Nona Playthrough
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| Playthrough Info | |
| Game | Skyrim AE with Tuxborn Modpack |
| Race | Imperial |
| Playthrough Dates | Started 11/11/2024 |
| Platform | Steam Deck |
| Language | English |
| Difficulty | Novice |
| Tuxborn Version | 0.5.2 |
This is the page for my Skyrim playthrough for the character Nona, wandering Imperial.
Nona’s playthrough has as its major goal running the Tuxborn modpack, which is a Wabbajack-based load order explicitly assembled with the Steam Deck in mind! It is a huge load order, nearly 1,600 mods, and as such will also include a whole lot of mods I’d already had my eye on, conveniently rounded up in one place.
Those interested can find more information on Tuxborn on its Github page.
Note that I am kicking the difficulty back down to Novice for Nona’s run. This is because Tuxborn does a huge set of changes to how combat works in Skyrim, including making fighting a lot more difficult in general. I am not yet versed with all the changes it’s doing. So Novice difficulty it is! (Though I may adjust this later as the playthrough proceeds.)
This will also be my second attempt at a Legacy of the Dragonborn playthrough, since Tuxborn features v6 of that mod, and my prior character running Legacy (Kendeshel) is using v5.
And last but not least, this character started with the intention of being take two of my failed Harrowhark playthrough. The idea was going to be, making her a necromancer, and possibly also a vampire. Tuxborn includes Sacrosanct, a lightweight vampire mod, which ups my interest in taking another crack at that.
As anyone familiar with the Locked Tomb series of books by Tamsyn Muir will likely guess right away, Nona, like Harrowhark, is named for a major character in that series. Astute readers will also see right away how I’ll be playing Nona as compared to Harrowhark!
However, as Nona’s playthrough has proceeded, the likelihood of her turning into a necromancer or vampire has ebbed. So there will probably be a take three of a vampire/necromancer playthrough, maybe when Tuxborn 1.0 happens? We’ll see!
Nona’s Backstory
Ah, now that’s going to be the tricky part.
Tuxborn includes Alternate Start, and I’ll be starting Nona’s playthrough with the option that lets you start off with having been attacked and left for dead. I’m going to take that as an excuse to have Nona start off entirely amnesiac. So she won’t even remember her own background!
(Which is probably for the best, given that she’ll also have had some version of the same background I gave to Harrow. Muahaha.)
Playthrough Posts
Here are all the posts about Nona’s playthrough! These are dynamically updated, so a new post should appear here when it goes up. They’re listed in descending date order, so the newest posts should always appear first. Also, note the pagination controls after the first five posts. You can page through to see the older ones.
- Mod review: The Wheel of Time - 08/26/2025A review of the mod The Wheel of Time - Fully Voiced Follower and Quests. This is a mod that does a crossover between Skyrim and the Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan, and includes a main quest line as well as a follower. Ultimately, it's not for me, but players who are fans of the books may get a lot more out of it than I did.
- Canceling Nona’s and Alecto’s playthroughs, and other catchup to do - 08/25/2025I'm too overwhelmed by my backlog of stuff to post about for my various characters, so I'm giving myself some amnesty and am going to just be posting periodic summaries for a while. Also: I am officially canceling Nona and Alecto's playthroughs, so that I can focus on playing Kenna in Tuxborn's current build.
- Mod review: The Wheels of Lull – Unwound Edition - 07/21/2025My review of the Skyrim mod Wheels of Lull - Unwound Edition, now that I've completed playing it in my Tuxborn 0.5.2 run. Found it very much a mixed bag in terms of my player experience, but ultimately did enjoy running it, and expect I'll get better at the difficult parts with practice. No spoilers.
- In Which Nona Quests into Faceted Stones - 05/10/2025In which Nona buys land in Falkreath, and begins to build a house there; takes the pilgrim Maurice with her to the Eldergleam Sanctuary; retrieves a sapling from the Eldergleam to take back to Whiterun; ventures through a portal into Faceted Stones, a plane of Oblivion; learns how to communicate with goblins of the Lasting Bones tribe; and encounters a mysterious Stranger.
- In Which Nona Reunites a Dog With His Master - 04/28/2025In which Nona bargains with Clavicus Vile at Haemar's Shame; handles a zombie outbreak near Fort Neugrad; clears bandits out of Broken Oar Grotto, while recovering a lost helmet; discovers a sanctum for Meridia worshippers; recovers the Rueful Axe; and returns both axe and Barbas to Vile at his shrine.