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.
- In Which Nona Meets the Greybeards and Various Khajiit - 12/30/2024In which Nona treks up the Throat of the World to High Hrothgar; is tested by the Greybeards to confirm she is Dragonborn; upsets a Khajiit deeply when she reports the number of steps leading up the mountain; investigates the secrets of Shroud Hearth Barrow; clashes with some suspicious Baandari; discovers a strange talking shell in a deserted, hidden house; and signs on as the relic hunter of the Dragonborn Gallery.
- In Which Nona and Her Friends Set Out for High Hrothgar - 12/24/2024In which Nona acquires a horse; slays necromancers at the Ritual Stone; slays bandits at Valtheim Towers, and recovers a lost sword; receives word that the curator of a museum would really like to talk to her; is attacked by a stranger, who turns out to have a note on him about a mysterious ruin in Eastmarch; finds three suspicious Khajiit camping by a river; and reaches Ivarstead to prepare for going up to High Hrothgar to meet the Greybeards.
- A review about followers available in Tuxborn - 12/21/2024While I work on getting caught up on my main playthrough posts, here's a roundup so far of my thoughts on followers available in the Tuxborn modpack for Skyrim. LOTS of interesting followers, but I can't run them all, so I've had to cut down on the number of active followers I have! This post is a roundup of what followers I've tried so far, who's made the cut to remain an active follower, and who hasn't.
- 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.