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Nexus Page · Installation · Gameplay Guide · Configuration · Changelog · Addons · Help

Gameplay Guide

📒 IMPORTANT NOTE: This gameplay guide reflects the Septimus 3.1.x version. Guides for previous versions may be found by clicking the History button in the upper left corner of this page.

Overview

On your journey through the Septimus version of Skyrim, you will find a performance-friendly yet visually stunning environment, with thoughtfully curated, integrated, and balanced additions. As you explore this expanded yet familiar Skyrim world, you will discover plenty of high-quality and fun experiences.

This guide highlights major mods included in Septimus in the following categories:

Icons in this guide:

  • 🆕 indicates additions to the gameplay guide since the last major release
  • 📒 indicates Septimus configuration notes
  • 🎮 indicates Septimus play testing observations

Hotkeys

Gameplay Hotkeys

  • C - Switches shoulders for SmoothCam

  • E - Use selected item in inventory, create item while crafting, or take item while browsing container

  • F - In inventory, favorite selected item

  • H - Access mount's saddlebags, make mounts follow or wait (even if you fast travel), call your mount, or give your current mount to a follower using Simplest Horses

  • L - Toggles lantern, provided you've crafted and equipped a Simple Wearable Lantern

  • R - Drop selected item in inventory, or take all items from container

  • Q - Opens up SkyUI favorites menu

  • X - Toggles compass visibility

  • CTRL - Toggles sneaking (without weapons drawn) or performs dodge (with weapons drawn) using The Ultimate Dodge Mod Reborn

  • SHIFT - Toggles sprinting

  • Middle Mouse Button - Locks on to enemies in True Directional Movement

  • Middle Mouse Wheel - Switches targets in True Directional Movement

ENB Hotkeys

  • F7 - Toggles FPS visibility, provided you are using ENB

  • F10 - Toggles ENB on/off

  • F11 - Toggles ENB configuration, provided you are using ENB

Immersive Equipment Displays Hotkey

Console Hotkeys

  • ~ - Toggles console visibility

  • CTRL + ⬅️ - Copy to clipboard in console

  • CTRL + END - Paste from clipboard in console

Alternate Start

Septimus includes a customized version of Alternate Start - Live Another Life, which you can use to start your Septimus journey on a different path than the traditional cart ride

Gameplay

Septimus is built around the Simon Magus (SimonRim) gameplay overhaul. SimonRim remasters various systems in Skyrim in a cohesive way that stays true to the original while improving the balance and gameplay. The full SimonRim list:

  • Adamant - Overhauls and introduces new perks increasing build diversity

    📒 Adamant automatically grants the following perks to all players for free: Dual Casting (Alteration, Conjuration, Destruction, Illusion, and Restoration), Arcane Blacksmith, Critical Charge, Greater Critical Charge, Power Bash, Eagle Eye, Rune Master, Summoner, Physician, Intimidation, and Bribery

  • Aetherius - A rework of all race abilities including replacing powers with better passive abilities

  • 🆕 Arachnomancy - A Spider Scrolls Overhaul - A complete overhaul of Skyrim's spider scrolls crafting system designed to balance existing spiders while adding powerful new ones

  • Apothecary - Rebalances Food and Alchemy

  • Blade and Blunt - A lightweight combat enhancement which makes combat more engaging

  • Hand to Hand - Merges Lockpicking and Pickpocketing into a single skill and adds a new perk tree for Hand to Hand combat

  • Pilgrim - Rebalance and rework of religion

  • Scion - Rebalances and improves Vampires with reverse progression

    🆕 📒 Enhanced by Scion - Vampiric Sunscreen Condition Patch

  • Manbeast - Rebalance and content addon for werewolves which introduces new perks and abilities

  • Mundus - A complete rebalance of all standing stones

  • Mysticism - A magic overhaul which fixes balance issues and introduces new spells

  • 🆕 Mystpocalypse, a curated synergy Mysticism/Apocalypse - Magic of Skyrim patch created by the Septimus team. Includes hand-selected Apocalypse spells that are not overpowered and which do not duplicate spells already in Mysticism.

  • Thamaturgy - An enchanting overhaul which fixes some major issues with enchanting balance

In addition to SimonRim, this list includes:

  • Septimus includes a custom balanced mod with two specific utility spells from Apocalypse, Spell Twine and Ocatio's.

  • Forceful Tongue - A lightweight shouts overhaul, designed to balance in a sensible manner this underwhelming but cool mechanic

  • Instincts - Animal Taming in Skyrim - Instincts enables the player to tame wild animals. Tamed animals will accompany the player and carry items or fight for the player

    📒 The version of Instincts - Animal Taming in Skyrim included also expands the Adamant speech tree with additional animal based perks

  • Tinker's Forge - A lightweight smithing overhaul which allows you create devious traps, forge silver weapons, weave magical clothing, and build your own army of Dwarven automatons!

    📒 Septimus includes a custom version of Tinker's Forge which expands the Adamant smithing tree

    🎮 Tempering is based on your smithing perks, and not your smithing skill level. Each perk from Apprentice Smithing to Legendary Smithing allows you to temper another tier

    🎮 All jewelry is unlocked via the Jeweler perk. This includes necklaces for dogs. This doesn't include Legacy of the Dragonborn replicas

    🎮 In addition to clothing, the following items are unlocked via the first rank of the Tailor perk. Tents, Bags, Bandoliers, Shoulderpads, Satchels, Backpacks, Dog/Pet Bags, Dog/Pet Accessories (harnesses, collars, barrels, etc)

  • Skyrim Skill Uncapper - Unlocks the skill level caps of 100 and makes some relevant leveling tweaks

    📒 Septimus includes a custom skill uncapper preset that tweaks the skill leveling rates

Legacy of the Dragonborn (Optional)

📒 Septimus 3 currently includes 3,365 Legacy of the Dragonborn displays

Septimus optionally includes Legacy of the Dragonborn. See the Configuration Guide if you want to disable it. Septimus includes the following LotD gameplay mods:

🎮 This delay mod significantly increases the required display counts to unlock gated LotD content. For example, the LotD "Shattered Legacy" quest will not start until you have 1,200 items on display in the museum, compared to the unmodified gate of 550 items. Because Septimus includes 3,365 LotD display items, this delay mod enhances the pacing and epic feel of the LotD quests. You will still only need to collect 40% of the available displays to unlock all the LotD content.

Old Display Count New Display Count Quest
50 100 Adding to the Collection (Skullcrusher)
75 200 It Belongs in a Museum
100 300 Adding to the Collection (Thornblade)
300 300 Night at the Museum
150 400 Adding to the Collection (Cleaver of St. Felms)
200 500 Adding to the Collection (Eidolon's Ward)
250 600 Adding to the Collection (Gravedigger)
400 600 Shadows of One's Past
300 700 Adding to the Collection (Scourge)
350 800 Adding to the Collection (Stendarr's Hammer)
400 900 Adding to the Collection (Trueflame)
450 1000 Adding to the Collection (Staff of Hasedoki)
500 1100 Adding to the Collection (Hopesfire)
550 1200 Adding to the Collection (Sword of Ancient Tongues)/Shattered Legacy
150 150 A Room With a View/Digging Up Explorers
150 350 Branching Out
150 550 Branching out... Again
150 750 Branching out... Ever more
400 950 The Excavation of Windcaller Pass
400 1150 The Excavation of the Ruins of Rkund
400 1350 The Visage/The Trial of Trinimac

User Interface and Camera

Septimus includes a minimalistic and modern UI, featuring:

  • Dynamic Things Alternative - Interact with previously static items like archery targets, crates, mammoth skulls, taproots, and more

  • First Person Camera Height Fix - Changes the height of the first person camera to match the height (scale) of the player as determined by gender and race

    📒 Some people get motion sickness from this mod. It can be safely disabled in Mod Organizer 2.

  • A Quality World Map - Provides a new set of highly-detailed 3D or paper world map textures, complete with roads

  • RaceMenu - Complete overhaul to the character creation menu including new customization features

  • SkyUI - Elegant, PC-friendly interface

  • SmoothCam - SmoothCam is a highly configurable third-person camera, with smooth frame-interpolation and a raycasting crosshair to help you aim.

    📒 By default, the Modern Camera preset is included but you're free to try another preset

  • True Directional Movement - Overhauls the third person gameplay similar to modern action RPGs. Move and attack in any direction

    📒 By default, use the Middle Mouse Button to lock on to enemies and the Middle Mouse Wheel to switch targets.

  • TrueHUD - Customizable actor info bars, boss bars, and player widget

Combat

Septimus includes combat overhauls to increase the game's difficulty and encourage resource management:

Character Builds

Consider the following mods when planning character builds in Septimus:

Magic

Perks

Artifacts

Immersion

Septimus adds the following new gameplay & immersion mods:

  • Campsite - Campsite is a simple camping mod that allows the player to build a campfire and pitch a tent. Campsite is built in the vanilla style using only existing items. It is designed to feel like an unintrusive, optional extra feature of the game that isn't noticed when not used.

    📒 Modified by Campsite-Camp Anywhere which allows the player to build campfires and set up camps in interiors and near towns

  • Carriage and Ferry Travel Overhaul - CFTO introduces new ways to travel around skyrim including new carriage locations and new boats to increase the ease of traveling skyrim in an immersive way.

  • Convenient Hot Meals - Ever wonder why Inns in freezing areas don't sell hot soups and stews?! Wonder no more!

    📒 Inclues a custom Septimus patch which adds hot fish soup from the Fishing CC as well as distributing a small amount of hot meals to inns not originally covered by Convenient Hot Meals

    🎮 Hot meals help you ward off the cold in survival mode. They normally require a fire salt to create, so being able to purchase these at an Inn is a boon to new players

  • The Dragonborn Dreams - Allows your character to occasionally wake up having had a (written) dream

  • Fish Anywhere With Water - Fish anywhere as long you are facing a nearby body of water.

  • Immersive Patrols SE - Adds a reasonable amount of Stormcloak, Thalmor, Imperial and Dawnguard patrols to Skyrim and a few Skaal, Reaver and Riekling "patrols" to Solstheim

  • Khajiits Steal Too - Khajiit Caravans will now accept your stolen goods as purchase

  • More Thalmor Dossiers - Adds some more Thalmor Dossiers on prominent characters in Skyrim.

  • Security Overhaul - Replaces overused lock model with unique lock variants

  • Skyrim Anniversary - Growable Plants - Allows the plants from various creations included in the Skyrim Anniversary Edition to be planted and harvested in Hearthfire Homes/planters

  • Skyrim's Got Talent - Improve As a Bard - Play instruments, get better, NPCs react to your skill dynamically, many new songs, lots of easter eggs, simple implementation.

    📒 To play an instrument (drum, flute, or lute) select it in your inventory while in a tavern and press the E key

    🎮 We recommend playing an instrument at least once on your Septimus journey.

    🎮 Flute, lute, and drum are separate skills which are raised each time you complete a song with that instrument. Your skills will improve faster if you complete the Bard's College and/or are well rested. However, if you suffering from a debuff, your skills will raise slower.

    🎮 The higher your skill, the better buffs you gain from playing. The lower your skill, the greater your debuffs. At high skill levels, you can also gain donations from nearby NPCs.

    🎮 Soothing music: Once you reach the maximum level in an instrument (which should take you quite some time to achieve), music will be able to calm animals. The effect lasts 30 secs and nearby animals that listened will not attack you during or after the performance, unless you attack them first.

  • Survival Mode (Optional) - In Survival Mode, your greatest adversary is Skyrim itself. Unrelenting cold, harsh wilderness, famine and fatigue - do you have the strength to endure? (Survival Mode is optional can be turned on or off in Settings menu.)

    📒 Supporting mods: Fast Travel for Survival Mode (Optional), Survival Mode Improved, and Survival Control Panel

    🎮 You can see the survival mode effects (tired, cold, hungry) on the TrueHUD player mana, health, and stamina bars

  • Trade and Barter - Provides many new variables to adjust the trade and barter rates in Skyrim, including merchant gold, trading perks, inventory respawn rates, and more

  • Wedding Outfit Commission - Getting married? Commission wedding outfits for yourself and your spouse from Radiant Raiment

Quality of Life

Septimus includes quality-of-life improvements to streamline your playing experience, featuring:

  • Canis Hysteria - The Werewolf Disease - Adds a new contractible lycanthrope disease

  • Configurable Commentary Rate Slider - A simple SkyUI configuration menu to control the frequency of idle dialogue from followers and other NPCs in the world

  • Forget Spell - Too many spells cluttering your magic menu? Now you can forget them, directly from the menu!

  • Essential Favorites - Prevents favorited items from being sold, crafted, disarmed, disenchanted, or dropped

  • Ish's Respec Mod - Adds a potion for sale at your neighborhood alchemist that lets you respec perk points

  • Oxygen Meter 2 - Adds a new oxygen meter to the game for when you are underwater

  • Shovels Bury Bodies - Pressing E while selecting a shovel from inventory near a dead body buries it

  • Simplest Horses - Pressing H accesses mount's saddlebags, makes mounts follow or wait (even if you fast travel), calls your mount, or gives your current mount to a follower

  • Skyrim's Paraglider - Adds a paraglider into the world similar to that in breath of the wild. You need to find it in the world to use it.

    🎮 Uses stamina while flying so be careful!

  • Stay at the System Page - Ensures the journal menu always opens at the system page tab

  • Sweeping Organizes Stuff - Pressing E while selecting a broom from inventory organizes clutter

    🎮 This mod can be a lifesaver when spells or shouts have knocked a quest item into an unknown location. Sweeping returns the quest item to its default location

  • YASTM - Yet Another Soul Trap Manager - "Yet Another" solution to the underfilled soul gem problem

Gear

Remastered Gear

  • Antiquary - Enhanced Artifacts - Turns vanilla’s boring and underpowered artifacts into the relics of legend they’re meant to be

  • Open World Loot - Open world loot is a rebalance of Skyrim's loot system. It attempts to maintain the same open world feel of Skyrim while adjusting the levels certain items appear and makes it so daedric and other special weapons must be acquired from special quests only. No longer will Iron equipment be completely irrelevant in a matter of a few hours.

New Gear

In addition to the new gear and equipment available in the AE Creation Club, Septimus adds carefully balanced and lore-friendly items, including:

  • Ancient Nord Armo(u)ry Lite - Unisex Ancient Nord Armour/Armor variants

  • Animated Armory - Animated armory introduces new weapons and animations to existing ones. Most are craftable and all will show up in the world on NPCs

  • Armor and Clothing Extension - Adds more diversity and lore-friendly clothing options and gives NPCs more appropriate attire

  • Bandolier - Bandolier introduces bags and pouches you can wear to kit out your character in a stylish way. They can be found in the world and some may also be crafted.

    📒 Includes custom Septimus balance patch.

  • 🆕 Beyond Skyrim Morrowind - Bonemold Weapon Pack - Adds the bonemold weapon set from Beyond Skyrim: Morrowind

  • Cloaks and Capes - This mod adds the craftable 'Fur Cloak' and 'Linen Cape' to the game of Skyrim

  • Dawnguard Arsenal - Expands the weapons in the Dawnguard Arsenal, which are used by Dawnguard NPCs and craftable by the player

  • Dog Backpacks and More - Backpacks...for dogs

  • Dwemer Exploding Traps Bombs and Arrows - Deploy Dwemer traps & bombs; use exploding arrows; teleport for a quick escape

    🎮 Each rank of Dwemer Mechanic in the smithing perk tree unlocks more powerful versions

  • East Empire Company Armor - Adds a new armor set for the East Empire Company

  • Mercenary Light Iron Armor - New light armor for your mercenaries and bounty hunters.

  • Nordic Carved Light Armor Set - Adds a craftable light armor version of the Nordic Carved Armor Set

  • Proper Crossbow Integration - Integrates crossbows into every aspect of Skyrim

  • Rare Curios - Bolts Expanded - Adds new types of bolts based on the new models added by Rare Curios

  • Sforzinda Fashions of the Fourth Era - Attempts to bring sartorial diversity and a more organic look into the world of Skyrim through adding new clothes, armours, and accessories based on vanilla items. Now Nazeem can annoy you in a different outfit every new save you start, joy of joys!

  • Sforzinda Imitations - More than 30 sets of high quality outfits, and an immersive quest from battle-tailor Radiant Raymond who will be found in Radiant Raiments in Solitude once the quest starts

  • Simple Wearable Lanterns - Adds three brand new wearable lanterns

    📒 Craft your choice of lantern. Once crafted and equipped, pressing the L key toggles the lantern.

  • Skaal Heavy Armor - Adds a new heavy armor set based on the Skaal Coat and Iron Armor, along with a new backpack model

  • Tale of Two Mer - An Armor Variant Mod - Adds new variants of Elven and Orcish armor

  • Tinker's Forge - A lightweight smithing overhaul which allows you create devious traps, forge silver weapons, weave magical clothing, and build your own army of Dwarven automatons!

    📒 Septimus includes a custom version of Tinker's Forge which replaces the Adamant smithing tree

    🎮 Tempering is based on your smithing perks, and not your smithing skill level. Each perk from Apprentice Smithing to Legendary Smithing allows you to temper another tier

    🎮 All jewelry is unlocked via the Jeweler perk. This includes necklaces for dogs. This doesn't include Legacy of the Dragonborn replicas

    🎮 In addition to clothing, the following items are unlocked via the first rank of the Tailor perk. Tents, Bags, Bandoliers, Shoulderpads, Satchels, Backpacks, Dog/Pet Bags, Dog/Pet Accessories (harnesses, collars, barrels, etc)

  • Volkihar Knight - Vampire Armor - Adds lore-friendly vampire armor sets

  • Wayfarer's Coat - Adds a new set of clothes/armor suitable for mages

Followers and Companions

Remastered Followers and Companions

  • Meeko Reborn - Overhaul for Meeko that gives him a unique appearance and a variety of other features.

  • Serana Dialogue Edit - An Overhaul of the Dialogue for Serana. This includes: Bug fixes, Custom Dialogue Branches, More Radiant Dialogue and Expansion into Hearthfire and Dragonborn

  • Vigilance Reborn SE - Overhaul for Vigilance that gives him a unique appearance and a variety of other features.

Remastered NPCs

  • BUVARP SE RE - Barely Used Vanilla Actors Recycle Project Special Edition Revamped - This mod gives new purposes to NPCs that are barely used in Vanilla, or would normally disappear after their quests are completed. This includes, but it not limited to:

    • Sparing NPCs that you would normally have to kill

    • Making NPCs potential followers after completing quests related to them

    • Being able to complete House of Horrors without killing Tyranus

    • Adding additional NPCs to Sovengarde

    • Sven: Removed level cap and increased stats. Will offer speech training to the player, if the quest A Lovely Letter ends in his favor. This is done to make him more of viable alternative to Faendal

  • More to Say - This mod adds additional voiced dialogue to NPCs. This includes, but is not limited to:

    • the player can repair their relationship with Sven or Faendal after A Lovely Letter is complete

    • brawl with Nazeem just because he's annoying you

    • most followers now have some early game quest-specific dialogue

    • followers can give you pointers on certain skills where their skills are above 25 and yours are below 20

    • tell your dog followers "good dog" or "bad dog", and give them treats

    • provides an immersive way to acquire Rocksplinter, the unique pickaxe Bethesda left out of the game

    • adds a few additional small quests from some NPCS

    • discover the secret of Rorikstead... and learn Healing, Flames, Waterbreathing, and Lesser Ward for free if you play your cards right

    • convince some NPCs to be less rude

New Followers and Companions

Primary New Followers

  • Inigo - Inigo is a fully voiced khajiit adventuring companion with over 7000 lines of unique dialogue - much of it about you. He'll level alongside you and avoid most traps. If you're sneaking he won't chatter and he'll whisper if you talk to him. He can run out of arrows. He's highly skilled in archery, one-handed, and sneak.

    📒 Includes custom Septimus balance patch

    🎮 You can find Inigo in the Riften jail

  • Lucien - Lucien is a fully voiced Imperial follower with over 5000 lines of immersive, lore-friendly dialogue. Though he arrives in Skyrim as a cowardly scholar, he'll gradually gain strength and confidence by your side until he grows into a hero in his own right.

    🎮 If you choose a character name that Lucien recognizes, Lucien's voice lines will refer to you by name and he might even sing a verse about you!

    🎮 You can find Lucien in Falkreath's Dead Man's Drink

Secondary New Followers

  • Arissa The Wandering Rogue - Arissa is an Imperial with an independent, rebellious spirit and a gift for making expensive things disappear. She is a Skyrim companion character with over 600 lines of dialogue, professionally recorded and beautifully voiced by the talented Nikkita.

    🎮 You can find Arissa in Falkreath's Dead Man's Drink

  • Auri - Auri is a fully voiced follower and quest mod, which centers around Bosmer culture and tradition. She is a traditionalist Wood Elf archer, will follow you, do your bidding, and offer occasional snarky commentary about your surroundings and actions.

    📒 Includes custom Septimus balance patch

    🎮 You can find Auri in Falkreath hold. Look for Auri's Pod on your map

  • Aviendha - Wheel of Time - Based on the fantasy book series "The Wheel of Time" this mod adds the follower Aviendha and Wheel of Time-related quests. Fully voiced by a great cast of voice actors.

    📒 Includes custom Septimus balance patch

    🎮 You can find Aviendha on the road just outside the east Riverwood gate

  • Frozen in Time - A quest to reanimate an ancient Snow Elf warrior and help her regain her past.

    🎮 To find the Snow Elf, go to the Pale hold's Nightgate Inn, and head west towards Silverdrift Lair

  • Hoth - Hoth is an old bounty hunting adventurer and a brutal companion to travel with - one of the most visually customized followers made for Skyrim. Hoth has many one-of-a-kind features, such as being a quest giver for infinite bounty hunt contracts.

    🎮 You can find Hoth Morthal's Moorside Inn

  • Kaidan 2 - Rebuilt and expanded, this romantic follower features over 1200 lines of dialogue, custom home, and mini quests

    📒 Includes custom Septimus balance patch

    🎮 You can find Kaidan in Eastmarch hold's Abandoned Prison

  • Remiel - Dwemer Specialist - Breton engineer who will accompany you in your travels. She's travelled from Wayrest to explore dwemer ruins in Skyrim, but she needs your help

    🎮 You can find Remiel in Markarth's Silver-Blood Inn

  • Shirley - Shirley Curry, the beloved Skyrim Grandma, finally comes to the game as a follower you can recruit! She'll join you on your adventures, but don't expect her to simply carry your burdens! She's got more personality than all the vanilla followers combined, and we're sure she'll be a great companion, and a friend. And a grandma!

    🎮 You can find Shirley in a cozy little cottage called Brightwood, in the mountains east of Drelas' Cottage, north-west of Whiterun

New Companions

  • Gladys The Corgi - Adds a friendly corgi companion to join you on your adventures!

    🎮 You can find Gladys for sale at the Solitude docks in front of the East Empire Company Warehouse

  • Merlin The Corgi - Adds a magical corgi companion to join you on your adventures!

    🎮 You can find Merlin at the Summoning Circle just north of Morthal

New NPCs

Homes

In addition to the new player homes available in the AE Creation Club, Septimus includes:

Standalone Homes

  • Blackthorn - Blackthorn is a large Hearthfire inspired buildable player home and town with over 400+ build options to choose from

    📒 Includes custom Septimus balance patch to adjust income and cost

    📒 You cannot build Blackthorn Manor until you are Thane of Riften by completing the quest I Done Got Thaned!

    📒 Before you can craft anything, you first must craft Blackthorn Manor. It is the only thing you can build at that workbench. All further building of shops, walls, etc. can only be done at workbench on the first floor of Blackthorn Manor. You are effectively the landlord of Blackthorn, and make all major decisions from the Manor.

  • Cityside - A simple and minimal starter home based in the heart of the capital of Skyrim, the city of Solitude. Designed for immersion and/or roleplaying based playthroughs

  • Dovahkiin's Vault - A small vault in the Throat of the World for storing away all those sketchy arcane objects in a safe location away from innocent people and your family. Only accessible with Clear Skies shout

  • King of Worms | Queen of Dawn - Restore one of the lost beacons of Meridia and earn custodianship of the Chantry of the Dawn... or... Corrupt the beacon, granting access to the lair of a long dead Sload necromancer

  • Morskom Estate - A large player home situated on the hillside of Dawnstar

  • Providence and Pestilence - Journey into Peryite's Pits and earn the Taskmaster's blessing - as well as an otherworldly lair to call your home...

  • Riverwood Bridgehouse Lite - This mod adds a player home to Riverwood. Unlike the full version, there is no need to go through a dungeon or quest line to get the key. Simply buy it from Lucan at the Riverwood Trader.

  • Shrek's Swamp House - Adds a Shrek style player home to the swamps outside Morthal

Homes from Quests and Companions

The following quests and companions, mentioned in other sections of this guide, also grant player homes.

  • Blackreach Railroad - A new upgradable house, which serves as the private car on the locomotive, which unlocks new sections and rooms as the player unlocks new stations!

  • Clockwork - Once you discover the Clockwork Castle, you may call it your home. However escaping is a different issue.

  • Kaiden 2 - Autumn Watch is located near Ivarstead. You can purchase the keys for the home from someone in Ivarstead.

  • Legacy of the Dragonborn - The museum includes a safehouse that has everything an aspiring relic hunter could possibly need! As you progress through LotD, you will also find a portable tent home, a relocatable airship home, and a Dwemer tower home.

  • Identity Crisis - A player home awaits those with the mental fortitude - or lack thereof - to face utter lunacy.

  • Project AHO - Upon completing the mod, you can gain access to a player home which can be relocated across Skyrim.

  • Restoring the Aretino Residence SE - Fix and upgrade the Aretino residence into a proper (player) home!

  • The Tale of Tsatampra Xiros - Upon completing the quest, you gain ownership of the Annals to call your own.

Faction Homes

Each of Skyrim's factions provide at least a room with safe storage.

Quests

Remastered Quests

  • Finding Helgi... and Laelette - A Laid to Rest Overhaul - A home in Morthal burned down under mysterious circumstances; some say it was the murder of a wife and daughter. A woman leaves home without saying goodbye to her husband and son, ostensibly to join the war. Are these events connected? This is an overhaul of "Laid to Rest" and the third mod in the "Finding" series

  • House of Horrors - Quest Expansion - Expands Molag Bal's daedric quest, giving you the option of choosing an alternative "good guy" route to finish the vanilla quest

  • Improved Companions - Questline Tweaks - Actually back out of becoming a werewolf without leaving Skjor and Aela stuck in the Underforge forever, and various other tweaks for the Companions

  • Improved College Entry - Questline Tweaks - Choose your school and more improvements for the College of Winterhold

  • Jarl Balgruuf Dilemma - Combo: civil war without main quest & Jarl Balgruuf joining Stormcloaks

  • A Lovely Letter Alternate Routes - Tell Sven and Faendal that you won't get involved in their quarrel, or expose both of them and gain Camilla's favor for yourself

  • The Only Cure - Quest Expansion - Enhances Peryite's daedric quest, expanding the vanilla quest with new conversations, scenes and paths to complete the quest with or without cavorting with daedra

  • No Thieves Guild Grind - Lowers the Thieves Guild radiant grind quests requirements for their rewards

  • Paarthurnax - Quest Expansion - A fully voiced, quite expanded new take on the quest Paarthurnax, giving both the Blades and Paarthurnax good reasons for their stances, and you, Dragonborn, the final choice

  • Restoring the Aretino Residence SE - Fix and upgrade the Aretino residence into a proper (player) home! Invite Aventus to return home! Give Sofie a warm place to sleep! Or just use it for yourself!

  • Return to Pelagius' Mind - Travel back to Pelagius' mind to retrieve items you forgot about. For example, Legacy of the Dragonborn's Jyggalag's Sword.

  • Saadia - Time of Need - Expands Saadia's Role in Skyrim into that of a potential Follower, Steward, Spouse, and Traveling Merchant

  • Save the Icerunner - Lights Out Alternate Routes - Jaree-Ra in Solitude has a plan to set up a shipwreck. The ship is said to be full of weapons and riches, ripe for the taking. What will you do?

  • Stackable Stones of Barenziah with Optional Quest Markers - Fixes Stones of Barenziah to stack properly in the player's inventory. Also adds optional quest markers to Stones of Barenziah

  • Vittorias Alternate Wedding - Allows you to attend Vittoria's Vici wedding, after you destroy the Dark Brotherhood

New Quests

In addition to the new quests available in the AE Creation Club, Septimus includes lots of carefully chosen, integrated, and balanced quests.

The recommended levels are meant to represent a natural progression through the available content, not the minimum level at which a quest can be completed. Please provide feedback via the Discord if any of the recommended levels seem off.

Recommended Level: All

  • Blackreach Railroad - Reactivate and restore your very own dwemer railroad, with new characters, items, and a fully voiced quest to do so.

    🎮 To begin the quest to reactivate the train itself, head to Silent City, down in Blackreach, keep an eye out for a certain lift. You'll know it when you see it. It's got a train on it.

  • Depths of Skyrim - Overhauls the underwater environment and adds content to the Sea of Ghosts

    🎮 To begin, swim in the Sea of Ghosts

  • Pit Fighter - Pit Fighter contains an all new faction to join, complete with NPCs, progression through the ranks, unique rewards and side quests.

    🎮 To begin, compete in a variety of locations from Windhelms old Arena to Orc Strongholds and Smuggler fighting rings

Recommended Level: 10+

  • Beyond Skyrim - Bruma - Beyond Skyrim - Bruma introduces a completely new DLC-sized area south of Skyrim with many new quests and encounters to be had.

    🎮 To begin, head to Pale Pass southeast of Falkreath

  • Fortune's Tradehouse - Help an Argonian cobbler gain access to Fortune’s Tradehouse, a new location added to Markarth with five fully voiced quests for the player to embark on.

    📒 Includes custom Septimus balance patch

    🎮 To begin, talk with the Argonian cobbler near Understone Keep in Markarth

    🎮 The quest includes excellent voice acting. The quests are straightforward, and the final quest reward—boots which fortify movement speed—is well worth getting early in your Septimus journey.

  • TrainFight - Fight your way atop, through, and inside the belly of a fully animated, fully detailed steam locomotive.

    🎮 To begin, find Kemelchend, northeast of Riften. Look for a minecart icon

    🎮 Despite the brevity, that mod is a very fun inclusion. Made me smile

Recommended Level: 20+

  • Clockwork - Once you discover the Clockwork Castle, you may call it your home. However escaping is a different issue.

    🎮 To begin, find a note after a chance encounter in the wilds of Skyrim

  • 🆕 Skyrim Sewers 4 - Adds sewer systems to Solitude, Whiterun & Windhelm and a couple of forts

  • The Gray Cowl of Nocturnal - Will you be worthy for the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal? We'll see!

    📒 Enhanced by More to do in Hammerfell - The Gray Cowl of Nocturnal

    🆕 📒 Enhanced by The Remnants of Hammerfell

    🎮 To begin, just steal or pickpocket any item

  • The Lost Wonders of Mzark - Lost Wonders of Mzark is a quest/dungeon mod for those who prefer a more puzzle-oriented game. The enemies you encounter within must be disposed of in careful ways, and you'll find more than just fights awaiting you in the depths of Mzarnumez.

    🎮 To begin, head to the far ocean, to Mzarnumez (which is marked on your map)

  • Midwood Isle - Travel to Midwood Isle, a small island home to the Sonmer, filled with quests and adventures

    🎮 To begin, upon completing "The Way of the Voice", a courier will deliver a letter to you the next time you travel to an appropriate location

    🎮 Alternatively, if you do not wish to wait for the courier, you can head straight to the Frozen Hearth in Winterhold to start the main quest

  • The Tale of Tsatampra Xiros - Explore a world contained within the pages of a sorcerous text, and earn the favor of the Daedric Prince Hermaeus Mora.

    🎮 To begin, make way to the Derelict Shanty overlooking the Sea of Ghosts to begin your journey...

Recommended Level: 30+

  • Falskaar - A DLC sized new lands mod that adds 20+ hours of fully voiced lore friendly (But not canon) quests, dungeons, and more.

    🎮 To begin, go to Riften and speak with Jalamar. He will either be outside around the market, inside the northern gate, or inside the Bee and Barb. You can also just go straight into Echo Deep Mine, a new dungeon just northeast of Riften

  • The Forgotten City - The Forgotten City introduces a lost underground Dwemer city inhabitated by unique characters

    🎮 To begin, you’ll be approached automatically by a courier when you enter any city. Alternatively, you can make your way to the "Forgotten Ruins" in the south-west corner of Skyrim

  • Helgen Reborn - Helgen Reborn is a fully voiced adventure with over 20 superb voice actors. As you help rebuild the town you'll reunite two old friends, uncover an underground slavery ring, battle in an arena and many other adventures!

    🎮 Around level 20, a courier will arrive to start the quest. Read the book to begin Helgen reborn.

  • Konahrik's Accoutrements - Make encounters with the named Dragon Priests a more challenging and rewarding experience

    🎮 To begin, either a) read The Dragon Forge book or b) enter dungeon Revakheim (accessed via a cave atop the mountain north of Anga's Mill, near Windhelm)

  • Moon and Star - Investigate a mysterious powerful individual in skyrim. There may be more to this individual than it seems.

    🎮 To begin, a courier should give you a letter to start the quest. Otherwise, you can go to the Sleeping Giant Inn in Riverwood and find the quest giver on your own.

  • The Tools of Kagrenac - Go on a quest to recover the legendary Tools of Kagrenac. Encounter new allies and enemies, explore sprawling dungeons, and add powerful new artifacts and spells to your arsenal in this fully-voiced quest mod!

    🎮 To begin, obtain Keening. To do this, you’ll have to join the College of Winterhold and finish the side questline "Arniel’s Endeavor". You’ll also need to have finished "The Way of the Voice" in the main questline.

  • Undeath Remastered - Travel to dark depths and become a powerful Lich.

    🎮 To begin, the first quest of Undeath will begin automatically when you have reached level 30 or higher.

  • Wyrmstooth - Travel to a new DLC-sized island and investigate a powerful dragon for the East Empire Company.

    🎮 To begin, Wyrmstooth automatically starts once the player reaches level 10 and has finished Way of the Voice in the main questline

Recommended Level: 50+

  • Darkend - Travel to the new island of Pharos, explore detailed environments, fight new enemies and discover an Ancient set of weapons of incredible power

    🎮 To begin, travel to Voyager's end, the final resting place of a foreign ship, wrecked long ago on the Sea of Ghost, Northwest of Winterhold

  • The Grand Paladin - Venture beyond Skyrim, into the mists of the Sea of Ghosts, and uncover the legacy of an ancient Dragonborn order

    🎮 To begin, find a book with black cover in the Bard's College in Solitude or Skaal Village's Greathall

  • Project AHO - Project AHO is a large quest modification, comparable in size to a medium-sized DLC. Designed in the best traditions of Bethesda Game Studios, this mod adds to Skyrim a hidden settlement of Great House Telvanni. Determine its fate for yourself!

    🎮 To begin, fyou need to reach level 15. Just travel to Mixwater MIll and you will be contacted

  • VIGILANT - A massive quest mod with a Dark story for Vigilants of Stendarr. This mod includes a lot of unique armor sets, weapons, jewelry, creatures and more.

    🎮 To begin, speak with Altano, who is located in the Windpeak Inn in Dawnstar

    📒 You must be at least L40 to start VIGILANT.

  • UNSLAAD - A quest mod by the author of Vigilant about a half dragon.

    🎮 To begin, activate Doll in corner of platform behind High Hrothgar.

    📒 You must have completed VIGILANT to start UNSLAAD.

Quest Timing

To maintain balance, Septimus uses Timing is Everything, Rebalancing Anniversary Edition - Quest Requirements, and Radiant Requirements to adjust the required minimum level of various quests and content.

📒 Note that the spell to unlock Myrwatch will not work unless you have 350 magicka

Content Source Content Name Min Lvl Other
Skyrim Quests - The Cursed Tribe 24
Skyrim Quests - The Break of Dawn 29
Skyrim Quests - The Only Cure 21
Skyrim Quests - A Night to Remember 20
Skyrim Quests - Discerning the Transmundane 25
Skyrim Quests - The Whispering Door 27
Skyrim Quests - Pieces of the Past 22
Skyrim Quests - Boethiah's Calling 30
Skyrim Quests - The Wolf Queen Awakened 24
Skyrim Quests - Unfathomable Depths 19
Skyrim Quests - Grimsever's Return 19
Skyrim Quests - Kill the Giant 24
Skyrim Quests - Dungeon Delving 14
Skyrim Quests - Kill the Vampire 24
Skyrim Quests - Deathbrand 34
Skyrim Quests - Ebony Warrior 65
Skyrim Quests - Hired Assassin 10
Skyrim Radiant - Dragon Lair 24
Skyrim Radiant - Draugr Crypt 9
Skyrim Radiant - Forsworn Camp 14
Skyrim Radiant - Hargraven Nest 14
Skyrim Radiant - Vampire Lair 24
Skyrim Radiant - Werewolf Lair 24
Skyrim Radiant - Dragon Priest Lair 29
Skyrim Radiant - Falmer Hive 19
Skyrim Radiant - Giant Camp 24
Skyrim Radiant - Spriggan Cave 9
Skyrim Radiant - Warlock Lair 14
Hearthfire DLC Build Your Own Home 12
Dawnguard DLC Vampire Attacks 20
Dawnguard DLC Dawnguard Recruitment 20
Dragonborn DLC Dragonborn 30
Creation Club Alternative Armors - Daedric Plate 50
Creation Club Alternative Armors - Daedric Mail 50
Creation Club Alternative Armors - Dragon Plate 50
Creation Club Alternative Armors - Dragonscale 50
Creation Club Alternative Armors - Dwarven Mail 15
Creation Club Alternative Armors - Dwarven Plate 15
Creation Club Alternative Armors - Ebony Plate 36
Creation Club Alternative Armors - Elven Hunter 30
Creation Club Alternative Armors - Leather 27
Creation Club Alternative Armors - Orcish Plate 27
Creation Club Alternative Armors - Orcish Scale 30
Creation Club Alternative Armors - Silver 18
Creation Club Alternative Armors - Stalhrim 40
Creation Club Player Homes - Hendraheim 25
Creation Club Player Homes - Myrwatch N/A Have 350 magicka
Creation Club Player Homes - Gallows Hall 35
Creation Club Quests - Ghosts of the Tribunal 36
Creation Club Quests - Bittercup 28
Creation Club Quests - The Contest 25
Creation Club Quests - Divine Crusader 35
Creation Club Quests - Civil War Champions 20
Creation Club Quests - The Cause 50
Creation Club Quests - Lord's Mail 42
Creation Club Quests - Redguard Elite Armaments 30
Creation Club Quests - Saints and Seducers 30
Creation Club Quests - Spell Knight Armor 38
Creation Club Quests - Plauge of the Dead 10
Creation Club Quests - Vigil Enforcer Armor 18
Creation Club Weapons - Bow of Shadows 36
Creation Club Weapons - Dawnfang & Duskfang 30
Creation Club Weapons - Goldbrand 40
Creation Club Weapons - Headman's Cleaver 32
Creation Club Weapons - Ruin's Edge 36
Creation Club Weapons - Shadowrend 35
Creation Club Weapons - Sunder & Wraithguard 35
Creation Club Weapons - Umbra 35
Mod Quests - Project AHO 15 Talk to Kynesgrove Innkeeper
Mod Player Home - Blackthorn Any Complete I Done Got Thaned!
Mod Quests - Grey Cowl of Nocturnal 20
Mod Quests - Forgotten City 25
Mod Quests - VIGILANT 40 Complete Main Quest
Mod Quests - UNSLAAD 40 Complete VIGILANT

Enemies

  • Coven - Enemy witches overhaul - Small lightweight mod that will add over 60 enemies to your game

  • Dragon War - Variants - Includes just the dragon variants

  • 🆕 Diverse Dragons Collection - Adds 28 leveled enemy dragons with unique models, textures, & abilities

  • Haugbui - A Draugr Overhaul - A lightweight overhaul providing balance adjustments, new items, unique boss designs, and some more variants to the draugr enemies

  • Konahrik's Accoutrements - Make encounters with the named Dragon Priests a more challenging and rewarding experience

  • 🆕 Mihail Monsters and Animals - Nix-Hounds, Emperor Penguins, Guars, Wolves of Cyrodiil, Squirrels, Deer Expansion, Wolves in Bruma

  • Hitting the Books - A Necromantic Grimoire Update - Encounter the new creatures added by Necromantic Grimoire as enemies at Fellglow Keep and Hamvir's Rest

  • Simply Stronger Dragons - A simple script-free mod to boost enemy dragons' health and melee/breath damage. Designed for compatibility with DDC, Splendor, and other dragon mods.

Locations