#ma'kara

[leopardmuffinxo]

These sands are cold, but Khajiit feels warmness from your presence.

Khajiit Will Follow + Project ja-Kha'jay Replacer

#skyrim #skyrim se #skyrim mods #modded followers #khajiit will follow #bikhai #ma'kara #nanak #s’ariq #collecting skyrim modded followers and putting them in my pocket #my skyrim se edits #userarklay #usermorvaris #userwolfkissed #userrivensbane #necroticpetals #miyku

[aesthetic-lillie]

hiii ive made shitposts

#i love them ur honor #skyrim custom followers #auri song of the green #auri skyrim #dragonborn oc #dar'jados #s'ariq #inigo the brave #bikhai #nanak #ma'kara #if theyre a bit wonky or ooc forgive me

[sheogorath]

tfw youre a bandit working for minimum bandit wage in a dark cave when three khajiit walk in and start punching you to death

#me ma'kara and inigo are the unarmed scourge of skyrim #me.txt

[homukyo]

i wanted to make some art for the release of project ja-kha'jay: khajiit will follow by @dawns-beauty, so i drew my skyrim main character daro'ktar (left) with the mod's version of ma'kara (right)

i plan on opening up a proper art/TES sideblog eventually, and i really love all of the project JKJ character designs, so i'll likely draw more of them in the future!

notes below the cut

daro'ktar is a suthay and ma'kara is a cathay-raht, hence the height difference here. i tried to get it as accurate to ingame as i could, but i accidentally made daro'ktar too tall lmao (let's just pretend she's standing on something)

ma'kara is based on a lion so i tried to emphasize round facial features, especially to contrast with daro'ktar's more angular ones. daro'ktar is a VERY old OC of mine and previously wasn't based on any specific kind of cat, but i redesigned her to look at least a bit like a melanistic caracal. you can see her old design (and name) here

i left out ma'karas chin warpaint on purpose because coincidentally daro'ktar also has similar warpaint there ingame, so i like to imagine they do matching chin warpaint once they get married :)

ma'kara is wearing hunter armor and daro'ktar is wearing mercenary light iron armor with a scarf from regal assassin

#tes #khajiit #tesblr #skyrim #khajiit will follow #drops art on this account for the first time in 4 years. refuses to elaborate. leaves. #anyways its all over once i start that sideblog because i will NEVER shut the fuck up about my OC lore mark my words

[khajiit-apologist]

In my humble opinion, khajiit will follow is an incredible mod.

Brief introduction to the characters. Bikhai is a aspiring member of the companions, that is to say is actually is not a member and is more of a housekeeper. (Please if you do that companions quests take him it's so sweet). Nanak a scholar you can find at the bards college! He does not have the normal diction of a khajiit, but he slips up occasionally. Ma'kara (my love) a refugee from Morrowind on the lookout for her brother, she can be found near dark water crossing. Her story is one of grief, which you can help her through. Last but not least, Sa'riq a sneak thief found in Riften jail. He's just been caught after a botched heist. For me you just have to experience his quest for yourself, I love him dearly.

I literally love all the characters so much, I took them out a load order once and my game felt off. The voice acting is also great.

Not to mention they are even better if you play as a khajiit, which I do often. I mean it's just great.

Beyond the characters they also do very well in combat. I mean having all four around at once feels like a DnD party. What's even better is you can customize how they fight! They even have separate storage for equipment.

While the romance is not something like Kaidan, it is still very sweet. I've only married Ma'kara but have read the literature pertaining the others as you can't marry them right away. I mean to marry Nanak you have to have read a certain number of books, and talk to him about books he's read a few times. Which I find adorable. They all even have their own quirks. They do pretty much everything a vanilla spouse will do, but all have unique things to say about being married to you.

From my playthrough they don't have much in the way of quest commentary, which personally I don't mind. They do however will mention things about factions. If you take Sa'riq to the College of Winterhold he will jokingly say he might "borrow" some books. When you tell him to be careful and not get caught he jokes and says he'll feign innocence and blame you. I find it very on brand.

The last point I want to bring up is Inigo. He by all accounts is the Khajiit follower, so how to they compare to him? They don't. That would be like comparing apples to oranges. All five characters are different and only really share a race. Do not expect them to be like Inigo cause they are not. One thing I love about this mod is to get their commentary you have to actually go up and talk to them. I prefer this, and it's similar to what Gore is like in that regard. That isn't to say they don't have radiant dialogue about caves and such, but it's not common.

This one thanks you for your time!

#skyrim #skyrim custom followers #khajiit #khajiit will follow #skyrim followers #you can't expect me to have a khajiit themed blog and not review my favorite khajiit mod #also lucifer will have scenes with a few in the future #i love my babies

[dawns-beauty]

How is the Khajiit Will Follow JKJ overhaul coming along? I'm really looking forward to it!

I put it on pause while I update Project ja-Kha'jay to 4.0. Because I've changed a lot of the file structure/headpart names, I also have to update all the current addons at the same time or else they'll break.

Once I'm done with the big update, I plan on working on it some more.

I'm still pretty settled with Ma'kara's and S'ariq's designs:

I did get the permission I needed to start work on Bikhai's custom textures (being based on a strawberry tiger, the regular black stripes won't cut it).

Haven’t fully decided the direction I’m going with Nanak: I really like the idea of a Pallas Cat-inspired Dagi, but I’m not sure if I could pull it off with my sculpting skills alone.

#asks #project ja-kha'jay #khajiit will follow #sorry it's not more I've just got a lot of other RL things going rn

[saturniandragon]

🌌 MILKY WAY: What was the inspiration behind your oc? what was the first thing you decided about them?

For your TES OCs

Oh, oh goodness, Nebu I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to ramble a million words so things sort of make sense. I hope you have the patience to read this entire thing.

🌌 MILKY WAY: What was the inspiration behind your oc? what was the first thing you decided about them?

---Skyrim---

Draqanar: (I practically never talk about this dude anywhere in my blog, because he's pretty much retired, but I want to tell the story anyway)

It's a bit complex, Draqanar (Khajiit male) was both my first and my second Skyrim OC I've created. He is first, in a sense that I first completed the game with this character, although he is second in a sense that he's not the first character I produced from the character creation menu.

Technically speaking the first Skyrim character I created was an Argonian, predictably named after, you guess it, Adrastea. I came into Skyrim totally blind, not knowing anything like naming conventions or the lore about the universe (hell I didn't even know you could create your own character), other than "arrow in the knee" references in memes. He chose the Warrior stone, with sword and shield equipment.

Bleak Falls Barrow was the time I realized sword and shield did not fit my style at all. I consulted to my best friend who was pretty much a Skyrim veteran that time (and by that time, I mean, 2019 lol, I was that late to start playing the game) and asked which race would be suitable for more of a stealth play style. He suggested Khajiit, so then Draqanar was born.

So he was created because I wanted a stealth playstyle. I wasn't aware yet that you could go back to previous saves or choose a different standing stone.

I used a Khajiit name generator because, like I said, I have zero idea of Khajiit naming convention, and I wanted to be fully immersed in the game. His full name is Draqanar Raitannil, but after some hours into the game and discovering that Khajiit NPCs only have single-word names, I unofficially removed his last name.

His appearance was pretty much bare. I think I chose one of the available presets, modified it a bit and just decided it was good enough. I thought I would make this dude an evil reckless character, hence the dark coloration, but he ends up being possibly the nicest guy you would ever meet. And with him I also discover just how effective stealth archer playstyle really is, in Skyrim.

He's married to Shahvee. After some 600 hours with him, I decided to retire him since there's no more lore to develop for him.

Adrastea: And then Adrastea. The proper Adrastea. Not an Argonian this time, but an Argonian-based race which was pretty much an Argonian-dragon hybrid called Draconian. By this time my copy of Skyrim was filled to the brim with mods.

No inspiration this time, I just wanted to insert the Saturn Adrastea into Skyrim to see how close I could replicate him.

The second reason is I wanted to try a proper sword and shield style, after canceling the first Adrastea (why yes I just realized, I have too many versions of Adrastea across the board, but fuck it). And for funsies, I messed around with console commands to make him noticeably taller than most NPCs, by setting his height value to 1.05.

The third reason is I wanted to marry Mjoll the Lioness with a different character. Like Draqanar however, he also ended up retired. He has no lore to begin with, and no lore to end it with.

By this point I was pretty much running out of ideas to do in Skyrim. All vanilla marriage candidates are pretty boring, added by the fact there are no Khajiit marriage candidates.

Until I ran into a mod that adds 4 fully-voiced Khajiit marriage candidates, Khajiit Will Follow. They are Ma'kara (F), Bikhai (M), Nanak (M) and S'ariq (M).

Dar'sien: Dar'sien is a lost character, lost in a sense that his save file was in my previous laptop and it broke down to the point it's not recoverable. Basically he's like an alternative Draqanar, but he's orange furred instead and has cowardice trait. Purely created him to marry Ma'kara.

This is the only image of him that I can gather.

Ma'kara questline was long, but it was well written and well constructed. I was blown away. Like, holy shit, if Ma'kara questline was this good, I needed to try marrying the other Khajiit from this mod.

Merri'sa: And now here comes Merri'sa. My current active Skyrim character. Like Dar'sien, she was created purely to marry one of the Khajiit from the mod. This time I chose Bikhai.

Another obstacle, of running out of Khajiit designs and names, especially because I've never designed a female Khajiit before. I turned to Google, and found a female Khajiit preset that looks so good yet simple to replicate, with a fitting name included in the package.

Merri'sa - Khajiit Racemenu preset

Yes, I'm kind of ashamed that Merri'sa is not a name that I came up with (well, I guess Draqanar isn't either, because I used a generator). But the preset looked so good, I just had to grab it. Once in-game I applied some minor modifications, notably the eye color, but largely it's similar to the preset.

And I grew attached to her. Never before I've seen a character look so good. So attached, I decided to develop a mountain of lore that isn't even completed by the time of writing this tumblr post.

She did end up marrying Bikhai. Bikhai's questline doesn't quite have the same quality compared to Ma'kara questline, but I loved it regardless. Plus, I have a female Khajiit to be obsessed about. In fact now she has much longer lore than any of my previous Skyrim characters.

Now the lore is that she was rescued by an Imperial soldier from a burning caravan wreck when she was just a cub, somewhere along the roads of Cyrodiil. The soldier and his wife have suffered 2 years of childless marriage, so they decided to took her in and raised her as their own.

But why she decided to move from Cyrodiil to Skyrim remains to be seen :)

---Elder Scrolls Online---

Now a new title of Elder Scrolls for me, Elder Scrolls Online. Like Skyrim, I came into ESO completely blind, only carrying with me the bare basics of informations of TES races from Skyrim. May 2021 was my first touch in ESO.

Yes, I suppose I did refuse to read the Steam page of ESO before I downloaded the whole thing. But I wanted it to be that way, I want to start from the closest I can be to absolute zero.

Except, those information from Skyrim can't be used here, not in ESO. I was surprised to learn about factions in character creation screen, and every race is tied to at least one of those factions except Imperial race. Which I didn't have, I was playing base game ESO.

More surprise for me to find that Khajiit race is tied to Aldmeri Dominion, a faction that I think a good portion of Skyrim players dislike, especially Skyrim players who have no experience with ESO. I was conflicted, already too accustomed to playing as Khajiit in Skyrim.

I think I was going to choose Argonian, but Ebonheart Pact just sounds way too foreign for me. At least I've heard of Aldmeri Dominion before. So a bit reluctantly, I decided to roll a Khajiit as my first character.

Zanri al-Anaqi:

Now this is a name that I took way too long to come up with. It took so long that I was kicked from character creation screen because of 10 minutes of no activity. If that's not the record for the fastest a player has been kicked from ESO, I don't know what is :))

"Zanri" is a play of "Ryzen", derived from AMD Ryzen, a CPU brand name. I swapped some letters around and added flavor so it sounds Khajiit/Ta'agra.

Next I wanted to add a twist of my own. During my time of Skyrim I notice that Khajiit names have a small Arabic influence in them. In fact, apparently in Arena and Daggerfall "Mohammed" is listed as a possible Khajiit name.

And what other things that are known to have Arabic names? Stars in the night sky! Astronomy was a major thing during Islamic medieval period.* The star Gamma Andromedae is known in its Arabic name as "Almach", itself is derived from "al-‘anāqi", which is Arabic for caracal or desert lynx. I've never laid eyes on Elsweyr, but there's been multiple accounts of Elsweyr being a desert region (there's a reason Skyrim Khajiit NPCs use "warm sands" as greeting). So, naturally a perfect fit.

(*in fact to this day astronomy community around the world still use some Arabic names for stars, like Aldebaran)

Let's use that. Zanri al-Anaqi. Still sounds perfect to this day.

Appearance wise I went with gold/orange fur color and green eyes. Who else has green eyes? Adrastea (Saturn), although I only realized that these two have green eyes after a few months of playing as Zanri, a lucky coincidence.

Oh how times have changed :)

My decision to roll Aldmeri Dominion character in my first playthrough proved to be immensely worth it because of figures like Razum-Dar and Queen Ayrenn.

Ahravani al-Karim:

Ahravani, Avani, Vani or Karim for short. She was created because I wanted some kind of companion character to go alongside Zanri. Something that's closer than just a friend, but not as close as a girlfriend or a wife, if that makes sense. So, step sibling.

I couldn't make her his sibling, because Zanri's lore was already set on him being the only child in his family.

I was going to apply the same naming convention as I did Zanri; Ta'agra first name and Arabic-esque last name. And I also wanted her last name to be derived from a star name, like Zanri.

At first she was going to have "Ainrivva al-Debaran" as her name. Al-Debaran is a star name in Arabic, meaning "the follower", because she was meant to follow Zanri everywhere. But then something changed, I felt her name was a bit off, so I set out to find a replacement.

(eventually Ainrivva al-Debaran became a name for a Khajiit character I have in PCNA server)

I couldn't come up with another fitting name for her. "Ainrivva" was good but felt a bit off for whatever reason. I went back to Khajiit name generator, and obtained "Ahravani" as a replacement.

But I wasn't done. "Ahravani al-Debaran" sounded a bit too long now. I went back to wikipedia, look for another Arabic star name, but couldn't find any other that fits her. Still, I wanted her to have Arabic-esque last name.

Then I remembered, there's a character in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) named Farah Karim. She's like this very fierce militia leader, unorthodox in her ways but a benevolent character overall. I took her last name as inspiration, modified it from just "Karim" to "al-Karim." Al-Karim is Arabic for "the generous."

(A weird train of thoughts I had just to name a Khajiit character innit lmao)

So there you have it; Ahravani al-Karim. Nowadays I'm a bit lazy to type the entirety of her full name, especially when writing fics, so often I shorten it further to just Vani al-Karim.

Adrastea Drago:

Same case as with Adrastea (Skyrim). No inspiration at all, I just wanted to insert Adrastea (Saturn) into ESO to see how close I could replicate him. Although I did eventually develop some Elder Scrolls-compliant lore about him, so that's something.

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Well, that concludes it. That was a hell of a roller coaster from start to finish, even for me as the author :)

#oc: draqanar #oc: adrastea (skyrim) #oc: merri'sa #oc: zanri al anaqi #oc: ahravani al karim #oc: adrastea (eso)

[genesisreach]

Honestly, if anyone could find an old post of mine that I reblogged from daily writing prompts it would be much appreciated. I believe the prompt was something along the lines of this:

"The hero has defeated the big bad thinking that it would bring them back to their own world. Now, they're still in the fantasy world thinking, 'What do I do now?'"

My reblog basically replayed the first interaction the player has with Ma'kara with the "Khajiit Will Follow" mod in Skyrim, with a bit of my personal flair. I kinda want to use that post as a base for a fanfic idea that's bouncin' around in my head. I also put a long mod list at the end of the post.

Thank you to anyone that finds it :)

#old posts #skyrim #khajiit will follow #writing prompts

[rhikmet]

İstanbul'dan Ergun gelmiş... Sabah süprizi oldu... (Ma'KARA Bungalow & Beach & Restaurant) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiMuB9ArWF7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[iamfromistnbl]

Bodrum, Muğla. Ma’Kara 3🔺 . . . #beach #sealife #bungalow #yali #moped #motorcylelife #photography #bodrum #turkey (at Ma'KARA Bungalow & Beach & Restaurant) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChsAG0pI9jE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#beach #sealife #bungalow #yali #moped #motorcylelife #photography #bodrum #turkey

[aesthetic-lillie]

skyrim followers (+ dragonborn oc) as dms with friends

#auri skyrim #auri song of the green #nanak #bikhai #s'ariq #ma'kara #dar'jados #inigo the brave #skyrim follower mods

[incorrect-custom-followers]

#i havent actually rlly played with vilja but honorable mention to her since she seems cool #this isnt even half of the pretty girls on nexus man. im just too tired #skyrim #tes #the elder scrolls #the elder scrolls skyrim #skyrim custom followers #skyrim incorrect quotes #auri skyrim #auri song of green #auri song of the green #ma'kara #ma'kara skyrim #khajiit will follow #vilja #vilja skyrim #arissa #arissa skyrim

[lithium223]

#ma'kara #khajiit will follow mod #khajiit will follow #skyrim #khajiit #moodboard

[heart-buzz]

i have located my beautiful cat wife but she is transfixed by the river's flow and she won't come with me

#skyrimming #RIP Ma'kara

[khajiit-apologist]

Khajiit's OFFICIAL babygirl list: in no particular order

Lucien Flavius - does this one need to explain this. He is what inspired khajiit to make this list, they rest their case.

Xelzaz - come on he will make this one food on the road? A drink in the inn? A cookie at khajiit's home? If not babygirl then malewife.

Lucifer - autism. No but seriously someone give him a hug.

Gore - SOMEBODY HUG THIS POOR MAN!!!!! this one debated long and hard, but they would lie if they said khajiit didn't see it this way.

Caraliynd - this one admits he is more of a princess then anything, and khajiit is no fan of thalmor. He is at this one's mercy therefore on this list.

Nanak - yes please tell this one about what book you read recently.

BONUS:

Ma'kara - love you bbg

#khajiit #skyrim custom followers #skyrim

[custom-whats]

in my playthrough, Auri + Serana + Ma'kara polycule is a thing

Would auri be interested in poly?… I’ve literally been asking myself this for ages

#I almost feel like she wouldn’t mind it cuz sounds like she has a pretty unique view on love compared to those around her to begin with #not marrying u and all that #so maybe she’d be chill #but also that’s a cute poly aww #auri and serana would really vibe I mean they both eat ppl technically #ma’kara politely declines LOL but still sits with them