On the Slab - Nether's Eola and Nimph

Eola and Nimph 2.0 are coming to Early Access in the near future. I wanted to provide a peek of what I'm working on and where it's going.

What is this?

A complete overhaul of Eola and Nimph which I first released in 2021. It features a rework of everything, including brand new voices for both characters, huge system reworks that are clean and modern, over 1000 lines for both characters, reworked abilities, new quests, interactions and commentary, intimacy system and more... and everything fits inside of an extended range espfe. This is practically a brand new mod.

The voices were created with Generative AI from Elevenlabs with a very hands-on approach. I tweaked nearly every line they say with multiple iterations until I was satisfied with the results.

Most of the dialogue parts were re-written to convey a better sense of their personalities overall, so this a massive labor of love.

How are the characters portrayed? Is this gross?

In line with my previous work, this is a macabre, humorous, re-imaging of Skyrim's Eola and Nimphaneth. It's around the sarcasm level of the the 90s "Addams Family" movies, with plenty of influence from the more quirky 70s, 80s and 90s horror. It plays around with necromancy and cannibalism but in a non-serious way. There are some funny 4th-wall breaks and some lines are adult in nature, keeping in line mostly with Skyrim's M-Rated design.

Eola is a sultry, deadly Breton Spellsword who is devoted to you as the Keeper of Namira's Ring. She'll do anything to keep your attention and respect and will defend you to the bitter end.

Nimph is a bubbly, uneasy Bosmer Mage who also seeks your attention. She's outgoing, curvy and has no reservations about using her appearance if that's what it takes, to get what she wants. She's often unsure and nervous and is apt to say the strangest things at times.

What about the cannibalism angle?

Eola and Nimph stay true to the game in regard to being followers of Namira and cannibals. They can consume the flesh of fallen foes and will often ponder it or make humorous references to it.

However, this mod makes it optional for the player to be a cannibal. When you first meet Eola in Taste of Death you can pick a dialogue choice that allows you to be Namira's champion without consuming the flesh of the dead. This is more in line with you being a reluctant champion of Namira in the same way that you can play out the Meridia quest.

You can also restrict or disable the gals saying cannibalistic things or consuming flesh in the mod's MCM menu.

Does this support other Eola/Nimphaneth mods?

I realize there are a few mods out there for Eola or Nimphaneth and I support them where I can and it's reasonable to do so.

This is by no means an exhaustive list:

Namira for Good Guys - should work fine if you'd prefer to trick Namira and not kill Verulus. However other quest content in my mod may assume he is dead.

Visual Overhauls - Any Skypatcher or Recast overhauls will work. I'll create patches for the more popular ones.

Voice Expansions - Eola and Nimph are revoiced and have been remixed with certain characteristics as I've designed them out so not only will the voices not match, it won't make any sense to do so. With over 2000 lines between the gals, I don't think there will be a lack of them talking about things.

Are you going to do other npcs in this way?

I'll never say never but this is a massive undertaking. It took a significant amount of time to just convert the old content to espfe and then add onto that reworking all the original systems which I would do differently now, adding new things and a huge number of new lines.

I have always had a soft spot for these followers and wanted to dust this off for a very long while now. Time and distance from older things can sometimes allow us to heal, grow and want to visit old friends again.

Closing comments:

The original Eola and Nimph will be retired to avoid any confusion. The earlier version is in no way compatible with the new one since all the records were compressed to meet the espfe extended range.