If you have trouble with the default textures or suffer from a framerate drop, you can copy and paste one of these options into the textures folder in your Skyrim directory to replace the default one I'm using. *note* I did find some low resolution files for the Geonox face textures and they are included in the optional files folder. However, he will not look like Thor if you don't use the textures, and honestly I'm not sure what he will look like at all, most likely unattractive. If you don't want the texture replacers, then just go into the Data folder before installing the mod and use only the file Thor.esp and nothing else. Nothing else is affected except for the humanoid NPCs. I think you will find it an amazing improvement, and I'm confident you will be pleased. I've been adding texture replacements for NPCs since Morrowind.

I chose to use a facial texture replacer made by the modder Genox because the textures Genox makes really do make the NPCs look so much better! I'm usually hesitant about adding too many mods to keep my game as close to vanilla as possible, but lets face it, Bethesda just can't make pretty people. He will wear anything higher quality than those.Ī word of caution to those who don't like texture mods: Thor uses texture replacers for his face, and yes these will also change the other NPCs in-game. He comes with vanilla farm clothes, hide bracers and boots, a steel warhammer, and a hunter's bow. He can be changed to using heavy armor for those who are saavy with the Creation Kit, but light armor was chosen for two reasons, the movie character doesn't look like he's in a hulking tank suit, and I tend to use sneak heavily in my games and I didn't want a loud fumbling companion to give away my location.

He is essential so he will not die, he will only go down on one knee when his health is down to 10% and recover. He is set to level with the player, and he is balanced so he is like the other companions in-game and will not ruin the difficulites of fighting by overpowering everything. He also has the perk of Light Foot so he will not step on trap triggers. His primary skills are two-hand, block, archery, light armor, and sneak. The Thor inspired companion is named Thorundir in-game to be lore friendly. He is appropriate for the theme of Skyrim, and the job Marvel did with the movie character was fantastic, so I attempted to create a companion that looks like him (rejoice ladies, you can marry him too!) It's hard to think of Nordic culture without thinking about the Scandinavian god Thor.

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