Corthala Romantique - Valygar Romance Mod
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Corthala Romantique - Valygar Romance
for BGII, BGII:EE, BGT, EET
Originally by Domi, Beyshaliban, and Caetlyn. Edits by Meira and jastey.
About
Originally a part of the TeamBG mod 'Tortured Souls', the romance had a short-lived history as stand-alone part of said mod. When support for the stand-alone Valygar romance was abandoned, Beyshaliban volunteered to make it a WeiDU mod.
The original path and speed of the romance was altered and Domi wrote a lot of additional lovetalks, flirts and banters.
ToB content was added and the mod reached beta status in 2005. The SoA part was still under revision by Meira then. Aside from that, an expansion to the Sphere Quest was added. You will meet an interesting not joinable NPC, a character from Valygar's past, based on Domi's story Biographer's Notes: Valygar.
In 2018, the mod was fully recoded and revised by jastey, with Domi's blessings: After the mod going on hiatus while still in testing and under revision, it was now newly recoded and revised to make the romance flow with less bottlenecks in-game, make the banters more in-character, and also to make the development of Valygar's feelings with regard to his vows more consistent.
Content
The Mod Corthala Romantique adds a romance for female PCs (no short races) of good or neutral alignment (no chaotic neutral) or female druids. To proceed with the romance, the reputation has to be above 13. The mod also adds friendship talks for the SoA part of the game for PCs that do not fulfill the romance criteria. For ToB, all dialogues added are for romance, only. Also added are banters with other NPCs and interjections, for romance and non-romance case.
As a second, optional component, the "bathing flirt" can be installed for the romance - there was a time back then where NPCs were supposed to have at least one, romantic-encounter-like bathing flirt, "Kelsey-style". Although being a very romantic and humorous encounter, it was made an own install option because reply options and PC reactions are not always freely chosable. The content does not exceed teen rating.
The third, independently installable component introduces a quest to let the sphere be guarded or be sealed forever by a friend of Valygar, Leonora. The quest can be installed and played without the romance.
The quest to close the sphere might trigger while the sphere quests are still running. Just tell Valygar that it has to wait.
Compatibility and possible conflicts
Download Corthala Romantique Mod at G3
Download Corthala Romantique Mod at GitHub
Mod Page at Gibberlings Three
Discussion Thread at Gibberlings Three
for BGII, BGII:EE, BGT, EET
Originally by Domi, Beyshaliban, and Caetlyn. Edits by Meira and jastey.
About
Originally a part of the TeamBG mod 'Tortured Souls', the romance had a short-lived history as stand-alone part of said mod. When support for the stand-alone Valygar romance was abandoned, Beyshaliban volunteered to make it a WeiDU mod.
The original path and speed of the romance was altered and Domi wrote a lot of additional lovetalks, flirts and banters.
ToB content was added and the mod reached beta status in 2005. The SoA part was still under revision by Meira then. Aside from that, an expansion to the Sphere Quest was added. You will meet an interesting not joinable NPC, a character from Valygar's past, based on Domi's story Biographer's Notes: Valygar.
In 2018, the mod was fully recoded and revised by jastey, with Domi's blessings: After the mod going on hiatus while still in testing and under revision, it was now newly recoded and revised to make the romance flow with less bottlenecks in-game, make the banters more in-character, and also to make the development of Valygar's feelings with regard to his vows more consistent.
Content
The Mod Corthala Romantique adds a romance for female PCs (no short races) of good or neutral alignment (no chaotic neutral) or female druids. To proceed with the romance, the reputation has to be above 13. The mod also adds friendship talks for the SoA part of the game for PCs that do not fulfill the romance criteria. For ToB, all dialogues added are for romance, only. Also added are banters with other NPCs and interjections, for romance and non-romance case.
As a second, optional component, the "bathing flirt" can be installed for the romance - there was a time back then where NPCs were supposed to have at least one, romantic-encounter-like bathing flirt, "Kelsey-style". Although being a very romantic and humorous encounter, it was made an own install option because reply options and PC reactions are not always freely chosable. The content does not exceed teen rating.
The third, independently installable component introduces a quest to let the sphere be guarded or be sealed forever by a friend of Valygar, Leonora. The quest can be installed and played without the romance.
The quest to close the sphere might trigger while the sphere quests are still running. Just tell Valygar that it has to wait.
Compatibility and possible conflicts
- IEP Valygar Friendship mod: are compatible the following way: if the PC qualifies for the CR romance, IEP friendship talks will not trigger. If there is no romance and both mods are installed, then the friendship talks of CR will not trigger in favor of the IEP Valygar Friendship talks.
- The mod uses BCaesar's RestCheck to ensure rest dialogues do not fire at the same rest as BioWare/BeamDog ones.
- NPC-Strongholds: The quest to close the sphere might trigger while the sphere quests are still running. Just tell Valygar that it has to wait.
- Extended Sphere Quest / Mage Stronghold Mod: The quest to close the sphere might trigger while the sphere quests are still running. Just tell Valygar that it has to wait.
- Romantic Ecounters, components "Valygar Romance, by Kulyok" and "Valygar Romance ToB, by Kulyok": technically, the two mods are compatible. Content-wise, I don't think it's a good idea to have two romances play together, as they paint slightly different pictures of Valygar and might make him sound like he has a bad short-time memory.
- Tortured Souls: the mod is not compatible with the mod Tortured Souls that still contains an own version of the Valygar romance.
- Unfinished Business, component Suna Seni/Valygar Relationship: install this UB component first to make those two mods compatible. Note: The current love affair of Valygar and Suna Seni will be tuned down to a past love. For this, three lines of UB's Valygar's dialogue are tuned down so he no longer calls Suna his love. Additionally, there will be a follow-up dialogue in case of PC-Valygar romance.
Download Corthala Romantique Mod at G3
Download Corthala Romantique Mod at GitHub
Mod Page at Gibberlings Three
Discussion Thread at Gibberlings Three
Post edited by jastey on
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Comments
will this have any conflicts with lava's la valygar mod?
It might be a bit odd if he says he won't talk about the curse again (La'Valygar) and then talks about it (Corthala Romantique) or if he talks about the PC's Bhaal heritage (La'Valygar) and after that asks about a rumor he heard about the PC being no ordinary mortal (Corthala Romantique) - BUT I never had both mods in one game so it all depends on how the talks are timed, they could complement one another quite nicely, actually.
Also, OSX and Linux packages were added (links in the first post).
(This will change as soon as I update the keldorn mod.
I'm trying to install the mod on my Mac but I'm getting an error
[./setup-corthalaromantique] WeiDU version 24200
In state 108, I expected one of these tokens:
[361] AUTHOR
Parse error (state 108) at ~~
[CORTHALAROMANTIQUE/SETUP-CORTHALAROMANTIQUE.TP2] PARSE ERROR at line 8 column 1-7
Near Text: SUPPORT
GLR parse error
[CORTHALAROMANTIQUE/SETUP-CORTHALAROMANTIQUE.TP2] ERROR at line 8 column 1-7
Near Text: SUPPORT
Parsing.Parse_error
ERROR: parsing [CORTHALAROMANTIQUE/SETUP-CORTHALAROMANTIQUE.TP2]: Parsing.Parse_error
ERROR: problem parsing TP file [CORTHALAROMANTIQUE/SETUP-CORTHALAROMANTIQUE.TP2]: Parsing.Parse_error
FATAL ERROR: Parsing.Parse_error
Press ENTER to exit.
I've installed other mods so I'm not sure what the problem is. Thank you for your hard work! I'm looking forward to romancing Valygar
OSX and
weiduLinux users with problems installing, please remove the old mod package from your game and download the current one.@Aria it is important that you use the current "setup-corthalaromantique" installation file from the new package. The mod folder itself ("corthalaromantique") didn't change. If you still get the error message please repost it.
I installed the mod on my PC and everything went fine, the mod was working so far -until I got to the Underdark. Valygar isnt talking and my PC can not talk / flirt with him anymore either, Everytime I click on him, nothing happens. Is that intended?
Regards
Also letting you know I just posted "Rest Check for Mods" attached to post #3 back in the restcheck thread here: https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/63911/restcheck-code-for-mod-rest-scene-compatibility-with-bg2-ee-and-other-mods#latest
So you can make your rest scenes yield to those in a whole list of other common mods now if you want without having to look up all that code yourself.
@BCaesar Thanks you!
Got out of the Underdark, things are fine again (albeit a little bit sad still
This mod writting is really balanced and it has much needed depth in dialogues. I also very appretiated different epilogues for romance with Valygar dependent on if main character is human or elf.
I am not afraid to call this mod hidden gem and recommend it to everyone.
@Asthariel I had a quick look shortly after Corthala Romantique was released. All in all the characterization is fairly similar, but in La'Valygar mod, Valygar confronts the PC with his/her heritage directly whereas in Corthala Romantique, he starts a dialogue with "I heard rumors". If the second one comes after the first it might sound a bit weird.
I'll have a look at this more thoroughly in the near future but I can't make any time estimates as to when.
Links in the first post are updated accordingly.
[Links removed]
I've been looking forward to this for a long time, It's too bad I didn't find it earlier. Thank all of you for your great work!
I don't know if this bug was from this mod, but it seemed like the most likely candidate.
Anyways I have a male human Undead Hunter and I just started a game and I had Jaheira, Minsc, and Imoen in my party and walked into the Library on the first level of Irenicus's dungeon and I got a dialogue that looked like the dialogue with Valygar just before you fight Irenicus for the final time in SoA.
The latter could be caused by a (mod) cre file having some random strings attached to it. In the original game those didn't show, but in the EE those get displayed from time to time. The reason noone noticed them before is what I just wrote, and also that for the modder who created the cre-file, those strings where either reasonable or nonexistant (i.e. empty in case of high string numbers).
My guess is there was this dialogue somewhere that was missing a requirement of Valygar being in my party to trigger.
@97 = ~Valygar, you fought hundreds of my battles already. You do not have to fight this one.~
@98 = ~Frankly, I am scared that I could loose you, Valygar. I would rather... Do you think you might wait here?~
If this is the text you saw, then it was another (mod?) dialogue popping up and for some reason using text from the Valygar mod. I had something similar recently when I installed mods to the wrong game language unknowingly, in a game that was modded several times, i.e. the dialog.tlk contained a lot of strings so I got random lines of another mod instead of the usual INVALID:xxxxxxx.
In case you saw something else I'd be very grateful if you could quote the first line.