Purpose: Adds playable female and male elven races to the game

12/31/2008: Uploaded an esp wich expects the eye meshes in
\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Data\Meshes\Characters\Capucine\imperial
That should fix issues for those with overwritten stock imperial eye meshes :)

Description, race background, requirements et c.

Long before the 1st human set foot on Nirn's soil, the ancient Ayleid elven race split into 2 main tribes:
The infamous, today almost extinct slavemasters and, completely forgotten by history and overlooked by scholars, the still mainly agricultural Ayleids.
The latter completely lack their cousin's
power addiction and criminal energy - it took a full scale daedric invasion to their ancient home farmlands and small settlements for those humble peasants until they finally sent messengers to, what they thought, the Ayleid Grand Emperor in his Whitegold Tower (Imperial Palace eversince the founding of the 1st empire).

Of course ignorant legion patrols arrested them on sight and low brow jailors locked them up in their darkest,
dampest dungeons.

Though excellent marksmen and healers,
the peasant Ayleid mainly specialize in crop growth and farm gear maintaance spells.
Over the Eras, they also became masters of the arcane illusion school, but only as far as the requirements of farm and village life are involved:

A mean paralyze spell for handling the occasional guar and savage orc attacks.

A powerful illusion spell which hides them from a marauder raiding party's eye until it is too late for the rascals...

An illumination spell which enables them to safely recover lost or abducted farm animals from dark caves and the like.
Note: the light spell only woks on a friend or a companion - farmers don't support singlehanded bravado hence an early grave is the countryside's only certain reward for foolhearted heroism.

Though these peaceful countryside dwellers would never join the Dark Brotherhood or the Fox's followers for profit, they often infiltrate the scoundrel guilds to sort out the rotten apples and right old, sometimes even ancient wrongs.

Required; just the mentioned files from the mods, installed in their original installation paths:

Eye textures from Capucine's Beautiful People
aka 'UFF Robert Male CBP Replacer'

2ch hair explosion Hair Meshes and textures for the Komachi and Mint Short Beni hairstyles from
Ashara's Sirens and Tritons

Lattemer v2 meshes and textures -

BlackDragon66's Lattamer Male for RM4
Installation: drop the directory into the lattamer textures bodxy path; it must read like this when you did that correctly:

[...]\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Data\Textures\Characters\Lattamer\body\BD_Lattamer males
Thanks kindly to Jon as their author for his permission to link them and to Dianne for pointing me there.

Scanti's merged Teeth

Working Eyelashes

This Plugin must be loaded after the required plugins, else both hair and
most eye selections would be locked

Recommended Plugins

the Druid mod and Hobbs' Shadow Ranger overhaul of 'The Complete Ranger'

- requires registration

I intentionally left marksman and restoration stats low
- no need to bore the players with one shot kills
or a 'mega shamanic healer' ;)

Dedicated to the modding and playing Elder Scrolls community