[MOD RELEASE] Blood and Faith, a BG1 Questline Mod

[Glittergear]

Happy to announce the release of v0.9 of Blood and Faith, a BG1 questline mod. It's like my Errant Justice mod, but bigger, better planned, and better executed.

Premise: Too often, criminals get away with their misdeeds for one reason or another. A certain Lathanderite cleric wants to change that, but she needs your help. This is a tale of blood and faith, a tale of damnation… or of redemption.

I consider this to be a beta release, as I'd like it to be a bit more polished. This mod is fully functional as-is. I'm just not sure on whether or not the boss-fights are well-balanced and I can't figure out how to change Eloran's voice to one that I like. Maybe I'll also add more roleplaying options and Eloran dialogue too.

To play the mod: Kill Bassilus and then speak to Eloran at the Lathander Temple next to Beregost. Ideally, you start in Chapter1 (or very early Chapter 2) and sprinkle in Eloran's quests as you progress through the game's Main Questline.

Download here: https://github.com/Glittergear/BloodAndFaith/releases

CONTENT WARNING FOR POSSIBLE SUICIDE

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Features:
- 14 quests!
- Emphasis on roleplay
- Evil Charnames can optionally turn neutral, depending on how you complete the questline!
- Good Charnames can optionally turn neutral, depending on how you complete the questline!
- Neutral Charnames can optionally turn good or evil, depending on how you complete the questline!
- Suitable for any class/alignment! There’s justification for evil PCs and the Lathanderite to work together
- Two endings!
- 8,000+ words of dialogue!
- Additional lore-friendly Lore, featuring gods like Malar and Ibrandul!
- A new cleric/thief of Lathander, who just might become a possible companion in BG2

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//THANKS TO
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Moggadeet, for being my partner in crime and for helping with the Loviatan
Tel Shadow, Superduple, and AlandroSul for helping me make this mod within Morrowind.

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//INSPIRATION
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In no particular order...

Dras, the Dunmer Legionnaire, for Morrowind: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/51446
Drake for Baldur’s Gate 1: https://artisans-corner.com/drake-npc-for-bgee/
Adrian for Baldur’s Gate 2: https://github.com/SpellholdStudios/Adrian_NPC
Assassinations for Baldur’s Gate 2: https://www.pocketplane.net/assassinations/
Righteous Hitman for Oblivion: https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/25989

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//WALKTHROUGH
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See separate walkthrough document.

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//CHANGELOG
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0.9 Initial beta release

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//INCOMPATIBILITIES
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None known. Let me know if you find any.

Edited September 30 by Glittergear

[mickabouille]

Wow Bassillus at chap 1, you're way more optimistic than I am

[subtledoctor]

Yeah tackling Bassilus usually happens well into chapter 3 in my games.

[Glittergear]

6 minutes ago, subtledoctor said:

Yeah tackling Bassilus usually happens well into chapter 3 in my games.

 

6 hours ago, mickabouille said:

Wow Bassillus at chap 1, you're way more optimistic than I am

Thanks for letting me know--I usually get him in Chapter 1 myself. I might tweak the questline's beginning to not need his death then. It's not a big deal if you start it in Chapter 3, but Eloran's early reference to calling you inexperienced/new to adventuring might be a bit immersion breaking if you've already cleared out the mines by then.

[mickabouille]

And then I realize it may depend of what other mods are installed (stratagems?)

[Trouveur80]

Without SCS i usually do it in chapter 2 because I go to Nashkel to recruit some NPC. 

With SCS it's almost always in chapter 3.

[megrimlock]

For the first quest, I had to look up the walkthrough to find the widow at the Red Sheaf - because the homeowner tells you she is at the Jovial Juggler.

[Glittergear]

16 minutes ago, megrimlock said:

For the first quest, I had to look up the walkthrough to find the widow at the Red Sheaf - because the homeowner tells you she is at the Jovial Juggler.

Sorry about that! I've added fixing that to my to-do list for the next update.

[subtledoctor]

6 hours ago, Glittergear said:

calling you inexperienced/new to adventuring might be a bit immersion breaking if you've already cleared out the mines by then.

Eh, I feel like you are still pretty inexperienced. Clearing the Nashkel Mines is about as much experience as going from Threshold to your first encounter with Bargle. 

Yes, dating myself there. 

[Morgoth]

I kill Bassilus in chapter 1, together with the basilisks. Then the Ankheg. 

My bhaalspawn is not the same as yours.

[lzw104522773]

I downloaded this mod and check the dialogue text, and found that dialogue text are all in the D file, which makes it inconvenient to translate into other languages.

[subtledoctor]

5 hours ago, Morgoth said:

My bhaalspawn is not the same as yours.

Yes, mine is an adventurer, yours is a farmer 

[Thacobell]

Bassilus is part of my pre-Nashkel loop. He's not that bad.

[Guest Morgoth]

4 hours ago, subtledoctor said:

Yes, mine is an adventurer, yours is a farmer 

you laugh, but that's where he found the ankheg armor he needed to start adventuring. A shame he had to sell it, considering that I don't understand why a barbarian can't weak ankheg armor, even if I can definitely see them doing so. 

 

[Morgoth]

[ghost quest] I can't find the neighbour of Firebead. Which house should I enter? 

Edit: found it, it's on the right of colquetle. I had thought the house would be "not habitated".

Edited September 22 by Morgoth