A Nord battlemage, Lena’s long-standing companion and friend. In Lena’s story, Hauk was born under The Lord on 21 First Seed 4E151, he is about 50 years old. [Ref. Great War 4E171 – 4E175] He was awarded Imperial Dragon armour and sword for his services during the Great War, but he prefers his trusted battlemage gear.

Hauk has a twin brother Iver, who is also a battlemage with the Mages Guild.

Status: Done.

Factions: Mages Guild Evoker, Friends of the Imperial Legion. It should really be Imperial Legion, but that comes with functionality that we don’t want, like arresting people. Rank: Optio (not implemented in-game).

Scripting and AI: standard setup.

Horse: Luna at the Imperial City stables.

Location: Imperial City. Initially found around the Arcane University as well as around town and at the Bastion. Likes to have lunch at the Feed Bag and have evening drinks at the Foaming Flask. Spends time at the Tiber Septim Hotel in the weekends.

INI file: Using Agarmir’s house can conflict with other property quests, therefore this development can be turned off in the INI file. At the moment it is the only setting. If turned off, Hauk never gets Agarmir’s house and continues to reside at the Arcane University. It can be turned on later, and if Agarmir is dead then, Hauk immediately gets the house.

Additional quest: Configurable in the INI. When Agarmir is killed one way or the other, Hauk takes over Agarmir’s house. This is a duplicate cell, redecorated, to replace Agarmir’s house by switching the doors. Hauk’s AI is adjusted to spend time at his new home. This happens without the player’s knowledge or consent.

New equipment: durable steel armour (cuirass, greaves and boots only), battlemage robe and hood (enchanted), battlemage’s blade (a steel claymore with silver coating against the undead and ebony core for superior durability). All equipment sold at Rindir’s Staffs.

Special items: a neck seam concealer chain and an upper body tattoo, both non-playable and thus cannot be removed. The chain is a tail item and does not interfere with amulets. The tattoo is a “shirt” which he will wear whenever he does not wear armour and has no other shirt or robe in his pack.

Why is this a shirt and not a…

  • This is not implemented as a design on the body because that would require a custom race, and I wanted to keep Hauk as a Nord so that NPCs would react to him accordingly.
  • Another reason is that the mesh on the chest is quite detailed and distorts the tattoo rather badly. Besides, the same texture is used for both arms, so you cannot have different tattoos left and right. The mesh used for the tattoo “shirt” has two layers – the body mesh and the shirt mesh, with the shirt mesh being a lot smoother and having separate textures for each arm. The body mesh uses the default body texture and the tattoo mesh uses a separate tattoo texture with transparent background. This gives the most natural look.
  • This is not done as a tail item with transparent background because that makes the tattoo show on top of most clothes as the meshes clip. It needs to be removed when Hauk wears something “over” it.
  • This is not a playable item because it is a highly personalised tattoo where each line had been earned. It would be weird for someone else to have the same one!

Additional NPCs: battlemages Iver and Merete (but not Thalfin) from the “Ambush” quest are enabled outside of the quest and given schedules around the Arcane University and the Imperial City. The quest script for Ambush is modified to teleport them to Silorne at the beginning of the quest and not to remove their Essential flags later. The quest itself is unaffected. Their equipment is upgraded with new battlemage equipment.

 

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