Animal Keepers
Adds a new hero for Wood Elves: the Animal Keeper
Recruited from tier 3 of the animal building (from my animals mod)
Tier 4 adds plus 1 cap
All keepers share the same appearance when recruited. The Orphan variant. She looks like this: 
The Orphan is the base Eevee form of the keeper, and can be specialized into 1 of 5 types.
Her appearance will update to reflect her adoptive family.
Each specialty will give the keeper access to unique campaign skills and mount options.
The first mount is unlocked right away: A foot version of the keeper with stats and attributes reflecting her family.
The second mounts the keeper on a venerable (i.e. monstrous) animal.
Check out my other wood elf mods here
I haven’t done campaign animations for the mounts, so the keeper will appear on foot on the campaign map regardless of the mount equipped. They work in battle just fine.
The 3d battle portholes for mounts currently look unacceptable. But for now, we must accept. Getting the settings right seems like a tedious trial and error process and I’m not going to attempt it again for a very long time.
This mod has taken ages to make. It forced me to learn a lot of new skills and programs and pushed me well beyond what I thought I could achieve when I first started out. Big thank you to everyone on the Modding Den [discord.com] who helped me along the way and made this possible. In no particular order:
- h3ro, for creating the asset editor tool and helping with the custom mount animations.
- Phazer, for creating RME editor and guiding me through its use.
- Lt. Rocky, for being my blender guru.
- Dungeon Master, for taking most of the awesome screenshots you see above
- Meh, for getting me into creating custom models in the first place.
Thank you everyone who answered tech questions. There’s too many to list, but I’ll try anyway:
Xoudad, Vandy, Cataph, Mixu, Lost2Insanity, JvJ, the Duke, Stig-inge-oy, Kaedrin, Google[bot], Elon, ChaosRobie, Obsidian, Zeldrake, Prop Joe and probably loads more I’m forgetting.
Check out my other wood elf mods here
If you enjoyed this mod you may consider making a donation to the International Fund for Animal Welfare. They do worthwhile work across the globe and even a small contribution would make a great difference.
Link: International Fund for Animal Welfare [www.ifaw.org]
Required items:
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Mixu's Unlocker — Steam Workshop
Animals for Wood Elves — Steam Workshop
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
