Welcome to the ImpeREAL Empire - Unique Forts!

I hope you approve my efforts to bring you a small mod which offers YOU the chance of visiting a NON-RUINED legion fort, in its whole glory! :-)

My dearest friends and visitors, your positive comments and ratings encourages me a lot to continue the development of the mod. :-)



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Author's Personal Note:
Those are my efforts to create this very little mod that allows the Imperial Tamrielic Empire to have at least some LIVING forts for its Imperial Legion Army!


Love ya!



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Why:
-The Imperial Watch is housed in the Imperial City Towers,
-The Palace Guards are housed in the Imperial Palace,
-The Blades are housed in Cloud Ruler Temple,
-The Bruma Guard, the Chorrol Guard, (etc...), are housed in the Castles of their Cities,

When...

The Imperial Legion Army which is known as the Empire's greatest army, and which has the hard task of defending the provinces of the Empire from enemies, guarding the roads from barbarians and goblins, and protecting the poor travellers from road thieves, does NOT has any place that helps them in their work and thus, a resting house for their Legion Soldiers?

And, thus, I have noticed that ALL the forts in the whole Cyrodiil where the Legion is supposed to be living, are ruined...! ALL!!!

(As you know, the forts are structures built by the mighty Imperial Legion, but, strangely, those symbols of stability and safety, in modern day Cyrodiil, ALL of them are... ruined (!), and DANGEROUS (!!!) which is very unrealistic, in my opinion.)


As the name "ImpeREAL Empire - Unique Forts" says, this small mod tries to adds new but LIVING forts to the Imperial Province of Cyrodiil, so to be more realistic, glorious, and act as the center of the whole Empire!

Just during gameplay I have decided to create this fort mod as I have noticed that ALL the forts built by Bethesda are RUINED! ALL of them...! So I came here to correct it. :-)

Those forts I have created will have ABSOLUTELY THE SAME architecture with the ruined ones, except that my forts will be not ruined!!! Unbelievable? Then try it!

-This small mod does modifies NOTHING in the game, except the area where the new forts have been placed. Simple!
-This mod does *NOT* adds (nor edits) any textures or meshes.

The time for the Imperial Legion to show its true power, just came!!!



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Just place the .esp file to Oblivion/Data and enable it! If there are older versions of the mod, just delete/replace them with the newer ones!

If you want to uninstall it, just delete the .esp file! Simple!



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Do not worry! Your saves are SAFE!

Your game will not be affected at all!!!



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It should be compatible with ANYTHING in the game, including the Unique Landscapes mods!!! I ensure it!



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The Legion Fort Bouayard has been released.

Informations about the Legion Fort Bouayard:

The Legion Fort Bouayard is guarding the dangerous Imperial City - Skingrad road.
The floors of the fort:
1st floor: the "Welcome" area.
2nd floor: the Hospital for injured travellers
3rd floor: the Training room for the Legion Soldiers
4th floor: the Office of the Imperial Legion Commander
5th Floor (not accessible): the storage of the Boiling Oil Barrels
Rooftop: the watchman area where Legion Archers are posted.
Basement floor: Soldier Quarters, Office of Imperial Legion Captain, Blacksmith, Prisons, Dining Room, Blacksmith.


The Legion Fort Ordeal has been released.

Informations about the Legion Fort Ordeal:

The Legion Fort Bouayard is guarding the dangerous Imperial City - Leyawiin road.
The floors of the fort:
1st floor: the "Welcome" area.
2nd floor: the Hospital for injured travellers
3rd floor: the Training room for the Legion Soldiers
4th floor: the Office of the Imperial Legion Commander
5th Floor (not accessible): the storage of the Boiling Oil Barrels
Rooftop: the watchman area where Legion Archers are posted.
Basement floor: Soldier Quarters, Office of Imperial Legion Captain, Blacksmith, Prisons, Boiling Oil Storage, Dining Room

The Legion Fort Ordeal is currently under an... ordeal. The Goblins of the new-founded Darkmoon Tribe are raiding the Legion Fort Ordeal's basements and labyrinths. - A update will come soon, expanding the basement and add more stuff plus a story.

-All the friendly NPCs are welcomed to any sections of the fort.
-All the items of the fort (food, weapons) belong to the Legion faction. If you are not member of the Legion, you don't have permission to use them. Only the beds and some food in the Hospital's floor are allowed to be used/consumed by the travellers and you.
-All the guards will arrest you if you are criminal and they will help you if a criminal attacks you.
-All the guards are assigned to their posts, so after the battles they will return to their positions and hold on.
-All the guards are members of the Legion Faction and its other similar factions as well.
-All the guards will have guard-like dialogues.
-Since the fort's jails are out of control, any arrest here will send you to the jails of the Capital City of the County where the Fort has been built: For Legion Fort Ordeal is Bravil.

I also offer you 2 new features with this mod: 
1) The separate from the teleportation system, doors.
With this new feature, I offer to YOU the ability to see the interior of the fort from the exterior (Cyrodiil) where you are!!! :D
Is obvious that it allows the fort to look like a more welcoming place and a place of safety for those who in the darkest night open the door and see the light from inside to shiny in their poor and tired faces...
Also you can use this feature with other means: Is a beautiful way to leave the door opened so the next time you visit the fort, you will find them opened, welcoming you and hear 4 guards to hail at you! :D
No worries, this feature is 100% simple.
2) In the Legion Fort Ordeal's basement you are allowed to lit the Fire Pits that have been turned off. Now, finally, you can lit the corridors of the dark basement! :)

I hope you like it! :D Love ya, guys! :D



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I should like to see and enjoy those mighty and big forts when I am traveling, in the wilderness of Cyrodiil, like you! :)
And thanks to the modding community of Oblivion, there is the way to create a LOD of a fort VERY EASILY and FAST!!!
In order to enjoy the LODs of the forts, you have just to download and use the LOD Generator! And with 1 click you can create the LODs of the forts! :)



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It does adds only few things, so it should not hit performance.



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-Legion Fort Bouayard.......................RELEASED! Bouayard now secures the dangerous road that connects Imperial City with Skingrad.
-Legion Fort Ordeal...........................RELEASED! Ordeal now secures the dangerous road that connects Imperial City with Leyawiin.



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-Thanks Bethesda for creating the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.
-Thanks to the friends and customers for their excellent support and encourage of me to keep the work! :D



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-"ImpeREAL City - Unique Districts" at: (http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=19589)
-"ImpeREAL Empire - Unique Castles" at: (http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=22446)



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The ImpeREAL Empire - Unique Forts Mod may is still in development and probably new updates are coming. The ReadMe file updates only with every new version releases, when the Description Page (in mod's site) updates every day. So if you need more recent news, you have to visit the mod's site at:
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=22965