Here’s an NPC that effectively kills two birds with one stone. He’s warm and friendly, which helps balance out Edwayne, and he doesn’t sing, which is a response to the million gajillion bards that do. This dude uses his manly pipes to recite poetry.
So far only one poem to be exact, but there’s a bunch of canon TES works we can mess around with as well. In any case, it’s another friendly face to meet on your travels. This is also David Boffa’s first role for the mod, hopefully we’ll hear more from him in the future.
Christine Slagman has also voiced Misha and a Wench for the upcoming questline. Right now Ange is just a jukebox but perhaps I will give her a personality at some point.
Despite the overabundance of male actors in the mod, there has been a paucity of male vocalists. So to rectify that, I plan on adding some more male bards to the taverns around Skyrim, although I haven’t decided on whether to make them jukeboxes or give them a full sheet of dialogue. This bard, whom I inadvertently named after a car, will likely be in Kynesgrove. Aaron Kelley is new to the mod, but will be voicing some key roles in the Blood of Kings questline. Barrett Leddy is another actor who will sing and possibly dance at Rorikstead’s Frostfruit Inn.
Another actor for the questline, Jay Appleyard, is also a new addition. We don’t know if he can sing yet, as I haven’t asked him, but we do know he can execute a creepy fortune teller voice with precision. Proof of which is in the video below for Helcyon, and to a lesser extent Frygg.
In other news, you may have noticed the ReadMe is slowing filling out. This is entirely due to Blauwvis, who has tirelessly added new pages, collected RefIDs and made neat little tables for your perusal. Roarian has also volunteered to help clean up any broken links and errors.