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Craftable Nightingale Armor

Hey Guys! This is my first upload, something that always bugged me and I think needed to be done. So please, be patient with me =)

-<What this mod does>-

It adds 4 new craftable Items to your forge that use the Nightingale Armor Models. It will work for both, male and female.

-<What this mod NOT does>-

This mod DOES NOT alter any textures!
!! If you use any texture packs that alter the default appearance of the Nightingale Armor, my mod will also use those new textures as it references to the base model and textures !!

-<Features>-

- Slightly higher base stats on all four Items so they are worth using and considered as upgrades
- Freely enchantable and sellable
- These come with no enchantments whatsoever, so they are not overpowered (but I'll consider feedback on the base armor stats of course, if you find it too high)

Here are (after a request) the exact stats of the items, right out of the ck (unmodified by your skills/perks):

Boots:
- 340G worth
- 13 armor rating
- 2.0 weight

Helmet:
- 500G worth
- 18 armor rating
- 2.0 weight

Cuirass:
- 650G worth
- 42 armor rating
- 12.0 weight

Gauntlets:
- 210G worth
- 13 armor rating
- 2.0 weight

-<How to obtain these>-

To craft these you will need the advanced armors perk from Smithing, otherwise they will not show up. Once you've leveled smithing to this point, you can find them under "Leather" section at the forge, they are called "Shadowstalker".

You will be required:

- Leather
- Leather Strips
- Quicksilver Ingots

For improving them you will need one Quicksilver Ingot each.

For this armor the same conditions of improving apply as to all other, if it is enchanted, you WILL need the Arcane Blacksmith perk to improve them, else you can improve them right away after crafting.

-<Conflicts with other Mods>-

My mod SHOULD not conflict with other mods altering the Nightingale Armor as I use unique base ID's, which means, if you install a mod that powers up the vanilla version, mine should not be altered. If you find any bugs/conflicts, please leave a comment and describe what you have installed and what is happening, thank you.

-<Last words>-

I hope some people will find this useful. I for myself was always bugged with the lack of good alternative of armor for endgame assassins/thieves, as dragonscale might be light armor and quite good, but just doesnt feel right when you look at it while the Nightingale Armor always had the right look, but would be heavily exceeded armor-wise by all other alternatvies, plus you couldn't enchant it.
So now, you have it =)
Have fun

p.s.: I know there might already be mods out there that already do that, or just simply allow you to "level up" the vannila versions in case you obtained them at a lower level, but i never thought of that as a good solution.

=Edit=

24.06.12
Working on a more lore-friendly version, with a small questline and other stuff, higher material cost and as addition, craftable weapons. If you want the weapons craftable as standard version, please tell me via comments! I haven't done them yet as they looked quite strong to me already. New version will get its own upload, no worries =)

=Update=

01.07.12
Rev2
- changed the biped usage of 'Shadowstalker Hood' and removed "Circlet" from its checkbox. Should now be compatible with circlet-mods allowing you to wear both at the same time.

14.11.12
Rev3
- cleaned up mod