forget about the issue and the player won't be a known vampire anymore in that region.

(new in version 1.3)
The amount of days until mortals forget the known vampire status can be changed via console:
set PSVampDetection.knownVampireDays to # (default 15)

Talking to a mortal with a very high disposition will never reveal your vampiric nature, even if you are starving. A mortal affected by the Vampire Dazzle or Vampire Charm spell will also never identify you as a vampire, regardless of disposition and hunger status.

Known vampire status is remembered for each city. In addition (new in version 1.3), any other cell stores known vampire status individually.

This feature is optional and can be disable using the console:



StopQuest PSVampDetection

To enable it again:

StartQuest PSVampDetection

Companion support

As a special features, companion NPCs can be "marked" as your friends to skip certain behaviour of this mod like discovery as known vampire and the disposition check for stocking blood bottles. (new in version 1.1)
Because this mod cannot automatically differ between normal NPCs and companions from a mod, you will need to do a little manual work to classify a given NPC as companion.

Do in the console:
StartQuest PSAddSpoon

After a few seconds a spoon will be added to your inventory. Now open the NPCs inventory using companion share and give the spoon to the NPC. If this spoon is in any NPCs inventory, the known vampire and blood stocking disposition checks will be skipped.

The Hunters Sight spell

The original Hunters Sight spell, lasting only 30 seconds, is somewhat annoying. There are various mods available which change this spell, for example Mighty Magic. To avoid possible conflicts, the original spell has not been modified. For those not using any mod changing the spell, a toggle version is included into this mod. However, the spell needs to be converted manually, as there is no way to know if the original spell has been modified by another mod or not.

So if you are not using another mod changing the Hunters Sight spell, convert the spell to a toggleable version using the console:
set PSVampSupport.useToggleHuntersSight to 1

To convert the toggle version back to the original:
set PSVampSupport.useToggleHuntersSight to -1

If you are using another mod changing the spell and want to use the version of that other mod, you don't need to do anything

The Vampire Cure

This mod now supports the original Oblivion vampire cure quest. (new in version 1.1)
A few seconds after drinking the potions this mod will discover you have been cured and automatically disable itself. You can now safely remove this mod (why keep it installed if not playing as vampire?) without going through the uninstall procedure - it was already silently executed when the cure got detected.
The available cure from the official Vile Lair plugin should also work, although this is untested.

Digging graves

(new in version 1.3)
As a sort of "portable campsite", a special shovel can be found on the graveyard near the Imperial palace, look near the entrance to Agamirs mausoleum. Equipping the shovel from inventory mode allows to dig a grave at the current location. Activate the coffin to sleep through the day in exteriors without taking sun damage.

Technically the coffin acts as a portable bed which removes sundamage when activated and re-adds sundamage after the nap. So waking up at noon isn't the brightest idea.

To remove the grave again, sneak & activate the coffin.

While somewhat illogical, to avoid possible mod conflicts shovels from the original game have not been modified but instead a new shovel was added. So it is not possible to use any shovel to dig a grave, only the special "Gravedigger's shovel".

Due to technical limitations, you can only have one grave at the same time. Digging a second grave will remove the previous one. In fact, the items are moved, not created anew - to avoid bloating the savegame with disabled objects.

Uninstallation

If you want to uninstall this mod, it is important to convert back to a vanilla vampire before unchecking the esp.

Open the console and do:
StartQuest PSAundaeUninstall
You will get a message when the uninstall procedure has been completed
Save the game and exit Oblivion
Uncheck Aundae.esp

Following this uninstall procedure is necessary, otherwise attributes and skills may be permanently ruined.

Requirements

The Aundae.esp mod itself comes with no special requirements. It was developed using the Oblivion 1.1 patch, but I see no reason why it should not work with Oblivion 1.0 as well.
Aundae_OBSE_addon.esp requires OBSE 0006 or later. The addon includes the Vampiric regeneration script and the blood keypress script: It lets you press the "B" key to check your current blood level. We put those two features in a seperate esp to avoid having the main Aundae.esp depend on OBSE.
Load Aundae_OBSE_addon.esp after Aundae.esp.

Compatibiltiy and conflicts

This mod is not compatible with any mod changing player vampirism, like ParasiteX's New Vampire Mod, the original by Kiyoshi, Drokk's Vampire mod etc. Only run one of those mods at the same time.

If you plan to change a ParasiteX, Kiyoshi or Drokk vampire to an Aundae, you must first uninstall the other mod before activating Aundae.esp. Only install this mod to a vanilla vampire save game.

Follow the uninstall procedure explained in the Readme of the ParasiteX, Kiyoshi or Drokk mods. Save the game.
Uncheck the ParasiteX, Kiyoshi or Drokk vampire mod
Load and save another time, now you have a clean vanilla vampire savegame
Install Aundae.esp, you will be converted from vanilla to Aundae vampire after loading the game

This mod does not change existing NPC vampires, loot or levelled lists, so there is no conflict with level scaling mods like Oscuros Oblivion Overhaul or Francescos levelled creatures and items.
There is one unimportant clash with OOO, as both OOO 1.3 and this mod modify the Human Blood bottles. Load Aundae.esp after OOO 1.3.
In addition, there might be minor cell conflicts, as both this mod and OOO 1.3 place new containers into various dungeons. It might happen that two containers incidently occupy the same spot and overlap with each other. This is purely cosmetical, might be ignored or easily fixed by slightly moving the container in the construction set.

This mod is compatible with Mighty Magic, see the notes about the Hunters Sight spell above.

This mod is compatible with Kobus Character Advancement system and Galerions levelling mod. However, for KCAS you must pick the "KCAS compatibility" option when you are asked for the attribute/skill gain type after converting to an Aundae vampire as explained above.

This mod changes the original vampire Greeting and Hello dialog topics, so it is not compatible with any mod which does the same. To the best of my knowledge, only ParasiteX's New Vampire Mod and variations do this, which are incompatible anyways.

Not exactly an incompatibility, but there are some minor issues with the weather changes made by Natural Environments: Nights are shorter, they don't start at exactly 8pm and end at 6am. The scripts applying the daylight penalties of this mod check the clock, so the daylight penalty would stop exactly at 8pm but the sun might still be out, which seems a bit strange. To the best of my knowledge, there is no script function checking "is the sun out?" available, so I see no real workaround for this.
It's only cosmetical,I personally would not play without Natural Environments and rather try to ignore the issue.

Contact

The authors can be contacted on the official Elderscrolls forum as AlienSlof and ps33, or on the PlanetElderScrolls forum as "AlienSlof" and "Peter".

Credits

AlienSlof for the idea, concept, general inspiration and corrections
Denina for more inspiration
Peter aka ps33 for the implementation
Zennorious for Vampiric Hunger
Jaxalot for Vampire Realism
Basil for being a Bastard

Legal

You are free to use this mod, reuse the scripts or other content for your own mod and redistribute the file, as long as no money is made and above credits are given.

Changelog

1.0	Initial release
1.1	Added Berne and Quarra clans Fixed ancient blood sunprotection Added support for vanilla cure Added support for being turned by Vicente Added companion support Added option for Atronachs to use silence instead damage magicka for the Illusion spell
1.2	Added Vampiric Regeneration, merged together with the former Aundae_keycheck.esp into Aundae_OBSE_addon.esp Fixed bug preventing to deactivate the Illusion mask in an area where you are known as a vampire Add five bottles of Human blood not only when converting a mortal into a vampire but also a vanilla vampire. Added silent mp3s for the Blood stocking dialog.
1.3	Added gravediggers's shovel to dig a "portable" campsite. Support for known vampire status in any cell, not only cities as before. Number of days until mortals forget about known vampire status can be configured. Increased blood usage for Illusion mask, made blood usage vampire age dependant. Illusion mask blood usage can be configured.