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Thane Weapons Improved

Special thanks to PrivateEye for allowing me to use his weapon models. Here's a link to his work: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=85291742
Many thanks to those who have given a positive rating!

This mod is part of the Improved Artifacts Collection, which can be found at this link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=204157051





EASTMARCH: THE FURIOUS ICEFIST
Base Weapon: Stalhrim Warhammer (2H)
Enchantment: When you strike a Mer opponent (i.e. a High Elf, Dark Elf, Wood Elf, Orc or Falmer), the speed of the warhammer’s swing dramatically increases, allowing you to attack these opponents in a frenzied state.

FALKREATH: SHADOWBITE
Base Weapon: Nordic Sword (1H)
Enchantment: 50% more damage against Abominations, and absorbs 25 points of health and stamina from them. Abominations are those creatures whose presence in Nirn is the result of magic use as opposed to the natural order, and they include following creatures: the Undead (including vampires), Daedra, Werewolves, Werebears and Hagravens.

HAAFINGAR: THE SPEAR OF MIGHT
Base Weapon: Nordic Short Spear (1H)
Enchantment: When power attacking, you inflict fear on up to one humanoid target at a time for 8 seconds, provided the target is of a lower level than you. Should you power attack a new opponent whilst another already has the fear effect, then the old one will be cured of fear and the new target will receive the fear effect.

HJAALMARCH: THE MARSHBORN BLIGHT
Base Weapon: Nordic Mace (1H)
Enchantment: 8 points of poison damage for 4 seconds. Does double damage to Arthropods (these include frostbite spiders, ash hoppers, mudcrabs, chaurus and chaurus hunters)

THE REACH: DEEP-ROUT
Base Weapon: Silver Greatsword (2H)
Enchantment: 5 points of bleeding damage for 5 seconds on targets with warm blood (these include all animals, creatures and NPCs that are not: undead, daedra, arthropods, wisps, spriggans, ice wraiths, e.t.c.). 50% more damage to the undead.

THE RIFT: BLACK WHISPER
Base Weapon: Ebony War Axe (1H)
Enchantment: Silences the target for 8 seconds. Players of previous Elder Scrolls games will recognize Silence as the inability to cast spells.

THE PALE: ICEBREAKER
Base Weapon: Stalhrim Hammer (1H)
Enchantment: 35% extra damage to Cold targets (these include ice wraiths and ice atronachs, as well as the undead, arthropods, and anything taking frost damage).

WHITERUN: DOVAHDAAN
Base Weapon: Nord Hero Greatsword (with a slight damage boost, 2H)
Enchantment: 50% more damage to dragons, ignores 50% of armor.

WINTERHOLD: ARCANFOE
Enchantment: Absorbs 25 points of magicka from magical creatures, and inflicts 25% more damage against magical creatures (these include spriggans, wisps, daedra, ice wraiths, the undead, hagravens, werewolves and werebears).




If you already have some Thane weapons or have begun one of the Thane quests, then you’ll notice on loading this mod that these weapons are not immediately replaced by the newly added weapons listed above. To replace the original Thane weapons with their new counterparts, you must use the Thane Trade system.

To use the Thane Trade system, type in the console command: “Set ThaneTrade to 1”. This will make a Lesser Power called “Thane Trade” appear in your inventory. Use this Lesser Power, and you will receive step-by-step instructions on how to obtain the new weapons.



Prior to the most recent update, the Thane Trade system was not properly added. This bug has been fixed, and the Thane Trade system should now be properly added.

Some users with Hearthfire may experience a bug in which they do not receive a Houscarl when becoming the Thane of Falkreath. The cause of this bug is unknown.




I’ve installed the mod, but my Thane weapons are unchanged…why?
From a modder’s perspective, the vanilla Thane weapons are difficult to modify. It can be done, but the process would likely be fairly buggy and broken for many, and so I’ve chosen not to go down that road. Instead, I’ve added a system called Thane Trade, which allows you to trade the old weapons for the new manually in-game. For details on how to do this, see the Thane Trade section above.

I’ve already sold all my Thane weapons…how can I get the weapons shown here?
The Thane Trade system (see above) is meant to allow you to swap normal Thane weapons for the newly added Thane weapons. However, it can just as easily be used to swap any other weapon for a new Thane weapon. The system is easy to use and straightforward.