At long last, I present the finished version of my SkyPatched NPC replacers. I’ve gone over every single NPC in detail to improve how they look and make them SkyPatch ready.

There are 8 packs of 10, and a ninth pack with 11 NPCs. I decided not to do the “male-to-female” housecarl replacers this time. Why? I want to reclaim those faces for other follower projects. The last addition was Narri, who was separate from the packs before.

These are a work of several months. I hope you folks enjoy them!

Want to know the outfits in the screenshots? I have you covered. With links on all except one that I can’t find anymore.

Outfits in the Screenshots

Features

• ESL Flagged

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• Backported Extended ESL Support - For those running version 1.5.97 of Skyrim

• SkyPatcher

Update 12/30/2025 - Pack 2 Lydia Neck Seam Fix

Lydia had a neck seam. I also darkened her hair a bit.

Update 12/02/2025 - Pack 8 Gilfre Skin Color Fix

Found a skin color problem with Gilfre. Download the fix and overwrite the old ESP Plugin.

Pack 1

This pack contains Aela, Annekke, Delphine, Eola, Frea, Illia, Iona, Irileth, Jennassa, and Jordis.

Files

• Visions NPCs SkyPatched Pack 1

Pack 2

This pack contains Lydia, Mjoll, Njada, Rayya, Ria, Sapphire, Serana, Uthgerd, Valerica, and Vex.

Files

• Visions NPCs SkyPatched Pack 2

• Pack 2 Lydia Fix (Not needed if you downloaded the above Pack 2 after 12/30/2025).

Pack 3

This pack contains Anuriel, Brelyna, Camilla, Carlotta, Ingun, Karliah, Maven, Saadia, Sylgja, and Wylandriah.

Files

• Visions NPCs SkyPatched Pack 3

Pack 4

This pack contains Adelaisa, Aranea, Arcadia, Beleval, Elisif, Idgrod, Ingjard, Olfina, Senna, and Ysolda.

Files

• Visions NPCs SkyPatched Pack 4

Pack 5

This pack contains Adrianne, Gerdur, Grelka, Hulda, Lisette, Morwen, Muiri, Taarie, Temba, and Tonilia.

Files

• Visions NPCs SkyPatched Pack 5

Pack 6

This pack contains Astrid, Endarie, Fanari, Haelga, Hjordis, Milore, Mirabelle, Rakel, Rikke, and Svana.

Files

• Visions NPCs SkyPatched Pack 6 (Updated 11/25/2025 8:34PM Mountain) The patch below isn’t needed if you download this version.

• Visions NPCs SkyPatched Pack 6 - Rikke Patch - Download only if you downloaded Pack 6 before the above updated version was put in place.

Pack 7

This pack contains Alva, Fura, Hert, Hestla, Modhna, Orla, Sorine, Sybille, Tilde, and Vori.

Files

• Visions NPCs SkyPatched Pack 7

Pack 8

This pack contains Birna, Constance, Danica, Elenwen, Fastred, Gabriella, Gilfre, Illdi, Sigrid, and Vittoria.

Files

• Visions NPCs SkyPatched Pack 8

• Pack 8 - Gilfre Skin Color Fix

Pack 9

This pack contains Angi, Faleen, Faralda, Freir, Hroki, Karita, Laila, Lynly Narri, Nirya, and Silana.

Files

• Visions NPCs SkyPatched Pack 9

Thank you to Alexia Renaldis for her absolutely stunning voice acting on this follower. Also thank you to SerketHetyt for her amazing screen archery.

Overview

Vayne is a deadly assassin who emerges from the shadows to fight alongside the player. More than just another follower, Vayne is a fully-featured companion with advanced AI, a unique romance system, and enhanced combat abilities that make her a formidable ally in your adventures across Skyrim. Each of her features is detailed below. Vayne is designed for higher difficulty games, and as such is extremely strong at low levels.

I spent more time on the design and development of this mod than any other I’ve made in the past - including the Iceheart Sisters. I took what I learned from the aforementioned duo and tried to improve all those systems or create new ones that were better. I removed features I thought were a detriment, or could be better duplicated by other mods (like managing outfits - why recreate the wheel when the latest outfit management mods out there are so amazing?).

Vayne is voiced by the lovely and talented Alexia Renaldis (the voice of Lily from the game Subverse, as well as other games). She has been such a pleasure to work with. Always polite and ready to make changes as needed. When I work with voice actresses, I don’t focus on timelines - I focus on making sure they have everything they need to voice the character. Busy schedules? That’s fine by me. I’ll wait. There is no rush. I prefer to work with real actresses than AI voices, not that I have a problem with those and I might even try it someday, but I always prefer the real thing. If you are interested in voicing a character for the community, just reach out.

Dedication

This mod is dedicated to my friend, Migal. You might remember him from Bathing Beauties or Beefcake Luxury Suite (BBLS), a legendary location mod he made many years ago and has managed to update all this time. I didn’t know of his work when I met him. He invited me to his Discord and befriended me. Always giving me good advice, teaching me about modding, and helping me do better. Together, we expanded his Discord server into what it is today, Modharbour. There we have over 20 fantastic mod authors that have their own channels and frequently collaborate on mods together.

Last December, Migal became ill. It is not my place to talk about his private health information, but what I will say is that it has taken a toll on his life in just about every way. Every day I think about him and hope that he can make a speedy recovery. Selfishly, I miss talking to him, coming up with ideas, and collaborating on new things.

This mod is my dedication and gift to him. All Donation Points it earns will go to Migal. I wish him a quick recovery so he can return to us on Modharbour.

Vayne’s Background

Vayne’s parents were once devout worshippers at the Shrine of Azura, but fled their duties fearing the Goddess’ prophetic visions. Settling in Winterhold, they raised Vayne, who enrolled in the College of Winterhold to study illusion magic. A traumatic assault by a noble-born student, unpunished due to his status, led Vayne to exact vengeance by sneaking into his chambers and slitting his throat. Betrayed by the College’s inaction, she abandoned her studies and fled to Riften.

There, she honed her stealth with the Thieves’ Guild, rising swiftly through their ranks. A charismatic Dark Brotherhood assassin, Eland Dax, recruited her, becoming her mentor and lover. Vayne executed numerous contracts under his guidance, only to discover Eland’s manipulative intent to use her skills to seize control of the Brotherhood, and discard her afterward.

Heartbroken but resolute, Vayne abandoned the Brotherhood and became a freelance assassin, taking contracts for the Black-Briar family and other wealthy clients. A hidden secret ties her to the shadows. She has a distant Dhampir ancestor (half-vampire), granting her an innate lesser power of invisibility and uncanny prowess in darkness.

Character Information

LOCATION: Mistveil Keep in Riften.

Perks

Illusion Dual Casting, Light Fingers, Savage Strike, Matching Set, Custom Fit, Unhindered, Fighting Stance, Kindred Mage, Quiet Casting, Misdirection, Cutpurse, Perfect Touch, Light Foot, Assassin’s Blade, Muffled Movement, Master of the Mind, Aspect of Terror, Armsman, Agile Defender, Stealth, Illusion Apprentice/Adept/Expert, Skill Boosts, Silence, and Deft Movement.

Special Perks

Blood Money: Dagger damage while invisible increases if a certain quantity of gold is placed in her inventory. 100 Gold = 10% increase, 500 Gold = 50%, 2000 Gold = 100%.

Nightmare: Fear spells have a 25% chance to paralyze in low light levels. Dagger attacks deal increased critical damage against fearful/paralyzed opponents. Invisibility increases effects.

Special Weapon

Vayne has a magical dagger called Dagoth’s Tooth. The weapon drains stamina from her targets.

Updated for Vayne Remastered: Dagon’s Tooth now levels with the player (scaling damage). Each time you level the weapon will also level. There is no need to temper the weapon. This was done for compatibility with mods that have increased difficulty, and extremely high character levels. If you don’t like this feature, you can simply gave Vayne a new dagger.

Combat Features

Advanced Stealth AI

Shadow Step: Vayne can cast an improved form of invisibility on herself at the start of combat and every 10 seconds after that. This also gives her the ability to invisibly teleport to her targets.

Sneak Attacks and Backstabs: Like the player, Vayne gets a damage bonus for sneak attacks and backstabs from invisibility (stealth). Vayne will also attempt to get behind her enemies for backstab attacks.

Enhanced Target Priority: Vayne will attempt to attack ranged targets starting with spellcasters then archers, if she can break away from melee combat.

Survival Instincts

Smart Healing: Vayne will automatically flee and heal when her health gets low. She will then step back into the shadows and re-engage into combat.

Post-Combat Recovery: Vayne will heal herself after battles if needed.

Romance System

Romance Levels (Progression)

In order to romance Vayne, you must gain points to progress through three levels of your relationship with her - Strangers, Friends, and Lovers. After you reach the Lovers level, you can ask Vayne to marry you. Each level has a set amount of points before you level up. You can check the status of your level at any time by talking to Vayne and asking how she feels about you.

Many of Vayne’s dialogue/voice lines change as you progress levels. As a stranger, the type of idles and follower system responses you get from her will show you that she doesn’t trust you yet and won’t talk about herself much at all. When you progress to friends, she opens up about herself and treats you more like an equal. Finally, when you become her lover, she will treat you with love and adoration.

Vayne’s feelings toward you change based on your actions and achievements while she’s with you.

Romance points can only be gained when Vayne is your follower. If you dismiss her (tell her to head home), the romance points will be paused until you invite her to follow you again.

Positive Actions (Gain Romance Points):

• Complete quests and questlines together

• Clear dungeons and discovering locations

• Perform sneak attacks and backstabs

• Learn dragon shouts

• Pick locks and pockets (she appreciates skill)

• Use persuasion and intimidation

• Simply spending time together (daily bonus)

Romance Dialogue

At each romance level, there are different dialogue options available with Vayne.

Strangers

Talk to Vayne until the dialogue option for this level disappears. She will reply and you will be rewarded with bonus romance points. This includes all aspects from follower commands to idles.

Friends

Like the strangers level, you haven’t completely gained her trust. She will open up a bit more about herself and also be more friendly to you. This includes all aspects from follower commands to idles.

Lovers

You will now be able to marry Vayne. Until then, you can keep collecting romance points. Each time you speak to her using the dialogue topic for this level, she will give you points and the screen will fade-to-black to indicate that Vayne and the player are having a private romantic moment. After a few seconds the screen will return to normal and you can continue.

To check the status of your romance with Vayne, ask her how she feels about you. A message box will pop up and tell you how many points you have, what level you are, and how many you need to get to the next level.

Negative Actions (Lose Romance Points)

Note: you can lose levels as well as points!

• Become a vampire (daily point loss) or feed on others (each time you feed)

• Complete any College of Winterhold quests (Vayne despises the College due to a tragic event from her past)

• Get arrested (She considers getting caught a failure)

• Harm innocent creatures (Be careful of those bunnies!)

These penalties are designed for role-play purposes, yet it is completely possible to still win Vayne’s love by doing all of these things. It just might take longer. After all, love conquers all - and even a vampire can marry Vayne if they work at their relationship with her hard enough.

Marriage completely removes the loss of romance points and levels. Once you get married, she trusts you and will put up with being a vampire, becoming the Archmage, and even hurting those poor bunny rabbits.

Marriage

Once married to Vayne, you’ll gain permanent skill bonuses:

• 10 Sneak

• 10 Pickpocket

• 10 Speech

You will no longer lose romance points. You can still gain them (brag to your friends how many you have! Its a competition!).

Additional Features

Settings Menu (Home Management)

Home Assignment

Tell Vayne to make your current location her home. You can do this in any interior location.

Move Out (Reset Home)

Before you can change Vayne’s home, you must ask her to move out of her current home. Only then will the Home Assignment feature show up again.

Summoning Power

After you finish the brief Introduction Quest, your character will automatically learn the Summon Vayne lesser power. Call her at any time you need her. She won’t mind. Much.

Settings Menu (Hairstyle Management)

Select a Hairstyle

Vayne has 13 Non-SMP hairstyles and 12 SMP hairstyles. Follow the menus to choose a hairstyle and Vayne will change her hair.

If you don’t like any of the hairstyles, ask Vayne to return to her default style and use an outfit manager to assign a wig along with whatever outfit you want. Keep in mind, if you put a wig in your outfit, it will change Vayne’s hairstyle too. So if you plan to use the hairstyle, just add armor items to the outfit and no wigs.

Hairstyle Settings

Those of you who like complete control over what type of hair you are seeing, you can turn off non-SMP hair or SMP hair in this menu. You can also turn them back on or choose both types. Changing these settings simply hides the menu for the corresponding hairstyle type (SMP or Non-SMP) from the Select a Hairstyle menu.

Settings Menu (Debug Toggle)

You can turn on or off debugging notifications here. If you turn them on, you will see when you gain romance points and other notifications that are normally just for debugging. Some players may like seeing the points they gain at all times, but the default setting is OFF.

Introduction Quest

This is a very brief discussion between the player and Vayne before she will follow. It is nothing intricate or long. After this discussion the player will receive some information and Vayne will be able to follow.

Other Features

• ESL-Flagged to save you a spot in your load order.

• Uses MY skin and your installed default body (with my asset pack requirement). Compatible with 3BA, BHUNP, CBBE, TBD, or UNP bodies.

• Visions mod architecture means smaller footprint on your hard drive and better performance.

• Fully-voiced with over 570+ voice lines.

Quest Aware Comments

Vayne has extensive quest-aware commentary, but only for Dawnguard and the Dark Brotherhood quests. For Dawnguard, she has dialogue options (you need to speak to her) and idles that she may speak randomly. For the Dark Brotherhood quests, she will only speak random idles.

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• FSMP - Faster HDT-SMP

• Racemenu or a hair color sync mod

• SkyPatcher

• Backported Extended ESL Support - if you use 1.5.97 version of Skyrim.

• ELLE - ZK Rogue (Required if you use the optional Skypatch for this outfit)

• Soul Hunter Armor Mashup (Required if you use the optional Skypatch for this outfit)

• Dark Envoy - CBBE 3BA BodySlide (Required if you use the optional Skypatch for this outfit)

Installation

Be sure you have all the requirements for these mods before you begin the installation process.

• Download the Visions Asset Pack for the body type that you use (3BA/CBBE/TBD or BHUNP/UNP). Absolutely required.

• Install this mod with your mod manager (or manually).

• To update this mod, download the newer version and replace it (do not merge). It is completely safe to update mid-game.

• Load the addons AFTER the main Vayne Remastered mod.

Files

Main Mod

• Vayne Remastered - ESL Flagged

Addons (choose only one)

• ZK Rogue SkyPatch

• Dark Envoy SkyPatch

• Soul Hunter SkyPatch

Those of you who have followed my modding know that this mod has been a long time coming. It really is the cornerstone of all the storytelling I plan to do with my mods. The creation of this mod was the hardest task I have put myself to so far. I learned a lot, and I will apply those new skills to future mods. This mod will be updated more in time as well. It takes time to work with the voice actresses for Anja and Kelsa, so be patient. I plan to add more banter, more quests, and more romance features in time.

I’m not the only one that worked hard on this mod. My good friends JobiWanUK and Socalista did their best work to provide you addons that are just as meaningful as the main mod. You can read more about the addons below. I can’t thank them enough for helping me to bring the stories of the Iceheart Sisters and the Woken Furies to life. This is only the beginning folks. Please visit their profiles and grab their amazing mods when you have time.

Information

This mod has three parts. The main mod, which is The Iceheart Sisters followers. The second part is the Iceheart Mill location. And finally, we have the NPC Comments and Banter addon.

This Mod is NOT ESL-Flagged

The main mod has two followers, Anja Iceheart and her sister, Kelsa Iceheart. Both mods are voiced by real actresses. There are around 1,000 lines between the two sisters and more to come. The main features are:

Fully-Voiced Followers

Anja Iceheart and Kelsa Iceheart. Anja is voiced by the renowned VA of Ivy of Fallout 4 fame, Kitt Nevada (KittenVox). Kelsa is voiced by the lovely and talented Ophelia Valentine, a Twitch streamer and Youtuber. I spent a good deal of time scouting the exact voices I wanted for each sister. I owe so much to both of the VAs for their hard work and excellent quality on this mod. I’m so glad I found them and they agreed to work with me.

You can find them wandering around Whiterun. At night they share tales and drink with the Companions.

Romance System

I designed and scripted this romance system myself. Several of my friends gave me some great information on how they would do it, with some examples. It wasn’t easy to do what I wanted, and I don’t consider it finished or perfect. That said, here’s how it works:

• As soon as you finish the brief introduction quest for each sister, the romance quest starts.

• You can romance both sisters, but only marry one of them.

• The sister(s) must be following the player for the romance to proceed. If you dismiss them, the romance is paused.

• In order to advance stages of the romance, you must spend time with them.

• There are 4 stages of the romance. Friend, Confidant, Lover, and Spouse.

• Each stage takes 7 in-game days to advance. Again, they must be grouped with you for the timer to move forward. To me, this is the most accurate way for people to fall in love. By spending time together. Not gifts. or spicy dialogue lines.

• Once you reach the 4th stage with one or both sisters, you can ask one of them to marry you.

• When you marry one of sisters, the other sister’s romance quest is stopped and the player’s romance stage is returned to stage 2 - confidant. No, the sisters don’t want to share their husband or wife, but will remain close friends with their sister’s husband or wife.

• You will notice more loving dialogue from the sisters as the stages progress.

• When you marry a sister, you gain a permanent perk/buff (listed below). Each sister provides a different buff related to their frost-heritage.

Summoning Spell Lesser Power

After the introduction quest for each sister, you will immediately be given a spell (not a book) to summon them. This is a lesser power type spell which can be cast at will with nearly no mana cost.

Follow Close Move To Behavior

By default each sister is set to stay close to the player. If the player moves more than 3200 units away, the sister will immediately teleport to the player’s side. This prevent either sister from getting stuck or lost from the player. Obviously, this feature is turned off when you tell them to wait or dismiss them. You can also completely turn this feature off through a dialogue menu setting if you don’t like it.

Set Home and Move

You can tell either sister where to live, as long as it is indoors. They will live there and go back there when you tell them to head home. After you set their home, you can tell them to move if you want to change their home to a new location, and the home will reset and allow you to pick a new home.

Outfit System

Each sister has three outfits you can tell them to wear. They have a sleep outfit, a home outfit, and an adventure outfit. These outfits can be set through a dialogue menu. Once you tell them to wear the outfit they will put what you have chosen for them on. They will not automatically switch outfits based on the condition like sleep or home, you must switch manually. That said, I may expand upon this feature in the future, but at least now you don’t need another mod to manage their outfits.

Other Features

• Reverie Skin 1.11+ by Novelyst. Eyes by wammy and docteure from Eyes of Beauty Remastered.

• New Visions series uses your installed body. Compatible with 3BA, BHUNP, CBBE, TBD, and UNP bodies.

• Visions mod architecture for smaller footprint and better performance. Works with obody and wetfunction.

• FOMOD installer lets you choose SMP or NON-SMP installation.

Character Backgrounds

The Iceheart Sisters are twin (not identical) sisters who were found on the northern shores of Skyrim when they were infants. They were raised in the area around Dawnstar under the care of a rather famous bounty hunter named Varg One-Eye. It was clear from a young age that the sisters were different. The people of Dawnstar loved them greatly, but also feared their latent magical abilities. Scholars visited them and declared that they were only part human, with the other part being... something else. Whatever their heritage, they both had innate abilities with frost magic. Anja displayed skill with frost spells and Kelsa using frost to enhance her strength and martial skills.

Varg not only became their foster-father, he taught them all he knew about the business of bounty hunting. For years the two sisters went on missions with their foster-father, helping him complete his bounty quests. When they came of an age to work on their own, the sisters bought a mill in Riften Hold and converted it to a tavern and base of operations for their bounty hunting business. A few years ago, Varg went missing on a mission to Solstheim.

Anja is a Frost Witch. She can be a little abrasive at times, but she is actually extremely caring. She is the brains of the duo, and a solid tactician. She loves her sister more than anything else and is often a little overprotective. She doesn’t give her heart easily, but when she does so, she gives everything.

As a Frost Witch, Anja’s skills reside in Destruction, Restoration, and Conjuration. She specializes in frost magic, obviously. She has skills in stealth and light armor as well. Anja has a low cost Frost Cloak she uses during combat. She also has some special perks:

Frostborn Mage

Frost spells increase weakness to frost by 35% for 30 seconds for typically frost-resistant races.

The Frost King’s Blessing

Frost damage increases if a filled soul gem is in inventory. 1 Greater Soul Gem = 15% increase, 10 Grand Soul Gems = 50%, 5 Black Soul Gems = 100%.

IceBlaze

Anja’s unique frost dagger that does extra frost damage on hit. Thanks Gonzeh84 for converting this to Skyrim for me.

When Anja is married, her spouse will receive the Mantle of the Frost King perk (see Kelsa below).

Kelsa is a Frost Barbarian. She is the more naive and outgoing sister, often getting into trouble through sheer innocence. She is very friendly and still mending from a broken heart. She looks up to her sister and will do anything to help her. She is the brawn of the bounty hunting duo.

As a Frost Barbarian, Kelsa’s skills reside in Two-handed Weapons (especially warhammers), Heavy Armor and Blocking. She does have some inherent frost magic, and like Anja she can use a frost cloak during combat. Her special abilities are:

Mantle of the Frost King

Weapons and armor blessed with frost enchantments grant increased healing rate and double damage against fatigued or slowed foes. Power attacks deliver stronger enchanted blows.

The Frost King’s Blessing

Frost damage increases if a filled soul gem is in inventory. 1 Greater Soul Gem = 15% increase, 10 Grand Soul Gems = 50%, 5 Black Soul Gems = 100%.

Frostskjelv

Kelsa’s unique warhammer that does frost damage on hit. (credit to Steelfeathers for providing this awesome warhammer)

When Kelsa is married, her spouse will receive the Frostborn Mage perk (see Anja above).

The Iceheart Mill

Important Note: One of the NPCs in this mod that has the possibility to become a follower requries Relationship Dialogue Overhaul - RDO SE. If you choose not to use RDO, it will only mean this particular NPC can’t become a follower.

The Iceheart Mill is ESL-Flagged to save a spot in your load order.

The Iceheart Sisters purchased this mill and renovated it to be their home and base of operations. It can serve as a player home for 8 followers. The mill has many features, and the mod also has quests and a bonus fully voiced follower.

• Bounty Board with 5 unique bounty quests

• Fully stocked Tavern Merchant

• Tavern merchant starts a special bounty quest line following the completion of the bounty board tasks

• Full Crafting Stations and linked activator storage by category

• 4 single beds and 2 double beds, 4 cells with bedrolls in the basement

• 3 Unique Bounty Quest Enemies - What will your choices be?

• Patches for Hjertesten Hall, Blackthorn Manor, Lux, Lux Via, Landscape Fixes for Grass Mods, and Bjorn. More patches will be added as needed.

• Bonus Follower “Susannah” with 758 AI voice lines from Megaman2K’s Simply Open Source Voice Pack (download the addon for her in the miscellaneous section of the Files tab). Requires the linked voice pack by Megaman2K.

• Added Elysium Estate Teleporter to the Iceheart Mill with an addon. Check miscellaneous section of the file tab. You can find it in the basement of the mill.

NPC Comments and Iceheart Banter

The NPC Comments and Banter Addon is ESL-Flagged to save a spot in your load order.

This Addon provides NPC Comments from various NPCs towards the Iceheart Sisters. The goal of this Addon is to make the Iceheart Sisters feel like a natural part of Skyrim itself. The people of Skyrim know them and will talk to or about them. There is also banter between the two sisters (conversations with each other). Here are the specifics:

• Five scenes between Anja and Kelsa with various triggers

• Special scene in the Bannered Mare where Mikael will sing a song for Anja

• Features around 90 new lines voiced by the original Iceheart Sisters voice actresses

• Random NPCs will approach one or both of them and attempt to flirt with them, with random reactions

• Selected NPC voice types will greet one of the sisters, with random greetings in return

• Selected vanilla NPCs will make comments about one or both of the sisters when they are close by

• Greetings and flirting will work with mod-added NPCs that have vanilla voice types

Every 24 hours there’s a random chance of a scene with a vanilla NPC of either gender (selected voice types only) approaching one of the sisters and trying to flirt with them. The sister will reply with a random response. Every 8 hours there’s a random chance of a brief scene where a unique vanilla NPC will greet one or both of the sisters, with random responses.

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• FSMP - Faster HDT-SMP

• Racemenu or a hair color sync mod

• Relationship Dialogue Overhaul - RDO SE (if you want a certain follower in the Iceheart Mill addon)

• Simply Open Source Voice Pack

• SkyPatcher

• Backported Extended ESL Support - if you use 1.5.97 version of Skyrim.

Installation

Be sure you have all the requirements for these mods before you begin the installation process.

• Download the Visions Asset Pack for the body type that you use (3BA/CBBE/TBD or BHUNP/UNP). Absolutely required.

• Install this mod with your mod manager (or manually).

• To update this mod, download the newer version and replace it (do not merge). It is completely safe to update mid-game.

• Load the addons AFTER the main Iceheart Sisters mod.

Files

Main File

• The Iceheart Sisters

Addons

• The Iceheart Mill and Quests Addon

• NPC Comments and Banter Addon

• The Iceheart Mill - Susannah Custom Voiced Addon

Updates

• The Iceheart Sisters - Warhammer Patch - Just a quick patch to make Kelsa’s hammer stronger so she stops trying to use other weapons.

• The Iceheart Sisters - RSV Compatibility Patch - This patch is ONLY for people experiencing bald head issues or face discolor issues due to using RSV.

• The Iceheart Mill - Hotfix R01 - Adds missing pillow mesh, which also fixes a problem when trying to run Dynlodod with the Mill installed. Not needed if you have Iceheart Mill 1.01 or later.

Features

• ESL Flagged

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• Ashe - Crystal Heart

• Backported Extended ESL Support - For those running version 1.5.97 of Skyrim

• SkyPatcher

• FSMP - Faster HDT-SMP

• Racemenu or a hair color sync mod

Files

• Ashe Replacer

Features

• ESL Flagged

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• Katana - Journey in the Shadows

• Backported Extended ESL Support - For those running version 1.5.97 of Skyrim

• SkyPatcher

• FSMP - Faster HDT-SMP

• Racemenu or a hair color sync mod

Files

• Katana and Megara Replacer

Features

• ESL Flagged

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• Melana the War Maiden - An Evolving Custom Voiced Follower

• Backported Extended ESL Support - For those running version 1.5.97 of Skyrim

• SkyPatcher

• FSMP - Faster HDT-SMP

• Racemenu or a hair color sync mod

Files

• Melana Replacer

Features

• ESL Flagged

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• Secunda - Princess of Daggerfall - Custom Voiced Follower

• Backported Extended ESL Support - For those running version 1.5.97 of Skyrim

• SkyPatcher

• FSMP - Faster HDT-SMP

• Racemenu or a hair color sync mod

Files

• Secunda Replacer

Features

• ESL Flagged

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• Vilja In Skyrim

• Backported Extended ESL Support - For those running version 1.5.97 of Skyrim

Files

• Vilja Replacer (choose only one replacer)

• Viljda Replacer - Ponytails Hairstyle (choose only one replacer)

• Shana Follower - This is the follower version of the Vilja design. She is called Shana and can be found in Morthal at the Guard House or you can use additemenu to grab her summon scroll to summon her. Doesn’t require Vilja mod.

Features

• ESL Flagged

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• Recorder Follower

• Backported Extended ESL Support - For those running version 1.5.97 of Skyrim

Files

• Recorder Replacer

• Chiyo Follower - This is the follower version of the Recorder design. She is called Chiyo and can be found in Falkreath at Grave Concoctions or you can use additemenu to grab her summon scroll to summon her.

Features

• ESL Flagged

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• Sofia Follower

• Backported Extended ESL Support - For those running version 1.5.97 of Skyrim

Files

• Sofia Replacer

• Haley Follower - This is the follower version of the Sofia design. She is called Haley and can be found in the Falkreath Barracks or you can use additemenu to grab her summon scroll to summon her.

Features

• ESL Flagged

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• Daegon Legacy

• Backported Extended ESL Support - For those running version 1.5.97 of Skyrim

Files

• Daegon Legacy Replacer

• Maradee Follower - This is the follower version of the Daegon design. She is called Maradee and can be found in the Dawnstar Barracks or you can use additemenu to grab her summon scroll to summon her.

A gigantic thank you to my friend CKord/LottieK for the fantastic work she did voicing this follower.

Vixi Talax is a runaway noble who grew up in a life of luxury and training to enter the highest levels of Altmer society. She was trained from a young age in diplomacy, the magical arts, and swordsmanship. As she entered what Altmer considered their late teen years, she realized she wasn’t happy and decided to run away from her family and avoided a destiny they had planned that would eventually end with her being married off to some other noble family.

After she experienced the life of an adventurer, she decided she would never go home. She joined a few different mercenary companies, each ending in disappointment. Eventually, she ended up in Skyrim around the Solitude area. She can be found walking the streets, shopping at various stores, or drinking at The Winking Skeever.

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• FSMP - Faster HDT-SMP

• Racemenu or a hair color sync mod

Features

• ESL Flagged

• KS Wig by Xing

• Summon Scroll to summon her to your side at will

• Custom Sword

• Custom perks

• Over 200 custom voiced lines by the fantastic CKord/LottieK, the author of the fantastic Unrelenting Farce online comic

• Supports marriage and home assignment

Character Details

You can find wandering around Solitude but usually in The Winking Skeever.

Essential, won’t break stealth, can be married

Perks

She is a spellsword. Now it is up to you, the player, to determine her abilities!

Weapons

Sword - One Hand Sword - A mysterious and magical blade the mercenary uses in battle.

Files

• ColdSun’s Visions - Vixi Talax - Altmer Spellsword

Thus begins The Legend of Taarna, as the evil entity known as “Lok-Nar” falls from the sky as a giant green meteor that crashes into a mountain and seeps green liquid over the landscape. The green liquid infects the chieftain of a local village and all his people with the Lok-Nar’s evil and the begin to terrorize the surrounding area by mercilessly mutilating everyone in their path (with no other goal really).

In a nearby city under attack by these mutated villagers we find ourselves watching the city elders summon a champion who is only thought of as a legend, the last of a race of defenders known as “Tarakians.” These defenders were called in times of war and obviously they did a great job because these city folks have no idea how to fight or even use weapons on their own. The real problem is that there hasn’t been a war in so long that the Tarakians are now only a myth. The summoning completes, but our champion fails to arrive in time. The champion, a mysterious and beautiful woman known as Taarna, arrives to a city full of corpses that have been hacked to pieces by the invaders.

“To defend: This is The Pact. But when life loses it’s value, and is taken for naught - then The Pact is, To Avenge.”

After the grim discovery, Taarna goes on to Avenge the city’s people.

She tracks down some of the killers and finds the same symbol on their gear as she found clutched in the hand of one of the dead village elders. After an altercation at the pub she visited where the murderers were brutalizing the local populace, Taarna forces the barkeeper to tell her where the invaders are located.

On her way to the encampment she is captured and tortured, but manages to escape and kill the chieftain that was leading the mutated army. She then proceeds to destroy the god-entity “Lok-Nar” by sacrificing her own life in an explosion of power from her sword, Novera.

This is where her story in Tamriel begins. At the end of the Heavy Metal movie it was clear that a new Tarakian was born to take the place of Taarna after her sacrifice. While it seemed that Taarna had perished, it appears that the universe is not balanced yet. She arrived confused and shaken near Dragons Bridge with only her sword and armor. After discovering the danger posed to Tamriel by the dragons, she began to work with the locals to defend them from the threat. Word has spread across Skyrim of her deeds. A talented Blacksmith helped her modify her armor and a mage from The College of Winterhold added enchantments to protect her in the fight to come. Taarna’s powers have diminished since arriving in Tamriel. Even the Mark of the Tarakian has disappeared from her neck. Her sword, Novera, has only a sliver of the god-killing power it had before. Yet her duty remains the same. To defend, or... avenge. This is where the Dragonborn enters the story. It is up to you to enlist Taarna to your cause and end the threat to Tamriel..

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• FSMP - Faster HDT-SMP

• Racemenu or a hair color sync mod

Features

• SMP WIG by Dint999 (requires FSMP)

• Summon Scroll to summon her to your side at will

• ESL Flagged

• Custom Sword based on the movie

Character Details

You can find Taarna in the Four Shields Tavern near Dragon Bridge.

Essential, won’t break stealth, can be married

Perks

Light Armor, Destruction, One-Handed, Sneak

Weapons

Novera - One Hand Sword. Lightning damage.

Taarna’s Gear - Light armor custom designed by Ashtoreth. Required download for those who want to use the follower. I kept the armor as a separate download for folks who just want the outfit and not the follower. Be sure to download the correct version for the body you have installed.

Files

• Heavy Metal’s Taarna - 3BA

• Heavy Metal’s Taarna - BHUNP

• Taarna’s Gear - 3BA - required for 3BA version

• Taarna’s Gear - BHUNP - required for BHUNP version.

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

Features

• Summon Scroll to summon her to your side at will

• ESL Flagged

• Face and follower design by CrashnFlash

Character Details

You can find Ellenor in The Temple of Kynareth in Whiterun.

Essential, won’t break stealth, can be married

Perks

Destruction, Restoration, Alteration, 1H Sword, and Sneak (to avoid traps).

Files

• crashnflash Ellenora - 3BA-CBBE-TBD

• crashnflash Ellenora - BHUNP

• Ellenora ver 3.0 Assets patch - This is a patch to allow Ellenora to work with Coldsun’s Visions assets pack version 3.0. this will work with either version. allow this to overwrite any files when asked to.

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• FSMP - Faster HDT-SMP

• Racemenu or a hair color sync mod

Features

• ESL Flagged

• SMP WIG by Dint999 (requires FSMP)

• Summon Scroll to summon her to your side at will

• Custom Sword and Shield

• Custom perks

• ESL-Flagged

Character Details

You can find Mornhilde in High Hrothgar.

Essential, won’t break stealth, can be married

Perks

Light Armor, Restoration, One-Handed, and Block

Special Perks

Resonant Blade: Wielding a one-handed sword lowers healing spell costs by 35%.

Melody of Battle: As stamina lowers, magic damage increases; as Magicka lowers, weapon damage increases. Deal 2 times weapon damage to shocked or burning low health opponents.

Shouts

Fire Breath, Frost Breath, Storm Call, and Disarm

Weapons

Milkdrinker - One Hand Sword - Drains health
Graywarden - Small Buckler - Absorbs hits and returns them when a power bash is used.

Files

• ColdSun’s Visions - Mornhilde Raven-Hair

• Mornhilde Plugin - No Storm Call Shout Patch - removes Storm Call from Mornhilde for people who don’t like it.

Requirements

• CBBE 3BA (3BBB)

• FSMP - Faster HDT-SMP

Files

• Ashtoreth Barbarian Armor

Offsite Links

• BHUNP Bodyslide Files - main file above still needed

The priests who found the child were instantly troubled. It was clear this was no normal child. Unsure of how to handle the situation, the priests decided to enlist the aid of a local mage. They soon discovered the child was born with certain powers that were demonic in nature. Rather than slay the infant outright, they decided to weaponize her against their own enemies. They raised the child and trained her in the art of magic and archery. When the child became a woman, she escaped the temple and followed her demonic nature, terrorizing the continent. She too bore a child and the bloodline continued after that in a similar cycle, with each child a little less corrupted by the blood and nature of the original demonic father.

Sasana was born from this bloodline twenty-four years ago. As she grew older, she learned pieces of her family’s past and grew determined to make a change. She vowed to overcome her Dremoran blood and redeem her family in the eyes of the gods. She would use the tainted-blood for good. She trained from a very young age in magic and archery. She became an enemy of all evil, but especially demons and the undead. She traveled to Skyrim after hearing about the threat of dragons reborn. As she reached Morthal, she discovered something strange going on in the town and was determined to find the cause.

Recently, Sasana has been seen in the company of the Heartbow Rangers. Some say that she may even be accepted into their ranks in the near future.

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• FSMP - Faster HDT-SMP

• Racemenu or a hair color sync mod

Features

• ESL Flagged

• SMP WIG by Dint999 (requires FSMP)

• Summon Scroll to summon her to your side at will

• Custom Bow

• Custom perks

Character Details

You can find Sasana in Highmoon Hall in the city of Morthal.

Essential, won’t break stealth, can be married

Perks

Light Armor, Conjuration, Destruction, Archery, and One-Handed

Special Perks

Dagon’s Slap - Gives a high chance to stagger incoming foes.
Eye of Dagon - Chance to paralyze enemies
Flames of Oblivion - Fire-based Spells and Attacks do 50% more damage
Dremora Bloodline - High resistance to fire

Special Abilities

Demon Breath - Much like the fire shout, shoots a gout of flame from her mouth.
Oblivion Cry - Summons a Dremora Lord to fight for Sasana

Weapons

Redeemer - Bow - Drains souls, grants additional fire damage to arrows shot from it.

Files

• Sasana - Redguard Arcane Archer

The master made Valentina his thrall and experimented on her with magic and vampiric spells. He forced her to do terrible things to innocents they happened upon in the wilderness. Over time, she learned to meld her vampire spells with her destruction spells like no vampire before. The master vampire was incapable of love, but he did covet the rare vampire mage. After a time, Valentina refused to do the things he asked her to do, even under threat of torture or death. At one point, he starved and tortured her so badly she nearly perished. Seeing that she would not relent, he took her to an abandoned prison that had been flooded and was now filled with ghosts. He locked her in a cell there and told her he would one day find her again, after she had learned her lesson.

Valentina lost time during her imprisonment. There was no way to tell if it was night or day, or how many days had passed. She became almost crazed from blood thirst. She went into an extreme state of focus, trying to be as still and lifeless as possible in order to survive longer. During this meditative state, she felt a living soul close to her prison. She used an extreme effort of will to call out to this person to rescue her.

Shortly after, a young warrior entered the prison and did battle with the ghosts. As he approached her cell, she hid her vampire visage from him in hope that he would free her without being horrified. As the man entered her cell, she heard a voice from thin air warning him not to help her. She looked up at him in horror, thinking she would never be free of this prison. Instead of shy away, the warrior knelt before her with a look of pity on his face and asked how he could help her, ignoring the advice of the voice that had spoken to him. Valentina wanted to be free. She wanted to go home, but knew that wouldn’t be good due to her new nature. She simply asked the warrior take her from the prison.

In time, she learned that he was known as Vulkus. She also learned that he had some type of spiritual guardian, perhaps an actual Valkyrie, watching over him. This made him special, but to Valentina, who quickly fell in love with him, he was simple her whole world. He nursed her back to health, providing blood from animals at first, and then letting her feed directly from his own wrist. It seemed that for some reason he was immune to the vampire curse. Over time the two became lovers and traveled across Skyrim together.

Months after her release from the prison, Vulkus and Valentina were attacked by a platoon of Vigilants of Stendarr vampire hunters. They put up a glorious fight, but were highly outnumbered. Vulkus killed at least ten Vigilants with his giant axe as Valentina turned many to ash with her blood magic. At the end, Vulkus stood over her and fought until a final spear thrust in his heart ended his life. With nothing to live for, Valentina lay by his side as the Vigilant leader walked up to deliver a killing blow to end her life. Except that wasn’t what happened. A flare of light blinded her as a tall and beautiful woman in glowing silver armor appeared before her with shield and sword. As the leader slashed down his blade, the woman’s blade blocked the stroke and returned a stroke of its own taking the Vigilant’s head. The woman then systematically killed every Vigilant on the field as Valentina watched in awe. Realizing this was the same person who tried to talk Vulkus out of rescuing her, she knew at once that this was a Valkyrie who had just saved her life.

The Valkyrie suddenly disappeared and Valentina was alone. Part of her wanted to scream at her savior for sparing her life when she had nothing left. Then a spark kindled in her. She wanted revenge. She wanted to find the master vampire who killed her family. She wanted to eliminate every Vigilant of Stendarr in Skyrim. As she lay there planning her vengeance, she saw another flash of light and the Valkyrie was back. Although she was changed. No longer wearing shining silver armor, she stood before Valentina in normal armor and no longer glowed brightly like a spirit. The Valkyrie looked down upon her and smiled. A knowing smile. It was like looking into a mirror. She reached her hand down to help Valentina up and the two women walked away to plan their future. “Gods be damned.” The Valkyrie said to Valentina.

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• FSMP - Faster HDT-SMP

• Racemenu or a hair color sync mod

Features

• ESL Flagged

• SMP WIG by Dint999 (requires FSMP)

• Summon Scroll to summon her to your side at will

• Custom Axe

• Custom spell from Crimson Storm mod by BillRocks.

Character Details

You can find Valentina at the Shrine of Talos (the big statue) just southwest outside of Windhelm. The path can be a little hard to find, but she is just down the path from the statue itself.

Essential, won’t break stealth, can be married

Perks

Light Armor, Conjuration, Destruction, Restoration, Stealth.

Special Abilities

Valentina can cast Crimson Current which does concentrated lightning damage as well as drain health. The spell gains in power as her destruction skill rises when leveling.

Weapons

Eftermaele - 1H Axe - Drains magicka.

Files

• ColdSun’s Visions - Valentina

A big thank you to Kersten Unger (Kikiapplus) for creating the voice for Karla Raven.

In folklore, a revenant is an animated corpse that is believed to have been revived from death to haunt the living. The word revenant is derived from the Old French word revenant ‘returning’ (see also the related French verb revenir ‘to come back’).

Revenants are part of the legend of various cultures, including Old Irish Celtic and Norse mythology, and stories of supposed revenant visitations were documented by English historians in the Middle Ages.

This mod was initially released for Halloween 2021 and this version is the most up-to-date with some new features and a new look.

She can be found after you speak to Kalf, an old man currently residing in the Old Hroldan Inn. He’ll tell you a story and give you a book. Read the book! It has The Revenant’s backstory in it and will flesh out the character more for you as you play.

Karla Raven, The Revenant, was voiced by Kersten Unger (Kikiapplus) from assets she released for public use in the Custom Voice Resource. A big thank you goes to my friend Damakarmelowa for helping me with some of the Creation Kit work needed to complete this mod.

Requirements

• Visions Asset Pack

• FSMP - Faster HDT-SMP

• Racemenu or a hair color sync mod

Features

• ESL Flagged

• SMP WIG by Dint999 (requires FSMP)

• Summon Scroll to summon her to your side at will

• Custom Sword

• Custom Shadow Drain spell by Darenii (Abyss spell mod)

• ESPFE (ESL-Flagged) and Standard Plugin versions available. Please do not use the ESPFE version unless you start a new game or have never installed a previous version of this mod in your current game. I am not responsible if you fail to follow these recommendations.

Character Details

You can find Karla Raven after you speak to Kalf at the Old Hroldan Inn. You must finish the conversation with him and receive the book.

Essential, won’t break stealth, can’t be married

The Revenant is extremely powerful. At low levels she will decimate your enemies, but from mid-to-high levels her abilities will even out nicely and the game will be challenging for you (if you only use one follower). She works great with higher difficulty mods/settings.

Perks

Heavy Armor, Conjuration, Destruction, and Restoration.

Special Perks

The Revenant can raise the dead and use a powerful Shadow Drain spell. There might be some other surprises in store for you as well.

Weapons

Ghostblade - 1H Sword - Drains souls.

Files

• ColdSun’s Visions - Karla Raven - Standard ESP

• ColdSun’s Visions - Karla Raven - ESPE (ESL Flagged)

• Exnem Amazon Black Texture - You can get the outfit here.

Requirements

• CBBE 3BA (3BBB)

• FSMP - Faster HDT-SMP

Files

• Ashtoreth Silent Woods 3BA

Offsite Links

• BHUNP Bodyslide Files - main file above still needed