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 |
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 definitely not least, this character is going to be take two of my failed Harrowhark playthrough. As such, she is most likely going to wind up 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!
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: Carved Brink (with spoilers) - 12/08/2024Since I have concluded playing the mod Carved Brink in my ongoing Tuxborn playthrough, here's a review post about that. Picoreview: very mixed bag. Gorgeous visuals and a fun travel mechanic, but a plot I found ultimately weak and unsatisfying. Post contains spoilers for the mod, so read with caution if you haven't played it yet.
- In Which Nona Finds a Dragonstone and Fights a Dragon - 11/29/2024In which Nona recovers the Dragonstone and a lost golden dragon claw from Bleak Falls Barrow; is tasked to help fight an attacking dragon at Whiterun's western watchtower; slays the dragon Mirmulnir and is revealed as Dragonborn; is given a thaneship in Whiterun; and is assigned a very cantankerous Lydia to be her housecarl.
- In Which Nona Takes a Crack at Bleak Falls Barrow - 11/22/2024In which Nona tries and fails, several times, to go to Valtheim Towers; meets a blind mage in the Bannered Mare and invites her to join her on her journeying; goes with both her followers to Riverwood, and agrees to help the trader there recover his lost Golden Claw; and goes to Bleak Falls Barrow in search of the claw and the Dragonstone.
- Initial Commentary on Tuxborn - 11/14/2024A post with my initial impressions of the Tuxborn modpack for Skyrim. Including how leveling works; changes to the look of the world and the characters; UI changes; map and music changes; new armor on NPCs and available to the player; some bumpiness with settings I needed to figure out how to change; and more!
- In Which Nona Has a Long and Bumpy Start - 11/14/2024In which the young Imperial Nona is left for dead at Steamcrag Camp; eludes a treacherous Khajiit by way of hostile giant; visits Kynesgrove and Windhelm; travels to Whiterun, and helps several of the locals there; travels to Riverwood and Helgen, and meets a former arena fighter named Gorr; witnesses Alduin's attack on Helgen, and reports it to Whiterun's Jarl; and is engaged by Balgruuf and Farengar to retrieve the Dragonstone from Bleak Falls Barrow.