Sultan Saladin - Follower

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An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (1137-1193), more commonly known as Saladin, was the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria and the first ruler of the Ayyubid Dynasty. Just and generous at heart, he was a worthy nemesis to King Richard the Lionheart during the Third Crusade, and now hopes to find another equal in the Dragonborn.

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Saladin uses the vanilla follower system and thus should be seamlessly compatible with any follower framework mod. He is able to be married, and favors swords, shields and bows in combat. Like all my custom followers, he is marked as essential; he uses the MaleEvenToned voice and the vanilla Redguard race.

By default, he wears his custom-made robed cuirass with a turban from Bobs Armory and a pair of vanilla Leather Boots, and wields a Lapis Scimitar, Ebony Redguard Shield and the Redguard Bow. His equipment can be obtained via console commands through "help "Sultan"", and can be regularly tempered at Workbenches and Grindstones.

Saladin can be found in Riften near Mistveil Keep, in the courtyard where Harrald and Riften Guards train. He can be recruited immediately and levels with the player up to level 500.

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Saladin's outfit is based on his design in the mobile game Rise of Kingdoms. The game's overall art style is quite goofy and cartoonish, which I usually don't particularly like, but I find Saladin's design highly aesthetically appealing.

I created Saladin's cuirass by combining the vanilla monk robes and a piece of the Expert robes with Tullius's Scalemail from Byzantine Imperials. It took a long time until I got Blender to play nice and the entire process was an enormous pain in the butt, so I am especially proud of it.

The cuirass does not support weight sliders due to my limited modeling skills. (I'm starting a modeling course very soon, and once I get myself some l33t sk1llz, you can bet I'll be churning out new mods like no tomorrow.)

The optional.esp can be safely merged with Saladin.esp to save a load order spot.

If you prefer not to clutter your meshes and textures folders with absolute butt-tons of unused assets, the specific files required by this are as follows:

Hammerfell Armory:

meshes\Oaristys\weapons\steel\ofieriscimitar.nif

meshes\armor\farinelli\shield_1_e.nif

textures\oaristys\weapons\steel\ofieriscimitar_scabbard.dds

textures\oaristys\weapons\steel\iris_scabbard_n.dds

textures\oaristys\weapons\steel\iris_scabbard_m.dds

textures\oaristys\weapons\steel\ofieriscimitar.dds

textures\oaristys\weapons\steel\iris.dds

textures\oaristys\weapons\steel\iris_n.dds

textures\oaristys\weapons\steel\iris_m.dds

textures\armor\farinelli\shield_1_e_d.dds

textures\armor\farinelli\shield_1_e_n.dds

textures\armor\farinelli\shield_1_e_m.dds

Bobs Armory:

meshes\dam\damchik02HF.nif

textures\dam\damchikturban01.dds

textures\dam\damchikturban01_n.dds

textures\dam\damchik02.dds

textures\dam\damchik02_n.dds

textures\dam\damchik02_m.dds

Engraved Bow:

meshes\weapons\farinelli\redguard_bow.nif

textures\weapons\farinelli\redguard_bow_d.dds

textures\weapons\farinelli\redguard_bow_n.dds

textures\weapons\farinelli\redguard_bow_m.dds

Byzantine Imperials:

textures\armor\archduke_legion\tulliusscalegold.dds

textures\armor\archduke_legion\tulliusscale_n.dds

textures\armor\archduke_legion\tulliusscale_m.dds

Illustrious HDT Cloaks of Skyrim:

meshes\Clothes\cloaksofskyrim\coscloakfur.xml

Weapons of the Third Era

meshes\74_w\longsword\longsword_dwemer.nif

textures\74_w\longsword\longsword_sheath.dds

textures\74_w\longsword\longsword_sheath_n.dds

textures\74_w\longsword\longsword_dwemer.dds

textures\74_w\longsword\longsword_dwemer_n.dds

textures\74_w\longsword\longsword_dwemer_m.dds

textures\74_w\cubemap_smooth_withcolor.dds

While writing this bit, I noticed that WotTE's assets are free to modify and redistribute with credit. Whoops.

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