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Aranessa

Brief background story of Aranessa

Aranessa was born to a Norscan family, but she was born a mutant, her legs were conjoined and scaly(ring a bell?) with a fin at the end(yes she's a mermaid) and spines on it(ouch for the mom) and was then casted out into the sea....fortunately though my hunch that she was a mermaid was true cause she survived, a school of dagger fish led her to safety to a golden sand plot were 3 nymphs raised her and gave her a great diet of nymph milk and maritime dishes from crabs to seaweed. She grew up learning how to hunt in the sea and watching these massive ships like galleons getting sunk by storms before she even knew what a galleon was, all the loot like pretty sea shells she would gather made her happy but as a kid developed a facination for those ships.......she wasn't dumb, she realized that she looked different than humans and they would probably act hostile or on guard...so in an innocent kind of way, she drank herself silly of rum to make herself numb, and....proceeded to mutilate her legs to split them in two, removed the fin end and replaced the 2 newly created stumps with what she had on hand, swordfish noses strapped with leather that she had premade in preparation to this. After sometime of letting it all heal and quite well(probably due to her special birth), she got into the first pirate ship where some of the crew were tempted by >her beauty< (which insinuates not just good looking but the spines were only on the legs and she probably removed those too to make herself look more human)....and she proceeded to slit the throat of the first one who tried, and so she joined the crew. With time her value as a look out, then as a cannoneer and later as a fighter became apparent till the day she became the first mate of her crew and the jewel of those roudy pirates, once the captain died to a sea beast, she became the captain of the ship she had learned to call home.

Aranessa is actually described as a beautiful woman, and judging from birth, it would seem that her mutation turned her into or in the likeness of a mermaid. Shame she did what she did to her leg/s but at least there's a wealthy merchant magician who already gifted her a mechanical fin to use as a suit should she ever want to or need it. But as far as we're concerned she walks around in 2 make shift legs now, and she isn't supposed to have a bunch of protruding spines on her body or anything of the sort. And one more thing...she always wore a mean scowl when on board, idk if because that's her, the experience of cutting her legs made her angry or she thinks she needs to act tough to be taken seriously...but deep down inside she's a sweet girl, as her own roudy and rough pirate crew describes it, whenever she is at the helm just peacefully sailing on the wide open seas, or is holding shiny jewels in her hands "her smile is as bright as the coming of a new dawn"......bros she's wife material and a total keeper.

So this is my amateur attempt to make her, what I believe to be, more accurate to her lore and taking the creative liberty of what she probably did with what spines she did have on her legs(now if there's a book out there of one of her adventures in which she stabs someone with the spines on her legs with a roundhouse kick, then all this goes out the window but I will completely ignore it regardless).

What I actually did:

Well changed the shape of her nose and lower lip and chin
Made her bustier and her upper thigh a bit wider cause they had this concave shape in one area
removed the spines
tried to fix the texture where the spines were
also attempted to flatten and smooth as much as I could the vertices of the model that were raised skin where the spines were
changed her jawline and cheekbone structure
changed her lips
Now if I wanted to I could go all out and really change so much you won't even recognize her but I figured I'd out to make her look still familiar to what we have seen for years and not turn her into Aranessa-chan lmao.

What I need to do:

Smooth out the vertices were spines used to be(still looks bumpy), and fix texture seams by the neck and arms.

Update:

edited the portrait pictures
updated skin textures

Update 2:
Further modified the face, the chest and right arm, trying to get rid of those bumps where the spines used to be, it's kind of tough
also redid her normal map, her skin all over was full of wrinkles or something, it is smooth all over now except part of the neck and behind the ears and below the jaw(and has discoloration too, will fix that later, maybe tomorrow)
and flattened her hair

Update 3:
Added custom portraits, unit card, porthole

Update 4:
Fixed an LOD issue with the face(forgot to generate new LODs for the face) and fixed the lip corners a bit since they seemed misaligned in the vanilla model along with fixing inconsistent thickness...of the lips I mean

My works:

Elves
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2858446908
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3034986205

Humans and Vampires
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3035260025
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2859703725
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3090284153
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3107322109

Vampire Coast
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2877672154
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3173370990

Dawi
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3102231912

IMPORTANT PAY ATTENTION:

place the mod at the very top of load order, since some mods out there try to change her look, I made the mistake of not adding higher order prefixes to the mod name so you have to place it above manually