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E X TR A LIFE
N OW P L A Y I N G
Riverhold’s main bridge isn’t a fall risk if
you always land on your feet.
Big cats stalk the big city.
LOCAL COLOUR Other mods that pair well with this dish
COLOUR MAP MOD
The popular Colour Map Mod for
Oblivion makes the base game map
more lively. Another modder created
a map for Anequina in the same
style, so I didn’t have to live with a
washed-out Elsweyr.
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ELSWEYR ANEQUINA
AddingtheKhajiitlandstoOblivion. By Lauren Morton
I ’m supposed to be are always sure to pick it up and
stealing keys from
incorporate it. Khajiit lore in the
several merchants
Elder Scrolls games is varied and
in Leyawiin, but
things haven’t exactly colourful, but has almost always been
relegated to tomes and dialogue from
gone to plan. I accidentally wore cat-like merchants. Although the
my Grey Fox mask, a piece of Khajiit homeland did appear in The
armour that immediately marks Elder Scrolls: Arena, it didn’t show up
me as a wanted criminal to every again in a proper Elder Scrolls game
guard I pass. Even after finally until an expansion to The Elder
sorting out my armour situation Scrolls Online in 2019. In the
and making my way into Southern meantime, modders have soaked
Books, the shopkeeper Bugak up all the spare Khajiit facts
gro-Bol isn’t in bed when I enter available and designed the
and won’t stop following me territory themselves.
around and trying to kick me out of One of the earliest fan-made
his shop, because it’s midnight and I forays into the Khajiit homeland is
look like exactly the kind of shady ‘Elsweyr The Deserts of Anequina’,
character who might be breaking in originally published in June of 2009
to steal from him. by a Nexus Mods user called Iliana
and including the work of dozens of
These are the same hapless other modders. I didn’t play Oblivion
adventures that I remember going on in 2006 when it released, but even 13
in Oblivion, but this time my Khajiit years later I can still intensely feel the
character isn’t out thieving at the
behest of Cyrodiil’s Thieves Guild.
I’ve already worked my way to the THIS TIME MY
top of that organisation and become KHAJIIT ISN’T OUT
the Grey Fox myself. I’m back at the
bottom of the totem pole now, THIEVING AT THE
working for a brand-new guild based BEHEST OF CYRODIIL’S
in the modded territory of Elsweyr.
THIEVES GUILD
MEET THE KHAJIIT
Wherever game developers leave awe that its opening fanfare and
loose lore on the ground, modders drawn-out 3D pan around the
Imperial City must have inspired. In
the same way I can appreciate how
great a feat Elsweyr Anequina’s giant
open expanse and huge cast of NPCs
and quests are, despite playing
through them ten years later.
Anequina begins with a book, as
plenty of mods do. It appears in my
inventory to describe all the cities
and quests available to me in the
new territory. I also have to make
sure I’ve turned off Oblivion’s default
ELSWE Y R PELLE TINE K HA JIIT PREDATORS in-game borders that prevent me
A modder has created a more recent This mod allows you to create a from exploring beyond the normal
companion to Anequina called larger Khajiit warrior character with bounds of Cyrodiil. With that done,
Pelletine, named after the southern higher strength. Although the mod I’m able to wander across the
half of Elsweyr. It adds additional calls them ‘predators’, they look like southern border of the world and
cities and explorable areas not the very tall, stocky Pahmer Khajiit
included in Anequina. seen in The Elder Scrolls Online. directly into Elsweyr over a bridge
west of Bravil.
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